DTLArts Day October 19, 2024

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.

In 2012, Chef Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis found themselves in a vacant warehouse, down a dimly lit alleyway at the edge of downtown Los Angeles. The exposed brick, steel beams, and well-worked concrete spoke to who they were as people and the food they wanted to cook. While most people thought they were out of their minds to open a restaurant on E. 7th Place, Chef Ori and Genevieve knew it was exactly where Bestia needed to be.  The converted warehouse soon opened its garage door and with it, a menu that reflected Menashe’s interpretations of Italian classics with an emphasis on powerful, yet balanced flavors and wood-fired cooking, while Gergis’ desserts brought a final course of equally reimagined heavy hitters.Over a decade later, the dining room at Bestia feels as charged as ever. Even in the lush courtyard, where the music dims to a hum and trees ripe with figs frame your view, the intensity of the open kitchen and the passion of the Bestia team remains timelessly palpable.  Bestia remains a place to truly celebrate. The thoughtfully sourced and seasonal menu, well-crafted cocktails, and extraordinary wine program continue to offer an unparalleled dining experience in Los Angeles. Whether you sit at the bar for pizza and a beer or enjoy a four-course meal with 14 of your closest friends, Bestia is our favorite party at the edge of the city. 

Guerrilla Tacos is not just a restaurant; it's a celebration of Los Angeles' diverse cultures, showcasing inventive tacos and one of the best agave mezcal bars in Los Angeles.

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.

Retail outlets, pop-up shops, offices & restaurants in a 30-acre historic district.

Bavel, in Downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District, is a Middle Eastern restaurant from Chefs Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis. With family roots in Israel, Morocco, Turkey, and Egypt, Ori and Genevieve have always wanted to open a restaurant that showcases the cuisines of their family lineages, bringing together the flavors and dishes they grew up with.

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.

De La Nonna is a market-driven pizza restaurant in the heart of Los Angeles’ Art District!

WE ARE A NATURAL WINERY WITH A TASTING ROOM IN THE ARTS DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD OF L.A.

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.

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.

Located in Downtown Los Angeles, Soho Warehouse is set in a former storage facility-turned-recording studio built in 1916, featuring street art from the surrounding area.

In 2015, Dune opened in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles. Our vision was to pay homage to the food we love using the freshest, cleanest, and most local ingredients possible. We were inspired to add the voice of our city to the chorus of beautiful and diverse cultures who call this cuisine their own, and to create our own unique version of the street food of the Levant and the Eastern Mediterranean.