MAIN GALLERY: Baker’s Dozen 2026

Baker’s Dozen acts as a review of sorts—a survey exhibition featuring thirteen artists whose work made a positive impression on the curators over the past year. These thirteen artists reflect current directions in Southern California’s contemporary art practices.

Historically, a “baker’s dozen” refers to thirteen instead of twelve, originating in 13th-century England, when bakers would include an extra loaf of bread to avoid punishment by King Henry III for selling underweight loaves. This exhibition draws on that idea, acknowledging the curators’ own preconceptions and biases, while centering artistic endeavors rooted in the present moment.

Participating artists: Fritz Chesnut, Chelsea Culprit, Charles Hickey, Michael John Kelly, Paul Lee, Renee Pepion, David Schafer, Heidi Schwegler, Alise Spinella, Christian Spruell, Mark Dean Veca, Mark Whalen, Sining Zhu

GALLERY TWO & DARK ROOM: B-LA-M

A three-year exchange between Berlin, Los Angeles, and Mexico City artist-run initiatives featuring artists from UOOORS (Los Angeles), Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA) (Los Angeles) and Die Möglichkeit einer Insel (Berlin).

B-LA-M began in 2024 with 54 galleries exhibiting together in Berlin, with the goal of developing international cooperation and exchange between three global cities that play host to strong communities of contemporary artists and their self-run networks of gallery spaces and collaborative groups. In 2025, the event was held in Mexico City, and now it has come to Los Angeles.

Participating artists: Fatemeh Burnes, Stephanie Kloss, Michael Lewis Miller, Jaro Straub, Neal Taylor, Marjan Vayghan, Mei Xian Qiu

In addition to this presentation at TAM, B-LA-M will also be staged at various gallery spaces across Los Angeles from October 28–November 4.

Special Event, Saturday, October 31, 12 p.m. - 3 p.m.

MAIN HALLWAY: liminal level

Semi Permanent Installation

An immersive hallway experience featuring a new site-specific installation by artist Darel Carey.

Darel Carey is a visual artist focusing on optical perception. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016.His Optical Art (Op Art) includes immersive tape installations, painted murals, and digital art.  The demand for his crowd-pleasing work has been in demand in recent years, with installations at art institutions around the world and featured in major commercial ad campaigns.

Darel’s previous hallway installations for TAM include DIMENSIONALIZATION (2018-2019) and COALESCENCE (2019-2024).

Fallen Fruit's projects invite people to experience their city as a fruitful, generous place, to collectively reimagine the functions of public participation and urban space—to ponder forms of located citizenship, and to explore the meaning of community and neighborhood through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.

In 2021 Fallen Fruit installed a permanent community Fruit Park around the perimeter of the pre-existing community garden in Torrance’s Lago Seco Park as part of TAM’s public art exhibition ULTRA!

Permanent Installation: Public Art mural

This installation brightens the hallway of the Cultural Arts Building with bold and dynamic color in abstract arrangements that enliven the space and alter the perception of it as a neutral space into one of integrated experience with the studios.