Summer exhibitions opened this week at the Craft Center Gallery and the C.N. Gorman Museum. A summer show is coming to the Nelson Gallery in July.

• Drawing and Painting Gallery — By Hannah Moore, Craft Center instructor. Through July 22, Craft Center Gallery, South Silo. Summer hours: 12:30-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 12:30-7 p.m. Fridays and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays.

• Visual Transparencies — Works by 55 printmakers from around the world, responding to the theme as expressed in the exhibition's title. "The end result of a strong voice and visual representation of artistic thought in a wide variety of printmaking techniques," reads a postcard announcement. The announcement states that Melanie Yazzie organized the exhibition, described as a three-volume collection, a gift of the artist collective to the museum. Through Sept. 9, C.N. Gorman Museum, 1316 Hart Hall. Summer hours: noon-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

• Are You Destined to Become Your Mother? — Nathan Cordero, born in Woodland and raised in Yolo, presents his signature style of complex wall installation containing excised wood drawings, razor blades and other unusual elements. This is Cordero's first one-person museum exhibition, after many
years of showing his work in such venues as the Axis and Verge galeries in Sacramento, Johanson Projects in Oakland and the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. “Cordero’s work comes out of the San Francisco Mission School
of folky, representational and edgy depictions of an urban lifestyle,” said Renny Pritikin, director of the Nelson Gallery. “However, he adds his own spin that local arts professionals can recognize immediately, with its inclusion of found texts and images of beer cans, cigarettes and other quotidian stuff.” July 8-Aug. 20, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Summer hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and Saturday, and by appointment on Fridays. Reception for the artist, open to the public, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 14.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

• The House of Others — Through June 24, Nelson Gallery, Nelson Hall (formerly the University Club). Regular hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Thursday, and by appointment on Fridays. The exhibitors are Manuel Fernando Rios, Matthew Taylor and Mathew Zefeldt, painters; Lisa Rybovich Crallé and Paul Taylor, sculptors; and Jen Cohen and Benjamin Rosenthal, video and media art. Earlier coverage.

• More Than Just a Picture: A Garden of Graphics in Special Collections — University Archivist presents a selection of botanical engravings, line drawings and watercolors from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. The early illustrations, made for growers and scientists, show plants in ways that would not be duplicated until the advent of color photography. Through summer, lobby, Shields Library. Summer hours (through Sept. 9): 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Exceptions: 1-5 p.m. Sunday, July 3, closed Monday, July 4, and Monday, Sept. 5 (Labor Day).

• Nuevo Latino Cuisine — Presenting the academic side of nuevo Latin or Pan-Latin cuisine, the exhibition draws on the University Library’s collections on native foods, agricultural sustainability, and the impact of historical events on the definitions of national cuisines and the cultural representation of these varied cuisines. The scholarship comes from several disciplines: history, agricultural economics, anthropology and the life sciences. Exhibition prepared by Myra Appel, head of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Government Information Services Department, and bibliographer for Latin American Studies. Through summer, Shields Library. Summer hours (through Sept. 9): 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, closed Saturday and 1-7 p.m. Sunday. Exceptions: 1-5 p.m. Sunday, July 3, closed Monday, July 4, and Monday, Sept. 5 (Labor Day).

• Photography: Bridging Art and Science — UC Davis students use the camera to explore the conceptual connections between art and science and the role of art and science at UC Davis. The exhibition is the culmination of Professor Terry Nathan’s photography class, Science and Society 40, which he teaches as part of the Art-Science Fusion Program. Through June 28, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.

OFF-CAMPUS

• Wayne Thiebaud, professor emeritus of art — Five of his paintings are on display at the California Museum in Sacramento, in conjunction with his induction Dec. 14 into the California Hall of Fame. See separate stories on Thiebaud, "Painter, teacher, visionary" and his induction into the California Hall of Fame. The museum has gathered personal items from all of the 2010 inductees, for an exhibition that is scheduled to run through Oct. 31. Thiebaud's picks: Bikini Figure (1966), Waterland (1996), Two Tulip Sundaes (2009), and Intersection Building and Cliff Ridge (both from 2010), all oils, on canvas or wood. The museum is in the California State Archives building at 1020 O St., at the corner of 10th Street, one block south of Capitol Park. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday. (No one admitted after 4:30 p.m.) Closed all major holidays and furlough Fridays.