Frieze NY 2023
Overview of 2023 New York Frieze Fair
Full Article @ Five Emerging Artists Exploring Heritage and Environment at Frieze New York 2023
Focus Section
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Programming at Frieze New York 2023: Featuring Liz Magic Laser, ektor garcia, Shala Miller and More
Featuring galleries aged 12 years or younger from across the world, the Focus section at Frieze New York brings together some of today’s most exciting emerging artists. This year’s highlights include artists that interrogate cultural heritage and environmental change.
Jagdeep Raina, presented by Cooper Cole
Working in textile, drawing, ceramics, and video animation, Jagdeep Raina examines narratives of the Sikh and Punjabi diasporas in North America and the UK. His multi-media practice considers how memory can transcend unstable environments, and illustrates that archives are constantly moving, evolving, and growing. Raina is best known for his hand-made embroideries that integrate representational stories of the Sikh diaspora with traditional Phulkari, a traditional form of weaving on muslin cloth using hand-dyed and organic materials invented in Punjabi villages.
June Clark, presented by Daniel Faria Gallery
Born in Harlem in 1941, Clark emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s due to political turbulence in the United States. In her work she is able to simultaneously depict the America of her childhood imagination and the country’s inherent injustices, inequalities and histories of violence. In the series ‘Perseverance Suite,’ Clark manipulates the tools that she grew up watching people around her use in daily labor. Of the works, Clark has stated “These works come out my realization that I exist because of those who have come before me; those who persisted and persevered. They spur me on, and all of my art is made in constant collaboration with them beside me. Through these pieces I want to make a song. My ancestors can watch and rest.”
Emma Prempeh, presented by Tiwani Contemporary
Prempeh’s recent work explores interior spaces, pictorially colliding with elements of her personal history. For Frieze New York, Prempeh will debut a suite of new paintings, featuring light projections with a soundscape, to create an intimate spatial and sensorial experience. Several of the works on show were painted in Kampala, Uganda, representing an amalgam of all the spaces the artist calls home and linking the artist’s Caribbean upbringing, Ghanaian heritage and recent exploration of Uganda.
Mónica Giron, presented by Barro
Giron, who is currently presenting a solo show at Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, draws inspiration from the stunning Patagonian landscape – and its rapidly transforming human and geopolitical contexts. For Frieze New York, Barro gallery will present Ajuar Para un Conquistador, 1995, a series of knitted clothes – including pullovers, leggings, gloves and scarves – for birds from the Patagonian territory, who are nearing extinction point. The clothes give a presence to the birds but also accentuate their absence.
Marcos Siqueira, presented by Mitre Gallery
Siqueira has always lived in the cerrado biome of Minas Gerais, Serra do Cipó, Brazil, where he works with the soil, researching its natural phenomena, and contributing towards environmental preservation practices. He uses the soil’s pigments to create his chromatic scale, composed of ochre, green, silver, blue, black, gray, and red tones, in works which explore the region’s distinctive horizon line, vegetation, animals, people, festivities, and labor.
About Frieze New York
Frieze New York returns to The Shed in Manhattan from May 17 to 21, 2023 and promises to be an unmissable event. With an unparalleled selection of galleries and artists, alongside a critically acclaimed curated program the fair is a highlight of the global art calendar.
Limited full price tickets are now on sale, buy yours now!
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Main image: Jagdeep Raina, Floral Coat (detail), 2022. Mixed media on paper. 50 x 63 in (127 x 160 cm). Courtesy the Artist and Cooper Cole
Programming at Frieze New York 2023: Featuring Liz Magic Laser, ektor garcia, Shala Miller and More
Full Article @ Programming at Frieze New York 2023: Featuring Liz Magic Laser, ektor garcia, Shala Miller and More
At this year’s fair, programming highlights include the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize commission, a major installation by ektor garcia, a new moving image work by Liz Magic Laser, an offsite performance by Shala Miller at Artists Space and a collaboration with Artist Plate Project which supports Coalition for the Homeless.
Frieze Projects
Liz Magic Laser: Prototype for Convulsive States, selected by Lola Kramer
For Convulsive States, multimedia artist Liz Magic Laser explores the shaking body as a symptom of sickness and a healing strategy, spanning historical and present-day incidents of individual and mass hysteria. For Frieze New York, Laser will premiere a single-channel mirrored monitor prototype from her newly commissioned exhibition at Pioneer Works, which will open in September 2023. Riffing on the ‘smart’ mirror digital fitness coach popularized during the pandemic, the video work invites viewers to move by superimposing their reflections onto the vibrating bodies of spiritual and therapeutic practitioners, such as dancer and somatic healer Cori Kresge.
Artists Space offsite performance by Shala Miller
Artists Space in collaboration with Frieze will present Genesis: Medley, a performance by multidisciplinary artist, vocalist, and writer Shala Miller. An extension of their latest three-channel installation, Genesis, currently on view at Artists Space, the performance brings together a chorus of vocalists to tell the story of Obsidian’s becoming. Obsidian is a fictional character who serves as a kind of alter ego for the artist, created at the beginning of this year to process their rage as a black Femme person. Learn more about the performance here.
ektor garcia: la llorona
ektor garcia: la llorona joins past works with new, offering a moment of pause within the continual and cyclical timeline that is the artist’s practice. To garcia, both the artwork and its materials are alive, evolving together through a constant and committed creative activity. Coming together in new forms, garcia’s installation prompts what it means for an artwork to be flexible, unencumbered, and open to change—freed from both his and our expectations. la llorona is realized with the support of Maestro Dobel Tequila.
Further Programming
Jessica Vaughn is the recipient of the inaugural Frieze Artadia Prize. The new initiative, launched in partnership with the celebrated national non-profit Artadia, provides a New York- based artist with the opportunity to realize a major new work at Frieze New York. Learn more about Vaughn’s commission here.
In addition to the new prize, Frieze New York will highlight Artadia as an emblematic non-profit organization by dedicating a wall on the second level of The Shed for a large-scale visual representation of its history and legacy of supporting artists since 1999. Executed in collaboration with artist Katy Fischer (2004 Chicago Awardee), the visual timeline will feature the nearly 400 artists the organization has supported over the past two decades.
Artist Plate Projectwill launch their new series of over 40 limited-edition plates designed by world renowned artists, including Virgil Abloh, Rashid Johnson, Takashi Murakami and Amy Sherald. Frieze New York will mark the first opportunity to purchase the new series, with 75 plates from each edition of 250 reserved for Frieze visitors, which will be on sale on Level 2.
Launched with the Coalition for the Homelessin 2020 at the peak of the pandemic, Artist Plate Project has to-date partnered with more than 90 world-renowned artists who have created limited-edition dinner plates produced by Prospect and available via Artware Editions. Funds raised will directly benefit the Coalition for the Homeless, providing food, crisis services, housing, and other critical aid to thousands of people experiencing homelessness and instability.
Vote.organd Frieze are engaged in a partnership combining art with the urgent need for civic participation. Since the launch of the PLAN YOUR VOTE initiative in 2020, Vote.orghas been the leader connecting artists, institutions, and creativity with voter engagement. This year, Vote.org will be onsite at Frieze New York helping register voters.
Printed Matter, Inc.will return to Frieze New York with a broad and exciting presentation of artists’ books, editions, and ephemera in the Level 1 bookshop area. Printed Matter will represent a full range of artists’ publishing, from zines and small press publications, to rare and out of print material and exhibition catalogs.
The pop-up will also feature a selection of books published by galleries participating in the fair, plus special signing events with these artists.
Further Information
Frieze New York returns to The Shed in Manhattan from May 17 to 21, 2023 and promises to be an unmissable event. With an unparalleled selection of galleries and artists, alongside a critically acclaimed curated program the fair is a highlight of the global art calendar.
Limited full price tickets are now on sale, buy yours now!
To keep up to date on all the latest news from Frieze, sign up to the Frieze newsletter at frieze.com, and follow @friezeofficial on Instagram, Twitter and Frieze Official on Facebook.
Main image: Alice Neel, Ian and Mary, 1971. Supported by David Zwirner © The Estate of Alice Neel, Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner