BGFA.DTLA.00.26
Loading Only by Scott Siedman and Lori Pond
BGFA.DTLA.00.26
July 9th-August 22, 2026
BGFA.DTLA.00.26 is a survey show featuring artists BGFA worked with in their Historic Core gallery in the 2000s — and, importantly, all of whom are still active in and around DTLA, and remain dedicated to their crafts. Artists in the show are painters, sculptors, assemblagists, performance artists, photographers, conceptualists including Lisa Adams, David Buckingham, Jeff Gillette, Laurie Hassold, Scott Siedman, Grey James, Megan Geckler, Richard McDowell, Miguel Osuna, David Hollen, Parris Patton, Tom Garner, Tanner Goldbeck, and Stephen Seemayer.
This “survey and snapshot” investigates how these artists have been shaped by their relationship to DTLA, and who have made incalculable contributions to this iconic, intense neighborhood’s history and future. DTLA has a deep history as an incubator of the arts and a refuge from the commercial pressures and niceties of the larger art world. Over many years there has been an ebb and flow within the area as real estate, pandemics, and politics have forever altered the economic course — but DTLA continues to offer relatively lower costs for studio space and a supportive, experimental creative atmosphere, if one only knows where to look.
The artists are all firmly established, mid-career, and are diverse thematically and by medium. Green’s curation focuses on larger scale works that will complement the exhibition space — 6000-square feet of repurposed Beaux-Arts bank lobby in a lofty gallery on two levels. Many of the works span the entire period from 2000-26, while some artists will be showing exclusively new and recent work.
BGFA operated in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2012, when the gallery relocated to Chicago, where it is still based in the Art Deco Willoughby Building opposite the Chicago Art Institute. The gallery continues to work with many of their Los Angeles artists and collectors both in their Chicago program as well as through its recent expansion into print publishing, and continues to exhibit every January in DTLA at the annual LA Art Show.
- Shana Nys Dambrot
Fleurs 3 by Grey James
For inquiries and private viewing appointments, please contact info@artspace114.com.
Art/Space 114 is located at 114 W 4th St. The Magic of Light is on view Wednesday through Friday, 2–8 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, 12 pm–6 pm, through June 20th.
