As Frieze Art Week takes place, Los Angeles shifts into an art-focused mindset, where market momentum meets curatorial rigor. The city does so with complexity. Many artists are still feeling the effects of the Eaton fires, navigating recovery while continuing to produce urgent work. At the same time, a new generation of pandemic-era artists is spreading its wings, proving that creativity never stalled, only adapted. Others push more directly against entrenched systems, using the exhibition space as a site of resistance and recalibration. This short guide from Whitewall will help you find the Los Angeles exhibition that piques your interest.
Alma Berrow
Megan Mulrooney Gallery
West Hollywood
Known for championing mid-career artists, Megan Mulrooney Gallery presents British ceramicist Alma Berrow’s first solo U.S. exhibition in Los Angeles, a decadent tablescape that unsettles domestic fantasy. Drawing from her grandmother’s Cordon Bleu magazines and the excess of 1970s home entertaining, Berrow stages dinnerware overtaken by ants, slugs, cigarette butts, and creeping signs of decay.
A former pastry chef who turned to ceramics during the pandemic, learning from her mother in the process, Berrow uses food as both lure and critique. Ornate confections and sumptuous settings initially seduce the viewer, only to reveal a darker meditation on consumption, waste, and the illusion of idealized domesticity. The installation collapses nostalgia into rot, exposing the fragility beneath performative abundance.
What we love: The full-circle intimacy of the practice—an artist returning to learn from her mother—adds emotional depth to a body of work that quietly dismantles inherited domestic myths.
Alma Berrow at Megan Mulrooney Gallery
February 24-March 28, 2026
