Los Angeles Art Association is proud to present the return of AURORA, LAAA's Holiday Art Sale featuring artwork priced at $1,000 and less. AURORA is an exhibition featuring artwork by LAAA artists running October 24 - November 20, 2026 at Gallery 825. In addition to AURORA, we will be presenting solo shows from Liberty Worth, Shelby Harris and Tama Takahashi.
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Liberty Worth’s exhibition UNRELIABLE exposes a profound beauty in textiles-they hold our collective history, our personal and cultural memories and our need for comfort. UNRELIABLE leans into the tension of this beauty as it is discarded, exploring structure and form through visually captivating, tactile objects made entirely from scraps and rescued fabrics. By recreating familiar, everyday things out of materials meant to be discarded, the work reveals a subtle vulnerability: anything built with the wrong infrastructure will ultimately fail to be supportive. When we build our systems and beliefs with faulty materials, they cannot hold us. They are UNRELIABLE.
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Shelby Harris’ solo exhibit The Architecture of Age features drawings and paintings that began with his own aging face, but they are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. They are portraits of a condition. Western culture celebrates the achievements of the "old masters" while often overlooking the living older artist standing quietly in the room. As our bodies age, society increasingly reads them as evidence of decline rather than as repositories of experience. This body of work challenges that assumption. These works are ultimately about visibility. They argue that age does not diminish imagination, complexity, or creative force. If anything, those qualities deepen. The artist hopes that viewers move beyond seeing old age as an ending and instead recognize it as a state of accumulated experience, resilience, and continuing invention. This exhibition is an invitation to look again.
For more than 25 years Linda Litteral has worked as a multidisciplinary artist in San Diego County, using ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, performance, and video to break the cycle of silence surrounding child sexual abuse. Her practice is autobiographical and purposeful — rooted in the conviction that giving voice to those rendered voiceless by shame is both an artistic act and a social one. Her exhibit Remember is a large-scale community installation consisting of 460 small house structures, each hung with a hand-knitted banner. Every stitch in every banner represents one person sexually assaulted. The scale is the point: to make visible, through accumulated labor and material, the staggering reality of sexual violence in our communities. * For the opening of Linda Litteral’s memorial installation, Remember, Elizabeth Tobias and Rebecca Johnson will offer immersive sound healing performances, inviting audiences to sit within the installation for a shared moment of presence. More than 100 hand-knitted banners hang from house-like structures, with each stitch honoring a survivor of sexual violence. Performances are September 19 at 2:00pm and 3:30pm.
Tama Takahashi was 8 years old when she entered Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan for the first time. The pure gold walls, painted with scenes of nature, lit up the darkened interior with their brilliant sheen. That seminal visual memory inspired this exhibition The Land and Sea in 24-Karat Gold, a series of modern Shouhekiga using washi paper and oil painting on 24-karat gold screens custom made for her in Kyoto. Takahashi uses traditional Japanese elements like the strong use of negative space, asymmetrical compositions, and meticulous technique while creating her own unique style. Takahashi is Wasian (half-white, half-Japanese) and her impetus for creating art is to increase the visibility of Asian American artists in contemporary art.
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When: October 24- November 20
Reception: October 24, 2026 10am - 5pm
Location:
Gallery 825
825 N. La Cienega Boulevard,
Los Angeles CA 90069
Gallery 825 is open by appointment
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.