Art LA Contemporary at Barker Hanger January 28th-31st, 2016- Preview

SEVENTH EDITION OF ART LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY (ALAC)

RETURNS TO BARKER HANGAR, JANUARY 28–31, 2016

PIVOTAL WEEKEND IN THE CITY’S CONTEMPORARY ART CALENDAR

ALAC 2016 PRESENTS INFLUENTIAL GALLERIES FROM

LOS ANGELES AND INTERNATIONAL ART CAPITALS BERLIN, LONDON, PARIS, NEW

LOS ANGELES—Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the International Contemporary Art Fair of the

West Coast, returns for its seventh edition on January 28–31, 2016, at The Barker Hangar in Santa

Monica, California, the pivotal weekend in Los Angeles’s contemporary art calendar. Drawing over

15,000 visitors in 2015, ALAC continues to reflect the pace of Los Angeles as the fastest growing art

market, with rapid expansion as an international force in the art world.

The 2016 edition of ALAC brings together over 70 top established and emerging galleries from around

the world, hailing from over ten countries and a dozen art capitals. Many of these galleries show for the

first time at ALAC, including Bureau (New York), Christian Andersen (Copenhagen), Galerie Kadel

Willborn (Düsseldorf), Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Los Angeles) and MOT International (London).

ALAC is delighted to announce a strong presence of exhibitors who return to the fair after successful

showings in earlier editions. These galleries include 1301PE (Los Angeles), Michael Benevento (Los

Angeles), Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago), CANADA (New York), David Kordansky Gallery (Los

Angeles), One and J. Gallery (Seoul), Tif Sigrids (Los Angeles), STANDARD (OSLO) (Oslo), and

team (gallery inc.) (New York/Los Angeles). The roster of exhibitors includes a dynamic cross-section

of influential galleries from Los Angeles, reflecting both the fair’s long-term presence in its home city,

and the arrival of the city’s thriving contemporary art community on the international stage.

“This is a proud moment for Art Los Angeles Contemporary as we enter our seventh year,” says Tim

Fleming, Director. “Seven years of presenting the best, most influential galleries from Los Angeles, and

seven years of supporting a community of artists, collectors, dealers, and institutions that is fierce,

intellectually rigorous, and constantly changing and expanding. Even as the fair grows to be more

international and varied in scope, supporting Los Angeles remains at our core.”

“Now we’re introducing significant new features to ALAC. I cannot think of an individual who’s more

thoughtfully attuned to independent publishing than Miriam Katzeff, who will be traveling to Los

Angeles from the Brooklyn offices of Primary Information to organize a special section featuring the

latest and most compelling artist’s books, editions, and publications. I’m delighted about the renewed

energy and focus brought to our talks and lectures program by curator Marc LeBlanc, who will be

investigating what is happening now in artmaking in L.A., and presenting a romantic, sharp-toned history

of how we got here.

“Along with the release of The Reader, our art newspaper that presents original texts from some of the

city’s most engaging arts writers, these features take the ALAC weekend to the next level. We hope

you’ll join us.”

ALAC 2016 Exhibitor List:

1301PE (Los Angeles)

ACME. (Los Angeles)

Alden Projects (New York)

Altman Siegel (San Francisco)

Christian Andersen (Copenhagen)*

ASHES/ASHES (Los Angeles)*

Michael Benevento (Los Angeles)

Galerie Hervé Bize (Nancy)

Brennan & Griffin (New York)

Bureau (New York)*

Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago)

CANADA (New York)

Galeria Marta Cervera (Madrid)

Galerie Bernard Ceysson (Luxembourg/Paris)*

Cherry and Martin (Los Angeles)

China Art Objects Galleries (Los Angeles)

Cooper Cole (Toronto)*

Thomas Duncan Gallery (Los Angeles)

Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles)

Edel Assanti (London)

Derek Eller Gallery (New York)

Evelyn Yard (London)*

Ever Gold Projects (San Francisco)*

Henrique Faria (Buenos Aires / New York)*

Feuer/Mesler (New York)*

fiebach, minninger (Cologne)*

Marc Foxx (Los Angeles)

Carl Freedman Gallery (London)

Gillmeier Rech (Berlin)*

Greene Exhibitions (Los Angeles)

Jack Hanley (New York)

The Hole (New York)

Ibid. (London/Los Angeles)

Louis B. James (New York)

Galerie Kadel Willborn (Düsseldorf)*

Kayne Griffin Corcoran (Los Angeles)*

KLEMM’S (Berlin)*

David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles)

Galerie Christian Lethert (Cologne)

Josh Lilley (London)

Gallery Luisotti (Santa Monica)

M+B (Los Angeles)

Meliksetian | Briggs (Los Angeles)

Michael Jon Gallery (Miami/Detroit)*

MIER GALLERY, Los Angeles

MONITOR (Rome)

MOT International (London)*

Galerie Nagel Draxler (Berlin/Cologne)*

Neon Parc (Melbourne)

Neumeister Bar-Am (Berlin)*

Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles/Bucharest)

Night Gallery (Los Angeles)

On Stellar Rays (New York)

ONE AND J. Gallery (Seoul)

David Petersen Gallery (Minneapolis)*

The Pit (Glendale)

Praz-Delavallade (Paris)

Regards (Chicago)*

Clint Roenisch (Toronto)*

Marc Selwyn Fine Art (Los Angeles)

TIF SIGFRIDS (Los Angeles)

SMART OBJECTS (Los Angeles)*

STANDARD (OSLO) (Oslo)

Starkwhite (Auckland)

Sutton Gallery (Melbourne)*

team (gallery, inc.) (New York/Los Angeles)

Valentin (Paris)

Various Small Fires (Los Angeles)

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Los Angeles)

WEINGRÜLL (Karlsruhe)

Workplace Gallery (Gateshead/London)

*Indicates first time exhibitor

(list in formation)

FREEWAYS

ALAC breaks tradition by introducing a new section titled Freeways, which presents emerging galleries

under four years old showing up to two artists per booth. Freeways exhibitors include Cooper Cole,

Toronto; Gillmeier Rech, Berlin; Michael Jon Gallery, Miami/Detroit; Greene Exhibitions, Los

Angeles; David Petersen Gallery, Minneapolis; Regards, Chicago; Smart Objects, Los Angeles.

CURATED TALKS AND LECTURES

ALAC is pleased to announce an expanded talks and lectures program. For the fair’s 2016 edition, Marc

LeBlanc, Curator of Events & Programming, organizes a robust calendar of public programs that address

the changing conditions for artmaking in Los Angeles. Through a series of talks, film screenings, and

performances, key figures in the city’s contemporary art scene share how they are “coping with

tomorrow,” and explore the resulting narratives of survival that emerge in art. Participants include

Norman Klein, critic and urban historian at California Institute of the Arts, artists Charlie White and

Andrea Zittel, and project space JOAN. More artists, critics, curators, and gallerists will be announced

as they are confirmed. All talks and lectures are held in the ALAC Theatre, Friday, January 29–Sunday,

January 31, 2016.

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING

Making its debut at ALAC 2016 is the fair’s dedicated section of Independent Publishing. Curator

Miriam Katzeff, co-founder of Primary Information, the celebrated nonprofit organization based in

Brooklyn, brings together artists, bookstores, and independent publishers from around the world,

including Badlands Unlimited, Hassla, Inventory Press, Primary Information, and Printed Matter,

Inc., New York; DoPe Press and Golden Spike, Los Angeles; and Rainoff, New York/Sydney,

presenting new and recently reissued art books, editions, records, and other printed projects. More section

participants will be announced as they are confirmed.

THE READER

ALAC 2016 marks the release of the Art Los Angeles Reader, the fair’s platform for established and

emerging voices in art writing. The free art newspaper engages critically with art on-site and beyond,

placing rigor and criticism alongside humor and celebration. Its forthcoming second issue includes

themed features and monographic essays by Los Angeles writers whose combined credits include

Artforum, Art in America, Cabinet, Frieze, and LA Weekly, as well as printed artist commissions and

interviews with artists, curators and gallerists. The Reader is published by Fair Grounds Associates on the

occasion of Art Los Angeles Contemporary and edited by Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal.

ABOUT

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the International Contemporary Art Fair of the West Coast, held

annually at Barker Hangar, in Santa Monica, California, is produced by Fair Grounds Associates. Now in

its seventh year, the fair presents established and emerging galleries from around the world, with a strong

focus on Los Angeles galleries. Participants present some of the most dynamic recent works from their

roster of represented artists, offering an informed cross-section of what is happening now in

contemporary art making. The fair provides a sophisticated yet accessible environment for art collectors,

curators, and patrons of the arts alike to enjoy.

Media preview

Thursday, January 28, 4–6pm

Public hours

Thursday, January 28, 7–9pm

Friday, January 29, 11am–7pm

Saturday, January 30, 11am–7pm

Sunday, January 31, 11am–6pm

Barker Hangar is a historic arts venue in Santa Monica, California. With over 40,000 square feet of

exhibition space and soaring 40-foot ceilings, the venue is uniquely positioned to create an enjoyable

experience for fair attendees. The venue is located at the Santa Monica Airport, one of the nation’s

premier airports for private jet travel, located in close proximity to nearby beach hotels, world-class

restaurants, and renowned contemporary art museums and private collections.

BIOS

Tim Fleming has been the director of Art Los Angeles Contemporary since its inaugural edition in 2010.

Fleming has directed and produced some of the top contemporary art shows in the United States. After

graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he served as director of project gallery Seven

Three Split, and served on the team that developed The Stray Show, the ancillary art fair of Art Chicago

dedicated to alternative gallery spaces. Fleming is the founder of Fair Grounds Associates, producers of

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, and the publisher of The Reader, the platform for established and

emerging voices in art writing.

Miriam Katzeff is a curator based in New York. Katzeff is the co-founder of Primary Information, the

Brooklyn-based nonprofit devoted to the preservation and support of critical texts and projects from the

1960s to the present. The organization emphasizes the conceptual practice of using publications as an

exhibition space. Katzeff co-founded Primary Information with artist James Hoff in 2006. She previously

worked as director of Team Gallery, New York, and has organized projects and events at MoMA PS1,

White Columns, and Swiss Institute, New York; Perez Art Museum Miami; and ICA Philadelphia.

Marc LeBlanc is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. Formerly the owner of 1R Gallery, Chicago,

LeBlanc’s recent gallery group exhibitions include Unfinished Season (2014), Galerie Nagel Draxler,

Cologne; Palimpsest (2013), Galerie Kavi Gupta, Berlin; and Anteriors (2011), Kunstverein am Rosa-
Luxemberg Platz, Berlin. LeBlanc organized Passages, a two-part video screening featuring artists’

videos, music videos, visuals and films made digital, for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015.

Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal is a writer and artist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of the chapbooks

Ri Ri (Re)Vision (Publication Studio) and This Is The ENDD (Wilner Books) and has performed at the

New Museum and The University of Chicago, among others. Rosenthal edited the first issue of The

Reader for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2015. Her criticism appears regularly in Art in America,

CARLA, and Rhizome.