Casemore Gallery

03/06/2026

‘Luz Carabaño: pasajes’ opens Saturday March 14, 5-7 pm with an artist walkthrough at 4:30 pm

Casemore Gallery is pleased to present pasajes, a solo presentation of paintings, photographs, and drawings by Luz Carabaño (), a Los Angeles–based Venezuelan artist.

The exhibition interweaves several elements of Luz’s practice, revealing the various stages that coalesce into her signature small-scale oil paintings with porcelain-like finishes. Distinct shapes and muted colors dance off the curves of each uniquely shaped canvas while light and shadow twist along found grids, Luz captures on color film in her everyday comings and goings. Carabaño’s drawings are like scattered leaves falling down the wall’s surface, revealing the artist’s unfiltered thought process in fleeting personal moments.

Displaying all three mediums together for the first time in this inaugural solo exhibition with Casemore Gallery, Luz Carabaño offers the viewer a unique, intimate experience of her practice.

Luz Carabaño
pasaje, 2025
Oil on linen, stretched over shaped panel
3⅛ x 3⅛ in.

03/04/2026

‘Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots’ extended to this Saturday March 7 🌟

03/01/2026

Last day of Frieze LA and Show LA! Don’t miss us at booth A27 at Frieze with works by Larry Sultan until 6 pm and The Reef at Show LA with works by Todd Hido until 5 pm 💗

02/27/2026

Casemore Gallery is thrilled to exhibit a selection of photographs by at Show LA Art Fair at The REEF in Downtown Los Angeles.

Hours:

Friday and Saturday, Feb 27 - 28: 12pm – 6pm

Sunday, March 1: 12pm – 5pm

Todd Hido will also be giving a talk followed by a book signing on Saturday, February 28th at 2 pm.

The REEF, 4th floor
1933 South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90007

02/27/2026

We’re thrilled to be showing Larry Sultan at Frieze LA 2026 () with at Booth A27 through March 1 💥

📍3027 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica CA 90405

February 26 - March 1
Booth A27

02/24/2026

‘Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings’ by Larry Sultan is out now published by 🔥

Larry Sultan was one of the most important and celebrated photographers of the twentieth century, but his lifelong commitment to writing is less well known.

‘Water Over Thunder’ is the first publication devoted to Sultan’s wide-ranging use of writing as a personal, artistic, and pedagogic tool. The selected texts – many unpublished until now – come from Sultan’s numerous journals and notebooks, encompassing reflections on his teaching and art practice, drafts for short stories, vivid dream diaries, and polished essays. Interspersed throughout are extracts from Sultan’s eloquent public lectures and interviews, illuminating the questions he investigated throughout his life and emphasizing the thematic underpinnings of his best known series: Pictures from Home, Evidence (with Mike Mandel), and The Valley.

Throughout these various writings, water appears as an important literal and metaphorical force. The book’s title is derived from an early draft of Pictures from Home in which Sultan writes about the process of beginning a new artistic project: ‘Everything is in motion, spinning off of surfaces and slamming against shadowy forms ... it seems impossible to find a break in the surface.’

This volume is illustrated throughout with previously unseen materials from Sultan’s archive: marked contact sheets, outtakes, scouting shots, selections from his found photo collection, and layout pages from his book maquettes. As a whole, Water Over Thunder illuminates Sultan’s extraordinary way of working and forms an intimate portrait of an artist thinking through his craft and the world around him in real time.

🔗 Link to purchase in bio

02/13/2026

Casemore Gallery and Yancey Richardson are excited to partner at Frieze LA, where they will present a solo booth of works from Larry Sultan’s iconic photo series ‘The Valley’ (1998 2003).

A seminal meditation on the actors, crews and
built environment of the adult film industry in
California’s San Fernando Valley during the 1990s and 2000s, the series has become an essential body of work on suburbia. It reveals a place and time when aspiring film stars, s*x work and bucolic domesticity discreetly coexisted in Los Angeles County, and m engenders a broader understanding of the elasticity of the ‘American Dream.’ This will be the first time the work has been seen in the Los Angeles area since Sultan’s 2014 retrospective at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

February 26 – March 1
Booth A27
Los Angeles, CA

Shown above: (1) Larry Sultan, “Sharon Wild,” 2001. (2) Larry Sultan, “Vivid Entertainment #2,” 2003. (3) Larry Sultan, “Boxers, Mission Hills,” 1999. (4) Larry Sultan, “Backyard Roscomare,” 2003.(5) Larry Sultan, “Tasha’s Third Film,” 1998.

02/05/2026

Please join Casemore Gallery, Aperture (), and Minnesota Street Project () this Saturday, February 7th at 2 pm for a conversation between artist Hal Fischer (.fischer) and writer Tony Bravo () to celebrate the launch of Fischer’s first Aperture monograph, Seminal Works (2025).

The conversation will be followed by a book signing, with a special 30% friends-and-family discount available to all in attendance.

In the late 1970s, as gay men in San Francisco experienced a new sense of freedom following the Stonewall Uprising, Hal Fischer (.fischer) made “Gay Semiotics,” a photo-text project that categorized denizens of the Castro and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods by social type. Sly and systematic, Fischer portrayed the sartorial codes of q***r street style—earrings, handkerchiefs, jeans, or leather—that broadcast a range of desires to potential s*xual prospects. The series became an influential record of a libertine era before AIDS, the rise of internet dating apps, and tech industry–accelerated gentrification transformed q***r life forever.

Tracing the formation of an essential American artist, “Hal Fischer: Seminal Works” (Aperture, 2025) features an engaging interview with Fischer and essays that offer vital new perspectives on the history of San Francisco and the resonance of the gay rights movement across generations.

Event details:
Saturday, February 7, 2:00 p.m. PST, at 1275 Minnesota St. San Francisco

Image: Hal Fischer, A Salesman, 1979, from Hal Fischer: Seminal Works (Aperture, 2025). Courtesy the artist

01/30/2026

01/29/2026

Henna Vainio’s recent ceramic work centers on language as a physical and political material. Words such as win, no, anti-age, and tender change are stacked, repeated, and woven into dense sculptural knots in which meaning becomes unstable. As letters accumulate, they begin to slip away from their original messages, becoming objects in their own right.

The “No Net” anchors the exhibition in the center wall as the repeated word “No” droops and drips onto itself at times disguised as the word “On.” This work functions as both a physical and symbolic net as we often find ourselves torn between wanting to say “No” but feeling the pressure of always needing to be “On.”

Language no longer moves forward in a straight line but loops back on itself, creating systems where opposites are embedded within each other and where beginning and end collapse into the same space.

‘Henna Vainio: Opposite Knots’ is on view through February 28 ✨