Frieze Los Angeles 2024

The first will include: oil paintings and gouache works on paper by Ellen Berkenblit, highlighting the artist’s continual engagement with the physicality of painting and her sophisticated understanding of color, and Bergman’s ‘double-portraits’—with titles like Auntie Gladyce, Lulu, and Beth Jo—which are appropriated paintings that she discovered in Chicago thrift shops, and then overpainted to create uncanny portraits. Nathalie Du Pasquier’s presentation of oil on paper works are stacked within linear patterns painted on our walls, immersing the viewer in an abstracted universe; Lara Schnitger debuts a 10 foot tall high heeled shoe and a heroic fabric-collage; and Yamagata’s fabric-paintings made of materials that provide sensory pleasures, with juxtapositions of batting-stuffed Lycra, velvet, and silk intermixed with found materials.

On Sunday, Alessandro Pessoli’s rigorous and varied painting techniques are on full display with three new oil paintings, demonstrating the depth of his art historical and material knowledge and understanding. These are complemented by Leo Mock’s paintings, in which the natural world is alien—unmistakably different from our own, despite sharing features such as horizon lines, rocky ground, and light-filled skies. Lastly, Du Pasquier’s drawing cabin continues throughout the whole week. She stretches the boundaries of what an artwork is, where it physically begins and ends, and where the process of creating begins and ends as well.

We look forward to seeing you soon in sunny LA.

For more information about the fair, click here to visit the official fair site.