This Week in LA: May 28→June 3
In this Edition: Shaker-Surrealist Sculpture, Six Decades of Ceramics, and a Marilyn Centennial Twice Over — New Exhibitions Across LA
This week spans from a Marilyn Monroe centennial twice over to wood-and-stained-glass sculptures shaped like Shaker furniture turned surreal, with six decades of daily ceramics, an anniversary group show, and Black metaphysics in between. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opens Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon on what would have been the actress’s centennial year — a long-run archive of screen-worn costumes, personal items, and rare material that treats the icon as a body of evidence rather than a single mythic image. Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica answers with a quieter photographic counterpoint, A Silent Life, gathering vintage prints that catch Monroe between performance and publicity.
Marciano Art Foundation presents Magdalena Suarez Frimkess’s Ninety-six and Pissed — six decades of small-scale ceramic practice gathered as an autobiography written in glaze. David Kordansky Gallery opens Evan Holloway’s Roygbiv, extending the sculptor’s long-running spectrum vocabulary into a new chromatic register. Sprüth Magers marks ten years in Los Angeles with 10 Years LA!, an anniversary group exhibition retracing a decade of programming through the artists who have anchored it. Vielmetter Los Angeles presents Edgar Arceneaux’s We Are Gods — his twelfth solo with the gallery, a sustained inquiry into Black metaphysics rendered across drawing, painting, and installation. And Nazarian / Curcio debuts Vincent Pocsik’s A Thousand Years, sixteen new sculptural works in wood, cast metals, stained glass, and fiber that draw on Shaker discipline and surrealist disjunction to recast utility as a kind of devotion.
The full lineup is below.
On View Now
Peter Fetterman Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Marilyn Monroe: A Silent Life
May 30 – September 5, 2026
Opening Reception: May 30, 2026, 2–6pm
A quieter centennial counterpoint to the Academy Museum’s archive exhibition (see below) arrives at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica — A Silent Life gathers vintage photographic prints of Marilyn Monroe across her career, foregrounding the moments between performance and publicity where Fetterman’s photographers caught the actress as a working subject rather than a constructed image. The gallery’s longstanding emphasis on humanist black-and-white photography frames the centennial through the printed image rather than the costumed object, and the contrast with the Academy Museum’s institutional presentation gives readers two distinct registers in which to encounter the same icon this week.
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills
Hilda D. Levy
On view through July 2, 2026
Marc Selwyn Fine Art’s Camden Annex presents a focused exhibition of Hilda D. Levy — a Cuban-born painter whose late-modernist abstraction has been quietly resurfacing in West Coast institutional and private conversations after decades of art-historical underexposure. Levy’s canvases negotiate biomorphic shape, hand-mixed pigment, and an Atlantic visual vocabulary that connects Caribbean modernism to mid-century American painting — the exhibition pairs naturally with the gallery’s concurrent Betty Lane presentation, suggesting an ongoing curatorial program of reframing under-recognized twentieth-century women painters.
Megan Mulrooney | West Hollywood
Flora Temnouche: A Room of One’s Own
On view through June 20, 2026
Flora Temnouche’s A Room of One’s Own at Megan Mulrooney’s East location continues the gallery’s three-concurrent-solo-show programming with a body of work that takes Virginia Woolf’s title as both armature and rebuke — paintings and works on paper that map the domestic interior as a site of refusal, attention, and slow making. Temnouche’s surfaces register the labor of looking — accumulated marks, scraped pigment, reconsidered compositions — and the show functions as a quiet but pointed argument for the kind of sustained interior attention that Woolf’s essay first named as a precondition for any serious creative practice.
Sprüth Magers | Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
10 Years LA! (Group Exhibition)
On view through August 8, 2026
Sprüth Magers marks a decade in Los Angeles with 10 Years LA!, an anniversary group exhibition that retraces ten years of gallery programming through the artists who have anchored it — Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, Sterling Ruby, Anne Imhof, and dozens more across painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Less a survey than a curated reunion, the exhibition functions as a portrait of a single gallery’s relationship to the city it landed in, threading transatlantic conceptualism into LA’s expanded studio practice and making visible — through the accumulation of individual works — what a decade of consistent programming actually looks like as a constellation.
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures | Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood Icon
May 31, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Opening on what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s centennial year, Hollywood Icon at the Academy Museum gathers screen-worn costumes, personal items, photographs, and rare archival material into the most comprehensive institutional reckoning with Monroe’s career and afterlife yet mounted in Los Angeles. Running nine months through next February, the exhibition treats the actress not as a single mythic image but as a material archive — wardrobe, correspondence, makeup, scripts — that registers the labor underneath the icon, and the cost of that labor as it accumulated across a fifteen-year career compressed into mass cultural memory.
Marciano Art Foundation | Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
Magdalena Suarez Frimkess: Ninety-six and Pissed
On view through July 18, 2026
Six decades of daily ceramic practice arrive at the Marciano Art Foundation in a long-run institutional survey — Ninety-six and Pissed gathers small-scale vessels, plates, and figurines that Magdalena Suarez Frimkess has hand-glazed since the 1960s, a body of work built without fanfare and refused as a single autobiographical accumulation rather than a conventional career retrospective. Born in 1929 in Venezuela and working in Los Angeles since the 1970s, Frimkess treats the kiln as a journal — daily pieces marked by Pop iconography, comic-book line, ancient pottery references, and a strain of unsentimental humor that the title makes explicit.
David Kordansky Gallery | Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
Evan Holloway: Roygbiv
On view through June 20, 2026
Evan Holloway’s Roygbiv extends a decades-long sculptural vocabulary into a new chromatic register — branching armatures rendered in tree-like geometries and figural fragments cast in plaster, ash, bronze, and pigment, each work carrying the artist’s signature negotiation between hand and system. Running alongside Hilary Pecis’s Love Letters in the gallery’s second space (now in its closing weeks), Roygbiv consolidates Holloway’s interest in color-as-structure rather than surface — the rainbow not as decoration but as armature, an ordering principle around which sculpture organizes itself.
Nazarian / Curcio | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Vincent Pocsik: A Thousand Years
May 30 – July 11, 2026
Vincent Pocsik’s second solo with Nazarian / Curcio debuts sixteen new sculptural works — wood, cast metals, stained glass, and fiber composed into hybrid forms that oscillate between Shaker discipline and surrealist disjunction, including the artist’s first functional pieces (a rocking chair, a standard chair, and umbrella-form stained-glass chandeliers suspended overhead). Drawing the exhibition title from a Shaker saying — do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live, and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow — Pocsik recasts utility as a kind of devotion, with elongated anthropomorphic structures and joinery-honest furniture pushing the discipline of craft into a more psychologically charged, irrational terrain.
Vielmetter Los Angeles | DTLA
Edgar Arceneaux: We Are Gods
On view through June 27, 2026
Edgar Arceneaux’s twelfth solo exhibition with Vielmetter Los Angeles arrives as a sustained inquiry rather than a single body of work — We Are Gods threads drawing, painting, installation, and text across the gallery’s spaces in pursuit of Black metaphysics as both subject and method. Building on Arceneaux’s longstanding interest in the intersections of cosmology, civil rights history, and material entropy, the exhibition locates the divine not in transcendence but in the labor of ordinary attention — with works that range from rust-stained canvases to recovered furniture rendered as ritual objects.
Wolfpack HQ | Gardena
Maki Meets Mullican
May 16 – June 13, 2026
Wolfpack HQ’s archive-exhibition series continues in Gardena with Maki Meets Mullican, a pairing that places photographic and printed material from the conceptualist Matt Mullican alongside work by the painter and printmaker Maki Na Kamura — two artists whose practices share a commitment to inventoried, sign-based vocabularies but diverge in their relationships to material and surface. The gallery’s commitment to long-form archive exhibitions makes Wolfpack HQ one of the more idiosyncratic stops on any LA gallery itinerary, and this pairing extends that reputation into a transcontinental encounter between two formally rigorous practices.
Also On View
Hollywood
Bix Archer: Bliss Maintenance — Bix Archer · Make Room · Through June 20, 2026
James Harrison: Meant for You — James Harrison · Overduin & Co. · Through June 13, 2026
Seffa Klein: Sleeves — Seffa Klein · Wilding Cran · Through July 4, 2026
Sandow Birk: Snafu — Sandow Birk · Track 16 (East Hollywood) · Through July 11, 2026
Silver Lake
Ellie Krakow: Comfort Corners — Ellie Krakow · FOYER-LA · Through June 27, 2026
DTLA
Summer Séance — Group Show · NICODIM · Through July 25, 2026
Glendale
Maryam Yousif: Above Earth, Under The Rays of the Sun — Maryam Yousif · The Pit · Through June 17, 2026
San Pedro
Bert Esenherz: Dear Human — Bert Esenherz · solo. · Through July 4, 2026
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