Well it is the kick off of the fall art season. September 6 2025 art parties and events are a bit busy, but nothing like what is to come on next week (Saturday, September 13, 2025). So get ready for a big weekend.
Today, Bergamot Station hosts its fall open house, see below for selected gallery events. Park and enjoy events at multiple galleries. I am sure additional galleries will decide at the last minute to open for the event. Moreover we are featuring openings in Culver City, DTLA and we have some theater too.
September 6, 2025 Art Parties & Events
Get ready for the Open Gallery event at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica. As always, I would recommend heading there later in the day when events start picking up. However, if you want to strictly purchase art, arrive at noon as it is notoriously quiet in the early part of the day. We have also divided the events between official opening reception so you can plan your day and night a bit easier.
12:00am – 5:00pm Peter Fetterman Gallery Nouvelle Vague: French Photography from the 1950s & 1960s
12:00am – 6:00pm: Lois Lambert Gallery, the Gallery of Functional Art as well as the Gallery Store are closing after 39 years.
12:00 – 6:00pm Marshall Gallery Rodrigo Valenzuela: MARGINAL
12:00 – 2:30pm The Green Bus Art Space Art Making Workshop with Upward Bound House
Opening Art Parties
3:00 – 5:00pm Richard Heller Gallery Eric Croes: Monkey Puzzle, Opening Reception
4:00pm Von Lintel Gallery Carolyn Marks Blackwood: On The Edge, Curator Walkthrough
4:00 – 6:00pm: Craig Krull Gallery Judithe Hernández: Todavia Sueño; Jorge A. Jiménez Jr.: Por La Mano; Pamela Smith Hudson: Time Lapse
4:00 – 7:00pm: bG Gallery Linda Smith: The Cat’s Meow, Opening Reception
4:00 – 7:00pm: Robert Berman Gallery REDUX 1995–2025: William S. Burroughs
6:00 – 8:00pm: Galerie XII Lance Deloa: Icons in Focus, Opening Reception enjoy drinks, refreshments, and exclusive conversation with the artist
7:00 – 10:00pm: Copro Gallery The BLAB! Show’s 20th Anniversary Group Show Celebration – Live Performance from Anthony Ausgang’s ‘Cat Museum’
8:00 – 10:00pm The Crow Storyectomy: END Blood Cancer
Be sure to check the Bergamot Station website for more info – https://bergamotstation.com/
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Hollywood
If you happen to love the band Oasis, Musichead Gallery currently has an art exhibition featuring images of the band. British music photographer Kevin Cummins has a solo show titled Oasis: Be Here Now.
It celebrates the return of Oasis and their long-awaited Live ’25 Tour. The gallery is scheduling free timed out visits for fans. However you must RSVP to attend. They take place prior to tonight’s concert. RSVP for to attend FREE Oasis Musichead Gallery show. Musichead Gallery, 7420 W Sunset Blvd, LA, 90046; https://musichead.com
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DTLA
The Broad hosts an International Indigenous Short Film Showcase. The event features films from around the globe. Furthermore it highlights Indigenous perspectives across narrative, documentary, and experimental genres. Curated by Bird Runningwater, who has championed Indigenous storytellers for 25 years. Thus creating representation of Indigenous peoples globally. Event: 2:30-4pm; Admission is $15; Lobby and Oculus Hall at The Broad, 221 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012; https://www.thebroad.org
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LA Theatre
Also Downtown…It’s the final weekend of & Juliet at the Ahmanson Theatre. This witty, high-energy musical turns the world’s most famous romance upside down. & Juliet dares to ask: what if Juliet’s story didn’t end with Romeo? Instead, she seizes control, rewriting her fate for a second shot at life and love—on her own terms.
Rachel-Simone (from the North American Tour) & Juliet; Photo by Matthew Murphy
Find out more about it on the & Juliet at the Ahmanson Feature. Or Read the ETG & Juliet Review on our art inspired travel site – EatTravelGo.com; Performances: 2pm & 8pm; Ahmanson Theatre, 135 North Grand Avenue, LA, 90012; CenterTheatreGroup.org
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Culver City
Billis/Williams Gallery hosts an opening for two solo exhibitions by Brian Ida as well as Wes Hempel. While Ida works with with ink, paint, pencil, pen, resin, wax, paper, canvas, and panel, Hempel, Hempel portrays imaginary film stills. The twelve paintings in the exhibition were based on a Science Fiction screenplay, titled Regression, developed by Wes Hempel’s uncle in the 1950s. Event: 3-6pm; Billis/Williams Gallery, 2716 S. La Cienega Blvd, LA, 90034; https://www.billiswilliams.com
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Free Theater in the Park
The City of West Hollywood and Coeurage Ensemble present Pericles at Kings Road Park. The interactive portrayal in the park with Coeurage’s bold new take on Shakespeare’s Pericles! Expect live music, dance, jousting, shipwrecks as well as audience participation.The play will be performed on Saturdays and Sundays at 4pm through September 21, 2025. All ages are welcome.
FREE Admission; Performance: 4pm; Kings Road Park, 1000 Kings Rd, West Hollywood, CA 90069; https://www.weho.org/community/arts-and-culture/theatre; https://www.coeurage.org/
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Silver Lake
Megan O’Dell presents Wet: Reimagined, an invitation to submerge yourself into the emotional depths of self-discovery. It is a celebration of our capacity for self-evolution and a testament to the power of feminine energy. Remaining books will be available for sale if available. Art Party: 5-9pm; The 3110 Gallery, 3110 W Sunset Blvd, LA, 90026; https://www.the3100block.com/the-3110-gallery
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Mid City
Chris Sharp Gallery celebrates the art of Jove ciao de la Paz and Kanitha Tith with an opening art party. The two person show will run through October 4, 2025. Art Party: 5-8pm; Chris Sharp, 4650 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016; http://chrissharpgallery.com
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Mid-Wilshire/Beverly Grove area
Babst Gallery debuts Vanessa Conte: Ride tonight. The solo exhibition features both paintings and works on paper by Vanessa Conte. This is Conte’s first solo exhibition since her solo museum exhibition, BREAKNECK at Kunstbunker: Forum fur zeitgenoessische Kunst in Nuremberg in 2023. Art Party: 5-7pm; Babst Gallery, 413 S Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036; https://babstgallery.com/
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Hollywood
Marian Goodman Gallery hosts an opening reception for two new exhibitions. Discrepancies with W.W. (extended) is an exhibition of new works by Leonor Antunes. This exhibition marks Antunes’s second solo show with the gallery. Notably, discrepancies with W.W. (extended) was developed in conjunction with discrepancies with E.S. (in company), a complementary and off-site exhibition curated by Douglas Fogle at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Los Angeles.
Wilhelm Sasnal, Berkeley Street, 2024, Oil on canvas, 36 x 46 in. (91.4 x 116.8 cm)
Furthermore, Surface Streets curated by Russell Ferguson will also open. The group exhibition features recent paintings created in Los Angeles. The title of the exhibition is a term that contextually denotes Los Angeles streets (but not freeways). Therefore many works portray familiar scenes of everyday urban life, while others reach beyond, to a movie set, to an ancient fossil, or even into spaces of fiction and fantasy. Art Party: 5-7pm; Marian Goodman Gallery, 1120 Seward St, LA, 90038; https://www.mariangoodman.com
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Park La Brea area
LAUNCH Gallery throws an opening art party for two solo exhibitions – Linda Arreola: Almost Home as well as Rochelle Botello: Wild Child. The work of both artists celebrates an exploration of life through contemporary abstract painting, drawing and sculpture. Art Party: 6-9pm; LAUNCH LA, 170 S La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036; Launch, 170 S. La Brea Ave. LA, 90036; https://launchla.org
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The Artists Gallery aka TAG throws an opening art party tonight. Several exhibitions will be celebrated. Artists include: Oxana Akopov, Kathryn Pitt, as well as Barbara Tevarotto. Art Party: 5-8pm; TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 90036; https://www.taggallery.net
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In Highland Park
Avenue 50 Studio on Fig (yes it moved) debuts Will Loya: Re-emerging Spirits – A Retrospective of Drawings and Paintings. The solo show spotlights a diverse group of drawings and paintings from his 30+ year career.
The prolific painter is also a professional musician as well as a respected arts educator. In addition to oil, acrylic, watercolor paintings, the retrospective will also feature Pen and Ink, Pastel, and Scratchboard. Art Party: 3-5pm; Avenue 50 Studio, 3714 N. Figueroa LA, 90065 (New ADDRESS); https://avenue50studio.org
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Hollywood
The Hole Los Angeles celebrates the art of Shannan Click. Born in 1981 the California-born and internationally traveled artist first rose to prominence on the global fashion circuit. She spent her formative years modeling for many of the world’s leading designers and publications. While immersed in the fast-paced fashion industry, she continued her artistic focus. Art Party: 5-8pm; The Hole Los Angeles, 844 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036; https://thehole.com/
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Torrance
VEFA Gallery presents its lates exhibition titled Surface Tension. The group show brings together five Southern California artists whose practices interrogate the boundary between surface and meaning. Working across graffiti, collage, resin, digital media, and abstract painting, each artist manipulates material to heighten its tactile, optical, and symbolic impact. Art Party: 6-9pm; VEFA Gallery, 21825 Hawthorne Blvd., Torrance, 90503; https://vefagallery.com
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Cypress Park Area
Bermudez Projects presents a group exhibition titled Harbingers of Prophecy’s Tomorrow. It spotlights the works of over 15 artists working throughout the U.S. The group show also demonstrates the myriad ways in which artists utilize the images of birds as principle vehicles in their storytelling. Images can communicate subtly, directly, or metaphorically. Thus these majestically plumed avians share a common through-line as apt messengers of fate. See the website for a full list of artists. Art Party: 6-9pm; Bermudez Projects, 1225 Cypress Avenue No. 1, LA, 90065; https://www.bermudezprojects.com/
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Koreatown/Rampart Village Area
Michael Benevento hosts an opening reception for Stitious. The group exhibition features works by Michael Bala, Nancy Lupo, Grant Mooney, Gozié Ojini, Hirsch Perlman, and Jennifer West. The group show brings together artists who each engage a distinct material language and spatial sensibility, yet share a sustained interest in states of transition, displacement, and transformation. Art Party: 5-7pm; Michael Benevento, 3712 Beverly Blvd., LA, 90004; http://beneventolosangeles.com
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DTLA
Scratching the Surface — 40 Years of Visual Arts in Skid Row opens at the Skid Row History Museum. The group show offers a glimpse into the history and continuity of art and cultural production the neighborhood from 1985 to 2025. The exhibition is curated by art worker and Community Arts Depot co-founder Hayk Makhmuryan, in collaboration with artist/archivist Jaiye Kamson and designer Matthew Stewart. Scratching the Surface features artworks by over 50 different artists. It includes paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, banners, masks, reproductions of murals and ephemeral artifacts. Art Party: 5pm; Skid Row History Museum & Archive, 250 S. Broadway, LA, 90012; https://www.lapovertydept.org/skid-row-history-museum-archive/
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Also Downton…parrasch heijnen debuts Ben Horns: Another Nature. This is the gallery’s first solo exhibition with the New York-based artist (b. 1989, Palos Heights, IL).
The solo show features oil paintings that suture Horns’ own photographs of shifting vistas and interiors alongside his interpretations of landscape imagery. Art Party: 6-8pm; parrasch heijnen, 1326 South Boyle Ave., LA, 90023; https://parrasch-heijnen.com
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More Downtown
Gallery Luisotti unveils Arlene Mejorado’s inaugural solo exhibition with the gallery. Here is the land in me – Aquí está la tierra en mí tells the artist’s personal story. It is primarily comprised of 11 framed photographs, as well as a window hanging of printed film strips and a grassy sculptural installation. Art Party: 5-7pm; Gallery Luisotti, 818 S Broadway #1001, LA 90014, Building door code: #4104; https://galleryluisotti.com/
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GDCA hosts an opening art party for a group show titled Magic Happens opens in Gallery 1. Curated by Dale Youngman, artists include: Linda McClure, Colleen Flynn, Lara Eve Kempke, and Maribeth McFaul. Art Party: 6-10pm; GDCA, 727 South Spring Street, LA, 90014; http://www.GDCAgallery.com
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In the Bendix Building…515 Gallery #515 hosts a closing reception for a group show. Special Collections II is curated by Danny Shain and features 75 artists. The creatives were invited to reimagine the cover of a favorite book, thus presenting a wonderful show. Closing Art P arty: 7-9pm; 515 Gallery, Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Avenue, 90015; https://www.515bendix.com
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Culver City
Taylor Fine Art unveils A Refuge of Being, a solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist K’era Morgan. The exhibition features abstract, mixed media paintings which include aerial landscapes to African textiles, Aboriginal art, as well as the ancestral practices of Equatorial Guinea. Art Party: 7-10pm; Taylor Fine Art, 6039 Washington Blvd, Culver City, 90232; https://taylorfineart.art
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