This month’s exhibits span the aquatic, familial, and celestial to have interaction with custom and historical past, tracing threads of connection in some instances and difficult the outdated orders in others. Eden reimagines the biblical backyard as a radical paradise for queer and trans liberation, whereas Andrés Janacua and Miller Robinson draw on Indigenous strategies and views of their poetic, autobiographical works. Shiva Ahmadi’s watercolors incorporate Persian myths with the modern historical past of Iran, and Umar Rashid’s epic postmodern historical past work provide an alternate timeline of the Americas wherein the colonizers get their comeuppance — and the vanquished turn out to be the victors.
Eden
Final Initiatives, 206 South Avenue 20, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
By means of December 13

Eden is an ample group present that reimagines the biblical Backyard of Eden as a web site of queer and trans liberation. Curated by Emily Lucid, the exhibition encompasses a various array of media, together with portray, sculpture, video, images, and efficiency, forming aesthetic and conceptual connections like creeping vines. Just a few notable works embody Poodle’s (also referred to as RB Moran) assemblage fountain, “Cease Trying At My Dick” (2024); Genevive Belleveau’s “Your Grasp Gardner” Fetish Put on (2024); Jules Garder’s ceramic Large Boot (2023); and Charles Kelman’s untitled concrete and metal mild rig that transforms the modest storefront gallery into an exuberant dancefloor.
Shiva Ahmadi: Tangle
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 5247 West Adams Boulevard, West Adams, Los Angeles
By means of December 21

Iranian-born American artist Shiva Ahmadi’s fantastical watercolors draw on inventive traditions and mythologies from Iran, Southwest Asia, and North Africa, leading to symbolic work grounded in the true world. The works in Tangle depict feminine figures in botanic or aquatic environments, their hair flowing out in waves of vitality, connecting them to surrounding natural world. These ethereal work are accompanied by hand-etched stress cookers, alluding to the home toll of regional conflicts, and the fascinating animated movie “Marooned” (2021), whose story conveys common themes of hope, betrayal, and resilience.
Umar Rashid: The Kingdom of the Two Californias. La Época del Totalitarismo Half 2.
Blum, 2727 South La Cienega Boulevard, Culver Metropolis, Los Angeles
By means of December 21

That is the second chapter of Umar Rashid’s ongoing epic sequence The Epoch of Totalitarianism, which follows fictional colonizers, the “Frenglish,” as they battle to increase their empire throughout the Americas in the course of the nineteenth century. Rashid’s imagined narrative, which he has been establishing for the previous 15 years, fuses historical past portray with sci-fi, cartoon imagery, graffiti, and automobile tradition. These anachronistic, revisionist scenes wrestle with darkish episodes of repression and genocide in our nation’s historical past and hint their echoes via to the current day.
Andrés Janacua: My Dad Drips
839, 839 North Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
By means of December 21

P’Urhépecha artist Andrés Janacua’s woven works navigate between craft and wonderful artwork, custom and style. Working predominantly with toquillo, or plastic lanyard materials, Janacua weaves patterns that recall Minimalism and geometric abstraction, in addition to Indigenous designs and artwork types. The exhibition’s title, My Dad Drips, symbolizes these manifold references, suggesting a visceral connection to household and a trendy extravagance, or “drip.”
Miller Robinson: Innies, Outies and Inbetweenies
Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, 7424 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles
By means of December 21

Miller Robinson is pushed by a boundless materials curiosity, incorporating pure supplies, industrially manufactured objects, prescription drugs, bodily fluids, vegetation, and handcrafts into its sculptural assemblages. (Robinson is a two-spirit artist of Karuk, Yurok, and combined European descent who makes use of it/its/itself pronouns.) Its heterodox juxtapositions are intimately autobiographical in a poetic reasonably than narrative method, revealing sides of the artist’s id, heritage, and the way it pertains to others and the earth. Salmon pores and skin and silicone, glass, tar, blood, feathers, and clay all play roles in Robinson’s cosmology, tracing delicate webs of group and care.
Dave Smith: L.A. BOUND: Work from the Nineteen Nineties
The Trophy Room LA, 4134 Verdugo Street, Glassell Park, Los Angeles
By means of December 21

When British-born artist Dave Smith moved to Los Angeles in 1990, he turned fascinated by town’s contradictions. He labored as a billboard painter and scenic artist in Hollywood, whereas on the similar time exploring LA’s multifarious identities in his personal work, juxtaposing hazy sunsets, palm bushes, city sprawl, and the ever present grids of indicators promoting nail salons, pizza parlors, liquor shops, and gun outlets. L.A. Certain presents a shrewd imaginative and prescient of town from the angle of a wide-eyed latest arrival.
Erica Ryan Stallones: Three’s a Crowd
Central Server Works, 334 Primary Road, Downtown, Los Angeles
By means of December 22

LA artist Erica Ryan Stallones examines the bonds and stresses of household and group, particularly within the context of motherhood. The eight new work in Three’s a Crowd deal with these themes via a filter of fantasy and sci-fi, with an air of nostalgia for Nineteen Seventies afternoon TV motion pictures. In “We get collectively” (2024), a gaggle of aliens sits round a front room, sipping espresso and avoiding one another’s glances, whereas the green-skinned family members in “The factor about my household” (2024) are supernaturally peculiar, reasonably than conventionally dysfunctional.
Candida Höfer: Europa / America
Sean Kelly, 1357 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
By means of January 11, 2025

German photographer Candida Höfer is greatest identified for her breathtaking, vibrant photographs of inside areas, characterised by the technical precision and formal rigor of the Düsseldorf College. Curated by architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Europa / America options 10 pictures taken between 1993 and 2015 that seize culturally and architecturally vital buildings on each side of the Atlantic, together with the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Artwork, the Teatro Comunale di Carpi in Italy, and the Benediktinerstift Altenburg monastery in Austria. Though ostensibly devoid of individuals, the pictures of those pristine, airless areas converse volumes concerning the societies that created them.
Giggle, Cry, Struggle!… with the Guerrilla Women
Past the Streets, 434 North La Brea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles
By means of January 18, 2025

For practically 40 years, the feminist artwork collective Guerrilla Women has used subversive humor and irreverence to problem gender and race-based inequities of the institutional artwork world. It’s considerably shocking, then, that Giggle, Cry, Struggle!… with the Guerrilla Women marks the nameless group’s first solo present on the West Coast. The exhibition contains avenue posters, banners, video, and installations spanning their total profession, from historic campaigns to new work, illustrating the enduring want for his or her irreverent number of prankster activism.
Loie Hollowell: Overview Impact
Tempo, 1201 South La Brea Avenue, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
By means of January 18, 2025

Overview Impact, Loie Hollowell’s first present in Southern California, showcases six new colossal work exploring coloration and geometry via overlapping round types, which seem to increase from the canvas in three dimensions. Named for the astronomical phenomenon of viewing the Earth from area, the eight-by-six-foot works recommend celestial in addition to bodily our bodies, particularly throughout being pregnant and childbirth, frequent themes throughout Hollowell’s oeuvre. Postpartum our bodies impressed the artist to create an accompanying suite of 16 small work, that includes casts of the nipples of her breastfeeding pals.