This Week in LA: Nov. 6→12
In this Edition: Artists Redefining How We See, Make, and Remember
This week, Los Angeles galleries are pushing boundaries—from light and shadow to the very materials that define painting itself. At M+B Gallery, Stephen Buscemi’s spectral figures emerge from darkness through a subtractive process that reverses convention, while LACMA unveils the global history of block printing across centuries and continents. Nazarian/Curcio presents Summer Wheat’s innovative mesh paintings that explore fluid, semi-submerged worlds, and Chris Sharp Gallery showcases David Gilbert’s fragile paper castles that literally collapse under the weight of empire’s instability.
Château Shatto brings us Will Stovall’s sculptural paintings that probe how we visually relate to collective knowledge, and Luis De Jesus presents Ken Gonzales-Day’s powerful photographic reimaginings that challenge museum narratives by bringing together objects from Mexica, Mesoamerican, European, African, and Asian traditions. Check out this week’s top picks below and start planning your gallery route!
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M+B Gallery | West Hollywood
Stephen Buscemi: Playing In And Out Of Tune
On view through December 6, 2025
Spectral paintings emerge from deep indigo grounds through a subtractive process, with light sculpting figures that hover between emergence and disappearance in a theater of intimacy and performance.
LACMA | Miracle Mile
Deep Cuts: Block Printing Across Cultures
November 9, 2025 – September 13, 2026
More than 150 works from Asia, Europe, and the Americas present the world’s oldest and most versatile method of making multiple images, from patterned Indian fabrics to German Expressionist experiments and contemporary reinterpretations.
Nazarian/Curcio | Los Angeles
Summer Wheat: Touching the Surface
November 8 – December 20, 2025
Painted with acrylic and gouache on aluminum mesh, these semi-submerged worlds center on women who chart voyages, fish for crabs, and navigate fluid, unstable environments where intimacy meets instability.
Sebastian Gladstone Gallery | Hollywood
Mosie Romney: Every Spiral Has Its Law
On view through December 13, 2025
Paintings sowed in an 1860 barn in rural upstate New York traverse the material topsoil of language, whirling viewers toward an incalculable play place where empire is chiefed and sovereigned by Yellow Mary, Green Nina, Red Rat.
Chris Sharp Gallery | Hollywood
David Gilbert: I Capture the Castle
On view through November 15, 2025
Fragile paper castles—some with all bricks cut out, leaving only mortar as delicate nets—explore the tension between sanctuary and prison, collapsing under their own fragility to reflect the instability of empire and fading youthful fantasy.
Sea View | Hollywood
Amitesh Shrivastava: Talking to the Moon
On view through December 20, 2025
Opening Sea View’s inaugural Hollywood location, this exhibition features distinctive pointillist paintings created through nocturnal ritual, embodying “murmurs”—pre-linguistic expressions that wash over viewers in waves of pattern and color.
Château Shatto | Hollywood
Will Stovall: Lifeworld Variations
On view through December 20, 2025
Paintings in acrylic on machined and welded aluminum explore the phenomenological concept of the Lifeworld, with scenography built into sculptural structures that fix perspective and probe how we visually relate to knowledge of ourselves and the world.
Hoffman Donahue | Hollywood
Sydney Acosta: EROS RED NIGHTS
November 6 – December 20, 2025
Textured, visceral paintings maintain a strictly rigid palette of saturated reds and greens, concentrated whites and blacks, functioning as symbols for emotional immediacy that emerge from the night, the street, the club, the present.
Luis De Jesus | Arts District
Ken Gonzales-Day: Afterlife
November 8 – December 20, 2025
Conceptually driven photography draws on objects from Mexica, Mesoamerican, European, African, and Asian traditions, creating playful and haunting images that underscore the vital role of museum collections and challenge traditional narratives.
Bermudez Projects | Cypress Park
Emmanuel Crespo: Meditations Between the Soil and the Stars
November 8 – December 6, 2025
New paintings and poetry unite everyday people with familiar symbols—birds, the moon, clouds, earth, and heavens—in visual narratives that are equal parts surreal, prosaic, earthly, and metaphysical, begging the question: “What is the meaning of existence?”
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