7 West Hollywood Gallery Shows You Shouldn’t Miss During Frieze Los Angeles 2026
As Los Angeles prepares for its annual Art Week, the energy surrounding Frieze Los Angeles 2026 is already building. While Frieze, Felix, and other satellite fairs draw thousands of collectors, curators, designers, and art lovers to the city, some of the most compelling exhibitions are happening right here in the gallery spaces of the West Hollywood Design District.
Located in the heart of one of the most design-forward neighborhoods in Los Angeles, West Hollywood's contemporary art galleries offer an opportunity to experience museum-quality exhibition outside the fair environment. Even better, many of these galleries, including MASH Gallery, will be participating in the West Hollywood Design District's Annual Art Walk on February 28th. This citywide celebration of art, culture, and community invited visitors to explore exhibitions, meet gallerists, and discover new work throughout the district.
If you're searching for a West Hollywood art gallery experience during Frieze Week, here are seven exhibitions worth adding to your itinerary.
Rhythmic Contours
Where: MASH Gallery When: January 17 – February 28
Rhythmic Contours brings together a curated selection of contemporary artists whose work explores movement, repetition, and visual tempo. Throughout gesture, pattern, and layered texture, each piece reflects the subtle rhythms that connect body, landscape, and memory. The exhibition moves from delicate linear studies to staurated abstract compositions, creating an immersive experience that rewards both distance and close viewing.
Visitors are encourages to stop by MASH Gallery on February 28th during the West Hollywood Design District's Art Walk to experience the exhibition in person before it closes.
Offerings by Jody Baral
Where: M+B
When: February 27 – April 4
Offerings centers on three recurring forms in Baral’s practice: bottles, hand sculptures, and platters. The presentation reflects the artist’s interest in artifice and the subtle ways everyday objects signal value, belief, and belonging. Grounded in lived experience, the works invite viewers to consider how meaning is constructed through gesture and display.
The Ground Glows Back by Christina Quarles
Where: Hauser & Wirth
When: February 24 – May 3
In this new body of work, Christina Quarles presents large-scale abstractions layered with complex color relationships, shifting figures, and dense spatial tension. Created following the loss of her Altadena home in last year’s fires, the exhibition reflects themes of displacement, recovery, and transformation.
Impressions of Los Angeles: 60 Years of Printmaking at Gemini G.E.L.
Where: Gemini G.E.L.
When: Through May 1
Curated by Susan Dackerman, this exhibition examines the evolving atmosphere of Los Angeles through six decades of printmaking. Featuring works rarely shown together, the presentation offers new insight into Gemini’s influence on contemporary print practices.
Milton Avery: The Figure
Where: Karma
When: Through March 28
This survey traces Milton Avery’s evolution through figurative painting, from his early years as a Connecticut factory worker to the final months of his life. The exhibition highlights the quiet emotional depth and compositional clarity that shaped his legacy.
CSSC, Coach Stage Stage Coach, A&E, Adolf/Adam & Eva/Eve, Samples by Paul McCarthy
Where: The Journal Gallery
When: February 23 – April 25
Paul McCarthy’s latest exhibition continues his exploration of American mythology, cultural spectacle, and historical narrative through film-inspired installations and collaborative works.
Beachers by Diango Hernández
Where: Dropshop: Curated by Phillips
When: Through March 28
This presentation brings together paintings from Hernández’s Olaísmo and Pools series. Shaped by water, distortion, and fluidity, the works position the beach as both an emotional landscape and a constructed environment.
Whether you're visiting Los Angeles for Frieze or based locally, exploring a West Hollywood art gallery during Art Week offers a more intimate way to engage with contemporary art. Be sure to include the West Hollywood Design District’s Art Walk on February 28th in your plans and visit MASH Gallery to experience Rhythmic Contours before the exhibition closes.
