The 46th annual Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction featuring the works of established, mid-career, and emerging artists returns from Friday, May 9, through Sunday, May 18. It will be free and open at 910 Abbot Kinney in Venice. 

The 2025 event will carry the theme “Past, Present, and Future,” celebrating the Clinic’s longstanding connection with the local artist community and honoring the diversity of Los Angeles’s creatives across generations. For 46 years, artists, gallerists, and collectors have united to support Venice Family Clinic’s mission of advancing health equity by contributing and collecting artwork at this annual event.

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Lita and Isabelle Albuquerque (Meka Boyle)

, mother and daughter and individually acclaimed artists, will be honored as the event’s Signature Artists. 

“Over forty years ago, Clinic volunteers Irma Cohen, Ruth Bloom, Sheila Goldberg and Laura Maslon joined forces with architect Frank Gehry and artists Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari Fred Eversley, Laddie and Guy Dill, Chuck Arnoldi, myself, and many others to create Venice Art Walk + Auction,” Lita said in a press release. “ We banded together to support our neighbors in Venice and created a one-of-a-kind experience, opening our studios and showing art in this colorful place with its canals and eccentric history. Light and Space. Many will remember at that time walking from one studio to the next and buying art. Today, the need has grown, the Clinic has grown, and they are still opening their doors to help our neighbors get well and stay well. I am so glad to have been and continue to be part of this history.’

 

This year’s exhibition will include a dedicated section honoring the strength, resilience, and creativity of the communities most affected by the recent wildfires in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades, many of whom are patients, donors, artists, and neighbors of the clinic. 

This exhibit section will speak to the profound impact of the fires, from the hardship and loss of so much destruction to the accompanying health consequences. This spotlight serves as a recognition of the artists’ contributions during these challenges and a gesture of gratitude.

The contributions of Black artists from Altadena will be highlighted in this section. The work speaks not only to the current moment but also to the long-standing histories of beauty, solidarity, and self-determination that continue to shape the landscape of Los Angeles. 

In addition, this year’s exhibit launches the Honored Gallery Patrons initiative, which recognizes galleries that show exceptional dedication and support for Venice Family Clinic. The 2025 Honored Gallery Patrons are L.A. Louver and Nicodim Gallery.

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Kassia Rico – Early Autumn Mountain Spring – 38 x 40 in (Courtesy Venice Family Clinic)

This year’s exhibit will showcase the works of more than 175 artists, including Ed Ruscha, Frank Stella, Helen Pashgian, Don Suggs, Gajin Fujita, Sayre Gomez, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Adam Silverman, and Kenturah Davis. 

Art is selected by the Curatorial Committee led by Max Rippon and consists of Los Angeles gallerists and art advisors, including Charlie James Gallery, Dominique Gallery, dublab, Night Gallery, Noon Projects, Marta, Sarah Brook Gallery, and Vielmetter. Eliane Gans serves as curatorial advisor. The Lapis Press also supported this year’s exhibit. The event will include special events in partnership with dublab.

The artwork will also be available to view online. Proceeds from art sales will support the Clinic’s innovative approach to providing comprehensive health care services to more than 45,000 people from the Santa Monica Mountains through the South Bay.