Upcoming Events
TOMATÂ at MutMuz Gallery
Friday August 15, MutMuz Gallery shows the multimedia artworks and world of the incomparable Tomatâ du Plenty in TOMATÂ.
Best known as the frontman of The Screamers and a trailblazer in underground performance art, Tomatâ’s artwork is a rare treasure to see in person.
The show features his colorful multimedia paintings on wood and works on paper, plus photos and all kinds of ephemera from his world. It’s a skinny dip into the ocean of creative chaos and magic that made Tomatâ such a unique force.
Whether a longtime Screamers devotee or you’re just discovering his brilliance for the first time, this show is not to be missed!!! Thank you to all who have lovingly contributed to this special show.
This show is free and will be on view until September 15.
Photo courtesy of the Tomatâ du Plenty Facebook group
Contortionist Figure Drawing with Lena Fumi at MutMuz Gallery
Please join us for a creative experience like no other!!!: Contortionist Figure Drawing with contortionist Lena Fumi! This figure drawing session will take place on Sunday August 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM. Watch the talented Lena strike poses for you to sketch your original pieces. Just like in a traditional figure drawing class, each pose will be timed, giving you only a limited amount of time to sketch it. Let your imagination run wild as you capture Lena's mystical capabilities on paper! We will have very limited drawing boards, paper and charcoal, so please bring your own drawing pencils and sketchpad! Don't miss out on this one-of-a-kind opportunity! See you there!
All skill levels welcome
Hollywood Entertainment presents Madame Wang’s
Madame Wang’s comes to MutMuz Gallery for one revolutionary night only! Don’t miss the incredibly out-of-print (and never commercially released theatrically or on US home video) LA Chinatown Punk weirdo-comedic masterpiece by legendary director/Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey (Flesh for Frankenstein, Chelsea Girls).
The madcap bad-taste tale of a masochistic East German rebel spy who jumps ship in LA to find Jane Fonda and recruit her to the Communist cause… Our hero Lutz is sidelined by a weird new wave world of swap meeters, squatters, junk traders, doorknob lickers and sex workers and starts spiraling toward the American dream: auditioning for a spot in the Chinatown punk scene.
Featuring performances by Phranc and The Mentors and an eccentric cast including trans activist Virginia Prince.
Special thanks to Vinegar Syndrome and Elizabeth Purchell
The Late 1900s by Ross Harris
The Late 1900’s by Ross Harris will be on view at MutMuz Gallery for the month of July. This show will be a collection of photography from the mid 90’s featuring images from his work with Beck and Elliott Smith.
“In the 90’s I was in the wrong place at the right time and I was able to document two artists that I consider the greats of that era. Beck and Elliott Smith. Now someone that all three of us looked up to as our spiritual spud father, Mark Mothersbaugh, has offered his Chinatown gallery to share these images with you”
- Ross Harris
Past Events
Steve Hanft’s Kill The Moonlight at MutMuz
MutMuz Gallery and Ross Harris are proud to present a screening of Steve Hanft's seminal and rarely screened feature film "Kill The Moonlight" as part of Ross Harris' photo show "The Late 1900's" that opens this July 5th. Newly restored, this 16mm film features music and samples by Beck ("I'm a driver, I'm a winner") and counts among its fans Harmony Korine and Sofia Coppola. Did Spoon name an album after the film? That's a great question. Save it for the Q&A. Join us Friday, July 11th at 7:00pm.
Jack Lue and Vaquita live at MutMuz
Celebrate up and coming performers with live music by Los Angeles-based rock band Vaquita and photography by Jack Lue on June 7 at MutMuz Gallery!
Doors at 6pm
Vaquita at 8pm
DJ Cassius Cohen at 9pm
Screening of Dave Markey’s Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
See the hard-rocking Super 8 classic the LA Times called "rather rude!"
Hollywood Entertainment and MutMuz Gallery proudly present Desperate Teenage Lovedolls featuring a Q&A with director Dave Markey and stars Janet Housden and Jennifer Schwartz moderated by Jennifer Finch (L7)!
"In a scene of no values, where climbing your way to the top means climbing into bed, where drugs and cheap thrills fill the date book, where rock & roll means death and destruction...." don't miss the LA Punk Masterpiece that has been charming and inspiring audiences to start bands, make movies, and leave home since it hit the hallowed screens and tubes of LAHSA and EZTV in 1984.
Bunny, Kitty, and Patch (Hilary Rubens, Jennifer Schwartz, and Janet Housden) are three teenage runaways who form the hottest all-girl band of all-time, The Lovedolls. Their meteoric rise to the top from a drug addled street life in Hollywood comes with a price, thanks to sleazy rock manager, Johnny Tremaine (Steve McDonald). Rival all-girl gang The She Devils and their leader Tanya Hearst (Tracy Lea) have it in for our heroes, as do annoying mothers and psych ward doctors. The film also features Jeff McDonald, Phil Newman, Vicki Peterson, Annette Zilinskas & Dez Cadena.
Come join us at MutMuz Gallery for a very special screening of Max Fleischer's silent cartoon classic 'Out of The Inkwell' accompanied by live music from John Reed-Torres!
Screening of Max Fleischer’s Out of The Inkwell
Screening of 1960 Film Beat Girl
Come celebrate “Why Are We Here? No. 01” - Mark Mothersbaugh's first solo exhibition of paintings and screen prints at his MutMuz Gallery with Hollywood Entertainment!
Edmond T. Greville's Beat Girl (1960) -- released in the US as Wild For Kicks-- stars Gillian Hills as sulky teenager Jennifer, who rebels when her father brings home his new and very young wife who's hiding an exotic past. Jennifer sneaks off to the Off-Beat Café and begins her seductive slide into teenage chaos. Thrill to her delicious descent into the depraved worlds of rock music, stripteases, car racing, coffee at night, train tracks "chicken," Teddy Boys, murder, and terror! This controversial cult classic features John Barry's iconic first film score, and star turns from Christopher Lee (as strip joint owner Kenny King), Oliver Reed (as the dangerous Plaid Shirt), Shirley Anne Field (as the sensual singer Dodo) and Adam Faith (as Dave).
Titled Why Are We Here? No. 01 by Mark Mothersbaugh, the exhibition is the first in a series under the same name, each delving into the artist's reflections on existence and broader societal questions. Through this evolving body of work, Mothersbaugh invites viewers to join him in contemplating life’s fundamental mysteries, offering an evolving journey into the mind of one of today’s most innovative artists.
“I fell in love with printmaking in my first year at Kent State University, back in 1968. I printed for about a decade before touring with Devo made it nearly impossible, but I reignited that love in the mid-’80s when I met Richard Duardo, who had a screen-printing company in the then-industrial wasteland known as Traction Ave. Whenever I had free time, I would head over there and build a large body of work—including the silkscreen prints in this current show.
The paintings here were created during the COVID lockdown, when I had a rare opportunity to focus entirely on my visual art. All of the work in this show originates from decades of creating images and text on card-sized paper—what I sometimes refer to as my Postcard Diaries.”
Mark Mothersbaugh’s Why Are We Here?
MutMuz Gallery
971 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA
90012
(213) 592 - 3223