Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is the longest running institution in Los Angeles devoted solely to exhibiting art.
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For the past 40 years, we have served the artists of the Los Angeles arts community from San Barbara to San Diego. The Gallery also, administers an exhibition program along with Los Angeles World Airports Art Exhibition Program at LAX and ONT Airports. The program invites guest curators to curate and mount exhibitions of local and international artists. Museum Education and Tours Program: Provides

free gallery lessons based on art exhibition and hands-on art making component to school-aged children from first through 9th grades in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Free adult education programming: “Conversations with the Artist” programs, panel discussions with artists and develops and provides free art programs for Youth-at-Risk groups, high school level. The gallery and the education program provide a year-round art and education internship program for college students and participate in the Summer Getty Multicultural Internship program.

Join us this Saturday for the FINAL day of Heavy Metal, Ivan Bridges: Infinite Game, and Rachel Bridges: I Am Not Your F...
06/17/2026

Join us this Saturday for the FINAL day of Heavy Metal, Ivan Bridges: Infinite Game, and Rachel Bridges: I Am Not Your Filipina!
Additionally, Heavy Metal artist Barbra Berk will be performing from 2:00-4:00

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is open Thursday-Saturday, 11:00am - 4:00pm

LAMAG will be closed on Friday, June 19th, in observation of Juneteenth.

More info in bio or at lamag.org

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 13Miya Ando(b. Los Angeles, CA)Lives and works in New YorkKumo (Cloud) 07.27.2022 1:01...
06/17/2026

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 13

Miya Ando
(b. Los Angeles, CA)
Lives and works in New York

Kumo (Cloud) 07.27.2022 1:01 PM NYC, 2022
Ink on aluminum composite

Courtesy of the artist

Ando’s practice examines the intersection of nature, time, and impermanence. Through philosophical inquiry into natural cycles, she creates visual systems that give form to vanishing conditions such as seasonal shifts, atmospheric changes, and fading cultural memory. Materials such as indigo, metal, washi, and pigment are selected for their ability to transform over time. Phenomena like fog, moon phases, and rainfall are approached as temporal systems, rendered perceptible through sustained observation. With subtle gradations of color that seem lit from within, her paintings depict ephemeral elements — clouds, mist, rain, the moon — through materials that are anything but fleeting. In an era of ecological instability and accelerated digital experience, disappearance functions as a guiding principle.

Drawing from Japanese and American lineages, including formative years in a Buddhist temple, an apprenticeship with a metalsmith in Okayama, and her ancestry as a sixteenth-generation Bizen swordsmith, Ando translates natural and linguistic ephemera into form. Titles often reference untranslatable Japanese idioms, framing language as a structural element within the work.

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 12Claire Chambless(b. 1989, Houston, TX)Lives and works in Los AngelesPlayer Non-Playe...
06/13/2026

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 12

Claire Chambless
(b. 1989, Houston, TX)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Player Non-Player, 2024
Synthetic "mars" hydroxyapatite, steel, resin, latex, and rope

Courtesy of the artist, Morán Morán, and Carlye Packer Gallery

Claire Chambless’s practice explores the unstable terrain where opposites such as light and shadow, interior and exterior, and truth and contradiction coexist. Drawing on ideas of Jungian shadow integration, her work invites viewers to consider how the boundaries we create within the self may be more porous than they appear.

Play is an important part of Chambless’s process. Known for her dollhouses, she treats them less as nostalgic objects than as psychological architectures and symbolic landscapes of the psyche. She incorporates materials such as hydroxyapatite, a calcium phosphate compound more commonly found in dental applications, which she enamels with epoxy resin. From a distance, her sculptures can appear minimal and abstract. Up close, their surfaces reveal cracks, seams, and fragments that suggest fragility and tension, reflecting how early frameworks of identity continue to shape the adult self. Player Non-Player acts as a skeletal frame in an embodied cognitive dissonance.

“Caring for What You Create: Practical Preservation Tips,” was a half-day preservation workshop presented by LAMAG and Y...
06/11/2026

“Caring for What You Create: Practical Preservation Tips,” was a half-day preservation workshop presented by LAMAG and Your Neighborhood Museum and facilitated by Makayla Rawlins, Carolina Benitez Squires, and Jenny Payan. The workshop introduced artists to practical conservation concepts, including conservation ethics, documentation, material aging, archival storage, and studio-based preservation strategies. It also included interactive mock-ups and examples that connected conservation practices to materials and situations artists may encounter in their own studios.

Participants came to the workshop with a wide range of prior experience. Some had formal or professional exposure to conservation through college coursework, internships, textile work, mural and object experience, or private practice apprenticeship. Others had only heard of conservation generally, while some had little to no direct experience. This range suggests that the workshop was able to support both beginners and participants with more advanced interest in the field. The artists who attended work with a broad range of materials. This variety reinforced the importance of artist-centered conservation education, especially for contemporary practices that often involve mixed media, experimental materials, and everyday studio storage challenges.

In summary, the workshop successfully introduced art conservation as a practical, approachable, and collaborative resource for artists. Participants valued the balance of ethics, documentation, material knowledge, and real-world examples. The feedback suggests strong interest in future programming that is more hands-on, community-oriented, and focused on helping artists apply conservation principles directly to their own work and studio practices.

LAMAG is hosting two, free one-hour online overviews of artworks from Heavy Metal!Revisiting and challenging historicall...
06/11/2026

LAMAG is hosting two, free one-hour online overviews of artworks from Heavy Metal!

Revisiting and challenging historically dominant narratives in large-scale sculpture, this group exhibition engages with the legacy of formalism and theatricality while exploring abstraction, colonialism, memory, nature, objecthood, and site. Expanding beyond an initial focus on metal, the works bring material and conceptual depth to question the history of monumentality in sculpture to propose renewed ways of thinking about form, space, and relation.

All are welcome! The virtual program is facilitated by LAMAG Art Education Coordinator Marta Feinstein.

Part 1: Tuesday, June 16th, 12:00 - 1:00pm
Part 2: Thursday, June 18th, 12:00 - 1:00pm

Different artists will be featured each day.

Find the registration link on our Linktree in our bio.

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 11Alika Cooper(b. 1979, Guam)Lives and works in Los AngelesSlide 1Eye Shadow, 2023Bron...
06/11/2026

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 11

Alika Cooper
(b. 1979, Guam)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Slide 1
Eye Shadow, 2023
Bronze

Slide 2
In the Middle of the Street, 2023
Bronze

Slide 3
Rose, 2023
Bronze

Slide 4
The Heart Is In It, 2023
Bronze

Slide 5
Gutty, 2023
Bronze

Courtesy of the artist and Situations

Alika Cooper is trained in painting and drawing and has expanded her practice into sculpture. Cooper investigates the female body as both image and object. Her work transforms everyday materials through casting, layering, and reconstruction. By recording additive and subtractive gestures, she abstracts bodily form while also suggesting its presence through absence. This tension between visibility and concealment allows her to challenge cultural stereotypes of femininity and to oscillate between the playful and the grotesque.

In the Manholes series, Cooper shifts her focus from the body to the street. Cast in bronze, these circular relief sculptures resemble urban manhole covers objects typically overlooked despite their essential function. Rather than presenting industrial patterns alone, Cooper introduces swirling, intestinal, and organic motifs that evoke bodily interiors. The manhole becomes an or***ce: a threshold between surface and depth, consciousness and intuition, the built environment and a more sensuous, “over-real” realm beneath it. By merging civic infrastructure with visceral imagery, Cooper collapses distinctions between body and city. The underground is not simply hidden space but an ecological and psychological network in which human life is embedded.

Photos by Evan Walsh

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 10Katie Grinnan(b. Richmond, VA)Lives and works in Los AngelesPsychic Tectonic Glitch ...
06/09/2026

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 10

Katie Grinnan
(b. Richmond, VA)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Psychic Tectonic Glitch Body, 2018
Aggregate of Friendly Plastic and earth from Death Valley

Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council

Katie Grinnan’s practice investigates the body as both instrument and site of perception. Fascinated by kinaesthesis, vision, and cognition, she examines how these finely tuned systems shape subjective experiences of reality, emotion, and self. Her work engages altered states of consciousness, including meditation and dreaming, to explore the mind’s expansive capacities.

Grinnan’s sculptures emerge from casts of her own body captured in improvised yoga poses. Using earth and plastic, each shell-like form preserves a fleeting moment. When clustered together, the assemblages evoke stop-motion animations that trace movement through time and space. Drawing on natural materials and scientific inquiry, she materializes the intricate landscapes of thought and feeling, envisioning the body as a cosmic, interconnected entity that embodies intellect, emotion, and force.

Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 9Ting Ying Han(b. Taipei, Taiwan)Lives and works in Los AngelesFlowing Space, 2023Cyan...
06/04/2026

Heavy Metal Artist Spotlight Part 9

Ting Ying Han
(b. Taipei, Taiwan)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Flowing Space, 2023
Cyanotype printing on silk, alcohol ink, fabric pigment, and copper

Courtesy of the artist

Ting Ying Han works across sculpture, installation, and participatory projects. Her practice examines how collective memory, identity, and belonging are shaped through the histories of cities and the infrastructures that organize daily life. Through archival research, interviews, and collaborative exchanges, Han gathers personal narratives that reveal how places are lived in, remembered, and contested. Focusing particularly on immigrant and underrepresented communities, her work considers how social and economic change transforms neighborhoods while leaving emotional and cultural traces embedded in the landscape.

Han approaches the studio as a space for collective reflection, where storytelling becomes a method for understanding how memory and identity evolve across generations. Flowing Space draws from the artist’s childhood home. Reconstructed from memory, its layout becomes a symbolic map in which gestures and marks evoke the activities, relationships, and experiences that once unfolded within each room.

Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Join us this Friday, June 5th, at 12:00pm for a conversation with a selection of artists from Heavy Metal. This event is...
06/03/2026

Join us this Friday, June 5th, at 12:00pm for a conversation with a selection of artists from Heavy Metal. This event is free and requires no reservation. We hope to see you there!

Visit the link in our bio or visit lamag.org for more info!

Andrea Hidalgo(b. 1985, Riverside, CA)Lives and works in Los AngelesSlide 1Snake in the Grass, 2018Steel, foam, epoxy, p...
06/03/2026

Andrea Hidalgo
(b. 1985, Riverside, CA)
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Slide 1
Snake in the Grass, 2018
Steel, foam, epoxy, paint

Slide 2
Achelous, 2026
Rope, epoxy, paint

Slide 3
The Gates of Hell, 2026
Steel and rose

Courtesy of the artist

Andrea Hidalgo’s practice examines representations of love, lust, s*x, pleasure, s*xuality, gender, and power. Using scale, materials, objects, images, and cultural references, Hidalgo constructs environments that invite viewers to navigate what is suggested or implied. Familiar forms become layered with multiple meanings, encouraging reflection on how these subjects are shaped by social expectations and personal perception. Moments of humor surface within the work opening space to engage with these themes in unexpected ways.

Ambiguity is central to Hidalgo’s work. Sculptural forms may evoke snakes, bodies, or ph***ic shapes that shift depending on the viewer’s perspective. The coiled sculpture Achelous draws inspiration from a work at the Louvre Museum depicting Hercules battling the river god Achelous, who transforms into a serpent. Finding humor in the scenario, Hidalgo interpreted the image of a man fighting a snake akin to a man struggling with his own body, invoking a slapstick sensibility reminiscent of Tex Avery. Through this layered interplay of humor and tension, the work invites viewers to reconsider how cultural imagery shapes perceptions of s*xuality and power.

Photo credit: LAMAG

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