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LA's galleries this spring are grappling with something real: the fires, the raids, the question of who the city belongs to.

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6 exhibitions

Alec Egan: Groundskeeper

Groundskeeper

Egan's most recent series of paintings stems from the prodromal, a clinical term describing the onset of psychosis before it fully emerges. Through layered clashing patterns and textures, Egan constructs images that blur real and imagined, found and fabricated. The paintings channel tension and hypervigilance into the iconic Los Angeles sunset—saturated pink, orange, blue—as allusion to the city's seductive beauty and proximity to existential threat. As Egan's first solo exhibition since the 2025 Palisades fire claimed his home and studio, Groundskeeper locates that loss within a broader inquiry into the fragility of the constructed self.

Apr 4 - May 16

Cole Case: And It Keeps Coming 'Til The Day It Stops

 And It Keeps Coming 'Til The Day It Stops

An exhibition of new oil paintings by Cole Case connects autobiographical experience with art historical references to examine state power and political unrest in Los Angeles. Depicting events such as ICE detentions, protests, and a visit to Manzanar, the works draw on compositions by artists including Degas and Poussin to situate contemporary scenes of enforcement and resistance within longer histories of representation.

Feb 14 - Apr 18

MONUMENTS

MONUMENTS

The exhibition presents decommissioned Confederate monuments, some damaged, alongside contemporary artworks by Kara Walker and Stan Douglas. Placing the statues in a museum setting highlights their historical function and shifting status as contested symbols. Feauturing works by Bethany Collins, Karon Davis, Abigail DeVille, Stan Douglas, Kevin Jerome Everson, Kahlil Robert Irving, Monument Lab, Walter Price, Cauleen Smith, Davóne Tines and Julie Dash, and Kara Walker. Additional artworks by Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson, Nona Faustine, Jon Henry, Hugh Mangum, Martin Puryear, Andres Serrano, and Hank Willis Thomas.

Oct 23 - May 3

Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection

Destiny Is a Rose presents more than 80 works from the collection of Eileen Harris Norton, marking fifty years since her first acquisition in 1976. Featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and performance materials by artists including Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, and Amy Sherald, the exhibition traces the development of her collection and its sustained support of women artists and artists of color.

Feb 23 - Aug 16

Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination

Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination

Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination brings together seven artists who use craft as a means to access memory, ritual, and future-oriented knowledge. Grounded in the San Gabriel Valley, the exhibition considers time as cyclical and materials as carriers of ancestral understanding, shaped by environmental change and embodied ways of knowing.

Feb 20 - Aug 1

Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues

Speaking in Tongues is a group exhibition bringing together international and intergenerational contemporary artists who engage art as a conduit to spiritual experience. The works address ritual, embodiment, language, and translation, expanding ideas of the sacred beyond institutional religion. Centering Indigenous and diasporic perspectives, the exhibition considers spirituality as a means of memory, continuity, and collective connection across cultures and histories. Featuring work by Marwa Abdul-Rahman, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Ron Athey and Carmina Escobar, Belkis Ayón, Raven Chacon, Jesse Chun, Asher Hartman in collaboration with Jasmine Orpilla, iris yirei hu, Hanna Hur, Việt Lê, Karen Lofgren, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Na Mira and lexi welch, Senga Nengudi, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Aki Onda, Lydia Ourahmane, Fazal Rizvi, Carlos Villa, and Luis Fernando Zapata.

Apr 4 - Aug 23

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