This Week in LA: Dec. 4→10
In this Edition: While Miami Buzzes, LA Beckons with Dreams, Remnants, and Inner Worlds
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This week kicks off the U.S.’s largest art week in Miami, as collectors, curators, and art lovers descend on South Florida for Art Basel and its satellite fairs. But for those of you staying put in Los Angeles, there’s no shortage of exceptional exhibitions to explore right here at home.
This week’s selections navigate consciousness, perception, and the unseen forces that shape our inner worlds. At Anat Ebgi, a multigenerational group exhibition presents fragmented interpretations of the body, tracing the biological and societal forces that shape collective consciousness. David Zwirner presents new works by Zimbabwean artist Portia Zvavahera, whose paintings join dream worlds with lived experience through symbolic creatures and spiritual visions. Over at Southern Guild, curator Essence Harden assembles works exploring remnants and traces—fragments that persist after departure and hover between consciousness and reverie. Wilding Cran Gallery features Robert Gunderman’s large-scale canvases transforming overlooked moments in nature into meditations on life and transformation. At Ochi Gallery, Nevena Prijić discovers parallel worlds where bodies and galaxies entwine, suspended between microscope and telescope. And at Wonzimer in DTLA, Joshua AM Ross and Caleb Engstrom explore perception and material intimacy through drawings and furniture.
No plane ticket required—dive into this week’s selections below and chart your LA gallery course!
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On View Now
Babst Gallery | West Hollywood
A Quiet Room: Group Exhibition
On view through December 20, 2025
A group exhibition featuring works by Shonto Begay, Cirilo Domine, Sophia Flood, Susan Hertel, Leo Krikorian, NEAL, Taidgh O’Neill, Daniel Pontius, Fritz Scholder, Benjamin L. Turner, and Norman Zammitt.
Anat Ebgi | Mid-Wilshire
After Each Night We Are Emptier: Group Exhibition
On view through January 10, 2026
A multigenerational group of artists present fragmented interpretations of the body, considering the biological and societal forces that shape inner and collective consciousness.
1301PE | Mid-Wilshire
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: time, the anti-hero
On view through January 31, 2026
Films, sculptures, drawings, and paintings exploring the meaning of the body politic and the politics of the body through a playful questioning of language.
Serious Topics | Mid-Wilshire
Vanessa Conte: Swell
On view through January 10, 2026
Twenty-four tiny paintings tell a circular narrative about Amy, a fictional character from the artist’s nautical comic, where cartoon physics meets oil paint’s materiality.
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.
Wilding Cran Gallery | Hollywood
Robert Gunderman: Being Home
On view through December 20, 2025
Large-scale, vividly hued canvases transform overlooked moments—a rising moon, a sprouting seed, a horizon line—into profound meditations on life, time, and transformation.
OCHI Gallery | Hollywood
Nevena Prijić: Three Moments of an Explosion
On view through January 10, 2026
Paintings that discover parallel worlds where corporeal bodies and galaxies entwine, suspended between the analytic lens of a microscope and the pursuant gaze of a telescope.
Wonzimer | DTLA
Joshua AM Ross and Caleb Engstrom: Ode to Sunflower
On view through December 8, 2025
A two-person exhibition exploring themes of perception, the body, and material intimacy through colored pencil drawings and furniture.
Gallery Luisotti | DTLA
Cinema: Group Exhibition
On view through January 3, 2026
A group show featuring Arlene Mejorado, Catherine Wagner, Christina Fernandez, Joachim Brohm, John Divola, Mark Ruwedel, Robert Cumming, and Ron Jude.
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The Vanessa Conte artwork looks cool..