This week’s shows run from Kiki Smith’s bronze bodies on Orange Drive to Jerome Witkin’s large figure paintings in Pasadena. In between are Barry McGee’s take on LA’s underground, a tapestry about dating on Earth, and a century of housing in two cities. On Friday, Jeffrey Deitch opens two shows. On Orange Drive, with Pace, the gallery presents Kiki Smith’s Untethered Journey, her first solo show in Los Angeles in thirty years. Early bronzes like Virgin Mary and Blood Pool share the rooms with work in papier mâché, beeswax, resin, and fiberglass. At its Santa Monica Boulevard space, Barry McGee opens Another Round, a show Deitch says will take in the energy of the city’s underground culture.
On Saturday in the Arts District, Vielmetter Los Angeles opens April Bey’s All the Reasons We Never Tell Someone We Love Them…They’re Worthless. Bey spent a year dating as an alien narrator reporting home, and one of the results is a tapestry in mink, jacquard, and metallic brocade. On Sunday, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts opens Jerome Witkin – Epic, paintings and drawings by a painter the gallery ranks among the country’s most highly regarded figurative artists. And at the Schindler House, the MAK Center sets Red Vienna’s century of public housing beside Los Angeles’s market-driven one in Social Housing: Vienna—Los Angeles. Also on view: a group show of Coachella Valley artists in Riverside, carved wooden oranges in Westlake, Millie Wilson’s first retrospective at Cal State LA, and Amy Talluto’s first LA solo show, with paintings and ceramics, in Atwater Village.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Jeffrey Deitch & Pace Gallery | Hollywood
Kiki Smith: Untethered Journey
October 30, 2026 – January 23, 2027
@jeffreydeitchgallery · @pacegallery
Kiki Smith has not had a solo show in Los Angeles in thirty years. This one, presented by Jeffrey Deitch and Pace at Deitch’s gallery at 925 N Orange Drive, is the first full exhibition the two galleries have mounted together. It centers on Smith’s sculptures of the body. Early bronzes like Virgin Mary (1994) and Blood Pool (1992) sit beside pieces in papier mâché, beeswax, polyester resin, and fiberglass. Smith often puts the figure where you don’t expect it; in Moon on Crutches (2002), a single body hangs in a tangle of lines. Drawing, glass, printmaking, and textile round out a practice that borrows from eighteenth-century anatomical drawings, relics, folklore, and medieval altarpieces, and keeps returning to mortality and regeneration. The opening reception is Friday, October 30, from 6 to 8pm.
Jeffrey Deitch | Hollywood
Barry McGee: Another Round
October 30, 2026 – January 30, 2027
@jeffreydeitchgallery
The same night Kiki Smith opens on Orange Drive, Deitch’s Santa Monica Boulevard space opens Barry McGee’s Another Round. The building was once RCA Victor’s West Coast recording studio. Deitch handed McGee the keys and invited him to work there for several weeks with artist friends. The show follows McGee’s takeover of a former 99-cent store on Wilshire Boulevard last February, and Deitch says it will take in the energy of LA’s underground culture today. It is Deitch’s first solo show with McGee in more than twenty years. McGee started out on the streets of San Francisco as a teenager, and his work joins tagging, careful drawing, and assemblage sculpture. The opening reception is Friday, October 30, from 6 to 8pm at 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard.
Vielmetter Los Angeles | DTLA
April Bey: All the Reasons We Never Tell Someone We Love Them…They’re Worthless
October 31 – December 19, 2026
@vielmetter
For her second solo show at Vielmetter, the Bahamian-American artist spent a year trying to date in the United States. She did it as the alien narrator of her ongoing Atlantica project, gathering stories of desire, avoidance, and companionship to report back to her home planet. It starts out funny and turns into a reckoning with how people give, withhold, and lose love. One tapestry, three panels and fifteen feet across, is made of mink, jacquard, and metallic brocade and hung with oversized clothespins, beads, and bamboo earrings. The show also includes Bey’s first self-portraits. The opening reception is Saturday, October 31, from 4 to 6pm, and Bey asks guests to come in their most festive clothes.
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts | Pasadena
Jerome Witkin – Epic
November 1 – December 24, 2026
@jackrutbergfinearts
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts calls this a rare exhibition for Jerome Witkin, who was born in Brooklyn in 1939 and whom the gallery counts among the country’s most highly regarded figurative painters. It is his first show in Los Angeles in twelve years, since a joint exhibition with his twin brother, the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. The paintings and drawings span several decades, and some come from long-held private collections. Witkin paints his figures from life. Large oils like Her Dream (1987), more than six feet tall, are made for slow looking. The opening reception is Sunday, November 1, from 3 to 6pm.
MAK Center at the Schindler House | West Hollywood
Social Housing: Vienna—Los Angeles
October 22, 2026 – January 17, 2027
@makcenter
R.M. Schindler built his Kings Road house in 1922 as an experiment in cooperative living. Around the same time, Red Vienna began the public housing program that would reshape that city over the next century. The MAK Center uses the overlap to set the two cities side by side. Curated by Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Beth Stryker, the show pairs case studies with photographs by Armin Linke, Hertha Hurnaus, and others, and with short videos. It follows Vienna’s steady public investment in housing and Los Angeles’s mostly market-driven path. Rather than hold up Vienna as a model to copy, it asks what each history can tell us about affordable, shared city life now.
Also On View
Hollywood
Olivia Gibian: Perishable Dimension — 839 — October 24 – December 19, 2026 · @839gallery
East Hollywood
Alphabet of Haven: Lettrism, Fluxus, and the Legacy of Villa Cernigliaro — curated by Carlotta Cernigliaro · El Nido by VC Projects — October 22 – December 23, 2026 · @vc_projects
Silver Lake
Holly Topping: Djinn, Sirens, and Other Troubles — Winslow Garage — October 25 – November 29, 2026 · @winslowgarage
West Hollywood
Keegan Holden: Meridian — DIE PLEK — October 24 – November 22, 2026 · @dieplekgallery
Westlake
Henrik Munk Sørensen: Oranges and Pans — Official Welcome (Anteroom) — October 24 – December 19, 2026 · @officialwelcomelosangeles
Pico-Union
Kristopher Raos: Blink and you’ll miss it — as-is — October 24 – December 5, 2026 · @asis.losangeles
DTLA
Omari Booker: Think Again — Band of Vices — October 24 – November 21, 2026 · @bandofvices
Atwater Village
Amy Talluto: The Weight of Colors — The Middle Room — October 24 – November 22, 2026 · @themiddleroomgallery
El Sereno
Millie Wilson: The Museum of Lesbian Dreams — The Luckman Gallery, Cal State LA — October 24, 2026 – April 10, 2027 · @luckmanarts
Riverside
Made in Coachella — The Cheech (Cheech Marin Center) — October 31, 2026 – March 21, 2027 · @thecheechcenter
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