This Week in LA: Oct. 16→22
From Bosch Beasts to Pop Art Posters Across LA's Galleries
Mid-October brings a diverse array of exhibitions exploring memory, identity, and artistic lineage across Los Angeles. This week features Tavares Strachan’s first museum exhibition in LA at LACMA with immersive installations illuminating invisible narratives of the Black diaspora, Fabian Treiber’s paintings hovering between found image and painterly invention at Anat Ebgi, and Roberto Benavidez’s handcrafted piñatas inspired by Hieronymus Bosch at Perrotin Gallery. Whether you’re drawn to Nir Hod’s lustrous pastoral landscapes exploring beauty and decay at Michael Kohn Gallery, the domestic spaces as creative refuge explored in CAAM’s The Black Interior, or rare vintage posters from Lichtenstein and Hockney forming a conversation between Pop Art wit and painterly perception in Long Beach, this week showcases artists who transform everyday materials and historical references into profound explorations of cultural identity and artistic expression. Time to explore our picks for this week’s compelling exhibitions...
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | Mid-Wilshire
Tavares Strachan: The Day Tomorrow Began
On view through March 29, 2026
The artist’s first museum exhibition in Los Angeles featuring immersive multisensory installations across distinct environments—from uncanny everyday spaces to rice grass fields with ceramic figures to monumental bronze sculptures—illuminating stories rendered invisible within mainstream narratives, particularly related to the Black diaspora.
Michael Werner Gallery | Beverly Hills
Per Kirkeby: Natures Mortes
On view through November 8, 2025
Still life paintings from 2005-2012 by the eminent Danish painter combining Caspar David Friedrich’s theatrical scenery and close horizon lines with motifs derived from Willem Claesz Heda’s still life painting—relying on Northern European art history to navigate his artistic vision.
Megan Mulrooney | West Hollywood
RF Alvarez: I Remember Everything
On view through November 1, 2025
The artist’s first West Coast solo exhibition featuring richly cinematic paintings of queer men in domestic interiors, rodeo arenas, and intimate moments—built from observation and sharpened by staging that draws on baroque drama and film pacing to reclaim and complicate the cowboy archetype.
Anat Ebgi | Mid-Wilshire
Fabian Treiber: I Take The Whole Damn Place With Me
On view through November 1, 2025
New paintings and intimate framed “painting-assemblages” inspired by empty backgrounds of early Hollywood animations, featuring compressed space, flattened perspective, and recurring props that operate in the logic of déjà vu—recognition without origin where built environments function like exquisite corpses hovering between found image and painterly invention.
Perrotin Gallery | Los Angeles
Roberto Benavidez: Bosch Beasts
On view through October 18, 2025
The artist’s first LA gallery solo exhibition featuring handcrafted piñatas inspired by Hieronymus Bosch that irreverently appropriate avian iconography of sin, exploring hybridity, fluid identity, and race through chimeric forms created with traditional papier-mâché processes, acid-free paper, and masterful color mapping.
Michael Kohn Gallery | West Hollywood
Nir Hod: Dorian’s Gardens
On view through January 2026
New paintings exploring duality of human nature through emotive gestural interpretations of flora floating over bodies of water, rendered in the artist’s impressionistic style with iconic chroming technique—a suspension of transient bloom where splendor conceals grief and perfection is a carefully painted mask.
James Fuentes | Hollywood
Sebastian Silva: Imaginary Friends
On view through November 1, 2025
The artist’s first exhibition with the gallery featuring paintings defined by deconstructed cartoon characteristics—medium-weight lines and ribbons of primary color creating abstractions of abstractions—alongside figurative works populated by expressive cartoon animals, all inspired by animated languages of Matt Groening, John Kricfalusi, and Tex Avery.
Gattopardo | Glendale
Stanya Kahn: Love Hours: rites and curses
On view through November 22, 2025
A two-room installation featuring new works from 2023-2025 including a 4-minute animation, paintings, and ceramic, resin, and wood sculptures created through labor-intensive processes as ritual and psychic modeling—an ode to resistance inspired by Édouard Glissant’s theories of relation.
California African American Museum (CAAM) | Exposition Park, Los Angeles
The Black Interior: Imagining Home in the Permanent Collection
On view through April 5, 2026
Curated by Kristin Juarez, this exhibition drawn from CAAM’s permanent collection explores domestic space as creative inspiration and refuge, featuring 19 artists who transform everyday objects and routines—showers, closets, photo albums, doilies—into expressive materials through craft, collage, sculpture, and video.
Solo | Long Beach
Color & Culture: Lichtenstein and Hockney in Conversation
On view through October 22, 2025
A rare collection of vintage art show posters from Roy Lichtenstein and David Hockney curated by Vida Patricia Rodriguez, showcasing historical artifacts that reveal how design, culture, and art converged—forming a conversation between Pop Art wit and painterly perception.
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