Last January, the art world lost a singular figure when Alonzo Davis died at the age of 82. Aside from his work as a painter, sculptor, and muralist, Davis’s legacy includes the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles, which was among the first Black-owned exhibition spaces anywhere in the U.S. Davis and his brother, Dale, co-founded the gallery in 1967, inspired, in part, by their participation the year before in the 21-day “March Against Fear” in Mississippi following the attempted murder of civil rights activist James Meredith. When the Brockman opened in Leimert Park, near downtown, it soon became an important hub for artists of color in Southern California. “After the Watts riot, there were a lot of artists doing works that were politically significant,” Davis noted in a 2006 interview. “We filled a gap and void there. We just opened a window that had never been available, especially on the West Coast.” That window re-opened in March with the revelatory exhibition Back at Cha—A Celebration of Alonzo Davis. On display are works by Davis as well as 48 other artists he showed, nurtured, and sometimes collaborated with (many of them members of the Altadena Black arts scene, recently devastated by the Eaton Fire). Piece by piece, Back at Cha is sublime, satirical, haunting, dazzling. As a whole, it’s a moving tribute to the breadth and depth of one artist’s vision and influence. —Bruce Handy