Barry McGee Turns a Former Los Angeles Recording Studio Into a Group Exhibition

Barry McGee’s Another Round is on view at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles from October 30, 2026, to January 30, 2027. The artist, who came out of the San Francisco graffiti scene, spent several weeks working with the keys to the gallery before it opened. He invited artists across generations to build the show together. Tags, detailed drawings and assemblages made from found materials have taken shape through the way those artists work with one another and with the room.

From a discount store to a former recording studio

In February 2026, McGee staged a project in a former 99 Cents Only Store on Wilshire Boulevard. This exhibition moves to the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and North Orange Drive, to a building that once housed RCA Victor’s West Coast recording studio. The gallery notes that Miles Davis, Elvis Presley and the Beach Boys recorded there. During installation, invited artists were free to keep working into the night. The space filled as people brought in works, tools and materials. A room once built for musicians to work together is now hosting another form of collaboration within Los Angeles’s underground arts scene.

McGee and Jeffrey Deitch have been bringing street environments indoors for more than two decades. For Street Market, first exhibited in New York in 2000, McGee, Todd James and Stephen Powers built a streetscape with reassembled signs and storefronts. The installation appeared again in Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 2011. Another Round brings artists of different generations and disciplines into that working process. Moving into places once used as a store and a recording studio keeps the new work in contact with the everyday life of the city.

Why does John Hanrahan paint tumbleweeds?

Invited Los Angeles artist John Hanrahan is showing work from his long-running Operation Tumbleweed. He gathers naturally occurring tumbleweeds in Southern California, then cleans, primes and paints them by hand. He has often placed the vivid clusters in everyday streetscapes. At the gallery, a purple-and-green tumbleweed sits at one end of a bench, with a red-and-yellow one across from it. The strands let light through, giving the forms their intricate outlines at close range. Stepping back brings the two pools of color into view alongside the bench, the brick and the geometric artwork on the walls.

Where and when can you see Another Round?

The exhibition is at Jeffrey Deitch’s Santa Monica Boulevard gallery, 7000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles. Regular hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the exhibition runs through January 30, 2027. Dates and hours are local. Jeffrey Deitch also has a nearby location, so use the full street address when planning your visit. Check the official exhibition page and confirm current hours with the gallery listing.