The highly anticipated 2025 edition of Frieze Los Angeles closed on 23 February, marking a defining year for the art fair with reports of strong sales, an energetic atmosphere and a vibrant audience that rallied in support of the LA arts community. Beyond its commercial success, the fair hosted numerous initiatives that directly contributed to recovery efforts following the region’s recent wildfires. Bringing together the city’s arts community and a global audience, Frieze Los Angeles 2025 reaffirmed its status as a vital cultural moment for the city.
Mel Bochner, an artist who produced heady and often witty work in a multitude of mediums, exploring the boundaries of art — and the power of language — in drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, books, installations and public art, died on Feb. 12 in Manhattan. He was 84.
Frieze Los Angeles is returning to Santa Monica Airport for 2025, with a wealth of things to see and do – not just art from the leading galleries of Los Angeles, the US and the rest of the world, but a compelling curated programme of onsite projects and performances, reviving food and drink from some of LA’s best eateries and a whole Frieze Week’s worth of outstanding exhibitions across the city. Here’s how to make the most of your visit.
Akinsanya Kambon was instrumental in the Sacramento Chapter of the Black Panther Party. With a practice spanning drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics, Kambon creates works charged with the history and mythology of the Black diaspora and African histories, portraying past and present acts of resistance. Presented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art at Frieze Los Angeles, Kambon’s sculptural works will be activated by Senegalese tama (talking drum) master Massamba Diop, known for his work on the Grammy and Oscar-winning Black Panther score, who will perform at the fair on Saturday 22 February.
Akinsanya Kambon is presented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art at Frieze Los Angeles 2025.
Michelle Uckotter, who burst onto the art scene with eerie paintings, will debut her first film during concurrent shows in Los Angeles in February.
From William Leavitt's cyborg visions to Uri Aran’s immersive installation, CULTURED highlights the city's best shows this month.
Stromberg writes, "Gothic Electronica is a two-gallery, 50-year survey of the work of William Leavitt, whose multi-media practice draws from Hollywood, film, mass media, and the landscape of Southern California. Narrative is a running theme in his work, which often blurs the line between theater and fine art. His early photo montages of the 1970s recall film stills, and his installations incorporating light and sound resemble stage sets, notably “Gothic Curtain” (1970/2008), which conjures the unsettling tone of the 1958 British film Dracula. More recent work includes paintings rife with robots, cyborgs, and other man-machine mashups, mixing mid-century space-age futurism with contemporary notions of technological hybridity."
Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Linda Alterwitz for Lenscratch, September 2024
The latest edition of PST Art tackles aesthetics and technology with a wide focus, from the historical to the contemporary and the astronomical to the fantastical. Highlights include Channing Hansen’s fiber works featured in a solo presentation at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and in Energy Fields: Vibrations of The Pacific Rim organized by Fulcrum Arts and presented at Chapman University, a group show centering artists working with sound, vibration and kinetics.
Review of Richard Misrach Dancing with Nature by Fiona Perkocha for Musée Magazine, July 2024
Writer Jody Zellen's 'Pick of the Week' for What's on LA is Richard Misrach: Dancing with Nature at Marc Selwyn Fine Art.
Joey Terrill’s Windows Into Queer Chicano Life “I want my work to have a confessional nature about my life, my identity, and who I am,” the artist said in an interview with Hyperallergic. This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June.
Judy Zellen reviews Allen Ruppersberg: 25 Ways to Start Over.
William Moreno reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here.
Art critic David S. Rubin reviews Joey Terrill: Still Here in Hyperallergic.
A profile of artist Joey Terrill featured in the Los Angeles Times by Carolina A. Miranda
Fourteen paintings on paper by Bay Area artist Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) offer a provocative thumbnail sketch of a crucial period in the artist’s development. She tagged her extended 1952 stay working in a studio in Florence, Italy, as a foundational episode in her career. DeFeo made around 200 paintings on paper that summer, and these works from 1951 to 1954 frame the moment.
By Jori Finkel
Mel Bochner at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Review by Michael Ned Holte in ArtForum
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