This Week in LA: August 6→12
In this Edition: Bristlecone Pines Drawn by Hand, a Lifetime of Marks, and One Night of Automation Dread — Hollywood to South LA
This week Los Angeles makes its case for the hand. At James Fuentes, the self-taught New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King gets her first solo exhibition on the West Coast, a lifetime of drawing in pen, graphite, colored pencil and crayon laid end to end — mark-making as a sustained act with no beginning and no off-switch. Across town in Glassell Park, Philip Martin Gallery gathers ten painters and sculptors under A Certain Slant of Light to ask what an art object is even for now — interiority, private vision, the thing made slowly and meant to be looked at just as slowly. In South LA, Rusha & Co. hands its rooms to the Pioneers Co-Op for a group show that treats a gallery as something closer to a shared table than a white cube.
Up in Silver Lake, Winslow Garage shows Ryan Eakins’s pen-and-ink portraits of Great Basin bristlecone pines — the oldest living things on earth, drawn one patient line at a time, five thousand years rendered by a hand that took months. And then the counter-argument: at Baert Gallery, for one night only, Jordan Rountree stages the ninth chapter of his CHTHONIC ARCHIVE, a live performance built entirely around the dread of automation — the fear that the hand is being quietly written out.
The full lineup is below.
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Featured Exhibitions
James Fuentes | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Susan Te Kahurangi King: The Page Before Me
On view through September 12, 2026
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James Fuentes gives the self-taught New Zealand artist Susan Te Kahurangi King her first solo exhibition on the West Coast — The Page Before Me, a survey that follows her drawing from the late 1950s to the present in pen, graphite, colored pencil, crayon and ink. King, who largely stopped speaking as a young child and has drawn continuously ever since, treats the sheet as a place where figures borrowed from comics and cartoons buckle, stretch, and dissolve into pure pattern — the recognizable slipping into abstraction and back within a single passage. Laid end to end, the work reads less as a sequence of pictures than as one unbroken act of attention, a lifetime measured in marks.
Winslow Garage | Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Ryan Eakins: The Ancients
On view through August 30, 2026
@winslowgarage
At Winslow Garage, the artist-run project space tucked into Silver Lake, Ryan Eakins devotes The Ancients to a single, staggering subject — the Great Basin bristlecone pine, Pinus longaeva, the oldest non-clonal living organism on earth, some individuals nearing five thousand years old. Working entirely in pen and ink, Eakins renders these wind-carved, half-petrified trees as portraits, every twist of grain and stripped white limb built from thousands of patient hatched lines. The conceit is quietly vertiginous: a hand that took weeks describing a life that has outlasted whole civilizations — deep time set down one stroke at a time.
Baert Gallery | DTLA, Los Angeles
Jordan Rountree: CHTHONIC ARCHIVE No. 9: Waiting for GTA
One night only — Saturday, August 8, 2026, 7–9pm
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For one evening on Santa Fe Avenue, Baert Gallery hands its space to Jordan Rountree for the ninth installment of his ongoing CHTHONIC ARCHIVE — a live performance series that descends, each time, into some buried civic anxiety and stages it in real time. Waiting for GTA takes on the dread of automation directly: the low, spreading fear that the work of the hand is being quietly written out of the world, that we are all, in some sense, waiting to be made redundant. It is the week’s machine-shaped counterweight to all those rooms full of patient, unrepeatable marks — and it exists, pointedly, for two hours only.
Philip Martin Gallery | Glassell Park, Los Angeles
A Certain Slant of Light
On view through September 26, 2026
@philipmartingallery
Philip Martin Gallery gathers ten artists across generations and geographies — Carl Cheng, Holly Coulis, Tim Garwood, Sky Glabush, Pamela Jorden, David Korty, Aaron Morse, Hubert Schmalix, Sophie Treppendahl and Sung Jik Yang — for a show that borrows its title from Emily Dickinson and its mood from that particular light which makes an ordinary room suddenly strange. Working in painting, sculpture and assemblage, the group circles questions of interiority and private vision — what it means to make an art object now, and to ask a viewer to slow down in front of it. The result is less a thesis than a shared atmosphere, a slant of attention held across ten sensibilities.
Rusha & Co. | South Los Angeles
We Breathe the Same Air
On view through September 5, 2026
@rusha_co
In its South LA rooms on West Florence Avenue, Rusha & Co. turns the gallery over to the Pioneers Co-Op for We Breathe the Same Air, a group exhibition that takes its title at its word — the air of a city held in common, the atmosphere no one owns and everyone shares. The Pioneers, an artist-run collective, treat the show as much a gathering as a hanging, the opening rounded out with bites from Bib Gourmand chef and artist Natalia Pereira, so that looking and eating and talking blur into a single social act. It is an exhibition staged less as a display than as an argument for the gallery as a shared table.
Also On View
Mid-Wilshire
The Clock — Christian Marclay · LACMA · On view through August 23, 2026 · @lacma
Shape of Water / When the Levee Breaks — Danielle Eubank & Beth Davila Waldman · LAUNCH LA · August 8 – 29, 2026 · @launch_la
Hollywood
LALUZAPALOOZA 2026 — Annual Group Show · La Luz de Jesus · August 7 – 30, 2026 · @laluzdejesus
East Hollywood
To Share a Stomach — Group Show · The Brick · August 8 – September 19, 2026 · @thebrick_la
Echo Park
new skies — severin hallauer · induction gallery · August 9 – September 5, 2026 · @induction_gallery
Atwater Village
Where I End and You Begin — Liv Aanrud, Julia Curran & Jon Huck · The Middle Room · On view through August 30, 2026 · @themiddleroomgallery
Chinatown
mirasol — Marcus Zúñiga · LACE at Los Angeles State Historic Park · On view through August 30, 2026 · @welcometolace
DTLA
MOCA’s Collection at the Geffen — Collection Re-Presentation · The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA · On view through March 7, 2027 · @moca
Brentwood
The Making of a Medieval Manuscript — Parchment, Script & Illumination · Getty Center · On view through March 14, 2027 · @gettymuseum
Online Viewing Room
Reflections — The Ipswich River Drawing Series — Michael Batty · Mark Moore Fine Art · @markmoorefineart
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