Ericka Beckman/Julia Wachtel

This show is a continuation of a recent trendlet that has seen several women artists from the 1980s returning to the limelight after a good number of years. Ericka Beckman is a filmmaker and graduate of CalArts whose 1983 work—a Super-8-to-video transfer titled You the Better—is on view. Julia Wachtel presents paintings from the same period. Both artists explored aspects of popular culture through the prism of post-Conceptual art: Beckman employed a mix of live-action-model effects and stop-motion animation to evoke a kind of Dadaist vision of suburbia and school playgrounds; Wachtel appropriated images from kitschy novelty postcards popular in the 1970s, with the aim of deconstructing the way culture creates artifacts, and how it decides what is art and what is not. Seeing these artists together reveals affinities between them that were not apparent 30 years ago.