Isaac Escoto: 3AM Eternal

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  Jeffrey Deitch

  On view through Jan 16, 2027

  Source for Isaac Escoto: 3AM Eternal
  Nov 14, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027

  Isaac Escoto picked the title for his second solo show at Jeffrey Deitch before he had fully articulated what the paintings inside it would say, and it’s worth sitting with the two words for a second. 3AM is the graffiti writer’s hour—the hour when Escoto, working for years under the tag SICKID, first learned to move through Los Angeles unsupervised. It’s the hour we’re told is when bad things happen, and it’s also, as Escoto points out, when some of the city’s labor is just clocking in: dishwashers, security guards, delivery drivers, the people keeping the lights on while everyone else sleeps. A hard-won innocence sits folded into that hour right alongside its danger. Eternal carries a similar doubleness; is something eternal because it lasts forever, or because it never resolves, the way a loop or an addiction never resolves? Is eternal about life, or about the flattening sameness of a death that keeps recurring? The show doesn’t answer these questions so much as hold them open, the way Escoto holds open nearly every binary he paints: good and bad, pleasure and shame, exploitation and survival.

  Schedule

  November 14, 2026–January 16, 2027

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