This Week in LA: Aug. 14→20
Light, Color, and the Power of Shared Experiences Across LA
Mid-August in Los Angeles finds the city's galleries embracing the power of light, color, and shared experience. This week brings us from Charles Ross's spectacular prism installation casting celestial rhythms across the Getty's rotunda to LACMA's exploration of color's cosmic significance in Mesoamerican art. Whether you're drawn to Maja Ruznic's mystical portals at Karma, the playful century-spanning dialogue of cats and apples at Matthew Marks Gallery, or Will Rawls's powerful meditation on Black visibility at ICA LA, there's a richness of perspectives that celebrate both individual vision and collective memory. Time to follow the light...
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Getty Center | Brentwood
Charles Ross: Spectrum 14
On view through September 2026
A calibrated array of prisms casting luminous color across the Museum's rotunda, with bands of spectral light that traverse the space in relation to the sun's daily arc, connecting us to premodern astronomical observation.
Karma | Los Angeles
Maja Ruznic: Srklet
On view through September 13, 2025
Works on paper serving as "portals" into fantastical worlds of morphing shapes and chimerical figures, where color and form fuse into investigations of the mystical, emotional, and historical through layered gouache compositions.
Matthew Marks Gallery | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: Cats & Apples
On view through August 16, 2025
Fifteen artists explore two timeless motifs across over one hundred years and diverse media, drawing inspiration from art historical tropes, 1960s cartoons, and childhood memories in paintings, sculptures, drawings, photography, and video.
LACMA (Resnick Pavilion) | Mid-Wilshire
Group Exhibition: We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art
On view through September 1, 2025
Exploring the science, art, and cosmology of color in Mesoamerica, examining how artists wielded cosmic creation through pigments and the deep significance of color in Indigenous worldviews across buildings, vessels, textiles, and sculptures.
Lisson Gallery | Los Angeles
Li Ran: The Signs are Present
On view through August 23, 2025
Nine recent oil-on-canvas works marking an evolution in the artist's practice, shifting toward material and formal painting qualities while tempering his earlier satirical strategies in favor of a quieter, more ambiguous visual language.
S P O N S O R E D
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery | Los Angeles
Bek Hyunjin: Seoul Syntax
On view through August 29, 2025
Korean multidisciplinary artist and musician's first LA exhibition translating his experiences of Seoul through gestural and poetic works across painting, installation, sound, and performance that capture the city's chaotic rhythms and structures.
Rele Gallery | Hollywood
Group Exhibition: Summer '25
On view through August 31, 2025
Works from across the African Diaspora by twelve artists offering unique insights into memory, resilience, identity, and joy, forming a dialogue across borders and experiences while providing art as a safe space for reflection and connection.
ICA LA | Arts District, DTLA
Will Rawls: [siccer]
On view through August 31, 2025
An interdisciplinary installation using dance, stop-motion animation, and sound to investigate media's role in documenting and erasing the Black body, featuring performers navigating states of invisibility across chroma green frames.
Band of Vices | Los Angeles
Exhibition: In the Commons
On view through August 23, 2025
Artists exploring the commons as a living theory of brownness—a relational space of becoming that challenges dominant frameworks by foregrounding communal ethos rooted in mutual care, interdependence, and collaboration.
Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: Thru the Lens: Photographic Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation
On view through October 25, 2025
Over three dozen artists exploring various forms and methods of photography, from early black and white works by Rauschenberg and Newton to contemporary explorations of art and technology, bridging gaps between painting and photography.
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