as-is.la is an art gallery and exhibition space focusing on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on local Los Angeles history and regional culture.
All in current exhibition
October 24–December 5, 2026
We are pleased to announce “Kristopher Raos: Blink and you’ll miss it.” Through vivid color, hard-edged precision, and inventive forms, Raos explores the intersections of painting, graphic design, and American consumer culture. Drawing on the visual language of mid-century packaging and the legacies of Pop and Minimalism, his paintings pair bold formal gestures with a pointed engagement with economic precarity, class, and the fraying social safety net.
October 24–December 5, 2026
We are pleased to present “Walter Wittel: Before–After,” the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery, featuring selected works from the 1970s. Emerging from the Southern California art scene of the period, Wittel’s witty, idiosyncratic practice engages the “casual” style of photo-conceptualism, challenging conventions of high art through a self-aware approach that blurs the boundaries between art, identity, and everyday life.