The Beat Generation is currently having a moment in Los Angeles. Although the timing is partly coincidental, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts is exhibiting works on paper by Jay DeFeo, Parker Gallery and The Box are presenting a major Wally Hedrick retrospective, and Michael Kohn Gallery is showing Verifax collages by Wallace Berman and drawings by Bruce Conner. Conner was something of a renaissance man in that he was proficient in several mediums.

“It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” marks the centennial of Wallace Berman’s birth. The exhibition focuses on the Los Angeles artist’s iconic Verifax works: collages he produced using an early photocopy machine gifted to him in 1963.

New York-based Nir Hod – who delves into the duality of human nature as subject matter for his paintings that are achieved through color palettes and relaxed brushwork, and has had solo exhibitions in the United States, as well as having been in numerous group exhibitions here and abroad – plumbs his own psychological depths only to discover what makes him love work and life.