LANDLORD
This is how a town disappears.
A group exhibition on cultural erasure, rising pressure, and the quiet collapse of local identity — and the last show Walstory hangs on Manhattan Avenue. Not all at once. One lease at a time.
919 Manhattan Ave, Manhattan Beach · 310·920·6500
Walstory is leaving 919. Fittingly, the last show is about exactly that — who decides when a place has to move on.
The Artists
The artists Walstory represents.
Artist
Exhibitions
Two years of shows, in reverse.
“Art is a wall breathing.”
A wall, left alone, only holds things up — it keeps the weather out and the rooms apart. Then someone hangs a painting on it, and the wall begins to breathe. It takes a life in, holds it, and gives it back to whoever stands close enough to listen.
That is all a gallery really is: a building taught to breathe. Walstory is a contemporary gallery, which means the work on these walls is being made now — by people who are alive now, about the strange, specific business of being alive now. Nothing here is settled history. It is all present tense.
We think art is the oldest form of storytelling, and the most honest: a story told without a single word, that lands in the body before the mind catches up. A painting doesn't explain itself. It breathes at you, and you breathe back.
It is also how a place remembers itself. Long after a block has changed hands and a street has forgotten its own name, the work made there is still breathing — still holding the version of the world it was made in. That is the quiet power of it: art keeps what addresses lose.
So every wall we hang is a sentence. Every show, a paragraph. The gallery is the story that holds them — and a story doesn't need an address to stay true. The walls can come down on one street and go up on another. The breath carries.
Walstory. A wall breathing. A story between addresses.
Get in touch
Visits, acquisitions, and press.
Whether you're planning a visit, asking after a work, or writing about the gallery — say hello.
Or reach us directly — info@walstory.com · 310-920-6500 · Instagram ↗
Submit your work
Reviewed on a rolling basis.
We're a small gallery and we look at everything that comes in. If your work belongs on these walls — wherever they end up next — send it our way.
Please include
- A link to 8–12 images of recent work — a portfolio site, Drive folder, or Instagram
- A short artist statement — a paragraph is plenty
- Links to your website and Instagram, and where you're based
We try to respond within a few weeks.