This Week in LA: July 31→Aug. 6
From Cosmic Visions to Asphalt Dreams in Los Angeles
As summer deepens in LA, the city's galleries are offering explorations of perception, memory, and our relationship to the world around us. This week brings us from Wilhelm Sasnal's meditations on Southern California's asphalt arteries at BLUM to Rodolfo Abularach's cosmic visions and iconic eye imagery at Marc Selwyn Fine Art. Whether you're drawn to the Grateful Dead's cultural legacy through three decades of photography at David Kordansky Gallery, the redefinition of abstraction by over thirty international artists at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, or the agricultural landscapes that sustain us in Gallery Luisotti's "Homeland Photography," there's a richness of perspectives awaiting discovery. From Gary Lang's hypnotic geometric sequences at Wilding Cran Gallery to Claire Colette's alchemical paintings at Night Gallery, this week celebrates artists who challenge how we see, remember, and connect with our environment. Time to dive deeper into LA's creative consciousness...
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Jeffrey Deitch Gallery | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: The Abstract Future
On view through August 2, 2025
Over thirty international artists redefine abstraction by merging sculpture, painting, photography, and performance, addressing themes of identity, culture, and politics while building upon California's rich abstract art legacy.
Perrotin | Los Angeles
Aya Takano: How Deep How Far We Can Go
On view through August 29, 2025
New paintings, drawings, and installations exploring memory, ancestral consciousness, and the timeless connection between all beings.
Sean Kelly | Los Angeles
Los Angeles Group Exhibition: Ground Work
On view through August 30, 2025
Fifteen artists respond to the material, psychic, and political dimensions of landscape, considering the trace as a radical gesture and foregrounding atmosphere, residue, and the weight of absence.
David Kordansky Gallery | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: An American Beauty: Grateful Dead 1965–1995
On view through August 16, 2025
A photographic journey through three decades of the iconic band, featuring 60 images by notable Grateful Dead photographers documenting both the performers and the Deadhead community that defined a cultural movement.
BLUM | Los Angeles
Wilhelm Sasnal: AAAsphalt
On view through August 2, 2025
The Polish artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery explores the iconography and visual lexicon of Southern California roadways through paintings that examine the complexities of black as both color and absence.
S P O N S O R E D
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills, Camden Annex
Rodolfo Abularach: A Cosmic Vision
On view through August 9, 2025
A spiritual world of planetary forms, mandalas, and psychological portals by one of Latin America's most significant yet under-recognized artists, featuring his iconic eye imagery as windows into the soul.
Wilding Cran Gallery | Los Angeles
Gary Lang: Squares
On view through August 2, 2025
A suite of square format paintings that pulse with color and vibrational energy, created through a meticulous process of layered, taped bands that reveal hypnotic sequences of luminous geometric abstraction.
Night Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Claire Colette: Shoot Forth Thunder
On view through August 22, 2025
Paintings on canvas and paper that merge organic and inorganic materials through ritualistic processes, creating alchemical conduits for material and supernatural energies with visual disruptions that serve as metaphorical thunderbolts.
Nicodim Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Daniel Pitín: Memories of a Deserted Island
On view through August 9, 2025
Dense, multi-layered paintings depicting a deserted island inhabited by beings that partially resemble humans in ordinary situations, exploring the boundary between illusion and reality through visions that resemble scientific experiments from the future.
Gallery Luisotti | DTLA
Group Exhibition: Homeland Photography
On view through August 30, 2025
Eight photographers focus their lenses on agricultural terrain in American and German contexts, revealing fundamental systems of food production and examining our cultural detachment from the land that sustains us.
S P O N S O R E D
Fabrik Projects | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Summer Group Show: Contemporary Visions
On view through August 2, 2025
Closing Reception: Saturday, August 2, 3–6pm
A dynamic survey of photography and mixed media works by 20 artists exploring how contemporary practitioners interpret, reconstruct, and reimagine the world around them.
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