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City of Quartz borrows its title from Mike Davis’ eponymous 1990 book about defining moments in the history of Los Angeles. But a lot has changed in those three decades and new realities have since emerged within the city. Rewriting the story with a series of creative impulses, this exhibition casts a light on contemporary LA through the artists’ collected perspectives on identity, memory and desire.

These sentiments are delicately intertwined in Nikkolas Mohammed’s mixed-media works on paper depicting his aunt on her wedding day. Weaving visual markers of his family history into collaged …