Frieze touches down in Los Angeles next week at Santa Monica Airport for another edition of Frieze Los Angeles, there’s a lot going on throughout Los Angeles so to help you out we have chosen 7 things you gotta see – have FUN 🙂
1 Anne Imhof: EMO her first solo show in Los Angeles
Sprüth Magers to present Anne Imhof EMO, a solo exhibition representing the largest presentation of the artist’s work in the United States to date and her first in Los Angeles. Over the past decade, Imhof has developed a deeply moving and varied practice that encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video and performance. MORE
Anne Imhof, EMO, February 15th–May 6th, 2023, Public Reception: February 15th, 4–7pm
2 A New Museum for Santa Monica
The new Santa Monica Art Museum (SMAM) debuts its first immersive and evolving art experience and exhibition to the public, inviting visitors and artists to see and participate in Los Angeles’s newest art ecosystem with Looking West, on view now and upcoming throughout Frieze Los Angeles. Christoph Rahofer opened the 7,000 sqft museum along Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade with the exhibition Looking West, titled by co-curator Tom Venditti, featuring several regional artists on view to the public and those visiting during Frieze Los Angeles. MORE
Santa Monica Art Museum Opening Reception + Looking West Afterparty at 1212, Saturday, Feb. 18th, 5PM – 9PM at SMAM and 9PM onward at 1212 Santa Monica.
3 George Condo inaugurates a new Hauser & Wirth Space
On 15th February, George Condo will inaugurate Hauser & Wirth’s newly established West Hollywood gallery with his first exhibition in LA in nearly five years. With the exhibition’s title ‘People Are Strange,’ taken from the hit 1967 song of the same name by legendary – and quintessentially Los Angeles – band The Doors, Condo’s latest canvases are filled with fragmented portraits and abstractions. In these large-scale works, the artist renders layered, vibrating planes, lines and geometries that suggest a world of oppositional forces and states, at once solemn and euphoric, connected and entropic, logical and ineffable, beautiful and ugly. MORE
George Condo. People Are Strange, 15th February – 22nd April 2023, Hauser & Wirth, West Hollywood
4 British Painter Tom Anholt arrives with Icarus in Culver City
Josh Lilley to open Icarus on Monday, February 13th in Los Angeles during the week Frieze Los Angeles and Felix Art Fair open, the largest painting to date and a dedicated off-site project by British painter Tom Anholt. The work follows the artist’s significant presentation at Art Basel Miami: Meridians in 2022. MORE
Josh Lilley presents Tom Anholt, Icarus, Art Opening, Monday 13th February, 6 – 8pm Exhibition continues 13th – 19th February 2023, 5788 W Adams Blvd, Culver City, Los Angeles
5 Play Time with Maarten Baas his first solo exhibition ever in Los Angeles
Carpenters Workshop Gallery are exhibiting Maarten Baas’ Play Time, Maarten Baas’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Play Time will be held at the gallery’s Los Angeles location, opening during Frieze LA on February 14th, 2023. MORE
Maarten Baas, Play Time, February 14th – May 26th, Los Angeles | 7070 Santa Monica Blvd, CA 90038, Carpenters Workshop Gallery
6 A Table of Fruit, Flowers & Cakes from Pedro Pedro
The Hole to present Pedro Pedro: Table, Fruits, Flowers and Cakes an exhibition of paintings and drawings. For his third solo show with The Hole, LA-based artist Pedro Pedro (b. 1986) includes a variety of his signature imagery, creating indulgent and delicious paintings awaiting consumption. While the paintings are bountiful—charcuterie and cheese, stacks of seafood, soft and sugary cakes, citrus stacked to the ceiling—there is a lingering restraint, with just a slice or two taken from each. MORE
Pedro Pedro, TABLE, FRUITS, FLOWERS AND CAKES, February 14th–April 29th, 2023, Art Opening : Tuesday, February 14th from 6–8pm The Hole, 844 N. La Brea Ave Los Angeles, CA
7 DesertX teams up with Christie’s in Beverly Hills
Christie’s has collaborated with Desert X for a contemporary art exhibition Desert X at Christie’s opening February 13th at Christie’s Beverly Hills gallery space on the occasion of Frieze Los Angeles.
The exhibition will comprise a curated group of work by artists who have been and will be featured in previous and forthcoming editions of Desert X, the celebrated, recurring international exhibition that activates desert locations through site-specific installations. MORE
Desert X at Christie’s February 13th–March 10th, 2023 Christie’s Los Angeles
Frieze Los Angeles runs 16th- 19th February at Santa Monica Airport. MORE
