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2026
Adrienne Kinsella, This Land Is My Land, 2026. Colored pencil on frosted mylar. 15 1/2 x 11 inches.
A group exhibition
Acceleration-in-Equilibrium: Crisis as Quintessence at the William Grant Still Arts Center curated by Mireya Curiel.
Opening reception: Saturday, October 3, 3–7:30 PM
With a live tribute to Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln’s WE INSIST: The Freedom Now Suite by The Veritus Miller Truth Troupe at 6 PM
Exhibition dates: October 3–November 14, 2026
Location: William Grant Still Arts Center, 2520 S. West View Street, Los Angeles, California 90016
Hours: Tues–Sat, 12–5 PM
Crisis is not always a moment that passes. Sometimes, it multiplies. Sometimes repeated crises become part of everyday life. Acceleration-in-Equilibrium: Crisis as Quintessence brings together photography, visual art, film, and music by local and contemporary artists exploring what it means to live, create, remember, and build community during times of constant change and uncertainty.
The exhibition asks: How do people create a sense of home? How do communities protect their memories and culture? And how do artists respond when communities face displacement and other pressures?
Artists in the exhibition: Taty Trinidad Hernández, Angel Cruz, Adrienne Kinsella, Laurie Steelink, Whatahabit, Fl.our.pots, Citlalli Hernandez, Abel Diaz, Jade Daniels, Ashley Andrade, Gonzalo's Nieves, Serge, Teas, Jade Daniels, Mia Leonor Rovira, TOMBOI BARBI, Sabrina Garcia Diaz
The exhibition is a project of The William Grant Still Arts Center, Department of Cultural Affairs, in collaboration with Fall of Freedom www.falloffreedom.com and The Friends of WIlliam Grant Still Arts Center
Acceleration-in-Equilibrium: Crisis as Quintessence includes visual, film and sonic/music artists with ancillary programming throughout the duration.
Rooted In What Carries Us
September 12–October 24, 2026
Native and Indigenous voices from across Southern California remind us of the rooted histories that carry us forward into our shared present.
Rooted In What Carries Us is a major group exhibition featuring Native and Indigenous perspectives from Southern California and beyond, depicting the original peoples of this land as multidimensional individuals, each with unique traditions and stories that comprise the multifaceted identity of Turtle Island.
Juried by Joe D. Horse Capture, Chief Curator at The Autry Museum of the American West, Emma Robbins, Founder and Director of Chapter House in Los Angeles, and Laurie Steelink, Artist, Cultural Practitioner, and Founder of Cornelius Projects in San Pedro. Painting, drawing, fiber, ceramics, basket weaving, beadwork, and photography, are represented by thirty-eight contemporary Native and Indigenous artists working today.
Works by:
Noxi Acosta, Weshoyot Alvitre, Theresa Jean Ambo, Todd Ambo, Paula Jean Begay, Avis Charley, Shelly Dutcher, Alexis Munoa Dyer, Jesus Adrian Escandon, Peggy Fontenot, Joe Galarza, Cesar Garcia, Rebecca Gonzalez, Zoe Gonzalez, Rowan Harrison, Adrienne Kinsella, Nadiya Littlewarrior, Ezra LoBianco, Nīa MacKnight, Sheridan MacKnight, Nicole Merton, Mónica S Moncada, Munchy’s World, Genevra Munoa, Jon Olney Shellenberger, Gavin Ortiz, Kimberly Robertson, Abigail Rodriguez, Ramona Rodriguez, Denise Silva, Sequoia Silva, Corey Stein, Dolores M. Stewart, Kelly Leah Stewart, Matthew Valdivia, Celina Villanueva, Gail Werner, Monica Zavala
Ezra LoBiano, Indigenous Siysyphus, 2026.Mixed media digital collage, UV pigment print on paper. 16 x 16 inches
Play Date: Toys by Artists, a group exhibition curated by Axel Wilhite
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 4–8 PM
Exhibition dates: September 12–October 18, 2026
Location: AMPHI Gallery, 49 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
Hours: Wed–Sat, 12–5 PM
Toys are the vehicles through which we make the childhood discovery that the ‘world-as-it-is’ isn’t the only world there is,” says Wilhite. “Toys make plain that other worlds are available through the imagination. It is in the imagination that all worlds become possible. Art, at its best, is where that capacity for reverie remains available to us as adults. This show is a reminder of that fundamental utility of toys and art—and in the current moment, its defense feels urgent.
Taking inspiration from the seminal 1975 exhibition Artists Make Toys, staged at the Clocktower in New York, Play Date brings together Chris Burden’s Spyder-Man—which appeared in that same Clocktower show—with new toys by 69 established and emerging artists:
Dewey Ambrosino, Etty Anderson, Bob Bates, Allison Beaudry, Tony Berlant, Dani Bershan, Rochelle Botello, Jim Brown, Chris Burden, Ian Cato, Alan Chin, Jean de Sagazan, Benedikt Fischer, Tom & Lennon Franco, Pippa Garner, May & Mik Gaspay, Steve Gavenas, Jared Goldfischer, Carlotta Guerra, Tim Hawkinson, Yoshimi Hayashi, Charles Hill, Sarah Ippolito, Ben Jackel, Billy Jacobs, Brice James, Tom Jenkins, Mark Kanieff, Noel Korten, Zaq Landsberg, Lawrence Lee, Raina Lee, Suhn Lee, Taylor Lee, Cara Levine, Jenn Lima, Huntz Liu, Erick Martinez, Lincoln Mayne, Michael C. McMillen, Scott Meskill, Maxfield Miles, Kenneth Morehouse, Maria Moyer, Gwynn Murrill, Margaret Nielsen, Paulin Paris, Heather Peterson, Laurie Pincus, Rick Potts, Alyssa Quigley, Adam Raymont, Mathis Roll, Coral Saucedo Lomeli, Tom Shannon, Masha Sheinina, Peter Shelton, Peter Shire, Laurie Steelink, Carla Tome, Audrey Turner, Ann Weber, Stephen Whisler, Axel Wilhite, Robert Wilhite, John Wu, Madam X
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog in the form of a custom “five-suit” poker deck, with each artwork represented on its own card, packaged with a booklet featuring Wilhite’s curatorial essay, “Joy Ride.” Published in an edition of 500 by Axel Wilhite and AMPHI Gallery, the deck is both a record of the show and a toy in its own right. Pre-order here.
I will be speaking about the work I created for the exhibition along with other artists in the exhibition on Saturday, September 19 from 1–4 PM at AMPHI Gallery.
Installation view of BRUTAL BEAUTY at the Mesa Contemporary Art Museum, Mesa, Arizona. September 11, 2026–January 3, 2027. Photography by Ninabah Reid Winton.
BRUTAL BEAUTY at the MESA CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Mesa, AZ
Public opening reception: Friday, September 11, 7–10 PM
Exhibition dates: September 11, 2026–January 3, 2027
Location: Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, One East Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85201
Hours: Tues–Sat 10 AM–5 PM, Sun 12–5 PM
BRUTAL BEAUTY rips a hole into the alternative character of Indigenous experience: brutal beauty as a collection of vignettes and works unromantic in nature, diametrically opposed to settler-colonial fantasies. This exhibition is guest curated by independent curator and scholar of contemporary art Ninabah Reid Winton.
Artists include: Kevin Aspaas, Rapheal Begay, Demian DinéYazhi’, Carly Feddersen, Ishi Glinsky, Justin Guthrie, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Tyler Johnson, Kenji Kawano, Fox Maxy, Laurie Steelink, Corey Stein, Chip Thomas, and Jared Kee Yazzie
The O'otham circular symbol "Man in the Maze" represents the path of human life—with its many twists and turns—eventually leading to the center and the next life. My multidisciplinary practice takes this symbol into consideration while addressing the complexities of division and fragmentation in my own life. Removed from my Akimel O'otham community, culture, and traditions at birth through adoption and assimilation, I use the tools I've received throughout my life—education and experience—to acknowledge my ancestral inheritance while developing a new visual language. This language expands the understanding of how one makes their way through this life and eventually home. The process is an evolving decolonization exercise, a continuum in which everything—repurposed paintings, treated found objects, assemblage, moving images, sound, performance, and installation—is a constant rethinking, blending, and recovering. My practice is a form of storytelling and healing.
My current project Too Much for My Mirror (Chapter 1) is an evolving multimedia installation, which opened to the public on April 24, 2026 at my project space/studio, Cornelius Projects, in San Pedro, CA. This ongoing installation will develop over the course of the next 6–8 months and includes artist led walk throughs and intermittent improvisational performance pieces with the intention of creating a theater piece.
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