Nazarian / Curcio is pleased to present Befarmā / After You, a solo exhibition featuring new fiber-based works by Hangama Amiri. This marks the artist’s West Coast debut.

Amiri is an Afghan Canadian artist whose practice combines painting, drawing, and printmaking techniques with textiles, weaving together stories rooted in memories of her homeland and her diasporic experience. Her works explore notions of home, community, gender, and cultural memory, examining quotidian objects and scenes imbued with geopolitical significance.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is pleased to present Connective Threads, the spun thread ‘paintings’ of Uma Rani Iyli. Having grown up in India’s traditional caste-based society, Iyli identifies as belonging to the female Indian weaver’s community. She references weaving, stitching and pattern making in her art using remnant thread sourced directly from weaver communities collected during her annual trips to Southern India. Through her use of silk threads and plexiglas tubes, she spins vibrant colors inspired by traditional saris.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited to present Pilar Agüero-Esparza in her first one-person exhibition with the gallery.
Pilar is recognized for her installations, paintings, and objects reflecting the palette and politics of skin tone, specifically Brown and Black skin. Her paintings are a hybrid of formal, hard-edged geometric abstraction, accentuated by her coded color palette, intersecting with her family’s tradition of huarache-making

The Western Mystique at Dorado 806 Projects is a celebration of women who have shattered boundaries—geographic, creative, and cultural—to redefine what it means to be a “Western artist.”

Shoebox Projects proudly presents Women Work Together, a  Women’s History Month exhibit by the San Diego-based Feminist Image Group (FIG). This transformative exhibition explores creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing thought-provoking works that address critical issues impacting women in today’s world.

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to present Memesis, a solo exhibition of woven works by Los Angeles-based artist Kayla Mattes, who brings a modern sensibility and wit to the traditional art of weaving. Her handwoven tapestries investigate digital forms of expression, drawing from internet memes, symbols, and texts to convey the pervasive anxieties of contemporary life

DUETS invited Los Angeles Art Association artists to collaborate with randomly selected partners, combining their unique talents and perspectives to create innovative, all-media artworks.

In an era marked by division, DUETS celebrates creative collaboration as a catalyst for change, showcasing the transformative power of teamwork. Each pair’s artistic synergy symbolizes the broader social necessity of cooperation and dialogue, fostering empathy and collective progress.

Hostler Burrows is pleased to announce an exhibition of hand-woven textiles by Taher Asad-Bakhtiari, whose Tribal Weave Project offers a contemporary distillation of the kilim flatweaves and densely-knotted gabbeh rugs that have long defined Iran’s cultural traditions. 

David Zwirner is pleased to announce Spirit Level, a solo exhibition of work by Tau Lewis. Employing various sculptural techniques, Lewis creates colorful, totemic forms that suggest mythical territories beyond our own.

Amanda Maciel Antunes’ I’ve Got To Tell You Something Now, which consists of a film, an object, and an artist book, functions as a portrait of an action of resistance, and an appeal to the intention of memory and stillness.
The artist spent 365 days walking up and down a mountain with a piece of cloth, an audio recorder, a cell phone, a GoPro, sewing thread, and a needle. The journey began on the first day of the Covid-19 mandated lockdown in Los Angeles.
Resembling the daily journey, the 90-foot scroll of fabric will be displayed in the window lobby area of the museum and fabric will be suspended in several parts of the lobby forming waves resembling the hills of the mountains culminating in an area where a monitor will display the filmed journey.

Home Maker Space is an immersive exploration of the most recent work by Korean American artist Ahree Lee. TEXTILE 1.0 combines weaving, video, and electronic textiles to imagine the kind of technology we might have in our homes if technology had evolved differently in the 20th century.

Rooted in the exploration of traditional textile and craft practices, the work of multimedia artist Ramekon O’Arwisters reflects his lived experiences as a Black and Queer man in the United States.
O’Arwisters anchors his complex sculpture and socially engaged work in material and object politics, drawing from cultural, familial, and personal histories. Through combinations of found objects and craft techniques—many associated with domestic spaces, O’Arwisters investigates topics of intimacy, gender, race, and queer identity.

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce 9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts and Containers, a showcase of artworks by 18 distinguished artists from California’s established fiber art community.
Presenting innovative interpretations of traditional craft forms, these dynamic quilted, woven, plaited, and twined works investigate the purposes and potential of cross-cultural narratives and techniques through diverse media, expanding our understanding of visual culture.

Black in Place holds space for invocation, re-memory, and unbridled Black expression. Countering erasure, it interrogates the living contradictions of existing while Black, invoking ancestral and indigenous wisdom to explore how Black artists cultivate dreaming through making.

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is thrilled to present the dazzling woven, beaded tapestries of John Paul Morabito in their first one-person exhibition with the gallery.

“This is a retracing of the queer resistance born in urban discos of a prior generation. As social and political forces once again seek to eradicate queer people, I, like those who came before me, reach for the promise of queer futurity.”

PATRICIA SWEETOW GALLERY is excited and honored to feature Los Angeles-based artist Ferne Jacobs in her First Los Angeles gallery exhibition!

At 82 years old, Ferne Jacobs is a ground-breaking pioneer in the International Fiber Art Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She continues her daily studio practice today, intuitively coiling and twining compelling abstract forms that infer historical provenance beyond their making.

Michael Koch, Artist and Textile Arts LA member has been invited to show his recent work at The Pool House Gallery.

Wonzimer is proud to present Sometimes A Wind Blows, a group exhibition exploring the diverse possibilities of textile art.

Each artist showcases a wide range of techniques and media, from embroidery, weaving, painting, printing, and knitting to experimental manipulations of linen, velvet, or silk. Bringing together legacy artists with new generations of artists, this show explores the enduring appeal of textile art, as both tangibly luxurious and mysterious.

Freehand Gallery is featuring new work from: Jim Bassler, Kay Chapman, Deborah Cross, Jill Heir, Marie Kare, Victoria May, Brian Murphy, Sally Prangley, Rat Boi, Michael Rohde, Iris Schneider, Stephen Sidelinger, Joy Stocksdale, Nicki Voss, Debby Weiss, Sarah Winston.

Karma presents Unbound, Jeremy Frey’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.

Jeremy Frey is the foremost contemporary practitioner of Wabanaki basketry, a tradition that dates back more than 13,000 years and is the oldest continuously practiced art form in the area now known as Maine.

Over 50 artists fill the walls and floors of the gallery with fun and unusual works. Our curation aimed to stretch the public’s understanding of collage as something beyond busy compositions that look like conspiracy boards that are only missing red string. The artists exhibiting approach collage with the same finesse and intention all pop surrealists do.

Over Under Over features the work of twenty-two members of California Fibers, including: Sandy Abrams, Charlotte Bird, Ashley V. Blalock, Carrie Burckle, Marilyn McKenzie Chaffee, Doshi, Polly Jacobs Giacchina, Susan Henry, Lydia Tjioe Hall, Annette Heully, Brittany Kiertzner, Brecia Kralovic-Logan, Kathy Nida, Carol Nilsen, Liz Oliver, Marty Ornish, Michael F. Rohde, Rebecca Smith, Cameron Taylor-Brown, Elise Vazelakis, Debby Weiss and Peggy Wiedemann.    

Santa Monica Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Art at the Airport, is proud to announce the opening of WHIPLASH: Art In The Ever-Changing Now, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores the profound and dynamic shifts shaping our world today. Curated by Rebecca Youssef, Alexandra Dillon, and April Banks, this exhibition offers a reflective exploration of our times, showcasing the ways contemporary artists interpret and respond to the rapid transformations that affect societal norms, cultural identities, environmental crises, and political divisions.

Visions Museum of Textile Art presents Intimate Wilderness, work by Charlotte Bird.

Charlotte Bird has been a full-time studio artist for over thirty years. Her lifelong love affair with textiles has produced contemporary wall quilts, three dimensional sculptures, and artist’s books. She dyes and prints most of her own fabrics.

Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is pleased to present Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal:Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Contemporary Art featuring Tanya Aguiñiga, Wendy Cabrera Rubio and Mauricio Guillén with Clemente Castor and Antonio Ponce, Tania Candiani, Dario Canul (Tlacolulokos), Porfirio Gutiérrez, Edgar Jahir Trujillo, Candice Lin, Andy Medina, Jou Morales, Rufina Nava Flores, Sandy Rodriguez, Sarah Rosalena, and Dyani White Hawk.

The conversations and the artworks presented here center the aesthetics, history, and global impact of the Zapotec peoples’ cultivation of cochineal—a scale insect that lives exclusively on the nopal cactus (Opuntia cacti) and is the source of a red dye derived from its body. The beauty of cochineal hue has captivated people for centuries, not only in Mexico, but around the world.

SCIART25 explores the rich creative community which has enabled Studio Channel Islands to flourish over the last quarter century. The exhibition is a celebration of a selection of the internationally renowned artists whose work has been presented at Studio Channel Islands and a reflection upon the role that artists have played in shaping the organization over the past twenty-five years.

Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles is a group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet.