{"id":189822,"date":"2026-02-23T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189822\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:07:09","slug":"frieze-los-angeles-reflects-the-citys-resilience-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/189822\/","title":{"rendered":"Frieze Los Angeles reflects the city\u2019s resilience – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now an essential stop in the ever-growing circuit of international art fairs, Frieze Los Angeles<\/a> is back at Santa Monica Airport for the fourth time, the fair\u2019s seventh edition overall and the first since Frieze was acquired by Ari Emanuel\u2019s live events venture Mari. Frieze\u2019s fair director for the Americas, Christine Messineo, says the new parent company\u2019s expertise in live events \u201cvery much fits within our realm\u201d, adding that \u201cnot much has changed for us besides sitting within an organisation that knows how to support events in entertainment and sports\u201d.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Frieze Los Angeles brings together nearly 100 galleries<\/a> from 22 countries. Many of the gallery sector\u2019s biggest international players, with or without Los Angeles outposts, are back at the fair, including Gagosian,\u00a0Pace, Thaddaeus Ropac, Lisson, White Cube, Perrotin, David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth. Leaders of the local scene are also out in full force, among them Roberts Projects, David Kordansky Gallery, Ch\u00e2teau Shatto,\u00a0Commonwealth and Council, The Pit and Matthew Brown.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat an art fair like ours does is to bring collectors together with galleries and art lovers,\u201d Messineo says, describing Frieze Los Angeles as a \u201cgathering point across the city\u2019s calendar and if you\u2019re remotely connected to collecting, you will be at the fair\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hometown exhibitors echo her sentiment. Anat Ebgi, whose namesake gallery also has a New York location, describes Frieze Week as a \u201cvery concentrated moment of international visibility\u201d and that reflects the \u201cdistinct\u201d quality of the city\u2019s collecting community. She recommends out-of-town visitors use the fair as an \u201canchor point\u201d to explore the local scene, describing her gallery\u2019s stand this year as a \u201cmarquee to tease\u201d its programming, with a group presentation of new work by Anabel Ju\u00e1rez, Sarah Lee, Ileana Garc\u00eda Magoda, Soumya Netrabile, Erin Wright, Sarah Ann Weber and Jemima Murphy.<\/p>\n

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Clare Woods\u2019s The Last Stage (2025) at Night Gallery, which has devoted its stand to the British artist. The works are based on Woods\u2019s photographs of The Huntington\u2019s botanical gardens in San Marino Courtesy the artist and Night Gallery<\/p>\n

Another local heavyweight, Night Gallery, has devoted its stand to the British painter Clare Woods\u2019s aluminium panels with floral compositions rendered in explosive colours\u2014in this case, they are based on her own photographs of the Huntington\u2019s botanical gardens in San Marino. The gallery\u2019s owner, Davida Nemeroff, says the fair offers \u201cunique opportunity\u201d to gather a \u201cspread-out and diverse\u201d audience \u201cunder one tent\u201d. She also hopes international visitors will look beyond stereotypes about Los Angeles being \u201csuperficial, because the art scene here is anything but\u201d.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco-based dealer Jessica Silverman, another Frieze Los Angeles regular, has doubled her stand\u2019s size this year. The decision, she says, \u201ccommunicates the business we\u2019ve been able to do out of the fair and throughout the year from the relationships we\u2019ve developed from previous years\u201d. A portion of Silverman\u2019s expanded footprint is devoted to a capsule solo exhibition of works by the Detroit-based painter Beverly Fishman, whose energetic abstractions reference pills and overall pharmaceutical products in their rounded, geometric forms.<\/p>\n

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The Detroit-based artist Beverly Fishman\u2019s Liberation, Energy (2025) will be featured on Jessica Silverman’s stand at Frieze Los Angeles Courtesy the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Photo: Tim Johnson<\/p>\n

Besides significant exhibitor numbers from the US, Europe and Asia\u2014particularly Korea thanks to Frieze\u2019s annual Seoul edition\u2014a handful of Latin American galleries are traveling to court West Coast collectors and institutions. Among them is Nara Roesler, the Brazilian gallery with a New York outpost. The gallery\u2019s stand features a who\u2019s-who of its roster, with works by Tomie Ohtake, Vik Muniz, Amelia Toledo and others. Daniel Roesler, a partner in the gallery, says it is back at Frieze Los Angeles for the fourth time because it is an \u201copportunity to reach a new audience\u201d. He cites the city\u2019s \u201cexceptional institutions\u201d and the fair\u2019s \u201cintimate\u201d scale, which generates a \u201cstrong presence of West Coast collectors compared to the global audience in Miami\u201d.<\/p>\n

First-time exhibitors at the fair this year hail from a broad geography such as Cardi (which has locations in Milan, London and Ibiza) and El\u00a0Apartamento (of Havana and Madrid), as well as the New York-based gallery Fort Gansevoort. The Montr\u00e9al-based gallery Bradley Ertaskiran is making its debut at the fair with a two-artist stand pairing large-scale paintings of enigmatic interiors by Margaux Williamson and abstract, otherworldly sculptures by David Armstrong Six. The gallery\u2019s co-founder, Antoine Ertaskiran, says the moment is \u201cright for the gallery to engage more directly with the West Coast context\u201d.<\/p>\n

Beyond the stands, the fair has once again transformed the Santa Monica Airport campus with a range of indoor and outdoor interventions. The programming includes Frieze\u2019s fourth collaboration with the New York-based non-profit Art Production Fund, titled Body and Soul. As part of the programme, the artist Cosmas & Damian Brown will lead a workshop with children painting metal plates and bowls, which they will then incorporate into Brown\u2019s multi-sensory public commission, Fountain: Sources of Light (2026). For her outdoor intervention, the Los Angeles-based artist Shana Hoehn has created the sculpture Deadfall (2026) from a tree sourced through the Santa Monica Urban Forest programme that she has transformed so that it appears to have sprouted cheerleaders\u2019 legs.<\/p>\n

Messineo likens the fair\u2019s atmosphere to the early years of Frieze New York<\/a>, when the fair took place on Randall\u2019s Island and most visitors arrived by ferry and wandered along the Harlem riverfront to reach the tent. \u201cPeople stay for a long time, sitting on the picnic tables outside,\u201d she says of the Los Angeles expo. \u201cThis is one of those fairs where you actually like to see people and most importantly artists show up, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Visitors to the 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles Photo: Casey Kelbaugh\/CKA<\/p>\n

The fair comes at a charged moment, for the Los Angeles community at large and the local art scene in particular. The number of galleries in the city has shrunk since last year\u2019s edition, with the closure of longtime local spaces like LA Louver<\/a> and Blum<\/a>, and with a handful of international and New York-based galleries closing their Los Angeles spaces\u2014among them Sean Kelly, Tanya Bonakdar<\/a>, Southern Guild<\/a> and Michael Werner Gallery. Meanwhile the city has also been on the front line of US president Donald Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant policies, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents conducting aggressive raids around Los Angeles<\/a> since last summer.<\/p>\n

The art community\u2019s stance on Ice is front and centre at the fair, with a neon installation at its entrance by the Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez featuring slogans like \u201cThen They Came For Me\u201d and \u201cDeport Ice\u201d. Through the fair\u2019s partnership with the media agency Orange Barrel Media, Martinez\u2019s works will also be displayed on billboards around the city during the fair.<\/p>\n

Messineo says she is confident in the fair\u2019s ability to bind and buoy its constituent communities. She says that the word \u201cresilience\u201d was often used during last year\u2019s edition, which took place weeks after deadly and devastating wildfires struck parts of the city. \u201cThat emotion was threaded throughout the entire year,\u201d she says. \u201cWe need to highlight the efforts of these ecosystems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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