This Week in LA: Dec. 18→24
In this Edition: Personal Narratives and Collective Memory — From Soul Fire to Street Photography
This week’s exhibitions celebrate the power of personal narrative and collective memory. At Von Lintel Gallery, Miles Regis turns his expressive force toward an intimately personal story of ancestry and care in Soul Fire, a series of portraits capturing the enduring character of family and community. Beyond the Streets presents a landmark survey of Shepard Fairey’s printmaking practice, with over 400 screen prints demonstrating the democratic power of ink and paper to provoke dialogue and spark action. At 839 in Hollywood, Yunghun Yoo’s paintings frame LA’s transit infrastructure as a circulatory system, exploring how we move through and inhabit urban space.
Hauser & Wirth debuts Flora Yukhnovich’s Bacchanalia, large-scale canvases where lush brushstrokes evoke the dynamism of ancient and contemporary hedonism. Over at ICA LA, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s first US solo exhibition presents four decades of drawings exploring the relationship between body and landscape through an ecofeminist lens. Luis De Jesus unveils rarely seen street photography by John M. Valadez, capturing the style, pride, and lived Chicano reality of 1970s and 80s Los Angeles. And at the Orange County Museum of Art, the California Biennial shines a light on the richness and anxiety of late adolescence.
🎄A quick note: Since next week’s edition falls on Christmas Day, we’ll be sending out a special “Best Of” issue highlighting standout ongoing exhibitions we’ve covered this year that are still on view. You’ll receive it on Tuesday, December 23—a perfect guide for your holiday gallery outings!
Discover this week’s full lineup of exhibitions below and plan your gallery route!
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On View Now
Von Lintel Gallery | Santa Monica
Miles Regis: Soul Fire
On view through January 10, 2026
Paintings fusing figuration, abstraction, and text into rhythmic declarations of diverse identity and collective conscience, turning expressive force toward an intimately personal story of ancestry and care.
William Turner Gallery | Santa Monica
Guillermo Bert: Longing & Belonging
On view through January 3, 2026
Three major series spanning two decades explore the intersections of tradition, technology, and migration, fusing ancient craft traditions with augmented reality, QR codes, and 3D modeling.
Michael Werner Gallery | Beverly Hills
Brett Goodroad: Paradise Valley
On view through January 24, 2026
Plein air paintings created in remote locations from Surprise Valley, California to Iceland and Spain, navigating the push and pull between abstraction and figuration.
Beyond the Streets | Los Angeles
Shepard Fairey: Out of Print
On view through January 11, 2026
A landmark exhibition devoted to the artist’s lifelong dialogue with printmaking, bringing together more than 400 original screen prints alongside new hybrid works combining screen printing and stenciling.
839 | Hollywood
Yunghun Yoo: Union Station
On view through December 20, 2025
Paintings exploring the interstices of movement, infrastructure, and the body as it navigates urban space, framing transportation as a circulatory system for the city.
Royale Projects | Arts District, DTLA
David Allan Peters
On view through December 20, 2025
Paintings that deepen an exploration of the cyclical nature of creation and destruction, with expressionistic layers of acrylic meticulously carved into thousands of small gouges creating intricate visual textures.
Hauser & Wirth | Arts District, DTLA
Flora Yukhnovich: Bacchanalia
On view through January 18, 2026
Large-scale canvases inspired by the centuries-old theme of Bacchanalia, with lush, swirling brushstrokes evoking the dynamism and intense corporeality of both ancient and contemporary hedonism.
ICA LA | Arts District, DTLA
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes
On view through March 1, 2026
The artist’s first US solo exhibition features four decades of drawings alongside etchings, paintings, and accordion-like paper sculptures exploring the relationship between the human body and the landscapes it inhabits.
Luis De Jesus | Arts District, DTLA
John M. Valadez: A Two Second Gaze — Street Photography from the 1970s and 80s
On view through December 20, 2025
Rarely and never exhibited photographs from the East Los Angeles Urban Portrait Portfolio, a visual archive capturing culture, street fashion, and lived Chicano reality in Los Angeles.
Orange County Museum of Art | Costa Mesa
2025 California Biennial: Desperate, Scared, But Social
On view through January 4, 2026
The Biennial focuses on the richness of late adolescence—a stage of life full of hope and potential yet fraught with awkwardness, anxiety, and myriad pressures.
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