This Week in LA: Dec. 11→17
In this Edition: Exploring Home, Memory, and the Mystical Across LA Galleries
This week’s exhibitions invite us to consider the spaces we inhabit—both real and imagined, physical and spiritual. At L.A. Louver, a recently discovered cache of Tony Berlant sculptures reveals decades of the artist’s exploration of the house form, each work existing in its own world of referents and images. Over at Marta in Los Feliz, Chase Biado and Antonia Pinter conjure fantastical dwellings in Elf Houses, a charming scenography of the domestic rendered in drawings and sculptural lighting. ROSEGALLERY presents Diana Markosian’s Fantômes, where dancers from Cuba’s ballet tradition hover between visibility and disappearance, their forms dissolving into light and shadow.
At Art + Practice in Leimert Park, Giving you the best that I got honors the sacred relationship between Black mothers and children through works exploring care, nostalgia, and cultural inheritance. MOCA Grand Avenue blurs the line between theater and visual art in Fictions of Display, anchored by Claes Oldenburg’s iconic works from The Store. And Night Gallery presents Kayla Witt’s paintings spanning ancient archetypes and new age mysticism. Finally, don’t miss the closing reception at Claremont Heritage for The Search for Organic Architecture, celebrating the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice Foster Rhodes Jackson.
Explore this week’s full lineup below and plan your gallery adventures!
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On View Now
L.A. Louver | Venice
Tony Berlant: Houses
On view through December 13, 2025
A surprise presentation of sculptures dating from the early 1960s to the late 2010s, most seen here for the first time, utilizing printed tin cut into shapes and affixed to plywood using steel brads.
The Getty Villa | Pacific Palisades
The Kingdom of Pylos: Warrior-Princes of Ancient Greece
On view through January 12, 2026
The latest discoveries from Messenia, an epicenter of Mycenaean civilization in Late Bronze Age Greece, displayed for the first time outside Europe.
ROSEGALLERY | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Diana Markosian: Fantômes
December 13, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Dancers appear to hover between visibility and disappearance, their forms dissolving into light and shadow, evoking the fragile persistence of Cuba’s ballet tradition.
S P O N S O R E D
Claremont Heritage | Claremont
Foster Rhodes Jackson: The Search for Organic Architecture
Closing Reception: Sunday, December 14, 2025, 4–6pm
Foster Rhodes Jackson studied with Frank Lloyd Wright from 1945–1946 before moving to Southern California to establish his own legacy. Don’t miss the closing reception of this groundbreaking exhibition featuring talks by historians Charles Phoenix and Alan Hess. The exhibit presents original drawings, photographs, and furniture by Jackson, whose work Claremont Heritage has been documenting and archiving for several years. Taking place at the Ginger Elliott Exhibition Center at the Garner House.
Leica Gallery | West Hollywood
Peter Turnley: Paris-California
On view through January 12, 2026
Fifty years of photographs of Parisian life alongside a 1975 series documenting the working class and poor during a four-month road trip across California.
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery | West Hollywood
...and a heart pumping blood: Group Exhibition
On view through January 24, 2026
Five artists making masks now, exploring our impulse to see ourselves and connect with the outside world, featuring works by Rick Bartow, jinseok choi, Liz Glynn, Peter Shelton, and Cole Speck.
Art + Practice | Leimert Park
Co-presented by the California African American Museum (CAAM)
Giving you the best that I got: Group Exhibition
On view through March 7, 2026
Curated by Dominique Clayton, this exhibition highlights images and narratives of Black mothers, from pregnancy to the forever journey of what it means to be a mother.
MOCA Grand Avenue | DTLA
Fictions of Display: Group Exhibition
On view through January 4, 2026
An exploration of intertwined themes of theater, performance, and display in MOCA’s permanent collection, anchored by works from Claes Oldenburg’s immersive project The Store (1961–62).
Night Gallery | DTLA
Kayla Witt: In Circles, Still Forward
On view through December 20, 2025
Paintings that befriend the unknown, spanning ancient archetypes and new age mysticism, mapping our yearning for connectivity, understanding, and self-actualization.
Autry Museum | Griffith Park
Black Cowboys: An American Story
On view through January 4, 2026
A clearer picture of the Black West and a more diverse portrait of the American frontier, revealing how Black men and women turned their equestrian skills to popular performances in rodeo, Western film, and music.
Marta | Los Feliz
Chase Biado and Antonia Pinter: Elf Houses
On view through December 20, 2025
Drawings and lighting works offer a scenography of the domestic – a portrait of the interior evoked by representations of the exterior, envisaged in the realm of those fair and primordial creatures.
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Absolutely loved how this curation connects dweling and identity across so many mediums. The Berlant house sculptures at L.A. Louver operateas memory containers rather than just architectural forms, which feels particularly relevant given the exhibition's rediscovery narrative. It makes me wonder if the house form became more symbolic for artists who witnessed LA's rapid transformation over those decades, like a way to archive what physical placescouldn't hold anymore.