This Week in LA: Jan. 22→28
In this Edition: Space, Light, and Self-Reflection Across LA Galleries
This week’s exhibitions ask us to look closer—at the cosmos, at the city, and at ourselves. At Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Jay DeFeo’s Space Exploration investigates space as both cosmic expanse and site of perceptual inquiry through radiating forms and central voids. Karma surveys Norman Zammitt’s laminated-acrylic pole sculptures and striated Band Paintings, the result of mathematical and spiritual inquiries into how light and color interact in perception. Over at Good Mother Gallery, RABI brings his provocative street intervention We Buy Souls into the gallery for the first time—a dark satire on faith, finance, and the commodification of identity. David Kordansky Gallery presents Sayre Gomez’s Precious Moments, an ambitious exhibition of photorealistic paintings and sculptures examining nostalgia, mortality, and what our built environment reveals about our values. At Roberts Projects, Amoako Boafo constructs a full-scale replica of his Accra studio to house new portraits exploring how home and community shape identity. And Night Gallery debuts Farley Aguilar’s Into the Reflection, where archival images become fluorescent portraits of our evolving obsession with the self.
Dive into this week’s full lineup below and plan your gallery route!
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Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills
Jay DeFeo: Space Exploration
On view through February 28, 2026
A central concern in Jay DeFeo’s oeuvre—the investigation of space as both cosmic expanse and site of perceptual inquiry—anchors Space Exploration, featuring works on paper and select paintings from 1975 to 1989 where radiating forms, central voids, and finely calibrated graphite fields evoke stellar phenomena.
Karma | West Hollywood
Norman Zammitt: A Degree of Light
On view through February 14, 2026
Laminated-acrylic pole sculptures and striated Band Paintings come together in A Degree of Light, surveying Norman Zammitt’s quest to capture how light and color interact in perception—the result of mathematical, formal, and spiritual inquiries shaped by the skies of Los Angeles and New Mexico.
Good Mother Gallery | West Adams
RABI: We Buy Souls
On view through February 14, 2026
For four years, signs advertising “We Buy Souls” appeared across Los Angeles, directing people to a hotline where they could dictate the value of their soul. Now RABI (David Emanuel Mordechai Torres) brings this living artwork—equal parts installation, performance, and dark satire—into the gallery for the first time.
David Kordansky Gallery | Mid-Wilshire
Sayre Gomez: Precious Moments
On view through March 1, 2026
One of contemporary art’s keenest observers of American urban life, Sayre Gomez presents large-scale photorealistic paintings, meticulous sculptures, and new video works in Precious Moments, examining the fetishization of youth and nostalgia as a response to mortality and the ways our built environment reveals what we value as a society.
Roberts Projects | Mid-Wilshire
Amoako Boafo: I Bring Home with Me
On view through March 21, 2026
An architectural re-creation of Amoako Boafo’s Accra studio, built to scale inside the gallery, houses new paintings in I Bring Home with Me—an immersive exploration of how community and cultural background shape the artist’s celebrated portraits of Black subjects.
Charlie James Gallery | Chinatown
Israel Campos: Echoes
On view through February 14, 2026
Mexican folklore folds into the fabric of Los Angeles in Echoes, where Israel Campos excavates the city’s layered cultural histories through combined painting and screenprinting, adapting pre-Columbian stylistic conventions to illuminate the figures, stories, and myths that echo through time.
Night Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Farley Aguilar: Into the Reflection
On view through March 7, 2026
Archival images become surreal, fluorescent oils in Into the Reflection, where Farley Aguilar introduces anachronistic elements—a cell phone in a pasture, blue nail polish in a mid-century salon—to examine humanity’s evolving obsession with the self and the violence of constant self-surveillance.
Keystone Art Space | Glassell Park
Sylvia Feliz Sewell: Future Perfect
On view through January 25, 2026
The desert landscape reimagined through a post-apocalyptic lens: Sylvia Feliz Sewell’s Future Perfect envisions a future where ecological systems have collapsed and the desert survives only through acts of preservation and remembrance, combining translucent resin with cactus fibers, minerals, and other gathered traces.
The Pit | Atwater
Bella Foster: Flowers and Mushrooms
On view through March 5, 2026
Known for her luminous interiors and intimate still lifes, Bella Foster captures the magic of ordinary spaces with rare tenderness in Flowers and Mushrooms, where blooms appear alongside fungi, light filters through interiors, and human presence lingers in traces—framed photographs, a bowl of citrus, a vase.
de boer | East LA
Athletes and Spectators: Group Exhibition
On view through February 14, 2026
Four international painters interrogate the physical, psychological, and cultural architectures of performance in Athletes and Spectators, reframing the familiar roles of athlete and spectator as intertwined modes of seeing, striving, and being seen.
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