LOS ANGELES - s4story -- Los Angeles is kicking off the new year with one of its most anticipated underground art events.

At 12:00 a.m. on January 1, contemporary painter Easton Cain will unveil Parabolic, a one-hour-only exhibition taking place at an unmarked location in West Los Angeles. The show runs from 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. and will never be repeated.

The exhibition features 13 monumental oil paintings, all of which sold out before the works were created. Only 50 people will be present. No images will be released, and no visual documentation will exist after the event.

Cain's rise has been swift. Largely operating outside traditional publicity channels, his paintings—many still unseen—are already being discussed among collectors as some of the most sought-after works of 2026. What feels like an overnight success has been driven almost entirely by word-of-mouth and private demand.

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Parabolic offers no previews, no press walkthroughs, and no explanatory text. Cain will appear briefly and privately for the collectors. Beyond that, the work speaks only to those in the room.

The paintings were produced in isolation in Cain's Marin County studio, with no studio visits or progress images shared publicly. Their only confirmed viewing will take place during this single midnight hour.

Cain is represented exclusively by emeraldthinker.com (chatgpt://generic-entity?number=1), a Northern California–based fine art platform known for its selective, low-visibility approach.

The exact entrance will not be marked.

The audience will remain capped.

The work will not be shown again.

Parabolic opens at the exact moment the calendar turns.

For one hour, the new year begins — and one of its most talked-about exhibitions quietly disappears.