MAIN GALLERY: Ralph Steadman: and Another Thing

This traveling exhibition spans over 60 years of Ralph Steadman’s influential career, featuring more than 140 original artworks and ephemera, including sketchbooks, handwritten notes, and personal photographs. Steadman is best known for his long collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson, notably illustrating "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Their partnership helped define Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting that blends personal experience with political commentary. Coined by journalist Bill Cardoso, Gonzo’s impact is still felt today in online news, editorial pieces, social media, and political punditry.

The exhibition showcases his diverse body of work, from iconic illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s "Alice in Wonderland" and Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island" to collections like "The Gonzovation Trilogy," created in collaboration with documentarian and filmmaker Ceri Levy to raise awareness about endangered species. Featured works include nine portraits of U.S. Presidents, over 20 images of famous people, including T.S. Eliot, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and George Orwell, and "Vintage Dr. Gonzo," a life-size bronze sculpture.

This exhibition is organized by the Ralph Steadman Art Collection. Sponsored by United Therapeutics, Flying Dog, and Beta Technologies.

GALLERY TWO: Ian Larson: Some Dirty Karma

Ian Larson's paintings are presentations of visceral bacchanalia and degenerative portraiture. They offer glimpses into unfolding narratives, focusing on the human figure situated within fantasized yet representational environments. Centered on characters embedded in their own social contexts—where fictitious chaos converges with overt references, satire, violence, and humor—the works examine animalistic, mortal, and carousing impulses, marked by an exploited and often tragic exiguity.

DARK ROOM: Barbara Streisand Portrait Bender: Fear & Loathing Returns to the Flamingo, a video work by artist Tom Dunn.

A video documenting the artist’s ten-day, ten-night stay in Las Vegas. During a Hunter S. Thompson–inspired “bender,” Dunn created hundreds of portraits of Barbara Streisand.

MAIN GALLERY: CHAMPION - Sports in Contemporary Art

An exploration of Soccer and other sport related themes in Contemporary Art in celebration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be co-hosted by cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

MAIN GALLERY: STUDIO SYSTEM

The Studio System Experimental Residency project is a unique attempt to bridge the gap between artistic practice and the public. First held in 2015, Studio System seeks to bring the dynamism of the artist's studio into the museum space, encouraging audiences to not only see works as they are in progress but to interact with the artist to discuss inspirations, sources, thoughts, feelings, content and context, as well as chart the progression of the works over the month long period that the project encompasses.

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.

As the U.S. faces ongoing political and cultural tension, many artists are feeling isolated, uncertain, and overwhelmed. From debates about immigration and censorship to protests, economic struggles, and threats to democratic values—there’s growing pressure on communities and creative spaces.

MAS Attack 2025 is a response: a way to reclaim hope, connection, and strength through art. This one-night exhibition invites Southern California artists to share work that reflects, resists, heals, or sheds light on the times we’re living in.

MAIN GALLERY: Exile

California is as much a feeling as it is a place. Though ubiquitous, this essence remains uniquely enigmatic in its authorship. From our cultish obsession with mid-century-modern design, to chinoiserie folklore, mediterranean lifestyles, or relics of spanish colonialism, what exactly makes this vast eclectic region feel so familiar? 

“Exiles” examines California’s cultural legacy as a lineage of communities displaced by geopolitical tensions, specifically focusing on a contemporary collection of diasporic artists with roots in islamic countries that have faced destabilizing geopolitical events spanning from the late 70s to today.

MAIN GALLERY, GALLERY TWO, & DARK ROOM: London Calling!

Curated by Steve Douglas / Bod Boyle
A photography based history of the influential but largely under-represented British skateboard scene of the 1970s and the impact of skate magazines worldwide.

This exhibition will be accompanied by a continuous screening of London Calling: A Whole Era Showed Up an 80 minute documentary which chronicles the inception, creation, preparation and recollections of the ‘London Calling!’ exhibition launch, as well as accompanying events, held across London in 2023 (filmed and directed by Winstan Whitter) .