Please Be Advised

Aaron Douglas Estrada

June 27th - August 1st, 2026

GGLA is proud to present Please Be Advised, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Aaron Douglas Estrada, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Meditating on materiality and value and the ways in which we assign worth and disposability under capitalism, Please Be Advised unfolds in a layered manner that incorporates and plays on all senses, with the artist expanding his distinct language and sensibility across space and media in entirely new ways.

Much like the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, The single use plastic bag remains a recurring and vital marker throughout the exhibition, with the bags speaking to a range of issues, from the obvious environmental ramifications, to notions surrounding class, disposability and the fragility of life cycles. Protruding from the gallery’s right wall is a department store aluminum hanger displaying handbags that the artist has created out of his melted plastic bag material. The bags mimic the shapes and styles of designer handbags, carrying with them a high end visual language that collides with a materiality built upon expendability and thriftiness. Using an idiosyncratic craft technique, Estrada melts the bags together with other materials, incorporating these thin and transparent shells into larger amalgams that have the feel of a textile or handmade paper. The resulting patchworks incorporate branding specifically tied to businesses from immigrant communities, providing a hyperlocality to the works while conjuring a Proustian effect for any viewer that has frequented one of these establishments.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Frankenhooker, 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, yellow police tape, metal hardware, 16 x 15 x 6 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Held Custody, 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, yellow police tape, , metal hardware, 16 x 15 x 6 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Making Bread (Big Dick Birkin), 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, metal hardware, and cardboard, 16 x 15 x 6 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Declared Value, 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, and metal hardware, 13 x 9 x 4 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Common Record (Lapwing Egg), 2026, Reusable plastic bags and polyester thread, 42 x 44 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Make Me Feel A-Okay, 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, metal hardware, and homies money clown, 25 x 14 x 2 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Spam Risk Still Calling, 2026, Razor wire, barbed wire, spoked hubcap, raspberry pi, and arducam, 16 x 10 x 16 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Authorized Carrier, 2026, reusable plastic, polyester thread, metal hardware, and teacup, 24 x 16 x 2 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Between Blessing and Warning, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Pleasure, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood,shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Pick Your Poison, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood,shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , High Risk, No Auto-Rewards, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Open Late, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Redacted, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , What 2 Carry At The Crossing?, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , What We Carry, At The Crossing, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , At The Crossing, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Pico & Western, At The Crossing, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Guatemalteca, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada , Cuscatleca, 2026, Reusable plastic bags, foam, wood, shirt fabric, and vinyl, 11 x 11 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Morning Star, 2026, Chains, Barbed Wire, and a Wishbone, 36 x 14 x 7 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Jo Jo Dancer, 2026, Chains and Barbed Wire, 57 x 11 x 8 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, After The Fall, 2026, Chains, Razor Wire, Barbed Wire, 60 x 44 x 30 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, The First Conversation, 2026, Subwoofer, reusable plastic, glow in the dark stars, starbursts, red beans, aerosol spray, wood, yellow foam dice, 22 x 17 x 16 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, The Place Before The Door, 2026, Subwoofer, reusable plastic, glow in the dark stars, starbursts, red beans, aerosol spray, wood, yellow foam dice, 22 x 17 x 16 in.

Aaron Douglas Estrada, Circulation, 2026, Reusable plastic bags and polyester thread, 38 x 75 in.