“Los Angeles: Here’s Your Guide to the 13 Must-See Gallery Shows This Month.”
By Karly Quadros
10 Nov 2025
“Absinthe, Smoke, Sugar, Choice” by Sabrina Gschwandtner
When: Through January 10, 2026
Where: Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Why It’s Worth a Look: Quilt-making was once women’s work: a domestic duty, yes, but also an outlet for creative expression. Sabrina Gschwandtner expands the techniques and motifs of the craft by sewing together strips of film illuminated from behind.
Know Before You Go: Gschwandtner’s new show plumbs the earliest years of film history to explore female bodily autonomy then and now. Her main sources? A 1931 documentary about a team on horseback who brought healthcare to women in rural Appalachia and a 1906 silent comedy about a pregnant woman who greedily steals sips of absinthe, puffs off a pipe, and candy from a baby (literally.)