Gallop's picks for Los Angeles galleries, November 5–11, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 4 openings and 3 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Chris Sharp pairs Siskind, whom Elaine de Kooning called “the painter’s photographer,” with Ramirez, a Mexican-American artist born and raised in the South Bay. Siskind’s late-1940s photographs of scored, weathered walls brought urban decay into the canon, and Ramirez picks up the thread with a gift for trompe l’oeil.
McGuire’s first solo show at Bel Ami follows the 2026 Whitney Biennial, where an installation by the artist was shown. Here a playable segment of a video game set in a fictionalized colonial-era Salem joins bronze statuettes of its heroine, Joy, and hand-woven baskets.
The Richard Avedon Foundation curated this survey of more than 120 photographs, famous portraits beside rarely seen ones, from Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe to Tilda Swinton. Avedon consulted on Funny Face in 1956, a musical loosely based on the photographer’s own early life, and kept a lifelong fascination with Hollywood.
At Marc Selwyn’s Camden Annex, Valdés’s figurative and abstract paintings bring ancient Mesoamerican imagery into dialogue with mid-century modernism. They draw on the artist’s Mexican-American heritage to take up history, mysticism and the natural world.
Paintings, drawings and an artist book by Goldfield take cues from friendship albums, the collaborative scrapbooks girls and women made between the 17th and 19th centuries. For My Toddler Niece (2026) depicts a green tank top bearing the word NO.
Amir Nikravan's second solo show with the gallery centres on Persian miniatures, which show rooms and landscapes from several points of view at once. Nikravan starts from a digital scan of a miniature, splits it into flat planes and pushes them into rooms that could not exist. Cast in bronze and aluminum, the reliefs hang at varying heights against a horizon line running across the gallery walls.
Kuldeep Singh works into dampened canvas, building up pigment through quick, layered applications of dabbing and smearing. Singh's paintings recast the longing heroine of classical Indian poetry and painting through portraits of contemporary men.
Ali Eyal paints landscapes in oil, following the French and American Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Childe Hassam and Mary Cassatt. Ali Eyal is drawn to New England winters, when clear light sets red barns and houses against white snow and blue skies. Ali Eyal calls painting, with Bach playing in the background, a way to manage stress and escape into another world.
James Fuentes gives Yokoi a first solo show in Los Angeles in more than four decades, with work from 1954, the year the artist arrived on the West Coast by ship, through 2005. It runs from oils on canvas and on paper to the later egg tempera paintings in hand-mixed pigments with pearlescent minerals and metallics.
Demand’s Model Series, begun in 2011 with models by architects such as John Lautner and Gio Ponti, turns to 18th- and 19th-century opera and ballet set models in museums in Vienna, Monaco and Munich, shot through a periscope. Among the fifteen new photographs are sets made for Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Rossini’s Guillaume Tell.
After a solo show at O-Town House earlier this year, Jools Rothblatt gathers work by mentors, teachers, friends and family. The title turns on object permanence, the infant’s sense that a thing is still there after it leaves, which Rothblatt’s statement calls a maddening loop of cosmic indifference.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in Los Angeles.
Gallop's picks for the week of November 5: Edgar Ramirez & Aaron Siskind at Chris Sharp (Hollywood); Isabelle Frances McGuire at Bel Ami (Downtown); Richard Avedon at Gagosian (West Hollywood); Alberto Valdés at Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Camden Annex (West Hollywood). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Opening the week of November 5: Rina Lam Goldfield at IZZY LEE (Downtown); Amir Nikravan at Tyler Park Presents (Hollywood); Kuldeep Singh at Nazarian / Curcio (Hollywood); Ali Eyal at Joan (Downtown).
Last chance the week of November 5: Teruko Yokoi at James Fuentes, until Saturday Nov 7; Thomas Demand at Matthew Marks, until Saturday Nov 7; Men Object Permanence or The Crack Up at O-Town House, until Saturday Nov 7.
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in Los Angeles each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
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