This month’s listing encompasses complete surveys of established artists and stellar solo reveals from the subsequent era, marking the artwork world’s return from the leisurely canine days of summer season. Chicana artist Linda Vallejo’s retrospective at Parrasch Heijnen covers 5 a long time of her work, whereas Webber Gallery mounts a recuperative present of the late under-recognized photographer and lesbian activist Tee A. Corinne. Different veteran artists embrace filmmaker Arthur Jafa, whose exhibition of recent work at Sprüth Magers is, surprisingly, his first solo present in LA, and environmental artist Lita Albuquerque, who tears up the ground at Michael Kohn Gallery, metaphorically talking. Rising artists together with Lotus L. Kang, Aria Dean, Samantha Yun Wall, and Rachael Bos current promising solo reveals — proof that the children are, certainly, all proper.
Linda Vallejo: Choose Works, 1969–2024
Parrasch Heijnen, 1326 South Boyle Avenue, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
By way of October 12
For over 5 a long time, Linda Vallejo has explored Chicanx id and ancestry, nature and spirituality, and custom and know-how by means of numerous our bodies of labor that incorporate printmaking, sculpting, portray, and set up. Her career-spanning survey gathers early constructions made out of leftover supplies and impressed by Mesoamerican structure; her Tree Folks sequence (1980–1990) of assemblages common from items of timber discovered round Los Angeles; and Make ‘Em All Mexican, during which she tinted white porcelain sculptures and photographs of mainstream popular culture icons numerous shades of wealthy brown. Her most up-to-date sequence, Self Realizing within the New Age (2023–ongoing), options pixelated portraits and abstractions that discover the connection between the human and the digital.
Rachael Bos: Useless Loop
De Boer gallery, 3311 East Pico Boulevard, Boyle Heights, Los Angeles
By way of October 12
Rachael Bos’s detailed oil work of Olympic athletes are characterised by a dry, obsessive give attention to floor, kind, texture, and pose, moderately than on the pomp and glory of the video games. In “Feedbacker No. 2” (2024), nameless gymnasts in grey leotards create a swirling star form with their arched our bodies. Even when the Chicago-based painter chooses well-known topics, as with a canvas named for Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci, it’s not athletic prowess that’s highlighted. Bos as a substitute crops the picture simply above the competitor’s nostril, pulling our consideration towards the conflict between her brown footwear and shiny purple tracksuit, and the best way she nervously wrings her palms.
Lita Albuquerque: Earth Pores and skin
Michael Kohn Gallery, 1227 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
September 12–October 19
Lita Albuquerque’s apply has lengthy concerned engagement with websites outdoors of the gallery area, courting again to “Malibu Line” (1978), a shiny blue path that linked land, sea, and sky, and her first earthwork to make use of ephemeral pigments (which she recreated earlier this yr). Earth Pores and skin reverses this relationship by bringing the panorama into the gallery, with a flooring of decomposed granite suggesting a rupture within the barrier between nature and tradition. The set up will likely be accompanied by new gestural work linking bodily motion to symbolic mark-making.
Tahnee Lonsdale: A billion tiny moons
Evening Gallery, 2276 East sixteenth Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
September 14–October 19
The enigmatic figures in Tahnee Lonsdale’s dreamy canvases hover between corporeal dissolution and apparition, as they emerge from layers of oil paint washes earlier than fading again into them. Her stylized feminine types recall modernist predecessors equivalent to Paul Klee, whereas providing up to date takes on Twentieth-century existential questions. The 13 richly coloured work on this present depict teams of girls organized in shallow, frieze-like compositions that resonate on each formal and mystical ranges.
Aria Dean: Details Price Realizing
Château Shatto, 540 North Western Avenue, East Hollywood, Los Angeles
September 14–October 26
Aria Dean examines how we ascribe that means to artwork objects, and the way these objects replicate and refract that means again to us in flip. With Details Price Realizing, her second solo exhibition at Château Shatto, Dean focuses on the huge Babylonian units from Intolerance (1916), D.W. Griffith’s sprawling historic epic made partly as a response to criticism that greeted his now-infamous movie Delivery of a Nation (1915). Deserted in an East Hollywood lot shortly after filming, the set has been cited and emulated by a spread of sources, from a Hollywood mall facade and Disney’s Hollywood Land theme park in Anaheim to the writings of Kenneth Anger and the L.A. Noire online game. Dean’s digitally fabricated sculptures have interaction with this internet of references, occupying the liminal area between phantasm and actuality, genuine and ersatz.
Samantha Yun Wall: Nothing to be afraid of
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, 7424 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles
September 21–October 26
Samantha Yun Wall borrows from East Asian and Western myths and folktales to form the subject material of her haunting ink drawings. As a Black Korean immigrant, she additionally attracts on her explicit experiences with navigating id, belonging, and otherness. With a palette of dense blacks, crisp whites, and moody grays, she depicts the outsiders, monsters, and witches — who are sometimes girls — from these cross-cultural parables, reimagining them as protagonists for the rejected, oppressed, and silenced.
Lotus L. Kang: Azaleas
Commonwealth and Council, 3006 West seventh Avenue, Suite 220, Koreatown, Los Angeles
September 21–October 26
Lotus L. Kang doesn’t create objects for viewing, per se, as a lot as poetic environments to be navigated bodily and psychologically. Juxtaposing industrial and natural supplies equivalent to metal tubing, movie strips, silicone, tatami mats, kelp, and anchovies, Kang conjures a nexus of autobiographical and cultural references, balanced between post-minimalist aesthetics and organic entropy. She usually employs risky components like unfixed photographic paper and kimchi components that recommend states of existence continuously in flux.
Tee A. Corinne: A forest hearth between us
Webber Gallery, 939 South Santa Fe Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
September 14–November 30
The late Tee A. Corinne was an influential lesbian activist, photographer, and educator who depicted queer love, eroticism, and companionship with candor and freedom in an age when it was removed from broadly accepted. She shared her data and enthusiasm by holding weeklong images workshops, dubbed “Feminist Pictures Ovulars,” on the Rootworks a lesbian commune in Southern Oregon from 1979 to 1983. A forest hearth between us presents an overdue survey of her groundbreaking work, together with swish nudes, frank scenes of queer group, and radical photographs of feminine utopia.
Arthur Jafa: nativemanson
Sprüth Magers, 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
September 14–December 14
Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa makes use of the archive as his medium, remixing, reducing, pasting, and reassembling a large spectrum of nonetheless and transferring photographs into biting commentaries on what it means to be Black in America. The centerpiece of his first solo gallery present in LA is BEN GAZARRA (2024), a revisionist minimize of the climactic scene from Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976). Jafa’s darkly comical intervention is extra incendiary and racially charged than the unique movie.
Tom Van Sant: An Earth Twin on the Digital Daybreak
18th Avenue Arts Middle, 1639 18th Avenue, Santa Monica, California
September 7–February 1, 2025
Earlier than Google Earth, there was GeoSphere. In 1988, Tom Van Sant started engaged on a pioneering digital mannequin of our planet dubbed the GeoSphere Challenge. He collaborated with scientist Dr. L. Van Warren, combining hundreds of satellite tv for pc photographs to create an correct illustration of the Earth as seen from area. The challenge grew to incorporate different components, such because the Earth Scenario Room, which mapped ecosystems and supplied information on local weather change. An Earth Twin on the Digital Daybreak highlights how Van Sant’s work provided artists, scientists, and planners a imaginative and prescient of a geographically and ecologically interconnected Earth, years earlier than the worldwide adoption of the web.