In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 32 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs

As the art world turns its eyes to the West Coast for the second
edition of Frieze Los Angeles—held at Paramount Pictures Studios,
February 13–16—make sure to save some time after the fair for these
shows across the city. From household names like Anish Kapoor to
red-hot up-and-comers like Nicolas Party, here are the exhibitions
worth adding to your LA itinerary this week.

 

“Cyprien Gaillard: Reefs to Rigs” at
Sprüth Magers
February 11–March 21

Cyprian Gaillard’s new sculptures and photographs, as well as
his film Ocean II Ocean, which premiered at the 2019
Venice Biennale, all feature subway systems from across the world.
That makes Sprüth Magers—located above the site of a planned LA
Metro station across from the La Brea Tar Pits—a fitting venue for
the show.

Sprüth Magers is located at 5900 Wilshire Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.

 

“50+50: A Creative Century
from Chouinard to CalArts” at REDCAT
February 12–March 22

We’re coming up on a big year for the California Institute
of the Arts: In 2021, CalArts turns 50, and its predecessor, the
Chouinard Art Institute (founded by forgotten female
artist Nelbert Chouinard) turns 100.
In honor of the occasion, the school has commissioned
limited-edition works from prominent alumni including Carrie Mae
Weems, Laddie John Dill, and the late artist and
educator John Baldessari. The proceeds from sales will go
toward a new scholarship endowment.

REDCAT is located at 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles,
California. 

 

“Calida Rawles: A
Dream for My Lilith” at Various Small Fires
February 12–March 14

Calida Rawles’s empowering paintings of black women floating in
pools of cerulean water build on the mythological figure of
Lilith—said to be Adam’s first wife—reclaiming this often demonized
legend. Also worth a look are studies for Rawles’s illustration for
the cover of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel, The Water
Dancer.

Various Small Fires is located at 812 North Highland
Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Arcmanoro Niles: I Guess
By Now I’m Supposed To Be A Man: I’m Just Trying To Yesterday” at
UTA Artist Space
February 12–March 14

Pegged as one of the breakout artists of
2019, Arcmanoro Niles has his first LA solo show at UTA Artist
Space with seven large-scale paintings offering quiet,
introspective views of African-American men (and a few women), all
rendered in otherworldly colors. Some of the canvases are haunted
by enigmatic, cartoonish figures in the margins, adding further
intrigue to these vibrant scenes.

UTA Artist Space is located at 403 Foothill
Road, Beverly Hills, California.

 

“Pat Phillips: Summer
Madness” at M+B
February 12–March 14

Pat Phillips—born in England, but raised in Lousiana—was a
stand-out in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, where he installed a
massive, mixed-media wall mural emblazoned with the words “Don’t
Tread on Me.” The artist’s first Los Angeles solo show is full of
paintings that capture violent confrontations fueled by hot summer
weather and racial tensions.

M+B is located at 612 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles,
California. 

 

“Nicolas Party,
Sottobosco” at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
February
13–April 12

Nicolas Party’s debut exhibition at Hauser & Wirth—he joined the
mega-gallery late last summer—continues his exploration of the
still life, the landscape, and other well-worn painting genres, all
inflected with cotton-candy colors and a dose of humor.

Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles is located at 901 East 3rd
Street, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Kayode Ojo: Never Been
Kissed” at Praz-Delavallade
February 14–March 28

With sculptures made from readymade objects that echo the human
figure in their proportion and pose, Kayode Ojo calls out the
absurdity of contemporary fashion and our image-obsessed culture.
You might recognize the show’s title from the 1999 Drew Barrymore
romantic comedy of the same name; other works in the show allude to
the classic 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Praz-Delavallade is located at 6150 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Kathleen Ryan” at Francois
Ghebaly
February 15–March 29

Kathleen Ryan had a standout piece at Art Basel Miami Beach,
showing with London’s Josh Lilley. There isn’t any advance info on
her big LA show at François Ghebaly yet, but the promo image
suggests it will include sculptures of larger-than-life, overripe
fruit made from semi-precious stones, glittering but suffused with
rot. Tasty!

François Ghebaly is located at 2245 Wilshire
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Katherina Fritsch” at
Matthew Marks
February 13–May 2

Katherina Fritsch has created a suite of three large-scale
sculptures for her first Los Angeles solo show, each meticulously
handcrafted over the last five years. The exhibition includes a
new, indoor version of her iconic, giant blue
rooster Hahn/Cock, originally commissioned for the
Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square, and now on view on
the roof of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (a second
version of the rooster hangs out in the sculpture garden of the
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis).

Matthew Marks is located at 1062 North Orange Grove Avenue,
West Hollywood, California. 

 

“Claire Tabouret” at Night Gallery

February 15–March 21

While previous bodies of Claire Tabouret’s paintings were based
on found photographs, she offers a more personal take for her
second show at Night Gallery, with portraits of close friends and
family. The show also includes new works on paper inspired by
Japanese woodblocks and 1960s Pop art, among other disparate
influences.

Night Gallery is located at 2276 East 16th Street, Los
Angeles, California.

 

“Anish Kapoor” at Regen
Projects, Los Angeles
Through February 16

Anish Kapoor’s reflective, stainless-steel sculptures continue
to confound the eye with their warped forms, like the alternatingly
concave and convex surfaces of the monumental new
piece Double S-Curve, the star of this show. It’s a
bit like if Richard Serra designed a funhouse.

Regen Projects is located at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Edward and Nancy
Kienholz: The Merry-Go-World or Begat by Chance and the Wonder
Horse Trigger” at LA Louver
Through February
22

Edward and Nancy Reddin Keinholz’s large-scale sculpture The
Merry-Go-World and Begat by Chance and The Wonder Horse
Trigger returns to Los Angeles for the first time since
its 1992 debut, which was also at LA Louver. Viewers can go inside
the stationary carousel after spinning a wheel of fortune that
serves up one of eight possible lives: five impoverished, two
middle class, and one rich, in reflection of the global
distribution of wealth. (One wonders if those odds have gotten
worse since the work was made.)

LA Louver is located at 45 North Venice Boulevard, Venice,
Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Whitney
Bedford: Reflections on the Anthropocene” at Vielmetter
Los Angeles
Through February 22

Drawing on the history of “view paintings” made by artists
before the dawn of photography, Whitney Bedford’s “Veduta” series
aim to illustrate the effects that mankind has had on the natural
landscape. It’s a savvy way of using art history to underscore the
unavoidable reality of climate change.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is located at 1700 South Santa Fe
Avenue #101, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Carter Seddon: Souvenir” at
Jenny’s
Through February 22

Carter Seddon shot the 13 images in his current show on 35mm
film and developed them in postcard-sized silver gelatin prints.
Taken together, the tiny details—an egg, an ear, a brick wall—add
up to something strange and new.

Jenny’s is located at 4220 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California. 

 

“Transformer: Kristy
Luck” at Philip Martin
Through February 22

Los Angeles-based artist Kristy Luck paints colorful, abstract
landscapes that represent the female psyche, inspired by antiquated
stereotypes of women in melancholic or revelatory states.

Philip Martin is located at 2712 South La Cienega
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Joe Sola: I Drove to San
Francisco and Back” at Honor Fraser
Through February 27

Joe Sola presents new digital prints created with the
virtual-reality program Maya. They include surreal desert
landscapes, as well as portraits of a farmer and a hippy standing
in a server farm that’s slowly filling with blood. The exhibition
also includes a VR work starring OJ Simpson, and an interactive
piece meant to critique the average internet user’s willingness to
blindly sign waivers without bothering to read and review the terms
and conditions.

Honor Fraser is located at 2622 South La Cienega Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Naama Tsabar: Inversions” at
Shulamit Nazarian
Through February 29

Naama Tsabar’s first solo show in California includes sculptural
interventions that transform the gallery’s architecture by cutting
into the walls, creating interactive musical performances spaces
where one must crawl inside to play the instruments. There will be
free live performances by the artist (RSVP here) at the gallery on February 11
and 12 at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. Performances will follow at Frieze
on February 13 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. and February 14 and 15 at 1
p.m. and 6 p.m.

Shulamit Nazarian is located at 616 North La Brea
Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Gisela Colon: Meta
Minimal” at Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles
Through
March 7

Seeking to capture the energy of living things, Gisela Colon
describes her practice—featuring smooth, sculptural forms with
shimmering layers of iridescent or translucent colors—as “organic
minimalism.”  The artist reclaims traditionally fraught
phallic forms in her carbon fiber “Monolith” series, with a
12-foot-tall example, Untitled (Projectile Monolith White
Iridium), serving as the exhibition’s centerpiece.

Gavlak Gallery is located at 1700 South Santa Fe Avenue,
Suite 440, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Parker Ito: Longevity Buns” at Chateau
Shatto
Through March 7

Parker Ito has transformed the Chateau Shatto gallery space with
an installation of sculptures, paintings, and videos, linked with
connective cords and chains.

Chateau Shatto is located at 1206 S. Maple Ave. Suite
1030, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe:
Black Like Me” at Roberts Projects 
Through March 7

Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe makes powerful oil paintings of black men
and women; the juxtaposition of colorful clothing with skin and
hair painted in grayscale can be reminiscent of Amy Sherald. It’s
the first US outing for the Ghanian artist, who finds his subjects
both through social media and IRL, depicting friends and colleagues
as well as strangers he meets on the street.

Roberts Projects is located at 5801 Washington
Boulevard, Culver City, California.

 

“Hank Willis Thomas: An All
Colored Cast” at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Through March 7

Continuing to probe issues of race, gender, and identity, Hank
Willis Thomas looks to Hollywood history for his first show with
Kayne Griffin Corcoran, featuring sculptures and retroreflective
prints activated by flash photography and based on found images
from film archives. The exhibition is inspired by screen-color
calibration charts, which were designed to make white people look
good on camera; the works ask the viewer to reconsider loaded
language like “color correction” and “white balance.”

Kayne Griffin Corcoran is located at 1201 South La Brea
Avenue, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Eric N.
Mack: Face It” at Morán
Morán
Through March
9

Much of the work in Eric N. Mack’s new show is based on images
from old magazines, sometimes blown up to as large as 10 by 32 feet
and applied directly to the gallery walls. The exhibition also
includes large-scale textile installations with panels of different
colored and patterned fabrics sewn together.

Morán Morán is located at 937 North La Cienega Boulevard,
Los Angeles, California.

 

“Jellyfish” at Kohn
Gallery, Los Angeles
Through March 13

Artists including Carl Andre, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Eddie
Martinez, George Condo, and Rashid Johnson—as well as Barbara
Kruger and Austyn Weiner, who appear to be the only women in a very
dude-heavy line-up—feature in this group show organized by gallery
director Samantha Glaser-Weiss.

Kohn Gallery is located at 1227 North Highland Avenue, Los
Angeles, California. 

 

“New Images of Man” at Blum &
Poe
Through March 14

In 1959, the great curator and art historian Peter Selz—who died
last June at the age of 100—organized “New Images of Man” at New
York’s Museum of Modern Art, with works by the likes of Francis
Bacon, Jackson Pollock, and Richard Diebenkorn. Over 60 years
later, Blum & Poe has tapped Alison M. Gingeras to revisit the
exhibition, with some of the original artists included alongside
female contemporaries who were overlooked at the time, such as
Alina Szapocznikow, Lee Lozana, and Niki de Saint Phalle.

Blum & Poe is located at 2727 South La Cienega
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Huma Bhabha” at David
Kordansky, Los Angeles
Through March 14

Pakistan-born, New York-based artist Huma Bhabha, who makes
sculptural magic with cork, foam, metal, and wood, gets her first
solo show with David Kordansky. A group of four-faced figures
recall her large-scale sculpture for the rooftop commission at New
York’s Metropolitan Museum of art in 2018.

David Kordansky is located at 5130 West Edgewood Place, Los
Angeles, California. 

 

“Devin B. Johnson: Melody of
a Memory” at Nicodim
Through March 21

Featuring a dramatic play of light and shadow, Devin B.
Johnson’s surreal portraits are based on digital collages that
blend historical and personal images. The artist, who is one of the
inaugural residents at Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal
residency, created the show almost as if it were a concept album,
imagining each painting as its own love song.

Nicodim is located at 1700 S Santa Fe Avenue, #160, Los
Angeles, California. 

 

“Dennis Hopper: Morocco
Paintings” at Parrasch Heijnen
Through March 21

Actor and film director Dennis Hopper was also an artist and
photographer; he began painting way back in the mid-1950s. The late
star’s first show at Parrasch Heijnen features his series of
“Morocco Paintings” (1991–94), made on location when Hopper was
filming in the country, merging tropes from local architecture with
influences from Abstract Expressionism.

Parrasch Heijnen Gallery is located at 1326 S. Boyle
Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

 

“Richard Prince: New Portraits” at Gagosian
Beverly Hills
Through March 21

In the press release for his new show, Richard Price offers an
in-depth explanation for his infamous Instagram portrait
series. The project’s roots date back to 1984, when the
appropriation artist offered to take his friend’s portraits by
rephotographing his favorite of five existing images provided by
the subject. In describing his artistic process, Prince sums up the
experience of falling down an Instagram rabbit hole: “Wow, now it’s
four in the morning.” The big question here, though, is: Who will sue Prince this time
around?

Gagosian Beverly Hills is located at 456 North Camden Drive,
Beverly Hills, California. 

 

“Lisa Oppenheim: The Eternal
Substitute” at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Through March 21

Lisa Oppenheim turns to the history of photography in four
bodies of work inspired by celluloid film, used in the early years
of cinematography. Referencing’s celluloid’s combustive properties,
Oppenheim’s “Smoke” series features found photographs of fires and
explosions. In a dramatic twist, she solarized the prints by
exposing them to an open flame.

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, 1010 North Highland Avenue, Los
Angeles, California.

 

“Aidan
Koch: Always put the rock back” at Park View/Paul Soto, Los
Angeles
Through March 28

Aidan Koch presents new works, including gouache and pastel
paintings and animations, inspired by a desire to care for and
protect nature and the landscape. The show’s title is taken from a
sweet note left by a child on the bulletin board at an estuarine
reserve in Washington State, asking visitors to protect the animals
that live under rocks at the beach by making sure to “always put
the rock back on.”

Park View/Paul Soto is located at 2271 W. Washington
Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. 

 

“Gracie DeVito:
Motion Picture Seaweed” at Overduin & Co.
Through March 28

Los Angeles-based artist Gracie DeVito has made twelve new
abstract paintings for her new show, often starting with used
painter’s cloths from her studio.

Overduin & Co. is located at 6693 Sunset Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California.

 

“All of Them Witches” at Jeffrey Deitch, Los
Angeles
Through April 11

Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons curated this very timely group show
featuring artists who all cast a spell. (Everyone knows
that witches are very in right
now.) Nadel and Simmons have gathered an expansive coven, with
everyone from Marilyn Minter and Trenton Doyle Hancock to Lisa
Yuskavage and Judy Chicago.

Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles is located at 925 North Orange
Drive, Los Angeles, California. 

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