PRJCT, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

06/18/2026

Los Angeles, CA — CMAY Gallery is pleased to present an artist talk with Alex Parrasch, moderated by educator and art critic David Pagel. The conversation will focus on Parrasch’s solo exhibition Immaculate Tensions; We’re All Going Up!, as well as his artwork in general.

Pagel is a prominent American art critic, educator, and curator based in Southern California. He is best known for his regular contemporary art reviews in the Los Angeles Times and for his extensive academic work. Pagel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in Art History from Harvard University.

Alex Parrasch is a visual artist whose paintings and drawings investigate the fragility, resilience, and physical presence of the human body. His work reflects on the tension and release embedded within anatomical structures—ligaments, joints, muscles, and skeletal forms—while transforming these physical references into dynamic, highly stylized visual compositions. Through a language of abstraction rooted in corporeal experience, Parrasch explores the relationships between movement, balance, compression, and expansion.

06/02/2026

CMAY GALLERY - 5828 Wilshire, Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Exhibition Dates: June 6 - July 11, 2026
Reception: Saturday, June 6 from 3-6PM.

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Alex Parrasch in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. Parrasch is a recent graduate of Claremont Graduate University, where he received his MFA and was awarded the President’s Art Award for the 2026 graduating class.

Alex Parrasch (b. 1997, New York, NY) is a visual artist whose paintings and drawings
investigate the fragility, resilience, and physical presence of the human body. His work reflects upon the tension and release embedded within anatomical structures—ligaments, joints, muscles, and skeletal forms—while simultaneously transforming these physical references into dynamic and highly stylized visual compositions.

Through a language of abstraction rooted in corporeal experience, Parrasch explores the relationship between movement, balance, compression, and expansion.

06/02/2026

CMAY GALLERY - 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Jody Zellen
Figuratively Speaking

Exhibition Dates: June 6 - July 11, 2026
Reception: Saturday, June 6 from 3-6pm

Figuratively Speaking is an exhibition by Jody Zellen featuring pieces from an ongoing body of work: All too Human. On view are small monitors each showing a different set of short animations, lenticular images, one-inch HolaCubes displaying animated GIFs, and an interactive sculpture. Figuratively Speaking refers to the aim to go beyond literal meaning focusing on creative and symbolic expression.

In this exhibition, Zellen explores the animated movements of silhouetted figures — a
combination of simple shapes — a circle, an oval and three rectangles. The silhouettes amble within the frame, changing colors, encountering other figures, moving through
cityscapes, falling through holes, and morphing into multiple iterations, only to disappear and begin all over again, caught in an infinite loop. Zellen’s anonymous figures enact scenarios that are metaphors for lived experiences and convey emotions that sign for us all.

05/22/2026

BOOK SIGNING - CLOSING RECEPTION - Saturday, May 30, from 3 - 5PM

CMAY Gallery 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Donnie Molls"Sketches: Life in Landscape"
April 18 - May 30, 2026

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present "Sketches: Life in Landscape", the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Donnie Molls. The exhibition
introduces a new body of mixed-media works on paper that the artist refers to as “sketches”—intimate, immediate studies of the California landscape drawn
from his ongoing travels.

For more information: email: [email protected] -
phone: (213) 528-4501

CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 - info@cmaygallery.comDARK SHADOWSSenon Williams, Francesca...

04/18/2026

CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 - [email protected]

DARK SHADOWS
Senon Williams, Francesca Bifulco, Gegam Kacherian, John Geary, Sara Ajami

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Dark Shadows, a group exhibition exploring the darker, more surreal dimensions of narrative painting. Drawing inspiration from the iconic television series Dark Shadows (1966–1971)—and its later reinterpretation in Tim Burton’s stylized film Dark Shadows—the exhibition brings together a diverse group of artists whose works navigate themes of mythology, memory, transformation, and the uncanny.

Originally airing from 1966 to 1971, Dark Shadows introduced audiences to a world where gothic romance intertwined with the supernatural. Burton’s later adaptation amplified this sensibility through a heightened visual language of dark humor, theatricality, and exaggerated atmosphere. Together, these iterations provide a conceptual framework for the exhibition, where melodrama and the otherworldly converge, and narrative becomes a vehicle for psychological and symbolic exploration.

04/18/2026

CMAY Gallery 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Donnie Molls"Sketches: Life in Landscape"

April 18 - May 30, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 3-6pm

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present "Sketches: Life in Landscape", the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Donnie Molls. The exhibition
introduces a new body of mixed-media works on paper that the artist refers to as “sketches”—intimate, immediate studies of the California landscape drawn
from his ongoing travels.

For more information: email: [email protected] -
phone: (213) 528-4501

04/13/2026

CMAY Gallery 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036

Donnie Molls�"Sketches: Life in Landscape"

April 18 - May 30, 2026�Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18 3-6pm

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present "Sketches: Life in Landscape", the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Donnie Molls. The exhibition introduces a new body of mixed-media works on paper that the artist refers to as “sketches”—intimate, immediate studies of the California landscape drawn from his ongoing travels.

Working from photographic images captured across the varied terrains of California, Molls employs a range of transfer processes to translate these moments onto paper. These works extend the visual language of his larger canvases, yet operate with a heightened sense of immediacy and experimentation. The resulting images retain traces of their photographic origins while embracing the material unpredictability of the transfer process, allowing chance, texture, and fragmentation to play an active role in the composition.

In Sketches, Molls turns his attention to the subtle and often overlooked qualities of the everyday landscape. His subjects—roadside vistas, quiet horizons, and transitional spaces—reflect a sustained engagement with the peripheral and the mundane. Rather than monumentalizing the landscape, Molls captures fleeting impressions, emphasizing atmosphere, light, and the passage of time.

More spontaneous and direct than his larger works, these sketches function as both independent artworks and a parallel record of the artist’s process. They offer glimpses into his movement through the landscape—moments observed, collected, and reinterpreted—revealing a practice rooted in both observation and transformation.

"Sketches: Life in Landscape" continues Molls’ exploration of place, memory, and perception, presenting a body of work that is at once personal and reflective of the broader visual language of California.

For more information: email: [email protected] - phone: (213) 528-4501

CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 - info@cmaygallery.comDonnie MollsSketches: Life in Landsca...

04/11/2026

CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036 - [email protected]

Donnie Molls
Sketches: Life in Landscape

CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Sketches: Life in Landscape, the second solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Donnie Molls. The exhibition introduces a new body of mixed-media works on paper that the artist refers to as “sketches”—intimate, immediate studies of the California landscape drawn from his ongoing travels.

Working from photographic images captured across the varied terrains of California, Molls employs a range of transfer processes to translate these moments onto paper. These works extend the visual language of his larger canvases, yet operate with a heightened sense of immediacy and experimentation. The resulting images retain traces of their photographic origins while embracing the material unpredictability of the transfer process, allowing chance, texture, and fragmentation to play an active role in the composition.

In Sketches, Molls turns his attention to the subtle and often overlooked qualities of the everyday landscape. His subjects—roadside vistas, quiet horizons, and transitional spaces—reflect a sustained engagement with the peripheral and the mundane. Rather than monumentalizing the landscape, Molls captures fleeting impressions, emphasizing atmosphere, light, and the passage of time.
More spontaneous and direct than his larger works, these sketches function as both independent artworks and a parallel record of the artist’s process. They offer glimpses into his movement through the landscape—moments observed, collected, and reinterpreted—revealing a practice rooted in both observation and transformation.

Sketches: Life in Landscape continues Molls’ exploration of place, memory, and perception, presenting a body of work that is at once personal and reflective of the broader visual language of California.

03/31/2026

CMAY Gallery, 5828 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Cynthia MinetLand / Air / Sea - Exhibition Dates: February 7 - April 4, 2026

Los Angeles, CA — CMAY Gallery is pleased to present Land / Air / Sea, the inaugural solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Cynthia Minet. The exhibition
features six new cast aluminum sculptures that explore the fragile interdependence between human activity and the natural world. Minet is best known for her illuminated, site-responsive sculptures and installations of life-sized animals made from recycled plastics. Her practice draws attention to the escalating effects of climate change and industrial pollution on species extinction and ecological balance, employing a research-based visual language that resonates emotionally with viewers.

In Land / Air / Sea, Minet presents abstracted yet recognizable sculptural forms derived from close observation of fauna—human, bird, fish, and insect. The works originate as constructions assembled from fragments of discarded polystyrene packing materials, a substance rarely recycled and emblematic of contemporary consumer waste. Cast in aluminum, the sculptures retain animated surface textures embedded with embossed recycling symbols and commercial logos, preserving traces of their original material history. Through this transformation, Minet underscores humanity’s role in the degradation of land, air, and sea, while giving permanence to what is typically disposable.

This body of work extends Minet’s polystyrene-to-aluminum casting process first realized in her public artwork Stacked (2025–2027), an eight-foot sculpture commissioned for Kite Pharma’s sculpture garden in Santa Monica, California. Originally constructed from discarded polystyrene, Stacked depicts a vertical arrangement of three endangered animals—a Galápagos tortoise, a Mexican red wolf, and a Przewalski’s horse—topped by a human rider. Referencing carved First Nations totem poles and Italian Renaissance monuments, the work addresses themes of hierarchy, dominance, and responsibility within the natural world.

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