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from Frieze Week LA 2023
by frieze.com
What kind of place is an airport? A place between local and global, where languages mingle, wide vistas open up. As the location for Frieze Los Angeles, this week Santa Monica Airport will become a place of creativity too: with over 120 galleries, Focus and Spotlight sections, and Frieze Projects by the likes of Ruben Ochoa (p. 24), Alake Shilling and Jennifer West, among others a col laboration with the Art Production Fund, whose Director Casey Fremont is a recent LA a rrival (p.27). As well as showcasing this activity, and other highlights of the week across the city (like the survey of Simone Forti, of which Gillian Garcia went behind the scenes to create our cover image), this issue celebrates the art of the fair’s new environs: from Don Bachardy (p.10) and the late Chris Burden (p.8) to Jay Ezra Nayssan (p.14), curator of the off-site program ‘Against the Edge’. As Nayssan explains in his guide (p.16), stories of exile and reinvention sprawl throughout the Westside: an area crisscrossed by comings and goings. Like an airport, perhaps? In any case, I can’t wait to explore it more.
Matthew McLean, Editor & Creative Lead, Frieze Studios
8 In Dreams
Anne Imhof’s take on Chris Burden
10 Face to Face
Jonathan Griffin Meets Don Bachardy
12 Always on Time
Suzanne Lacy in Conversation
14 Home Is Where We Start From
Travis Diehl on Del Vaz Projects
16 West side Stories
Jay Ezra Nayssan on ‘Against the Edge’
22 Deutsche Bank
24 The Value of Vendors
Patricia Escárcega on Ruben Ochoa’s Frieze Projects
27 Coast to Coa st Casey Fremont Brings Art Production Fund To the Fair
28 It’s Our House Lyndon Barrois and Janine Sherman Barrois’s Bold Approach To Living with Art
40 Simple Pleasures The Joy of the Good Liver
42 Lean In A Visual Essay by Gillian Garcia
54 Frag ment by Fragment Members of GYOPO on Korean Art At LACMA
The late Chris Burden is indelibly associated with Western Los Angeles, with some of his most significant performances taking place in Venice, where his studio was located on Oceanside Drive. As her first LA exhibition opens during Frieze Week, artist Anne Imhof reflects on Burden’s unique vision of the cityscape.