This Week in LA: Jan. 15→21
In this Edition: New Year, New Art — Fresh Gallery Shows to Kick Off 2026!
Welcome to the first full edition of LA Insider for 2026! After our holiday “Best Of” issues highlighting ongoing museum exhibitions, we’re back with a fresh slate of gallery shows to kick off the new year.
This week’s selections span photography, painting, ceramics, and multimedia work. At Peter Fetterman Gallery, a major William Klein exhibition captures the legendary photographer’s rebellious vision and raw embrace of street life. Megan Mulrooney debuts Annie Pendergrast’s abstracted still lifes, where flowers swell to near-cartoon proportions and patterned backgrounds heighten visual rhythm. Over at Regen Projects, Wolfgang Tillmans returns with new photographs, videos, and sculptural installations exploring the space between physical reality and spiritual concern. Make Room presents Paul Robas’s quietly haunting paintings that feel like photographs of family members you never had. At Gallery Luisotti, Ron Jude’s Low Tide photographs landscapes shaped by exposure and erosion, capturing brief moments when deep structures become visible. Luis De Jesus opens Griselda Rosas’s Veni, Vidi, Vici, transforming the language of conquest into an inquiry through embroidery, textiles, and monumental charcoal drawings. And at Cheremoya in Glassell Park, Zoe Alameda splits the gallery with a transparent barrier, her collaged paintings morphing as you move through the space.
New year, new art. Explore this week’s full lineup below and start 2026 inspired!
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Peter Fetterman Gallery | Santa Monica
William Klein: In Your Face!
On view through May 16, 2026
Rejecting polish in favor of grit, William Klein's In Your Face! captures the raw vitality of real life—its movement, unpredictability, and unscripted moments—across decades of groundbreaking work.
Megan Mulrooney | West Hollywood
Annie Pendergrast: Taut
On view through February 14, 2026
Simultaneously playful and controlled, Taut marks Annie Pendergrast's first solo exhibition with the gallery, presenting abstracted still lifes where decoration and craft are celebrated through precise gradients and graphic color combinations.
Nazarian/Curcio | Hollywood
Larissa Lockshin: Squall Line
On view through February 14, 2026
Taking its title from a rapidly advancing corridor of storms, Squall Line presents Larissa Lockshin's paintings on hand-dyed satin where botanical forms shimmer and reorient depending on the viewer's position and the natural fall of light.
Regen Projects | Hollywood
Wolfgang Tillmans: Keep Movin’
January 15 – March 1, 2026
In Keep Movin', Wolfgang Tillmans presents new photographs, videos, sculptural installations, and a new iteration of his ongoing Truth Study Center, exploring the space between the physical realities of the world and the sociopolitical, sensual, and spiritual concerns that anchor his practice.
James Fuentes Gallery | Hollywood
Cynthia Lahti: Trouble
On view through February 14, 2026
Ceramic figures—ranging from full body to fragmented limb—each contain an energy distinctly their own in Trouble, Cynthia Lahti’s first solo Los Angeles exhibition, where accumulating joys and fears settle into expressive form through the unpredictable firing process.
Make Room | Hollywood
Paul Robas: Almost There
On view through February 21, 2026
A painting that feels like a photograph of a family member you never had—this is the territory of Almost There, where Paul Robas holds onto fleeting moments and distorts them into universal experiences of memory and mortality.
Gallery Luisotti | DTLA
Ron Jude: Low Tide
On view through March 7, 2026
As the ocean surface recedes, terrestrial and marine systems compress into a single visual field. Ron Jude’s Low Tide photographs these brief moments when deep structures become visible, foregrounding tension, instability, and duration.
Luis De Jesus | DTLA
Griselda Rosas: Veni, Vidi, Vici
On view through February 28, 2026
Who authors history, and how might those narratives be rethreaded toward repair? Griselda Rosas poses these questions in Veni, Vidi, Vici, transforming the historic Latin phrase from a declaration of victory into an inquiry through embroidery, textiles, and monumental charcoal drawings.
Wönzimer Gallery | Chinatown / Lincoln Heights
Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities: Group Exhibition
On view through January 30, 2026
From Frank Gehry’s iconic Wiggle Chair to Shigeru Ban’s humanitarian architecture, Cardboard: Infinite Possibilities brings together twelve artists who transform this humble material into vehicles for innovation and metaphor, curated by Ann Weber.
Cheremoya | Glassell Park
Zoe Alameda: It Takes Two Wrongs To Make It Right
On view through January 31, 2026
A transparent barrier splits the room, its crooked spine bracing a surface scratched with drawings that only reveal themselves in passing light. Zoe Alameda’s collaged paintings straddle both sides, morphing as you circle the divide.
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