This Week in LA: June 18→24
In this Edition: Yoko Ono at The Broad, the Sound of Gordon Parks, Gerald Jackson's Rooftop Paintings, and more across LA's galleries
This week runs from intimate paint to the physical weight of language and sound. Nazarian / Curcio shows Gabe Cortese's House Guest — some twenty small, closely observed paintings whose domestic narrative unspools room by room, charged with the unease of being a guest in someone else's space. Not too far away, Parker Gallery presents Gerald Jackson's The Rooftop Paintings at 255 Bowery, improvisatory canvases made in the open air on a downtown New York roof, gathered now as a quiet act of recovery for a long-overlooked painter.
Downtown, the week turns conceptual: The Broad stages Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the most expansive West Coast account yet of an artist who built six decades of work from instructions, scores, and silences handed to the viewer to complete, while Patricia Sweetow Gallery lets Thomas Müller loose with what then pig, a barnyard of small pink ceramic pigs grappling with punctuation and letterforms in a deadpan meditation on the sheer physical weight of words. And just south, at the California African American Museum, The Sound of Gordon Parks uncovers the composer hidden inside the photographer — orchestral works, film scores, and rare demo recordings that reveal a creative life lived as much in the ear as in the eye.
The full lineup is below.
On View Now
Nazarian / Curcio | Hollywood, Los Angeles
House Guest: Gabe Cortese
On view through July 11, 2026
@nazariancurcio
At Nazarian / Curcio, Gabe Cortese’s House Guest gathers some twenty intimately scaled paintings whose narrative unspools across the room rather than within any single frame — a domestic story told in glimpses and held breath. Cortese works small and close, letting the modest dimensions concentrate the tension: interiors and figures that feel observed rather than staged, charged with the particular unease of being a guest in someone else’s space. After the week’s larger institutional voices, the show offers a deliberate contraction of scale, a reminder that a quiet painting can hold as much as a museum wing.
Parker Gallery | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Gerald Jackson: The Rooftop Paintings at 255 Bowery
On view through August 15, 2026
@parker.gallery
Parker Gallery turns its Hollywood space over to Gerald Jackson’s The Rooftop Paintings at 255 Bowery — a body of canvases made, as the title says, on a Bowery rooftop, carrying the looseness and light of work produced in the open air rather than the studio. Jackson’s improvisatory abstractions read as records of their own making, gesture and color layered with the freedom of painting done outside the usual systems. The exhibition gathers them as a quiet act of recovery, restoring a long-overlooked painter to view.
The Broad | DTLA
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind
On view through October 11, 2026
@thebroadmuseum
The most comprehensive survey of Yoko Ono’s work yet seen on the West Coast, Music of the Mind traces six decades of an art built less from objects than from instructions — scores, event scripts, films, and participatory works that hand the act of completion to the viewer. Moving from her early Fluxus circle to the global peace campaigns, the exhibition treats language and sound as sculptural material, a practice in which a single typed sentence can be a composition and silence is something to be performed. The Broad frames Ono not as a footnote to a more famous life but as one of the most radical conceptual artists of her generation — an argument made in whispers, instructions, and the open invitation to imagine.
Patricia Sweetow Gallery | DTLA
Thomas Müller: what then pig
On view through July 11, 2026
@patriciasweetowgallery
At Patricia Sweetow Gallery, Thomas Müller’s what then pig lets loose a covey of small pink ceramic pigs locked in struggle with punctuation, letterforms, and the stray symbols of written language — the artist’s continued inquiry into the physicality of words. The pigs are deadpan stand-ins for human chaos, gifted with reason yet bound to greed and impulse, and it is never quite clear whether they are the victims of language or its willing accomplices. Müller, who chairs the 3D art program at USC, renders the absurd with a sculptor’s precision, turning a barnyard joke into a quietly unsettling meditation on how meaning gets made and unmade.
California African American Museum | Exposition Park, Los Angeles
The Sound of Gordon Parks
On view through September 13, 2026
@caaminla
Best known as the photographer who chronicled mid-century Black American life, Gordon Parks was also a composer — and The Sound of Gordon Parks is the first exhibition to take that side of him seriously. Developed with the Gordon Parks Foundation and Mario Sprouse, Parks’s longtime musical assistant, the show fills the museum with orchestral works, film scores, and rarely heard demo recordings, building an immersive soundscape around a creative life lived as much in the ear as in the eye. Curated by Justen LeRoy, it reframes a familiar figure as a multidisciplinary artist whose images, it turns out, always had a score running underneath.
Hospital of Emotions — Now On View in Los Angeles
A building within the St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus has been transformed into a living museum of human emotion. Hospital of Emotions brings together 70 artists across 80 rooms and four floors, each room dedicated to a single emotion — from joy and love to fear, anger, hope, sadness, gratitude, and resilience. The artists work with the existing architecture — corridors, patient rooms, operating theatres, and nurses’ stations — so that the hospital itself becomes part of the artwork.
Presented by House of Art and Dreams with ROYVA Group and the St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus. Currently on view for a limited time at 2131 W. 3rd Street, Los Angeles. Tickets and information at hospitalofemotions.com.
Also On View
Bergamot Station
Spectrum Gestalt 2026
Group Show · bG Gallery · Through July 11, 2026
@bggallery
West Hollywood
Entwine
Marques Hanalei Marzan · Craft in America Center · Through September 12, 2026
@craftinamericaThe Artist’s Game
Fabian Perez Gallery · June 13 – August 1, 2026
@fabianperezgallery
Hollywood
Celestial Observations
Terran Last Gun · Diane Rosenstein Gallery · Through July 11, 2026
@dianerosensteinYES and LA DUST
Urs Fischer · Jeffrey Deitch · June 19 – August 8, 2026
@jeffreydeitchgallery
Mid-Wilshire
Lo que queda (What Remains)
Erina Libertad · Hannah Sloan · June 20 – August 1, 2026
@hannahsloan_curatorial
Mid-City
Phantom, Still
Group Show · Michael Benevento · Through August 8, 2026
@michaelbeneventogallery
Chinatown
On The Edge
Barbara Carrasco · Charlie James Gallery · June 19 – July 18, 2026 · @charliejamesgallery
Glassell Park
James Castle / John Joseph Mitchell
Philip Martin Gallery · June 20 – July 25, 2026
@philipmartingallery
Atwater Village
Garden Show
Group Show · The Pit · Through August 30, 2026
@thepitla
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