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 future exhibition
January 3 – February 14, 2026
The floor hugging artwork on view is as enigmatic as it is elegant. Thus it may be the artist’s own words which provide the best and most helpful interpretive context:
During the reign of Mussolini, carved words indicating property distinctions were made describing public and private areas in seemingly public walkways. Often these areas of distinction are not understood or known to the people of the city.
January 3 – February 14, 2026
Like other Los Angeles artists before him, Ron Griffin grew disaffected with the city he had called home for decades and sought new and less precarious accommodations in the bright light and crisp dry air of New Mexico.
And while things didn’t go exactly as planned in the three years he was there—“a nightmare,” the artist recalls—Griffin managed to produce a body of compelling new artworks even under difficult circumstances. This exhibition focuses on the work of that period and its inevitable relationship to the personal events it brackets; a few happy, many more mundane, at least one heartbreakingly sad.