David Kordansky Gallery is pleased to present Hopes and Fears, an exhibition of new paintings by Tristan Unrau, on view from March 19 through April 25, 2026. Occupying three spaces at the Los Angeles location, this is Unrau’s first show with the gallery and the artist’s most ambitious presentation to date. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, March 19 from 6 to 8 PM at 5130 W. Edgewood Pl.

Drawing widely and freely from the modes, subjects, and moods that have preoccupied painters for centuries, Unrau assimilates a formidable range of references across canvases both self-contained and in dialogue with one another. The plurality of styles that make up Hopes and Fears functions like a selective, idiosyncratic revision of the history of visual culture, as if the entire Western canon were the work of a single, virtuosic author—or as if there were no locatable authors at all.