Make Room Gallery Opening Night | Frieze Week Celebration

Tuan Vu: Ode to Slowness | Kaz Oshiro: Kyoko’s Room at [ROOM] | Aleza Zheng: As If | CULT: THE AMERICAN DREAM

Make Room invites you to the opening reception for four simultaneous exhibitions — three solo shows and a major group presentation — spanning painting, sculpture, and installation across our Hollywood spaces. Opening during Frieze Art Week Los Angeles, this is one of the most ambitious evenings we’ve put together. Come move through all four.

Tuan Vu: Ode to Slowness opens with scenes of Vietnamese women in repose — unhurried, grounded, radiant. Tuan’s paintings are quiet acts of resistance. His subjects refuse to be defined by the colonial architectures imposed around them. They remain still. That stillness is the point.

Kaz Oshiro: Kyoko’s Room at [ROOM] is an immersive environment drawn from Eiko Ishioka’s set design for Paul Schrader’s film on Yukio Mishima — a world where beauty is violent, precise, and total. Kaz’s hyper-realized paintings of everyday objects — scuffed, scratched, worn — blur the line between image and reality until you’re not sure which side you’re standing on.

Aleza Zheng: As If takes classical Chinese landscape painting and dissolves it further — into swirling blues and greens that no longer represent nature but somehow feel more true to it. These are paintings about the space between what we see and what we feel.

CULT: THE AMERICAN DREAM, curated by Zachariah Buteux, gathers artists who pull at the seams of American mythology. The porch. The diner. The open road. Images so familiar they’ve become ritual. The exhibition traces the line between belonging and confinement — and asks where exactly the Dream becomes a doctrine.