This week runs from Baroque drama repainted in Brentwood to a Surrealist’s six decades in Pasadena, with dream relics, crystals that keep growing, and a Marlboro cowboy in between. At the Getty, Los Angeles-born Reggie Burrows Hodges opens A Theater of Passions, new paintings drawn from Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi’s biblical and mythological scenes, pulling out the violence and theater inside them. In Pasadena, Fulcrum Arts keeps Julie Tolentino’s And Never Ends changing through January — cultured crystals, a sound composition, and a drawing made through performance, built to be heard before it is seen. Up the hill on Saturday, ArtCenter opens Dorr Bothwell: In Her Mind’s Eye, the first full survey of the California Surrealist, designer, and teacher, with more than 100 works from paintings and color screen prints to Catalina Pottery ceramics and textiles.
The same day in Westlake, Official Welcome opens iris yirei hu’s Unconscious Relics, paintings, ceramics, and reliquary boxes that come out of three years of social dreaming and trace the thin line between sleep and death. And on Western Avenue, OCHI shows Adam Beris’s Word is the Fish are Biting like Crazy, large collaged canvases that copy the endless scroll beside small paintings that pull single images out of it — a pat of melting butter, a cowboy against the sunset. Also on view: weathered walls photographed and painted in Hollywood, collectible design shaped by heat in West Hollywood, a Skowhegan reunion in Inglewood, and painted gourds full of sprites.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Getty Center | Brentwood
Reggie Burrows Hodges: A Theater of Passions
October 20, 2026 – February 28, 2027
@gettymuseum
Los Angeles-born Reggie Burrows Hodges has long admired historic European painting, and for this new series he works from paintings in the Getty’s collection by the father-and-daughter painters Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi. He keeps their 17th-century forms and stories in view while bringing out the violence, drama, and theatricality inside their biblical and mythological scenes. The show is in the Museum East Pavilion, Upper Level, is presented in English and Spanish, and is free with a timed-entry reservation. A companion show, Reggie Burrows Hodges: A Theater of Dreams, runs over the same dates at Art + Practice.
Fulcrum Arts | Pasadena
Julie Tolentino: And Never Ends
October 9, 2026 – January 23, 2027
@fulcrumarts
Julie Tolentino’s installation of cultured crystals, a sound composition, and a vectorized drawing made through performance is meant to keep growing and changing for the whole run, so a second visit will not match the first. The aim is to move the visual to the side and put listening and direct encounter first. Tolentino, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and 2025–26 ICA LA artist in residence, works across durational performance, sound, scent, objects, and text. Open Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 5pm.
ArtCenter, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery | Pasadena
Dorr Bothwell: In Her Mind’s Eye
October 24, 2026 – April 24, 2027
@artcenteredu
Nearly 20 years in the making, this is the first full survey of Dorr Bothwell (1902–2000), the California Surrealist artist, designer, and educator, with more than 100 works across six decades. It follows her from the West Coast Surrealist circle, where she worked beside Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg in the WPA years, into Symbolist-tinged figuration, landscape abstraction, and color screen printing — and shows her design side in full for the first time, from ceramic editions for Catalina Pottery to sketches for Notan: The Dark-Light Principle of Design, the primer she wrote with Marlys Mayfield, and textiles and drawings made in Samoa, West Africa, and Southeast Asia. Co-presented with the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, where it travels next summer. The opening reception is Saturday, October 24, from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
Official Welcome | Westlake
iris yirei hu: Unconscious Relics
October 24 – December 19, 2026
@officialwelcomelosangeles
For three years iris yirei hu has practiced social dreaming, a group method where people share their night dreams to surface what a community is anxious about, and her first solo show with Official Welcome brings that work into new paintings, ceramics, and reliquary boxes about the closeness of dreaming and death. Her symbols run from teeth and bones to the Datura flower, tied to her relationship with Tongva elder Julia Bogany, to the liver, heart, and kidneys of Chinese medicine, set in near-symmetrical compositions. The pieces read as offerings for elders and ancestors, and the gallery plays along: a small, guarded door, and a west-facing room where the setting sun crosses the floor each day. The opening reception is Saturday, October 24, from 4 to 6pm.
OCHI | Hollywood
Adam Beris: Word is the Fish are Biting like Crazy
October 17 – November 14, 2026
@ochigallery
When the artist Rudolf Stingel brushed off a question about whether his work belonged to an American art tradition, the question stayed with Adam Beris, and his third solo show at OCHI is a year spent working out what that tradition looks like now. On the large canvases he collages Las Vegas call-girl ads, coloring-book pages, tire commercials, Christian self-help guides, and a portrait of JFK into something like a social feed that never stops. The small canvases do the opposite — they lift one image out of the stream, a pat of melting butter or a Marlboro cowboy against the setting sun, and hold it still, each one finished in a sitting or two.
Also On View
Hollywood
Edgar Ramirez & Aaron Siskind: Dialectical Surfaces — Chris Sharp Gallery — October 15 – November 14, 2026 · @chrissharpla
West Hollywood
Afterglow — Johanna Grawunder × Paul Cocksedge · Carpenters Workshop Gallery — October 22, 2026 – February 15, 2027 · @carpenters.art
West Adams
Your Fruit Tastes Sweet, I Taste Sweat — curated by Philip P. Bucknor (Tru) · Sovern — October 22 – November 19, 2026 · @sovern.la
Culver City
Featuring: Judy Nimtz — Billis/Williams Gallery — October 17 – November 14, 2026 · @billiswilliams.gallery
DTLA
Is This What You Mean? — Rayes and Cedric Tai · LA Artcore Union Center for the Arts — Through October 30, 2026 · @laartcore
Lincoln Heights
Theodore Svenningsen: Visual and Verbal Cognition — Wonzimer — October 23 – November 13, 2026 · @wonzimer
Highland Park
Annie Duncan: Poison/Remedy — Feia — October 24 – December 6, 2026 · @feia.studio
Pasadena
Gateway to Himalayan Art — USC Pacific Asia Museum — October 17, 2026 – January 10, 2027 · @usc_pam
Inglewood
Black Magic — Cassidy Everage, Daeton Abalos Oclaray, Jazmin Jazzy Romero, Josue Bessiake, Kyoungho Isaac Kim · Dotted Line — October 17 – November 15, 2026 · @dottedlinela
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