Night Gallery

About the Gallery
Night Gallery is the leading platform for emerging artists in Los Angeles. Davida Nemeroff founded the gallery in 2010 in a strip mall storefront of the city’s Lincoln Heights neighborhood. The 10 PM - 2AM openings gave the space its name. In 2013, Night Gallery moved to its current location near LA’s downtown arts district. In January 2022, Night Gallery doubled its footprint by launching Night Gallery North. This expanded, neighboring gallery space comprises 14,000 square feet and supports ambitious installation and sculpture programming. Night Gallery remains the locus of the city's flourishing visual arts community, maintaining its commitment to artists of diverse backgrounds and points of view. The gallery embraces the joyful, experimental approach of its early years while continuing to support its thriving artists in the city and abroad. In 2025, Night Gallery celebrates 15 years in Los Angeles.

About the Presentation
Bambou Gili is known for her surreal, figurative oil paintings, which reference art historical compositions and employ atmospheric, often nocturnal color palettes. She presents skewed visions of contemporary life, friendships, and interiority via vivid palettes that suggest emotional weathers and shifting moods. Within Gili’s alternate universe, environment and human emotion vibrate at an equal frequency somewhere between waking and dreaming. The artist is a recipient of the 2024 Spirit Now Acquisition Prize, organized by the Women’s Art Collection at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

For Independent, Night Gallery will present a solo booth of new paintings by Gili. The artist renders animals, figures, and the earth itself with equal care. Her compositions tenderly address contemporary ecological issues such as animal extinction and nature’s evolution across the seasons. Gili’s new canvases focus on water sources and on birds, as the artist simultaneously looks towards the earth and sky. While fires rage and water scarcity increases around the planet, Gili’s vivid, imaginative scenes lead viewers to rethink their own relationship to our shifting landscape.

In addition to debuting new paintings by Bambou Gili, Night Gallery will showcase hand-carved furniture by Dan John Anderson. Based in the desert of Yucca Valley, CA, Anderson will present a solo exhibition of new work at Night Gallery in the summer of 2025. His works transcend the traditional boundaries of sculpture, furniture, and totem, consistently celebrating the spiritual essence of wood. Through his craft, natural elements are reshaped into innovative forms that foster community and shared experiences.