ALTO BETA Amy Sarkisian

Night Gallery is pleased to present This., a solo exhibition by Amy Sarkisian, organized by Alto Beta and on view in our Chapel Viewing Room. The opening reception will take place Friday, April 11, from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition will remain on view through May 10.

Alto Beta, the artist-run gallery founded by Brad Eberhard, recently lost its space in the Eaton fire. In a gesture of collective resilience, Night Gallery has extended its walls to host Amy Sarskian’s exhibition This., honoring both the spirit of artistic collaboration and the perseverance of Los Angeles’s independent art scene. With This., Sarkisian presents a suite of paintings and an intimate sculptural work that grapple with the frictions of gender performance. Drawing on the language of dominance and submission, artifice and authenticity, her work interrogates the theater of power. Who leads, and who follows? Who wears the costume, and who becomes the character? What masquerades as strength may, in fact, be tremulous—threadbare. The title—This.—lands like a punch and lingers like a question. It is a challenge, a dare, a beckoning toward clarity within confusion. Sarkisian’s practice thrives in contradiction, revealing seductive surfaces and quiet ruptures embedded in identity. With sharp wit and a sculptor’s precision, she peels back the layers of performance that structure our intimacies, our hierarchies, our selves.