This Week in LA: Jan. 29→Feb. 4
In this Edition: Five Decades of Photography, Four Decades of Drawing, and Histories Reclaimed
This week’s exhibitions look back to move forward—mining memory, history, and personal archives to illuminate where we are now. And they stretch far and wide, from Santa Monica to downtown LA to Riverside.
At Von Lintel Gallery, Anthony Friedkin’s Ex Post Facto brings together five decades of black-and-white photography chronicling surfing, gay life, and Hollywood, with Los Angeles itself as a generative force. M+B presents James Morse’s Prairie Cloth & Northern Pine, where childhood memory meets geometric abstraction and a life lived between carpentry and wilderness exploration. Over at Louis Stern Fine Arts, The Work is Never Finished honors Dr. Samella Lewis, whose prints and drawings channeled fury at racial injustice into symbolic visual expression. ICA LA continues Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s first US solo exhibition—four decades of drawings confronting subjugation through an ecofeminist sensibility steeped in myth. At Wolfpack HQ in Gardena, Zoe Koke engages landscape as a site of psychic projection alongside works by Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican. And at Riverside Art Museum / The Cheech, Black Brown in the Inland Empire and Beyond uplifts artists responding to the layered histories of redlining, segregation, and migration.
Explore this week’s full lineup below and plan your gallery visits!
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Von Lintel Gallery | Santa Monica
Anthony Friedkin: Ex Post Facto
On view through March 7, 2026
For more than five decades, Anthony Friedkin has used the camera as a tool of personal discovery, embedding himself within the worlds he photographs. Ex Post Facto brings together selections from his most significant essays—The Gay Essay, The Surfing Essay, the Hollywood series—where Los Angeles itself remains a generative force, structuring how bodies move, how desire circulates, and how joyful living and risky business blur endlessly together.
M+B Gallery | West Hollywood
James Morse: Prairie Cloth & Northern Pine
On view through February 21, 2026
The act of looking backward becomes a methodology for moving forward in James Morse’s Prairie Cloth & Northern Pine. Working from his studio in Northport, Michigan, the artist mines the accumulated sediment of a life lived between multiple practices—carpentry, furniture making, wilderness exploration—to produce paintings that collapse temporal and spatial hierarchies with surprising fluency.
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood
The Work is Never Finished: Prints, Drawings, and Paintings by Samella Lewis
On view through March 7, 2026
Artist, educator, activist, and art historian Dr. Samella Lewis (1923–2022) conducted most of her career in service of others—yet her own artwork she made for herself. The Work is Never Finished presents prints, drawings, and paintings that channel her fury at racial injustice into symbolic visual expression, representing collective portraits of outrage, sorrow, and hope.
DMST Atelier | West Adams
Joseph Sherman: SIKE!
On view through March 7, 2026
Named for the slang word used to take back a statement at the last second, SIKE! adopts this logic as a way of thinking about how work is seen—setting up moments of belief that are later reversed through closer looking. Joseph Sherman’s collages built from yearbook photographs, encaustic paintings, and sculpture examine repetition, labor, and materiality, treating the grid not as neutral organizer but as material to be disrupted and rebuilt.
Rele Gallery | Hollywood
Eye Candy: Jite Agbro and Austin Uzor
On view through February 14, 2026
Color draws the viewer in before unfolding into richer, more intricate stories in Eye Candy. Jite Agbro explores self-protection through non-verbal communication, clothing, and gesture, while Austin Uzor navigates the tension between having a home and feeling homeless through immersive, cinematic compositions that reconstruct spaces once familiar but now unrecognizable. Image:
Nonaka Hill | Hollywood
Koichi Enomoto: Broadcasting / Dreaming
On view through February 14, 2026
Through his dual employment of manga and photorealism, Koichi Enomoto exposes the social behavior and ideologies undergirding Japanese—and by extension, all contemporary—culture. In Broadcasting / Dreaming, the Kanagawa-based artist derives his paintings from the rush of daily news, rendering them dense meditations on society’s ills with effects both cutting and humorous.
Royale Projects | DTLA
Michael Todd: Primary Objects
On view through February 28, 2026
Mortality, sensuality, and the nature of being alive are compounded and neutralized in rounded planes and angled surfaces. In Primary Objects, Michael Todd returns to works first created in 1960s Paris and New York—objects he calls fetishes—and reexamines the echoes of their original intent, with intimate totems oscillating between the surreal and the carnal.
ICA LA | Arts District, DTLA
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes
On view through March 1, 2026
A fire beats within. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra’s first US solo exhibition features four decades of drawings alongside etchings, paintings, and accordion-like paper sculptures exploring the relationship between the human body and the physical, psychological, and political landscapes it inhabits—confronting subjugation and censorship through an ecofeminist sensibility steeped in myth and mystery.
Wolfpack HQ | Gardena
Zoe Koke: Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower
On view through February 28, 2026
Alongside works by Luchita Hurtado and Lee Mullican, Zoe Koke presents paintings, drawings, photography, and sculpture that engage landscape and materiality as sites of psychic projection. In Blue Sky and Yellow Sunflower, the natural world becomes a medium of inner life, where landforms erode, dissolve, and reassemble, mirroring how human systems mark, exploit, and mythologize the earth.
Riverside Art Museum / The Cheech | Riverside
Black Brown in the Inland Empire and Beyond: Group Exhibition
On view through March 15, 2026
Born out of workshops led by local historians and longtime Inland Empire residents, Black Brown in the Inland Empire and Beyond brings together artists who examined redlining, segregation, education inequity, and migration—creating work that responds directly to these historical truths and uplifts the voices of those who have long fought to be seen, heard, and remembered.
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