This month in Los Angeles, a number of reveals tackle loss and remembrance, becoming themes in mild of Día de Los Muertos this week, which honors and reaffirms a connection to these now not with us. Rick Castro’s pictures at Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery act as memorials to these interred there, whereas Carolyn Castaño’s vibrant mixed-media work decry rampant environmental exploitation in Colombia and Judy Baca continues her memorialization of untold LA tales in “The Nice Wall.” Nydya Mora’s photographic archive of depictions of the Virgen de Guadalupe throughout town paperwork the icon’s longstanding non secular and cultural resonances. There’s way more, together with exhibitions honoring late artists Norman Zammitt, Rosemary Mayer, and Hélio Oiticica, illustrating the vitality and relevance of their work right this moment.

Rick Castro Endlessly: Photographic Retrospective of Life & Dying

Rick Castro’s dramatic black-and-white images span Hollywood glamour, excessive vogue, and the fetish scenes of LA’s queer underground. The beloved Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery brings collectively 87 of his images taken between 1986 and 2022 in Rick Castro Endlessly. Put in within the columbarium, the photographs tackle an elegiac high quality, depicting these buried close by, comparable to trans icons The Goddess Bunny and Holly Woodlawn, in addition to Castro’s circle of relatives members. Together with the exhibition, Hollywood Endlessly has organized a collection of packages this month to commemorate occasions together with Día de Los Muertos, the birthday of goth rock pioneer and Columbarium resident Rozz Williams, the anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s dying, and the dying day of Castro’s cat, Pywackett.

Hollywood Endlessly Cemetery (hollywoodforever.com)
6ooo Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, Los Angeles
By way of November 30 (by appointment)

Rosemary Mayer: Midday Has No Shadows

This is a two-venue exhibition of the work of the late artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014), who was an influential determine within the feminist and conceptual artwork actions. Marc Selwyn High-quality Artwork will concentrate on her work from the late 1970s and early 1980s, together with proposals for unbuilt tents on city roofs and sculptures based mostly on historical Greek vessels. Concurrently, Hannah Hoffman Gallery will current work created between 1971 and 1993, encompassing Mayer’s sculptural investigations with unconventional supplies comparable to rabbit-skin glue, fiberglass, and cheesecloth that discover fragility, ephemerality, and the physique. A brand new sculpture using climate balloons impressed by Mayer’s Short-term Monuments collection shall be created by the artist’s property and unveiled on the Wallis Annenberg Middle for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills between 1pm and 4pm on Saturday, November 11.

Hannah Hoffman Gallery (hannahhoffman.la)
2504 West seventh Avenue, Westlake, Los Angeles
November 12–December 23

Marc Selwyn High-quality Artwork (marcselwynfineart.com)
9953 South Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California
November 12–December 23

Terry Allen: Juarez: Now and Then

For nearly 60 years, Terry Allen has returned repeatedly to mine the wealthy territory of his darkish, Western saga Juarez. This has taken the type of drawings, installations, poems, an alt-country concept album, and a theatrical efficiency co-written with David Byrne, all based mostly round a noir narrative following two {couples} on the run alongside the US-Mexico border. Juarez: Now and Then includes a number of works of paper that present tough bookends for the challenge, together with colourful mixed-media drawings from 1975 juxtaposed with stark black-and-white etchings made in 2022.

LA Louver (lalouver.com)
45 North Venice Boulevard, Venice, California
By way of January 6, 2024

Norman Zammitt: Band Work 1973–1992

Like a number of of his friends within the Gentle & House Motion, Norman Zammitt started his profession experimenting with industrial supplies, making clear Plexiglas sculptures within the early 1960s. Nevertheless, in 1973, he started a collection of work that he’s finest recognized for, that includes horizontal bands of coloration impressed by the distinctive qualities of Southern California mild. To create these “Band Work,” he employed his personal complicated coloration principle and logarithmic curves, even enlisting mathematicians on the California Institute of Know-how to help him with computer-based calculations. Karma’s exhibition will span 20 years, illustrating the breadth of labor that resulted from Zammitt’s singular imaginative and prescient.

Karma (karmakarma.org)
7351 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California
November 10–January 6, 2024

Carolyn Castaño: Cumanday – Lovely Mountain

In her solo museum present Cumanday – Lovely Mountain, Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño examines the environmental, cultural, and social affect of Andean glaciers which are melting on account of local weather change. Her multi-media method brings collectively watercolor landscapes, hard-edge abstraction, printed materials, and sculpture, drawing connections between 19th-century exploration and colonialism and present environmental threats stemming from unchecked industrialism.

Craft Up to date (craftcontemporary.org)
5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
By way of January 7, 2024

Face to Face: Ken Gonzales-Day

Face to Face unites two complementary our bodies of labor by LA-based photographer Ken Gonzales-Day. Pandemic Portraits consists of images of artists, dancers, writers, and different tradition staff taken on the top of the pandemic, shedding mild on moments of intimacy within the face of isolation. Profiled options photographs of sculptural busts and different works present in storage rooms of main US museums, together with the Smithsonian and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, elevating essential questions on race, identification, and illustration. The 2 collection are linked by a 2022 portrait of Dr. Steven Pratt of the Osage Nation and a picture of the 1904 bust of his nice grandfather, Shonke Mon-thi^.

Claremont Lewis Museum of Artwork (clmoa.org)
200 West First Avenue, Claremont, California
By way of January 21, 2024

Reina de Los Angeles

In response to the legend, a imaginative and prescient of the Virgin Mary appeared to a Chichimec peasant named Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on the outskirts of Mexico Metropolis in December of 1531, ushering within the unfold of Catholicism all through present-day North and South America. The Virgen de Guadalupe, as she is understood, is revered by Catholics throughout Latin America but in addition stands as an emblem of cultural satisfaction for a lot of Mexican Individuals. Her picture will be discovered on road murals, mosaics, and household shrines throughout Los Angeles (which was initially named in her honor as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula”). For over a decade, photographer and librarian Nydya Mora has been documenting these public manifestations, now introduced collectively in Reina de Los Angeles. Her photographs chronicle particular person expressions of piety and honor which are deeply embedded within the cloth of town.

Forest Garden Museum (forestlawn.com)
1712 South Glendale Avenue, Glendale, California
By way of February 11, 2024

Hélio Oiticica & Neville D’Almeida: Cosmococa/CC2 Onobject

Within the 1970s, Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and filmmaker Neville D’Almeida collaborated on a collection of 9 immersive artworks titled Cosmococas that included sand, balloons, sound components, and projected photographs. The Mistake Room has remounted a presentation of CC2/Onobject, which includes a wall-to-wall foam flooring, colourful foam objects, and projections from Yoko Ono’s e-book Grapefruit, accompanied by music from the Plastic Ono Band. Because the exhibition unfolds, a number of Angeleno artists and performers will stage occasions and interventions within the house, reframing Oiticica and D’Almeida’s extension of artwork into life inside an area context.

The Mistake Room (tmr.la)
1811 East 20th Avenue, Central-Alameda, Los Angeles
By way of March 3, 2024

Alexandre Arrechea: Intersected Horizons

Since rising as a founding member of the Cuban artwork collective Los Carpinteros nearly 25 years in the past, Alexandre Arrechea’s work has been characterised by an embrace of hybridity and the dissolution of boundaries. This syncretism is obvious in his multidisciplinary apply, which incorporates sculpture, portray, images, and video artwork, in addition to the disparate nexus of sources from which he attracts inspiration. Intersected Horizons is Arrechea’s first solo museum present in California, showcasing his participating mixture of conceptual curiosity and materials inquiry.

Museum of Latin American Artwork (molaa.org)
628 Alamitos Avenue, Lengthy Seaside, California
By way of Could 2024

Portray within the River of Angels: Judy Baca and the Nice Wall

Within the mid-1970s, Judy Baca started work on “The Nice Wall of Los Angeles,” a 2,700-foot-long mural painted on the concrete sides of a tributary of the LA River within the San Fernando Valley. Created in collaboration with a whole lot of youth from the encircling communities, the mural depicts episodes in LA’s historical past, advised from the views of girls, folks of coloration, and different marginalized teams. Now, the exhibition Portray within the River of Angels brings the mural into the Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork, as Baca and colleagues from the Social and Public Art Resource Center full two new panels on web site, depicting the Motion for Farmworkers’ Rights, the East LA Walkout, and scenes from the Watts Riot and Renaissance, updating “The Nice Wall” for the 21st century.

Los Angeles County Museum of Artwork (lacma.org)
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles
By way of June 2, 2024