This Week in LA: March. 12→18
In this Edition: Colonial Legacies, Salvaged Language, and Skateboard Culture — Photography, Sculpture, and Installation Across LA
This week’s exhibitions move between memory and material, capturing light on film, language in salvaged letters, and identity pressed into glass, land, and rhythm. At ROSEGALLERY, Renee Royale and Binh Danh contend with how bodies, land, and memory are shaped by power through a two-person show grounded in colonial legacies and extraction. Ruby Bell’s Glow at Leica Gallery finds the luminescent energy of her subjects behind the scenes on motion shoots — from music videos to galas to narrative films. And Craft in America opens Vehicles of Expression, a landmark exhibition presenting the skateboard as material culture and handcrafted artistic expression.
Robert Barry turns 90, and Timothy Hawkinson Gallery celebrates with Another Time..., where the conceptual art legend’s newest paintings remain generously open-ended — inviting audiences into their own reveries on time. JR’s first solo show at Perrotin Los Angeles, Horizons, draws from border walls, prison yards, and city facades across California to explore visibility, community, and the shifting meaning of perspective. At Regen Projects, Jack Pierson’s Curtains foregrounds his decades-long investigation into the poetic and ironic qualities of language through word sculptures and seventy dreamlike works on paper. And Berta Fischer’s shimmering suspended sculptures at James Fuentes Gallery transform transparency, color, and spatial perception into an ever-changing visual experience.
Explore this week’s full lineup below and find what moves you!
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ROSEGALLERY | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Binh Danh & Renee Royale
March 14 – April 25, 2026
@rosegallery.official
Through materially driven processes and historically grounded imagery, Renee Royale and Binh Danh examine colonial legacies and systems of extraction, contending with how bodies, land, and memory are shaped by power.
Leica Gallery | West Hollywood
Ruby Bell: Glow
On view through April 13, 2026
@leicagalleryla
In Glow, Ruby Bell captures the luminescent energy of her subjects behind the scenes on motion shoots—across music videos, fashion sets, galas, and narrative films—exploring the interplay between what light reveals and what shadow obscures.
Craft in America | West Hollywood
Vehicles of Expression: The Craft of the Skateboard
March 14 – May 30, 2026
@craftinamerica
Vehicles of Expression is one of the first exhibitions to substantively present skateboards as material culture and handcrafted objects of artistic expression, celebrating arguably LA’s biggest cultural export through the artistry and history of the handmade, handshaped board.
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery | West Hollywood
Robert Barry: Another Time...
On view through April 4, 2026
@timothyhawkinsongallery
Coinciding with his 90th birthday, Robert Barry’s newest paintings in Another Time... reference time while remaining generously open-ended—inviting audiences into their own musings and reveries across six decades of a storied career in conceptual art.
Perrotin | Mid-Wilshire
JR: Horizons
March 12 – April 25, 2026
@perrotin
In Horizons, JR’s first solo exhibition at Perrotin Los Angeles, four bodies of work created across California—from border installations near Tecate to prison yards in Tehachapi—underscore the artist’s enduring engagement with visibility, memory, and community.
YSASI Gallery | West Adams
Zé Tepedino: Keep This Between Us
On view through April 28, 2026
@casa.ysasi
Brazilian artist Zé Tepedino centers Keep This Between Us on an immersive installation built from a 24-hour film captured during Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, layering the city’s sound with works spanning film, photography, and material experimentation across Ysasi Gallery and Espasso’s West Coast gallery.
LAUNCH LA | La Brea
Kiara Aileen Machado, Rebecca Nabarrete & Annie Marini-Genzon: El Viaje
March 14 – April 4, 2026
@launch_la
El Viaje brings together Kiara Aileen Machado, Rebecca Nabarrete, and Annie Marini-Genzon across painting, mixed media, and sculpture, considering journey not as a fixed destination but as an unfolding state of becoming—tracing memory, identity, and transformation through inherited histories and intimate narratives.
Regen Projects | Hollywood
Jack Pierson: Curtains
March 12 – April 18, 2026
@regenprojects
Jack Pierson’s Curtains pairs signature word sculptures crafted from vintage salvaged signage with a suite of seventy works on paper, foregrounding his decades-long investigation into the poetic, philosophical, and ironic qualities of language, nostalgia, and the search for beauty.
James Fuentes Gallery | Hollywood
Berta Fischer
On view through March 28, 2026
@james_fuentes_llc
Berta Fischer’s three monumental suspended sculptures in formed acrylic glass—shifting from green to shimmering silver to iridescent curves—join six smaller works in an ongoing exploration of transparency, color, and spatial perception that blurs the line between object and architecture.
ESMoA | El Segundo
Experience 69: PEACE
March 14 – September 12, 2026
@esmoaorg
Anchored by twelve lithographic portraits of Nobel Peace laureates—from Mandela to Malala—PEACE frames peacebuilding as an active, evolving process, juxtaposing Peter Badge’s global lens with Southern California artists responding to conflict, displacement, and resilience.
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