Hollywood

It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) presents Wallace Berman’s Verifax works, bringing together rare multipart and individual photo-based collages. Created using an early Xerox process, the works center on repeated frames populated with appropriated imagery, exploring reproduction, seriality, and poetic juxtaposition. The exhibition traces Berman’s influential approach to image circulation and authorship.

Feb 18 - Apr 25

Bloodstream presents new paintings by Casey Bolding that layer plaster and industrial paint with oil, acrylic, and Flashe. Drawing on personal history, art historical references, and found imagery, the works depict landscapes and interiors shaped by accumulation and erosion. Scraped surfaces, oxidized materials, and embedded figures evoke movement along the Colorado River and suggest landscape as both memory and constructed image.

Feb 21 - Mar 28

Michael Kohn Gallery presents inkblot and felt-tip drawings by Bruce Conner made from the early 1960s to the 2000s, highlighting a lesser-known core of his practice. Using folding, mirroring, and repetitive mark-making, Conner explores symmetry, automatism, and chance. These works reveal drawing as a sustained site of inquiry, where authorship loosens and meaning stays fluid, in dialogue with his films and assemblages.

Feb 18 - Apr 25

Carpenters Workshop Gallery Los Angeles presents Tatoo, Ingrid Donat’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. One of the most influential living artists in the decorative arts, Donat is known for imbuing materials like bronze, leather, wood, and textiles with warmth and vitality. Featuring commodes, seating pieces and designs influenced by Art Nouveau, Art Deco and a myriad of global traditions. The display of recent and past works showcases Donat’s skill for integrating sculptural practice into functional works of art.

Feb 25 - Mar 29

Barley Patch 2 presents eight paintings by Hodges arranged as a composite landscape. Rural elements such as architectural forms, tree trunks, fence posts, turf, and cartoon figures suggest a mapped environment while emphasizing the tension between image and painting. The works construct a spatial field that references landscape without fully representing it.

Feb 21 - Mar 28

Ellsworth Kelly: The Naming of Colors presents nine paintings from the artist’s estate that examine his sustained investigation of color and form. The works include multi panel and shaped compositions that reduce visual experience to relationships between color, geometry, and surface. Kelly described these works as a direct presentation of color, emphasizing perception over gesture and narrative.

Feb 25 - Apr 4

Trial of the Finger presents new and recent works by Tacita Dean, including the 35mm film installations Paradise and Geography Biography, and a new 16mm film, Sidney Felsen decorates an Envelope. The exhibition also features chalk and slate drawings, Polaroid works, and works on glass. The title references Dr. Samuel Johnson’s critique of the Metaphysical poets and reflects Dean’s sustained engagement with analog processes and embodied systems of measure.

Feb 21 - Apr 25

OKEY DOKEY KONRAD FISCHER presents Sol LeWitt and David Douard in a cross-generational pairing. LeWitt, first shown at the gallery in 1968, is set alongside Douard, who joined in 2023. Both engage line, gesture, and structure, yet diverge in method. Douard’s instinctive, text- and object-based works respond to LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #869, where fragile, bodily lines question modernist precision, linking drawing to language, the city, and social order.

Feb 24 - Mar 31

Megan Mulrooney is pleased to present Afterimage, a group exhibition curated by Tommy May. An afterimage is more than a memory or dream; it is a stark sensation that remains after the stimulus that produced it, like a bright, flashing light, has ceased. In the exhibition, abstraction is explored as a similar lingering presence in perception, reflecting our shared connection to both the natural world and our internal emotional landscapes. The exhibition brings together a range of contemporary artists whose practices span the spectrum of lyrical and gestural abstraction, intricate structural compositions, and softly rendered, ethereal forms. Featured Artists: Sol Kordich, Claire Oswalt, Maria Szakats, Tommy May, Gwen O’Neil, Julia Jo, Nathan Dilworth, Demetrius Wilson, Grace Bromley, Gena Milanesi, Jana Schröder, Alexandra McGowan, Kemar Wynter, Anthony Gefland, and Mindy Shapero.

Feb 24 - Mar 28

Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics examines how perception is shaped through light, language, sound, and the built environment. Presented at the Schindler House, the exhibition places Holt’s work in dialogue with the architecture, emphasizing art and space as interdependent ways of seeing. Central works include the photographic poem California Sun Signs and audio pieces Holt described as poems in place, alongside material related to Sun Tunnels, inviting close attention to how perception unfolds through space.

Feb 25 - May 24

Leiko Ikemura: Riding Horizon presents recent works examining bodies of water and the horizon as a point of convergence. Monumental Usagi figures appear alongside recurring reclining female forms in bronze and egg tempera paintings. Stone garden sculptures and imagined landscapes extend her exploration of the relationship between human figures, natural forces, and expansive spatial environments.

Feb 24 - Mar 28

Berta Fischer presents three large-scale sculptures from 2025 alongside six smaller works from 2023 to 2024. Using acrylic glass and PET foil, she creates suspended and wall-based forms that explore transparency, color, and spatial perception. Modular structures and layered planes activate light and architecture, emphasizing movement, reflection, and shifting viewpoints.

Feb 21 - Mar 28

Feb 24 - Apr 4

The Being is a solo exhibition by Marco Perego featuring an interactive installation composed of a screen, sound, scent, and responsive architectural elements. The work observes and reacts to visitors through facial recognition, breath, and presence, while its rhythms are guided by real-time solar data. Constantly shifting, the installation connects human perception with planetary and cosmic time, proposing a shared field of awareness beyond individual experience.

Feb 20 - Apr 4

Mar 20 - May 9

CSSC, Coach Stage Stage Coach, A&E, Adolf/Adam & Eva/Eve, Samples presents recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographic stills by Paul McCarthy centers on a cycle of large canvases that affirm his command of painting. Drawing from ongoing video projects, he stages a charged multiverse where Adam and Eve, Adolf and Eva, pirates, bankers, and dogs collide in scenes of penetration, violence, and absurdity. Balancing hysteria and control, the work holds bodies in suspended catastrophe, where screaming and laughter verge on grace.

Feb 23 - Apr 25

Curtains presents drawings and new sculptures that foreground Jack Pierson’s longstanding investigation into the formal, philosophical, and ironic qualities of language, and his employment of nostalgia and the search for beauty as thematic vehicles. The exhibition presents a selection of Pierson’s signature word sculptures created from vintage signage salvaged by the artist and arranged in sentiments and phrases likewise gathered throughout his life. Rooted in language, memory, and longing, the work moves from playful to existential, tracing nostalgia for New York in the 90s, lost possibilities, and faded Hollywood glamour.

Mar 12 - Apr 18

Kaz Oshiro examines how personal space reflects identity through detailed recreations of everyday objects. His works move beyond symbolism to create the illusion of functional items, forming environments that suggest different facets of the self. In Kyoko’s Room, he presents meticulous renderings of commonplace objects that emphasize precision and constructed presence.

Feb 27 - Mar 26