Los Angeles Art Association's 2025 Open Show opens December 13, 2025 at Gallery 825.
Juried by Patrick A. Polk, Fowler Museum at UCLA, LAAA's renown survey exhibition features the very best in emerging art. CLICK HERE TO VIEW AND PURCHASE ARTWORK
Reception: December 13, 2025 10am-5pm
Show Runs: December 13, 2025 – January 9, 2026
Location:
Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Boulevard,
Los Angeles CA 90069
Gallery 825 is open by appointment
About Los Angeles Art Association's OPEN SHOW:
Since 2006, Los Angeles Art Association's OPEN SHOW has grown into a renown international survey exhibition of emerging art mounted by the organization whose mission is to serve emerging artists. LAAA's OPEN SHOW is perhaps best known for its prestigious curators and jurors and has been featured on NPR. Past Open Show jurors have included MoCA Director Jeremy Strick, PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, Hammer Museum Director Annie Philbin, LACMA curator Rita Gonzalez and MASSMoCA Curator Susan Cross. LAAA is thrilled to add Patrick Polk to this distinguished list of curatorial talent.
About the Juror: Patrick Polk is the Fowler Museum‘s curator of Caribbean and Latin American popular arts and a lecturer in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance. As curator, Polk is an expert in a host of arts from Caribbean and Latin American cultures, particularly folk arts. Polk’s interests center around religions and ritual traditions of the African diaspora and also popular religion and religious art in the United States. Much of his work has been studying the intersection of how Europe and Native America and Latin America and Africa collide in Los Angeles.
About Los Angeles Art Association: (LAAA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide opportunities, resources, services and exhibition venues for emerging Los Angeles artists of all media. LAAA began as a civic art institution in the 1920s, connecting elite art interests to Hollywood collectors, emerging after World War II as the center of Los Angeles modernism and finally becoming the city's nexus for emerging artists of all media. LAAA serves as a dynamic force for contemporary ideas, outreach, and community. Gallery 825 and Los Angeles Art Association are located in the heart of La Cienega Boulevard's Restaurant Row at 825 North La Cienega Bl., Los Angeles, CA 90069. Gallery hours are by appointment. Please call 310.652.8272 or visit www.laaa.org.