Harold Washington City College of Chicago Art Architecture Fair February 20
For the get-go fourth dimension since 2020, Fifty.A.'south art-off-white scene is set to flourish once once again with the render of Frieze Los Angeles this February. Plus, running concurrently, the Felix art fair is coming back at full capacity (after a smaller outing last summer) and a host of gallery and museum shows are ready to open up in the city, which will this fall welcome the showtime Fifty.A. outpost of blue-scrap Lisson Gallery and which recently saw the reopening of The Underground Museum (3508 W. Washington Blvd.) after existence airtight for two years.
CAA agent and collector Thao Nguyen recommends seeing the latter's show of works by the late painter and museum co-founder Noah Davis. "It'due south a beautiful welcome home to run into Noah'due south works, full of possibility, beloved and hope, in a space he created for his family, friends and beyond," says Nguyen.
Read on for a look at the Frieze, Felix and Spring/Break fine art fairs taking place this coming week equally well equally a solar day-by-mean solar day guide (Feb. 14 to Feb. 20) to opening receptions, private parties, art talks and more than events happening during 50.A.'s Frieze Week.
FRIEZE
With a new director, Christine Messineo, and a new location — in a tent side by side to The Beverly Hilton, replacing the Paramount Studios lot — Frieze Los Angeles returns to the city Feb. 17, opening with an invite-but preview and running through Feb. twenty. Its new, larger tent will accommodate more than than 100 galleries, upwardly from 70 in previous years. Galleries from 17 countries will be represented.
"At that place was always a lot of excitement around Los Angeles and a lot of demands to participate, and we are at present able to accommodate that," says Messineo of the fair, which was canceled in 2021 because of the pandemic. In 2020, visitors included Jennifer Lopez, Leonardo DiCaprio, Joey Soloway, Jason Statham, Amy Poehler, Chelsea Handler and James Corden. Endeavor has been the bulk owner of Frieze since 2016.
"I think people are really prepare to come to a physical fair," adds Messineo, "and there is this sense of community-edifice that can happen at a fair." And even the now-waning moving ridge of omicron cases in 50.A. has not deterred gallerists, she says. "We accept seen a surge in ticket sales, even though we had moments of a COVID high. We take VIPs and museum appurtenances coming from all over the world."
Returning L.A. galleries include Blum & Poe, The Box, Château Shatto, and Republic and Quango. One newcomer to the fair is New York'southward Sean Kelly, making its presence felt in L.A. ahead of opening a West Coast satellite gallery afterward this spring on Highland Avenue. And while L.A.'south Kayne Griffin and mega-gallery Pace will exist showing separately at Frieze, the two take announced that they programme to merge later this leap.
Highlights from 50.A. galleries showing at Frieze include Chris Brunt's big-format architectural sculpture Dreamer's Folly 2010 on view at Gagosian'southward booth; new sculptures by Elaine Cameron-Weir presented past Hannah Hoffman Gallery; a new iteration of Betye Saar'south 1981 Los Angeles public mural, L.A. Free energy, shown by Roberts Projects; and a solo presentation of works past Samuel Levi Jones at Vielmetter Los Angeles' booth.
Additionally, a section called Focus LA, curated past Amanda Hunt, director of public programs & artistic practice at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, will spotlight local galleries that are less than 15 years old, including Baert Gallery, Bel Ami, In Lieu, Parker Gallery and Stanley'southward. And artist Tanya Aguiñiga has organized BIPOC Commutation, a special communal space highlighting ten of Los Angeles' artist-led social-impact initiatives.
"Frieze can be insanely overwhelming if you are not used to it," says art collector and Pulse Music Group co-CEO Josh Abraham, who recently shared highlights from his individual collection with THR. "My advice is to walk the show, ask as many questions as you need, introduce yourself to the galleries and practice a couple of laps."
(Frieze had originally planned for sculpture installations in Beverly Gardens park to accompany the fair, but the concept was scrapped in tardily January among pandemic delays.)
9900 Wilshire Blvd., frieze.com (tickets from $227 for the Friday preview; $75 to $95 for weekend general admission); proof of vaccination or negative COVID-19 test required.
FELIX Art FAIR
The 4th edition of Felix contemporary art fair — co-founded by collector, media entrepreneur and quondam TV executive Dean Valentine and gallerists Al and Mills Morán — will accept place at the historic Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel from Feb. 17 to 20.
Lx galleries, representing such cities as Los Angeles, London and Berlin, will have over the hotel's poolside cabana rooms likewise equally two floors in the hotel's belfry. "Nosotros did a summer edition last twelvemonth with only L.A. galleries effectually the pool," says Valentine. "This yr is the regular Felix experience." In past years, Brad Pitt, Max Greenfield, Jon Hamm, Leonardo DiCaprio and Abbi Jacobson have attended Felix.
Galleries showing for the first time at Felix include Tokyo's Misako & Rosen, Montauk'due south The Ranch, and Los Angeles' One Play a joke on Pony.
As for Frieze leaving backside Hollywood for Beverly Hills? "They've gone uptown. Nosotros're still where the funk is," says Valentine.
7000 Hollywood Blvd., felixfair.com (tickets from $75 for a three-day pass to $40-$45 for a twenty-four hours laissez passer); proof of vaccination (including booster) required.
Jump/BREAK Art Off-white
The Leap/Break art off-white's third L.A. edition, running Feb. 17-twenty at Skylight Culver City, is themed "Hearsay: Heresy" and volition characteristic more than 50 exhibitors including Carlton DeWoody, Michael Slenske and Track xvi.
Spring/Break will also spotlight a first-time solo prove by Search Party, Arrested Development and Beingness the Ricardos star Alia Shawkat.
"I feel honored and lucky that the offset time I get to testify in a public space is in my town," says Shawkat, adding, "A lot of the work was made in quarantine and the terminal yr, so the inspiration comes from a unlike silence I've been able to accept with myself; unconscious ideas and themes of affect and the lack thereof."
Jump/Pause was founded in New York in 2012 by artists Ambre Kelly & Andrew Gori.
5880 Adams Blvd., springbreakartshow.com, tickets from $150 for a offset-look VIP ticket and full-week pass to $30 for a solar day pass; proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test required.
GALLERY OPENINGS, EVENTS AND Art TALKS (FEB. 14 TO 20)
Monday, Feb. 14
Opening reception for I Do My Own Stunts, the first show in L.A. by Spazio Amanita gallery. Featuring all-female painters including Karyn Lyons, Kylie Manning and Alaka Shiling, the showroom is co-curated by Caio Twombly and collector Jack Siebert (the son of Gersh's Leslie Siebert and Lighthouse Entertainment's Steven Siebert).
At its recently opened location in Beverly Hills, Sotheby's Los Angeles (350 Northward. Camden Dr.) presents a selling exhibition of whimsical works by the late sculptors Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne.
Hotel Bel-Air (701 Stone Coulee Rd.), in partnership with Hedges Drove, hosts exhibitions by Andy Warhol and Maripol.
Tuesday, February. 15
Outdoor operation past the interdisciplinary arts collective Postcommodity, presenting two sound compositions inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic, at Various Small Fires (812 N. Highland Ave.)
Christie's Los Angeles ( 336 North. Camden Dr.) presents an exhibition featuring works by Cy Twombly, Brice Marden, Louise Fishman and Stanley Whitney at its Beverly Hills space.
Curatorial platform Sized (526 N. Western Ave.) hosts a VIP preview for its new exhibition Vessels in its 2-floor space, featuring more than 200 container-similar works by Rick Owens Furniture, Pia Camil, Donna Greenish, Shozo Michikawa, Thomas Barger and more than. Plus, Sōgetsu Los Angeles, the West Coast branch of the Tokyo-based Ikebana school, will present a site-specific installation of floral compositions.
The Getty Heart, in collaboration with London'south National Gallery, opens its new show Poussin and the Dance, which establishes a dialogue between 17th-century French painter Nicolas Poussin' dancing pictures and new dance films by Los Angeles-based choreographers.
Opening reception for This must be the place, an exhibition at Various Pocket-size Fires gallery (812 N. Highland Ave.) of ten oil paintings past Chicago-based artist Will Gabaldón.
Make Room gallery (5119 Melrose Ave.) opens a show of figural works by the Italian painter and multimedia artist Jacopo Pagin.
Opening of the new evidence Force Majeure at The Lodge (1024 Western Ave.)
Opening reception for Archipelago Continuum, a solo exhibit of big-scale paintings by Arielle Pytka at Merely 1 Eye (927 N. Sycamore Ave.)
Diane Rosenstein Gallery (831 Northward. Highland Ave.) opens two shows, Under The Influence, Nigeria-built-in artist Abe Odedina'south first exhibit in Los Angeles, and Lip, Torso and Foot, featuring recent glazed ceramic vessels past Jay Kvapil.
Autre and König Galerie invite-only political party in celebration of artist Ayako Rokkaku at the tommie hotel Hollywood's rooftop order, Desert five Spot (6516 Selma Ave.)
"Thinking Critically nigh NFTs: Perspectives on Art, Value, and Ability," a moderated conversation at Honor Fraser Gallery (2622 La Cienga Blvd.) with Amir H. Fallah, Nora N. Khan and Kelani Nichole.
Opening of a new exhibition of works by Loïc Raguénès at Clearing in Beverly Hills.
Opening reception at 1301PE (6150 Wilshire Blvd.) for a prove of new paintings by Blake Rayne.
The Pigsty expands from New York with a new location in Los Angeles (844 North. La Brea Ave.) with a group show, New Structure, featuring 20 artists.
Wednesday Feb. 16
Coffee reception at David Kordansky Gallery (5130 West. Edgewood Pl.) to gloat a new limited-edition book past artists Jonas Forest and Aubrey Mayer documenting Woods' process of creating his 2021 painting Hanalei Bay, featured in the gallery'due south current prove Plants and Animals. Collector, writer and producer Maria Arena Bell says the showroom is a must-run into. "These paintings include plants and animals and members of his family unit portrayed in a fashion that'southward both personal and universal," says Bong, calling Wood "the Hockney of his time."
Digital art platform Outland, nonprofit arts group Rhizome, and token-based social community Friends with Benefits are hosting a rooftop party at NeueHouse Hollywood (6121 Sunset Blvd.) that includes a performance past Ryan Clarke and discussions on digital fine art.
Cultured mag and Art Production Fund host an invite-only breakfast to celebrate Frieze at Ardor at the West Hollywood Edition hotel.
Opening reception at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (1010 Due north. Highland Ave.) for its new exhibit of paintings past Olafur Eliasson, your lite spectrum and presence.
The Know Gimmicky gallery (422 South. Alameda St.), in partnership with online market place Artsy, hosts an opening reception for its new prove Blackness. The group exhibition — curated by creative person Knowledge Benett, the gallery's founder, and fine art historian Charles Moore — features work by 10 contemporary Black artists including Kim Dacres, Paul Anthony Smith and Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola.
Pilar Corrias gallery, the Ovitz Family Collection and Alo co-founders Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge host an invite-only reception presenting the site-specific mural The Last Glance Back by Shara Hughes in Beverly Hills.
Prada's seventh iteration of its Prada Mode private gild will take over Chinese restaurant Genghis Cohen (740 N. Fairfax Ave.) for two nights, featuring an installation by Martine Syms.
UTA Artist Infinite hosts an afternoon reception for artist Genevieve Gaignard at the West Hollywood Edition hotel.
Cuban-born painter and trained physicist Enrique Martinez Celaya opens a new solo exhibition at UTA Creative person Space (403 Foothill Rd., Beverly Hills), which complements works currently likewise on view at three L.A. arts institutions: The Huntington Library, the USC Fisher Museum of Art and the Edward 50. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library.
Dries Van Noten, Jeffrey Deitch and White Cube collaborate to present the exhibition, Raqib Shaw in Tales from an Urban Garden, at The Little House (451 N. La Cienega Blvd.) with works that draw on his London studio garden.
The California African American Museum (600 Country Dr.) opens the testify Troy Montes-Michie: Stone of Eye, the artist'due south kickoff museum solo exhibition, which includes works informed by the 1943 Zoot Accommodate Riots in Los Angeles. The exhibit is a collaboration between CAAM and the Rivers Institute for Contemporary Fine art & Thought in New Orleans. On the aforementioned mean solar day, the museum sponsors a chat betwixt the artist and Black feminist theorist Tina Campt.
'Untitled (Stripes)", 2019
Graphite, grease pencil and colored pencil on woven newspaper. Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery, New York
The Hammer Museum opens its new showroom Lifes, which "explores the legacy of the so-called total work of art" and includes contributions from nearly 50 artists, writers and performer, with textual contributions from writers and authors Fahim Amir, Asher Hartman, Rindon Johnson and Adania Shibli.
Opening at Royale Projects (432 South. Alameda St.) of Robert Cumming: Large Prints, the first solo gallery exhibit in over a decade to feature the artist's made photography from the 1970s, presented in association with Gallery Luisotti.
Opening of Shell, a testify featuring works by Heidi Bucher, Olivia Erlanger and Nicola Fifty., at Del Vaz Projects (259 19th St., Santa Monica).
The exhibition, William Wegman: Up Down Up and Harmonics opens at Marc Selwyn Fine Art (9953 S. Santa Monica Blvd.).
Opening preview of the group bear witness Everyday Rituals at Farago (522 Due south. Broadway) presented with Tiwa Select.
In-person talk with artist Rachel Harrison and LAXART's Hamza Walker at Regen Projects, where the former'south prove, Caution Kneeling Bus, runs through Feb. 20.
Opening of Ladies' Lair Lake, an exhibition of works by Trulee Hall, at LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Sectionalisation (530 North. Western Ave.).
Thursday, February. 17
Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles (901 Due east. third St.) opens ii solo shows, Phyllida Barlow, glimpse, the British artist'southward beginning exhibition in Los Angeles, and Gary Simmons, Remembering Tomorrow.
cement, PVA, steel. 150 x 59 10 55 cm / 59 ten 23 ane/four x 2 1 five/8 in. © Phyllida Barlow. Courtesy the creative person and Hauser & Wirth. ©2020 Alex Delfanne, all rights reserved
Matthew Marks Los Angeles gallery (7818 Santa Monica Blvd.) opens a testify, Model Studies, of new photography by Thomas Demand that spotlights never-before-seen work with the belatedly manner designer Azzedine Alaïa. The photos were shot in the designer'due south archives and focus on his paper cut-out patterns.
Online art destination Platform, backed by David Zwirner, and NeueHouse co-host a NeueCollectors Order conversation with artists Azikiwe Mohammed and Michon Sanders, chastened past Essence Harden, curator at the California African American Museum (CAAM).
Oxy Arts — Occidental College's public art space dedicated to community organizing and social justice (4757 York Blvd.) — opens EJ Hill: Wherever we will to root, the creative person's starting time solo institutional exhibition. "Hill embraces the painterly tradition of floral representation, reframing the painting process as the piece of work — in this case the work of care, a therapeutic mechanism for healing, rehabilitation, and fifty-fifty resistance," per the exhibition statement.
Individual cocktail reception for The Future Perfect'southward new exhibition Momentary Pause at Casa Perfect Los Angeles, housed in a 1971 Beverly Hills Residence. Works on testify include cotton paper lantern sculptures by Bradley L. Bowers and ceramic sculptures and stools past Reinaldo Sanguino. Open house volition be Th and Friday from 10:30 a.yard. to 4 p.m.
Art platform Advocartsy, specializing in Iranian fine art, hosts an invite-simply preview of its new exhibition space in West Hollywood debuting A Thousand Tales, artist Mobina Nouri's first solo show in the U.S.
The Hammer Museum presents a free musical performance by Indonesian experimental band Senyawa, comprised of. Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi.
Matthew Marks gallery Los Angeles (1062 Due north. Orangish Grove) opens the show Anne Truitt: White Paintings, featuring 7 paintings from the estate of the creative person spanning 1973 to 1999.
Over the Influence gallery (833 E. third St.) debuts new shows past Mario Joyce and Chanel Khoury.
Opening reception at Vellum LA, a physical gallery for NFT-backed digital art (7673 Melrose Ave.), for The Decentralized Unicists, a show by AI-generative autonomous artist Botto, curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
Press preview at Mirus Gallery (1922 East. 7th Place.) for the new prove, The Awakening, featuring more than 100 pieces past the Austraian graffiti artist Nychos (whose mural of Spongebob Squarepants is at Nickelodeon Animation Studios).
Half Gallery opens a show at a seasonal space in Los Feliz with nine new works by Maud Madsen.
Friday, Feb. eighteen
Invite-only cocktail party hosted by New York's Lehmann Maupin and 50.A.'southward Regen Projects galleries at Ardor restaurant at the West Hollywood Edition hotel.
NeueHouse and The Cultivist host a dejeuner for Mexican American artist Lilian Martinez at NeueHouse Hollywood.
Design and architecture magazine Dezeen will concur a give-and-take titled "Fine art & NFT" at NeueHouse.
Atra design studio hosts a individual poolside brunch in Beachwood Coulee to celebrate Andreas Diaz Andersson'southward Hall of Mirrors showroom, with a musical operation past Marco Paul.
Invite-simply conversation at Gagosian Beverly Hills with Percival Everett and Cord Jefferson to celebrate the former's new volume Grand Canyon, Inc., which is paired with a work by Richard Prince and is the latest release in the gallery'southward Moving-picture show Books series.
Nino Mier Gallery (7327 and 7313 Santa Monica Blvd. and 1107 Greenacre Ave.) debuts new exhibits by Nevin Aladağ, Georg Karl Pfahler, and Llu Susiraja.
Invite-only party hosted by satirical art critic Jerry Gogosian, the modify ego of Hilde Lynn Helphenstein, at the West Hollywood Edition hotel.
Saturday, Feb. 19
Jeffrey Deitch (925 Due north. Orange Drive) debuts Luncheon on the Grass, a grouping exhibit of contemporary works made in response to Édouard Manet'southward Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe. Says collector and author/producer Maria Bell, "The artists span a huge group of different ages, genders and backgrounds, and nonetheless they're all looking at what was at the fourth dimension a radical painting that bankrupt every rule." Artists in the evidence include Cecily Chocolate-brown, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Mickalene Thomas and Robert Colescott.
The Horizon Art Foundation and nonprofit art space LAXART are hosting an invite-only chat and brunch reception featuring creative person Harold Mendez, LAXART's executive director Hamza Walker, LAXART deputy director Catherine Taft and Christopher Y. Lewis, chief artistic director of Horizon. Taking place at Horizon'due south new studio in DTLA.
New York's Danziger Gallery opens its first 50.A. outpost at Bergamot Station (2525 Michigan Ave.) with a group photography show that includes works by Ansel Adams, Corinne Vionnet, Andy Warhol and Petra Cortright.
Opening reception for painter Heidi Hahn'south new painting show, Soft Joy, at Kohn Gallery (1227 N. Highland Ave.)
Charlie James Gallery (969 Chung Rex Rd.) presents the debut solo testify, I'thou Starting to Forget, of L.A.-based Danie Cansino, featuring the artist's chiaroscuro oil paintings and drawings in brawl signal. The centerpiece of the show is From 3rd to 5th Street, depicting a mother and her kids gathered by an ice cream truck.
Opening reception at Ghebaly Gallery (2245 E. Washington Blvd.) for Sayre Gomez's new show, Halloween Urban center.
Creative person talk at Luis de Jesus (1110 Mateo St.) with Rodrigo Valenzuela and Ken Gonzalez-Solar day, who each take current exhibits at the gallery.
Opening of a new group exhibition, Aqux, at the nonprofit art infinite, The Fault Room (1811 Due east. 20th St.).
Opening reception at Moskowitz Bayse (743 Northward. La Brea Ave.) for two new exhibits: The Views, curated by Zoe Fisher, featuring paintings, sculpture and photography depicting windows, and Pushing Rope, new photos and drawings by Rachael Browning.
Night Gallery (2276 E. 16th St.) features new shows by Robert Nava and Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack.
Opening reception for Anne Appleby: A Hymn for the Mother at Parrasch Heijnen (1326 S. Boyle Ave.)
In a recently opened Los Angeles exhibition space within a midcentury house (8260 Marmont Ln.), Albertz Benda and Friedman Benda present The Countless Summertime, a group show works by Chris Schanck, Daniel Arsham and other artists from the galleries' rosters.
Creative person/illustrator Eric Joyner is the subject of a new testify, Somebody Globe, featuring 24 new works at Corey Helford Gallery (571 Southward. Anderson St.), which likewise debuts the new group show, Fab Five, featuring works past Jesús Aguado, Kari Tirrell, Leegan Koo, Dominicus-Mi, and Yasuhito Kawasaki.
Stanley'south (944 Chung Rex Rd.) opens a ii-person show with Lima, Peru-based painter Isabella Cuglievan and ceramicist Dino Capaldi.
Lord's day, February. 20
Maddox G allery hosts an artist talk and exhibition tour with Ruth Pastine, whose works are highlighted in the show Inner Eye, along with pieces by Sali Muller. Both are open to the public.
LACMA'due south newest bear witness, Metropolis of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907, brings together paintings, sculpture, posters, print, photography and movies to explore how flick emerged.
A version of this story kickoff appeared in the Feb. eleven consequence of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe.
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