The first Art Los Angeles Contemporary annual international contemporary art fair at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood opened January 29th through January 31st with 55 galleries from around the world, with an emphasis on leading Los Angeles based galleries. The fair’s opening reception attracted prominent art patrons, designers, musicians, actors and architects alike in an appropriate closing to Los Angeles’ January Arts Month. Over 9,000 people attended the four-day fair that included film stars Drew Barrymore, J-Lo and Rachel Griffiths.
PDC Curator Helen Varola arranged a panel discussion on “design art” with Walead Beshty, T. Kelly Mason, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee.
Highlights included Los Angeles galleries David Kordansky, Kim Light / Light Box, Blum & Poe and Honor Frasier, Peres Projects, and Crisp, as well as New York favorite Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. 1301PE showed Diana Thater’s new work also currently on view at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (see image) along with artists referring to design such as Pae White and Jorge Pardo.
The new sizzling synergy spanning art, architecture and design was clearly palpable as people were buzzing about the PDC’s new transformation as an arts destination, while collectors Charles S. Cohen, Mandy and Cliff Einstein and MOCA curator Paul Schimmel perused the booths and talked with dealers. Visitors were impressed to also discover other floors hosting PDC’s own Design Loves Art art gallery program that included 2010 Whitney Biennial artist Scott Short, Tunga, Katherina Gross, Ball Nogues, and Eamon O’Kane. The fair, the first for the PDC, was a hit for the showrooms as well and the PDC looks forward to its next contemporary art fair in 2011.
Pictured: Diana Thater, The Magician: Greg Wilson, 2010, C-print, Each 40 1/2 x 27 in.
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