New Conversation with Rosa Park
Karma, Los Angeles
In ABC, Henni Alftan presents twenty-six drawings, each keyed to a letter of the Roman alphabet. Set against flat, monochromatic grounds, familiar objects hover in isolation – A for aspirin and ants, B for Band-Aids, buttons, and buckles, and so on – forming a quiet, methodical visual lexicon.
Bound by the scale of the paper itself, Alftan limits her selections to objects that could physically fit within each roughly ten-by-eight-inch sheet. Working inside this tight frame, ABC opens onto larger questions of pictorial space and illusion, of order and hierarchy, and of how images and words shape one another. The result is restrained, precise, and gently conceptual – an alphabet built through looking.
Jan 17 – Feb 14, 2026
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Precious Moments, a new exhibition by Sayre Gomez, marking his first solo show with the gallery. On view from January 16 to March 1, 2026, the exhibition unfolds across all three Los Angeles spaces, bringing together new paintings, sculpture, and video.
Known for his sharp eye on American urban life, Gomez turns his focus back to Los Angeles – its surfaces, symbols, and contradictions. Large-scale photorealistic paintings sit alongside meticulously crafted objects and new moving-image work, tracing questions of memory, authenticity, and how history is absorbed in the present tense. Precious Moments pushes this inquiry closer to home, reflecting on how his children navigate a landscape saturated with the imagery of late capitalism, and how those encounters reshape his own way of seeing. The result is Gomez’s most expansive statement to date – critical and romantic, precise yet open, reading the built environment as both personal archive and cultural mirror.
Art Institute Chicago
Over seven decades, Lucas Samaras built a practice unlike anyone else’s. Working across photography, sculpture, and drawing, he repeatedly turned inward, using his own body and personal belongings as both subject and material.
This exhibition centers on Samaras’s radical photographic work, where performance, self-image, and technical experimentation collide. Using instant Polaroid film – prized for its privacy and autonomy – he worked alone, at home, without a darkroom or intermediaries. But rather than accept the medium’s limits, Samaras pushed it to extremes, physically manipulating the pigments to distort his body, merge figure and space, and remake the image from the inside out.
Jan 31 – Jul 20, 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Noah Davis set out, in his own words, “to represent the people around me.” Born in Seattle in 1983, he made Los Angeles his home, developing a practice that portrayed contemporary Black life with tenderness, clarity, and care. This major retrospective expands beyond painting to include collage, found photography, sculpture, early web projects, and the vision that ultimately led him to found his own museum.
The exhibition makes its final stop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, following an international tour with DAS MINSK, the Barbican, and the Hammer Museum. Key works include 40 Acres and a Unicorn, Isis, Savage Wilds, and the celebrated Pueblo del Rio series – paintings that anchor Davis’s legacy in place, history, and lived experience.
Open Jan 24, 2026
Gagosian, London
Marking 40 years since the publication of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, an upcoming exhibition at Gagosian’s Davies Street space presents all 126 photographs from the original book – shown together for the first time in the UK. Described by Nan Goldin as “the diary I let people read,” the work lands with the same raw intimacy that made it seismic on first release.
Shot in the thick of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s and 80s, the images capture a world of sex, drugs, punk, and chosen family, while also cementing a visual language that would ripple through generations of photographers. Seen in full, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency reads less like history and more like lived experience – urgent, unfiltered, and still very much alive.
Jan 13, 2026 – Mar 21, 2026
Pace Gallery, Berlin
Lynch-heads in Berlin, take note. A new exhibition at Pace Gallery brings together paintings, sculptures, early short films, and photographs by the late David Lynch, many taken during his visits to the German capital. It’s a tight, atmospheric look at Lynch beyond the director’s chair – one that foregrounds the fact that he always understood himself as a visual artist first.
Having studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1960s, Lynch carried that sensibility across every medium he touched. This Berlin presentation – a prelude to a larger exhibition opening later this year at Pace’s Los Angeles space – traces the connective tissue between his images and ideas, revealing a singular, idiosyncratic world that refuses to stay in just one form.
Jan 29, 2026 – Mar 22, 2026
Karma, Los Angeles
In ABC, Henni Alftan presents twenty-six drawings, each keyed to a letter of the Roman alphabet. Set against flat, monochromatic grounds, familiar objects hover in isolation – A for aspirin and ants, B for Band-Aids, buttons, and buckles, and so on – forming a quiet, methodical visual lexicon.
Bound by the scale of the paper itself, Alftan limits her selections to objects that could physically fit within each roughly ten-by-eight-inch sheet. Working inside this tight frame, ABC opens onto larger questions of pictorial space and illusion, of order and hierarchy, and of how images and words shape one another. The result is restrained, precise, and gently conceptual – an alphabet built through looking.
Jan 17 – Feb 14, 2026
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Precious Moments, a new exhibition by Sayre Gomez, marking his first solo show with the gallery. On view from January 16 to March 1, 2026, the exhibition unfolds across all three Los Angeles spaces, bringing together new paintings, sculpture, and video.
Known for his sharp eye on American urban life, Gomez turns his focus back to Los Angeles – its surfaces, symbols, and contradictions. Large-scale photorealistic paintings sit alongside meticulously crafted objects and new moving-image work, tracing questions of memory, authenticity, and how history is absorbed in the present tense. Precious Moments pushes this inquiry closer to home, reflecting on how his children navigate a landscape saturated with the imagery of late capitalism, and how those encounters reshape his own way of seeing. The result is Gomez’s most expansive statement to date – critical and romantic, precise yet open, reading the built environment as both personal archive and cultural mirror.
Art Institute Chicago
Over seven decades, Lucas Samaras built a practice unlike anyone else’s. Working across photography, sculpture, and drawing, he repeatedly turned inward, using his own body and personal belongings as both subject and material.
This exhibition centers on Samaras’s radical photographic work, where performance, self-image, and technical experimentation collide. Using instant Polaroid film – prized for its privacy and autonomy – he worked alone, at home, without a darkroom or intermediaries. But rather than accept the medium’s limits, Samaras pushed it to extremes, physically manipulating the pigments to distort his body, merge figure and space, and remake the image from the inside out.
Jan 31 – Jul 20, 2026
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Noah Davis set out, in his own words, “to represent the people around me.” Born in Seattle in 1983, he made Los Angeles his home, developing a practice that portrayed contemporary Black life with tenderness, clarity, and care. This major retrospective expands beyond painting to include collage, found photography, sculpture, early web projects, and the vision that ultimately led him to found his own museum.
The exhibition makes its final stop at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, following an international tour with DAS MINSK, the Barbican, and the Hammer Museum. Key works include 40 Acres and a Unicorn, Isis, Savage Wilds, and the celebrated Pueblo del Rio series – paintings that anchor Davis’s legacy in place, history, and lived experience.
Open Jan 24, 2026
Gagosian, London
Marking 40 years since the publication of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, an upcoming exhibition at Gagosian’s Davies Street space presents all 126 photographs from the original book – shown together for the first time in the UK. Described by Nan Goldin as “the diary I let people read,” the work lands with the same raw intimacy that made it seismic on first release.
Shot in the thick of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s and 80s, the images capture a world of sex, drugs, punk, and chosen family, while also cementing a visual language that would ripple through generations of photographers. Seen in full, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency reads less like history and more like lived experience – urgent, unfiltered, and still very much alive.
Jan 13, 2026 – Mar 21, 2026
Pace Gallery, Berlin
Lynch-heads in Berlin, take note. A new exhibition at Pace Gallery brings together paintings, sculptures, early short films, and photographs by the late David Lynch, many taken during his visits to the German capital. It’s a tight, atmospheric look at Lynch beyond the director’s chair – one that foregrounds the fact that he always understood himself as a visual artist first.
Having studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the late 1960s, Lynch carried that sensibility across every medium he touched. This Berlin presentation – a prelude to a larger exhibition opening later this year at Pace’s Los Angeles space – traces the connective tissue between his images and ideas, revealing a singular, idiosyncratic world that refuses to stay in just one form.
Jan 29, 2026 – Mar 22, 2026
