Melrose Hill: One Block, Six Galleries

The most efficient stretch in LA, six galleries packed into three blocks of N Western. David Zwirner anchors the south end; OCHI, Wilding Cran, and Reisig & Taylor share a single building. Chelsea-level density.

6 exhibitions

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

David Zwirner

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, Venezuelan-born and in her nineties, hand-paints ceramic vessels with imagery from comics, Disney, art history, and political headlines. Josef Albers in a focused pairing of works rather than a full retrospective.

Apr 11 - May 22

Victor Nwankwo: eⁱKENGA

Charlotte Call

Victor Nwankwo, Nigerian-American painter, references Igbo ikenga sculpture, carved objects of individual strength, translated into contemporary painting at a new gallery.

Apr 11 - May 16

Van Hanos: Psychic Death

Château Shatto

Van Hanos paints with laser precision and a willingness to switch styles between canvases, treating painting as a slow, dread-tinged psychological process. The title fits.

Apr 25 - May 23

Hannah Tishkoff: Beginning of a Poem

OCHI PROJECTS

Hannah Tishkoff makes paintings that read like fragments, quiet domestic interiors and half-finished thoughts with color held back rather than pushed. The title is the key.

Apr 11 - May 23

Fran Siegel: Arrábida

Wilding Cran Gallery

Fran Siegel makes large-scale mixed-media works on translucent vellum, translating landscape into layered cartographic surfaces. Arrábida references the Portuguese coast.

Apr 11 - May 16

PLY WOULD

Morán Morán

Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin have collaborated for fifteen years on environments diagnosing the digital condition. Trecartin's video work is foundational today.

Feb 21 - May 23