This week’s shows run from Michelle Stuart’s seed calendars in Beverly Hills to Doyle Lane’s glazed clay in San Marino. On Wednesday, Marc Selwyn Fine Art opens Back to the Garden, nearly four decades of Stuart’s work with seeds, plants, soil, and beeswax. On Friday, Regen Projects opens Sable Elyse Smith’s SKY FENCE GROUND, with woven coloring-book pages and a Ferris wheel built from the shapes of prison tables and stools. On Saturday, Roberts Projects opens Wendy Red Star’s False Stars, where mounds of earth pigment and a pair of mirrors complete a Star Quilt pattern that’s mostly reflection.
Two longer shows are still up. Hauser & Wirth Downtown has Jack Whitten’s paintings from the 1980s, made after a 1980 house fire stopped his work. [VERIFY: Whitten 1980 fire detail] At The Huntington, Doyle Lane: Master of Clay gathers more than 100 works by the Los Angeles ceramic artist. Also on view: two shows that close November 14, Kenturah Davis’s Rest Stops at Crenshaw Dairy Mart (through November 15), Graciela Iturbide’s photographs of Los Cholos at Bergamot Station, and new solo shows opening this weekend in East Hollywood and beyond.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills
Michelle Stuart: Back to the Garden
November 4 – December 19, 2026
@marcselwynfineart
Michelle Stuart was born in Los Angeles. Since the 1970s she’s worked with seeds, plants, soil, and beeswax. This show brings together paintings, works on paper, and photographic installations made between 1985 and 2023. In her seed calendars, seeds gathered in Amagansett and Santa Barbara are crushed into paper. Sometimes she heats them until they burst and their oils stain the sheet. Larger encaustic works like Sabi (1989) and Anoka (Minnesota) (1985) hold earth, plants, petrified fossils, and archaeological shards in wax. The Extinct works of 1992 use plants that weren’t actually extinct, as a way to picture losing them. The gallery says the show looks ahead to Stuart’s retrospective at the Hammer Museum in April 2028.
Regen Projects | Hollywood
Sable Elyse Smith: SKY FENCE GROUND
November 6 – December 19, 2026
@regenprojects
Sable Elyse Smith was born in Los Angeles in 1986 and now teaches at Columbia. For this show at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, she cuts up her Coloring Books, made from an activity book that teaches children about the court system, and weaves the strips into uneven grids. A Clockwork (2021), shown at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, repeats the form of prison tables and stools to build a slowly turning Ferris wheel. The new video skin suit (2026) cuts together police chase and bodycam footage of the kind made popular by shows like Cops. Smith leads a walkthrough Friday, November 6, at 11am, and the opening reception is that evening from 6 to 8pm.
Roberts Projects | Hollywood
Wendy Red Star: False Stars
November 7 – December 19, 2026
@robertsprojects
Wendy Red Star grew up with Star Quilts on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, where they were given at clan gatherings, powwows, and graduations. In False Stars she asks how little of the quilt she needs for the star to hold. In two corner installations, mounds of colored earth pigment form part of a star on the floor, and mirrors set at ninety degrees supply the rest. Two freestanding mirror sculptures do the same with thousands of acrylic beads. The idea came from an instructional DVD in which a quilter used two small mirrors to preview a full pattern from a quarter of one. Red Star was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2024. The opening reception is Saturday, November 7, from 5 to 7pm at 442 South La Brea Avenue.
Hauser & Wirth | DTLA
Jack Whitten: The Numinous
September 30, 2026 – January 10, 2027
@hauserwirth
A house fire in 1980 stopped Jack Whitten’s work for a long stretch. When he came back, he treated acrylic as something he could cut, layer, and collage like a skin. This show at 901 East 3rd Street covers that decade: the Soulspace paintings, circular acrylic reliefs, grids made by pressing wire mesh into wet paint, and the Site paintings, cast from manhole covers, tire treads, and city walls. More than a dozen Site works on paper hang alongside. Spiral: A Dedication to R. Bearden (1988) points ahead to his Black Monolith series. The show follows Whitten’s 2025 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
The Huntington | San Marino
Doyle Lane: Master of Clay
September 13, 2026 – March 1, 2027
@thehuntingtonlibrary
Doyle Lane (1923–2002) grew up in New Orleans and built a career in Los Angeles. He started by selling ceramics door to door and went on to make tile murals for modernist buildings. This is the first major museum retrospective of his work: more than 100 pieces from the 1950s through the 1980s, from weed pots and beads to “clay paintings” and murals. Lane was known for difficult red glazes that shift from orange to crimson, and he left bubbles, burn marks, and bare clay in the finished work. The show also looks at the barriers he faced as a Black artist. His 1964 Mutual Savings and Loan Mural, made of 4,876 glazed tiles, is on view too. Lauren Cross curated the show, which hangs in the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art.
Also On View
McCallum: History of Our Blood — Davis Keller — DTLA — September 19 – November 14, 2026 · @daviskellergallery
Cast Shadows: David Vega & Andy Montiel Phillips — Currency Exchange (CXLA) — Lafayette Square — September 12 – November 14, 2026
Kenturah Davis: Rest Stops — Crenshaw Dairy Mart with Destination Crenshaw — Inglewood — October 17 – November 15, 2026 · @crenshawdairymart
Monica Majoli: Countervision — presented by LAND at The June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives — West Hollywood — September 19 – November 21, 2026 · @mazerlesbianarchives
Graciela Iturbide: White Fence, Los Cholos — ROSEGALLERY — Bergamot Station — September 12 – December 5, 2026 · @rosegallery.official
Ryan Travis Christian: Hoisted by my Own Petard — Richard Heller Gallery — Bergamot Station — October 31 – December 12, 2026 · @richardhellergallery
Peter McRury: At a Familiar Distance — Nazarian / Curcio — West Hollywood — November 7 – December 19, 2026 · @nazariancurcio
Francesca Gabbiani: Nom de Guerre — Wilding Cran Gallery — Hollywood/Melrose Hill — November 8 – December 19, 2026 · @wildingcrangallery
Rose Briccetti: Time Flies Like an Arrow, Fruit Flies Like a Banana (Musa acuminata) — Track 16 — East Hollywood — November 7 – December 19, 2026 · @track16gallery
Kim Garcia: a trace is not a map to you — Luis De Jesus — DTLA — November 7 – December 23, 2026 · @luisdejesuslosangeles
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