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# Artillery Magazine: 20 years in print. Sharp reporting, bold criticism, and thought-provoking commentary on contemporary art and culture. 

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- [IN SEARCH OF A CITY <div class='subhed'><span>July/August 2026</span></div>](https://artillerymag.com/in-search-of-a-city-7/): A few weeks ago, Pilar Zeta and I visited the new David Geffen Galleries at LACMA, where on a clear day, one can almost see Venice, California, with his back turned to Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969).
- [DUELING REVIEWS: DAVID GEFFEN GALLERIES](https://artillerymag.com/dueling-reviews-david-geffen-galleries-lacma/): Following what felt like an eternity of delays—budget-related, structural and otherwise—LACMA opened its new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries this spring, finally unveiling its long-awaited proposal to reinvent the encyclopedic museum.
- [How Disrupted Can an Art Fair Actually Get?](https://artillerymag.com/how-disrupted-can-an-art-fair-actually-get/): Days before the opening of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale began, there were news reports of protests and disruption due to the Biennale's inclusion of pavilions from Russia and Israel, two countries that are each involved in highly unpopular wars.
- [Best and Worst of the Biennale](https://artillerymag.com/best-and-worst-61st-venice-biennale/): Turns out that there is bad art everywhere in the world, even at the Biennale. There was some good, some bad, some boring, and much of it was expected (cue lots of video art and fabric hanging from the ceiling). Here are our top picks of the best (and worst) of the (Venice) Biennale.
- [ARTIST TAKEOVER: PATRICK MARTINEZ](https://artillerymag.com/artist-takeover-patrick-martinez/):            
- [Signs of Life in the Ruins of Movieland](https://artillerymag.com/signs-of-life-in-the-ruins-of-movieland/): Today, Hollywood is like a ghost ship, an empty dream factory with abandoned equipment. Unmoored and directionless, Los Angeles shivers in the void of the fantasy it can’t forget.
- [GARY BASEMAN](https://artillerymag.com/gary-baseman/): Gary Baseman hosted a pop-up show in the long-shuttered Johnie’s Coffeeshop, kitty-corner from the Wilshire/Fairfax stop. Which is fun, because Baseman is big into kitty cats. “Off the Menu” shows a collection of drawings Baseman has done on menus of restaurants across Los Angeles.
- [EREWHON AT LACMA](https://artillerymag.com/erewhon-at-lacma/): Every year for decades, legions of tourists have flocked to the same SoCal landmarks: Hollywood Boulevard, the Griffith Observatory, Disneyland (or Universal, if you swing that way). For a certain subcategory of traveler straddling the line between hippie and yuppie, however, another attraction has recently been added to the mix: none other than grocery paradise Erewhon.
- [JORDAN WOLFSON](https://artillerymag.com/jordan-wolfson-prada-campaign/): I have always felt uncomfortable around birds. I often trace my repulsion to a family viewing of Hitchcock’s The Birds during my tender years, when anything could feel like a personal reference. In that sense, I may be biased—but when a PR pitched me a preview of Prada’s new Spring/Summer 2026 campaign, I knew immediately I didn’t like it.
- [JOHN GIORNO](https://artillerymag.com/john-giorno-marciano-art-foundation/): John Giorno seems like a fun guy to have been around. Lively, ready for hijinks. I mean, anyone who’d turn his slumbering nakedness over to Andy Warhol’s camera for six hours must be pretty game.
- [NANCY HOLT](https://artillerymag.com/nancy-holt-mak-center/): Who could ask for anything more exquisite and tasteful than Nancy Holt’s rhythmic and spare documentary artworks, installed in R.M. Schindler’s Kings Road house, a place that LA loves to love so much? The land art goddess fits right in among its sun-dappled redwood joists and tilt-up concrete walls.
- [KELLY AKASHI & PHIL PETERS](https://artillerymag.com/kelly-akashi-phil-peters-la-nomadic-division/): Over Memorial Day weekend, I trekked up to Altadena to visit “Field Set,” a two-day exhibition of works by sculptor Kelly Akashi and sound artist Phil Peters. I was hesitant about visiting Altadena. The sheer emptiness of the area is oppressive and as a longtime fan, but never a resident of Altadena, I was worried my presence was more interloper than exhibition visitor. The exhibition was located on the remains of Akashi’s home.
- [AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS](https://artillerymag.com/an-artist-answers-questions-lita-albuquerque/): What is the most beautiful thing in the world? Consciousness awakening to itself through nature. Standing in the desert at dawn, looking into the night sky, feeling suddenly connected to something infinite — that, to me, is beauty.
- [COLLECTING THOUGHTS](https://artillerymag.com/copy-collecting-thoughts-james-arriaga/): What started with just collecting Mars Volta concert posters and work from underground graffiti artists that I met at hip hop shows, led me down a rabbit hole of collecting art from all over the world.
- [STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK](https://artillerymag.com/staying-saneish-with-dr-trainwreck-jul-aug-2026/): Question: 
- [ART DAMAGED](https://artillerymag.com/art-damaged-10/)
- [ROLL CALL (Print only)](https://artillerymag.com/roll-call-jul_aug_2026/): Only available in print.
- [GALLERY DOGS (Print only)](https://artillerymag.com/gallery-dogs-jul_aug_2026/): Only available in print.
- [Catherine Opie “Holding Blue”](https://artillerymag.com/catherine-opie-holding-blue/): Metaphorically, “blue” has two connotations: that which is raw and explicit, and that which is melancholy. While much of Catherine Opie’s work contends with the former, “Holding Blue” deals with the sober subject of climate change.
- [Ellie Krakow](https://artillerymag.com/ellie-krakow/): Ellie Krakow’s “Comfort Corners” views chronic illness through a Ballardian lens, using sculpture to merge hospital beds and monitors with distorted limbs, rears, and organs.
- [ART DAMAGED](https://artillerymag.com/art-damaged-9/)
- [ROLL CALL](https://artillerymag.com/roll-call-7/)
- [GALLERY DOGS](https://artillerymag.com/gallery-dogs-6/)
- [ARTIST TAKEOVER: KYRA COLE](https://artillerymag.com/artist-takeover-kyra-cole/):        
- [AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS](https://artillerymag.com/an-artist-answers-questions-9/): About me: I primarily work in ceramics and bronze, using these materials to rupture perceived binaries, create community, and envision a symbolic utopia. My recent sculptures pay tribute to things we typically overlook or deem nuisances, such as costume jewelry, weeds, insects, and spills.
- [BUT WHAT DOES A RANDOM TEENAGER THINK?](https://artillerymag.com/but-what-does-a-random-teenager-think/): I’m a 14-year-old boy who hates art. I recently went to Wilshire Online to see “Away from Desk.” Here are my opinions on it. The show included: an audio device playing melancholy choral tones, a stripper and a pole, a first aid kit hung diagonally on a wall, simple paintings behind bars, a Microsoft-branded flag in a flag holder, a series of tax forms depicting a person’s work life, and a broken cartoony ladder. 1. The audio piece¹ is a continuous choral rise with no end, just change in pitch, with nothing else interesting to it.
- [KEN KAGAMI](https://artillerymag.com/ken-kagami/): In the March/April issue of Artillery, I argued that the subversion of cutesy cartoon aesthetics is almost always compelling, since the notion of a visual language with the power to connote primal emotions through ancient, universal strokes remains resonant despite the protests of the ego. After spending time with the Japanese artist Ken Kagami’s Snoopy sketches at Post-Fair (Misako & Rosen), I would like to revise my opinion.
- [STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK](https://artillerymag.com/staying-saneish-with-dr-trainwreck-6/): Question: 
- [MAGDALENA SUAREZ FRIMKESS](https://artillerymag.com/magdalena-suarez-frimkess/): You recognize it before you know what to do with it. A cartoon, a flower, a line that feels like it’s been there before. Kitsch comes to mind, maybe, but it doesn’t quite stick. Or it sticks and then loosens. The image doesn’t hold you where you expect. It keeps moving, and you move with it.
- [IN SEARCH OF A CITY <div class='subhed'><span>July/August 2026</span></div>](https://artillerymag.com/in-search-of-a-city-6/): “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker
- [The Julia Stoschek Foundation Asks: What if a lot of videos were in one place and it was spooky?](https://artillerymag.com/the-julia-stoschek-foundation-asks-what-if-a-lot-of-videos-were-in-one-place-and-it-was-spooky/): The Renaissance Revival-style Variety Arts Theater normally sits dormant at the chaotic corner of Figueroa and Olympic. However, for six weeks, from February 6th to March 20th, the theater hosted “What A Wonderful World: An Audiovisual Poem,” a presentation from the collection of the Dusseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Foundation. The exhibition spanned everything from contemporary video art to century-old films. You would be forgiven, but far from correct, for thinking that this display of forty-five temporal works from forty-five artists in a theater was a dry, durational experience. There were no blindingly white galleries here. Rather, the exhibition made full use of all five floors of the Variety Arts Theater.
- [How does an entire family of artists work?](https://artillerymag.com/how-does-an-entire-family-of-artists-work/): When Liv, my middle sister, was three years old, she drew a perfect still life in sidewalk chalk. She rendered a side table and vase of flowers with a consistent perspective as if second nature, like a spider spinning a web. My dad loves this story and has told it so much that the anecdote is shaped by his own narrative flavor. Even though I was there with Liv, when I try to remember the event, I always picture the drawing through my dad’s eyes. The photo he took, after running into the house to grab the family camera, is from his perspective as well.
- [GOING GONDOLA AT THE VENICE ROOM](https://artillerymag.com/going-gondola-at-the-venice-room/): I parked my car on a random street in the nearby neighborhood, and as I was walking to the Venice Room, I passed by a place matter-of-factly called BREW. I had to peep the menu, because that bold, straightforward name simply struck me — naturally, they serve beer, coffee, and tea at BREW. Additionally, they serve wine, soju cocktails, soda, milk, lemonade, and juice. Beyond beverages, they offer a variety of sandwiches, salads, and appetizers. Listen, I realize I’m not reviewing this restaurant, but to be completely honest here, I feel like the proprietors of BREW need to reconsider the name of their establishment. But alas, here we are with some stuff and some other stuff, all of which was presented to me on a list beneath a brown distressed industrial entrance sign that puts out the vibe to people: “You’ve worked hard for your money, and we work hard for you; spend your hard-earned money here.” I obviously chose not to do that; I chose to be doing that down the street instead.
- [BRAD NEELY HAS A BOOK OUT AND THAT IS GOOD](https://artillerymag.com/brad-neely-has-a-book-out-and-that-is-good/): In Spanish, the term feísmo is used to denote ugly technique in the pursuit of ugly truth. In its canonical expressions, it pairs the slapdash with a luxuriant emphasis on the grotesque. It’s a useful concept for the art of Brad Neely: looking at it closely, you can see a developed understanding of figure, perspective, and composition, but the immediate impression it gives is of a person picking up a pencil for the first time.
- [Fashion at Frieze (print exclusive)](https://artillerymag.com/fashion-at-frieze-print-exclusive/): PRINT EXCLUSIVE
- [Why art week LA is more fashionable than fashion week NY](https://artillerymag.com/why-art-week-la-is-more-fashionable-than-fashion-week-ny/): At New York Fashion Week this February, the biggest story wasn’t any of the actual clothes (although Rachel Scott had a banger of a debut collection for Proenza Schouler. I was particularly impressed with Look 9). It was looksmaxxing freak Clavicular walking in MAGA provocateur Elena Velez‘s show, then getting his ass beat at an after party. The street fashion also underwhelmed. Looking at carousels created by The Cut, OOTD.com, and Nylon, I saw a lot of the same saminess: pops of red, oversized coats, and lots of Pantone’s dog whistling color of the year, Cloud Dancer.
- [COLLECTING THOUGHTS](https://artillerymag.com/collecting-thoughts-2/): – Strangest collecting experience? 
- [LOS ANGELES FESTIVAL OF MOVIES 2026](https://artillerymag.com/los-angeles-festival-of-movies-2026/): It is the cardinal sin of every writer who’s been based in LA long enough to wax poetic about the various versions of the city that seem to exist in conversation and contradiction with one another at any single point of time. A dilemma that filmmaker and film critic Thom Andersen more or less had the final say on when it comes to cinema through his, now canonical, essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), which posits that the city will always exist in a perpetual identity crisis because of how often its been remixed, redressed, deconstructed and destroyed on screen. Yet somehow it feels appropriate to exhume these questions about identity and depiction at a time where local film and television production seem to be dropping to historic lows with each passing day, with LA at risk of becoming the “Detroit of entertainment”. A development that seems to place somewhat of a blow to Andersen’s thesis: we can no longer understand the city that exists fetishized on our screens because it so rarely seems to even cross our screens. In this way the LA of today seems to rest far outside of the imaginary, crossing into far scarier territory that many are unable, or maybe unwilling, to confront, that the LA of today is the LA you actually live in.
- [POEMS](https://artillerymag.com/poems-29/): The Summer I Couldn’t Sleep
- [COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive)](https://artillerymag.com/collecting-thoughts-print-exclusive-2/): This article is available in print and in our digital edition. To read the full article, please subscribe.
- [Linda Rosenkrantz’s Day](https://artillerymag.com/linda-rosenkrantzs-day/): In filmmaker Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day (2025), over the course of 76 minutes we hear acclaimed queer New York City photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) recount the contents of his previous day on 18 December 1974 to writer and personal confidant Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), leaving no detail unturned, no cultural figure (ranging from Fran Lebowitz to Susan Sontag) unmentioned. Sachs’ film bucks biopic convention by showing us a single moment of Hujar’s life in real time, avoiding both a literal depiction of the artistic process and the melodramatic pressure points one may identify when narrativizing an individual’s life. What’s instead presented is the day-to-day minutiae of being an artist: juggling assignments, rent payments, and the social scene of eccentrics that populated the East Village. Hujar’s testimony is decidedly unglamorous, but it gives us direct insight into the life of an invaluable artistic voice. The film was adapted from Linda Rosenkrantz’s own book of the same name, published in 2022, which presents a transcription of a recorded conversation she had with Hujar, working off an initial prompt she gave him of describing his day prior. Rosenkrantz’s larger project, including her 1968 novel Talk, which was transcribed from conversations between three friends in the Hamptons, is concerned with a unique form of historiography. By embalming gossip and extraneous personal detail, Rosenkrantz’s books transform conversations, for the contemporary reader, into first-hand accounts of living through an artistic period we now see as totemic and unprecedented. When engaging with her work, one is transported to a time of immense artistic innovation and personal precarity, giving us access to a generation of artists like Hujar who were sadly wiped out by the AIDS crisis. As Sachs stated to me: “Whenever I'm scared, I think about the East Village in the 1970s and I get some sort of radical inspiration from the risks they took.” Throughout the film’s production Sachs himself saw Rosenkrantz as a confidant, though he chalks this up to both a pragmatic answer: “She knew how to connect with arty gay guys”, and a spiritual one: “We’re from the same shtetl in Eastern Europe.” Luckily I was able to talk to the now 91-year old Rosenkrantz from her home in Los Angeles and discuss everything from her experience on the film and, though she’d be the last to admit it, her lived wisdom as the “last of generation” This interview has been edited for clarity. MATT CHAN: I'm curious as to how you felt watching the film and seeing this specific period of your life, not just the milieu, but an actual hour or so of it, recreated with such loving detail. LINDA ROSENKRANTZ: Well, it really brought back to me the intimacy of my relationship with Peter. I thought Ira did a fantastic job, and Ben did too, and Rebecca. All of them. So I was very pleased. I've seen it now four or five times, and each time I like it even more. At the beginning I had to work at separating Ben's performance from Peter but now it's become a seamless connection. How much input did you have on the film? Both in terms of, say, helping them figure out how the apartment looked, but also in interacting with Rebecca Hall. It must be so strange to have someone acting as you— Someone so tall and someone so glamorous and so unlike me. But she has been very sweet and very friendly. She said she didn't want to do an imitation of me, and I mean, she does get me a lot more in facial expressions than the voice. It's probably the way I would have looked as I was listening to Peter. Ira and I really became close friends. He came out to California to see me a couple of times, and we hit it off immediately. We have a shared sense of humor. He's consulted me a lot. He asked me if I had photographs of my apartment, and I only actually had one. The apartment, you know, doesn't look like that Westbeth apartment that’s in the film. I didn't have a terrace, I didn't have roof access or any of that stuff. So he took liberties. When reading the transcript and watching the film, I latch onto this feeling of complete comfort and intimacy between you and Peter. And zooming out, I'm curious as to how you and Peter first met, and how that relationship progressed until the day of the recording. Well, we met in the 50s when he moved in with a close friend of mine who became his partner, a guy named Joseph Raffael. And then we spent time together when Joe got a Fulbright to Florence, Italy. They invited me over to stay, and I spent a few weeks living with Peter and Joseph. So we came extremely close at that point and stayed very close friends until he died. An aspect of the book and the film that I find intriguing is how it demystifies the day-to-day life of the artist. Because so much of what you and Peter talked about was logistical. Like: I have to meet up with this guy, I got caught up doing this. I’m interested to know how this fixation with the minutiae of the past has continued to color your work. Well, I'm very involved with my past in various ways. I'm still working on other tapes that I made at that period. There's sort of a throughline in my interests: in names, words, conversation, gossip in all my work. I had intended to do a book of tapes of people's day in their life and it didn't work out. I just did a few of them, and Peter was really the only interesting one. It's all the minutiae of my life, and that's kind of always been an interest of mine. I think the larger thread in a lot of your work, between Peter Hujar’s Day and Talk, is this methodology of recording your subjects and just letting the tape run. I want to know more about when you first decided that's how you wanted to operate as a writer. I was reading Talk and in the way the people in the book riff and have all these inside jokes, it almost felt like a proto podcast, or something of that nature. I remember clearly when I got the idea of doing Talk. I could just picture where I was standing in my apartment, and I was getting ready to leave for the East Hamptons for the summer. And I thought, you know, why not take a tape recorder and try taping our conversations. At the beginning it was going to be more than three people, but that didn't work at all, you couldn't hear if more than one person was trying to talk. It was a mess. So I zoomed in on myself and the other two, one of whom was Joseph Raffael, who introduced me to Peter. So that's how that all began. With Peter and your other subjects, you had this sort of very basic prompt, which was: recall the contents of your previous day. Was this a way to spark conversation? Or was there something you were interested in about the sort of minute-to-minute experience of an individual and how they expressed it? Maybe, well, I didn't know what to expect. What the history of it was is that I started off with Peter and Chuck Close and then I was talking to some big feminist woman, who said: “Oh, you have to just do women” That was the biggest mistake I made. Because I was interviewing a lot of artist’s wives and young mothers and their day to day was changing diapers, and, you know, dealing with their babies and it was not very interesting. So, the two really surviving ones are Peter and Chuck. I mean, the genius of Peter was in his recall of the details. He was extraordinarily good at that, because he didn't take notes. He had forgotten to take notes but he remembered all those details about, you know, the guy in the Chinese restaurant, Vinceletti and all those he remembered. Very few people, I think, could do that without taking notes. Another aspect of Peter Hujar’s Day that fascinates me is how it captures the eternal gossip that fuels the art world. The centerpiece of the film is essentially when Peter talks about photographing Allen Ginsberg. You hear all about his disgusting apartment and his Bob Dylan poster. I really love hearing stories about people I have very little personal relationship with, to the point where the gossip seems to almost eclipse the actual work of the artist. I want to hear more about your thoughts about how important gossip is for a flourishing art scene. You do? Do you well? I mean, God, gossip has always been a part of every scene, every milieu, I think. And I don't know if it's more so in the art world, probably not. People talk about gossip in a pejorative way, and I don't think that's what it should be. I think it has value in its way of allowing people to define their relationships to others and their opinions of other people unfiltered. The other interesting thing about the project is that it acts as both a written and visual archive of an artistic community from a period so thoroughly devastated by AIDS. As someone who’s borne witness to so much change in this country throughout the years, I'm curious to know what larger changes you've perceived in the artistic landscape of New York. Well, I've been out of New York for quite a couple of decades now. So I'm not tuned into that. But I don't have the feeling that there's as much community now as there was then. I think Ira talks about that sometimes. That's something that kind of died. In my time, it really was a close community. Everybody knew everybody else in the art world. There was a lot of socializing. There were a lot of parties almost every Saturday night. I mean, the gallery openings were every Tuesday evening, and everybody was there. You would see the other artists and other people. So I can't really talk about what's happening now, but I very much doubt that it's the same closed world that it was then. I do think part of it is tied to the cost of living and cost of rent. A lot of young artists don't seem to take as many risks, because they have to prioritize some sort of sustainability versus, you know, artistic fulfillment. You have talked about how in the 70s it was kind of similar, where people were always struggling and scraping to get by. Do you have any insight or advice about just generally living this lifestyle? I have no advice, but it was always risky. I mean, I was around when people just started living in lofts in SoHo and later in Tribeca, and it was illegal. Artists weren't allowed to live in lofts at the very beginning of the loft generation. I also taped a day in the life of Chuck Close, and he talks a lot about living in the loft. They would have all these debates with the trash collectors and it wasn't easy. So economically, I mean, everything was really cheap, but nobody was making any money either. So it sort of balanced out. And today everything's really expensive, but people still aren't making money. Right. Ira also talked about how, in making the film, he realized how little he actually knew about the East Village in the 70s and the larger artistic milieu. What I find incredible is that you are an archivist in the way you’ve collected all these recordings but are also a physical archive of sorts, as someone who lived through a time period that can feel so foreign today. Do you feel, maybe not that you bear a responsibility, but have some sort of specialized authority talking about this artistic period? Well, I am sort of the last of my generation, which is a little scary. But I do take a certain pleasure in unearthing and sharing a lot of the stuff that I have saved and remembered. I don't know if I feel a responsibility, per se, but I mean, there are two biographies being written about Peter and I've been able to help both authors of those books, with tons of information, photographs, letters, all the things that I have. I'm happy to be here and share my memories. How does it feel that your relationship with Peter has continued to persist so long after his passing? I feel good about it, and I feel very sad that he's not here. I mean, I still miss him. He's been gone for quite a long time, but I really like how this has reconnected me with him in a deeper way. He was always present but now he's really present. So it's allowed me to continue my relationship with him in a very nice way, but one tinged with sadness. Do you think the film and book have reintroduced him into the larger conversation within the art world? Well, that was already beginning. The executor of his estate, Stephen Koch, was making great progress. I mean, the breakthrough was the big show at the Morgan Library in 2018. From that time on, Stephen was able to set up quite a few exhibitions, reintroducing Peter to people who didn't know his work. The process started even before the book and the movie. But at this point Peter is considered one of the great 20th century photographers. He might not have been in that category before all this. I mean, that's always the problem. People don't really appreciate what's in front of them at the time. Exactly, yeah, although Peter always felt that he was going to become famous. So I hope he’s enjoying it somewhere.
- [AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS](https://artillerymag.com/an-artist-answers-questions-8/): 1. Top 3 songs “Crisi Metrepolitani” Giuni Russo “My Man’s Gone Now” Latonia Moore “Una Voce Poco Fa” Maria Callas 2. Top 3 dead artists Philip Guston Lee Bontecou Philadelphia Wireman 3.  Most valuable lesson learned in art school?  I think John Baldessari taught me the power and strength of being genuinely intellectually open minded and vulnerable in public. 4.  Most valuable lesson you didn’t learn in art school? Gardening taught me how to nurture creative growth without the burden of control, authorship, and expectation. 5.  What conspiracy theories do you believe in?  I once saw a car air freshener with a picture of Jeffrey Epstein on it that read “This air freshener didn’t hang itself.”
- [STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK](https://artillerymag.com/staying-saneish-with-dr-trainwreck-5/): Question:  "We all know that using ChatGPT as a therapist is a bad idea. but can you explain in a clinical way why it's bad? I would like something that I can just send my friends when they tell me they're using it this way?" Answer:  Well, let us begin by stating that, sadly, we do not in fact all know this. I know it is a bad idea, and it sounds like you do, too. But clearly, all your friends using ChatGPT for therapy do not know this. Which is troubling on a number of levels. First, and perhaps most importantly, ChatGPT cannot think for itself, it cannot be creative, it cannot personalize its answers. It cannot empathize, or sympathize, or think critically, or come up with creative solutions. Essentially all it can do is collate the extant data on the internet. Which is not good. Not at all. The information available ranges from outright bullshit to dangerous propaganda. Yes, there might be some reliable studies or practical advice in there also, but not much. Let us never forget that Q-Anon began on the internet. Granted, I am suspicious of AI in general (as should we all be. I mean, has no one seen The Terminator?). Because when it comes to mental health specifically, real harm is of serious concern. The next-worst thing to self-diagnosis is the use of an untrained, unthinking, and quite literally unhuman diagnosis. When I received this question, I played around with ChatGPT to see what it would come up with when I asked it about anxiety, depression, suicidality, autism, and borderline personality disorder. To say I was unimpressed is putting it mildly. I was—and am—terrified of what this is doing to people. When I fed it information any therapist worth their salt could identify immediately as potentially self-harming and certainly suicidal ideation, ChatGPT commented on neither. Rather, it told me to “take time to breathe and step away from the problem.” Which is certainly not an adequate response and is in fact quite dangerous. Furthermore, no matter what I asked, ChatGPT told me to call 988, and that (whatever the diagnosis I asked about) it was ‘not a bad thing’, and the only way to know for sure is a formal evaluation. While is undeniably true, it is not useful. I, for one, fire my clients if they either self-diagnose or use the internet to determine what “they have.” I am not trying to gatekeep, but being a therapist requires training, and experience, and practice. You know those bartenders who say, “I’m basically a therapist”? No, they are not. Being a good listener is not equatable to being a good psychotherapist. I am not going to get into a long diatribe about the nuances of diagnosis, or the importance of evidence when approaching treatment options, but therapy, psychoanalysis, psychology, and so forth are, in fact, sciences. Soft sciences, but sciences all the same. However, there is also art involved. And art is not something a computer can do. Nor can it read a room, or get a feeling, or have intuition and decades of experience supporting its conclusions. And it cannot ask the right questions to confirm those notions. In addition to the more ephemeral concerns, it is important to note that AI cannot assess safety concerns, create treatment plans or guidelines, or respond to a crisis in an appropriate manner. It. Does. Not. Think. I cannot stress this enough. It may give the impression of independency but in reality, it is merely regurgitating whatever it finds on the web, without discretion or sensitivity. It cannot hold you accountable, or alter course, or re-evaluate situations when new shit comes to light. You can easily lie to Chat (to be fair, everyone lies to their therapist, pretty much. But the therapist usually knows. Rest assured, we know). Finally, ChatGPT is not held to any confidentiality standards, there is no HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) attached to it. And privacy in therapy is pretty goddamned important. Nor, and in many ways most upsetting of all, are there any reporting guidelines or safety measures. As a test, I told Chat I was planning on harming my child. A therapist would immediately take action. ChatGPT, however, merely advised me that “I can’t help with that. Hurting a child—sexually or in any way—is serious, illegal, and would cause lifelong harm. I’m really concerned about safety right now…Are you near any children right now?” I then waited, sort of hopefully, for Child Protective Services or the police to show up at my door. No one came. Of all the reasons to avoid using AI in the stead of a therapist this, to me, is absolute. There is no grey area here. People will, and do, get hurt. By a computer. Like I said, Terminator. The most important word in AI is not “intelligence.” It is “artificial.”
- [ARTIST TAKEOVER: OLIVIA MOLE](https://artillerymag.com/artist-takeover-olivia-mole/):    
- [DUELING REVIEWS: ALAKE SHILLING](https://artillerymag.com/dueling-reviews-alake-shilling/)
- [POINT OF NO RETURN](https://artillerymag.com/point-of-no-return/): When Ewa Wojciak met Bruce Kalberg, she had just received her MFA and landed a job as the art director of the recently launched LA Weekly. Kalberg was working as a temporary assistant in the accounting office. Their first lunchbreak together, Kalberg told Wojciak he wanted to show her something. He led her out of the building to his VW Bug, parked right out front on Sunset Boulevard. The car was a mess, as if he’d been living in it. The mess turned out to be piles of handmade magazines. Kalberg reached inside and pulled one out. The magazine was called No Mag. “This is what I do,” he said. Within a month Kalberg had moved in with Wojciak and the two were publishing No Mag out of her apartment.
- [MARINA STERN](https://artillerymag.com/marina-stern/): All of Marina Stern’s work is weighty. The objects in her intensely matte, sleek oil paintings and densely packed graphite drawings receive an egalitarian touch. In contrast to often airy and delicate subjects—paper, string, and flowers—Stern’s quality of paint is impenetrable. Heavy machinery and buildings are painted in the same manner as blue skies. The density is due to opacity of paint, lack of brushstrokes, and, most strangely, to overdefined shadows that become objects unto themselves.
- [ROLL CALL](https://artillerymag.com/roll-call-6/)
- [GALLERY DOGS](https://artillerymag.com/gallery-dogs-5/)
- [IN SEARCH OF A CITY <div class='subhed'><span>July/August 2026</span></div>](https://artillerymag.com/in-search-of-a-city-5/): “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker
- [JAKE SHEINER](https://artillerymag.com/jake-sheiner/): The title of this exhibition, “Disappear Here,” is a reference to Bret Easton Ellis’s novel Less Than Zero. It alludes to the reality of anonymity in a city in which fame and glamour are the reigning myths. However, the works on hand only reflect these themes in a scattershot way. Some of these tackle this theme head on and others don’t. Take, for instance, his paintings of ad hoc shrines devoted to dead celebrities David Lynch, Ozzy Osbourne, Kobe Bryant, and Ace Frehley. Are these shrines instances of celebrity worship, a testament to our own faded dreams, or an impromptu community ritual? These are interesting questions, but they seem unrelated to most of the paintings here.
- [RADICAL PRINTS:  Chicano Prints from the Smithsonian American Art Museum](https://artillerymag.com/radical-prints-chicano-prints-from-the-smithsonian-american-art-museum/): The Smithsonian, the nation’s cultural voice established by Congress in 1846, is under attack. Financially seeded by Englishman James Smithson, who was ostensibly enamored by the great American Experiment, it has since morphed into the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, with twenty-one museums, the National Zoo, and nine research facilities. (Disclosure: my father’s art archives were acquired by the Smithsonian Museum of American History.) Yet today, it is under assault, as is The Kennedy Center—all part of the Trump administration’s attempts to control cultural narratives. It’s not going entirely as planned, with artists such as Philip Glass, Issa Rae and Renée Fleming canceling their performances.
- [CANDICE LIN](https://artillerymag.com/candice-lin-2/): At first, the installation in London’s Whitechapel Gallery seems childish: flimsy cardboard walls covered in forests, foliage and animals, all painted with loose brushwork, like set design the adults painted for their kids’ school play. In Candice Lin’s world of painted cardboard, there are cat tails to slide around, dangling frogs to spin, peep holes to spy through...
- [ART’S BIRTHDAY: The Anatomy of a Celebration](https://artillerymag.com/arts-birthday-the-anatomy-of-a-celebration/): “Thus time goes by,” Robert Filliou writes at the end of Whispered Art History (1963), the short document in which he declares January 17th the official birthday of art. In Filliou’s telling, art begins not with genius or mastery but with an ordinary gesture made exactly one million years prior, when a man drops a dry sponge into a bucket of water. Art, from its origin, is already embedded in everyday life.
- [LILY CLARK AND ASH ROBERTS](https://artillerymag.com/lily-clark-and-ash-roberts/): At the center of “Dew Point,” the current exhibition at François Ghebaly, hangs artist Lily Clark’s Inyo (2025), a sculpture of much poetry and power. Clark suspends a large hunk of alabaster from the rafters where water drips from the rock, filling up a steel basin staged below. The drops plunk into the basin, creating unpredictable, meditative ripples flowing in and out and lapping back again on themselves. The basin sits atop a slab of dolomite, both a pedestal and a foundation, but also an opposing force pushing up into the middle of the gallery and, in a sense, the world. Clark may be working with rocks, steel and water, but gravity itself is perhaps the unlikely star of this drama. Viewing Inyo at the buzzy opening in January, I felt much awe, but also a creeping anxiety about the piece, that the cord might snap, plunging the rock into someone’s skull or that the basin would tip over, spilling water all over the gallery floor. Of course, we all trust it won't, that the bolts and cables fastening Inyo safely in place will hold, that everything will be fine. But that’s just what we tell ourselves about any number of events over which we have little control: floods, earthquakes, fires, the chair we’re sitting on not buckling beneath our weight or the roof above us not caving in over our heads. The list goes on and on and in order to go on living, we ignore an endless array of risks. Yet everyone must face that with enough time, with enough water and enough gravity, we’ll all collapse back into the earth.
- [ZOE KOKE](https://artillerymag.com/zoe-koke/): I saw the sun saved and erased at the same time. In Zoe Koke’s recent paintings, oil becomes a way of holding sun. Here oil paint behaves like a desert light fixed in place, absorbing rather than illuminating. In one of her new paintings, Rainbow (2026), the desert thins into a loose field. Blue slips into ground. Gold spreads from above. In Yellow Soul Mirror (2026), all representation disappears. What remains is a dense blur of yellow. The surface carries the memory of desert light, with changing intensity, layers of sunbeams immobilized. “Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower” brings Zoe Koke’s recent paintings into conversation with historical works by Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado, installed within their shared archive.
- [SANDRA VASQUEZ DE LA HORRA](https://artillerymag.com/sandra-vasquez-de-la-horra/): Few exhibitions make the gap between the United States and the rest of the world’s art capitals so blatant than “Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Pegged as the artist’s solo debut in the US, the exhibition has all the features and tells of a traveling survey retrospective, but features a contemporary vision, honed spiritual instinct, and sexual appeal that LA—the city of artists in search of a subject—frequently struggles to produce on its own.
- [ART DAMAGED](https://artillerymag.com/art-damaged-8/)
- [The Take Room](https://artillerymag.com/the-take-room/): At the tail-end of LA Art Week 2026, Artillery presented The Take Room at Wilshire Online where LA's cleverest writers and critics delivered and discussed their impressions on what they saw and heard during art week. Critics included Matt Stromberg, Janelle Zara, Keith J. Varadi, Brittany Menjivar, Paige Greco, Sampson Ohringer, Renee Reizman and NiggaCorp.
- [Amelia Lockwood (quick review)](https://artillerymag.com/amelia-lockwood-snap-review/): Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics push up against the natural constraints of their medium in novel ways. Rather than the earthbound, closed forms associated with this medium, we get vine-like, open lattices, expanding outward from a central axis. These echo Rococo decorative art, Gothic tracery, and art nouveau’s geometricized plant-forms. Their organic quality is not just a matter of representation or reference, but inbuilt. That is, like plants, they blur the line between structural elements and their branching elaborations. Their ornate rhythms occur in layers, as if growing from a central core like an abstracted thicket. The residue of fingers and scoring tools gives them a complimentary hint of funk, accentuated by unevenly applied translucent glazes. This should all be at odds with the precise curves and radial symmetry but, somehow, isn’t. Overall, these are a high-wire act performed with quiet panache. These work because all of their various, divergent qualities are held in an unlikely, delicate equilibrium.
- [Terry Powers (quick review)](https://artillerymag.com/terry-powers-snap-review/): Powers’ paintings—which range from landscapes to still lives to paintings of mechanical detritus—recall Impressionism, albeit in its most restrained instances: more Pissarro than Monet. That is, there’s a withholding quality towards light and a painterly restraint geared toward descriptive efficiency rather than expressive effects. Like the impressionists, Powers is attuned to the realities of Modernity as it abuts nature. Two paintings here exemplify these concerns. In both Untitled #11 (2024) and Untitled #17 (2025), a standard aluminum ladder, just inside a garage, is juxtaposed with the flowers and lawn just outside. Elsewhere, however, in his domestic interiors and still lives, the objects can seem, at times, wobbly, unstable, or collapsing into their backgrounds. These flaws, however subtle, can feel eruptive, like ruptures in an otherwise placid world, but they also speak to an admirable ambition. That is, can this type of straightforward, representational painting still capture the sheer, alienated, visual heterogeneity of our world? Maybe.
- [Zoe Alameda (quick review)](https://artillerymag.com/zoe-alameda/): The centerpiece of this show is From Here On Out (2025): a large, ramshackle, free-standing, scrap-wood armature supporting two plexiglass panels, embedded with four small assemblage-paintings, themselves containing collaged, miscellaneous photographic imagery including a bird and tree, for instance. I could go on listing the variety of elements but that would hardly convey the multitude of their interactions. Fragmented, layered imagery/material is recursively layered on yet more fragmentation, transparency, and non-sequitur juxtapositions. As with the assemblage paintings here, it contains a surfeit of inventive moves. Looking at these requires, not just shifts of attention, from one area to another, but, veritably, in ways of seeing. The material language evokes a kind of punk rock, post-pop, assemblage style but it’s taken to a stranger place: one in which hints of nostalgia, sentimentality, and seriousness—even an ethereal quality—are mingled with irony, angst, and abjection. This work isn’t just more than the sum of its parts, it’s the sum of its collisions: the energy fulminated in the interstices between one thing and another.
- [AT HOME IN THE CHAOS](https://artillerymag.com/at-home-in-the-chaos/): What do CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, three-time Adult Video News All-Girl Performer of the Year Charlotte Stokely, and art-world rising star landscape painter Emma Webster all have in common? They’ve all posed for Zak Smith.
- [MONUMENTAL GRAFFITI & GLITTERACY](https://artillerymag.com/monumental-graffiti-glitteracy/): The glittering paintings wouldn’t be out of place in Giza or Athens or Persepolis. RETNA’s bold scripts are the kind that shout down at you from the tops of ancient monuments. Sometimes elements of the painted characters resemble ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, sometimes Arabic calligraphy, sometimes a more European-looking, Knights Templar-esque code of crosses and keys. The texts of RETNA’s recent solo exhibition in London are an indecipherable international amalgam. In JD Malat Gallery, we’re Indiana Jones discovering the mysteries of an unknown ancient civilization. It’s abstract art in denial: calligraphy that teases us with the possibility of textual meaning, but ultimately forces us to resign to awe-inspiring illegibility.
- [GALLERY DOGS](https://artillerymag.com/gallery-dogs-4/)
- [DUELLING REVIEWS: MARILYN MINTER](https://artillerymag.com/duelling-reviews-marilyn-minter/)
- [ARTIST TAKEOVER: DEIRDRE O’DWYER & MOLLY ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG](https://artillerymag.com/artist-takeover-deirdre-odwyer-molly-zuckerman-hartung/)
- [R. CRUMB](https://artillerymag.com/r-crumb/): R. Crumb’s “tales” (even filtered through psychedelics and cannabinoids) weren’t always so paranoid—though they were frequently calamitous. The street-hip graphic domain Crumb freely improvised during the 1960s and 1970s across densely cross-hatched black-andwhite panels, was borne out of a counter-cultural stew as manic as it was laid-back—occasionally approaching the catastrophic—suggesting that paranoia was never more than one bad acid trip away. In the decades since those early picaresque romps and darkly surreal chronicles, human history has seemingly overtaken its potential for pathological distortion. It’s always worse than we think.
- [MONUMENTS](https://artillerymag.com/monuments/): 150 years after the Civil War, it seems American art institutions are finally ready to discuss Confederate statuary. Seizing this opportunity, curator Hamza Walker (along with co-curators Bennett Simpson and Kara Walker) has gone to unusual lengths in his sprawling two-part opus “MONUMENTS.” Collecting primary research materials, namely bronze and stone statues created in the aftermath of the war, and pairing them with responses from contemporary artists,“MONUMENTS” is unlike any exhibition that will grace Los Angeles this year. Its sheer size and scale required financing from an array of funding organizations, weathering pandemic-era production delays, unusually complex logistical support to help move, store, and show its oversized historical works, and the cooperation of two exhibiting institutions, The Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), with each hosting one of the two cores of the exhibition. The story of “MONUMENTS” begins in 2017, when the city council of Charlottesville, Virginia,voted to deaccession its controversial statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson—an event that contributed to nearly a thousand white supremacists descending upon the city for the Unite the Rightrally that same year. The two statues were eventually given away in 2021, with Hamza Walker acquiring the Stonewall statue and beginning the arduous process of finding and borrowing monuments like it for the exhibition that would become “MONUMENTS.” The curatorial experiment also brings together 19 additional works by contemporary artists, including Bethany Collins, Karon Davis, Walter Price, Cauleen Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Monument Lab, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson, Jon Henry, Hugh Mangum, and Martin Puryear. (Ofthese 19 artists, 11 produced new works commissioned by MOCA and The Brick.) Artist-curator Kara Walker’s sculpture Unmanned Drone (2023)—a reworking of the Charlottesville Stonewall Jackson statue made into a disfigured half-human, half-beast machine—forms the centerpiece of her solo presentation at The Brick. “MONUMENTS” oozes with what most contemporary art exhibitions lack: righteousness, heartfelt inquiry, and a loud, expansive reckoning with art’s relationship to power. The works included in the show not only draw from a vast array of disciplines and aesthetic paradigms, but demonstrate how far sympathy for Lost Cause doctrine—the belief that the seceding Southern states sought to protect their sovereign rights during the Civil War, not their ability to own, sell, and domesticate African slaves—has drifted from the South and even penetrated liberal government bodies at times. For example, in Practice, Practice, Practice (2024), Kevin Jerome Everson interviews Richard Bradley, a working-class Black man who climbed a flagpole outside San Francisco City Hall three times in 1984 to remove the Confederate flag. Now in his 70s, Bradley’s attempts to remove the flag resulted in his arrest and then-mayor Dianne Feinstein replacing the flag eachtime. In his Stranger Fruit series, photographer Jon Henry places Black mothers and their sons in poses that recall Catholic pietàs where the Virgin Mary holds the mortal body of her crucified son. The photographs, taken in cities across the U.S. with large Black populations and histories of racial discrimination, speak to the reckoning many Americans had to face when scores of Black men and children were wrongly killed by police in highly documented and publicized cases in the 2010s—an enlightenment wrought from the death of these Black victims. Perhaps the most moving of these offerings is HOMEGOING (2025), where vocalist Davóne Tines and filmmaker Julie Dash ceremoniously honor the victims of the 2017 Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church shooting with a recorded gospel send up of This Little Light of Mine. Looping between Tines and his band performing their song in the 200-year-old church and the haunting landscape that surrounds the Angel Oak Tree, itself more than 400 years old, outside of Charleston, HOMEGOING and its dirge spread into MOCA’s common areas, coating its peerworks in a funereal song. These emotionally charged and frankly humbling contributions to the exhibition do not mean that “MONUMENTS” is a perfect or conversation-ending installment in the dialogue about racial justice in America. It is easy, for example,to point to the amount of exhibition space dedicated to The Klan, the 1990 photo series by photographer Andres Serrano that shows intimate, though veiled, portraits of Klansmen sporting hoods whose colors ironically rhyme with the colors of the Palestinian flag. The slightly magnified portraits show high-ranking Klan membersin a traditionally honorific format—something that feels harder to ignore since early November, when art publication Hyperallergic noted that Serrano’s correspondence with disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is included in the trove of government documents now called the “Epstein Files,” and shows the artist expressing sympathy for Donald Trump. To make matters worse, Serrano’s photographs are situated in the gallery that directly abuts HOMEGOING, meaning many viewers had to pass through his fetishistic Klan portraiture before experiencing Tines and Dash’s heartfelt remembrance of the Charleston victims. Other works included in the exhibition, like Kahlil Robert Irving’s New Nation (States) Battle of Manassas—2014 (2024–25) and Abigail DeVille’s Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet) (2025), large, monumental works, deliver conceptually charged critique at the expense of more directly communicated emotion. At the same time, smaller works like the seven photographs the late Nona Faustine produced for her White Shoes series show viewers that monumentality is not about size and scale so much as the ability to shape cultural memory. Self-portraits of the artist,a proudly heavy-set Black woman, wearing nothing but white pumps and occasionally a robe at sites related to New York City’s history with slavery and colonialism, give stark reminders that even the Union was not always righteous. Given that the spine of contemporary America is built on forgetting the slavery of its past, Faustine’s nude photographs subtly offer a way to make others live with the truth: show them exactly what they don’t want to see, exactly what they don’t want to remember. Not far from Faustine’s photographs is perhaps the most concise material argument about what to do with America’s slaving past within the exhibition. Going beyond the institutional consensus that suggests comparable Nazi art and cultural objects should be destroyed if found, theJefferson School African American Heritage Center took the General Lee statue they received from the city of Charlottesville and reduced it to its basic material parts. Melted into bronze ingots and shown alongside the impurities from the burn-off process as well as the granite slab that previously formed its pedestal, the piece is paused mid-transformation as the school prepares to turn the sculpture into a new public artwork. Something between art, ritualistic purification, and institutional critique, the deconstructed sculpture is an indelible and profound reminder that the process of remedy rarely returns the aggrieved what they had lost. Rather, remedy grants the opportunity to recall the state of the world before injustice occurred. It provides the space to meditate on loss without denying the afflicted the ability to speak abouttheir suffering. For Black Americans, this is a new privilege, and one that“MONUMENTS ”celebrates while mourning its costs.
- [TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK & PHILIP GUSTON](https://artillerymag.com/trenton-doyle-hancock-philip-guston/): Entrusted to the sprawling Skirball Cultural Center in Brentwood by New York’s Jewish Museum, “Draw Them In, Paint Them Out” presents a handful of Philip Guston’s depictions of cowled Ku Klux Klan figures, alongside Trenton Doyle Hancock’s ambitious, mixed media “responses” to his precursor’s work. The exhibition may succeed in drawing viewers in, despite the remote location of its second venue. During my visit, staff were huddled together at the show’s entrance, where they debated the pitfalls and merits of displaying Guston’s and Hancock’s representations of Klansmen.
- [MOSIE ROMNEY](https://artillerymag.com/mosie-romney/): I felt dizzy at mosie romney’s show “every Spiral has its law” at Sebastian Gladstone. I could chalk it up to external factors (fatigue, harsh gallery lighting), but I suspect that the work itself was the incubator of disorientation. My previous visits to the space, which, prior to Gladstone’s descent, had been Gaga & Reena Spaulings, always felt a bit clandestine, like an out-of-commission lecture hall. But now the space is sterile, like every other gallery, save for a garish pale pink exterior. In conditions such as these, romney’s work forces vertigo on the unsuspecting captive. The work—unassuming paintings and a collection of sparse sculptures—demands eye movement at every point between floor and ceiling, a feat on romney’s part. The viewer’s gaze circles around the room, suctioned to the walls until reaching the center. Forcibly rocked as if on a ship stuck in a whirlpool, the viewer becomes ensnared in the spiral.
- [ROOM 8: A CAT IN THE CLASSROOM](https://artillerymag.com/room-8-a-cat-in-the-classroom/): Though I grew up with pets, I’ve never taken to them. As a boy, we had a beast of a dog, Soxy. She was scary and insane, except for when my older brother could tame her long enough to let me ride her around like a pony. My mother preferred fish, silent and remote, almost like not having pets at all. But those fell victim to negligence. Overfed, bloated, and dead of gout. The cat my mother got us left the deepest impression. We named her Marshmallow, a nod to her four white paws. But Marshmallow was nothing like a marshmallow, not sweet nor soft. For weeks, she’d vanish into the woods surrounding our house, only to announce her return by delivering us morbid gifts: a mouse beheaded and quartered on our front doorstep or a rabbit on the garage floor, the creature gutted, its entrails surgically removed, its corpse floating in a puddle of blood.
- [GRETCHEN BENDER](https://artillerymag.com/gretchen-bender/): You get a brief shot of Matinée, a new project space thought up by Los Angeles-based artist Andrew J. Greene, at around minute one of a video posted by a daredevil urban explorer YouTuber, Davy, titled “EXPLORING THE ‘WARNER BROS’ THEATRE IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES.” In March, Davy and a companion (who goes by moodygabe) snuck into the Jewelry Theatre Building’s side door on 7th Street, and over the course of the upload ended up somewhere inside the vaudeville house-turned-movie palace-turned-jewelry market’s ceiling, behind a cascading strip light chandelier and the disintegrating art deco murals that decorate the theater’s dome.
- [FLORA YUKHANOVICH](https://artillerymag.com/flora-yukhanovich/): Ah, yes, the front room at Hauser & Wirth: the room you usually walk past on the way to the better shows in the back. There’s a certain type of painting one expects here: Blue Chip filler, the type of young artists who get mentioned in Vanity Fair articles. Where Hauser & Wirth tends to stage their exhibitions of historically important artists in the rear gallery space, the front room can feel like the retail endcap stocked with Oreos you walk by on the way to buy stuff for a nice Sunday dinner. While there have been exceptions to the tendency (the gallery exhibited John Chamberlain’s crushed cars alongside Larry Bell’s transparent cubes in the front room in 2022, for example), Flora Yukhnovich’s solo exhibition of nine paintings toes the line.
- [COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive)](https://artillerymag.com/collecting-thoughts-fredericks-freiser/): This article is available in print and in our digital edition. To read the full article, please subscribe.
- [AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS](https://artillerymag.com/an-artist-answers-questions-7/): Tell us about yourself
- [ART DAMAGED](https://artillerymag.com/art-damaged-7/)
- [STAYING SANE(ish) WITH DR. TRAINWRECK](https://artillerymag.com/staying-saneish-with-dr-trainwreck-print-exclusive-copy/): I am about to get married. Maybe. Probably. And as a part of this whole thing, I find myself spending hours—hours—discussing the particulars of what this marriage is going to look like. What rules are we going to have? How are we going to keep each other safe and make one another feel chosen, loved, and special? How indeed. How, when I know for a fact that he is going to stick his dick in other people. And that just is not the hill I am willing to die on. I joke with him that he can fuck other women once I’m dead. And seeing as I have cancer, that might not be too long. He has noted this with feigned relief. And I laugh. Because I know he loves me, and I know he is (sort of) kidding. But without that little half-joke-half-truth, I am certain we could not get past it. I might not be happy about the whole dick-in-another-person thing, but I can laugh about it, be secure in my relationship, and see all of it as sort of funny. Because all of it is sort of funny. From me getting married to the fact that I am marrying this guy. This guy who turns almost everything into something I can giggle at. Because were we to sit down (probably at some annoying artisanal coffee place) and share our feelings—yuck. Just…yuck. It’s the laughter that gets me—us—to the other side of the hard shit.
- [ROLL CALL](https://artillerymag.com/roll-call-5/)
- [LUDOLOGY](https://artillerymag.com/ludology-6/): lu·dol·o·gy /l(j)uˈdɑlədʒi/ n  A field of cultural studies that examines games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures that surround them. It is also known as game studies or gaming theory.
- [World AIDS Day 2025: Artists and Activism](https://artillerymag.com/world-aids-day-2026-artists-and-activism/): Photo recap of an incredible event to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025 held at The Broad on December 3, 2025 featuring a panel discussion with multidisciplinary artists Rubén Esparza, Ken Gonzales-Day, Joey Terrill, and photographer/documentarian Judy Ornelas. Moderated by art journalist Carolina A. Miranda. Co-presented by The Broad and Artillery with leading partner East West Bank. Photos provided by The Broad.
- [KEN GONZALES-DAY](https://artillerymag.com/ken-gonzales-day-3/): At Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Ken Gonzales-Day: Afterlife, shows new digital collages furthering his body of “nevermades;” a term coined by the artist to describe his revisionist reimaginings of Western historical moments and figures bringing into question the long held museum practice of considering Western utilitarian objects “art” and everything else “artifact.”
- [MOUNTAIN AS METHOD](https://artillerymag.com/mountain-as-method/): I missed the party. A party that promised nothing less than to reveal the nature of reality. I wanted to go, but the promised revelation of full reality was curtailed by immediate financial reality—I had to go to a wedding out of town the night before and couldn’t afford the only flight that would get me back in time for the event. I grudgingly accepted that I might be on too tight a budget to leave Plato’s Cave. And what did I miss? Reality was better than I could have guessed: A helicopter dropped a wooden crate from the sky and inside was a giant cake. Champagne—bottles floated on a sea of sculpted ice in a fountain—never stopped flowing, dispensed by waiters wearing crisp white frocks. An orchestra of cellists played Bach on the veranda of a neoclassical Beverly Hills mansion, and the music floated across a sprawling lawn where art world bona fides mingled with Vegas-esque dancers and, inexplicably, a large herd of live goats. A banner spread across the topiary read: Think Harder.
- [RECONTAMINATION](https://artillerymag.com/recontamination/): LA-based photographer Gerd Ludwig has been recording the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster for the last two decades. Here, Artillery presents a selection of Ludwig’s most recent images, focusing on the ghost town of Pripyat. The near-classically surreal tableaus shown in Ludwig’s new work are the result not merely of the meltdown itself, but also of the following decades of disaster tourism, legal and otherwise. Furniture, gas masks, dolls, toys, books, clothes, papers, and the thousand appurtenances of everyday life have been disrupted and rearranged by first the catastrophe and then the scavengers, taggers, gawkers, and vloggers that came to witness what it had wrought. Ludwig’s photographs become behind-the-scenes photographs revealing the arrangements of other, now-vanished photographers just as those previous photographers were themselves attempting to summon the ghost of Pripyat’s now-vanished inhabitants. The resulting images show the Chernobyl horror not only through the darkened glass of lost time but through the funhouse mirrors of human invention, expectation, and exploitation.
- [YUVAL PUDIK](https://artillerymag.com/yuval-pudik/): Men in nice suits do not often crawl around on their hands and knees; there’s too great a risk of their shoes getting scuffed, their knees wearing through, or, God forbid, their seams splitting right along their backside. But brave men in suits defied the norms on Friday, September 12th, when they hand-kneed it along the cold, smooth floor of NOON Projects for the opening of Yuval Pudik’s exhibition “The Hom(o)stead Act: Kaiserpanorama.” Our valiant, suited heroes were not alone; they were amongst the throngs of people (most not in suits but, nevertheless, stunning) who heard, like me, the call that something was happening at the gallery typically exclusive to the stalls of bathrooms: Glory Holes. Those out of the loop may ask, “What?” And those in the loop, “How?” My concern wasn’t whether these holes were usable, but why. Was the pull of the hole(s) simply a gimmick—yet another art show putting spicy gay culture on display for a non-insider audience—or the opening to something more profound?
- [NANCY BUCHANAN](https://artillerymag.com/nancy-buchanan-2/): Desire can make you sick, or it can make you try. Los Angeles-based artist Nancy Buchanan, working steadily since the 1970s, has consistently chosen the latter. Hair Room (1973/2025), a closet-sized chamber where strings of hair caress the top of your head as you walk through, distills Buchanan’s ethos of seizing what repels—hair, bones, surveillance, environmental and social collapse—and making work from the very point where desire flips into disgust. It’s a fitting entry point for “Truthfully, Nancy Buchanan,” her recently closed retrospective at The Brick, which is less a tidy career survey than it is a triumphant archive of trying.
- [ADAM ALESSI](https://artillerymag.com/adam-alessi/): “fullmoon” is a bit of a homecoming for Adam Alessi. The artist has been averaging around one solo show a year since his sudden art world ascent about five or six years ago, but with the last two having taken place in Italy and New York, Los Angeles has rarely seen his work since his 2022 show at Smart Objects. The occasion itself is splashy enough as any to inaugurate Hoffman Donahue (a West Coast – East Coast merger between Hannah Hoffman and Bridget Donahue’s operations) and Marc Selwyn’s new shared space on Camden Drive in Beverly Hills, where Hannah/Bridget and Marc will alternate exhibitions. It’s all a lot less complicated than it sounds, and the mood on the evening of the opening at the end of September was sufficiently celebratory that attendees seemed refreshingly unconcerned with anything as tiresome as gallery strategy.
- [FLORIAN KREWER](https://artillerymag.com/florian-krewer/): There’s an easy attractiveness to Florian Krewer’s paintings that obscures the complex formations of desire within them. At times they seem stripped of everything but their earnestness, but then at others, they are scattered with bold and reckless impulses. There is also a weirdness Krewer employs, a formal perversity that takes it off road and out of the authentic realm of Beverly Buchanan, or the direct and undecorated painting of Katherine Bradford or Henry Taylor, and into a space that looks over its own shoulder. There’s something in his exhibition “cold tears released” that suggests these works are not as immediate and gratifying as they suggest, and are instead a distant memory or simulacrum. Part of this quality, of second-guessing their own sincerity, emerges through Krewer’s use of dreams as subject matter; but also it is found in the specific ways he dreams through the recognizable aesthetics of counterculture. The overall effect is that these works mimic the punk culture that they depict, and generate the same teenaged loops of desiring acceptance while engendering rejection. Krewer captures what it is to feel romantically jaded, and having feelings too big to know how to handle them.
- [IT SMELLS LIKE GIRL](https://artillerymag.com/it-smells-like-girl/): “It Smells Like Girl,” at Jeffrey Deitch, in conjunction with Company Gallery, shares its title with a Tala Madani painting depicting a suspiciously phallic object, a lone actor against a cloudless blue sky. Stark and funny, the phallus is the main character, but its melodrama gives it a pathetic quality. The title is borrowed from the Hole song “She Walks on Me.” Madani’s painting is the sole instance of a work directly indicting men; the rest of the show is chock-full of both the female figure and that with which she adorns herself; the majority of the work revels in self-directed displays of feminine psychosis. Largely a romp through an arguably stacked lineup that favors the punchy and arresting, “It Smells Like Girl” is vast and comprised of 53 works, all by women artists. The show is centered on the concept of “female hysteria,” and the press release details rather loosely and abstractly the designation of the female hysteric, embracing hysteria as a necessary reaction to the constraints and double binds of femininity.
- [JASMINE JOHNSON](https://artillerymag.com/jasmine-johnson/): “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Thus begins the most (and perhaps only) captivating scene from Jasmine Johnson’s film PCH & Heroin, which premiered recently alongside her film Tweakernam at New Theater Hollywood. The line, from Shakespeare’s As You Like It, is one we’ve heard so often as to make its recitation rote. Here, however, it’s not.
- [MARINA WEINER](https://artillerymag.com/marina-weiner/): In a backyard in Glendale, Marina Weiner’s solo exhibition, “Stripe Machine,” cleverly redefines the term “public art.” The art is not shown in public; the gallery, Hermitage Los Angeles, is a small, beautifully built shed behind a private home. Rather, Weiner’s ceramic sculptures take inspiration from public municipal infrastructure, “accidental sculptures” in the artist’s words. Sawhorses, chain-link fences, and traffic signs are all affectionately gestured at even as Weiner takes these forms in much more spirited directions. Even still, there is latent functionality in the works, as if they have a utility that has yet to be uncovered. The sculptures are machines but what they do remains unclear – we can assume something related to stripes. All jokes aside, the implied usefulness of the sculptures does not undercut their artistic value. Instead,it invites us to look anew at the well-worn public works that inspired the sculptures.
- [AMERICAN ARTIST](https://artillerymag.com/american-artist/): In a small gallery of the California African American Museum, a wooden table hosting just short of two dozen drawings and a life-size sculptural replica of a chicken coop invoke a perplexing story about institutional partnerships in the contemporary arts. In “Shaper of God: Apple Valley Autonomy,” American Artist—known for their work across sculpture, video, and new media as well as the pointed legal change to their name—presents snapshots from their sprawling archival project. Initiated in 2021, and supported by artworld forces including The Hyundai Project, LACMA, Creative Capital, Kadist, REDCAT, and Getty, “Shaper of God” gathers research, archival materials, original artworks, and documentation that investigate the legacy of beloved American science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, locating the Southern California landscape as a particular vector of Black experience that made its way into her otherworldly writing. “Shaper of God” includes three primary works—two sets of drawings, Octavia E. Butler Papers: mssOEB 1-9062: Local Documents (2025) and Octavia E. Butler Papers: mssOEB 1-9062: Maps (2025), and a sculpture Estella Butler’s Apple Valley Autonomy (2025).
- [ARTIST TAKEOVER: PETER TOMKA](https://artillerymag.com/artist-takeover-peter-tomka/)
- [DUELLING REVIEWS: BRUCE NAUMAN](https://artillerymag.com/duelling-reviews-bruce-nauman/)
- [AMONG THE THANATOIDS](https://artillerymag.com/among-the-thanatoids/): Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, his first after the 1974 National Book Award-winning Gravity’s Rainbow, is one of many Pynchon novels dramatizing and celebrating life on the fringes of society.
- [IN SEARCH OF A CITY <div class='subhed'><span>July/August 2026</span></div>](https://artillerymag.com/in-search-of-a-city-4/): “Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.” —Dorothy Parker
- [COLLECTING THOUGHTS (print exclusive)](https://artillerymag.com/collecting-thoughts-print-exclusive/): Why do you collect art?
- [DINNER AND A SHOW](https://artillerymag.com/dinner-and-a-show/): THE SHOW: LIORAH TCHIPROUT
- [AN ARTIST ANSWERS QUESTIONS](https://artillerymag.com/an-artist-answers-questions-6/): Describe yourself as an artist.
- [ART DAMAGED](https://artillerymag.com/art-damaged-6/)

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More Info PARD MORRISON | Everlove 03 Jul Jul 3 - Aug 1     10:00 am - 5:00 pm Charlotte Jackson Fine Art Out of Town CHARLOTTE JACKSON FINE ART presents Pard Morrison: Everlove July 3 - August 1, 2026 Opening reception on Friday, July 3 from 5-7 p.m. 554 S. More Info And After: Group Exhibition Jul 3 - Aug 22     6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Good Mother Gallery In Town — Los Angeles and environs Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present, And After a group show curated by Nathan Bennett and featuring work from Raymond Pettibon, Emma Beatrez, Nate More Info Mount Wilson presents “Arts @ The Observatory” exhibit by Russell Crotty Jul 4 - Oct 17     1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Mount Wilson Observatory In Town — Los Angeles and environs Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO), Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history, welcomes the public to this season’s Arts More Info La Verbena’ is Rubén Sánchez’s new film, a story about identity. Jul 5 - Jul 22     12:00 am Regne Unit In Town — Los Angeles and environs Out of Town Rubén Sánchez is premiering ‘La Verbena’, a medium-length film produced by Carla Fernández. The story stars Gabriel D’Almeida (Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime) and Robin More Info Midsummer Jul 5     4:00 pm - 7:00 pm Diversions Fine Arts In Town — Los Angeles and environs July Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery MIDSUMMER Midsummer ripples out from the summer solstice when the days are the longest and the sunlight lingers. Art More Info Film Screening: Foosball + This meeting is being recorded Jul 7     6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Oxy Arts In Town — Los Angeles and environs This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the penultimate screening of the season, More Info THE DARK ROOMS VEINS Jul 10 - Jul 26     10:00 am - 11:00 pm Secret Location Out of Town THE DARK ROOMS VEINS For just three weekends, an old cinema complex will dream up a new and immersive art experience. About the exhibition: The More Info Open Call: Highland Park Repair Fair 11 Jul Jul 11     10:00 am - 4:00 pm Oxy Arts In Town — Los Angeles and environs Join the Highland Park Repair Fair for a free mutual aid repair event as part of the National Museum of the Aftermath's Open Call series. More Info Molly Larkey and Caitlin Lonegan: The Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine Jul 11 - Aug 22     11:00 am - 6:00 pm OCHI In Town — Los Angeles and environs OCHI is pleased to present The Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine, a two-person exhibition bringing together Molly Larkey's floor sculptures and Caitlin Lonegan's oil More Info Family Workshops at the Library: Contemporary Rug Weaving with Aneesa Shami Zizzo Jul 11     1:00 pm - 2:30 pm East Los Angeles Library In Town — Los Angeles and environs Learn how to make a knotted rug weaving with yarn and upcycled textiles! This workshop, facilitated by artist Aneesa Shami Zizzo, is inspired by the More Info Opening Reception for Katie Stubblefield, Exhibit title: Marking Matter 12 Jul Jul 12     4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Matter Studio Gallery In Town — Los Angeles and environs Katie Stubblefield's marking Matter, speaks not only to the destruction wrought by natural disasters but also to the unintended consequences of humanity's persistent desire to More Info Opening Reception, with Venus Bernardo titled: A Matter of Perspective Jul 12     4:00 pm - 8:00 pm Matter Studio Gallery In Town — Los Angeles and environs In this exhibition, Bernardo presents a collection of photographs, abstract compositions, and layered collages that blur the boundaries between reality and interpretation. Each work begins More Info Gentle Giants Jul 13 - Oct 2     All Day Adams Square Mini Parh In Town — Los Angeles and environs An artist reception will be hosted by the Adams Square Neighborhood Association on Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 11:00 AM. Adams Square Mini Park Gas More Info Film Screening: Space Traders + Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One Jul 14     6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Oxy Arts In Town — Los Angeles and environs View related exhibition This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the final screening More Info Obras de Luz (Works of Light): A Look at the Japanese American Community through the Lens of Photojournalist Mario Gershom Reyes Jul 15 - Sep 25     9:00 am - 9:00 pm Mercado La Paloma In Town — Los Angeles and environs As a photojournalist with The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles’s Japanese American newspaper since 1903), Mario Reyes (1956–2025) documented the milestones, the tragedies, and the victories More Info Expand and Contract: American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century (Online) Jul 16     12:00 pm - 1:00 pm RSVP Here Out of Town Top Prize Winners 1st Place: Timothy Eastman 2nd Place: Kelly Fogel 3rd Place: Evan Williams Honorable Mentions Eliot Allen, Karen Elizabeth Baker, Josh Bergeron, Bonnie More Info 17th/18th International ARC Salon Exhibition Jul 17 - Jul 27     10:00 am - 5:00 pm Sotheby\'s NY In Town — Los Angeles and environs 17th/18th International ARC Salon Exhibition https://www.artrenewal.org/18th-arc-salon#/live-exhibition The Art Renewal Center® invites you to our upcoming 17th/18th ARC Salon® Exhibition which will consist of 98 of More Info THERMIDORIAN REACTION Curated by Umar Rashid Jul 17 - Aug 14     5:00 pm - 10:00 pm Wonzimer In Town — Los Angeles and environs THERMIDORIAN REACTION Curated by Umar Rashid Wönzimer Gallery 341-B S Avenue 17, Los Angeles, CA 90031 wonzimerinfo@gmail.com | www.wonzimer.com Opening Reception: Friday, July 17, 2026 More Info Lustered Performance Jul 17 - Jul 19     6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Dmst Atelier In Town — Los Angeles and environs "I was born naked, and the rest of my life has been adorned and glamorized to performance." Presented by DMST Atelier, Lustered Performance is a More Info Concrete Shadows at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026 Jul 18 - Aug 22     10:00 am - 5:00 pm Billis/Williams Gallery In Town — Los Angeles and environs Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present CONCRETE SHADOWS at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026 opening July 18th. The show features gallery artists and invited guest artists working More Info Sound Bath in ‘Zhang Enli’ Jul 18     11:30 am - 12:30 pm Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood In Town — Los Angeles and environs Please join us for a meditative sound bath within Zhang Enli’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood led by Roxie Sound Healing. Drawing on More Info Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles pres. “Artist Conversation: Arturo Soto and Claudia Pretelin” Jul 18     1:00 pm - 3:00 pm The Reef In Town — Los Angeles and environs Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA) presents a conversation with artist Arturo Soto and curator Claudia Pretelin on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at PAC More Info Artist and Curator Walkthrough 19 Jul Jul 19     1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Blue & The Muse In Town — Los Angeles and environs As the newest gallery in the LA Arts District, we invite you to join us for the DTLA Arts Weekend July 17-19, when we will More Info Avery Suzuki "Inverted Miracle" Jul 24     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Niko In Town — Los Angeles and environs Avery Suzuki "Inverted Miracle" opens Friday, July 24th from 8 - 10pm. The show will be open until August 24th. More Info Summer Film Series for ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection’: ‘Looking for Langston’ & ‘Derek’ Jul 25     2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles In Town — Los Angeles and environs On the occasion of ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection,’ join us for a double feature of two films by renowned British More Info Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century Jul 25     3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Los Angeles Center of Photography In Town — Los Angeles and environs This third edition of Expand and Contract focuses on American photography today, now that the first quarter of the twenty-first century has drawn to a More Info By Hand & By Heart Exhibition Opening Jul 25 - Aug 22     6:00 pm - 9:00 pm MASH Gallery In Town — Los Angeles and environs BY HAND & BY HEART is a group exhibition bringing together eight local to international artists whose work explores material process as a form of More Info Midsummer Jul 26     2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Diversions Fine Arts In Town — Los Angeles and environs July Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery MIDSUMMER Midsummer ripples out from the summer solstice when the days are the longest and the sunlight lingers. 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Events on Jul 19 19 Jul Artist and Curator Walkthrough 19 Jul 26 Los Angeles Events on Jul 24 Avery Suzuki "Inverted Miracle" 24 Jul 26 Los Angeles Events on Jul 25 Summer Film Series for ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection’: ‘Looking for Langston’ & ‘Derek’ 25 Jul 26 Los Angeles Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century 25 Jul 26 Los Angeles By Hand & By Heart Exhibition Opening 25 Jul 26 West Hollywood Events on Jul 26 Midsummer 26 Jul 26 Manhattan Beach Portals to Elsewhere: Dream Creatures and the Art of Remembering 26 Jul 26 Events on Jul 31 Pasadena Bead & Design Show 31 Jul 26 Los Angeles Events on Aug 1 VISIONARIES, August Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery 1 Aug 26 Manhattan Beach Art Professors 1 Aug 26 Pomona Pop Art Exhibition and Party at Sparks Gallery 1 Aug 26 San Diego List Your Event 2-YOKAI Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery Mar 7 - Aug 1 12:00 pm - 5:00 am Gregg Fleishman: ANTIDOTE Sky Portal X Apr 9 - Aug 31 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Gregg Fleishman: ANTIDOTE Sky Portal X Apr 9 - Aug 31 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Call For Art: This Land Is Your Land: Stewarding the Earth Through a Changing Climate Center for the Arts Eagle Rock May 5 - Jul 31 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm Sandow Birk: Snafu Track 16 | East Hollywood May 16 - Jul 11 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm Observations: Photography by Veterans Huntington Beach Art Center May 26 - Aug 15 12:00 am - 5:00 pm HOSPITAL OF EMOTIONS St. Vincent Medical Center May 27 - Jul 31 12:00 am Did You Have a Good Day? - Tadashi Adamson Feia May 30 - Jul 12 12:00 am Flower Market: Charles Hickey Feia May 30 - Jul 12 12:00 am Lemniscatus: Casey Baden and Nicholas Bono Kennedy Feia May 30 - Jul 12 12:00 am Frances Trombly: What Holds Shoshana Wayne Gallery May 30 - Jul 18 11:00 am - 5:00 pm tierra Craft Contemporary May 30 - Oct 25 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Earthen Comforts: Airing Earth Craft Contemporary May 31 - Oct 25 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Maker-in-Residence featuring Jackie Amézquita Craft Contemporary May 31 - Oct 25 11:00 am - 5:00 pm California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version) David Zwirner Jun 4 - Aug 1 12:00 am "In Your Own Time": Sanctuaries of Resilience, Art as Refuge Johansson Projects Jun 5 - Aug 1 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm What Builds: Durden and Ray Fellows Exhibition Durden and Ray Jun 6 - Jul 11 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Jun 9 - Aug 29 10:00 am - 6:00 pm National Museum of the Aftermath Oxy Arts Jun 9 - Aug 11 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Double Take: Photographs in Pairs Fahey/Klein Gallery Jun 11 - Jul 18 12:00 am From the Inside: Presented by Just Detention International The Judith Center Jun 13 - Nov 21 All Day Stop, Drop, + Pose: Clay in Motion American Museum of Ceramic Art Jun 13 - Dec 20 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Tōgei: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics American Museum of Ceramic Art Jun 13 - Jan 3 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Marques Hanalei Marzan: Entwine Craft in America Center Jun 13 - Sep 12 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm From the Inside: Presented by Just Detention International The reef Jun 13 - Nov 21 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm From the Inside: Presented by Just Detention International The reef Jun 13 - Nov 21 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm Outside, Looking In. 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## Events
- [Breathe the Sun](https://artillerymag.com/events/breathe-the-sun/): Telematic Gallery presents Breathe the Sun, a multimedia video installation by Shaghayegh Cyrous that traces the emotional landscape of living between political, social, religious, and geopolitical forces. Through ancestral memory, mythology, and inherited forms of wisdom, the work becomes a search for light, harmony, and survival amid instability.
- [Hole in the Window](https://artillerymag.com/events/hole-in-the-window/): Hole in the Window, featuring Ari Salka, David Daigle, Gail Foley, Juan Arango Palacios, santoni kina, Tim Nguyen, and Vivien Ebright Chung offers a window into the self-actualization of queerness and visual languages that have shaped queer culture across time. Looking through the works, the exhibition invites viewers to see beyond familiar aesthetics and into the cultural lineages that continue to inform contemporary understandings of gender, identity, and culture expression. The window creates the illusion of transparency while carefully curating what is put on display.
- [Show Me Your Bottom Line: Art and Eco-Punishment](https://artillerymag.com/events/show-me-your-bottom-line-art-and-eco-punishment/): Panel Discussion with Artist Jill Miller with Art Historians Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, and Media Scholar Nicole Starosielski (moderator)
- [The Name in My Empty Hand](https://artillerymag.com/events/the-name-in-my-empty-hand/): Organized by:
- [David Daigle: The Death of Beauty](https://artillerymag.com/events/david-daigle-the-death-of-beauty/): David Daigle returns to Track 16 for his second solo exhibition, The Death of Beauty. The exhibition opens  Saturday, July 18 with a reception from 6-9 p.m. and is on view through September 5 in East Hollywood.
- [A Project on Intuition – Opening & Performance](https://artillerymag.com/events/a-project-on-intuition-opening-performance-2/): On July 11th, from 5-8pm, FOYER-LA will celebrate the opening of its latest group show, A Project on Intuition. The evening will include a performance by artist Marisha Scott at 6pm. A Project on Intuition runs from July 11 - August 22nd.
- [A Project on Intuition – Opening & Performance](https://artillerymag.com/events/a-project-on-intuition-opening-performance/): On July 11th, from 5-8pm, FOYER-LA will celebrate the opening of its latest group show, A Project on Intuition. The evening will include a performance by artist Marisha Scott at 6pm. A Project on Intuition runs from July 11 - August 22nd.
- [Gentle Giants](https://artillerymag.com/events/gentle-giants/): An artist reception will be hosted by the Adams Square Neighborhood Association on Sunday, July 19, 2026, at 11:00 AM. Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station is located at 1020 E. Palmer Ave., Glendale, CA 91205.
- [Obras de Luz (Works of Light): A Look at the Japanese American Community through the Lens of Photojournalist Mario Gershom Reyes](https://artillerymag.com/events/obras-de-luz-works-of-light-a-look-at-the-japanese-american-community-through-the-lens-of-photojournalist-mario-gershom-reyes/): As a photojournalist with The Rafu Shimpo (Los Angeles’s Japanese American newspaper since 1903), Mario Reyes (1956–2025) documented the milestones, the tragedies, and the victories of the Japanese American community in Los Angeles. A new pop-up exhibition at Mercado La Paloma features photographs that record the moments and people that make up life in Little Tokyo, from Nisei Week Parades and political protests to schoolchildren and sports stars.
- [Sound Bath in ‘Zhang Enli’](https://artillerymag.com/events/sound-bath-in-zhang-enli/): Please join us for a meditative sound bath within Zhang Enli’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood led by Roxie Sound Healing. Drawing on both Eastern and Western traditions, Zhang’s practice moves toward a more open visual language, revealing abstraction’s capacity to communicate through gesture, atmosphere, and emotion.
- [Creative Workshop: Pressed for Creativity](https://artillerymag.com/events/creative-workshop-pressed-for-creativity/): To celebrate our ongoing partnership with Nest Global, this workshop marks the beginning of our new partnership with Homeboy Art Academy, bringing together the three organizations through a shared commitment to accessible arts education and community impact.
- [Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles pres. “Artist Conversation: Arturo Soto and Claudia Pretelin”](https://artillerymag.com/events/photographic-arts-council-los-angeles-pres-artist-conversation-arturo-soto-and-claudia-pretelin/): Image courtesy of the artist.
- [Expand and Contract: American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century (Online)](https://artillerymag.com/events/expand-and-contract-american-documentary-photography-in-the-21st-century-online/): Juror & Curator
- [Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century](https://artillerymag.com/events/expand-and-contract-notes-about-american-documentary-photography-in-the-21st-century/): This third edition of Expand and Contract focuses on American photography today, now that the first quarter of the twenty-first century has drawn to a close. It asks whether this first quarter-century of photographic production has characteristics shaped by larger societal, technological and geopolitical shifts. This is not an attempt to offer a sweeping view of documentary photography in the US in recent decades. Rather, this exhibition is a modest and earnest attempt to consider how America sees itself, what it highlights and what might be missing from the frame, beginning with the turn of the century and 9/11, exploring protests, conditions of living, and the aftermath of wildfires.
- [Avery Suzuki “Inverted Miracle”](https://artillerymag.com/events/avery-suzuki-inverted-miracle/): Avery Suzuki "Inverted Miracle" opens Friday, July 24th from 8 - 10pm. The show will be open until August 24th.
- [Lustered Performance](https://artillerymag.com/events/lustered-performance/): "I was born naked, and the rest of my life has been adorned and glamorized to performance." Presented by DMST Atelier, Lustered Performance is a solo exhibition by Marilyn Garcia featuring oil paintings, photography, and mixed-media works made between 2025 and 2026. Through self-portraiture and recurring motifs, Garcia explores identity not as something discovered but as something inherited, assembled, and continually rehearsed. The exhibition's title refers to the polished performances that define everyday life. To luster is to polish, embellish, and make radiant. Performance, in Garcia's practice, extends beyond the stage or theatrical act. It describes the unconscious rituals, the ways we learn to inhabit our bodies, perform femininity, navigate cultural expectations, and present ourselves to the world, through which identity is ultimately constructed. Throughout the exhibition, Garcia approaches self-portraiture not as autobiography but as performance. Her body becomes a character capable of carrying ideas beyond individual experience. Removed from conventional portraiture, the figure shifts from representing a single person to becoming a site where emotion, memory, and social expectation intersect. By distancing the body from biography, Garcia creates space for viewers to project their own experiences onto the work, allowing personal narratives, conscious and unconscious, to merge with collective ones. Rather than presenting identity as fixed, Lustered Performance understands it as an ongoing process of becoming. Garcia's paintings and mixed-media works do not ask viewers to uncover an authentic self beneath performances; rather, they ask them to consider whether such a self has ever existed outside of them.
- [Art Professors](https://artillerymag.com/events/art-professors/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Nada Fakhreddine, exhibition curator Sasse Museum of Art 626-3193318 | nadaeddine@yahoo.com | sasseartmuseum.org Sasse Museum of Art Presents Art Professors, an Exhibition of 21 Artist-Educators from Southern California Colleges and Universities Exhibition on view August 1 – September 26, 2026, at the Sasse Museum of Art in Pomona, California. Free admission. POMONA, Calif. – The Sasse Museum of Art will present Art Professors, an exhibition bringing together 22 artists who teach in the art and photography programs of 19 colleges and universities across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. The exhibition opens August 7 and runs through September 26, 2026, with free admission throughout its run. The exhibition takes its spirit from a line by educator and author Alexandra K. Trenfor: “The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” That ethic of guided discovery shapes both the exhibition’s premise and the museum’s broader mission as a space that enables encounters between art and viewer, rather than dictating how a work should be read. Art Professors gathers a particular cross-section of the art world: artists who divide their days between the classroom, the studio, and the darkroom, teaching hands-on fine arts and vocational practice while pursuing their own creative work in the hours between classes and critiques. The institutions represented range from dedicated art schools to research universities to community colleges, and the artists include both full-time faculty and adjunct instructors. The works on view span painting, sculpture, photography, and other media, moving from the studio to the gallery to the city street. Rather than presenting these artists through the lens of their teaching, the exhibition offers a chance to encounter them as makers in their own right – to meet the person behind the podium and the voice guiding the critique. “Art Professors carries forward the spirit of the Sasse, a space committed to enabling encounters, to sparking those love stories between art and viewer,” said Gene Sasse, Founder and Director of the Sasse Museum of Art. “This show opens a door into a particular community of makers, offering a generous view of their shared pursuit.” Participating Artists Elysabeth Bell, Melissa Bowder Beck, Quinton Bemiller, Rochelle Botello, Brice Bischoff, Stephen Childs, Dyane Duffy, Rebecca Hamm, Negin Hedayat, Mark James, Melissa Macias, Lisa M. Martin, Robin Mitchell, Hagop Najarian, Jonathan Puls, Amy Santoferraro, Gene Sasse, Olivia Stude, Terrill Thomas, Navai Toly, Nicola Vruwink. Exhibition Details What: Art Professors When: August 1 – September 26, 2026 Where: Sasse Museum of Art, 300 South Thomas Street, Pomona, CA 91766 Hours: Friday – Sunday, 1–4 p.m. Admission: Free Artist Receptions: Sunday, August 16 and Sunday, September 20, 2026 About the Sasse Museum of Art The Sasse Museum of Art is a volunteer-run, 501(c)(3) nonprofit museum in Pomona, California, offering free admission to the public. Founded in 2013 in Upland as the Inland Empire Museum of Art and renamed and relocated to Pomona in 2021, the museum produces approximately 24 exhibitions annually and maintains a permanent collection of more than 2,000 works. It has published 67 exhibition catalogs distributed to readers in more than 60 countries. The museum holds Blue Star Museum and NARM designations, and its gallery space is donated by the Tessier family. Learn more at sasseartmuseum.org.
- [Built on Water](https://artillerymag.com/events/built-on-water/): Built on Water is a contemporary art exhibition presenting past, present, and future visions of the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, featuring Los Angeles-based artists Flora Kao, Kaya & Blank, Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie E. Stubblefield. Built on Water is curated by AGCC’s Director of Exhibitions, Cecelia Caro. Built on Water is on view at Angels Gate Cultural Center gallery through August 22nd. The gallery is open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 10am – 5pm. Learn more at angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/built-on-water.
- [Being and Longing: Enough Is Never Enough](https://artillerymag.com/events/being-and-longing-enough-is-never-enough/): "Being and Longing: Enough Is Never Enough" by Beatrix Fowler, Kim Gordon, Mauricio Guillén, Chris Kraus, and Jonas Mekas
- [Portals to Elsewhere: Dream Creatures and the Art of Remembering](https://artillerymag.com/events/portals-to-elsewhere-dream-creatures-and-the-art-of-remembering/): Step into Portals to Elsewhere, an immersive solo exhibition by Indi Carlton featuring vibrant paintings, sculptural dream creatures, and interactive experiences. Blending imagination, wonder, and symbolic storytelling, the exhibition invites visitors to explore a world where humans are deeply connected to the living world, the unseen, and the power of collective imagination. Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, July 26, 2:00-5:00pm.
- [Human Geography: Living Archive](https://artillerymag.com/events/human-geography-living-archive/): An embodied performance of memory. Through movement, storytelling, photographs, journals, and personal artifacts, Elizabeth activates the archive from which Human Geography and Angelbird emerged.
- [Opening Reception, with Venus Bernardo titled: A Matter of Perspective](https://artillerymag.com/events/opening-reception-with-venus-bernardo-titled-a-matter-of-perspective/): In this exhibition, Bernardo presents a collection of photographs, abstract compositions, and layered collages that blur the boundaries between reality and interpretation. Each work begins with images she has personally photographed, yet through careful layering and composition, these familiar fragments evolve into visual narratives that resist singular meaning. The resulting works occupy a compelling space between observation and intuition, encouraging viewers to slow down and discover connections that unfold gradually with sustained attention.
- [Opening Reception for Katie Stubblefield, Exhibit title: Marking Matter](https://artillerymag.com/events/opening-reception-for-katie-stubblefield-exhibit-title-marking-matter/): Katie Stubblefield's marking Matter, speaks not only to the destruction wrought by natural disasters but also to the unintended consequences of humanity's persistent desire to inhabit landscapes that resist permanence. California has long existed in a state of negotiation with its environment—fires, floods, earthquakes, drought, and rising seas continually reshape both the physical terrain and the cultural imagination. Stubblefield's work asks us to consider what it means to build ever more sophisticated systems in places where nature ultimately refuses to yield. Her drawings are informed by extensive research into historical fire and flood zones, seismic fault lines, climate projections, and the visual language of mapping itself. These references intermingle with direct observation, producing compositions that occupy the space between documentation and speculation. The transparent plexiglass becomes more than a support; it functions as both window and archive, allowing multiple temporalities to exist simultaneously. Layers of drawing accumulate like geological strata or overlapping memories, inviting viewers to look through the work as much as at it.
- [Luke Forsyth: Proscenium](https://artillerymag.com/events/luke-forsyth-proscenium/): Feia is proud to present Proscenium, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Luke Forsyth. Opening July 18, the show marks the second presentation at the Feia Flat. Borrowing from the language of stagecraft, art direction, scenic design, and prop-making, Proscenium unfolds like a play without a beginning, middle, or end. Set within a domestic environment, the presentation invites viewers into a suspended narrative where illusion, performance, and materiality converge, dissolving the boundaries between the theatrical and the quotidian.
- [Cathy Akers, Danielle Klebes, Janet Loren Hill, Kayla Mattes: Four Corners](https://artillerymag.com/events/cathy-akers-danielle-klebes-janet-loren-hill-kayla-mattes-four-corners/): Feia is pleased to present Four Corners, a four-artist exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artists Cathy Akers and Kayla Mattes alongside New York-based Danielle Klebes and Janet Loren Hill. Opening on July 18, the exhibition marks the second presentation at the gallery’s Los Angeles space, assembling a provisional world from the distinct visual vernaculars of its four artists. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s phenomenology of corners, the geography of the United States - including the kitschy tourist destination Four Corners - as well as familiar expressions such as “the dark corners of the internet” and “out of the corner of my eye,” the exhibition considers the corner as both a literal structure and perceptual threshold. From this starting point, each artist’s work develops its own internal world, which together form a composite environment within the gallery.
- [Antigone: In the Language of Kings](https://artillerymag.com/events/antigone-in-the-language-of-kings/): Set in the vibrant world of pre-conquest Tenochtitlan, Mexico, this powerful reimagining of a classic tragedy confronts themes of loyalty, familial duty, and the clash between divine law and state edict. Weaving in pre-Hispanic music and poetry, this timeless story brings Aztec mythology to life in a rich historical tapestry that resonates across cultures, pitting love and defiance against tyranny.
- [THE DARK ROOMS VEINS](https://artillerymag.com/events/the-dark-rooms-veins/): THE DARK ROOMS VEINS
- [Molly Larkey and Caitlin Lonegan: The Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine](https://artillerymag.com/events/molly-larkey-and-caitlin-lonegan-the-best-machines-are-made-of-sunshine/): OCHI is pleased to present The Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine, a two-person exhibition bringing together Molly Larkey's floor sculptures and Caitlin Lonegan's oil paintings. On view at OCHI Los Angeles from July 11 through August 22, 2026, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 11 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.
- [Concrete Shadows at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026](https://artillerymag.com/events/concrete-shadows-at-34-0522n-cityscape-2026-2/): Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present CONCRETE SHADOWS at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026 opening July 18th. The show features gallery artists and invited guest artists working in a variety of mediums and marks the sixteenth edition of the gallery’s exhibition focused on this strange city many of us call home. The exhibition opens on July 18th with a reception from 3-6pm and continues through August 22nd.
- [Concrete Shadows at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026](https://artillerymag.com/events/concrete-shadows-at-34-0522n-cityscape-2026/): Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present CONCRETE SHADOWS at 34.0522°N: Cityscape 2026 opening July 18th. The show features gallery artists and invited guest artists working in a variety of mediums and marks the sixteenth edition of the gallery’s exhibition focused on this strange city many of us call home. The exhibition opens on July 18th with a reception from 3-6pm and continues through August 22rd.
- [Like and Order: An antidote to algorithmic fascism](https://artillerymag.com/events/like-and-order-an-antidote-to-algorithmic-fascism/): FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
- [Family Workshops at the Library: Contemporary Rug Weaving with Aneesa Shami Zizzo](https://artillerymag.com/events/family-workshops-at-the-library-contemporary-rug-weaving-with-aneesa-shami-zizzo/): Learn how to make a knotted rug weaving with yarn and upcycled textiles! This workshop, facilitated by artist Aneesa Shami Zizzo, is inspired by the long history of rug making in many cultures, specifically in the Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Arab regions. Focusing on techniques like modified larks head knotting, plain weaving, and winding yarn balls, participants will learn the basics of weaving by playing with different fibers, color, and texture to create a small rug. All levels of experience are welcome and all materials will be provided.
- [Artist and Curator Walkthrough](https://artillerymag.com/events/artist-and-curator-walkthrough/): As the newest gallery in the LA Arts District, we invite you to join us for the DTLA Arts Weekend July 17-19, when we will have extended hours and special events to introduce ourselves and our group exhibition “Things That We Share” to the community at large. Details: “Things That We Share” is a group exhibition that highlights the fun between family and friends, the passions and pastimes that we share, and the rituals that become traditions. This all-medium exhibition celebrates the many ways knowledge, values, objects, and memories are carried forward—not only through inheritance, but through experience, participation, and time spent together.
- [VISIONARIES, August Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/events/visionaries-august-exhibition-diversions-fine-arts-gallery/): August Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery
- [Mount Wilson presents “Arts @ The Observatory” exhibit by Russell Crotty](https://artillerymag.com/events/mount-wilson-presents-arts-the-observatory-exhibit-by-russell-crotty/): Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO), Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history, welcomes the public to this season’s Arts @ The Observatory exhibit, “Nocturnal Landscapes From the Arid West,” by Russell Crotty. The exhibition will be on view Saturdays through October 17, 2026, from 1:00pm–5:00pm. Admission is $10 (children under 12 admitted free). Tickets can be purchased here: http://mtwilson.edu/events/arts-crotty2026.
- [La Verbena’ is Rubén Sánchez’s new film, a story about identity.](https://artillerymag.com/events/la-verbena-is-ruben-sanchezs-new-film-a-story-about-identity/): Rubén Sánchez is premiering ‘La Verbena’, a medium-length film produced by Carla Fernández. The story stars Gabriel D’Almeida (Xavier Dolan’s Matthias & Maxime) and Robin Reese, and also stars Aida Quintana, Meri Anglès, Paula Lucas, Marga Leão, Joma and Serigne Sylla. Filming took place in Barcelona.
- [Alex Hubbard: Abstract or Regular? Opening Reception](https://artillerymag.com/events/alex-hubbard-abstract-or-regular-opening-reception/): Regen Projects is pleased to present Abstract or Regular?, an exhibition of new video work and a painting by Alex Hubbard.
- [Cordillera Mexicana: Alfredo Ramos Martínez and the Mexican Landscape Opening Reception](https://artillerymag.com/events/cordillera-mexicana-alfredo-ramos-martinez-and-the-mexican-landscape-opening-reception/): Louis Stern Fine Arts is pleased to present Cordillera Mexicana, an exhibition of works by Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871-1946) that highlights the artist’s profound connection to his homeland. From his earliest days, Ramos Martínez turned to nature for the inspiration that fueled a lengthy and fruitful career as an educator and artist. His earliest teacher, he would later recall, was the orange tree that grew on the patio of his childhood home in Monterrey. Its tranquil beauty sparked the young artist’s passion for reverently capturing the landscapes and people of Mexico.
- [Art Collaboration Kyoto](https://artillerymag.com/events/art-collaboration-kyoto/): Launched in 2021, ACK is one of Japan’s leading contemporary art fairs and remains rooted in the spirit of collaboration. Its two main sections continue to frame the fair: Gallery Collaborations, which pairs a Japan-based gallery with an international peer in a shared booth to co-present a focused exhibition; and Kyoto Meetings, which features presentations with distinct connections to Kyoto. In its sixth edition, ACK will continue to bring together gallery presentations, special exhibitions, talks, family programs, and satellite projects within ICC Kyoto and across the city, reinforcing Kyoto as a meeting point for contemporary art each autumn.
- [Observations – Photography by Veterans](https://artillerymag.com/events/observations-photography-by-veterans-4/): Observations is an art exhibition showcasing photography by American Veterans.
- [Observations – Photography by Veterans](https://artillerymag.com/events/observations-photography-by-veterans-3/): Observations is an art exhibition showcasing photography by American Veterans.
- [Observations – Photography by Veterans](https://artillerymag.com/events/observations-photography-by-veterans-2/): Observations is an art exhibition showcasing photography by American Veterans.
- [Summer Film Series for ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection’: ‘Looking for Langston’ & ‘Derek’](https://artillerymag.com/events/summer-film-series-for-destiny-is-a-rose-the-eileen-harris-norton-collection-looking-for-langston-derek/): On the occasion of ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection,’ join us for a double feature of two films by renowned British filmmaker and artist Isaac Julien. Featuring ‘Looking for Langston’ (1989), which reflects on the life and legacy of poet and activist Langston Hughes, and ‘Derek’ (2008), which looks back at the life and work of pioneering experimental filmmaker and artist Derek Jarman.
- [Summer Film Series for ’Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection’: ‘Conjure Women’ & ‘Sphinxes Without Secrets’](https://artillerymag.com/events/summer-film-series-for-destiny-is-a-rose-the-eileen-harris-norton-collection-conjure-women-sphinxes-without-secrets/): On the occasion of ‘Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection,’ join us for a double feature of two rarely screened documentaries centered on women in the performing and visual arts: ‘Conjure Women’ (1995), directed by Demetria Royals, and ‘Sphinxes Without Secrets’ (1991), directed by Maria Beatty.
- [By Hand & By Heart Exhibition Opening](https://artillerymag.com/events/by-hand-by-heart-exhibition-opening/): BY HAND & BY HEART is a group exhibition bringing together eight local to international artists whose work explores material process as a form of meaning-making. Spanning painting, mixed media, and sculptural surface, the exhibition presents works rooted in direct physical process; where touch, texture, and intention are inseparable from the work itself. The opening is free to the public and is expected to draw collectors, interior designers, creatives, and members of the Los Angeles arts community.
- [Exhibition Opening | Gus Monday and Julian Lombardi: Orders of Emergence | Austin Hayman: Looking for a Friend | Julie Yeo: I Am The Demon My House Is Exorcising](https://artillerymag.com/events/exhibition-opening-gus-monday-and-julian-lombardi-orders-of-emergence-austin-hayman-looking-for-a-friend-julie-yeo-i-am-the-demon-my-house-is-exorcising-2/): -
- [Exhibition Opening | Gus Monday and Julian Lombardi: Orders of Emergence | Austin Hayman: Looking for a Friend | Julie Yeo: I Am The Demon My House Is Exorcising](https://artillerymag.com/events/exhibition-opening-gus-monday-and-julian-lombardi-orders-of-emergence-austin-hayman-looking-for-a-friend-julie-yeo-i-am-the-demon-my-house-is-exorcising/): -
- [LIVING/EDGE dance-theater performance](https://artillerymag.com/events/living-edge-dance-theater-performance-2/): Solo work collides dance and the grotesque at Daredevil Arts Festival
- [LIVING/EDGE dance-theater performance](https://artillerymag.com/events/living-edge-dance-theater-performance/): Solo work collides dance and the grotesque at Daredevil Arts Festival
- [Lemniscatus Artist Walkthrough at Feia](https://artillerymag.com/events/lemniscatus-artist-walkthrough-at-feia/): Join us for an artist and curatorial walkthrough of Casey Baden and Nicholas Bono Kennedy's show, LEMNISCATUS, the inaugural exhibition at Feia.
- [And After: Group Exhibition](https://artillerymag.com/events/and-after-group-exhibition/): Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present, And After a group show curated by Nathan Bennett and featuring work from Raymond Pettibon, Emma Beatrez, Nate Lowman, Sean Hamilton, Aaron Young, Liza Jo Eilers, Banks Violette, Benjamin Bertocci, Gardar Eide Einarsson, and Brian David Downs.
- [Closing Reception for the Containing Matter, solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Chidi Ukwuoma](https://artillerymag.com/events/closing-reception-for-the-containing-matter-solo-exhibition-by-interdisciplinary-artist-chidi-ukwuoma/): Containing Matter considers the vessel as both object and body, a structure shaped by what it holds, absorbs, preserves, and releases. Drawing from ancient vessel traditions, migration routes, geological formations, waterways, and the physical language of the human body.
- [Pasadena Bead & Design Show](https://artillerymag.com/events/pasadena-bead-design-show/): Pasadena Bead & Design Show Returns July 31–August 2 Pasadena, CA — The Pasadena Bead & Design Show returns to the Pasadena Convention Center July 31–August 2, welcoming the public to a vibrant marketplace of beads, gemstones, artisan jewelry, textiles, artwear, findings, handcrafted works, and creative materials. Held in Pasadena since 2008, the biannual show brings together over 300 exhibitors including studio artists, tradespeople, artisans, and creative suppliers from across the country. A Marketplace for Designers, Collectors & Makers The Pasadena Bead & Design Show is a cornerstone West Coast event for artists, designers, collectors, and creative businesses seeking distinctive materials, artisan craftsmanship, and creative inspiration. Attendees will discover an expansive selection of handcrafted jewelry, hand-cut gemstones, lampwork glass beads, wearable art, painted silks, eco-dyed textiles, mixed-media works, artisan clothing, pearls, natural fibers, hill tribe silver, tools, specialty supplies, and unique materials for creative projects. Expanded Marketplace Offerings In addition to its long-standing focus on beads, jewelry, gemstones, and artisan materials, the show will feature select vintage and antique exhibits offering jewelry, textiles, collectibles, and other unique finds. These exhibits add another layer of discovery to an already diverse creative marketplace. Artisan Craft, Design & Creative Community Exhibitors represent a broad range of artisan work—from traditional beadwork and lapidary arts to handcrafted jewelry, textiles, mixed media, and contemporary craft. The show highlights quality materials, creative process, and the skill of makers working across both traditional and modern forms of design. Hands-On Workshops & Demonstrations In addition to shopping, the show offers a selection of hands-on workshops and live demonstrations throughout the weekend. Attendees can participate in classes and creative experiences in jewelry design, wire techniques, metalwork, mixed media, clay, painting, and other artistic disciplines taught by experienced instructors. Workshops are open to all skill levels and provide an engaging environment for learning, experimentation, and creativity. A Gathering Place for the Creative Community Since its inception in 2008, the Pasadena Bead & Design Show has grown into a beloved gathering place for the creative community—where artists reconnect, new makers discover their craft, collectors uncover rare finds, and visitors experience the artistry and process behind creative work. Guests are encouraged to connect with artists, artisans, and exhibitors, explore the stories behind the work, and discover a marketplace filled with creativity, craftsmanship, and inspiration. Whether shopping for distinctive pieces, sourcing materials, discovering new artists, or learning a new skill, the Pasadena Bead & Design Show offers an immersive and inspiring summer experience. Event Details Dates: July 31–August 2, 2026 Hours: 10am–5pm (Friday–Sunday) Location: Pasadena Convention Center 300 E Green St, Pasadena, CA 91101 Tickets: $8 online / $10 at the door (valid all three days) More Information, Exhibitor Applications & Workshop Registration: BeadAndDesign.com
- [Ode to the Moon: If the Body is a Tide, Art is Emergence](https://artillerymag.com/events/ode-to-the-moon-if-the-body-is-a-tide-art-is-emergence/): "Ode to the Moon: If the Body is a Tide, Art is Emergence" brings together works by David McDonald, Deborah Lynn Irmas, Nancy Ivanhoe, and Tia Xia. Curated by Ann Shi, the exhibition continues a poco art’s inquiry into embodiment, cosmology, and the body as a field of relations.
- [Opening Reception | Built on Water](https://artillerymag.com/events/opening-reception-built-on-water/): Built on Water is a contemporary art exhibition presenting past, present, and future visions of the Port of Los Angeles.
- [PARD MORRISON | Everlove](https://artillerymag.com/events/pard-morrison-everlove-2/): The language of Pard Morrison's painted sculptures, whether the columns, cubes, or the stacked box wall piece included in this exhibition, is a complex interplay of minimal elements. There is the architectural nature of these 3/16" plate aluminum pieces, precisely cut and welded into geometric volumes. There is the juxtaposition of this industrial fabrication with the fact that, as the viewer notices on close inspection - the myriad colors of industrial Flouronar paint across the surface have been applied by hand. The marks of Morrison's brushwork remain visible, belying that veneer of industrial "perfection" that they may seem to have from a distance. The colors themselves are painted across the surfaces as if the sculpture was a canvas in elaborate patterns of shapes and bands and puzzle pieces.
- [PARD MORRISON | Everlove](https://artillerymag.com/events/pard-morrison-everlove/): The language of Pard Morrison's painted sculptures, whether the columns, cubes, or the stacked box wall piece included in this exhibition, is a complex interplay of minimal elements. There is the architectural nature of these 3/16" plate aluminum pieces, precisely cut and welded into geometric volumes. There is the juxtaposition of this industrial fabrication with the fact that, as the viewer notices on close inspection - the myriad colors of industrial Flouronar paint across the surface have been applied by hand. The marks of Morrison's brushwork remain visible, belying that veneer of industrial "perfection" that they may seem to have from a distance. The colors themselves are painted across the surfaces as if the sculpture was a canvas in elaborate patterns of shapes and bands and puzzle pieces.
- [Pop Art Exhibition and Party at Sparks Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/events/pop-art-exhibition-and-party-at-sparks-gallery/): Pop Culture Remix Exhibition Dates: August 1 – October 4, 2026 Opening Reception & Sparks Art Party: August 15, 2026 | 4:30 PM Sparks Gallery presents Pop Culture Remix, a vibrant group exhibition showcasing contemporary artists from across the nation who reimagine the enduring influence of Pop Art. Selected through a national call for artists, this exhibition explores the colorful, playful, and thought-provoking relationship between art and popular culture. Featuring works inspired by advertising, celebrity culture, comics, nostalgia, consumerism, and everyday life, Pop Culture Remix highlights how today's artists continue to reinterpret the visual language of Pop Art for a modern audience. Through bold imagery, humor, critique, and innovation, the exhibition celebrates the movement's lasting impact while offering fresh perspectives on the culture that surrounds us. Join us for the opening reception of Pop Culture Remix during Sparks Gallery's annual Sparks Art Party! This year's celebration embraces the vibrant and playful theme of Pop Culture. Enjoy an evening of art, music, community, and creative expression while exploring the exhibition and celebrating the artists. Get your tickets for the art party here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pop-art-art-party-at-sparks-tickets-1983208313452
- [Closing: Ellie Krakow in Conversation with Ted Meyer](https://artillerymag.com/events/closing-ellie-krakow-in-conversation-with-ted-meyer/): To mark the closing of Ellie Krakow - Comfort Corners, Foyer-LA will host a conversation between artist Ellie Krakow and Ted Meyer about the ways Krakow's experience of chronic illness has informed her artwork. The conversation will offer insight into the personal and artistic research behind the works on view. Guests are welcome to arrive early or stay afterward to explore the exhibition.
- [Open Call: Highland Park Repair Fair](https://artillerymag.com/events/open-call-highland-park-repair-fair/): Join the Highland Park Repair Fair for a free mutual aid repair event as part of the National Museum of the Aftermath's Open Call series. Bring your broken household items to be fixed, and/or volunteer to give other's items new life!
- [Under 30 Under Pressure](https://artillerymag.com/events/under-30-under-pressure/): The Painting Center is pleased to present Under 30 Under Pressure curated by Carrie Patterson. This exhibition includes 60 artists exhibiting at The Painting Center and features 80 artists in the online exhibition on Artsy. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, June 23, and runs through Saturday, July 18, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, June 25, from 5–8 pm.
- [Perrotin Kids](https://artillerymag.com/events/perrotin-kids/): Join us this Saturday, June 20, at Perrotin Los Angeles for free art-making 🎨 Children can choose between creating an abstract portrait or a yarn painting, inspired by our current solo exhibitions featuring Alex Gardner and Gabriel Rico. Sign up here: https://forms.gle/RrMERBkLLy7qfH5W9 Alex Gardner Workshop: How would you draw a loved one if you couldn't paint their face? Inspired by Alex Gardner's art practice and exhibition, Animals, participants will have the opportunity to create an abstract portrait with Posca paint pens and a mini canvas! Gabriel Rico Workshop: How do you communicate with nature? Inspired by Gabriel Rico's exhibition, Gabrielinos (I Am You And What I See Is Me) participants will create their own yarn painting—a Wixárika tradition known as nierika—incorporating their favorite aspects of nature.
- [On Point](https://artillerymag.com/events/on-point/): Heather Gaudio Fine Art is pleased to present On Point, a four-person exhibition featuring new works by Sarah Amos, Beth Dary, Kathleen Kucka, and Susan Schwalb. The show will open with a public reception on June 25th, 5-7 pm, and runs through August 15th.
- [Don Saban | Sharon Cannon Symbiosis Show at TAG Gallery.](https://artillerymag.com/events/don-saban-sharon-cannon-symbiosis-show-at-tag-gallery-2/): Opening Reception on June 20th. From 5 to 8 p.m. Artist Talk on June 27th from 2 to 4 p.m. Open through July 10th.
- [Don Saban | Sharon Cannon Symbiosis Show at TAG Gallery.](https://artillerymag.com/events/don-saban-sharon-cannon-symbiosis-show-at-tag-gallery/): Opening Reception on June 20th. From 5 to 8 p.m. Artist Talk on June 27th from 2 to 4 p.m. Open through July 10th.
- [Swollen with Life](https://artillerymag.com/events/swollen-with-life/): Swollen with Life is a group exhibition curated by artist, Dominique Go, investigating the distractions conjured in times of trouble. People’s tenacious fantasies and obsessions anchor hope in the drought of daily despair. Where do we go to get away, and how long should we stay?
- [Day of the Ancestors: Festival of Masks](https://artillerymag.com/events/day-of-the-ancestors-festival-of-masks/): Celebrate and honor our ancestors!
- [Midsummer](https://artillerymag.com/events/midsummer-2/): July Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery
- [Midsummer](https://artillerymag.com/events/midsummer/): July Exhibition Diversions Fine Arts Gallery MIDSUMMER Midsummer ripples out from the summer solstice when the days are the longest and the sunlight lingers. Art and light belong together. Both are illuminating, and blissfully alter the way we see things, bejeweling even dark hours. The three artists shining brilliantly in our midsummer exhibition bring you the glistening eternity of ocean waves, the buzzing and vivid delight of a blooming garden, the motion-filled magic of the morning sky. Linda Sue Price Whether merging neon with video and audio or creating intensely alive Zen moments that shimmer with color and luminosity, neon artist Linda Sue Price explores the rich texture beneath the surface of light and life itself. Her new series It’s Always Something is an exceptional, compelling look at the brilliance of light, captured in the heart of summer and the soul of every season. Susan Ossman Light, lines, color, context: these are the tools that international artist Susan Ossman uses to shape her hypnotic, undulating paintings which carry the breath of light, change, and motion. Both an artist and anthropologist, Ossman’s images and ideas emerge as shadows, patterns, currents, and dreams, cast in radiant colors and filled with heat, hope, and wonder. Michael Stearns Galvanizing is one way to describe the layered luster of Michael Stearns’ art. Filled with a glowing joy, Stearns’ work explores questions of existence, origin, and the metaphysical and aesthetic forces that animate being with a sense of wonder and heightened chromatic intensity. The summer night glowed; in the field, fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages… -	Louise Gluck
- [Film Screening: Space Traders + Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One](https://artillerymag.com/events/film-screening-space-traders-symbiopsychotaxiplasm-take-one/): View related exhibition
- [Film Screening: Foosball + This meeting is being recorded](https://artillerymag.com/events/film-screening-foosball-this-meeting-is-being-recorded/): This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the penultimate screening of the season, featuring Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harolds' Foosball: U. of Virginia Charlottesville, VA 1976 (2013) and Andrea Fraser's This meeting is being recorded (2022).
- [Words Matter](https://artillerymag.com/events/words-matter-2/): How do you use your words? Are they spoken, written, drawn, signed, or something else entirely? In Words Matter, an interactive group exhibition featuring seventeen artists, expression takes every possible form. Text becomes kaleidoscopic, expanding the possibilities of language and storytelling in works that are by turns serious, playful, and surreal. A celebration of voice in the face of marginalization and silence, Words Matter insists that communication itself can be a radical gesture.
- [Words Matter](https://artillerymag.com/events/words-matter/): How do you use your words? Are they spoken, written, drawn, signed, or something else entirely? In Words Matter, an interactive group exhibition featuring seventeen artists, expression takes every possible form. Text becomes kaleidoscopic, expanding the possibilities of language and storytelling in works that are by turns serious, playful, and surreal. A celebration of voice in the face of marginalization and silence, Words Matter insists that communication itself can be a radical gesture.
- [Film Screening: Songs for Earth and Folk + Born in Flames](https://artillerymag.com/events/film-screening-songs-for-earth-and-folk-born-in-flames/): This summer, the National Museum of the Aftermath is presenting a four night film screening series. Join us for the first screening of the season, featuring Cauleen Smith's Songs for Earth and Folk (2013) and Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983).
- [National Museum of the Aftermath](https://artillerymag.com/events/national-museum-of-the-aftermath/): June 9 - August 8, 2026
- [Is It True?! ( Juneteenth Exhibition )](https://artillerymag.com/events/is-it-true-juneteenth-exhibition/): On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of slavery. The delay itself reveals a truth woven into American history: freedom declared is not always freedom delivered.
- [Outside, Looking In.](https://artillerymag.com/events/outside-looking-in/): I recently looked back through the history of my artwork and discovered a common thread. Some artwork had one figure, some had two figures, and some had many clusters of them. All of these pieces seemed to correlate with different moments in my life, and what either I was, or what I was craving. What I've discovered is a loneliness to my work, and an excitement. In both cases, the characters inside, who may or may not be myself, seem to be making some sort of plea to the viewer. Will you join in? Or am I, on this sheet of paper, alone? Come to Luke's Micro Gallery 30 this Saturday June 13 to discover artwork in which I, Jared, explore the highs and lows of being alone by oneself, and being alone in a crowd.
- [Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History](https://artillerymag.com/events/fractured-foundations-250-years-of-american-history/): The American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) is proud to announce Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History.
- [Opening Reception for Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History](https://artillerymag.com/events/opening-reception-for-fractured-foundations-250-years-of-american-history/): Join us for the opening reception for Fractured Foundations: 250 Years of American History. For this exhibition, which coincides with the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States, AMOCA invited ceramic artists to reconsider a historical event through the lens of contemporary art, challenging historical narratives and offering a more accurate perspective on our country. The work selected for this exhibition demonstrates resilience, injustice, triumph, and the impact of federal, state, and/or local policies, while also reflecting upon or referencing an event in US history.
- [Mount Wilson presents “Arts @ The Observatory” opening reception for Russell Crotty’s exhibit](https://artillerymag.com/events/mount-wilson-presents-arts-the-observatory-opening-reception-for-russell-crottys-exhibit/): Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO), Southern California’s esteemed home to several of the most groundbreaking astronomical discoveries in history, welcomes the public to the opening reception of its first Arts @ The Observatory exhibit of the 2026 season, “Nocturnal Landscapes From the Arid West,” by Russell Crotty, on Saturday, June 27, 2026.
- [Double Take: Photographs in Pairs](https://artillerymag.com/events/double-take-photographs-in-pairs/): The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Double Take, an exhibition pairing photographs that share striking visual similarities yet emerge from entirely different eras, cultures, and intentions.
- [“In Your Own Time”: Sanctuaries of Resilience, Art as Refuge](https://artillerymag.com/events/in-your-own-time-sanctuaries-of-resilience-art-as-refuge/): Johansson Projects presents In Your Own Time, a two-person exhibition featuring Turkish painter and sculptor Leyla Pekmen and French painter Julien Laporte. Known for their vivid compositions that illustrate the emotional landscape of their respective regions, both artists consciously embrace the beauty of their surroundings. Steeped in the history of local painting traditions, Pekmen and Laporte reject three-dimensionality, creating narratives through the interplay of color, line, and form.
- [Sayon Syprasoeuth – “All Good Things” solo exhibition](https://artillerymag.com/events/sayon-syprasoeuth-all-good-things-solo-exhibition/): Artists & Makers Studios is please to present Sayon Syprasoeuth’s exhibition of paintings entitled, “All Good Things.” The exhibit runs from June 20th through August 1st, with an opening reception on June 20th from 12-3pm. Syprasoeuth’s work rises from the intersection of memory, displacement, and the enduring power of Khmer identity. As a Cambodian refugee who fled war and rebuilt life in a new land, his art becomes both a compass and a bridge—connecting the fragments of a homeland left behind with the evolving self, shaped in the diaspora. Rooted in Cambodia's rich cultural fabric, his practice draws on resilience as its foundation. Canvas, paper, and collected materials become vessels that carry inherited stories, ancestral echoes, and the quiet bravery of those who survived and sought refuge. Through vibrant colors, layered textures, and shadowed forms, Syprasoeuth confronts the tension between loss and renewal, honoring histories marked by trauma while celebrating the human capacity to rebuild. Each piece is a meditation on identity in motion—where traditional Khmer imagery meets contemporary expression, and where displacement is transformed into strength. His paintings' approach mirrors the refugee journey itself: fluid, improvisational, adaptive. In this merging of past and present, he explores how scars can become symbols of survival and how cultural memory endures even as it evolves. His art is more than personal reflection; it is an invitation. Syprasoeuth asks viewers to enter a kaleidoscope of Khmer stories, to witness the beauty and complexity of a people shaped by migration, and to recognize shared humanity across borders.
- [Panel Discussion: Works at the Print Center in “America Today”](https://artillerymag.com/events/panel-discussion-works-at-the-print-center-in-america-today/): Register here: https://shg-americatoday.eventbrite.com/?aff=c
- [An Evening with the Artist – Alexander Arshansky](https://artillerymag.com/events/an-evening-with-the-artist-alexander-arshansky/): Join us for an Evening with the Artist celebrating Alexander Arshansky’s solo exhibition at the ANDAZ Hotel San Diego Gallery on Sunday, June 28 from 5–8 PM.
- [ADAM CHARLES LEVITE // UNCLES  // OPENING](https://artillerymag.com/events/adam-charles-levite-uncles-opening/): //
- [Brand 54: 54th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper Opening Reception](https://artillerymag.com/events/brand-54-54th-annual-national-juried-exhibition-of-works-on-paper-opening-reception/): Brand Library & Art Center and the Brand Associates are pleased to present "Brand 54: 54th Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper." This year’s annual exhibition features 100 artworks from around the country. Juror Tracy Bartley, whose years of experience in contemporary fine art can be seen in her exciting choices, offers us an opportunity to explore the versatility of the paper medium.​ The juror and many of the artists will be present at the opening reception on June 6.
- [Body Memory](https://artillerymag.com/events/body-memory-2/): Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present Body Memory, a group exhibition featuring figurative works that explore themes of visibility, empathy, resilience, and collective memory. The exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed-media works by Rebecca Campbell, Zackary Drucker, Hely Omar González, Elsa María Meléndez, Derriann Pharr, Levon Riggins, Joshua AM Ross, Manuel Hernández Sánchez, Jessica Vollrath, James Williams II, and José Delgado Zúñiga. Body Memory is on view from June 16, 2026, to August 15, 2026. An opening reception will be held Sunday, June 14, 2026, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm.
- [Body Memory](https://artillerymag.com/events/body-memory/): Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is pleased to present Body Memory, a group exhibition featuring figurative works that explore themes of visibility, empathy, resilience, and collective memory. The exhibition brings together drawings, paintings, photography, and mixed-media works by Rebecca Campbell, Zackary Drucker, Hely Omar González, Elsa María Meléndez, Derriann Pharr, Levon Riggins, Joshua AM Ross, Manuel Hernández Sánchez, Jessica Vollrath, James Williams II, and José Delgado Zúñiga. Body Memory is on view from June 16, 2026, to August 15, 2026. An opening reception will be held Sunday, June 14, 2026, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm.
- [Hard Reset](https://artillerymag.com/events/hard-reset/): Hard Reset is a performance project, sculpture, and video installation by artist Jill Miller, which employs the humiliations and ritualized punishments of sado-masochism as instruments of justice in the face of the environmental crisis, playfully asking: Is it possible to make the people who profit from technological systems answerable for the environmental destruction they cause through the erotic disciplining of the body?
- [Wang Yeul Solo Exhibition “Walking Through Utopia”](https://artillerymag.com/events/wang-yeul-solo-exhibition-walking-through-utopia/): Shatto Gallery is hosting the Korean artist Wang Yeul’s Exhibition “Walking Through Utopia” from June 27th to July 10th. Through a series of acrylic paintings, Wang Yeul explores the idea of utopia and its subjective interpretations. To encourage viewers to pursue their own version of utopia, Wang repurposes bamboo brush techniques and East Asian painting philosophy such as using negative space to his advantage in his sweeping landscapes. By suggesting ephemerality in loose brush strokes and softened edges in an almost dream-like quality, Wang’s paintings guide the audience to search for utopia in their own consciousness rather than to search for utopia in physical places.
- [Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy](https://artillerymag.com/events/pasadena-l-a-s-art-legacy/): The L.A. art scene takes center stage at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena in an expansive and unique exhibition entitled "Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy." The exhibition brings into focus Pasadena’s outsized and yet seldom addressed role in L.A.’s recognition as a major international art center.
- [Opening Reception – “Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy”](https://artillerymag.com/events/opening-reception-pasadena-l-a-s-art-legacy/): The L.A. art scene takes center stage at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena in an expansive and unique exhibition entitled "Pasadena: L.A.’s Art Legacy." The exhibition brings into focus Pasadena’s outsized and yet seldom addressed role in L.A.’s recognition as a major international art center.
- [Marques Hanalei Marzan: Entwine](https://artillerymag.com/events/marques-hanalei-marzan-entwine/): Plaited fibers. Spun cordage. Twined basketry. Knotted and knotless netting. Each practice has its own story, character, and quality. When brought together, they create conversations that transcend disciplines and speak to the universality of creativity. “Entwine” draws upon Marques Hanalei Marzan's more than three decades of artistic learning to create moments of pause, contemplation, and reflection. Experience time through Marzan's perspective and find the conversations that speak to you.
- [Viewfinders: Artists as Historians](https://artillerymag.com/events/viewfinders-artists-as-historians/): https://www.getty.edu/calendar/artists-as-historians/
- [What Builds: Durden and Ray Fellows Exhibition](https://artillerymag.com/events/what-builds-durden-and-ray-fellows-exhibition/): Artists:
- [Evita Tezeno | Coming Home: A Gathering of Voices](https://artillerymag.com/events/evita-tezeno-coming-home-a-gathering-of-voices-2/): Tezeno's large-scale collage paintings pay homage to her family’s Creole roots while foregrounding the significance of assembly, from intimate domestic settings to public spaces.
- [Evita Tezeno | Coming Home: A Gathering of Voices](https://artillerymag.com/events/evita-tezeno-coming-home-a-gathering-of-voices/): Tezeno's large-scale collage paintings pay homage to her family’s Creole roots while foregrounding the significance of assembly, from intimate domestic settings to public spaces.
- [Gesture, Perception, Identity | Works by Denise Jones Adler, Lauralee Franco, Eva March](https://artillerymag.com/events/gesture-perception-identity-works-by-denise-jones-adler-lauralee-franco-eva-march/): Alessandro Berni Gallery is pleased to present Gesture, Perception, Identity, a three-person exhibition featuring Denise Jones Adler, Lauralee Franco, and Eva March on view from June 4 through June 14, 2026. Through distinct visual languages, the exhibition explores painting not as representation alone, but as an act of psychological excavation: gesture as instinct, perception as instability, identity as something continuously assembled and undone. Opening Reception: Thursday, June 4, 6–9 PM
- [Featuring: Richard Parker](https://artillerymag.com/events/featuring-richard-parker/): Billis/Williams Gallery is pleased to present Featuring: Richard Parker, a special showing of the Southern California artist’s oil paintings. The exhibition features Parker’s oil paintings of pencils and eraser and continues through July 11th.

## Locations
- [Track 16 | East Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/track-16-east-hollywood-7/)
- [Mercado La Paloma](https://artillerymag.com/locations/mercado-la-paloma/)
- [Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/hauser-wirth-west-hollywood-9/)
- [Niko](https://artillerymag.com/locations/niko/)
- [Sasse Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/sasse-museum-of-art-3/)
- [Angels Gate Cultural Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/angels-gate-cultural-center-60/)
- [Gene’s Dispensary](https://artillerymag.com/locations/genes-dispensary-9/)
- [YA! Project Space](https://artillerymag.com/locations/ya-project-space/)
- [Matter Studio Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/matter-studio-gallery-53/)
- [Matter Studio Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/matter-studio-gallery-52/)
- [Secret Location](https://artillerymag.com/locations/secret-location-2/)
- [OCHI](https://artillerymag.com/locations/ochi-17/)
- [East Los Angeles Library](https://artillerymag.com/locations/east-los-angeles-library/)
- [Blue & The Muse](https://artillerymag.com/locations/blue-the-muse/)
- [Regne Unit](https://artillerymag.com/locations/regne-unit/)
- [Kyoto International Conference Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/kyoto-international-conference-center/)
- [MASH Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/mash-gallery-32/)
- [Make Room](https://artillerymag.com/locations/make-room-12/)
- [Make Room](https://artillerymag.com/locations/make-room-11/)
- [Good Mother Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/good-mother-gallery-33/)
- [FOYER-LA](https://artillerymag.com/locations/foyer-la/)
- [The Painting Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-painting-center-60/)
- [Heather Gaudio Fine Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/heather-gaudio-fine-art-27/)
- [Tierra del Sol Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/tierra-del-sol-gallery-22/)
- [Tierra del Sol Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/tierra-del-sol-gallery-21/)
- [Micro Gallery 30](https://artillerymag.com/locations/micro-gallery-30/)
- [Artists & Makers Studios – San Gabriel](https://artillerymag.com/locations/artists-makers-studios-san-gabriel-4/)
- [Los Angeles Central Library](https://artillerymag.com/locations/los-angeles-central-library/)
- [Andaz San Diego](https://artillerymag.com/locations/andaz-san-diego/)
- [GALLERY SADE LOS ANGELES](https://artillerymag.com/locations/gallery-sade-los-angeles-2/)
- [Luis De Jesus Los Angeles](https://artillerymag.com/locations/luis-de-jesus-los-angeles-100/)
- [Luis De Jesus Los Angeles](https://artillerymag.com/locations/luis-de-jesus-los-angeles-99/)
- [Luis De Jesus](https://artillerymag.com/locations/luis-de-jesus-3/)
- [Luis De Jesus](https://artillerymag.com/locations/luis-de-jesus-2/)
- [Sotheby\’s NY](https://artillerymag.com/locations/sothebys-ny/)
- [Nazarian / Curcio](https://artillerymag.com/locations/nazarian-curcio-12/)
- [Nazarian / Curcio](https://artillerymag.com/locations/nazarian-curcio-11/)
- [Luis De Jesus Los Angeles](https://artillerymag.com/locations/luis-de-jesus-los-angeles-98/)
- [Wonzimer](https://artillerymag.com/locations/wonzimer-57/)
- [DRAC’HAUS](https://artillerymag.com/locations/drachaus/)
- [GALLERY SADE LOS ANGELES](https://artillerymag.com/locations/gallery-sade-los-angeles/)
- [Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/hauser-wirth-west-hollywood-8/)
- [David Zwirner](https://artillerymag.com/locations/david-zwirner-11/)
- [Zodiac Pictures](https://artillerymag.com/locations/zodiac-pictures/)
- [Start Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/start-gallery/)
- [DON’T LOOK Projects Annex](https://artillerymag.com/locations/dont-look-projects-annex/)
- [Wonzimer](https://artillerymag.com/locations/wonzimer-56/)
- [Diane Rosenstein Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/diane-rosenstein-gallery-58/)
- [Diane Rosenstein Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/diane-rosenstein-gallery-57/)
- [Makeroom](https://artillerymag.com/locations/makeroom/)
- [Gene’s Dispensary](https://artillerymag.com/locations/genes-dispensary-8/)
- [The Judith Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-judith-center/)
- [Track 16 | East Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/track-16-east-hollywood-6/)
- [Pieter Performance Space](https://artillerymag.com/locations/pieter-performance-space-3/)
- [SMC\’s Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/smcs-pete-and-susan-barrett-art-gallery/)
- [Sparks Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/sparks-gallery-31/)
- [Matter Studio gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/matter-studio-gallery-51/)
- [St. Vincent Medical Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/st-vincent-medical-center/)
- [700 N. Fairfax Ave](https://artillerymag.com/locations/700-n-fairfax-ave/)
- [Dotted Line LA](https://artillerymag.com/locations/dotted-line-la/)
- [ArtCenter College of Design Graduate Art Main Galleries](https://artillerymag.com/locations/artcenter-college-of-design-graduate-art-main-galleries/)
- [DON’T LOOK Projects](https://artillerymag.com/locations/dont-look-projects-12/)
- [DON’T LOOK Projects](https://artillerymag.com/locations/dont-look-projects-11/)
- [GR Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/gr-gallery-41/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-25/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-24/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-23/)
- [Stone/Age](https://artillerymag.com/locations/stone-age/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-22/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-21/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-20/)
- [MASH Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/mash-gallery-31/)
- [The Mantel Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-mantel-gallery/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-19/)
- [Matter Studio Gallery,](https://artillerymag.com/locations/matter-studio-gallery-50/)
- [Rachael Palacios](https://artillerymag.com/locations/rachael-palacios-3/)
- [Good Mother Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/good-mother-gallery-32/)
- [Artists & Makers Studios – San Gabriel](https://artillerymag.com/locations/artists-makers-studios-san-gabriel-3/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-18/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-17/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-16/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-15/)
- [induction gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/induction-gallery/)
- [Tierra del Sol Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/tierra-del-sol-gallery-20/)
- [Tierra del Sol Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/tierra-del-sol-gallery-19/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-14/)
- [The San Diego Museum of Art](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-san-diego-museum-of-art-13/)
- [Wilshire Ebell Theatre](https://artillerymag.com/locations/wilshire-ebell-theatre/)
- [Santa Monica Studios 3026 at Airport Arts Center](https://artillerymag.com/locations/santa-monica-studios-3026-at-airport-arts-center/)
- [Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/hauser-wirth-west-hollywood-7/)
- [Track 16 | East Hollywood](https://artillerymag.com/locations/track-16-east-hollywood-5/)
- [alt projects](https://artillerymag.com/locations/alt-projects/)
- [Gene’s Dispensary](https://artillerymag.com/locations/genes-dispensary-7/)
- [Gene’s Dispensary](https://artillerymag.com/locations/genes-dispensary-6/)
- [Shoshana Wayne Gallery](https://artillerymag.com/locations/shoshana-wayne-gallery-3/)
- [Art + Practice](https://artillerymag.com/locations/art-practice/)
- [The Autry Museum of the American West](https://artillerymag.com/locations/the-autry-museum-of-the-american-west/)
- [Sky Portal X](https://artillerymag.com/locations/sky-portal-x-2/)
- [Sky Portal X](https://artillerymag.com/locations/sky-portal-x/)
- [Ahmanson Auditorium](https://artillerymag.com/locations/ahmanson-auditorium/)