Last month the art world of Los Angeles was deeply struck by the forest fires that destroyed houses and companies in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The art community contracted and acted quickly, prepared support networks and fundraisers To help the affected. Galleries quickly organized benefit shows, with proceeds that went to aid organizations, or exhibited works by artists who lost their houses or studios, of which we have emphasized below. Other exhibitions that relate to climate change, environmental activism or indigenous practices, such as such as Fire brigade And Joseph Beuys: to defend natureHad been planned for months or years, but got renewed relevance with the recent fires. As a group, the shows below are taken, the perseverance and the generosity that the Angeleno Arts community has shown in the light of tragedy.
Artist Relief Fundraiser Exhibition
Latest projects206 South Avenue 20, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles
Up to and including 28 February
Organized in the latest projects, this fundraising exhibition offers work of 60 artists, including Anthony Ausgang, Mario Ayala, Jackie Perez, Trule Hall and Ever Velasquez, with between 60% and 80% of the proceeds to the Dena Fire Relief Fund and displaced artists. Molly Tierney, Tara Zorthian and various other participating artists who have lost their houses or studios, receive 100% of the profit from the sale of their work. Organized by artist Rachid Bouhamidi and co-founder of the Ilona Berger gallery, also includes the show performances, workshops and film screenings, including a documentary about the deceased artist and craftsman Jirayr Zorthian, whose namesake Ranch, Art and Archives in Altadena were lost in the burn.
1TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025
Leroys422 Ord Street, Chinatown, Los Angeles
Up to and including 1 March
Compiled by Keith Varadi van Gene’s Pharmacy” 1 TB literally is a messy, exuberant celebration of artistic community and experiments. The exhibition runs from the dining room of Leroy’s Happy Place, a former Vietnamese restaurant gallery, continues in the kitchen, bathrooms, parking space and even the walk-in sailor to create playful juxtapositions of art objects and artifacts. Participating artists include Tanya Brodsky, David Horvitz, Aimee Goguen, Hanna Hur, Steve Kado and Olivia Mole. Open on Saturday evening and only by appointment, the space serves as a social hub, with proceeds from the bar that goes to fire. A series of weekly musical, poetry and comic versions increases the feeling of interpersonal connection and solidarity, exactly when La needs it the most.
Fu@k off
Walter Maciel Gallery2642 South La Cienega Boulevard, Culver City, Los Angeles
Up to and including 1 March
Fu@k off is a group show that collects a cacophony of reactions to injustice and oppression that the new presidential administration has already unleashed, from attacks on civil And reproductive rights aim immigrant And trans communities and the dismantling of Environmental regulations. Highlights include Enrique Chagoyas (1992 – Agoing) The spirits of Borderlandia Print series underlines physical and structural boundaries that divide people; Daniele Puppi’s Cinematic Refagining of the 1969 film Easy riderquestioning his notions of freedom; And Francesca Gabbiani’s painting of a burning palm tree, an image that now takes tragic meaning.
From the axis: Artists hit by the forest fires in Los Angeles
Craig Krull GalleryBergamot Station Art Center, Building F2, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica, California
February 19 – March 1
Artists who were immediately hit by the forest fires are central to the appropriate title From the ashesWith the proceeds from the sale that goes directly to them. Artists include John Knuth, Salomón Huerta, Elizabeth Tremante, Dani Tull, Camilla Taylor and Kevin Cooley, whose photos of forest fires were recently on display at Nowadays And he lost his house in the Eaton fire. The show was compiled by Craig Krull and Douglas Marshall, and sponsored by the Bergamot Tenants Association, the city of Santa Monica, Rising Realty Partners and Robert Berman projects.
Atmospheric river
Gattopardo918 Ruberta Avenue, Glendale, California
February 16 – March 15
Atmospheric river is a group show of mainly video and short-lived artworks, with at least 50% of the yield that goes to fire. The exhibition in the Gallery is expanded by an online component, with a larger list of artists, in which 100% of the proceeds are donated. Participating artists include Gordon Matta-Clark, Diana Thater, T. Kelly Mason and Jennifer West.
The Wave: A ADVANTAGE for La Wildfires and Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Temperature control
Anat Ebgi6150 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
February 8 – March 22
Painter Alec Egan lost almost all the work for his planned solo show in Anat Ebgi when his house and studio burned in the Palisades. Named after the only surviving painting that was already in the gallery, Golf is a group show for the benefit of EGAN and other artists affected by the forest fires, with 10% of the yield from the gallery to the La Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. Other artists are Jaime Muñoz, Robert Russell, and Sarah Ann Weber. By GolfThe gallery will exhibit Jessica Taylor Bellamy: Temperature controlA solo show of paintings of the artist born in LA who focuses on the delicate balance act between nature and the culture that defines the city, and threatens climate change with further precarity.
Joseph Beuys: In defense of nature and social forest: Oaks or Tovaangar
The broad221 South Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles
Up to and including March 23
In defense of nature Focuses on the late German artist Joseph Beuys’s Involvement in environmental gains, manifested by his art and activism. In combination with the exhibition, the broad organized Social Forest: Eiken van TovaangarA reforesting initiative inspired by Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 oak) (1982), in which 7,000 trees were planted next to stone markers in Kassel, Germany. The project starts on 8 February from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with the first day of planting trees in Elysian Park, in addition to workshops and activities led by Tongva (Gabrielino) artists and educators. A shuttle is available to bring visitors to the wide to the site and to go back for the opening celebration.
Kelly Akashi
Lisson Gallery1037 North Sycamore Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles
February 20 – March 29
Kelly Akashi uses an impressive range of materials and processes – blown glass, cast bronze, sliced stone, photography – to create poetic works that emphasize the transience, vulnerability and mercury -shaped nature. However, there is directness and fascinating tactility in her work that it is in the foreground here and now, underlined by the repeated absorption of burning candles. Akashi lost her house and studio in the Eaton Fire, together with much of the work for her upcoming show in Lisson Gallery, which would originally be opened on January 31. Despite the great loss An extra sense of emotion.
Alice Coltrane, Eternal Monument
Hammer Museum10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles
February 9 – May 4
An influential jazz harpist and spiritual leader, Alice Coltrane’s musical output ranged from jazz compositions recorded in the 1960s with her Late Husband, saxophonist John Coltrane, to Hindu Devotional Music (She Built An Ashram in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda, who is in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda in the Seeda. The Woolsey Fire 2018). His name derived from her book from 1977, Monument Eternal Functions of contemporary artists in addition to material from her archives, including sheet music, audio recordings and video images, tracing threads of sonic and religious experiments. Participating artists are Nikita Gale, Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith, Gozié Ojini and others.
Fire Kinship: South California Native Ecology and Art
Fowler Museum308 Charles E. Young Drive North, Westwood, Los Angeles
Up to and including July 13
Abalone Schijf, Turbine shells and granite stones, in the middle (photo by Elon Schoenholz, thanks to the Fowler Museum in UCLA)
Fire brigade Investigates the various FIRE management practices that indigenous communities used in southern California to maintain healthy ecosystems and prevent wildfiring disasters before European colonization. The exhibition contains art of contemporary indigenous artists in addition to archive photography and objects such as baskets, ceramics and canoes made by thoughtful involvement in fire. These include “Sand Bashing” (2024) by Lazaro Arvizu Jr. (Tongva), a spiral sand painting above which an Abalone scale hangs that represents native concepts of the world, and Leah Mata Fragua’s (Yak Tityu Tityu Yak tiłhini Northern chumash) “The The The Worf sun is on the ground” (2024), a Field of paper poppies hanging on the ceiling that is consumed by fire after the exhibition.
Nature on notification: contemporary art and ecology
Lacma in Charles White Elementary School Gallery611 South Carondline Street, MacArthur Park, Los Angeles
Up to and including 2 August
Nature on notification Contains a global selection of 20 contemporary artists who investigate the impact of people in the world around us through photography, video and installation. Some of these artists want to do indigenous practices of ecological stewardship, while others emphasize the ways in which we have changed the landscape and exploited with catastrophic results. These include Tongva artist Mercedes Dorame’s intimate photos of tidal pools, full of life; Kim Stringfellow’s documentation from the Despoliation of the Salton Sea Lake; and the multi-channel video work by Uta Kögelsberger, Fire complex (2021), which describes the aftermath of the forest fires in California in California. Other artists are Cara Romero, Cannupa Hanska Luger and Metabolic Studio.
