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Yahoo
20-02-2025
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Frieze L.A. 2025 Heats Up— and Helps Local Artists
Showcasing a formidable roster of creators for its sixth iteration in L.A., the Frieze Los Angeles art fair features 100 galleries from over 20 countries. And after the LA wildfires affected so many in Los Angeles, the show is donating contributions to the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund and giving 10% of ticket sales to fire event is also expanding its public programming with new initiatives that directly involve communities affected by recent fires. Art Production Fund's free public art programme will be a big part of this as will the Frieze Impact Prize and Victoria Miro's Galleries Together, inviting the art world to join forces in their of special interest to locals is the Focus section of Frieze L.A., which highlights emerging U.S. talent (see some of Focus' most exciting figures pictured in the LA mag exclusive group photo above). "So many of the galleries have bases in Los Angeles, or are showing Los Angeles-based artists,' says Frieze's Director of Americas Christine Messineo, who's thrilled Essence Harden, curator at the California African American Museum, is returning to curate Focus. 'I like working with a curator more than once. ... For the past six months, she's been driving all across Los Angeles in preparation for [the Hammer Museum's] Made in L.A., visiting over 100 studios. So if anyone has an idea of what's happening across the city, Essence does.'Returning to the historic Santa Monica Airport, Frieze's homebase will be in a bespoke structure designed by Kulapat Yantrasast's architectural studio WHY. Notable galleries scheduled to showcase include Gagosian, Gladstone, Marian Goodman Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, White Cube and David on board this year: Southern Guild, Mariane Ibrahim, Linseed, moniquemeloche, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, and Timothy Taylor making their Frieze L.A. debuts; local art scene faves such Blum, Regen Projects, David Kordansky Gallery and The Box; and international galleries such as Bank, Taka Ishii Gallery, Galerie Max Hetzler, Xavier Hufkens, Kukje Gallery, Victoria Miro, Maureen Paley, to name a the celebration takes place all over the city, Messineo sees the airport locale as a crucial component, bringing together Angelenos of all backgrounds and interests to explore different forms of expression (painting, sculpture, video, performance), even those who might not necessarily identify as art-minded. Another exciting element is the Frieze Los Angeles Film Award, sponsored by Deutsche Bank in partnership production group FIFTH SEASON and the non-profit Ghetto Film School. This year, six fellows created new moving-image works inspired by the theme of "Togetherness." The public can vote for their favorite piece here. 'What I love about Frieze Los Angeles specifically, is the way that it activates a campus,' Messineo says. 'We're able to have all of these elements come together. We're exhibiting the best galleries at the fair and we have emerging voices in the Focus Section. We also [have] a series of public projects all around the tent. There's a public park and an athletic field that get activated, but we also set up spaces where people can just sit and have pizza or a glass of wine and really gather in community. It's a true destination.'More info on exhibitors, events and more at
Los Angeles Times
28-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Hammer Museum reveals the 27 artists in the Made in L.A. 2025 biennial
The highly anticipated Made in L.A. biennial is approaching, and the Hammer Museum has announced the 27 artists participating in the regional survey, including Hollywood-born conceptual artist John Knight, Hood Century Modern founder Jerald 'Coop' Cooper and the avant-garde New Theater Hollywood, which is run by artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff. The seventh edition of the biennial, which spotlights the work of regional artists, is curated by Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha. The 2023 biennial naturally organized itself around work mostly created in the throes of the pandemic (Times art critic Christopher Knight called it 'the Pandemic Zoom Biennial'), but curators this year said they tried to steer clear of any one particular theme. The unifying aspect of all the work, Harden and Pobocha said, is the city itself. That influence, of course, is as vast and broad as the urban landscape. 'There is a conversation happening between the artists, the work that they make and the context in which they make it — and that context being Los Angeles,' Pochoba said. Harden and Pobocha spent months traversing the city, visiting as many studios and artists as they could in their search for this year's participants. They started broadly and tossed preconceived notions about what the exhibition should look like. They also followed no hard-line parameters about who to visit, or where to visit. They said they considered nontraditional art practices that don't cater to any particular client base. The goal, Pobocha said, was to 'follow the art, follow the artist, and see where that takes us.' 'We love our job, it's research-based,' Harden said. 'And part of that job is just talking with this whole new group of people. The most pleasurable moments come from doing the studio visits.' This year's biennial, which will run Oct. 5 to Jan. 4, 2026, gathers a crop of artists who were born as far away as Baghdad (Ali Eyal) and Haiti (Widline Cadet). The oldest is 85 (Pat O'Neill), the youngest 30 (Eyal). The other participants are David Alekhuogie, Black House Radio / Michael Donte, Greg Breda, Carl Cheng, Kristy Luck, Patrick Martinez, Beaux Mendes, Na Mira, Will Rawls, Brian Rochefort, Amanda Ross-Ho, Gabriela Ruiz, Alake Shilling, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, Mike Stoltz, Peter Tomka, Freddy Villalobos, Kelly Wall, Leilah Weinraub and Bruce Yonemoto. Some of the artists' work will be selected for the recently announced joint collection managed by the Hammer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art. Called the Mohn Art Collective: Hammer, LACMA, MOCA (or MAC3 for short), the collection started with a gift from philanthropists Jarl and Pamela Mohn with the expectation that it would expand every year. During Made in L.A. years, the mandate is that new pieces be chosen from the biennial. Eighty works from the last 12 years of the program were added to the collection by the Hammer. Made in L.A. artists are eligible for three awards — the $100,000 Mohn Award for artistic excellence, a $25,000 award for career achievement and a $25,000 award chosen by visitors to the biennial.
