This Week in LA: March 19→25
In this Edition: Four Decades of Avery, Solar-Powered Installations, and the Art of the Doomscroll — Painting, Sculpture, and Immersive Work Across LA
This week’s exhibitions move between figuration and fabrication, memory and the mechanics of modern life — from mid-century portraiture to AI-driven installations that breathe with the sun. At Karma, The Figure offers the first full-scale survey of Milton Avery’s figurative paintings, spanning four decades of a career devoted to distilling the human condition through color, line, and light. Over at Jeffrey Deitch, Marco Perego’s The Being transforms the gallery into a living organism — an immersive installation that captures visitors’ emotions, syncs with real-time solar data, and releases the scent of petrichor when two people synchronize their breathing.
David Zwirner presents Notes from LA, a long-overdue homecoming for the late Raymond Saunders, whose layered paintings — worked over with chalk, crayons, children’s drawings, and scrawling text — embody decades of material experimentation and political conviction. At Luis De Jesus, Joshua Nazario Lugo makes his solo debut outside Puerto Rico with Allá Afuera, channeling the island’s vibrant culture through energetic brushwork and juxtapositions of concrete with symbols of luxury. And at Night Gallery, Christine Tien Wang and Rachel Youn’s Factory Doomscroll traps the artifacts of instant gratification in amber — photorealistic meme paintings alongside repurposed massage devices locked in tireless, pleasure-seeking labor.
Dive into this week’s full lineup below.
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Karma | West Hollywood
Milton Avery: The Figure
On view through April 11, 2026
@karmakarma9
The first full-scale survey devoted to Milton Avery’s figurative paintings, The Figure spans four decades of the artist’s career—from his arrival in New York in the 1920s through his final canvases in 1964—revealing a quiet but acute observer of the human condition whose distillation of color, line, and light conveyed a palpable intimacy with the people who filled his life.
1301PE | Miracle Mile
Paul Winstanley: Utility
On view through April 4, 2026
@1301pe
In Utility, Paul Winstanley returns to familiar themes—veiled window views onto nature, empty lobbies, graffitied walkways—creating vacant interiors suspended in time that calmly yet insistently question how images, spaces, and meaning are produced across four decades of painting.
Jeffrey Deitch | Hollywood
Marco Perego: The Being
On view through April 4, 2026
@jeffreydeitchgallery
Marco Perego’s The Being is an immersive installation that observes and reacts to visitors’ emotional states—capturing facial expressions, syncing with real-time solar data, and releasing the scent of petrichor when two people synchronize their breathing, suggesting a form of shared consciousness that extends beyond the span of a human life.
David Zwirner | Hollywood
Raymond Saunders: Notes from LA
On view through April 25, 2026
@davidzwirner
Celebrating Raymond Saunders’s deep ties to California, Notes from LA features paintings and works on paper that embody the late artist’s distinct material and conceptual concerns—from black-ground compositions worked over with white chalk to canvases layered with crayons, children’s drawings, and scrawling text across decades of practice.
Marciano Art Foundation | Miracle Mile
Pretenzione Intenzione: Objects of Beauty and Bewilderment from the Archive of Harald Szeemann
On view through April 11, 2026
@marcianoartfoundation
Presented in collaboration with artist Una Szeemann, Pretenzione Intenzione brings together strange and indecipherable objects left behind in legendary curator Harald Szeemann’s studio—from a black flag to a silver spoon encased in resin—traces of a mental landscape of artistic thoughts and philosophies he called his Museum of Obsessions.
Luis De Jesus | Arts District, DTLA
Joshua Nazario Lugo: Allá Afuera (Out There)
On view through April 11, 2026
@luisdejesuslosangeles
Joshua Nazario Lugo’s first solo exhibition outside Puerto Rico, Allá Afuera draws from the longest period the self-taught artist has spent away from the island—presenting new paintings and sculptures that celebrate Puerto Rican culture through a vibrant palette, energetic brushwork, and juxtapositions of locally sourced materials with symbols of luxury.
de boer | DTLA
Layo Bright: Altar Ego
On view through April 11, 2026
@deboergallery
Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based artist Layo Bright transforms sculpture into an altar-like space in Altar Ego, where signature bloom forms, hourglass works, and large glass-tiled busts explore the emotional terrain of grief, endurance, and renewal—surfaces shimmering and rupturing as personal loss becomes communal reflection.
Night Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
Christine Tien Wang & Rachel Youn: Factory Doomscroll
On view through April 4, 2026
@nightgallery
Factory Doomscroll pairs Christine Tien Wang’s photorealistic paintings of internet memes with Rachel Youn’s sculptures of repurposed massage devices and baby rockers—both artists trapping objects designed for instant gratification in a kind of amber, archiving the absurd rituals through which we attempt to soothe ourselves into oblivion.
The Pit | Atwater Village
Jennifer King: Persistence of Vision
March 21 – April 30, 2026
@thepitla
Jennifer King’s twelve new ceramic works in Persistence of Vision explore the vase as a historically significant object of storytelling and adornment—pushing the vessel into a deconstructed, broken state, imagined as a relic forgotten in a garden and gradually overgrown, with figurative elements introducing ambiguity and dreamlike surrealism.
The Hilbert Museum of California Art | Chapman University, Orange
Jørgen Klubien at Disney and Pixar
On view through October 4, 2026
@hilbertmuseum
From The Little Mermaid and The Lion King to Cars, for which he was co-creator and screenwriter, Jørgen Klubien’s lively sketches and storyboards reveal animation at its most essential stage—ideas taking form, characters discovering themselves, and entire worlds being imagined on paper during one of the most important creative eras in the history of Disney and Pixar.
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