This Week in LA: Aug. 7→13
Memory, Perception, and the Weight of Experience
August in Los Angeles brings a contemplative turn to the gallery scene, where artists are mining deep wells of memory, perception, and time itself. This week we encounter Y.Z. Kami's meditative dome paintings that aspire to infinity at Gagosian, while Diana Thater's architectural drawings at 1301PE reveal the evolution of her groundbreaking video installations. From Gail Rebhan's four-decade photographic retrospective examining life's primary cycles at the California Museum of Photography to Paul Mpagi Sepuya's intimate studio explorations at Vielmetter, there's a profound engagement with how we see, remember, and position ourselves in relation to our environment. Whether you're drawn to Anthony Miler's first foray into sculpture at The Pit, Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida's fiber works connecting personal and political rupture at Wolfpack HQ, or the collective response to January's devastating fires in Louis Stern's benefit exhibition, this week celebrates artists who transform the weight of experience into profound visual poetry. Time to slow down and see deeper...
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On View Now
California Museum of Photography | Riverside
Gail Rebhan: About Time
On view through August 17, 2025
The first museum retrospective exploring four decades of work that reconfigures photography's time-slicing medium, oscillating between personal domestic experience and pressing social issues while confronting change and repetition as life's primary cycles.
Gagosian | Beverly Hills
Y.Z. Kami: The Domes
On view through August 8, 2025
Paintings interpreting architectural structures as painted form, with tessellated patterns evoking sacred domes and functioning as meditative mandalas that aspire to infinity.
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood | Online Exhibition
Group Exhibition: Fire Relief for Artists: A Benefit Exhibition
On view through August 16, 2025
An online exhibition of works from estate and contemporary artists, with all proceeds donated to LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund and ADAA Relief Fund supporting artists affected by the devastating January wildfires.
1301PE | Mid-Wilshire
Diana Thater: Drawings 1999–2006
On view through August 15, 2025
Architectural renderings and collages capturing the internationally acclaimed artist's evolving practice as she worked through possibilities for large-scale, color-saturated projections and monitor installations.
S P O N S O R E D
Good Mother Gallery | West Adams
Madeline Brice: What if We Don't Get Older
On view through August 9, 2025
Psychologically charged paintings exploring mortality, identity, and suppressed desires through vivid, dreamlike compositions where domestic symbols collide with existential dread in fractured landscapes.
Roberts Projects | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: Back To the Earth
On view through August 9, 2025
Thirteen artists explore symbiotic relationships with their environment through works using organic materials, found objects, and elemental forces to engage in ongoing dialogue with the natural world.
Nonaka-Hill | Los Angeles
Kaoru Ueda
On view through August 16, 2025
Photorealistic paintings by a leading Japanese "superrealist" depicting household objects and food suspended in space and time, estranging the familiar through rigorous observation and painterly illusion.
Vielmetter | Arts District, DTLA
Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Positioner
On view through August 9, 2025
New photographs exploring "positioners" and support structures that anchor compositions in studio space, utilizing gazing balls and mirrors to critique photographer-model relationships while creating space for Queer bodies' self-actualization.
The Pit Los Angeles | Atwater Village
Anthony Miler: Tomorrow's Not What It Used To Be
On view through August 9, 2025
Striking abstracted paintings paired with the artist's first sculptures in aluminum, wood, and stone, exploring visual perception through propositions and negations while mimicking geological processes of compression.
Wolfpack HQ | Gardena
Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida: A House Containing
On view through August 10, 2025
Fiber-based works initiated by the artist's return to their grandmother's abandoned Chilean home, exploring how collecting reveals fraught entanglements of memory, power, and desire through connections between personal rupture and political upheaval.
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