AMPHI Gallery, 49 W. Del Mar Boulevard, Pasadena, CA (2026)

Established by Tony Zhu and Lu Chen in 2024 in South Pasadena, AMPHI is a contemporary art gallery committed to discovering and presenting work by local and international artists.

07/18/2026

Join us on Saturday, July 25, for “Sound Activism — A Sound Sculpture”, a live sound performance by Los Angeles–based artist and musician Jim Brown. Jim Brown

A double-neck electric bass is suspended in front of sixteen speakers and strummed only once. From that single gesture, feedback and harmonic resonance set the strings into continuous motion. The instrument begins to play itself, transforming the bass, sound system, and gallery into one evolving sound sculpture.
Accompanied by binaural percussion and shifting frequencies, “Sound Activism” creates an immersive experience that is not only heard but physically felt.

Jim Brown: Sound Activism — A Sound Sculpture
Saturday, July 25, 2026
7-9PM
AMPHI Gallery
49 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena
Free admission 🖤 RSVP via link in bio🖤

Video excerpt from ”Last Wash“, featuring The Holloys. Filmed by Will Milner. willmilner_
Mobile phone photographs by Jim Brown.
Audio excerpt: Jim Brown, Live at Three Day Weekend, May 4, 2012. Live performance recording. Three Day Weekend organized by Dave Muller. Courtesy of the artist.
Promotional video produced and edited by AMPHI Gallery.

02/19/2026

Opening countdown | Paulin Paris: The First Garden

🗓️Feb 21–Apr 4, 2026
⏳ Opening in 2 days
📍 AMPHI Gallery, 49 W. Del Mar Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105

🥂 Join us this Saturday, Feb 21, 5–8 pm for the opening reception with the artist present.

“Looking at the leaves, you realize they are looking back at you.”
— Paulin Paris

Born in Paris and based in California, Paulin Paris creates immersive worlds where painting, pattern, and surface merge.

Central to the exhibition is Paris’s ongoing Tapis de feuilles series—large-scale works inspired by the forest floor, where scattered leaves form rhythmic, meditative fields of color. At first glance, these paintings read as lush abstractions or decorative carpets; with time, small faces emerge from the foliage, subtly returning the viewer’s gaze.
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11/25/2025

Currently on view in “A Boat Made of Dreams”, Axel Wilhite is a Los Angeles–based artist whose imagery comes directly from his dreams. He wakes in the night to record them—notes, sketches, flashes of color and shape—which he later transforms into visual reflections that capture both the narrative and the emotional atmosphere of the dream. Wilhite approaches his dreams with sincerity and insight, believing that these nocturnal visions reveal truths about the psyche that waking logic cannot express.

In addition to his studio practice, Wilhite is the publisher of the online arts publication 7x7.LA and was the curator and co-director of the now-defunct Space Ten Gallery in Hawthorne, California. He has exhibited his work in the United States, France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.

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© the artist and AMPHI Gallery.

11/06/2025

Exhibition Countdown｜”A Boat Made of Dreams” opens this Saturday, Nov 8, 5–8 PM, at AMPHI Gallery.

Curated by Robert Wilhite , this exhibition brings together the work of three Los Angeles artists: Scott Grieger, Margaret Nielsen , and Axel Wilhite . Their works explore the terrain of the subconscious, that shifting border between dream and waking life.

This exhibition presents Scott Grieger’s mask series created in the 1980s.

During the mid-1980s, Scott Grieger, painter, educator, and longtime chairman of Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design, created a series of small, intimate, and mystical portraits of his East Melrose Avenue neighbors: punk musicians, drug addicts, and street people he befriended and gained the trust of. These faces, detached from their bodies and surrounded by fields of color, float like dream fragments. Grieger described them as “the masks that the individuals wore and hid behind,” allowing them to become who they imagined themselves to be. His paintings reveal both the confidence and the insecurity of his young subjects, at once real and unreal, awake and dreaming.

Image in the video:
Scott Greiger, “LISA”, 1984, Gouache on paper, 5 × 4 in. (frame included)
© the artist and AMPHI Gallery.

11/04/2025

Exhibition Countdown｜”A Boat Made of Dreams” opens this Saturday, Nov 8, 5–8 PM, at AMPHI Gallery.

Curated by Robert Wilhite , this exhibition brings together the work of three Los Angeles artists: Scott Grieger, Margaret Nielsen , and Axel Wilhite . Their works explore the terrain of the subconscious, that shifting border between dream and waking life. Each artist attempts to capture those fleeting, powerful moments when imagination and emotion overlap, when the familiar becomes strange and the unexpected presents itself on a mystical level.

Image in the video: Margaret Nielsen, “Storm in the Rocky Mountains-Mt. Rosalie”, 1990, Oil on canvas, 42 × 66 in.
© the artist and AMPHI Gallery.

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