Los Angeles
December 14, 2022

Two Artist Friends Look to Their Roots for the Future

Both Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink refuse to adhere to traditional artistic hierarchies, an attitude they have shared throughout their 30-year friendship. | Matt Stromberg 

Evidence of Things Unseen
Nov. 5–Dec. 17
Track 16 Gallery, 1206 Maple Ave, #1005 (track16.com)

COMMUNITY & COLLABORATION

When a Solo Exhibition Is Created by a Community

Maria Maea’s All in Time continues an intergenerational conversation and exemplifies the artist’s process, not simply the finished pieces. | Joelle E. Mendoza (JEM)

Maria Maea: All in Time
Oct. 28–Dec. 17
Murmurs, 1411 Newton Street, Fashion District (murmurs.la)

Commemorating the 2020 Artsakh War in LA’s Armenian Community

“Shelter,” a new installation by She Loves Collective, features 3,906 ribbons with the names of Armenian soldiers who lost their lives. | Matt Stromberg 

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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group, 1938–1945
Dec. 18–Jun. 19, 2023
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile (lacma.org)

Another World, which travels to LACMA from the Crocker Art Museum, is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the Transcendental Painting Group, whose members sought to channel another world beyond the physical through symbolic and evocative abstractions. 

Bob Thompson: This House is Mine
Oct. 11–Jan. 8, 2023
Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood (hammer.ucla.edu)

Before his brief career was cut short by his untimely death at the age of 28, Bob Thompson had established himself as an incredibly prolific painter, who created over 1000 works in the span of eight years. This House is Mine is the first museum show dedicated to his work in over two decades.

See the full list of recommended shows in our Los Angeles Art Guide for December 2022.

CLOSING SOON

Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising
Sept. 4–Dec. 18
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile (lacma.org)

"In an attention economy, advertising is inseparable not just from art, but from life itself, shaping the things we buy, the things we read, the things we eat, the way we spend our time, and even the way we think. If there is an object you have ever desired in your life, rest assured that someone in the advertising industry made money convincing you of exactly that."

— AX Mina

Read the review.

Franklin Williams – Meditative Spectacle: Paintings 1974–76
Nov. 6–Dec. 23
Parker Gallery, 2441 Glendower Avenue, Los Feliz (parkergallery.com)

With his heavily-patterned sewn and stitched works, Franklin Williams embodied the eccentric and whimsical ethos of the Nut Art movement that emerged in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Meditative Spectacle features paintings from the mid-70s, some never shown before, that represent a period of creative growth and experimentation.