If Frieze Los Angeles is the shark, the Felix art fair is a pilot fish. Our critic dives in and finds the waters pretty fun.
span a range of women’s political art at Andrew Kreps . Groundbreaking Verifax collages from the ‘60s by Wallace Berman — maybe the only artist to have made truly genius work using a photocopier — are at Galerie Frank Elbaz .James T. Hong, an Asian American documentary filmmaker based in Taiwan, also makes sculpture and video projections. At Hong Kong’s Empty Gallery, Hong shows boxes made from frosted glass, illuminated from within and ostentatiously padlocked.
Hong cleverly upends the phantoms of Plato’s cave: Break the glass and you’re sure to be disappointed by the obscured, surely conventional source of the captivating apparition, the ghost in art’s machine. Art’s mysterious inner resources might be inaccessible, but they remain magnetic. A number of galleries have attempted to capitalize on the art fair’s location with their selection of work. Brown’s is among the few that don’t make a visitor groan.
Jake Longstreth, “Ontario International Airport,” 2020, acrylic on canvas, on view at the 2020 Felix art fair at the Hollywood Ambassador hotel.
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