In the dead of summer, it’s easy to forget that the start of the season — and with it, the annual cyclone of art fairs — is only a little over a month away. Here to remind you is Art Platform — Los Angeles, the contemporary art fair that launched in the City of Angels last year. The fair, which will relocate this year from downtown Los Angeles to Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, has given ARTINFO an early peek at the exhibitor list.
Clocking in at just over 70 galleries, this year’s edition of Art Platform is the same size as its debut. The lion’s share of participants are new, rather than returning. Among them are Fred Torres Collaborations, Hirschl & Adler Modern, and bitforms.
Last year, a number of West Coast power dealers said they were put off by the fair’s monolithic L.A. Mart home, and suggested Santa Monica as a more desirable location. (Platform began at L.A. Mart because the space is owned by its parent company, MMPI, which also owns the Armory Show.) But the change in venue doesn’t seem to have lured many locals into the fold. Cherry & Martin, David Kordansky, and Blum & Poe continued to sit out; Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Nye + Brown, and The Box, which participated last year, are among a number of local dealers not returning.
Maybe new names will give the fair a fresh feel? Check out the full exhibitor list below.
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Amstel Gallery
Angles Gallery
ART 1307
ART AFFAIRS
bitforms gallery
Blackston
Peter Blake Gallery
Denis Bloch Fine Art
Carmichael Gallery
Nellie Castan Gallery
CB1 Gallery
CDA-Projects
Edward Cella Art + Architecture
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM
Dot Fiftyone Gallery
Andrew Edlin Gallery
Peter Fetterman Gallery
Flowers
Forum Gallery
Fu Xin Gallery
GAFFER LTD
GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert
Thierry Goldberg Gallery
Helen Gory Galerie
HackelBury Fine Art
HACKETT|MILL
Haines Gallery
HARDCORE ART CONTEMPORARY SPACE
Leila Heller Gallery
Richard Heller Gallery
Hirschl & Adler Modern
Hosfelt Gallery
Ikon Ltd.
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
JHB Gallery
David Klein Gallery
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L.A. MODERN
Frank Lloyd Gallery
Michael H. Lord Gallery
M+B
Maloney Fine Art
Marine Contemporary
Anna Meliksetian Gallery
Modernbook Gallery
MOT/ARTS
New Image Art
Night Gallery
Frey Norris Contemporary & Modern
Now Contemporary Art
Other Criteria
Pan American Art Projects
PRAZ-DELAVALLADE
REPETTO
royale projects
Leslie Sacks Fine Art
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Galerie Sho Contemporary Art
Manny Silverman Gallery
Sin Sin Fine Art
Mindy Solomon Gallery
Louis Stern Fine Arts
dianne tanzer gallery + projects
Fred Torres Collaborations
Whitestone Gallery
Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle
Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Zemack Contemporary Art
Steven Zevitas Gallery
Galeri Zilberman
— Julia Halperin