Manoucher Yektai at Karma
The Karma gallery’s "Beginnings" exhibition showcases Manoucher Yektai’s early work, highlighting his thick impasto technique that prioritizes tactile perception over purely visual analysis. Curated by Negar Azimi, the show assembles paintings from the first two decades of Yektai’s career, revealing a dialogue between abstract expressionism, Persian miniature traditions, and European modernism. Critics note the physicality of his canvases as a counterpoint to today’s screen‑dominated visual culture, echoing D.H. Lawrence’s call for an "intuitive awareness of touch." The exhibition positions Yektai as a bridge between mid‑century abstraction and contemporary concerns about materiality.
Desperate, Scared, But Social at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art
The Orange County Museum of Art’s 2025 California Biennial, titled *Desperate, Scared, But Social*, draws its name from Emily’s Sassy Lime’s debut album and uses teenage anxiety and social connection as its core theme. Curated by Courtenay Finn, Christopher Y....
Alex Heilbron at As-Is
Alex Heilbron’s solo exhibition *All Systems Fail* at Los Angeles’ as‑is gallery transforms internet‑sourced images into large‑scale, hand‑glitched paintings. Using vector files, vinyl stencils and layered paint, she creates distorted grids, pixelated flowers and smeared code that reveal the materiality...
Eddie Kang at Gana Art Los Angeles
Eddie Kang’s solo exhibition, "Tale of Tales," opens at Gana Art Los Angeles from February 21 to April 11, 2026. The show presents whimsical, pastel‑toned comic‑style paintings and sculptures that deliberately avoid narrative continuity. A highlight is the "Draw your own map" series,...
Tristan Unrau at David Kordansky Gallery
Tristan Unrau’s debut solo exhibition, *Hopes and Fears*, opens at David Kordansky Gallery, showcasing oil paintings that originate from AI‑generated reinterpretations of art history, cinema and children’s imagery. The artist feeds hundreds of AI outputs into his process, hand‑picking the...
Curating Around Social Urgencies: How Artists Refuse Quietism
The Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2025 biennial opens with a recreation of Alonzo Davis’s 1984 Olympic mural, yet the curators strip it of its original displacement context. Throughout the show, many artists confront housing, policing, and labor struggles, but the...