Eden

Latest projects206 South Avenue 20, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
Until December 13

Eden is a profuse group exhibition that reimagines the biblical Garden of Eden as a site of queer and trans liberation. Curated by Emily Lucid, the exhibition features a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, photography and performance, forming aesthetic and conceptual connections like creeping vines. Some notable works include Poodle’s (also known as RB Moran) Assembly Fountain, “Stop Looking At My Dick” (2024); “Your Master Gardner Fetish Wear” by Geneviève Belleveau (2022); The ceramic “Big Boot” by Jules Garder (2023); and Charles Kelman’s untitled concrete and steel light platform that transforms the modest storefront gallery into an exuberant dance floor.

Shiva Ahmadi: Entanglement

Shoshana Wayne Gallery5247 West Adams Boulevard, West Adams, Los Angeles
Until December 21

Iranian-American artist Shiva Ahmadi’s fantastical watercolors draw inspiration from the artistic traditions and mythologies of Iran, Southwest Asia, and North Africa, resulting in symbolic paintings anchored in the real world. The works in Tangle depict female figures in botanical or aquatic environments, their hair flowing in waves of energy, connecting them to the surrounding flora and fauna. These ethereal paintings are accompanied by hand-engraved pressure cookers, alluding to the national devastation of regional conflicts, and the captivating animated film “Marooned” (2021), whose story conveys universal themes of hope, of betrayal and resilience.

Oumar Rashid: The Kingdom of the Two Californias. The Age of Totalitarianism, Part 2.

Bluem2727 South La Cienega Boulevard, Culver City, Los Angeles
Until December 21

This is the second chapter of Umar Rashid’s ongoing epic series. The era of totalitarianismwhich follows fictional colonizers, the “Franglais”, as they struggle to expand their empire across the Americas during the 19th century. Rashid’s imagined narrative, which he has been building for 15 years, fuses history painting with science fiction, cartoon imagery, graffiti and car culture. These anachronistic and revisionist scenes confront the dark episodes of repression and genocide in the history of our nation and find their echoes up to the present day.

Andrés Janacua: My father is sinking

839839 North Cherokee Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Until December 21

The woven works of artist P’Urhépecha Andrés Janacua navigate between craftsmanship and fine arts, tradition and fashion. Work mainly with toquilloor plastic lanyard material, Janacua weaves patterns that are reminiscent of minimalism and geometric abstraction, as well as indigenous designs and art forms. The title of the exhibition, My father is sinkingsymbolizes these multiple references, suggesting a visceral connection with family and a stylish extravagance, or “drip”.

Miller Robinson: Innies, Outies and Inbetweenies

Timothy Hawkinson Gallery7424 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles
Until December 21

Miller Robinson is driven by a boundless material curiosity, incorporating natural materials, industrially manufactured objects, pharmaceuticals, bodily fluids, plants and artisanal objects into his sculptural assemblages. (Robinson is a two-spirit artist of mixed Karuk, Yurok, and European descent who uses his own pronouns.) His heterodox juxtapositions are intimately autobiographical in a poetic rather than narrative manner, revealing facets of identity, heritage, of the artist. and how he relates to others and the earth. Salmon skin and silicone, glass, tar, blood, feathers, and clay all play a role in Robinson’s cosmology, tracing delicate networks of community and care.

David Smith: THE BOUND: Paintings from the 1990s

The LA Trophy Room4134 Verdugo Road, Glassell Park, Los Angeles
Until December 21

When British-born artist Dave Smith moved to Los Angeles in 1990, he became fascinated by the city’s contradictions. He worked as a billboard painter and scenic artist in Hollywood, while exploring the multiple identities of Los Angeles in his own paintings, juxtaposing hazy sunsets, palm trees, urban sprawl, and the omnipresent grids of billboards announcing the nail salons, pizzerias, alcoholic drinks. stores and gunsmiths. Related to Los Angeles presents an astute view of the city from the perspective of a wide-eyed recent arrival.

Erica Ryan Stallones: Three’s a Crowd

Central Server Works334 Main Street, Downtown Los Angeles
Until December 22

Los Angeles artist Erica Ryan Stallones examines the bonds and stresses of family and community, particularly in the context of motherhood. The eight new paintings of Three is a crowd approach these themes through a filter of fantasy and science fiction, with an air of nostalgia for the afternoon TV movies of the 1970s. In “We Meet Together” (2024), a group of aliens sit around of a living room, sipping coffee and avoiding each other’s gazes, while the green-skinned relatives in “My Family Thing” (2024) are supernaturally peculiar, rather strange. than conventionally dysfunctional.

Candida Höfer: Europe / America

Sean Kelly1357 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Until January 11, 2025

German photographer Candida Höfer is best known for her stunning and vibrant images of interior spaces, characterized by the technical precision and formal rigor of the Düsseldorf school. Curated by architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, Europe/America features 10 photographs taken between 1993 and 2015 that capture buildings of cultural and architectural significance on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Masonic Temple of Philadelphia, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Teatro Comunale di Carpi in Italy and the Benediktinerstift monastery in Altenburg in Austria. Although seemingly devoid of people, the images of these pristine, airless spaces speak volumes about the societies that created them.

Laugh, cry, fight!… with the Guerrilla Girls

Beyond the streets434 North La Brea Avenue, Fairfax, Los Angeles
Until January 18, 2025

For nearly 40 years, feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has used subversive humor and irreverence to challenge gender and race-based inequalities in the institutional art world. It is therefore somewhat surprising that Laugh, cry, fight!… with the Guerrilla Girls marks the anonymous group’s first solo exhibition on the West Coast. The exhibition includes street posters, banners, videos and installations spanning their entire career, from historic campaigns to new works, illustrating the enduring need for their irreverent variety of prank activism.

Loie Hollowell: synthesis effect

Pace1201 South La Brea Avenue, Mid-Wilshire, Los Angeles
Until January 18, 2025

Effect overviewLoie Hollowell’s first exhibition in Southern California, features six colossal new paintings exploring color and geometry through overlapping circular shapes, which appear to extend from the canvas in three dimensions. Named for astronomical phenomenon of viewing the Earth from spacethe eight-by-six-foot works suggest celestial and physical bodies, particularly during pregnancy and childbirth, common themes in Hollowell’s work. Postpartum bodies inspired the artist to create a suite of 16 small paintings, depicting casts of the nipples of her breastfeeding friends.

Editor’s note, 3/12/2024, 10:45 a.m. EST: An earlier version of this article misspelled the name of the artist Geneviève Belleveau and misidentified the year of her work “Your Master Gardener Fetish Wear” (2022). These two errors have been corrected.