Los Angeles spends this Second Saturday of Fall art season looking through pictures rather than at them. At Marshall Gallery in Bergamot Station, Fabiola Menchelli has folded two dozen sheets of chromogenic paper by hand in total darkness and exposed them without a camera — each unique work seated in a color-matched shadowbox and hung in a blacked-out room, so the light inside the picture is the only light in the room. A few doors down, William Turner Gallery brings back the artist who opened it in 1991: Greg Miller’s new paintings press found print material, photorealist passages, gestural marks and collage into single crowded surfaces built from a century of American advertising, comics, signage and Hollywood copy.
Opening today in Beverly Hills, Gagosian gives Jia Aili his first solo in the city and his first with the gallery since 2019, introducing what the painter calls parallel painting — two pictorial systems held in one frame without either being allowed to win. Also opening today, Shoshana Wayne Gallery presents Heide Fasnacht’s first solo with the gallery, in which damaged archival photographs are rebuilt in printer ink and acrylic laid down like sediment, until the injury to the original becomes the subject rather than the obstacle. And on Saturday in Hollywood, Nazarian / Curcio hangs fifteen new Bridget Mullen paintings — a fourth solo in which bodies and motifs mutate from canvas to canvas, refusing to settle into the shapes the eye keeps proposing for them.
See the full lineup below.
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Featured Exhibitions
Marshall Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Fabiola Menchelli: our sharp line of sight
September 11 – November 7, 2026
@marshall.gallery
Menchelli’s third solo with the gallery gathers roughly two dozen unique chromogenic works made without a camera — sheets of photographic paper folded by hand in total darkness, exposed to light, then set into custom shadowboxes color-matched to whatever the paper gave back. The gallery has darkened the room to show them, which turns the encounter into something closer to looking at a light source than at a photograph: the fold reads as an edge, the edge as a horizon, the whole surface as a landscape that was never in front of a lens. Works from the artist’s Queer Horizons series recently entered the Getty’s collection, and the argument here is the one those made — that a photograph can be a record of light meeting a surface and nothing else, and still hold a view.
William Turner Gallery | Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
Greg Miller: What’s Goin’ On
September 12 – November 7, 2026
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Greg Miller was the first artist William Turner showed when the gallery opened in 1991, and thirty-five years on he is still building pictures the same way — found paper and printed matter laid into the surface, photorealist passages worked over the top, gestural marks cutting across both. The source material is postwar American vernacular at its loudest: advertising, comic panels, roadside signage, Hollywood publicity, the language a century of commerce used to talk to itself. What accumulates is less collage than compression — layers pressed until the fragments stop competing and start reading as a single weathered surface, the way a wall in this city looks after enough decades of being posted over.
Gagosian | Beverly Hills
Seeing Through: Jia Aili’s Parallel Paintings
September 10 – October 10, 2026
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Jia Aili’s first solo exhibition in Beverly Hills — and his first with Gagosian since 2019 — arrives under a title that doubles as an instruction. The works the artist calls parallel paintings hold two pictorial systems in the same frame at once, a figurative order and an abstract one running alongside each other with neither permitted to resolve, so the eye is left crossing between them rather than resting in one. Jia has spent two decades painting post-industrial landscape and the isolated figure inside it; here the landscape is the picture’s own construction, and what you are asked to see through is the surface itself.
Shoshana Wayne Gallery | West Adams, Los Angeles
Heide Fasnacht: Nature Once Removed
September 10 – October 31, 2026
@shoshanawayne
Fasnacht’s first solo with the gallery begins with archival photographs that have already been hurt — creased, faded, torn, chemically degraded by whatever storage they survived — and rebuilds them in printer ink and acrylic, layer over layer, until the damage becomes the subject rather than the thing to be repaired. The nature in the title arrives at several removes: once through the camera that recorded it, again through the decay of the print that held it, a third time through the painter’s hand. What is left is landscape as sediment — a picture of a picture of a place, each stratum admitting how much was lost on the way down.
Nazarian / Curcio | Hollywood, Los Angeles
Bridget Mullen: Who Needs Muscles If Nothing Is Heavy?
September 12 – October 24, 2026
@nazariancurcio
Fifteen new paintings from the New York–based Mullen, her fourth solo with the gallery, in which a small vocabulary of recurring motifs — limbs, faces, doubled and tripled forms — is put through enough variation that the eye stops trying to identify and starts trying to keep up. Mullen paints the moment perception fails to settle: a shape that is a hand until it is a mouth, a figure that has traded a body part with the figure beside it, mutation treated not as horror but as the ordinary condition of looking at something long enough. The title is a joke with a real question inside it — what holds a body together when nothing in the picture has any weight.
Also On View
Bergamot Station
William T. Carson: Time Out of Time — William T. Carson · Nüart Gallery · September 12 – October 3, 2026 · @nuartgallery
West Hollywood
Jim McHugh: Still At It? — Jim McHugh · Leica Gallery LA · Through October 16, 2026 · @leicagalleryla
Ry Rocklen: Desert Lenses — Ry Rocklen · Wilding Cran Gallery · September 12 – October 24, 2026 · @wildingcrangallery
Mid-Wilshire
John Baldessari: Sculptures — John Baldessari · Sprüth Magers · September 11 – October 24, 2026 · @spruethmagers
Manipulation — Delbar Azari, Richard Bruland, Courtney Colgan & Lori Nielson · LAUNCH LA · September 12 – October 10, 2026 · @launch_la
Culver City
Alexa Guariglia: Open Sesame | Franziska Goes: Seeds and Circles — Alexa Guariglia & Franziska Goes · Moskowitz Bayse · September 12 – October 24, 2026 · @moskowitzbayse
Hollywood
Xingzi Gu: Periphery Dreaming — Xingzi Gu · Make Room · September 12 – October 10, 2026 · @makeroom.la
Lenworth McIntosh: Come When Mi Call Yu | Adrienne Elise Tarver: She who sits — Lenworth McIntosh & Adrienne Elise Tarver · OCHI · September 12 – October 10, 2026 · @ochigallery
Marley Freeman: worthless serpentine — Marley Freeman · Parker Gallery · September 12 – October 31, 2026 · @parker.gallery
Riverside
Dispatches: The Photography of Douglas McCulloh, 1990–2025 — Douglas McCulloh · UCR ARTS, California Museum of Photography · September 12 – December 20, 2026 · @ucrarts
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