Posting up at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood and the Santa Monica Airport, the Felix Art Fair and Frieze Los Angeles return this week with their peerless combination of art world heft and West Coast vibes… and already L.A. Art Week events are lighting up the night across town as legends and newcomers alike lend their imprimatur to the scene.
Cédric Rivrain, Rodrigue Fondeviolle, and Robert Fitzpatrick are here for Poussière, a week-long presentation of Rivrain’s new paintings—the artist’s first show in Los Angeles—staged in an empty house high above Laurel Canyon… Charles Gaines and company will greet visitors at the opening night of RETROaction (part two), Hauser & Wirth’s look-back-to-look-forward view of the 1993 exhibition Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, originally organized at UC Irvine by Gaines with Catherine Lord… Perrotin will open its long-gestating Los Angeles branch—at the Del Mar theater in the Mid-Wilshire district—with a new show by Izumi Kato… and a Dover Street Market / Felix Art Fair partnership brings a site-specific structure by Oscar Tuazon to the Roosevelt ballroom, where exclusive artist and designer collaborations, limited editions, and a selection of Dover Street Market brands will be available.
Catherine Opie will be on hand for the launch of her new book harmony is fraught… Thelma Golden and Naima J. Keith will discuss the magnificent show Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years at David Kordansky Gallery… and Kris Kuramitsu, Harry Gamboa Jr., Marvella Muro, Claire Kim, Tala Madani, Gala Porras-Kim, Vincent Valdez, and Gaines get together for the Voices of the Diaspora panels at the Hammer Museum… Among the many performance events this week, those by Vicky Krieps, Terence Koh, and L.A. Dance Project sound the most interesting…
The fairs open midweek. See info and links below for more on general admission tickets as well as L.A. Art Week events of note.
FELIX ART FAIR
Wednesday, February 28, through Sunday, March 3
Roosevelt Hotel
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2024
Thursday, February 29 through Sunday, March 3
Santa Monica Airport
Bundy Drive and Airport Avenue, Santa Monica
frieze.com/fairs/frieze-los-angeles
CÉDRIC RIVRAIN – POUSSIÈRE
Through March 3
Rivrain in conversation with Dorothée Perret
Sunday, March 3, at 2 pm
2357 Hermits Glen, Los Angeles
TERENCE KOH performance
Tuesday, February 27, and Saturday, March 2
Room Project Space
Make Room
6361 Waring Ave, Los Angeles
VICKY KRIEPS performance
Spring/Break Art Show
Opening night reception, Tuesday, February 27, from 5 to 9 pm
5880 Adams Boulevard, Culver City
eventbrite.com/e/vip-opening-night-ticket
RETROACTION (PART TWO)
Opening night reception, Tuesday, February 27, from 6 to 10 pm
Through May 5
Hauser & Wirth
901 East 3rd Street, downtown Los Angeles
hauserwirth.com/hauser-wirth-exhibitions/retroaction-part-two/
DOVER STREET MARKET AT FELIX ART FAIR
Wednesday, February 28, through Sunday, March 3
Roosevelt Hotel
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles
losangeles.doverstreetmarket.com/pages/felix-art-fair
IZUMI KATO
Opening night reception, Wednesday, February 28
Through March 23
Perrotin
5036 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles
perrotin.com/exhibitions/izumi_kato
CATHERINE OPIE — HARMONY IS FRAUGHT book launch
Saturday, March 2, from 11 am to 1 pm
Regen Projects
Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles
L.A. DANCE PROJECT — ART IN MOTION
Saturday, March 2
1 pm, 1:30 pm, 2 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3 pm
2245 East Washington Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles
THELMA GOLDEN and NAIMA J. KEITH
Panel discussion on SAM GILLIAM
Moderated by Teresa Eggers
Saturday, March 2, at 2 pm
David Kordansky Gallery
5130 West Edgewood Place, Los Angeles
VOICES OF THE DIASPORA
Charles Gaines, Harry Gamboa Jr., Claire Kim, Kris Kuramitsu, Tala Madani, Marvella Muro, Gala Porras-Kim, Vincent Valdez
Introduced and moderated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, and Larry Ossei-Mensah, and Danielle Shang
Saturday, March 2
2 pm — Diasporic Artists in Community
3:30 pm — Artists’ Diasporic Experiences and Identity Expression
Billy Wilder Theater
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles
hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2024/voices-diaspora
Above, from top: Sam Gilliam, Run III, 2014, watercolor on handmade paper, image courtesy and © the Estate of Sam Gilliam and David Kordansky Gallery; Torkwase Dyson, Errantry, 2024, acrylic on canvas, courtesy and © Torkwase Dyson and Pace; Yu-Xin Su, Overseas Calls (San Francisco to Shanghai), 2022, bleached coral powder, clam fossil powder, topaz, plant, plant-extracted ink, ferric oxide, tourmaline ash and other hand-made pigments on hand-shaped wood, courtesy and © Yu-Xin Su and MadeIn; Cédric Rivrain, Passagers (Avion), (detail) 2024, oil on linen, courtesy and © Cédric Rivrain and Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris; Betye Saar, Oasis, 1984.2024, courtesy and © Betye Saar and Roberts Projects; Lilian Martinez, Without Airs (Paradise is Paradising), 2023, acrylic on canvas, photo Deen Babakhyi, courtesy and © the artist and OCHI.
Below: Oscar Tuazon, model of special installation housing the pop-up DSMLA at Felix Art Fair store, courtesy and © Oscar Tuazon and DSMLA/Commes des Garçons.
Bottom: Installation view of The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism, 1993, organized by Charles Gaines, University Art Gallery (UAG), University of California, Irvine, (from left), David Hammons, African American Flag, 1990; Renée Green, Blue Skies, 1990; Gary Simmons, Us & Them, 1990; Pat Ward Williams, 32 Hours in a Box . . . and Still Counting, 1988, photograph by Catherine Opie, courtesy and © the artists and Hauser & Wirth.
