This Week in LA: July 16→22
In this Edition: Redon's Otherworldly Visions, Salvaged-Wood Totems, and a Summer of Love — Across LA
This week runs from the otherworldly to the everyday sublime — visionary dreamscapes, four-decade surveys, salvaged-wood totems, and a summer’s worth of longing spread across the city’s galleries. At the Getty Center, Otherworldly Visions gathers Odilon Redon’s charcoal noirs and luminous late pastels, the nineteenth-century Symbolist who drew flowers that seem to hover between botany and hallucination and mythologies pitched somewhere past waking. In Hollywood, Michael Kohn Gallery mounts Paintings 1982–2024, four decades of Mark Innerst’s shimmering, jewel-lit cityscapes and landscapes, where architecture and atmosphere dissolve into one another under a light that feels remembered rather than observed.
Over in West Hollywood, Regen Projects gives Alex Hubbard the room for Abstract or Regular?, poured and layered surfaces that treat abstraction as a process caught mid-decision — paint behaving like weather, resin like glass. Perrotin answers the season directly with Summerlove Sensation, a group show given over to youthful lust and longing, a dizzying affair with love itself; and at Nonaka-Hill, the late Brazilian-born Angeleno Kenzi Shiokava returns with the totemic assemblages he cut and carved from salvaged wood, railroad ties, and cast-off brooms — memory made vertical. Around them the week fills out with a Mexican modernist’s landscapes, seven artists reconsidering the Statue of Liberty’s contested promise, punch-cut paper, satirical flowers, and a historic downtown print gallery’s summer hang.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Getty Center | Brentwood, Los Angeles
Odilon Redon: Otherworldly Visions
On view through October 18, 2026
@gettymuseum
At the Getty Center, Otherworldly Visions gathers the charcoal noirs, lithographs, and luminous late pastels of Odilon Redon, the nineteenth-century French Symbolist who worked at the border between the seen and the dreamed. Flowers hover between botany and apparition, mythological figures surface from fields of velvety black, and color, when it finally arrives in the pastels, feels less like description than like light breaking through a closed eye. Free in the museum’s West Pavilion, the exhibition traces a career spent insisting that the imagination is a place one can actually go.
Michael Kohn Gallery | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Mark Innerst: Paintings 1982–2024
July 16 – August 28, 2026
@kohngallery
Michael Kohn Gallery mounts Paintings 1982–2024, a four-decade survey of Mark Innerst’s shimmering, jewel-lit cityscapes and landscapes, where skylines and shorelines dissolve into atmosphere under a light that feels remembered rather than observed. Innerst builds his surfaces in fine, granular layers — often within artist-made frames that seal each picture like a reliquary — so that a river, a bridge, or a stand of trees registers as both crisp and half-hallucinated. Across the decades the work holds a single conviction: that a painting can slow the city down until it glows.
Regen Projects | West Hollywood
Alex Hubbard: Abstract or Regular?
On view through August 15, 2026
@regenprojects
Regen Projects gives Alex Hubbard the room for Abstract or Regular?, new paintings in which poured pigment, resin, and layered gesture are caught mid-decision — abstraction treated less as a finished style than as a process still visibly happening. Hubbard lets his materials behave like weather, pooling and skinning over and pulling against the support, so that each surface reads as a record of the forces that made it. The result is painting that keeps asking its own title’s question and refuses to settle on an answer.
Perrotin | Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
Summerlove Sensation
July 18 – August 28, 2026
@perrotin
Perrotin answers the season head-on with Summerlove Sensation, a group exhibition given over to youthful love, lust, and longing — what the gallery calls a dizzying affair with love itself. Across media and generations, the assembled artists chase the heat and comedy of desire, from the first glance to the inevitable heartbreak, in a show engineered for the particular delirium of a Los Angeles summer. It is light on its feet and unashamed of it.
Nonaka-Hill | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Kenzi Shiokava
On view through August 1, 2026
@nonakahillgallery
Nonaka-Hill stages its second exhibition of Kenzi Shiokava, the late Brazilian-born Angeleno who spent decades transforming salvaged wood, railroad ties, and discarded brooms into totemic sculptures that stand somewhere between guardian figure and grave marker. Carved, charred, and bound, his columns carry the memory of the streets they came from — South Los Angeles lumber and cast-offs raised to the vertical dignity of the sacred. Shown here in concentrated form, the totems feel less made than summoned.
Also On View
Bergamot Station
Say it with Flowers — Jean Lowe · Craig Krull Gallery · Through August 29, 2026 · @craigkrullgallery
West Hollywood
Cordillera Mexicana — Alfredo Ramos Martínez · Louis Stern Fine Arts · July 18 – September 19, 2026 · @louissternfinearts
Mid-Wilshire
Tell me if you want to go — Timothy Hawkinson Gallery · Through July 31, 2026 · @timothyhawkinsongallery
Hollywood
The Death of Beauty — David Daigle · Track 16 · July 18 – September 5, 2026 · @track16gallery
From Now On — Group Show · Morán Morán · Through August 15, 2026 · @moranmorangallery
Silver Lake
A Project on Intuition — Group Show · FOYER-LA · Through August 22, 2026 · @foyer_la
Highland Park
Proscenium — Luke Forsyth · Feia · Opens July 18, 2026 · @feia.studio
DTLA
Liberty Enlightening the World — Group Show · Patricia Sweetow Gallery · July 18 – August 22, 2026 · @patriciasweetowgallery
Stretto — Matthew Sweesy · Cirrus Gallery · Through August 30, 2026 · @cirrusgallery
Glassell Park
Accent Builders — Group Show · Dominique Porter Gallery · Through August 15, 2026 · @dominiqueportergallery
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