This Week in LA: Sept. 4→10
Art Season Kicks Off This Weekend!
Early September and it's the beginning of art season here in Los Angeles, where galleries are launching bold exhibitions that challenge established narratives and push creative boundaries. This week brings us investigations of femininity and resistance in "It Smells Like Girl" at Jeffrey Deitch, where artists channel female hysteria as a radical strategy for visibility. Whether you're drawn to the intergenerational painters exploring surface and tactility in "Surface Streets" at Marian Goodman Gallery, Hannah Whitaker's critique of technologically mediated life at M+B Gallery, or the innovative dialogue between photographic books and prints at ROSEGALLERY, there's a dynamic energy that signals the return of LA's vibrant cultural season. Time to dive into September's bold explorations...
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On View Now
ROSEGALLERY | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Bound and Unbound: The Photographic Book and the Print
September 6 – October 18, 2025
An examination of two distinct ways of experiencing photographs through books and prints, featuring works by Thomas Demand, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Carrie Mae Weems, and Alec Soth, exploring how each format amplifies different qualities of the image.
Marshall Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Rodrigo Valenzuela: Marginal
September 6 – October 18, 2025
Recent works from three subversive series—Weapons, General Song, and Masks—exploring the artist's sustained investigation into the visual and material languages of labor, power, and resistance, focusing on what lies at the periphery of geographic, political, and cultural spaces.
Von Lintel Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Carolyn Marks Blackwood: On the Edge
September 6 – October 25, 2025
Photographs distilling transient phenomena from the Hudson River into compositions that hover between painterly invention and forensic field notes, working with minimal intervention to capture nature and abstraction as a continuum of constant change.
Hammer Museum | Westwood
Renata Petersen
On view through September 7, 2025
An installation of comic-inspired drawings on ceramic tiles exploring archival materials from California's new religious movements, cults, and secret societies, enveloping the gallery walls like Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel to create an immersive, church-like environment that chronicles the underbelly of contemporary religious thinking.
M+B Gallery | West Hollywood
Hannah Whitaker
Currently on view
Recent works featuring fictional persona Ursula that interrogate technologically mediated life through entirely in-camera processes using reflective props, selfie lights, and mirrors, exploring the interplay between mechanical precision and human imperfection while critiquing visual culture that flattens women into consumable images.
S P O N S O R E D
Jeffrey Deitch | Los Angeles
Group Exhibition: It Smells Like Girl
September 6 – November 1, 2025
A thematic group exhibition revisiting the concept of female hysteria through painting, video, sculpture, performance, and installation, exploring the paradoxical crossroads of contemporary femininity caught between self-expression and the pressure to conform.
Marian Goodman Gallery | Hollywood
Group Exhibition: Surface Streets
September 6 – October 18, 2025
An intergenerational group of painters curated by Russell Ferguson exploring the physicality of painted surfaces, featuring works that depict familiar urban scenes alongside explorations of movie sets, ancient fossils, and spaces of fiction and fantasy.
The Pit | Atwater Village
Group Exhibition: Hi-Dose
On view through October 11, 2025
Thirty artists working across multiple disciplines explore depth of human realities through various media, with practices embracing craft, surrealism, abstraction, and maximalism that function as glimpses into transcendence and profound changes in perception.
Norton Simon Museum | Pasadena
Retrospect: 50 Years at the Norton Simon Museum
On view through January 12, 2026
Celebrating five decades of art, education, research, and community from the museum's 1975 founding, featuring rare archival photos, major acquisitions chronology, and documentation of the campus evolution coinciding with the Exterior Improvement Project.
The Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University | Orange
Kristi Lippire: Stepanova Project – Color as Form
On view through October 3, 2025
A solo exhibition exploring Soviet Constructivism and Varvara Stepanova's legacy through expansive handprinted wallpapers, architectural collages, and garments that create a transhistorical dialogue between Moscow and Los Angeles while examining how memory becomes inscribed in spatial experience.
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