This week’s exhibitions look back to move forward—mining memory, history, and personal archives to illuminate where we are now. And they stretch far and wide, from Santa Monica to downtown LA to Riverside [...] Over at Louis Stern Fine Arts, The Work is Never Finished honors Dr. Samella Lewis, whose prints and drawings channeled fury at racial injustice into symbolic visual expression [...]
Dr. Samella Lewis’s artwork, long secondary to her advocacy, is the focus of a new exhibition at Louis Stern Fine Arts.
A review of the must-see current show at James Fuentes Gallery; new exhibitions opening at Fahey/Klein Gallery, Shatto Gallery, Von Lintel Gallery, Louis Stern Fine Arts, M+B Gallery, and Philip Martin Gallery; and a trove of talks and programs at the Getty Center, Blue Roof Studios, ArtCenter, ICA LA, and Thomas Cooper Studio’s open house with Shana on the mic.