This Week in LA: Feb. 19→25
In this Edition: Landmark Returns, Immersive Environments, and Works That Ask Us to Slow Down
This week brings landmark returns, immersive environments, and works that ask us to slow down and feel. At LA Louver, Alison Saar’s Meet Me at the Crossroads: Ruby’s Soul Service Station invites visitors into a space of rest and renewal—listen to poetry, play dominoes, refill your soul. Hauser & Wirth in West Hollywood presents Horizon West, tracing Arshile Gorky’s evolving approach to landscape before and after his transformative 1941 road trip to California with Isamu Noguchi. Over at Sprüth Magers, David Salle returns to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition in the city since 1997, with new paintings grounded in the art of juxtaposition. Shoshana Wayne Gallery presents Anina Major’s Moments of Being, where Bahamian plaiting becomes contemporary practice and the body remembers what the archive cannot hold. At Nazarian/Curcio, Ken Gun Min’s Strange Days of a Quiet Sun offers paintings enriched through embroidery and beading—the “quiet sun” repurposed as metaphor for collective mourning and estrangement. And at MOCA, Haegue Yang’s Star-Crossed Rendezvous brings together two major venetian blind installations made nearly a decade apart, appearing as two halves of an imperfect whole.
Explore this week’s full lineup below and see what resonates!
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LA Louver | Venice
Alison Saar: Meet Me at the Crossroads: Ruby’s Soul Service Station
February 24 – March 6, 2026
Rest and renewal await under the thoughtful gaze of soul service attendant Ruby. Alison Saar’s immersive sculptural installation invites visitors into a space of replenishment—listen to a poem by Harryette Mullen, settle in for a game of dominoes with friends, and refill your soul with the powerful energy of Meet Me at the Crossroads: Ruby’s Soul Service Station.
Hauser & Wirth | West Hollywood
Arshile Gorky: Horizon West
February 21 – April 25, 2026
In the summer of 1941, Arshile Gorky, his soon-to-be wife Agnes Magruder, and Isamu Noguchi set out from New York to Los Angeles in Noguchi’s brand-new Ford station wagon. Horizon West traces the evolution of Gorky’s incomparable approach to landscape before and after this transformative road trip—featuring never-before-exhibited works alongside paintings from his 1941 solo show at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
Sprüth Magers | Miracle Mile
David Salle: My Frankenstein
February 24 – April 18, 2026
Arguably the leading postmodern painter of the last forty-five years, David Salle returns to Los Angeles for his first solo exhibition in the city since 1997. My Frankenstein presents new paintings grounded in the art of juxtaposition—image clusters analogous to musical chords, where disparate styles are struck at the same time, producing an emotional resonance.
Shoshana Wayne Gallery | West Adams
Anina Major: Moments of Being
On view through March 21, 2026
The body remembers what the archive cannot hold. Anina Major’s Moments of Being engages Bahamian plaiting as contemporary practice through sculpture and performance, including the video work These Boots Were Made For Walking—a meditation on fractured cultural connections across the Black diaspora where body movement becomes an expression of agency and a form of problem solving.
Nazarian/Curcio | Hollywood
Ken Gun Min: Strange Days of a Quiet Sun
February 21 – March 28, 2026
The “quiet sun” in astronomy refers to a cyclical weakening of solar activity—Ken Gun Min repurposes the term as a poetic metaphor for collective sadness, mourning, and estrangement. Strange Days of a Quiet Sun features paintings enriched through embroidery, beading, and hand-applied materials, alongside a monumental double-sided folding screen composed of eight individually painted canvases.
KP Projects | Hollywood
Cash-Cooper: Paracosmos
On view through March 7, 2026
Heroic-scale depictions of humanity en masse pulse with movement, conflict, and transcendence in Cash-Cooper’s debut solo presentation. Drawing inspiration from manga, video games, and the mythic cosmologies of ancient Egypt and Sumeria, Paracosmos positions the artist as a compelling new voice in contemporary figurative painting—merging the compositional density of Brueghel and Bosch with character-driven immediacy.
Deitch | Hollywood
Paige Powell: Private Andy: Religious Services
February 20 – April 4, 2026
Two bodies of never-before-seen photographic work reveal a private and deeply human dimension of Andy Warhol. Paige Powell, who worked closely with Warhol at Interview magazine, presents accidental double exposures spanning from a fashion event to Warhol’s funeral, alongside images of the artist volunteering at the Episcopal Church of Heavenly Rest—busing tables, serving coffee, and quietly returning again and again.
Wilding Cran | Hollywood
Natia Lemay: Just Short of Contact
February 24 – March 28, 2026
Domestic space becomes a complex of interiority, intrusion, and recovery in Natia Lemay’s first Los Angeles solo exhibition. In Just Short of Contact, the primary use of black as both material and concept lies at the heart of the work—what initially appears dense gradually opens, revealing a spectrum of internal hues that emerge through time and sustained attention.
MOCA | DTLA
Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous
February 24 – August 2, 2026
Two major installations executed using customized venetian blinds appear as two halves of an imperfect whole in Star-Crossed Rendezvous. Made nearly a decade apart, Haegue Yang’s works engage with perception and movement—one a monochromatic installation inspired by Sol LeWitt’s cube structures, the other a tribute to pioneering composer and political dissident Isang Yun, with moving lights synchronized to his Double Concerto.
Hauser & Wirth | Arts District
Christina Quarles: The Ground Glows Black
February 24 – May 3, 2026
Created in the wake of the wildfires in Altadena, Christina Quarles’s latest body of work reflects an acute sense of displacement—geographical, emotional, and corporeal. The Ground Glows Black marks her first exhibition with the gallery in Los Angeles, with canvases denser and more frenetic than earlier works, compressing time and place with heightened intensity as wrenching human forms bend and fold as if by centrifugal force.
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