Los Angeles Art Week is here. The art fairs kick off tonight. So many galleries are hosting art parties early. See our Hauser & Wirth Special Tuesday Februay 18, 2025 Feature. Tonight Wednesday, February 19, 2025. there are several art parties that we want to point out – It’s gonna be a busy week. I hope to see you out there. We have several of our staff covering the events on instagram in real time – so follow both @eattravelgo as well as @laartparty on instagram to find out more.
Wednesday February 19, 2025 Art Fairs, Parties & Events
Visit our sister site EatTravelGo.com – an art inspired travel site to find out about LA Art Week. One fair has canceled this year due to the LA Fires, but another is making its debut.
Felix Art Fair opens today at the iconic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Attend during the preview (11am-8pm) as it will be much less crowded. Then tonight the LA Art Show hosts it opening night art party at the LA Convention Center. This is always fun with great food and drink included. Also Frieze Los Angeles hosts its private preview by invite only tonight. But tomorrow you can attend for sure. Plus The Other Art Fair opens tomorrow. This year it has joined LA Art Week for the first time. See our full features for all these
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Sean Kelly, Los Angeles
In Hollywood...Enjoy an art talk between artists Lindsay Adams and Wu Chi-Tsung at Sean Kelly, Los Angeles. The conversation takes place in conjunction with their two solo exhibitions at the gallery. Wu Chi-Tsung’s cyanotype works are based on traditional Chinese shan shui landscape painting, while Lindsay Adams’ abstract, gestural paintings draw inspiration from the natural world. The artists will discuss their distinct, yet overlapping methods of abstracting the environments that inform their work. The event will include a walkthrough of each exhibition, led by the artists. Art Talk: 3-4pm; RSVP to the gallery via the website; Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, 1357 Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028; https://www.skny.com
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Good Mother Gallery brings us a new exhibition opening during LA Art Week. The Los Angeles Confidential is a site specific installation by Devin Troy Strother.
For over a decade, Strother has built a practice that dissects the language of Black cultural production, pop iconography, and art history with a subversive humor that both seduces and indicts. Art Party: 5-8pm. Good Mother Gallery, 5103 W Adams Blvd, LA, 90016; https://goodmothergallery.com/
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In West Hollywood…Jeffrey Deitch hosts a book signing event for Make Room by artist Tschabalala Self. The event takes place in conjunction with her exhibition, Dream Girl. In addition to enjoying Self’s newest collection of paintings and sculpture, guests can browse other offerings from the bookstore. Event: 6-8 pm; Jeffrey Deitch (2nd gallery), 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, corner of North Orange Drive, LA, 90038; https://deitch.com/
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Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood
An art talk takes place at Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood in conjunction with Charles Gaines : Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs.
Charles Gaines , Numbers and Trees: Tanzania Series 1, Baobab, Tree #4, Maasai (detail) , 2024 © Charles Gaines. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
The conservation includes artist Charles Gaines, Naima J. Keith, Vice President of Education and Public Programs at LACMA, Gean Moreno, Curator of Programs at ICA Miami, and Olga Viso, Phoenix Art Museum Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. Read more about the exhibition on the Charles Gaines : Numbers and Trees, The Tanzania Baobabs feature. The artist talk will be followed by an opening art reception. Art Talk: 6-7pm; Art Party: 7-8pm; Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood, 8980 Santa Monica Blvd., W. Hollywood, 90069; https://www.hauserwirth.com
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Diane Rosenstein Gallery
In Hollywood…Diane Rosenstein Gallery celebrates solo exhibitions from two artists Julian Stanczak, and Terran Last Gun. This is Julian Stanczak’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Enjoy rare early paintings by the artist dating from 1964 – 1983. In addition, this is the debut exhibition for Terran Last Gun. Featured in project room, his Ledger Drawings utilize color, form, and abstraction. The Piikani (Blackfoot) artist based in Santa Fe explores geometric aesthetics which he contributes to an ancient yet continuum Indigenous North American narrative. Art Party: 6-8pm; Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 831 Highland Ave, LA 90038; https://dianerosenstein.com
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Also nearby…Marion Goodman offers an opening reception for Bruce Nauman: Pasadena Years.
The solo exhibition is a historical reflection on the prolific decade that established one of the most important contemporary artists of our time. The exhibition emphasizes the radical foundation of Nauman’s practice while he lived in Los Angeles between 1969-1979. Across the entire gallery and garden, works on view will include sculptures, installations, sound works, videos, works on paper, and editions. Art Party: 6-8pm; Marian Goodman Gallery, 1120 Seward St, Los Angeles, CA 90038; https://www.mariangoodman.com
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Lisson Gallery
One more in Hollywood..Lisson Gallery’s inaugural exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Kelly Akashi was set to open on January 31 in L.A., featuring an entirely new body of work that both Lisson and Akashi were eager to share with her hometown. Akashi is an artist whose work and practice are imbued with the shared ethos and identity of her city. The beginning of 2025 brought heartbreaking devastation to many Angelenos. Akashi’s cherished home and studio were among the countless losses as the destructive fires tore through communities across Los Angeles in early January.
Artwork by Kelly Akashi
With an incredible amount of perseverance and support from her community, Akashi immediately went back to work, rebuilding and recontextualizing her exhibition. For her first exhibition with Lisson Gallery, Akashi triumphantly presents a number of new bodies of work featuring glass, earth, stone, lace, and bronze elements. The artworks incorporate both inherited and uniquely processed materials.
Akashi personally recovered several bronze cast and borosilicate glass forms from the wreckage of her studio. The artist has included these objects in the exhibition. However, now the somber patina created by the fire acts as a record and acknowledgment of the event. These, along with other works, are exhibited on the gallery walls. The exhibition encompasses a landscape of stone and marble sculptures mounted on Corten steel pedestals. Therefore creating a singular and associative environment with its own circular ecosystem. Thus we, the audience view the cycle of making, displacing, and reclaiming her art. Art Party: 6-9pm; 1037 N Sycamore Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038; https://www.lissongallery.com
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More Hollywood Art Parties
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery hosts a special art party for Shilpa Gupta’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles titled Some suns fell off. This is the artist’s second show with the gallery.
Over the last two and a half decades, Shilpa Gupta has developed a compelling interdisciplinary approach that challenges prevailing notions of individual and collective identity. Through sculpture, installation, sound, and drawing, Gupta explores concepts of nationalism, borderlands, control, as well as censorship. Art Party: 6-8pm; Drinks & hors d’oeuvres will be served; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Los Angeles, 1010 North Highland Avenue, LA, 90038; https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/
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Another opening nearby…The Hole debuts two new shows Cherry Pit by Barry McGee and Gravity by Katsu Sawada. McGee’s solo exhibition includes works by the artist as well as works from his personal collection. In addition Cherry Pit will include artworks from fifty or more friends. To add a cherry on top, he is hosting a zine fair in the gallery for Frieze Week as well! This is the fourth solo show by San Francisco-based new media artist Katsu Sawada. The exhibition features drone paintings and new “replicant” sculptures. Art Party: 6-8pm; The Hole Los Angeles, 844 N La Brea Ave., LA, 90038; https://thehole.com
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In the East Hollywood/Glendale area
Enjoy an opening art party for new exhibitions. Victoria Miro Projects and Anat Ebgi co-present An Te Liu & Jemima Murphy: Tracing. Art Party: 6-8pm; Anat Ebgi, 4859 Fountain Ave., LA, 90029; https://anatebgi.com
For additional art exhibitions, and performances as well as culinary events, see LAArtParty’s Upcoming Events Page.
