FLOWER MARKET is open by appointment from February 27 - March 29, 2026

GRAND OPENING reception:  Sunday, March 1, 4-7pm

GOING OUT OF BUSINESS reception:  Sunday, March 29, 4-7pm - (BOOK RELEASE)

FREE PARKING SPACE:  743 Maple Avenue, Los Angeles CA, 90014

Additional information and to view the exhibition: flowermarket@mckimens.com 

Flower Market is a month-long, evolving, site-specific installation of small sculptures of scrappy desert flora at Free Parking Space. The exhibition marks McKimens’ first solo project centered primarily on sculpture, as well as his return to Southern California after years in New York. Drawing from the Los Angeles Wholesale Flower Market directly across the street, the exhibition incorporates visual cues from its blue-collar improvised displays, spills, and clutter, entangling them with the high-end display conventions of the contemporary art gallery. The location of McKimens’ studio upstairs creates an additional opportunity which the artist uses to upturn exhibition conventions by allowing a flowing current of living kinetic energy resulting from continued active creation of new works to flow into the space throughout the duration of the show. The installation will gradually develop into a more seasoned, lived-in environment, culminating in a closing event for a fundamentally different show later in March. 

This new body of work expands on McKimens’ singular fluency in the space between drawing and sculpture. The plants are transplanted into an array of cast-off containers, often branded with bootleg pop imagery and off-brand logos. With wry humor infused with sincerity, these tattered plants and flowers are inspirational folk tales about nature’s endurance in the contemporary American West.