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.
Kate Zimmerman Turpin: The Light the Ground Gives
Megan Mulrooney Gallery
West Hollywood
Texas-based artist Kate Zimmerman Turpin makes her first gallery appearance with a debut that marks both a commercial introduction and a shift in context. Working outside the traditional art-world mold, Turpin did not attend art school, pursue an MFA, or move through the usual gallery pipeline. Instead, she began making and sharing work during the pandemic, building an engaged audience online from her home in rural Texas.
Now in her mid-30s and a mother of two, Turpin forged her path independently before entering the gallery sphere. Installed across the gallery’s two spaces, a monumental 25-foot-long painting unfolds as the exhibition’s anchor, announcing her arrival with scale and confidence. The gesture feels both intimate and expansive, rooted in lived experience yet newly situated within a formal exhibition framework.
What we love: Turpin represents a generation of artists who emerged during the pandemic and are now entering galleries with fully formed voices. Her trajectory suggests that some practices were simply waiting—quietly developing—until the right moment to surface.
Kate Zimmerman Turpin at Megan Mulrooney Gallery
February 24-March 28, 2026
Now in her mid-30s and a mother of two, Turpin forged her path independently before entering the gallery sphere. Installed across the gallery’s two spaces, a monumental 25-foot-long painting unfolds as the exhibition’s anchor, announcing her arrival with scale and confidence. The gesture feels both intimate and expansive, rooted in lived experience yet newly situated within a formal exhibition framework.
What we love: Turpin represents a generation of artists who emerged during the pandemic and are now entering galleries with fully formed voices. Her trajectory suggests that some practices were simply waiting—quietly developing—until the right moment to surface.
Kate Zimmerman Turpin at Megan Mulrooney Gallery
February 24-March 28, 2026
February 24, 2026
