This Week in LA: Feb. 5→11
In this Edition: From Chicano Pioneers to Civil Rights Photography — This Week Across LA
This week’s exhibitions span deeply personal histories and bold formal experiments, from Santa Monica to Long Beach. At Craig Krull Gallery, four artists connected through Art Division—Dan McCleary’s non-profit art school near MacArthur Park—present paintings and prints rooted in community, neighborhood, and Chicano identity. Gagosian hosts Sarah Sze’s Los Angeles gallery debut, where collage becomes a spatial and temporal language across immersive video installations and large-format paintings. At Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Chicano Art Movement pioneer Ramsés Noriega’s works on paper from 1967 to 1989 channel frustration and resistance through caricature, distortion, and symbolic imagery.
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery presents Annette Hur’s increasingly abstract yet resolutely autobiographical landscapes, where sky, earth, and water blur into meditations on identity and memory. Over at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Steve Schapiro’s Being Everywhere celebrates six decades of bearing witness—from the March on Washington to the set of The Godfather. Pace debuts Lauren Quin’s first solo show with the gallery, a striking “detox of color” where dense blacks and greys are haloed by fugitive hues. And at MOLAA in Long Beach, Interlaced Communities brings together ten Indigenous Maya artists from Guatemala, challenging stereotypes and affirming vibrant living cultures.
Explore this week's full lineup below and map out your week…
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Craig Krull Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
6th Street: Group Exhibition featuring Javier Carrillo, Dan McCleary,
John Nava, and Victor Reyes
On view through March 14, 2026
Thirty-three years ago, Dan McCleary moved into a studio on 6th Street near MacArthur Park—and later founded Art Division, a non-profit art school for underserved young adults. 6th Street brings together four members of that community: McCleary’s quotidian figure paintings, John Nava’s documentation of boarded-up storefronts that once served as canvases for political speech, and works by former students turned instructors Javier Carrillo and Victor Reyes, who honor Mexican and Chicano ancestry through street vendor portraits and phantasmagorical narratives.
Galerie XII | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey: This Earthen Door: Reimagining Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
On view through April 18, 2026
Emily Dickinson’s 19th-century botanical collection gets a contemporary reimagining in This Earthen Door. Artists Amanda Marchand and Leah Sobsey use the experimental anthotype printing process—plant-based photographs dating back to Dickinson’s era—to transform historical specimens into vibrant, modern works of photographic art, growing and harvesting plants to remake her flower sampler.
Gagosian | Beverly Hills
Sarah Sze: Feel Free
On view through February 28, 2026
Collage becomes a spatial and temporal language in Sarah Sze’s Los Angeles gallery debut. Feel Free brings together two immersive video installations and a new series of large-format paintings across three interconnected galleries, each embodying a different relationship to light, material, and time—where images move across constructed forms, fall into shadow, splinter into color, and return as quiet traces.
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills
Ramsés Noriega: De Sonora a Los Ángeles
On view through March 14, 2026
An early pioneer of the Chicano Art Movement and co-organizer of the 1970 Chicano Moratorium march, Ramsés Noriega has spent six decades exploring the dualities of his lived experience as a Mexican American. De Sonora a Los Ángeles presents works on paper from 1967 to 1989, employing caricature, distortion, and symbolic imagery to articulate frustration, resistance, and the broader political realities facing communities of color.
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery | West Hollywood
Annette Hur: The Scent Cleared My Mind
On view through March 7, 2026
Horizon lines become a fading boundary. Sky, earth, and water blur. Annette Hur’s newest paintings in The Scent Cleared My Mind have grown increasingly abstract yet remain resolutely autobiographical, with layers of vibrant hues and determined brushstrokes visualizing how past and present coexist—her evolving identity as a female immigrant navigating two cultures, passages of joy tempered by longing and nostalgia.
Fahey/Klein Gallery | Hollywood
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere
On view through March 21, 2026
From the March on Washington to the set of The Godfather, Steve Schapiro spent six decades bearing witness to history as it unfolded. Being Everywhere celebrates the extraordinary career of one of America’s most significant photojournalists, whose images of the Civil Rights Movement, Hollywood film sets, and quiet human moments on the margins of society form a sweeping visual record of modern American life.
PACE Gallery | Mid-Wilshire
Lauren Quin: Eyelets of Alkaline
On view through March 28, 2026
What she describes as a “detox of color” drives Lauren Quin’s first solo show with Pace. In Eyelets of Alkaline, dense tonal fields of blacks and greys are haloed by bleachfields of fugitive color—brilliant hues that persist as echoes, sedimented and worked into atmospheres, marking a decisive rupture in Quin’s practice.
Los Angeles Public Library | DTLA
Central 100: Celebrating a Century of the Light of Learning
On view in the Getty Gallery through 2026
One hundred years ago, the Los Angeles Central Library opened its doors in downtown LA. Central 100 unfolds as a yearlong celebration through five exhibitions bringing together photographs, architectural drawings, and archival ephemera that chart the planning, construction, and ongoing evolution of this landmark civic project designed by Bertram Goodhue—a building envisioned as more than a place to house books.
Nicodim | Arts District, DTLA
The Body Does Not Explain Itself: Group Exhibition
On view through March 21, 2026
Something is wrong with the figures. Not broken—altered. Across the gallery, bodies appear mid-thought, mid-injury, mid-revelation in this group exhibition featuring eleven artists including Nicola Samorì, Daniel Pitín, and Liang Fu. Anatomy is stretched, compressed, or interrupted—the body treated not as ideal or metaphor, but as something lived-in, vulnerable to distortion, memory, longing, and repetition.
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) | Long Beach
Interlaced Communities: Indigenous Maya Art from Guatemala
On view through March 1, 2026
Challenging narratives that sensationalize the Maya as people rooted in the past, Interlaced Communities brings together works by ten Indigenous artists from four Maya communities in Guatemala. The Tz’utujil and Kaqchikel painters—among the most important in the country—express and transmit their cultures by capturing traditions, daily experiences, worldviews, and the natural environment of the Guatemalan Highlands.
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