L.A's Originales

L.A.’s Originales: Women Defining Contemporary Art is an all-women group show curated by Steve Galindo and Superchief Gallery. The Proposition: to reroute power from the gallery halls and plant it back into the streets. Born from Superchief’s mission to make art accessible and overturn the gatekeeping codes of the art world, Originales gathers Los Angeles–based women whose work refuses walls, translation fees, and quietude. Here, art lives where people live: on street corners, against alleys, across flyers and murals, in conversation and confrontation.

These artists wield the tools of visual culture— as acts of reclamation and counter-archive. They code-shift meaning in real time. They confront the blank wall, language bias, gendered iconography, and cultural erasure. They provoke—with color, humor, wordplay, scale, and tactility—to reroute the flow of representation back toward the many, not the few.

Under the umbrella of Originales, each piece becomes a node in a network of resistance. The show resists the “white cube” entirely: instead of contained rooms, visitors move through a layered environment of digital and analog works. At every turn, the belief is the same: art licenses not just gaze, but motion. It asks viewers to step up, step out, step closer.

Both manifesto and gathering, it is a reality check, joy ride, and archive in motion. In tandem with Superchief’s founding ethic, it makes visible what is too often hidden, gives voice to what is too often silenced, and disrupts who gets to say what counts as art.