This week runs from cultured crystals in Pasadena to fifty years of Mexican American family scenes in Riverside, with heated plastic, broken geometries, and thread-worked dresses in between. On Friday, Fulcrum Arts opens Julie Tolentino’s And Never Ends for ArtNight Pasadena, an installation of crystals, sound, and a performance-made drawing that will keep changing into January. On Sunday, Simchowitz opens Julio Rizhi’s Kwatiri Kubva Nekwatiri Kuenda (Where We Are Coming From and Where We Are Going) at its Hill House, where the Harare-based artist heats and colors plastic over mesh and wire to trace his family’s migrations across Southern Africa.
The same day in Westwood, the Hammer Museum opens Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images, the first major museum survey of the Jamaican-born abstractionist, whose “Broken Construction” series uses destruction and renewal as pictures of social change. Pusey joins Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines, already on view at the Hammer with some 150 works by the Lebanese-born artist who spent her last decades in Venice and made sensual, funny art about bodies, language, and aging. Farther east, The Cheech in Riverside gives Carmen Lomas Garza her first major retrospective in more than twenty years, hanging her paintings of tamaladas, healing practices, and family celebrations beside work by seventeen friends and collaborators from the Chicano Movement. Also on view: six Korean artists rethinking the moon jar, The Band through the cameras of Elliott Landy and Larry Hulst, and Laura Andreson’s UCLA ceramics legacy.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Fulcrum Arts | Pasadena
Julie Tolentino: And Never Ends
October 9, 2026 – January 23, 2027
@fulcrumarts
Julie Tolentino builds And Never Ends from cultured crystals, a sound composition, and a vectorized drawing generated through performance, and the pieces will keep growing and changing for the length of the run. The installation asks visitors to listen first and look second. Tolentino, a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2025–26 ICA LA artist in residence, works across durational performance, sound, scent, objects, and text. The opening reception is Friday, October 9, from 6 to 10pm, as part of ArtNight Pasadena.
Simchowitz | Pasadena
Julio Rizhi: Kwatiri Kubva Nekwatiri Kuenda (Where We Are Coming From and Where We Are Going)
October 11, 2026 – February 26, 2027
@simchowitzgallery
At Simchowitz’s Hill House, Harare-based Julio Rizhi shows twenty-two works made between 2020 and 2024, from small wall pieces to large sculptural forms. He borrows the structures of pottery and weaving, builds in mesh and wire, then layers, heats, colors, and works plastic by hand until a material tied to consumption and waste turns pliable and bright. The title comes from family history: his mother is from Malawi, his late father was Nyungwe from Mozambique, and the story of their migration to Zimbabwe, where Rizhi was born in 1991, became his first archive. The show opens Sunday; visits are by appointment.
Hammer Museum | Westwood
Mavis Pusey: Mobile Images
October 11, 2026 – February 28, 2027
@hammer_museum
Mavis Pusey (1928–2019) made geometric abstractions on canvas and paper that drew on fashion, printmaking, and the cities she lived in, and Mobile Images is the first major museum survey of her work, with more than 60 pieces from a fifty-year career. Her “Broken Construction” series, made from the 1960s into the 1990s, treats destruction and renewal as images of social change. Photographs, personal notes, and archival material hang alongside the paintings. Co-organized by the ICA Philadelphia and the Studio Museum in Harlem, the survey opens Sunday, October 11.
Hammer Museum | Westwood
Huguette Caland: A Life in a Few Lines
September 27, 2026 – February 28, 2027
@hammer_museum
Born in Lebanon, married into France, and settled by choice in Venice, California, where she spent her last decades, Huguette Caland (1931–2019) reached a much wider audience after the Hammer included her in Made in L.A. 2016. A Life in a Few Lines gathers about 150 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and textiles with archival material and ephemera, from dresses worked in thread in the early 1970s to self-portraits in oil. The work is sensual and funny about bodies, language, gender, and aging. Organized with the Museo Reina Sofía and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, it runs through February 28 alongside the Pusey survey.
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture | Riverside
Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar
October 3, 2026 – February 14, 2027
@thecheechcenter
The first major Carmen Lomas Garza retrospective in more than two decades covers over fifty years of paintings of family celebrations, neighborhood traditions, healing practices, and everyday Mexican American life, from the gouache Tamalada (1987) to Heaven and Hell II (1991). Organized by the ASU Art Museum, the show hangs her work with paintings, prints, photographs, and archival material by 17 artists from her circle in the Chicano Movement, among them Amalia Mesa-Bains, Rupert García, Ester Hernandez, Gronk, and Santa Barraza. It also reunites four paintings from Cheech Marin’s 2001 exhibition Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge. On view in the second-floor galleries through February 14.
Also On View
Hollywood
The Band: From Woodstock to The Last Waltz — Musichead Gallery — October 10 – November 14, 2026 · @musicheadgallery
Mid-Wilshire
Dan Levenson: SKZ Centimeter Studies Classroom — Timothy Hawkinson Gallery — October 10 – November 7, 2026 · @timothyhawkinsongallery
“The Eternal Quality of Aesthetic Joy”: Laura Andreson and Her Legacy — Craft in America Center — Opens October 10, 2026 · @craftinamerica
Koreatown
Reimagining the Moon Jar — Shatto Gallery — October 10 – October 31, 2026 · @shattogallery
Chinatown
I Saw a Woman, Pounding Light into Mortar — Fellows of Contemporary Art — October 3 – November 28, 2026 · @focalaart
Isabelle Frances McGuire: Joy is a Puppet — Bel Ami — October 3 – November 28, 2026 · @belami.la
Santa Monica
Joseph and Melinda Ostraff: Florilegium — Nüart Gallery (Bergamot Station) — October 10 – October 31, 2026 · @nuartgallery
Paul Paiement: Evergreen a@— Sabbatikal — October 4 – November 8, 2026 · @sabbatikalspace
El Segundo
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Heather Cleary: Thresholds — UCR ARTS — October a@a@3, a@a@a@aaa@@@aaa@@@a@a@a@2026 a@a@aaaa@@@@– a@February 21, 2027 · ucrarts
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