LA Art Show 2021 Overview
LA Art Show, America’s largest international contemporary art fair, officially opens the city’s 2021 art season at the Los Angeles Convention Center on July 29, 2021. The largest and longest-running art fair in Los Angeles triumphantly returns after its landmark 26th anniversary. The LA Art Show is an unprecedented international art experience in which more than 80 galleries, museums and nonprofit arts organizations from around the world showcase paintings, sculpture, works on paper, installations, photography, design, video and performances.
Los Angeles has become a global epicenter of art and culture with a distinct, interwoven multicultural influence unique to this city. Diversity is our strength, and art has its greatest impact when it encompasses or transcends all boundaries. As Los Angeles becomes a world-class art hub, the LA Art Show continues to lead the way with innovative programming and unique experiences for a growing audience. The LA Art Show has served as a driving force behind the city’s transformation into an art capital and has given the art world a sense of normalcy after a year full of turmoil and uncertainty.
The LA Art Show creates one of the largest international art fairs in the United States, offering sponsors, their select guests and VIPs an exciting, immersive and insider art experience. The fair attracts an elite roster of national and international galleries, renowned artists, respected curators, architects, design professionals, and discerning collectors.
This innovative, exceptional cultural environment attracts Southern California business executives and board members, state, county and municipal government representatives, and leaders of the region’s cultural institutions. Visitors are trendsetters, influencers and alpha-consumers who seek and demand the latest and greatest in all areas of their lives: art, design, food, technology and travel are special passions.
The DIVERSEartLA 2021 exhibition, curated by Marisa Caicciolo, focuses on the presence, contribution, research and documentation of women and non-binary artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art, science and technology represented by guest museums and institutions. This part of the show focuses on the presence, contributions, research and documentation of women and non-binary artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art, science and technology represented by guest museums and institutions.
The LA Art Show has developed several unique programs to highlight some of the most exciting advances in the arts, including AR, VR and NFT, giving visitors a space to observe, learn and be entertained. This new program, in addition to the design and more classic media the show is known for, was designed with the audience in mind, opening people up to something new and making digital art and technology more accessible. In this way, the Los Angeles show was the first live show to join the NFT conversation.
Today’s prominent galleries occupy more than 180,000 square feet of exhibition space. These local and international galleries, in addition to their booths, hold special exhibitions that are at the forefront of the growing contemporary art movement. The fair offers an extraordinary array of works and experiences in specialized sections.
LA Art Show 2021
LA Art Show 2021 creates one of the largest international art fairs in the United States, offering sponsors, their select guests and VIPs an exciting, immersive and insider art experience. The fair attracts an elite roster of national and international galleries, renowned artists, respected curators, architects, design professionals, and discerning collectors.
This innovative, exceptional cultural environment attracts Southern California business executives and board members, state, county and municipal government representatives, and leaders of the region’s cultural institutions. Visitors are trendsetters, influencers and alpha-consumers who seek and demand the latest and greatest in all areas of their lives: art, design, food, technology and travel are special passions.
Some of LA Art Show’s favorite galleries return in 2021, including Arcadia Contemporary, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary and Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery from London as part of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition again has an international presence, with Pigment Gallery returning from Spain, In The Gallery returning from Denmark, and works from Gallery KITAI in Japan, just to name a few.
Modern + Contemporary
The largest programming section at the LA Art Show, Modern + Contemporary showcases a wide range of contemporary painting, illustration, sculpture and more from galleries in Los Angeles, the Pacific Rim and countries around the world.
DIVERSEartLA – DIVERSEartLA
A special program section that takes advantage of the city’s position on the Pacific Coast, dedicated to fostering the creative energy of international collectors, artists, curators, museums and non-profit organizations, connecting them directly with audiences in Los Angeles. The LA Art Show donates 50,000 square feet of exhibition space each year to participating organizations as our civic commitment, and the works presented are not for sale. Overall direction by Marisa Caicciolo with individual curators from institutions from around the world.
Exhibitions
Where Streets Have No Names
Arushi Arts presents a collection of work by emerging street pop artists from around the world, Where Streets Have No Name. Along with intricate works of art from Southeast Asia, works of art are displayed side by side to give the viewer a sense of the unique nature of the methods used, while sharing the notion of “their streets” as a key point.
The collection includes work by Hong Kong-based Indian artist Ria Chandiramani; a grid of small metal street signs by Los Angeles-based artist Sellout; Ceramic Skateboard Sculpture by Miami-based sculptor Jenna Helfman; work by British pop artist Marty Thorton; contemporary street artist Roger James of Los Angeles; and emerging British artist George White. For generations, artists have been inspired by their environments, and these works of art illustrate the dialogue between artists and their respective environments.
Iconoclasts: The Kilduff Salon
Los Angeles-based artist John Kilduff has created an interactive installation at the fair, built from paintings and cardboard sculptures to make it look like the establishment of a local bar. Visitors will have the opportunity to dive into the immersive installation and order “drinks” hand-painted by the artist. Kilduff will be creating new paintings of cocktails and specialty drinks daily. Attendees will have the option of ordering what’s on tap or, when the artist is present, ordering drinks off the menu. A portion of the proceeds will go to support workers at bars and establishments that are struggling financially because of the pandemic.
Los Angeles-based John Kilduff, also known as Mr. Let’s Paint, is known for his daring performance art and Let’s Paint TV show. Through his show and works, Kildaff displays his painterly endurance through a series of multi-tasking and painting challenges to encourage audiences to embrace creativity and self-expression through life’s obstacles.
Color Fields I Michael Lowe
Michael Lowe used Pete Mondrian’s grid structure as the basis for experimenting with palette possibilities and focusing on subtle tonal transitions or harmony of color relationships. He transformed objects into unique patterns of rectangles or color. As a major proponent of Abstract Expressionism and later color-field painting, Lowe created many colorful examples such as Blue Edge and Yellow on Yellow.
In the late 1920s, Michael Loew was enrolled in the Art Students’ League and was later in France, where he studied with Fernand Léger. Löw was a close and longtime friend of Willem de Kooning, who influenced his work. After Pearl Harbor, Loew joined the Navy and worked as an artist with the Sibi battalion in the Pacific. His watercolors were largely drawn from his work in the Navy on Tinian Island. When he returned home in 1946, his painting quickly shifted toward abstraction.
The full development of his mature style came in the 1950s. He studied with Hans Hoffmann and developed his sensitivity to color effects. During his lifetime, Lowe’s work was exhibited widely in galleries and museums, including the Guggenheim and Whitney Galleries in New York, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Abstract in Nature I Pike Gannomi
Korean-American abstractionist artist Pike Gannomi painted Sonaggi (Rain) in 1973 in New York City with his brief five flowing strokes. Refraining from being intricate or overly expressive of a natural phenomenon, rain, he stated with a minimum of line and color. In his use of lines he shares a commonality with the Korean form of the art of Soyie calligraphy, in which the force of the stroke should come alive with its inherent movement and rhythm. Artist Gannomi’s strokes add deep dynamism through the characteristic embodiment of dark red in black. The space created by the lines is another distinctive feature of his works influenced by traditional Korean art.
Paik Gannomi’s art can be categorized as abstract expressionism in the spirit of Franz Klein and Jackson Pollack. Much of Pike Hannomie’s work was not consciously created with the title in mind, it is more of a superficial impression created by lines and gaps. While his contemporaries in Korea were captivated by the monochrome movement of the 1970s, he had his strong point in his unique style of aquamarine backgrounds overlaid with flowing red lines on black lines. His work was embodied when he was awarded the Audon Prize for “Paysage de Seine” at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1981. Earlier, in 1980, he received the Mayor’s Award of the Palais de Vincennes in Paris for “Autumn Landscape. ” and” Sainte-Face “.
Gravity I Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof
Zadora-Gerlof pays homage to M.C. Escher in this stunning stainless steel work. This work was inspired by the Dutch artist’s 1952 work Gravity, which investigated the impossibility of multiple sources of gravity working together on a single object. Escher demonstrated this theory through twelve turtles that use a star as a common shell. Each turtle is represented by six color pairs–red, orange, yellow, magenta, green, and blue.
Although Escher’s creation is physically impossible, he presented it in a visually authentic and logical way. Zadora brings the genius of Escher’s creation to life with precisely carved parts in stainless steel and polymer. At first glance it appears to be a nonsensical mixture of turtle heads and limbs, though a closer look reveals the internal symmetry and harmony of the drawing.
“Butterfly Scream.”
This installation, created from 490 ceramic petals, is inspired by the fact that during the human kingdom, butterflies saw their habitat truly shrink. Please feel free to hold your cell phone up to the QR code and be prepared to listen to the “cry of the butterfly” as these beautiful creatures demand their turn to rule the world, to bring the benefit of balance and well-being to all creatures. Our Planet.
Cartoon digital panel-folding screen: the imaginary boundaries of Yi Lee Lee Nam
Lee Lee Nam (born 1969) creates a fusion of today’s high-tech environment and traditional culture. With exceptional sophistication, he creates mesmerizing digital and video works that combine European paintings by old masters and traditional Asian art with contemporary images. Works of art overlap and intertwine like a palimpsest, creating an image as fictional as dreams superimposed on reality.
Liminal: Martian Sun I Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves
Combining light, sculpture and new technologies, Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves’ work questions the process of vision and deconstructs our gaze. Weaving science with the intangible qualities of life and its philosophy, Felici questions, shakes and delves deeply into facts about the universe, translating them into mesmerizing art installations that are so strikingly intellectual, complex and beautiful.
Her installations take a phenomenological approach to reality and emphasize the perception of time as a continuum. From audiovisual performance art to land art, her research has focused on astrophysical space and cycles of natural light. The visual artist works with cosmic landscapes through a process of “tele-vision,” where the depth of field is enhanced with telescopes, Mars rovers and astrophysical modeling.
Liminal: Martian Sun is a show we decided to build around Felicie’s focused work that intersects across dimensions, time and space. Hovering between opposites, the artist’s work challenges places of intervals such as life and death, light and darkness, nearness and distance, reality and the spiritual among many others, being an important part of her practice and the core of our exhibition, hence our title. .