29/9/2011
Art Platform LA
L.A. Mart, Los Angeles
The fair will demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California and underscore Los Angeles' influential position within the contemporary art world. This exhibition brings together the local and international artists, dealers, collectors, museums, and art enthusiasts that play important roles in the vibrant art community. The same weekend is launching, as Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA 1945 - 1980, an unprecedented collaboration of more than 60 cultural institutions, coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.
Art Platform—Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles, launching Friday, September 30 for invited guests and October 1–3 to the public, will present outstanding work by the region's most innovative artists and will place emphasis on Los Angeles as a site of historical and contemporary cultural and artistic production.
For the inaugural edition, Art Platform—Los Angeles will present an extraordinary roster of international dealers such as the Andrew Kreps Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Kavi Gupta, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Patrick Painter Inc., Seventeen Gallery, James Barron Art, Max Wigram Gallery, Nina Menocal Gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery, Cardi Black Box, Gering & López Gallery, DCKT Contemporary, Corbett vs. Dempsey and many more. For a complete list of exhibitors, please click here.
Art Platform—Los Angeles, in keeping with its mission to demonstrate the rich and diverse cultural landscape of Southern California, has become a sponsor of the historic Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980. The fair, located at the L.A. Mart in Downtown Los Angeles, will be one of the many exciting art and cultural events taking place during the opening weekend of Pacific Standard Time, a collaboration of more than sixty diverse cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to tell the story of the artistic evolution of the Los Angeles art scene through an unprecedented array of simultaneous exhibitions and programs.
Special programs on offer through the fair include the Open Platform speaker series highlighting the region’s most influential collectors, curators, museum directors, gallerists, scholars, and critics. Open Platform will be curated by Aandrea Stang, Senior Education Program Manager for The Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles and will instigate a dialogue around significant issues in the city’s cultural landscape. Also located on the Concourse level of Art Platform—Los Angeles, the Artillery Lounge will feature cutting-edge videos, a happy-hour bar and live performances.
Art Platform—Los Angeles has partnered with West of Rome on Trespass: First a Parade, Then a Party, set to take place in downtown on October 2 and 3. On Sunday, October 2 the streets of downtown Los Angeles will erupt in a parade of local artists and residents, complete with music, dancing and performance. Trespass, a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and West of Rome Public Art will begin at Art Platform—Los Angeles at 11am on October 2 and end at MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
If you would like to attend Vernissage on Friday September 30th from 5–9pm, tickets may be purchased here. Enjoy the best in contemporary art viewing coupled with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. The Art Platform—Los Angeles Vernissage will benefit three extraordinary institutions that have played a vital role in exhibiting the best in modern and contemporary art in Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Catherine Opie
Art Platform—Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles, is delighted to announce that Catherine Opie, the iconic American photographer, has contributed her "Freeways" series to the visual identity of the 2011 fair.
Opie's "Freeways" celebrate Los Angeles' quintessential monuments. The "Freeways" series, the first in Opie's longstanding exploration of the urban landscape, visually captures how communities are defined and bisected geographically as much as they are politically. Shot in swooping panoramic frames, the grandiose structures are void of cars, trucks and buses. Opie is able to closely focus in on the complex roles freeways occupy in our modern networked society through her empty shots that visually portray the emptiness and loneliness of Los Angeles' circulatory system. "Freeways" marked Opie as a new and distinctive contributor to the field of contemporary photography.
Selections from Opie's "Freeways" series will be woven into the fair's printed materials including a dedicated full-color layout in the inaugural Art Platform—Los Angeles catalogue as homage to Opie's work in the city of Los Angeles. Nat Trotman's introductory essay in Catherine Opie: American Photographer will accompany her images in the printed catalogue.
Adam Gross, Executive Director of Art Platform—Los Angeles noted that "Catherine's work, and in particular her 'Freeways' series, uses the mundane and daily ways of being as a vehicle to explore the psyche of the city and 'Freeways' illustrates how the city of Los Angeles can act as catalyst for artistic production. We are honored that the inaugural edition of our fair will feature such iconic work in our printed materials."
Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, creating series of images that explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. Opie's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her selected solo exhibitions include shows at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; St. Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Photographers' Gallery, London. Selected group exhibitions include Age of Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000, Whitney Museum of Art; the 1995 Biennial and the 2004 Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art. Opie was a recipient of the United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. In September of 2008, the Guggenheim Museum in New York opened a mid-career exhibition titled, Catherine Opie: American Photographer. Opie is represented by Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
Press Contact:
Lauren Pearson Communications Director Art Platform—Los Angeles 646-616-7433 lpearson@mmart.com
L.A. Press Contact:
Jennifer Gross Evolutionary Media Group 323-658-8700 Jennifer@emgpr.com
Professional Preview: Friday, September 30, 2011
On Friday, September 30, 2011 Art Platform—Los Angeles will host a Vernissage Museum Benefit for the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and The Museum of Contemporary Art from 5-9PM.
Friday, September 30
3PM – 5PM Opening Preview $500
5PM – 9PM Vernissage $125
L.A. Mart®
1933 S Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90007
HOURS
Saturday, Oct 1 11AM – 6PM
Sunday, Oct 2 11AM – 6PM
Monday, Oct 3 11AM – 4PM
Adult Day Pass $20.00 each
Student Day Pass $10.00 each
Children 12 and under are free