This Week in LA: Sept. 25→Oct. 1
From Cubist Photography to Ceramic Sculptures
Late September brings a compelling mix of historical reverence and contemporary exploration across Los Angeles galleries. This week features Paul Outerbridge’s landmark modernist photography celebrating Cubist experimentation and radical abstraction at Fahey/Klein Gallery, while Suchitra Mattai employs embroidery and collage to examine moral tales through her Indo-Caribbean heritage at Roberts Projects. Whether you’re drawn to Luis Jiménez’s first LA exhibition in over forty years showcasing his dazzling fiberglass sculptures that redefine American iconography at Matthew Marks Gallery, Arlene Mejorado’s intimate investigations of family archives and LA landscapes at Gallery Luisotti, or Saxon Quinn’s ceramic sculptures that thread material experimentation with personal recollection at de boer, there’s a rich dialogue between past and present, memory and making. Time to explore our picks for this week’s compelling exhibitions...
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Hammer Museum | Westwood
Rising Sun, Falling Rain: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
On view through November 30, 2025
Over eighty ukiyo-e and shin-hanga prints tracing the evolution of Japanese woodblock printmaking from the Edo period, featuring renowned artists such as Hokusai and Hiroshige whose technical mastery and aesthetic refinement profoundly shaped global perceptions of Japan’s cultural legacy.
Gemini G.E.L. | West Hollywood
Robert Rauschenberg: Celebrating Four Decades of Innovation and Collaboration
On view through December 19, 2025
Honoring the centennial of Robert Rauschenberg with more than 50 works spanning his remarkable four-decade collaboration with Gemini, featuring landmark series that redefined printmaking possibilities and showcasing his monumental first edition “Booster” created from six X-ray sections.
Fahey/Klein Gallery | Los Angeles
Paul Outerbridge: Photographs
September 25 – November 8, 2025
A landmark exhibition celebrating the visionary modernist photographer with rare Carbro prints, silver gelatin photographs, and platinum prints that trace his evolution from Cubist experimentation with ordinary objects to technically demanding color work that rival abstract canvases.
Good Mother Gallery | West Adams, Los Angeles
Chad Hasegawa: The Chase Scene: Los Angeles
On view through October 24, 2025
New paintings by the San Francisco-based artist that fuse hard-edge minimalism with atmosphere and movement, transforming color and form into meditations on pursuit, suspension, and release while exploring the tension between urgency and calm.
Roberts Projects | Los Angeles
Suchitra Mattai: Fables, Guineps and the Sweetness of Unknowing
September 27 – November 15, 2025
Recent works on paper employing the artist’s singular collage approach that blends embroidery, needlepoint, and beading with fragments of sari tapestries and book pages, adopting the literary form of the fable to examine moral tales and cultural migration through Indo-Caribbean heritage.
Matthew Marks Gallery | Los Angeles
Luis Jiménez: American Dream
On view through November 8, 2025
The first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles in over forty years featuring fourteen sculptures, paintings, and drawings from 1968-1997, showcasing the artist’s large-scale fiberglass works with dazzling colors that redefine American iconography including cowboys, cars, and motorcycles.
Marciano Art Foundation | Los Angeles
Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images
September 26, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Focusing on the artist’s archive of over fifteen thousand 35mm slides taken between 1955-1968, presented as a three-screen digital projection that explores how photography was integral to her practice, documenting LA’s urban landscape and everyday moments that inspired her signature serigraphs.
MOCA | Grand Avenue, DTLA
Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds
On view through September 20, 2026
Over 80 artworks from MOCA’s collection demonstrating how artists create their own worlds through art, embracing boundaries between personal and social lives while privileging sites of creativity and imagination, featuring artists including Belkis Ayón, Mona Hatoum, Wangechi Mutu, and Nan Goldin.
Gallery Luisotti | Los Angeles
Arlene Mejorado: Here is the land in me / Aquí está la tierra en mí
On view through October 25, 2025
The artist’s inaugural solo exhibition comprising 11 framed photographs, printed film strips, and grassy sculptural installation that explores cultural, geographical, and familial investigations through blurred boundaries between interior and exterior spaces in Los Angeles landscapes.
de boer | Arts District, DTLA
Saxon Quinn: I Found a Crouton Underneath a Futon
On view through November 1, 2025
Seven meticulously composed sculptures merging ceramic, paint, and found materials that thread material experimentation with personal recollection, featuring fragmented portraits resting atop books and zines as conceptual scaffolds where literature becomes structure and memory becomes method.
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