Saturday September 20, 2025 Art Parties and Events truly celebrate the visual arts. In addition to some superb exhibitions, taking place all over Los Angeles, new have also spotlighted some theatre too.
September 20, 2025: Art Parties & Events
Matthew Marks Gallery offers an opening reception for Luis Jiménez: American Dream. The exhibition includes eighteen sculptures, paintings, as well as drawings made between 1968 and 1997. It is the first one-person exhibition of Jiménez’s work in Los Angeles in more than forty years. Art Party: 10-6pm; Matthew Marks Gallery, 1062 N Orange Grove Ave, West Hollywood, 90046; https://matthewmarks.com
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ABSTRACTION VISITED AND REVISITED opens at CMAY Gallery. The exhibition spotlights four Los Angeles–based painters—David Lloyd, Dena Novak, Gary Paller, and Alex Parrasch. Curated by Carl Bergand and Virginia Anton in their first curatorial collaboration. The theme investigates how abstraction continues to evolve as a language across time, context, and community. Art Party: 3-5pm; CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036; https://cmaygallery.com/
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LA Theatre
Geffen Playhouse presents a world premiere production of Am I Roxie?, written and performed by Roxana Ortega (The Casagrandes, The Groundlings). The play is directed by Bernardo Cubría (Crabs in a Bucket; The Giant Void In My Soul). In this funny one-woman tour-de-force based on her own life, writer/actor Roxana Ortega navigates the chaos of her mother’s mental decline with outrageous humor. Playing everything from a mermaid-obsessed aunt to a prickly sherpa, Roxie takes us on a humorous journey.
Roxana Ortega in Am I Roxie? at Geffen Playhouse; Photo by Jeff Lorch.
Rush tickets for each day’s performance are made available to the general public one hour before showtime at the box office. $40.00 General/$20.00 Student. Performance: 2pm & 7pm; Admission runs from $36.00 – $139.00. Available by phone at 310.208.2028 and on website. Gil Cates Theater at Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Avenue, LA 90024; https://geffenplayhouse.org
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Santa Monica
At Bergamot Station…Nüart Gallery presents two concurrent solo exhibitions – The Brutalist, the Beauty, and UFOs by Santiago Pérez and Interwoven by Richard Berman. The gallery will host a joint artist talk at 3pm, with an opening art party to follow the conversation. Event: 3-6pm; Nüart Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404; https://www.nuartgallery.com
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Culver City
Walter Maciel Gallery brings us three exhibitions.
So Correct! highlights the work of photographer, Walt Cessna who tragically died in 2017 following a vast career in the fashion and art worlds. Red, White and Blak: The Black Woman – Key to American Culture features the art of Willie Little. The solo show includes multimedia figurative paintings and sculptures that celebrate the resilience, beauty as well as the power of Black women.
And finally the gallery presents Art Salon featuring paintings by the late Chinese American artist, Hung Liu (1948–2021). This exhibition includes rare pieces with one work never previously exhibited publicly. The group of works offer an intimate look at Liu’s deeply personal yet also politically resonant art practice. Opening: 4-7pm; Walter Maciel Gallery, 2642 S. La Cienega Blvd. LA, 90034; http://www.waltermacielgallery.com/
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West Hollywood
Robert Rauschenberg at Gemini G.E.L.: Celebrating Four Decades of Innovation and Collaboration opens at the Los Angeles Gallery. This centennial exhibition features one of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
Rauschenberg arrived at Gemini G.E.L. in February 1967 to begin his first collaboration with the nascent publisher, creating Booster and 7 Studies. His intention was to create “a self-portrait of inner man,” which would involve an X-ray of his entire body. However, a single, uninterrupted scan was not feasible in Los Angeles and would have required returning to the east coast. Instead, Rauschenberg elected to be X-rayed in six sections. Booster, with its partitioned imagery, is the earliest evidence of the extraordinary outcomes Rauschenberg achieved by adapting to the limitations of locale, technique and materials.
Robert Rauschenberg at Gemini G.E.L., working on Sky Garden (1969)
Art Party: 4-6pm; Gemini G.E.L., 8365 Melrose Ave., LA, 90069; http://www.geminigel.com
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Also in West Hollywood…Karma Gallery celebrates artists Manoucher Yekta as well as Calvin Marcus. Each artist is set to be featured in their own solo show. Manoucher Yekta’s Beginnings is curated by Negar Azimi; Art Party: 6-8pm; Karma, 7351 Santa Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046; https://karmakarma.org/
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Forest Lawn Museum hosts an opening art party for a group exhibition titled In Bloom: Flowers in Contemporary Art. The floral theme allows take a contemporary take utilizing all media.
Artists include David Flores, DABSMYLA Francesca Gabbiani, Eddie Ruscha, Simonette David Jackson, Jasmyn Marie, Analia Saban, Kim Schoen, and Tiffanie Turner. The FREE event is open to the public and will feature complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres, remarks from the curator, and a DJ set with sound interventions by Eddie Ruscha. Art Party: 5-7pm; Admission and parking are free. Forest Lawn Museum is located at the top of the hill within Forest Lawn-Glendale at 1712 S. Glendale Ave, Glendale, CA 91205. Enter through the main gate and proceed up the hill. Please follow museum and event signage. https://forestlawn.com/all-events/
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Downtown
FOCA debuts Tierra Sagrada: L.A. is an Altar and an Offering, an exhibition curated by Isabella Aguilar-Rosil and Emilia Shaffer-Del Valle. The two were selected it as FOCA Curator’s Lab recipients for 2025-2026. The exhibition includes: five LA-based artists: Susan Aparicio, Lizette Hernández, Star Montana, Libbi Ponce, and Claudia V. Solórzano. Art Party: 5-7pm; Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA)Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), 970 N. Broadway, Suite 208 Los Angeles, CA 90012; https://www.focala.org/
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Another Downtown…The Box LA brings us a group exhibition titled An America. Curated and first exhibited by Mitchell Algus at his gallery in NYC, the show has now traveled to LA. Art Party: 5-8pm; The Box, 805 Traction Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90013; https://theboxla.com/
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More Downtown
François Ghebaly throws an opening art party for Taileater. This is the first solo exhibition by Salim Green with the gallery. The artist’s practice engages with concepts of concealment, visibility, and opacity. Moreover it features a range of media including painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, sound, as well as writing. Art Party: 6-8pm; François Ghebaly, 2245 E. Washington Blvd, LA; http://ghebaly.com
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At the Bendix Building…Track 16 presents Valencean by Azadeh Shladovsky and Daniel Wheeler. Curated by Galia Linn, the two person show focuses human existence through the lens of emotion and perception. Art Party: 6-9pm; Track 16, 1206 Maple Ave, #100, Los Angeles, CA 90015;
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Another gallery in the Bendix Building…Persons Unknown debuts a solo exhibition titled Inured to Pain – Acostumbrada al dolor, by Ana Armengod Moreover Se Prendió Candela, a super 8 mm film/installation shot in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba is part of the exhibition. Art Reception: 7-10pm; Persons Unknown, 1206 Maple Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90015; https://www.personsunknowngallery.com/
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Chinatown
FOYER-LA offers an opening art party for an unwinking practice co-curated with Catherine Fairbanks. Artists include: Michael Candy, Léonie Guyer, Marya Krogstad, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Maria Walker, Sarah Workneh. Art Party: 6-8pm; FOYER-LA, Mandarin Plaza, 970 N Broadway #204, LA 90012; https://www.foyer-la.com/
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Now Instant hosts a book release for Pyramids: Special Economic Vortex Zones of North America from The Fulcrum Press & Special Effects. Additionally, it will screen a 16mm film companion to the book, Eighteen Pyramidsalso by Ian James. The screening will be followed by a discussion with James and Aurora Tang of the Center for Land Use Interpretation. Book Release Event with Screening: 7-10pm; Tickets are $15; Purchase on the website; Now Instant Image Hall, 939 Chung King Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90012; https://now-instant.la/
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The Broad once again hosts a concert. This special program marks exactly ten years since the museum first opened its doors to the public.
This high-energy concert showcases Native artists who are reshaping the sound of today, from soulful vocals to pow wow techno and underground club beats. Featuring M’lynn in the museum lobby, the Dallas-born Cherokee Nation soul singer whose smooth and sultry vibes make a hot summer night feel cool. Dance in Oculus Hall to music by Red Lake Ojibwe artist Joe Rainey, who combines traditional pow wow singing with techno, industrial, hip hop, dub, and noise, followed by a DJ set by Teme-Augama Anishnabai club maven and Native music aficionado deesco.
Performance: 8-11pm; Admission is $25; Visit the website for more info and to purchase tickets; The Broad, Lobby and Oculus Hall, 221 S Grand Ave, LA 90012; https://www.thebroad.org/events
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West Adams
Reisig and Taylor Contemporary hosts an opening reception for Matthew McGaughey: Staged. Art P arty: 7-10pm; Reisig and Taylor Contemporary, 4478 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016; https://www.reisigandtaylorcontemporary.com/
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TAG (The Artist Gallery) continues its weekend concert series tonight. The concert takes place in conjunction with the exhibition, Improper Ideology by Pam Douglas in collaboration with Raya Yarbrough. Also additional exhibitions are on view at TAG. Art Party: 8pm; TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd., LA, 90036; https://www.taggallery.net
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