Saturday, April 5, 2025 Art Parties will certainly keep us busy. We are featuring an eclectic mix of incredible art events and performances in a variety of neighborhoods. Downtown seems to be especially busy.
April 5, 2025 Art Parties
In West Hollywood…Los Angeles Art Association holds an all day opening for a new exhibition titled Trail of Angels. The all-media group show is a celebration as well as commentary on Los Angeles as viewed by emerging artists. Juried by Elizabeth East, of L.A. Louver, the opening will be held at Gallery 825 from 10-5pm; LAAA/Gallery 825, 825 N. La Cienega Blvd. LA 90069; https://www.laaa.org
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In the Melrose Hill area…Hannah Hoffman Gallery hosts an all day opening for a new exhibition Dominique Knowles: My Beloved for All Seasons. Opening: 11am-6pm; Hannah Hoffman, 725 N Western Ave, Suite 105, LA, 90029; https://hannahhoffman.la/
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Downtown Events
Corey Helford Gallery (CHG) hosts an inner-child workshop hosted by Casey Kenny. Re-connect with your inner-child through a playful workshop. Case Kenny is author, mindfulness expert, and host of the popular podcast New Mindset, Who Dis? Stay for UNO Game Play. The event takes place in conjunction with CHG’s current exhibition – Toys As Art, Art Inspired By Toys. The Mattel’s 80th Anniversary Group Exhibition opened on March 15, 2025. It is presented in partnership with Mattel Creations, Mattel, Inc.’s collaboration platform. Find out more about this exhibition on the CHG Mattel 80th Anniversary Exhibition Feature.
You’ll find Toys As Art, Art Inspired By Toys in the main gallery, while there is a Mattel Creations space set up in Gallery 3. Then in Gallery 2 a solo exhibition titled Or You Could Panic, by British artist Ben Ashton is on view as well. Workshop: 2-3:30pm; Corey Helford Gallery, 571 S. Anderson St. LA, 90033; https://coreyhelfordgallery.com
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Another fun event in DTLA…Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is back at the Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The appearance is part of a Southern California multi-year residency. The performance will include contemporary premieres and classics as well as Mr. Ailey’s signature work Revelations. The performances feature two different programs, so be sure to check the website for which show that you would like to see. Performance: 2pm and 7:30pm; The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Avenue. LA, 90012; https://www.musiccenter.org
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More Downtown
Band of Vices offers us a group show titled THIS PLACE MEANT. Curated by Wade Osei Pryor and Tunmi Da Silva, the exhibition features the work of six artists from Los Angeles and beyond. It examines the meaning and remaking of home. Artists include: Kaléa Daniels, Adji Dieye, Mark Steven Greenfield, hooz, Juniper Jones, Dominique Moody and Luis Napoles Moreno. Art Party: 3-5pm; Band of Vices, 1700 S. Santa Fe Avenue, Suite 371, LA, 90021; https://www.bandofvices.com
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One more Downtown…ICA LA celebrates spring with an open house that includes the debut of two exhibitions. Enjoy [siccer], an immersive sound and video installation by artist and choreographer Will Rawls in main gallery. This work utilizes dance, stop-motion animation, and also sound to investigate the role of media in constructing, exploiting, and erasing the Black body. On view in the Project Room is Through the Descent, Like the Return, a new commission by artist Jackie Castillo. Furthermore, this artist spotlights the relationship between labor, city infrastructure, collective memory, and the isolation and anxiety felt by the working class.
Finally, at 4pm Will Rawls will be in conversation with ICA LA Senior Curator, Amanda Sroka, followed by a public reception from 5-7pm featuring music, food, and drinks. At 3pm, prior to the public celebrations, ICA LA Members are invited to join us for a private curator-led exhibition walkthrough with Sroka and the exhibiting artists. RSVP on the website. Walkthrough: 3pm; Art Talk: 4pm; Art Party: 5-7pm. ICA LA, 1717 E.7th St, LA, 90021; https://www.theicala.org
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Santa Monica
Then head to Bergamot Station…Richard Heller Gallery throws an opening art party to celebrate Sean Norvet: Neighborhood Watch. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Art Party: 3-5pm; Richard Heller Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue B-5A, Santa Monica, CA 90404; http://richardhellergallery.com
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William Turner Gallery throws an art party for a new exhibition titled Vapor Wave by Jimi Gleason.
VAPOR WAVE, 2024, SILVER DEPOSIT & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, 53” X 48”
Jimi Gleason’s latest series utilizes a rich vocabulary of materials and styles. The artist has built up gossamer thin layers of iridescent paint to create a series of paintings that are engagingly enigmatic. Read more about the exhibition in the William Turner Jimi Gleason Feature. Art Party: 5-8pm. William Turner Gallery, 2525 Michigan Avenue E-1, Santa Monica, CA 90404; http://williamturnergallery.com
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Also in Santa Monica..While you are at Bergamot Station (for the two above events), stop by Copro Gallery to enjoy an opening art party for Ed Binkley’s Beasties Big and Small. Art Party: 6-9pm; Copro Gallery (T-5), Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica; http://www.copronason.com/
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Inglewood
Serious Topics holds an art reception for the opening of Transits by artist David Humphrey. The solo show will feature new paintings on canvas in the gallery. However, you can also find acrylic on vinyl works hung outside on the chain link fence down the driveway. Art Party: 3-6pm; Serious Topics, 1207 N. La Brea Ave., Ste. 300, LA 90302; https://www.serious-topics.com/
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LA Theatre
In East Hollywood…You have two more chances to catch Adanza (a matinee and an evening performance) as it closes tonight. The show is written and directed by Brooke Ferri and Joseph (Jilbér) Ferri and currently running at Eastwood Performing Arts Center. The new musical combines aerial artists, music, dance, circus, storytelling as well as bubbles. It is a story about exploration with a lesson that it’s never too late to be the person are meant to be. In addition to aerial acts, the show also includes juggling, unicycles, breakdancing, flipping, animation, bubbles, glow sticks, drumming, audience participation and more. Melissa Carvajal, and Vicki Liv choreograph the show, while Brooke Ferri and Jilbér Ferri compose the musical and write the book.
Sharyn Scott, Adanza Aerialist; Photo by Keven Teichner; courtesy of Adanza
The cast includes: Joseph (Jilbér) Ferri, Bella Hamm, Alex Honorato; and Features Cristina Malakhai, Elizabeth Kate Hernandez, Jorchual Gregory Vargas, Melissa Carvajal, Sage Buchalter, Tate Navarro, Tristan Nguyen, Sharyn Scott, Gonsalo Bboy Chalo, and Christopher Yates. Performance: 3pm and 7pm; Tickets run $46; Eastwood Performing Arts Center, 1089 N. Oxford Ave., LA 90029; https://www.adanzamusical.com/
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Mid City
Pace Gallery debuts Robert Irwin in Los Angeles with an art talk featuring Marc Glimcher, Michael Govan, and Jarl Mohn. The exhibition includes work produced by Robert Irwin between 1960 and 1971. It is also the first exhibition of Irwin’s work mounted by Pace since the artist’s death in 2023 and his first posthumous presentation in California. Art Talk: 4:30 – 5:30pm, reception to follow. Pace Gallery, 1201 South La Brea Ave., LA, 90019; https://www.pacegallery.com/
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In Santa Monica…Pamela Schoenberg, owner/director of dnj Gallery, and Ted Meyer, founder of “ArtandMed,” present Spontaneous Activity. The group show by artists with Parkinson’s Disease is part of the “Art and Med” program at dnj Gallery, is a desire to educate, spread awareness and also raise funds for chronic health conditions. Art Party: 5-8pm; dnj Gallery, 3015 Ocean Park Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405; https://www.dnjgallery.net
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In Hancock Park…LAUNCH Gallery is proud to present solo exhibitions by Cindy Craig and Hedy Torres whose work challenges common prejudices, labels and stereotypes.
At a time when prevailing headwinds attempt to diminish the hard work, vital importance and human rights of women and immigrants, Cindy and Hedy elevate these vital populations through their poignant, beautiful and often humorous paintings and mixed media creations. This exhibition is a raucous celebration of identity through new works demonstrating originality, complexity and thoughtful reflection. Art Party: 5-8pm; Launch, 170 S. La Brea Ave. LA, 90036; https://launchla.org
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In North Hollywood…Carter Sexton hosts an art opening to celebrate Earth Day. The art party will feature, drinks, snacks, as well as nature themed art. Art Party: 5-7pm. Carter Sexton Artists Materials, 5308 Laurel Canyon Blvd., Valley Village, 91607; https://www.cartersexton.com/
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Culver City
Blum Los Angeles celebrates new exhibitions. The Anansean World of Robert Colescott is curated by Umar Rashid. The gakkert will host an art talk with Sandra Jackson-Dumont and curator Umar Rashid. The conversation will be moderated by JJ Strawn. Moreover, a solo show featuring the art of Kazuo Kadonaga will also debut tonight. Art Talk: 4pm; Art Party: 5-7pm; Blum Los Angeles, 2727 La Cienega Blvd., LA, 90034; https://www.blum-gallery.com
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In the West Adams area…Good Mother Gallery Los Angeles introduces a new exhibition titled Bidet Duvet. The two-person exhibition features New York-based artists Henry Swanson and Sam Branden. The exhibition brings both of the artist’s distinct yet conceptually aligned practices to the West Coast, creating a collision of humor, abstraction, and cultural nostalgia.
In addition Talking Fondly by Dan Climan also opens. The solo exhibition depicts the chronological story of a single day, from sunrise to the depths of midnight, and looping back around to dawn. Using saturated, 70s-esque tones, nostalgic motifs, and anonymous silhouettes, Climan creates atmospheric pieces infused with warmth and longing.
Dan Climan, Exceptionally Generous, 2025
Talking Fondly allows the viewer to finish the story or complete the painting as the images are cropped and left open to possibilities. Art Party: 5-7pm; Good Mother Gallery, 5103 W Adams Blvd, LA, 90016; https://goodmothergallery.com
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West Adams
Thinkspace Projects throws an art party to celebrate the opening of new exhibitions. Enjoy Nuno Viegas: Storybook, Kevin Peterson: Mist, as well as Wang Yalong:Beyond the Stars. Art Party: 6-10pm; Thinkspace Projects, 4207 W. Jefferson Blvd. & 4217 W. Jefferson Blvd., LA 90016; https://thinkspaceprojects.com
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Hollywood Art Parties
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to announce Prelude to the Sun, a solo exhibition of new work by Sandra Cinto in Los Angeles, on view through July 2, 2025. This will be the artist’s eleventh show with the gallery and also the second in Los Angeles. Art Party: 6-8pm; Tanya Bonakdar, 1010 North Highland Avenue, LA, 90038; http://tanyabonakdargallery.com
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Also in Hollywood…Regen Projects debuts Dark-Pivot, London-based artist Rachel Jones’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Los Angeles. The exhibition’s new paintings pose fundamental questions about how the body–and traces of its movement–is comprehended differently when pushed beyond its figurative or abstract limits. Powerfully wielding negative space alongside color palettes and motifs drawn from cartoons, Jones recalibrates the psychic motor that drives our perception of bodily forms and traditional landscape painting, carving out new terrains between the real and the imaginary.
Art Party: 6-8pm; Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Blvd., LA 90038; https://www.regenprojects.com
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Megan Mulrooney
In West Hollywood…Megan Mulrooney presents new exhibitions. Enjoy Nick Taggart From Camden Town to Tinseltown: 1976 – Megan Mulrooney1983, Drake Carr: West Hollywood Walk-Ins, as well as Nicolas Shake: Ecstatic Membrane.
While this is Nick Taggart’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, the paintings and works on paper are from the years 1976 to 1983. Drake Carr creates theatrically stylized portraits using a palette dominated by soft pinks and blues. And finally, Nicolas Shake’s work engages with the material and temporal traces left by language and objects. Art Party: 5-8pm; Megan Mulrooney, 7313 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046; https://www.meganmulrooney.com
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Miracle Mile
Anat Ebgi Gallery presents a group show titled Scratches on the Film. Artists include: Alex Prager, Amie Dicke, Janet Werner, Mark McKnight, Stephanie Temma Hier, Suzy Lake, and Tammi Campbell. Art Party: 6-8pm; Anat Ebgi, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, LA 90048; https://anatebgi.com
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In Mid City…Nazarian / Curcio presents How Far is Soon?, Widline Cadet’s debut exhibition with the gallery. It draws from her family’s immigration from Haiti to the US and includes photography, video, sound, sculpture, and installation. Additionally, Befarmā / After You a solo exhibition featuring new fiber-based works by Hangama Amiri also opens. This marks the artist’s West Coast debut. Art Party: 6-8pm; Nazarian / Curcio, 616 North La Brea Avenue LA, 90036; https://nazariancurcio.com
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Cheremoya
In the Glassell Park area…Cheremoya presents an opening reception for a duo exhibition. The paintings by Calla Donofrio coordinate with sculptures by Kento Saisho. The show examines conversions, registered here as manifold shifts in state. Art Party: 6-8pm; Cheremoya, 2700 W Ave 34, LA 90065; https://www.cheremoya.la
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