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Raj Debah, The Way To Oistins
October 11 - November 8, 2026
Raj Debah
The Way To Oistins., 2017
Giclee Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper
10.8 x 12 in.
The Way To Oistins captures a moment of stillness. In striking contrast to the over-documentation of destinations, Debah’s moody photo observes the in-between. The feeling of anticipation and excitement of visiting or revisiting a special place. The potential of arrival, the unpolished beauty of a journey, and the possibilities of who we will become all linger in this photo.
Rajendra Debah is an artist based in Los Angeles.
Working across photography, film, collage, and archives, his practice follows histories that were misplaced, rewritten, or left untold.
His work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch, including Shattered Glass (2021), and in two exhibitions at HVW8 Gallery in Los Angeles, most recently Nothing Lasts (November 2023), featuring experimental film and mixed media. His film work includes Beyond Greenwood, a Webby Award–nominated film in Public Service & Activism. He has also created commissioned work for Supreme, Levi’s, and Patta.
He is the co-founder of Dear Summer, a Los Angeles photography community activation.
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Demetrius Toney, Painters’ Pool
Septmber 18 - October 10, 2026
Demetrius Toney
Painters’ Pool at Marcelino’s, 2026
Oil Pastel on Paper
11 x 17 in.
Demetrius Toney’s pool drawings immortalize the energy of nights spent at Marcelino’s Cafe in Lincoln Heights, CA. Chronicling through pastel on paper, Toney capture’s a brief moment when artists gathered for a night of “Painters’ Pool” at Marcelino’s. Toney captures Marcelino’s in black and white as one of the many bars across Los Angeles that has served as containers for the constantly recalibrating scenes of artists across the city.
Toney is an active participant in many such scenes including the Brewery, an artist colony in Lincoln Heights (other members include Ben Quinn, Soojung Park and Raffi Kalenderian) and GAG! (Gallery Attendants’ Gallery) a nomadic network of emerging artists, musicians and more, originally started by gallery attendants as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Demetrius Toney lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Beau Walters, Tokyo Surveillance
June 21 - July 18, 2026
Beau Walters photo book “Tokyo Surveillance” documents the corners and tucked away security camera’s hidden across Tokyo. In photographing these cameras Walters gives us a careful look into a sprawling network of surveillance. Exhibiting his book alongside a vintage CCTV camera we are reminded of the web they represent. Seeing the camera severed from a network, still in it’s original packaging, allows us to dream of a moment where we could live unobserved.
“The urban environment is being transformed into a place where nobody exists without being monitored, tracked and surveilled. The movements and routines of each and every one of us are being categorized and reduced to data points. Fed through algorithms and monetized under the guise of safety and security. Privacy is forfeited in exchange for protection. The panopticon is perpetually watching and human behavior is subtly manipulated as a result. Tokyo Surveillance is a simple observation, a small rebellion against the often overlooked watchful eye of authority that is always on, watching.”
Beau Walters is a photographer based in Boulder, CO.
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Raffi Kalenderian, Tecate
May 10 - June 20, 2026
Raffi Kalenderian
Tecate, 2025
Oil on Paper
9.75x12.5 in.
In Tecate, the interior of a cooler is raised to new heights of fantasy. Raffi Kalenderian’s drink paintings hold all the affection of a buzzed evening. In this drawing, Kalenderian depicts cans of tecate with the same measured care he gives to a portrait of a friend or a lover. Through Kalenderian’s beer colored glasses a dive bar becomes a tableu teaming with life, a wine glass becomes an icon to be studied, and a cooler becomes a jewellery store case.
Raffi Kalenderian grew up in Laguna Beach, CA and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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Andrew Fulton Untitled
April 12 - May 9, 2026
Andrew Fulton
Untitled, 2026
Oil on Canvas
12x16 in.
In Untitled, Andrew Fulton uses murky layers of oil paint and turpentine to compose a familiar grid. The work recalls the worn fabrics and patinas of everyday life through the artist’s engagement with abstraction. Geometric forms drift in and out of focus before dissolving into a haze of bruised Rothko colors. Similar to the way a familiar scent or faded old shirt can trigger a distant memory, his paintings invite reflection and sensory delight on behalf of the viewer.
Andrew Fulton is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles.
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Robin Hyden Projector
March 8- April 11, 2026
Robin Hyden
Projector Drawing
Pen on Paper
8.5 x 11
Robin Hyden is a poet and artist living in State College, Pennsylvania. Known widely for her film programming at Denver Colorado’s three screen darling, the Chez Artiste, Hyden’s influence on a generation of young Coloradans is undeniable.
Constantly writing, Hyden is a sharp cultural critic with the sprawling references and wit to match. In this poem and drawing, she looks directly in front of herself. The drawing, a map of a film projector is responded to in her poem. The two pieces span the years between their creation by displaying the technical knowledge and general mysticism required to operate these machines. The analog charm of the projector is remembered fondly, but in these works Hyden reminds us, it’s a pain in the ass too.
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Ben Quinn 1:3
February 9-February 22, 2026
Ben Quinn
1:3, 2026
Watercolor on Canvas
11 x 14 in.
In 1:3 Ben Quinn breaks from his usual mode of full bleed painting while continuing to expand on the motif of the star. Careful viewers of Quinn’s work will know that despite their initially chaotic appearance, his work is ruled by deep rhythms. 1:3 in particular demonstrates a tangible scale in which Quinn’s restraint reveals insights into devices of the work. Stopping the composition short of covering the whole canvas with the second layer, illusionary elements of stars and circles echo with a cymatic focus that hums with room to breathe. Where many of Quinn’s star paintings descend (or ascend) into themselves, these new geometries seem to levitate above the disorienting and often bright starscape. If Quinn’s other paintings invite the viewer to look within, this piece challenges us to look beyond. The painting is a portal opening, a broken rule and a new rhythm for Quinn’s practice.
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Michael Hayden Nightlight
January 23-February 8, 2026
Michael Hayden
Nightlight, 2025
Dark Room Print
11 x 14 in.
Stitching his way across the American West, Michael Hayden explores place through movement, curiosity, and close observation. The photographer and filmmaker creates work rooted in documentary traditions around spaces shaped by change, repair and erasure. Hayden’s work is not limited by his rigorous photographic practice and instead remains open to intuition and imagination. Nightlight contains the quiet wonder of a child, faithfully capturing the fragments of light and texture of the mosaic surface, while challenging the viewer to look beyond the stary sky into the world of rolling clouds reflected in the glass.
“The moon fades beneath the streetlights, its light thinned and scattered. The stars in Los Angeles are on Hollywood Boulevard or hiding in the hills. The sky is easy to overlook here. Yet, at the right time, in the right place, they are there, waiting.” — Michael Hayden
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Alberto Cuadros: Strawberry: American Prayer
January 15-22, 2026
Alberto Cuadros
Strawberry (American Prayer), 2023
Acrylic on paper
9.25 x 12.25 in.
Students of Alberto Cuadros’s hyperseries will be delighted to see two of the artist’s inspirations collide in Strawberry (American Prayer). Combining his best-known motif—the iconic strawberry—with his Jim Morrison “bar/restaurant” portraits, the piece continues Cuadros’s ongoing tribute to two Californian icons. This work lifts its title from the 1978 Doors album, created using recordings of Morrison’s spoken word poetry after his death. Like the album, the painting is haunted by a vision of an older, mythological California.
Cuadros’s works often feel layered and “twice-painted.” Frequently rooted in replica, reproduced photography, and represented imagery, this rare work is no exception. This style gives us a moment to imagine the many revised and reproduced multiples by the artist hanging in homes across California and beyond. To date, Cuadros has completed over 700 strawberry paintings and shows no sign of stopping.
Cuadros has completed over 700 Strawberry paintings, and shows no sign of stopping.
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