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Los Angeles Friezes Over

TOM TEICHOLZ

MAR 8, 2024,01:45PM EST

Frieze Los Angeles, the contemporary art fair, was launched in 2019. This year’s fifth edition, held in Santa Monica, featured more than 100 exhibitors, from the international gallery multiplexes (Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, Zwirner) to local single galleries from New York, LA, Paris, Milan, and other art-collecting friendly destinations.

Frieze itself was a four-day event, from February 29-March 3, but it is really just the eye of the art storm that passed over Los Angeles. For more than a week, galleries held openings and special events, breakfasts, brunches and dinners. Artists opened their studios; Terry Allen , whose work was featured at LA Louver’s booth at Frieze, gave two performances with his Texas country band at the Masonic Hall at Hollywood Forever Cemetery; Lita Albuquerque held a guided mediation at Michael Kohn gallery; and JoJo Abot gave a performance at LA Louver.

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At Felix Art Fair, the work is often less expensive than at Frieze, and the artists are often younger. The galleries are more often independent. So there is a heightened sense of discovery when roaming the fair. Sea View Gallery, an LA exhibition space in the Mt. Washington area, had work by Elana Bowsher. Interestingly, Rachel Uffner gallery in New York, actually had a presence at both Frieze and at Felix. At Felix, I was taken by the work of Talia Levitt, an artist with a definite design /graphic arts sensibility whose works look like a Seurat-like pointillist work whose surface may include items such as buttons or zippers – but are all made of paint (rating extremely high on the obsessive scale).

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