Michele StuevenArtCenter College of Design’s My Eyes Are My Lens, an exhibition showcasing work by faculty members of ArtCenter’s renowned Film, Photography and Imaging program, opens today and runs through Friday, 16, 2026, in the Media Design Practices Gallery in the 950 building at the College’s South Campus.
The exhibition will feature work by Ken Aguado, Stephen Berkman (BFA 88), David S. Bouza, Shannon Dion (MFA 19), Matia Karrell, Joy Kecken, Joe Petricca, Matthew Rolston (DHL 06) and Emmett Sutherland (BFA 15).
Featured in the exhibition is Don Johnson, Polo Clothes, a glamorous portrait of the then-Miami Vice star from alum and celebrated photographer Matthew Rolston. Originally commissioned by Andy Warhol, this image is included in a retrospective of 1980s celebrity portraiture at Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, concurrent with My Eyes Are My Lens. Rolston will speak at ArtCenter’s opening reception on Tuesday, October 6.
Other works on display include a 2024 channel ident for MTV designed by Emmett Sutherland and directed by Tom Kuntz, and a series of eight photographs of Los Angeles during the 1992 riots/uprising by David Bouza, whose career began as a still photographer. Bouza’s images were featured in the Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine documentary The Defiant Ones.
Killers of The Flower Moon (Stephen Berkman)
Starting on Saturday, Oct. 17, the Catalina Museum for Art & History will present Amelia Lockwood: Bells, on view through April 4, 2027, in the museum’s Artists’ Plaza Gallery. Lockwood’s first solo museum exhibition brings together four ceramic vessels, bloom 1–4, whose intricate surfaces draw equally from Gothic architecture and natural forms. Created for the museum, the works invite visitors into a space of close looking and reflection.
The vessels flower outward into sculptural structures that suggest sanctuaries. Their decorative patterns emerge from the forms themselves, blurring familiar distinctions between what grows in nature and what people build. The exhibition considers how both kinds of structure can shape a sense of shelter and wonder.
Each of the four works, titled bloom 1 through bloom 4, brings together references from the ancient past and imagined futures. In Lockwood’s hands, stoneware and glaze become a way to explore forms that seem to exist outside a single moment in time.
The installation was made for the museum’s Artists’ Plaza Gallery. Some of the patterns follow a base-eight system that reflects the room’s architecture.
Amelia Lockwood, bloom 1, 2026. Stoneware, glaze, 15 x 28 x 16.5 inches (W x H x D). Photo: Max Cleary.
The Michael Kohn Gallery is currently featuring Charles Arnoldi: String Theory. At 80, with more than 55 years of exhibitions behind him, from Documenta V to the Whitney Biennial, Arnoldi is the elder statesman of West Coast painting, and this exhibition brings together the String Theory paintings he made between 2016 and 2019. Arnoldi has been an LA painter since the late 1960s
The series takes its title from the formal life of the paintings rather than the physics. It began with Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and the idea that humans alone can picture what does not physically exist. Arnoldi draws fluid lines with his whole arm, close to surrealist automatic drawing, then fills the shapes that emerge where the lines intersect. Where Pollock used his body to throw paint outward, Arnoldi treats the edges of the canvas as guard rails, holding that energy in an elegant equilibrium.
Downtown Ontario is slowly emerging as a destination for arts and culture, with public art, new businesses and cultural experiences bringing new energy and investment to the city’s historic core. Helping drive that evolution is O-Town Walls Mural Fest, returning Monday, Oct. 12 through Saturday, Oct. 17 with internationally recognized artists, 14 new murals and expanded cultural programming.
“Content” by JEKS, created at O-Town Walls Mural Fest in 2025. Photo courtesy of O-Town Walls Mural Fest.
Now in its second year, O-Town Walls is building a growing collection of large-scale public art throughout Downtown Ontario. This year, artists from across the U.S. and around the world will create permanent new works, bringing the downtown collection to more than 30 murals
This year’s festival will bring six days of live painting, community activations and cultural programming to the downtown area, centered around the 2026 theme, Butterfly Effect. The theme explores how a single creative act can ripple outward, changing a wall, inspiring a neighborhood and ultimately influencing the way people see and experience a city.
This year’s lineup includes South Korea-based Chris Shim (Royyal Dog), whose photorealistic portraits have appeared on walls across the globe; Dutch artist David Louf (Mr. June), recognized for bold geometric works that transform architecture through color and perspective; and Spanish artist Tirso Paz (BUBLEGUM), whose large-scale murals blend realism with a distinctive contemporary style. The international roster is joined by Southern California artists including Santa Ana-based spray paint muralist Damin Lujan (Zaoone) and Rancho Cucamonga-based muralist and sculptor Shane Grammer,