2026
KENNY HARRIS
13ThingsLA
March 24, 2026 | By Shana Nys Dambrot
“Harris turns his painterly vision toward the place he lives, trading the traveler’s itinerant radical observationalism for the rich, accumulated stillness of 25 years at home. His oil paintings of Venice—California not Italy, and the way Harris does it, that’s worth clarifying—bypass the boardwalk’s performative poetry and grit to find an atmospheric, almost novelistic quietude. His unpeopled coastal meditations make it clear however that the real subject is how hard classical technique still slaps when it comes to looking at the world more deeply.”
- Shana Nys Dambrot
FRANCIS DIFRONZO
Western Art & Architecture
2026 | By Laura Zuckerman
“DiFronzo and those artists of whom says he is “under the infuence” see and depict in the ordinary what is extraordinary. There is no landscape, building, or object that is beneath the notice of the penetrating eye of an artist who looks on truth and is not afraid.”
- Laura Zuckerman
ZÄRA MONET
13ThingsLA
January 7, 2026 | By Shana Nys Dambrot
“Monet treats portraiture as a site of self-fashioning, inheritance, and narrative control. Her figures appear cropped and staged within fields of lustrous fabric and jewel-toned ornament, their bodies calibrated through a dense mixology of garment and gesture. The work draws from the long art historical arc of court painting, the female body both armoured and exposed— Ingres’s polish, the disciplines of technique, how politics can be embedded in sartorial richesse—while re-routing that lineage through matriarchal authority, queer temporality, and a knowing excess that belongs to unruly queens as much as to “masters”
- Shana Nys Dambrot
MAGNOLIA LAFLEUR
Run the World: Los Angeles - Outside Magazine & TV
January 21, 2026 | By Martinus Evans
Magnolia Lafleur is featured in the first episode when Martinus Evans travels to the City of Angels to discover LA’s creativity, culture, food, and travel scene with the help of local runners & run clubs. He makes a visit to meet Magnolia Lafleur, a track star turned artist. After a gathering of painting on the rooftop and sharing her story with track, Lafleur gives Evans a tour of her feature at Billis/Williams Gallery where she gives special insight on what the works are about.
Presented by OutsideTV and Saucony.
KURT SOLMSSEN
The Children’s Crusade
January 29th, 2026 | By Ann Packer
From New York Times bestselling author, Ann Packer, The Children's Crusade explores the secrets, desires and heartbreaks of one Californian family over the course of five decades. Cover image: Summer Coffee by Kurt Solmssen.
JOSH DORMAN
WhatsonLA
January 22, 2026 | By Jody Zellen
“Dorman is a master at creating new contexts for found materials. Through recontextualization he refreshes much that is old or familiar. The works function as complex puzzles in which Dorman draws from the past to comment on the present and project into the future. Figures and animals from a wide range of sources and time frames in varying scales and opacities follow roads, cross bridges, populate seas, climb mountains and peer through architectural facades. Each work creates its own unique story that ingeniously links disparate elements from then to now.”
- Jody Zellen