"The 31st edition of the LA Art Show is back this week at the downtown Convention Center, more than a month before Frieze, Felix, and Post-Fair roll into town. Although it is LA's longest-running art fair, the show is somewhat of an outcast, snubbed as pedestrian, too commercial, and out of touch with the cutting edge of the global art world. But at the rear of the cavernous exhibition hall, a pair of projects organized by curator Marisa Caichiolo gives visitors a sense of the fair's cultural and political relevance."
"Caichiolo organized the first Latin American Pavilion at the fair, a modest group of three booths: Artier Gallery from Palm Springs, Verse Gallery from Ft. Lauderdale, and Building Bridges Art Exchange, the LA-based nonprofit she founded in 2005. The display also features selections from the Pangue International Video Art Festival, with video works by 20 contemporary artists from Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Chile, and elsewhere."
"Although the fair is international in scope, with a strong focus on Asia, there has historically been less representation from Latin America, something Caichiolo hopes to begin to correct with this first pavilion and expand upon in subsequent editions."
The 31st LA Art Show reopened at the downtown Convention Center ahead of Frieze and other fairs. The fair remains Los Angeles's longest-running art fair but faces criticism for being pedestrian and overly commercial. Curator Marisa Caichiolo presented two projects that emphasize cultural and political dimensions, including the fair's first Latin American Pavilion with three booths—Artier Gallery, Verse Gallery, and Building Bridges Art Exchange—and a Pangue International Video Art Festival selection featuring video works by twenty contemporary artists from across Latin America. The Artier booth includes Natasha Grey's linen pastel and charcoal drawing "Mutable Sun" alongside vibrant masks by Carlos Luna James, signaling a deliberate effort to increase Latin American representation within an international fair context.
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