Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA) is delighted to announce DTLArts Day on Saturday, October 19 from 3-8:30PM. The event will celebrate downtown’s Arts District & neighboring contemporary arts scenes.
An Arts District shuttle will transport participants between select venues, starting at Night Gallery / Cirrus Gallery / François Ghebaly and ending at Hauser + Wirth / The Box, with stops in between at 1700 Santa Fe’s compound of galleries, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and more
Many galleries will stay open through 8PM, and some will hold special events. Wonzimer hosts a curator-led walkthrough, while The Box features a talk by Corazon Del Son, artist and daughter of Eugenia P. Butler, whose work is on view at the gallery. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles organizes a membership party featuring bars, a taco truck, and a DJ. de Boer opens an exhibition of new work by Julia Elise Hong. The day will close out with an afterparty at Soho Warehouse. Below, please find a list of participants—all GALA members—who will also be featured on a special map.
DTLA ARTS DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD SHUTTLE
Stop 1: 2050 Imperial St.
Cirrus Gallery | François Ghebaly | Night Gallery
Stop 2: 1700 S. Santa Fe Ave.
Nicodim | Patricia Sweetow
Vielmetter Los Angeles | Wilding Cran
Stop 3: 1110 Mateo St.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Soho Warehouse | Webber
Stop 4: 1717 E 7th St.
ICALA Kickoff Event
Stop 5: 432 S Alameda Street
Royale Projects (enter via 431 Seaton St)
Stop 6: 805 Traction Ave.
Night Gallery is Los Angeles' leading platform for emerging artists. Founded in 2010 by Davida Nemeroff, the gallery was first housed within a strip mall storefront in the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood, where openings were held between 10pm and 2am. In 2013, Night Gallery moved to its current location near LA’s Downtown Arts District. In January 2022 Night Gallery North was launched to expanded gallery space. It is located in a neighboring building at the corner of Imperial and 16th Street. At nearly 14,000 square feet, this space enables the gallery to double its footprint and expand its installation and sculpture programming.
Over the course of the past 12 years, Night Gallery has become the locus of the city's flourishing visual arts community, maintaining its commitment to artists of diverse backgrounds and points of view while raising its international profile. In 2016, Night Gallery was described by The New York Times as “arguably the epicenter of the underground art world in Los Angeles,” and roster artists have received accolades from publications including the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Artforum, Cultured, and GQ. The gallery’s current programming echoes the joyfully experimental approach of its early years while continuing to support its thriving artists and their practices.
From 1970 to the present, Cirrus Gallery and Cirrus Editions Ltd. has prided itself in publishing and exhibiting some of the greatest artists of the 21st century, giving many now established artists their start. At our first location on 708 N Manhattan Place, we published and exhibited works by Ed Ruscha, Ed Moses, Vija Celmins, Raul Guerrero, Ken Price, and Bruce Nauman, to name a few. The gallery showed works of diverse media, like large installations by Barbara T. Smith and performances by Guy De Cointet. In 1973, Cirrus was the first Los Angeles Gallery to attend Art Basel Switzerland, showcasing California art globally.
In 1980, Cirrus was one of the first galleries to move downtown. Here the gallery grew further. In 1986, The Real McCoys: A Southern California Collection exhibited over 200 artists including Michael Asher, Larry Bell, Chris Burden, James Turrell, Frank Gehry, and Betye Saar. It stands as an ambitious attempt to to historicize art in Los Angeles. At this location we published and exhibited works by Mark Bradford, Mary Weatherford, and John Baldesarri. We now reside at our current location at 2011 S Santa Fe Ave in the Arts District Downtown where we have been since 2015. Here we have worked with artists such as Judy Chicago, Lita Albuquerque, Derek Boshier, and Jonas Wood.
Founded in 2015, Band of Vices is an art and culture company committed to providing a platform to often overlooked creative communities and a narrative through ever-evolving initiatives, including a highly curated exhibition program, culturally relevant strategic partnerships, mission-driven community programming, and more.
Headquartered in the burgeoning West Adams Arts District of Los Angeles, Band of Vices believes in disrupting the limited business model for artists and creatives. Band of Vices’ Sacred House is committed to providing a platform for those historically undervalued, overlooked or cast aside. Band of Vices embraces uniqueness, diversity, and inclusion.
PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY announces our new location at 1700 So. Santa Fe Avenue, 3rd Floor, Downtown Los Angeles.
PSG opened in San Francisco in 1997, with a recent relocation to Los Angeles in 2022. Focused exhibitions present ideas and use materials that challenge institutional culture, embracing work that expands art historical lineages, while dissolving boundaries between High and Low art. Artists mine the rich, multifaceted traditions of craft, upending expectations, decolonizing structures, breaching personal boundaries.
Vielmetter Los Angeles was established in 2000 with a focus on presenting work by artists from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, many of whom are engaged in a rigorously conceptual practice. The gallery's program is international in scope and aims to reflect gender parity. In 2019, the gallery relocated from Culver City to a 34,000-square-foot space in downtown Los Angeles.
Founded in 2014 by Anthony Cran and Naomi deLuce Wilding, Wilding Cran represents international contemporary artists working in a variety of mediums. The gallery supports local and universal social causes through arts education programming and philanthropic work. In November 2019, the gallery relocated to 1700 S. Santa Fe Ave., a former tire factory, which houses a community of galleries including Vielmetter, Nicodim, and Gavlak.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles is a contemporary art gallery representing emerging and mid-career artists who are engaged in regional and global art discourse with a particular focus on intersectional diversity. These artists use conceptual and formal strategies as a critical lens to address a myriad of concerns including the social constructs of gender, racial, and subjective identity, the power of aesthetic frameworks to shape political and economic reality, and the historical role of the artist within society.
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles opened in Santa Monica's Bergamot Station in 2010 and relocated in 2011 to the Culver City Arts District, where the gallery operated for ten years. In 2021, the gallery opened an expansive space in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District.
Webber is a contemporary gallery based in London and Los Angeles, home to a flourishing artist led program of photography, sculpture, performance, sound and moving image.
Since 2014, Webber has collaborated with a wide range of international artists and selected partners who share our love for unconventional approaches to the medium. Our program of exhibitions, talks, book launches and magazine releases often sit at an intersection between photography, installation, sculpture and documentary practice.
Webber provides consultation services for museums, collections and private collectors looking to acquire original visual art. We support our artists holistically through our sister agency Webber Represents, cultivating special creative projects for represented artists, including bespoke commissions.
We are passionate about supporting artists and fostering positive change in the arts industry, and through a variety of partnerships we participate in a range of community and charity collaborations that complement our inclusivity objectives.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) is an epicenter of artistic experimentation and an incubator of new ideas.
Founded in 1988 as the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMoA) and reestablished in 2017 with a new identity and home in Downtown Los Angeles, ICA LA builds upon a distinguished history of bold curatorial vision and innovative programming to illuminate the important untold stories and emerging voices in contemporary art and culture. The museum’s 12,700 square-foot renovated industrial building—designed by WHY Architects under the leadership of Kulapat Yantrasast—features ample space for exhibitions, public programs, retail pop-ups, integrated offices, and special projects.
ICA LA’s mission is to support art that sparks the pleasure of discovery and challenges the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other. ICA LA is committed to upending hierarchies of race, class, gender, and culture. Through exhibitions, education programs, and community partnerships, ICA LA fosters critique of the familiar and empathy with the different.
ICA LA is committed to making contemporary art relevant and accessible for all. Admission is free.
Royale Projects, established in 2008, focuses on the history and continuing advancement of abstraction in painting and sculpture, as well as on leading edge artists who find their roots in Conceptualism. Royale Projects maintains a rigorous schedule of solo and group exhibitions as well as site-responsive projects.
Charlie James Gallery was formed and opened in 2008 in Chinatown, Los Angeles, and is owned and directed by Charlie James, a collector turned gallerist who had a background in CRM application consulting at Microsoft and other companies before opening the business. The gallery’s ethos asserts that art should engage with the time of its making, and is known for platforming work of significant political and cultural engagement. It has built a strong reputation for platforming and historicizing numerous young artists from Los Angeles and beyond.
Works by our artists appear in esteemed museum collections ranging from the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the LA County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, MoCA LA, the MFA Boston, the Walker Art Center, and many others. The gallery operates out of two spaces on Chung King Road in Los Angeles, California.
Founded by two independent visionaries—Swiss artist and musician Alaïa Parhizi, and American entrepreneur Aidan Nelson—Wönzimer emanates a young, lively energy that is cultivated through professional leadership and a genuine love of innovation and diversity.
Wönzimer, which means living room in German, is a place where everyone is welcome. These ideals are indeed the foundations upon which Wönzimer thrives and lives. It is precisely this interest that has given Wönzimer its magic, as well as a living history of joyful, spontaneous interactions that it has inspired between extraordinary individuals from all walks of life.
Wönzimer is interested in unique voices from all different backgrounds to inspire and question the world we live in today. And it does this through an ever-evolving embrace of the vast creative potential of human beings. You are welcome here, so come share your voice at Wönzimer!
de boer is a contemporary art gallery that presents focused and conceptually rigorous solo exhibitions and group projects that highlight a diverse and subversive roster of multi-generational artists.
In 2020 David De Boer founded de boer with a space at 3311 E. Pico Blvd. Los Angeles. The location, a known studio complex, has housed studios of notable LA artists since its inauguration in the late 90s. In 2021, the gallery expanded to add an additional gallery at 3311 E. Pico Blvd and brought on Jacob Vasa as gallery director.
Works by the gallery’s artists are featured in numerous public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, and many more.
de boer acknowledges that it is on the traditional land of the Chumash Peoples past and present, and honors with gratitude the land itself and the people who have stewarded it throughout the generations.