# Event Details - **Event Name**: Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm - **Event Description**: Make Room is proud to present Ode to Slowness by artist Tuan Vu, Kyoko’s Room by Kaz Oshiro, As If by Aleza Zheng, and a group show.About this EventJoin us from 6-9 pm on Friday, February 25th for Tuan Vu, Kaz Oshiro and Aleza Zheng's 's solos opening and Group Show: Cult: The American Dream at Make Room Gallery, Los Angeles.Tuan VuOde to Slowness27 February – 26 March 2026Opening reception: Friday, 27 February, 6 - 9 pm6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038The birds sing the same songs they sang last spring. Walk along the path of this garden while the sunlight swirls its way down through the twisted branches of the trees. In these moments, time becomes a thick field that you can swim in and feel running across your skin. Tuan Vu’s paintings capture the timelessness of serenity, creating a space where sensitivity, memory, and attention can breathe. The paintings sing an Ode to Slowness, praising unhurriedness as an act of resistance and as a quiet display of feminine strength.Beneath the beauty of these pieces lies the presence of a people held in the control of colonial rule. Vietnam has long been held under the oppression of imperial rule from Western powers and others; despite this, the Vietnamese people cling to the moments of appreciation for life, nature, and stillness.Make Room is proud to present Ode to Slowness by Montreal-based artist Tuan Vu, exploring his cultural connection to Vietnam and to the influence of women in his life. He paints leisurely scenes that exemplify the act of defiance that is to remain true to yourself in repose and stillness. A resistance to being defined by others.Kaz Oshiro| Kyoko’s Room27 February – 26 March 2026Opening reception: Saturday, 27 February, 6 - 9 pm6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038A person's space, in many ways, is a physical extension of their person, creating an energy of personality through the objects that are present as well as how they are arranged. Kaz Oshiro creates a personality with detailed representations of objects; objects that go beyond being symbolic to create the illusion of function. The items present create a set that captures the different facets of his identity. In Kyoko’s Room, Japanese artist Kaz Oshiro embodies his obsession with physical perfection with thorough recreations of what seem to be commonplace objects.This room is based on the set design of Eiko Ishioka in Paul Schrader's film on the life of Yukio Mishima. The biopic explores Yukio’s book Kyoko’s House, where the author divides his personality into four characters: a boxer, a painter, an actor, and a businessman. These characters exist in an otherworldly stage steeped in color. They vie to express their individual forms of perfection in beauty. In the world of Mishima, beauty is violent and essential; it is an end in itself.Kaz creates a room that strives to express himself through visual perfection. He creates an artistic work that moves beyond creating just platonic concepts of form. He creates a perfect version of something as it exists in reality, the authenticity of wear and objects. Peeled stickers, squashed flies, scuffs, and scratches make his paintings beautiful. You can feel the painstaking labor that goes into every mark as a form of devotion to the image.Aleza Zheng| As If27 February – 26 March 2026Opening reception: Saturday, 27 February, 6 - 9 pm6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038Hugo Vaihinger presented The Philosophy of As If in 1935, a Neo-Kantian philosophy exploring the idea that fictions, while they might not necessarily be true, are scaled from ideas into the world with consequence. Models, laws, and theories permeate the world around us to create guidelines and ethics on how to best operate. Beyond science, stories, myth, and religion create systems of belief that affect our actions and the lens through which we see the world. Make Room is proud to present As If, a show of paintings by Chinese-born artist Aleza Zheng that traverses this thin membrane between truth and fiction.The formal elements of her work are inspired from classical Chinese painting. These works are early forms of non-representational work, painting nature and scenery with the aesthetics and feeling of the mountains and rivers rather than what the artist really sees. Her paintings further abstract nature into just the swirling blues and greens, but move beyond any representation of the flora into a pure natural beauty. They exist as a fiction of how nature really appears, but might better capture the feeling of a turning path that breaches into a clear vista.No art is entirely truthful; even a photograph can only capture a limited window into a moment, and ignores the ephemeral aspects of a moment that exist just outside the frame. These paintings forgo the objective to capture the truth of the painter's view. Each experience, personally lived or absorbed through storytelling, changes the viewer's lens and shapes their own personal reality. Aleza Zheng goes beyond Oscar Wilde's statement that “Life imitates art”, she insists that they are constantly informing each other, creating feedback loops spiraling through time.Cult: The American DreamMarina Ross, Ruoyi Shi, Laura Watters, Sean Walker Hutton, Ian Davis, Will Maxen, Eleanor Schiltz, Jamie John Davies, Daniel Wang, Hunter Potter, Julie Yeo, David Moy, Nichole Fitch, Andrew J. Park.27 February – 26 March 2026Opening reception: Saturday, 27 February, 6 - 9 pm6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90038Make Room Los Angeles presents CULT: THE AMERICAN DREAM, a group exhibition curated by Zachariah Buteux that explores how the promise of the American Dream can evolve into something more insular, ritualized, and consuming.CULT: THE AMERICAN DREAM is structured to unfold like a play. The exhibition moves in acts, beginning with images that feel grounded in classic American identity, stable and familiar. As viewers progress through the space, the tone gradually shifts. Nostalgia becomes unease. Community becomes conformity. Belonging begins to resemble submission. By the final movement, the atmosphere is no longer aspirational but devotional.The artists in the exhibition engage this progression in different ways. Some immerse fully in the aesthetics and psychology of cult behavior. Others work within the visual language of Americana while exposing its fractures. Porches, diners, water towers, deserts, and cultural icons appear at first recognizable, then charged, then constrained. What once symbolized comfort begins to suggest surveillance, repetition, ritual.CULT: THE AMERICAN DREAM does not offer easy answers, any answers, really. Instead, it invites viewers to experience a slow shift in atmosphere, to feel how systems of faith, nationalism, and collective identity can tighten around the individual. The American Dream remains powerful. This exhibition aims to examine what happens when that power is intensified, isolated, and accepted unequivocally. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/5b8e70c0-1302-11f1-89f1-09c30f73298b-rimg-w592-h740-dcc1c0bd-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/art-gallery-opening-tuan-vu-|-kaz-oshiro-|-aleza-zheng-|-group-show/100001984000494888 - **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fine-arts, theatre, literary-art, entertainment, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Make Room Los Angeles - **lat**: 34.0854387 - **long**: -118.3334622 - **full address**: Make Room Los Angeles, 6361 Waring Avenue, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/65e8629f90907a3e42c0261546e0c4f28183ad9905be540f9ba16819523cde8a-rimg-w1200-h1451-dcf3a576-gmir.jpg?v=1772103666 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show being held? - **A:** Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show takes place on Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 09:00 pm at Make Room Los Angeles, 6361 Waring Avenue, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show? - **A:** Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show is organized by Make Room. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Art Gallery Opening: Tuan Vu | Kaz Oshiro | Aleza Zheng | Group show is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Los Angeles, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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