This Week in LA: March 26→April 1
In this Edition: Repair as Metaphor, Grunge on Film, and Art in the Desert — Painting, Photography, and Collecting Across LA
This week’s exhibitions stretch from Santa Monica to the Mojave — bound feet and abstract cords, grunge photography, visionary collecting, and art in the desert. At Nüart Gallery, Sunny Taylor’s Connections transforms the overlooked surfaces of the built environment into materially driven abstractions where repair operates as both process and metaphor. Louis Stern Fine Arts presents Ties Unbound, tracing the evolution of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting from semi-autobiographical figuration to the meandering abstract forms of her Tangles and Ties series, where sinuous cords visualize the conflicting obligations of identity and longing.
Over at Musichead Gallery, Come As You Are gathers eight acclaimed photographers — including three who documented the early Seattle scene — to capture the rise of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains from intimate clubs to larger stages. Hauser & Wirth celebrates fifty years of Eileen Harris Norton’s collecting with Destiny Is a Rose, presenting more than 80 works by Mark Bradford, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others. At Nicodim Gallery, June Canedo de Souza’s paintings in All top teeth knocked out at once demand sustained looking — built through furious excavation and meditative marking, they ask viewers to confront what surfaces in their own bodies. The Huntington Library presents Body and Landscape, tracing Laura Aguilar’s groundbreaking self-portraiture within the natural environments of Southern California and the Southwest. And the High Desert Art Fair returns to Pioneertown, transforming the historic motel into a weekend of galleries, artist talks, and unexpected encounters with art across the Mojave.
Head below for the full lineup — there’s plenty to see this week.
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Nüart Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Sunny Taylor: Connections
On view through April 11, 2026
@nuartgallery
In Connections, Sunny Taylor draws on the overlooked surfaces of the built environment — patched walls, eroded façades, layered paint — as a point of departure for a materially driven abstraction where repair operates as both process and metaphor, with compositions that appear excavated and reconstructed, registering transformation rather than resolution.
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Marshall Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Peter Wegner: Case Studies
March 28 – May 23, 2026
@marshall.gallery
Peter Wegner’s first exhibition in Los Angeles since 2012, Case Studies brings together the Berkeley-based, multi-disciplinary artist’s Color Wheels, Buildings Made of Sky, and the debut of a new series of stacked paper installations — vibrant explorations of color, form, and architecture compressed into precisely layered compositions.
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood
Mimi Chen Ting: Ties Unbound
March 28 – May 2, 2026
@louissternfinearts
Ties Unbound traces the stylistic evolution of Chinese American artist Mimi Chen Ting (1946–2022) from semi-autobiographical figuration to fluently expressive abstract painting, where sinuous, intertwined cords — evoking blood vessels or bindings — visualize the conflicting obligations of identity, duty, and longing across two decades of practice.
Musichead Gallery | Hollywood
Come As You Are: Grunge, Counterculture, and the Seattle Sound
On view through April 4, 2026
@musicheadgallery
Featuring the work of eight acclaimed photographers — including three who documented the early Seattle scene — Come As You Are takes viewers behind the scenes of the bands who blended punk, metal, and rock into a new sound, capturing the rise of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains from intimate clubs to larger stages.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) | Grand Avenue, DTLA
Good on Paper: Works from the Gene J. and Betye M. Burton Acquisitions Endowment
On view through August 2, 2026
@moca
Good on Paper showcases pastels, collages, graphite drawings, prints, and watercolors by artists including Lee Bontecou, John Cage, Christine Sun Kim, and Hannah Wilke — drawn from an endowment founded in 1992 on the belief that works on paper can and should be seen as independent, ambitious works of art in their own right.
NOON Projects | Chinatown
David Shull: Where there is Great Love there are Always Great Miracles
On view through April 4, 2026
@noonprojects
David Shull’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings in Where there is Great Love there are Always Great Miracles span fifteen years of responsive interventions — working with dumbed-down materials like bedsheets, wallpaper backing, and bar resin to navigate the space between campy sentimentality and genuine feeling, sincerity and cheekiness.
Hauser & Wirth | Arts District, DTLA
Destiny Is a Rose: The Eileen Harris Norton Collection
On view through August 16, 2026
@hauserwirth
Marking fifty years since Eileen Harris Norton’s first acquisition, Destiny Is a Rose presents more than 80 works from her holdings — featuring Mark Bradford, David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Betye Saar, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others — celebrating the connoisseurship and commitment to social justice that define one of LA’s most visionary collectors.
Nicodim Gallery | Arts District, DTLA
June Canedo de Souza: All top teeth knocked out at once
March 28 – May 9, 2026
@nicodimgallery
June Canedo de Souza’s paintings in All top teeth knocked out at once are not meant for short gazes — built through furious excavation, unrestrained circular gesture, and meditative marking, they invite viewers into a liminal space where the emotional response becomes the only thing left standing in front of the oil paint on canvas.
Aabee Bleue Project | Arts District, DTLA
Ardeshir Tabrizi: Rise
March 28 – April 25, 2026
@aabeebleueproject
Shaped by his father’s battle with lung cancer, Ardeshir Tabrizi’s Rise engages deeply with the body and its vulnerability — with central figures floating upward into layered spaces that nod to Magritte, while motifs drawn from Persian and Indian miniatures connect past and present, personal and collective, in paintings that feel both intimate and open.
The Huntington Library | San Marino
Laura Aguilar: Body and Landscape
On view through September 7, 2026
@thehuntingtonlibrary
Drawn from recent acquisitions from the artist’s estate, Body and Landscape traces Laura Aguilar’s groundbreaking use of self-portraiture within the natural environments of Southern California and the Southwest — reframing the Western landscape as a site of personal power, resilience, and reclamation through her Chicana, queer identity.
High Desert Art Fair | Pioneertown
March 28 – 29, 2026
@highdesertartfair
The High Desert Art Fair returns to Pioneertown for a weekend of galleries, artist talks, and special programming across the Mojave — as galleries and publishers from across California take over the historic Pioneertown Motel rooms and surrounding spaces for exhibitions, conversations, and unexpected encounters with art in the desert.
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