Sidecar is pleased to present Glastonbury, an exhibition organized by Conrad Guevara. The show features new paintings, sculptures, and photography by Night Gallery team members new and old: Adrian Carroll, Deondre Davis, Brian Faucette, Brett Flanigan, William Hathaway, Chip Hughes, Brittany Mack, Mickey Mackenna Dill, Acacia Marable, Nik Massey, Davida & Josh Creations, J Rivera Pansa, Jarret Rubin, Andrea Santos, Charlie Smith, Sebastian Smith, Buzz Szilagyi, Rae Tweed, and Marina Darcy Weiner. This is the final exhibition in our Sidecar space which will transition to becoming part of Night Gallery's main programming in 2026.

12th CENTURY AD: A fire decimates England’s Glastonbury Abbey. To raise rebuilding funds, monks invent a myth that King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are buried beneath the grounds.

2007-8: Amy Winehouse performs at Glastonbury Festival, solidifying her reputation as a troubled, once-in-a-generation icon. 

DECEMBER 2025: Conrad Guevara curates Glastonbury at Sidecar, a swan song to the pop-up gallery and to his curatorial program Kill Shelter Presents. 

In early 2023, Conrad Guevara, Night Gallery’s then-head-preparator, began presenting concise exhibitions at the back of NG North. He hung work by artist colleagues on the wall between the preps’ refrigerator and the gallery’s inventory racks. The back-of-house shows became gathering places for the talent that was, literally and figuratively, behind Night Gallery’s public-facing exhibitions. Guevara called the project Kill Shelter Presents (KSP). Management was not consulted about this enterprise.  

Nearly three years later, Guevara has moved on from his role and out of LA. He is handing over KSP to Buzz Szilagyi, now NG head prep. Night Gallery plans to sunset its Sidecar space, following two years of collaborative programming with galleries and curators from near and far. Glastonbury is an ode to the collegial spirit that has animated Sidecar and KSP alike, a graduation of sorts from behind-the-scenes to official exhibition. An intimate, guerilla ethos remains. 

Guevara notes that the Glastonbury music festival unites a broad range of bands, from the uber-famous to the unknown. In his show, he groups artists into three categories: performers, production, and crowd control. Jarret Rubin’s central painting The One(2025) features a singer looking out over a crowd. Buzz Szilagyi, Rae Tweed, and Deondre Davis contribute their own figurative works, side acts to this headliner. Brett Flanigan’s framed ceramic triangles resemble beams of stage lighting, while Chip Hughes’s psychedelic, carved-wood painting suggests a chemically altered, music festival state. Charlie Smith presents a wood “Sky Cabinet” sculpture that recalls refracted light and energy. Andrea Santos’ vibrational drawing conjures amplified sound. Davida Nemeroff, Seb Smith, and Marina Darcy Weiner make sculptures that evoke barricades and demarcate patterns of flow. Guevara himself serves as club promoter for this motley crew. 

Glastonbury celebrates the connections forged at the gallery, where disparate, creative personalities unite to ship, mount, promote, and sell show after show. Guevara notes the sea foam hue of Sidecar’s walls. “The green room,” he says, “is where everyone wants to be.”

—Alina Cohen