art division gallery
This exhibition brings together three artists whose practices are grounded in craft, material dialogue, and the pleasure of making. Each artist approaches creation as an active collaboration with materials — a process shaped by intuition, chance, spontaneity, repetition, and touch.
The works explore how meaning emerges through sensation and revealing coherence in the rhythm of doing. Landscape — especially the urban landscape — is central to each artist’s practice, functioning as a site of inspiration, gathering, and attentive observation.
The hand, and the tactile intelligence it carries, is fundamental to their processes: a way of thinking through touch, responding to materials, and allowing form to unfold through embodied knowledge. The exhibition honors the pleasure of process — the voice of creation — where meaning arises from the intimate relationship between hand, thought, and matter.
6th Street
on view thru may 25, 2026
art division gallery / paint studio
2432 w. 6th St. LA CA. 90057
featured artists:
Javier Carrillo, Dan McCleary, John Nava, Victor Reyes
Sixth Street originated at Craig Krull Gallery in February 2026, featuring work by Javier Carrillo, Dan McCleary, John Nava, and Victor Reyes—artists connected through the Art Division community on 6th Street near MacArthur Park.
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Following a successful run, the exhibition comes to Art Division in an expanded presentation with additional works by all four artists. Installed across our printmaking and painting studios, as well as in Dan McCleary’s studio adjacent to the library, the exhibition reflects the spaces where this community is actively shaped.
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McCleary, the founder and artistic director of Art Division, is joined by John Nava, a visiting artist and board member, widely recognized for his extraordinary tapestry cycle at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. Javier Carrillo, represented by Craig Krull Gallery, is the director of Art Division’s print studio, while Victor Reyes—also a former student—teaches printmaking and is an accomplished ceramic artist.
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Together, their work offers a portrait of a shared commitment to place, mentorship, and artistic practice rooted in the community in and around Art Division.
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