Saturday, April 12, 2025 LA Art Parties are poppin’ – we also have a wine event as well as a performance. In addition to art openings, we have included a story circle, an art talk, and a screening for an art documentary.
April 12 2025 Art Parties
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival continues today, and runs through the weekend. In addition to live music, you’ll enjoy fantastic visual art installations. Find out more about the festival and view images of the installations on our Coachella Festival feature on EatTravelGo.com
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The two-day Orange County Wine Fest kicks off today. The event takes place at the OC Fair & Event Center! Attendees will enjoy three hours of unlimited tastings, music, as well as food trucks.
Choose from two times. 1st Session: 12-3pm; 2nd Session: 5-8pm; Admission starts at $62.29; VIP ticket holders will have 30 minute early access; visit the website for more info and to purchase a ticket; Rain or shine event; The Hangar at OC Fair & Event Center, 88 Fair Drive Costa Mesa, CA 92626; https://www.orangecountywinefest.com
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Central LA/Arlington Heights
OCHI Gallery offers an opening art party to celebrate Eventide by Paige Turner-Uribe. This is the Los Angeles-based artist’s debut exhibition with the gallery. Moreover, the solo exhibition features recent paintings by Turner-Uribe. Art Party: 12-2pm; OCHI, 3301 W Washington Blvd, LA, 90019; https://www.ochigallery.com
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Also in Central LA…Shatto Gallery debuts Phos Hilaron, a solo exhibition by Hyunae Kang. The title which translates to “Radiant Light” in Greek is a perfect way to describe Kang’s artistic practice.
The artist explores light, color, and spirituality through a deeply personal and meditative process. Art Party: 2-5pm; Shatto Gallery, 3130 Wilshire blvd Unit 104, LA, 90010; https://www.shattogallery.com/
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Downtown LA/Little Tokyo
LA Artcore hosts a Story Circle in conjunction with NAMAN. The conversation will focus on the long history of LA’s Filipinx arts. The exhibition features a diverse mix of artworks from the members of the NAMAN Collective. Artists include: Aaron Dadacay, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Carol Anne McCrystal, Christine Morla, Diane Briones Williams, Emilyn Eto, Isola Tong, Jeanne Le, Maria Villote, Mark Golamco, Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza, Michael Rippens, Nica Aquino, Philip Koscak, and Tala Mateo. Story Circle: 2-4pm LA Artcore, 120 Judge John Aiso St. LA, 90012; https://laartcore.org
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In Hollywood…The School of Night presents the World Premiere of Hellas, written and directed by Christopher William Johnson. The run kicks off today (April 12) at 2pm and runs for 5.5 hours (till 7:30pm). It features parts 1 & II. Stay for the opening night reception. Learn about the birth of western civilization and democracy from the Greek epic, Hellas. The show is set in early fifth-century B.C. when a tiny, backward and disunited region faced invasion by the mightiest empire the world had ever known … and triumphed.
Read more about the show and its performances on Hellas Feature. Due to the length of the play, the weekend performances offer the complete saga (Parts 1 & II along with three intermissions). Then Friday night performances offer viewing choices of Part I or Part II on alternating weeks. Hellas is a marathon theatrical epic. Admission runs $25 – $30; $5 off for students with ID. Group discounts available. Suggested Age 12 and up; Visit the website for more info, and to purchase tickets; The Broadwater Mainstage, 1076 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038; https://www.thebroadwaterla.com/
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West Adams
Dmst Atelier and artist, activist and curator, Emiliano Lopez co-present Paulo Friere Lopez & Cindy Escarcega: Lives in Parallel. The duo exhibition shines a light on the invisible struggles of Los Angeles residents displaced by gentrification and economic injustice. Art Party: 2-6pm; Dmst Atelier, 4614 W Washington Blvd, LA, 90016; https://www.dmstatelier.com
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In Inglewood…Serios Topics hosts an art talk in conjunction with its current exhibition Transits by artist David Humphrey. The conversation will include David Humphrey, Jennifer Coates and John Mandel. Art Talk: 2:30pm; Serious Topics, 1207 N. La Brea Ave., Ste. 300, LA 90302; https://www.serious-topics.com/
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Santa Monica
Spring Bouquet continues at bG Gallery with an exhibition walkthrough and an art party too. The large group exhibition puts a focus on the floral theme while incorporating all mediums and styles. The group show features painting, sculpture as well as ceramics, new media, and mixed media assemblage. Artists include: David Eddington, Tony Roko, Ramona Otto, Mike Maxwell, Gay Summer Rick, Danielle Eubank, Nancy R. Wise, Joseph Piccillo, Susan Lizotte, Jimmy Reagan, Harshit Agrawal, Molly Gambardella, Wrona Gall, Kathrine Flynn, Ali Enache, Chrissy Hsieh, Anthony Hollenstein, Gregory Horndeski, Courtney Reid, David Davis, Dan Busta, Joanna Beckett, Linda Smith, Yulia Shtern, GK AUSTIN II, Ted Gall, Krovblit, Susan Moss and more. Walkthrough: 3-4pm; Art Party: 4-6pm; bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave #A2, Santa Monica, CA 90405; https://santamonica.bgartdealings.com/
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at Bergamot Station…Marshall Gallery hosts an opening art party for an exhibition titled These ideas were not mine, yet I had them, by Ryan McIntosh. The solo show by the LA-based artist and printmaker will feature two decades of photographs ranging from early abstraction to topographic urban studies.
Ryan McIntosh, Abstraction, 2005; 8×10″ silver chloride contact print
This installation juxtaposes Ryan’s exquisite silver gelatin prints in homage alongside masterworks of his artistic predecessors including Robert Adams, Edward Weston, Frederick Sommer, Minor White, as well as others.
Additionally, the exhibition will include writings by the artist about the influence of each photograph. Art Party: 5-8pm; Marshall Gallery, Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave. A6, Santa Monica, 90404; https://marshallgallery.art/
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Lincoln Heights
Keystone Gallery and Toy Bin Art curator Grace Kim present Jasser Membreno: Casa Monstruos. The solo exhibition features both whimsical as well as grotesque monsters from the awe-inspiring imagination of Membreno. The creatures and fantasy landscapes of Jasser Membreno’s Casa Monstuos move between worlds, like people. Therefore generating a sense of compassion. Art Party: 5-9pm; Keystone Gallery, 338 South Avenue 16, Los Angeles, CA 90031; http://www.keystoneartspace.com
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Chinatown
Charlie James Gallery unveils a solo exhibition titled SEISMIC. by artist and activist Nancy Baker Cahill, the artist’s first with the gallery. Presented at a moment of catastrophic environmental urgency and social reckoning, amplified by recent events in Los Angeles, Baker Cahill tackles timely concerns that have long animated her practice. Furthermore, the exhibition includes new bodies of work in which Baker Cahill mines her own archive, refashioning archival drawings as raw material for works on paper, sculptural installations, and digital projects that plumb the constantly shifting crises of the current moment.
This perceptual play interweaving natural and digital worlds is a keystone of Baker Cahill’s practice, which aims to alternately make sense of and combat cultural and geological instability through ecological concepts of interconnectedness, systems-thinking, and interdependence. Art Party: 6-9pm; Charlie James Gallery, 969 Chung King Rd, LA, 90012; https://www.cjamesgallery.com
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Downtown
In the Bendix Building, TSA LA (Tiger Strikes Asteroid) screens a documentary in conjunction with its current exhibition Pete Hampton: The Lost Era. This is also the final day of the exhibition. Also while you are there, be sure to pop into 515 Gallery to catch its current exhibition as well.
Screening: 7pm; Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA)1206 Maple Ave., #523, LA, 90015; https://www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com
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Echo Park…Ceradon Gallery debuts Riddle, a solo exhibition by Creighton Baxter. This show brings together two distinct works: Proof, a suite of drawings exploring the layered, often contradictory meanings of their textual elements, and Yellow, an installation of hypodermic needles embedded in the gallery’s walls as colorfield abstractions. Art Party: 6-9pm; Ceradon, 1933 W Kingston Pl, LA, 90026; https://ceradon.gallery/
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