California’s Triumphant Triennial

Mark Dean Veca’s installation “Pete’s Place” is inspired by Bernini’s Cathedra Petri in Rome, complete with Truck Nutz fringe. Here, the artist is seen giving visitors a lesson on how to sit in a papal-style throne.

Seattle-based artist Akio Takamori produces intricately-made stoneware sculptures, such as “Squatting Girl in Yellow Dress,” from 2012, above.

Right at the entrance to the museum, Tijuana-born artist Hugo Crosthwaite has created a series of pieces inspired by Mexican political theater of the 1920s and ‘30s. The photo doesn’t begin to convey the rich level of details in these pieces.

Giacometti’s Bar Mitzvah, a steel sculpture L.A.-based artist Mitchell Syrop.

Triennial curator Dan Cameron leads a tour of the show.

A side room contains a fragile installation by Beijing artist Lin Tianmiao, featuring a tidy array of synthetic human skeletons covered in silk thread. Each thread dangles off the bone and pools into a puddle of color on the floor. (It was impossible for me to get the piece into a single frame.)

Tiffany Chung is a Vietnamese artist who works with lowbrow decorative items such as pompons, sequins and beads. Seen here, a pair of sculptural pieces — inspired by bullhorns and loudspeakers — that speak to a mood of protest.

A detail of an installation by Robert Legorreta, a collection of records that examines the appropriation of Latin culture in the U.S.

Whiting Tennis, who hails from Seattle, garners a salon-arrangement of his painted works, which feature bizarre bits of invented architecture. A good wall for lingering.

Figures clad in surreal outfits, holding onto unidentifiable objects and weird shapes. San Francisco artist John Bankston crosses the language of coloring books with the truly bizarre. Would love to see more of these.

“Látex,” a two-channel video installation by Yoshua Okón, from Mexico City.

Peruvian artist Fernando Bryce regularly examines historical episodes in his work (by creating exquisite ink-on-paper drawings of news clippings.) Seen here: a wall-sized array of pieces exploring the 19th century German colonization of Samoa and Papua New Guinea.

In the hands of Australian artist Raquel Ormella, a flag is turned into a delicate lace by burning out little holes bit by bit.

A wall-sized installation by Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho presents political aphorisms in a wild installation featuring some pretty spectacular embroidery. (Sample text: “Mints & Politic both contain Artificial Sweetener”).

Gabriel de la Mora, from Mexico City, repurposes found objects in abstract ways. Seen here: “The weight of thought,” from 2013, made from discarded leather and plastic shoe soles.