This Week in LA: Dec. 23→31
In this Edition: Season's Best — Ongoing Exhibitions to Experience Before the New Year!
As the year draws to a close and the holiday season settles in, we’re taking a moment to look back at some of the standout exhibitions we’ve covered that are still on view across LA. Whether you’re seeking a quiet escape, spending time with loved ones, or simply looking for inspiration before the new year, these shows offer something worth experiencing.
This week’s “Best Of” edition revisits highlights from recent months. At ROSEGALLERY, Diana Markosian’s Fantômes captures Cuba’s ballet tradition in images that hover between visibility and disappearance. Louis Stern Fine Arts pairs estate artists with contemporary talents in Perspective and Plane, sparking unexpected dialogues across generations. Over at Sprüth Magers, Horror—organized by Jill Mulleady—presents the genre as both symptom and strategy through works by Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, Mike Kelley, and more. David Zwirner continues to present Portia Zvavahera’s dream worlds populated by symbolic creatures and spiritual visions. At Southern Guild, Essence Harden’s Driftwork meditates on remnants and traces that persist after departure. And Vielmetter Los Angeles features Kiriakos Tompolidis’s paintings exploring the experience of being between cultures and places.
Wishing you a peaceful holiday season filled with art, reflection, and good company. Explore our picks below and plan your gallery visits!
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On View Now
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.
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood
Perspective and Plane: Group Exhibition
On view through January 10, 2026
Estate artists are paired with contemporary artists in unexpected dialogues, finding new themes through the juxtaposition of past and present.
Anat Ebgi | Miracle Mile
Sarah Ann Weber: I Know Her
November 15, 2025 – January 10, 2026
Watercolor and colored pencil works trace seismic shifts following the birth of Weber’s daughter and cross-country move to Chicago, entwining autobiography and gestural botanicals while adding to the canon of images of mother and child.
Parker Gallery | Hollywood
Sahar Khoury: Wet
November 14, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Ceramic, steel, iron, brass, and aluminum sculptures inspired by the YMCA and nautical equipment explore resistance, tension, and buoyancy through casts of kickboards, propellers, duck decoys, and geodesic dome structures that invoke collectivity and cooperation.
Sprüeth Magers | Miracle Mile
Horror
November 21, 2025 – February 14, 2026
Organized by Jill Mulleady, this intergenerational group exhibition presents horror as both symptom and strategy, featuring works by Dario Argento, Bruce Conner, Anne Imhof, Arthur Jafa, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and more.
Pace Gallery | Los Angeles
land marks
On view through January 17, 2026
Curated by Joshua Friedman, this group exhibition of 17 artists examines how space functions as emotional and psychological terrain, exploring how the places we inhabit accumulate meaning and form layered maps of memories.
Deitch Gallery | Hollywood
Alteronce Gumby: Walk on the Moon
November 15, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Tonal paintings, monolithic resin sculptures, and light well installations harness natural light and gemstones to explore the material properties of color and how they shape human perception in this interdisciplinary presentation.
David Zwirner | Hollywood
Portia Zvavahera: Zvibereko zvemweya wangu
On view through February 7, 2026
New works by the Zimbabwean artist joining carefully charted dream worlds with lived experience and daily rituals, populated by symbolic creatures that become powerful conduits for spiritual visions.
Southern Guild | Hollywood
Driftwork: Group Exhibition
On view through January 10, 2026
Curated by Essence Harden, this exhibition begins with the notion of remnants—fragments that persist after departure, traces that endure past erasure, impressions that hover in the space between consciousness and reverie.
Vielmetter Los Angeles | Arts District
Kiriakos Tompolidis: Your Tears Will Dry
November 15, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Influenced by the artist’s move from Berlin to Mexico City, these paintings incorporate endemic flora and fauna into meticulous portrayals of memories, grappling with being between cultures and places through intricately rendered textures.
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