This Week in LA: Sept. 18→24
From Ketchup Bottles to Moonlit Abstractions
This week's exhibitions highlight artists transforming everyday subjects through bold new approaches. Featured are Kristof Santy's precise renderings of everyday objects at M+B Gallery, Mona Kuhn's abstract "Moonstruck" series at Leica Gallery, and Annie Lapin's personal homage to Southern California's landscape at Nazarian/Curcio. Derek Fordjour transforms David Kordansky Gallery into an immersive "Nightsong" experience tracing Black musical history, while Petra Cortright presents post-digital paintings at 1301PE. Time to explore...
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M+B Gallery | West Hollywood
Kristof Santy: Perfect Days
Opens: September 20, 2025
New works expanding the artist's universe of interiors and folkloric gestures, featuring clean lines, bold silhouettes, and saturated palette to render icons of the familiar—hamburgers, ketchup bottles, pencils—as affectionate studies that hover between illustration and memory.
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood
Karl Benjamin: A Centennial Exhibition
September 20 – November 1, 2025
Commemorating the artist's 100th birthday with rare and early works from the 1950s that launched his 45-year career and predicted his role as founding member of the Hard Edge painting movement, showcasing his journey from self-taught experimentation to geometric compositions.
Leica Gallery | West Hollywood
Mona Kuhn: Moonstruck
On view through November 2, 2025
A new direction into abstraction featuring painterly impressions inspired by musical improvisations, where the photographer merges figure, abstractions, and landscape into one through increased use of techniques that create a series of works described as being "struck by the moon."
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery | Los Angeles
Rachelle Rojany: pplanes
On view through October 11, 2025
Intimate and mysterious works featuring painted copper foil floating over color fields of linen, folded as paper airplanes with indecipherable text and recurring invented glyphs, creating artifacts that seem outside of time while radiating slow, confident energy.
1301PE | Mid-Wilshire
Petra Cortright: quicksilver sea bubble dramamine dream
On view through November 1, 2025 A new series of digital paintings grappling with grief, loss, and anxiety, featuring flora, fauna, and landscapes sourced from photographs the artist took of dioramas at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, transporting Californian Impressionism to the post-digital age.
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Nazarian / Curcio | Hollywood
Annie Lapin: Fragile Familiar
On view through October 25, 2025
New paintings offering a deeply personal homage to Southern California's landscape, blending representation and abstraction through poured paint layers and sourced imagery to capture the felt experience of sun-washed hillsides, desert plateaus, and urban spaces rendered in radiant color.
Sean Kelly, Los Angeles | Los Angeles
James Casebere and Jose Dávila: The Poetic Dimension
On view through November 1, 2025
A two-person exhibition featuring Casebere's photographs responding to Luis Barragán's architectural masterpieces and Dávila's new sculptures incorporating industrial and natural materials, both artists exploring the expressive potential of form, space, and color in dialogue with Mexican modernist architecture.
David Kordansky Gallery | Los Angeles
Derek Fordjour: Nightsong
On view through October 11, 2025
An immersive multifaceted experience combining painting, sculpture, live performance, and video that traces Black musical history through an atmospheric sensorium, featuring vocalists performing an original four-hour songcycle across a spatial nightscape with limited hours of 6-10 PM.
Nonaka-Hill | Hollywood
Rando Aso: Innerspace
On view through October 25, 2025
The artist's first US presentation featuring signature unglazed earthenware ceramics that explore space, negative darkness, and metaphysics through forms including tamatebako boxes, sphere and space pairings, and wall works that highlight interactions between fire, water, and soil.
Royale Projects | DTLA
Annie Briard: The Glow of Two-Thousand Moons
On view now
An immersive installation featuring three analog slide projectors cycling through over 240 hand-assembled slides of sky photographs shot through cinema gels, creating an infinite spectrum of luminous hues that simulate a lunar phenomenon while exploring subjective perception and filtered reality.
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