La Mancha Gallery

Name: La Mancha Gallery
Address: 1308 E. Colorado Boulevard , Unit 3114, Pasadena, CA, 91101, US
Telephone: +16264258300
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06/24/2026

Central Avenue was once the heartbeat of Black music in Los Angeles — the clubs, the horns spilling into the street, the sound that ran late into the night. Diana Shannon Young remembers it, and she has painted it in full color.
In Smooth Rhythms, a full ensemble gathers across a single panoramic scene. A saxophonist, a keyboardist, a horn player, a bassist, a guitarist — pressed shoulder to shoulder, rendered in deep jewel tones against a warm ground of ochre and amber. Young works her acrylic into ridges and combed lines that catch the light, so the whole surface takes on a tactile, almost sculptural pulse. Color here works the way harmony works in music: each garment its own voice, layered so the composition feels improvised rather than arranged.
There is no single focal point. Attention is shared evenly across every player, mirroring the call and response of the jazz and blues traditions that built this Avenue. Smooth Rhythms makes listening visible.
See it in person. Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame is on view now at Delicious at The Dunbar, inside the Historic Dunbar Hotel, 4229 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles.
Visit: lamancha.events/delicious

06/23/2026

In Sky Day, Lyric Cross staged a quiet act of devotion disguised as a moment of performance. A woman in a red floral dress leans across a DJ console, one hand reaching toward red poppies that rise from the deck like an offering — remembrance, painted for the artist's late father, blooming in the very space where sound is made. Her crowned head balances a golden sunflower turning toward the sky, where the ancestral meets the contemporary, and against a field of deep cobalt the reds pull forward with an almost sacred intensity.It is a portrait of reconnection. Lyric Cross made the work in the aftermath of loss, when the act of creating became the thread back — a return to a lineage of storytellers and visionaries she came to understand as her own. Grief is not the end of connection. It is where connection reveals how far back it goes.Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame is on view through the end of June at Arts @ Delicious, inside The Historic Dunbar Hotel. Come for the art, and stay for the table — the food at Delicious at The Dunbar makes an afternoon of it.
Live jazz at the venue every Sunday.
The Historic Dunbar Hotel · 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
Reserve your spot at lamancha.events/delicious

06/14/2026

Smooth Jazz Sunday at Delicious at the Dunbar — this Sunday, June 14.
Saxophonist Darryl "D-Wake" Wakefield takes the stage from 2:30 to 4:30 PM, filling the historic Dunbar with live music right in the heart of Central Avenue. Pull up a chair, order from a kitchen that knows how to feed a room, and let the afternoon unfold the way Sundays on the Avenue always have.
And before you leave, spend time with Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, the current exhibition presented by La Mancha Gallery. It's a tribute to the women who kept this neighborhood's creative fire burning — a perfect companion to an afternoon of jazz.
🎷 Darryl "D-Wake" Wakefield
📅 Sunday, June 14 · 2:30–4:30 PM
📍 Delicious at the Dunbar, 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles 90011
Great food. Live sax. A neighborhood's history on the walls.
Come be part of it.
https://lamancha.events/delicious/

06/05/2026

One work in the current exhibition stops you completely.
Home, by Skira Martinez, is a circular mixed-media relief — a raised fist crowning an Afro pick, surrounded by a constellation of found and altered objects. Gears. Keys. Coffee beans. Roses. Stars. Kitchen tools. Candles. Coins. Feathers. Every object a piece of the material world of Black domestic life — gathered, honored, and made sacred.
At the center, a dark mask emerges from the lower field. Eyes closed. A third eye at the brow. Cowrie shells hanging like inherited jewelry. She is the keeper of everything assembled above her.
Martinez's use of found, created, and altered objects speaks to a long tradition of Black women's ingenuity — the act of transforming the discarded into the devotional. On Central Avenue, that has never been just art. That has always been survival. Memory. And love.
Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame is on view now at Arts @ Delicious at the Historic Dunbar Hotel, 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles. Presented by La Mancha Gallery.
Reserve your spot at lamancha.events/dunbar

05/25/2026

Eighteen years ago, I took La Mancha Gallery off its foundation. Rent on a permanent space in Los Angeles is a tax on ambition, and that tax falls hardest on the artists and audiences I most wanted in the room. So I built something else — a gallery that goes to the people instead of asking them to come to it.
More than 200 exhibitions later, that model has landed at the Historic Dunbar Hotel on Central Avenue, the building that was the heart of Black Los Angeles when no other hotel in the city would have it. The current show, Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, puts nine women on those walls.
My new essay on The Cultural Thread is about why this kind of programming matters and how it actually gets built.
Read it here: 🔗 https://lamanchagallery.substack.com/p/on-the-alternative-venue-exhibition
The exhibition is up through the end of May at Arts @ Delicious inside the Dunbar.

05/22/2026

Sunday afternoon on Central Avenue calls for live music. This week it comes from multi-instrumentalist Rob Leopold, who brings "All That Jazz" to the Historic Dunbar Hotel — with special guests alongside him, and one of the most storied rooms in Black Los Angeles to fill.

Two hours, live. The kind of Sunday you don't get back if you miss it.

Presented by Mowatt Entertainment.

Sunday, May 24 · 2:30–4:30 PM
Historic Dunbar Hotel · 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90011
Reservations strongly recommended · $30 food & drink minimum · 323-918-2087

And while you're at the Dunbar, on view "The Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame" — La Mancha Gallery's current exhibition.. The music and the exhibition share a venue, not a program. Come for one, discover the other.
https://lamancha.events/delicious/

05/21/2026

Look closely... and you'll see her.
In Adrianne Devine's canvas, a young Black woman steps forward — mortarboard squared to the sky. Confident. Educated. Paid. Beside her stands a classic figure bearing water, embodying self-reliance, spirituality, and protection. The ancestral and the modern, side by side. The vessel and the diploma.
Behind them, a multiplicity of windows creates a timeless cityscape where yesterday, today, and tomorrow coexist. Mothers. Daughters. Schoolgirls. Matriarchs. Their quiet presence forms the living architecture of the scene. Above, celestial bodies pause to charge infinite horizons. Angels rise in jubilation. At the women's feet, golden blooms open toward the sun.
Every element points, unmistakably, toward light. Toward legacy. Toward the great expectations carried forward.
Adrianne Devine is a featured artist in Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, presented by Arts @ Delicious at The Historic Dunbar Hotel — 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles.
Curated by Omar Holguin · La Mancha Gallery
https://lamancha.events/dunbar

05/16/2026

Sunday afternoons belong to live jazz on Central Avenue. 🎷

The Mateo Arce Trio returns to Delicious at The Dunbar this Sunday, May 17, from 2:30 to 4:30 PM — a beautiful way to spend the afternoon inside one of South LA's most storied buildings.

And while you're here, take time to walk through Women of Central Avenue: Keepers of the Flame, our current exhibition featuring nine extraordinary artists — Adrienne D., Gail O., Buena J., Diana S., Riea O., Nina Syii, Skira Martinez, Christen Austin, and X.Darvi — honoring the women who have carried this avenue's cultural flame forward.

📍 Historic Dunbar Hotel · 4229 S. Central Ave, Los Angeles
🎟 Reserve your spot: lamancha.events/Reservations
Bring family. Bring friends. We'll see you Sunday.

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Pasadena, CA
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