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 Moglichkeit einer Insel (Berlin). 

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

MAS (Mutual Appreciation Society) Attack 2026 is 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.

Curated by Joshua Hashemzadeh and TAM

GALLERY 2: On The Move - Federico Uribe

On the Move, created by Miami-based, Colombian artist Federico Uribe, is more than an installation—it is a poetic and urgent reflection on displacement, memory, and the search for belonging. This body of work reimagines human and animal figures made entirely from used luggage, clothing, and travel gear—sculptures caught in motion: walking, fleeing, bending, carrying. Behind them, a wall of garments collected from local convenience stores forms ghostly human silhouettes, representing the invisible lives and stories of migrants who pass through society unnoticed.

At a time when immigration is politicized and dehumanized—particularly in cities like Los Angeles—this work offers a visual counterpoint: a reminder that movement is not a crisis, but our shared human condition. In a world shaped by borders, instability, and change, we are all—on some level—on the move.

Main Gallery: Eat The Stars

Curated by Peter Everett, John O’Connor, Colin Bradford

Bringing together works in which astronomy meets magic, and field notes guide spells, Eat the Stars frames art as a place where empirical attention and poetic intuition converge. How can artists grapple with complexity, chaos, and the unknowable when our sensing of a phenomenon loosens rather than resolves our understanding of it? The included artists inhabit the porous zone where sustained focus makes the concrete become illusory. New ways of understanding arise from seeing into, through, and beyond the physical; what emerges is not certainty but a felt relation to something larger than the self. Here equations can rhyme with omens, diagrams can read like charms, and data can open onto mystery.

Participating Artists: Collin Bradford, Fred Tomaselli, John O’Connor, Mindy Shapero, Peter Everett, Rema Ghuloum, Sarah Gamble, Steve Roden, Tomory Dodge.

Gallery Two: Change/Exchange.

The 2027 International Video Art Biennial, presented by Prospect Art’s 4th-WALL programing, is organized by curatorial fellow, Maximilian Lehner.

Change/ Exchange is an invitation to reimagine change without exchange - to amplify practices that foster change that does not rely on economic exchange and highlight individuals who give or accept a gift without expectations, or who would appreciate the unexpected. There must be more space for ‘weak’ proposals and mysterious gifts that can subtly bring about change.

Participating Artists: Allison Kaufman, Andrei Nacu, Andrew Demirjian, Beatriz Bellorín, Camille Soulat, Eleni Kamma, Holly Harrell, Katharina Gruzei, Mădălina Zaharia, Matias Mariani with Guilherme Peters and Roberto Winter, Rodrigo Azaola, Stanislava Pinchuk, Sutanu Panigrahi, Yue Nakayama, Elena Knox, Olena Newkryta.

MAIN GALLERY: The Cabin LA Presents

This exhibition brings together paintings by 50 graduates of The Cabin LA Residency, spanning the program’s history from its founding in 2015 to the present. Together, the works offer a glimpse into the remarkable range of artists who have passed through the residency and the diverse directions their practices have taken since. The exhibition celebrates not only the individual achievements of these artists, but also the enduring impact of a program dedicated to recognizing, nurturing, and providing a platform for emerging talent.

Curated by Danny First, Founder of the The Cabin LA, and TAM

Gallery 2: Personal Relations

A touring show of miniature portraits

MAIN GALLERY: SUR – SLANGUAGE 25th Anniversary Retrospective

Selections from the past 25 years of Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz’s Artist Run Space and Defacto Art School/ art mentorship program headquartered in Wilmington, California, a harbor area of Los Angeles.

Gallery 2: Secret Keepers

“In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.” - Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation (1964)

Communication and secret keeping are not mutually exclusive, nor are hermeneutics and erotics. As artists, we walk so many tightropes: revealing enough for a viewer without revealing too much, making something clear but not too obvious, making work for an audience while also understanding that a work may never be seen by another. In so doing, we embed things for ourselves as much as for others. We feed our secrets into our works, sometimes to be decoded but sometimes to remain as secrets, unrevealed, hidden. Just for us.

Curated by Hallie McNeill

MAIN GALLERY: Contours of Being II

Part two of Norwegian/US exchange show.

Contours of Being is a collaborative project between the Møre and Romsdal Art Center in Molde, Norway and the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, California. Curated by TAM and Jet Pascua (More og Romsdal Kunstsenter, Molde, Norway)

Gathering artists from opposite sides of the world, it unfolds as a rich, interwoven exploration of experience, form, and the layered complexities of human presence. Through diverse media—painting, abstraction, gesture, figuration, and performative mark-making—the works in this exhibition traverse the terrain between the palpable and the psychological, inviting viewers into a space where memory, embodiment, and materiality intersect.

At the heart of this exhibition is a shared interest in how marks and forms carry histories—personal, cultural, and aesthetic—and how these histories shape perception. The contributing artists, each with a distinct voice and visual language, engage in a collective dialogue about the ways in which physical presence and remembered experience are inscribed onto surfaces, spaces, and bodies.

Each artist enters the conversation from a different direction, yet their practices touch at the edges, forming a constellation of gestures, atmospheres, and inner landscapes.

Gallery 2: A New Sincerity

An exhibition of Contemporary Swedish artists curated by Martin Lundberg