COURTESY ALAC
Art Los Angeles Contemporary has named the 102 exhibitors that will take over the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica for the fair’s 10th edition, which runs from February 13 to February 17. For this iteration the fair has added two new sections, “Salon” and “Publishers”; ALAC has also overhauled its branding this year, and will have a new floor plan. The fair has also tapped Charlotte Walters to be its managing director.
The main galleries section will include 64 exhibitors, with 21 coming from the L.A. area. The Publishers section, titled “Moveable Types” will feature 24 presses and book shops from across the world, and will be organized under the auspices of Frances Horn, a Brussels-based curator who founded the now-defunct art book fair PA/PER VIEW, which was held at the Belgian contemporary art museum WIELS. The “Salon” section of the fair will be devoted to curated offerings. This year, ALAC has brought in the Berlin-based curator and former gallerist Claudia Rech to organize the section, which will take the title “The Academy.”
This is the first time ALAC will coincide with two new fairs being held in the city, Frieze Los Angeles and Felix LA. Notable absentees from ALAC this year include San Francisco’s Altman Siegel Gallery, São Paulo’s Vermelho, and L.A. galleries Ghebaly Gallery, David Kordansky Gallery, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Night Gallery, and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, all of whom are participating in Frieze L.A.
“After ten years, I recognize the impact we have made locally and internationally,” ALAC founder and director Tim Fleming said in a statement. “To walk into a collector’s home and see a work from a past edition of our fair is such a pleasure because it solidifies for me how we’ve achieved our mission by supporting galleries and informing collections. Our 10th anniversary is a chance for us to recommit to who we are: content-forward, trusted but inventive, international and L.A.”
The new floor plan for the fair will be designed by Jerry Garcia, of the Seattle-based Olson Kundig firm, and graphic designer Brian Roettinger has created the fair’s new visual identity.
Walters joins ALAC after previously being the associate director of the New Art Dealers Alliance, which produces annual fairs in Miami and previously in New York and Cologne. In her role, she will look to grow the fair’s audience, create new business initiatives, and oversee the fair’s existing partnerships.
“I look forward to expanding on ALAC’s legacy as an established independent fair that celebrates the strength of L.A.’s unique cultural scene on an international scale,” Walters said in a statement. “And I’m excited to soon announce the curatorial programs and global partnerships we have established for the 10th edition.”
The full list of exhibitors follows below.
Participating Galleries
- 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
- 1301PE, Los Angeles
- 1969 Gallery, New York
- AA|LA Gallery, Los Angeles
- Louise Alexander Gallery, Porto Cervo
- AS-IS.LA, Los Angeles
- AWHRHWAR, Los Angeles
- Jack Barrett, New York
- Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach
- Bortolami, New York
- Ceysson & Bénétière, Geneva, Luxembourg, New York, Paris, Saint-Etienne
- Clages, Cologne
- Luis de Jesus Los Angeles, Los Angeles
- Galerie Derouillon, Paris
- DOCUMENT, Chicago
- Downs & Ross, New York
- Ever Gold [Projects], San Francisco
- False Flag, Long Island City
- Functional Art Gallery, Berlin
- Gilles Drouault Galerie, Paris
- Gildar Gallery, Denver
- Good Weather, North Little Rock
- Halsey McKay Gallery, New York
- Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
- The Hole, New York
- Lisa Kehler Art + Projects, Winnipeg
- Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt am Main
- Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen
- Klowden Mann, Los Angeles
- The Lapis Press, Los Angeles
- Josh Lilley, London
- Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles
- M+B, Los Angeles
- Marinaro, New York
- Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles
- Galeria Mascota, Mexico City
- Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles
- Mixografia, Los Angeles
- Mrs., Maspeth
- Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
- Ochi Projects, Los Angeles
- ODD ARK • LA, Los Angeles
- Over The Influence, Los Angeles
- PACT, Paris
- Priska Pasquer, Cologne
- Peres Projects, Berlin
- Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw
- Praz-Delavallade, Paris, Los Angeles
- Regards, Chicago
- Reserve Ames, Los Angeles
- Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
- RUSCHMAN, Chicago
- Safe Gallery, Brooklyn
- Situations, New York
- STARKWHITE, Auckland
- Stems Gallery, Brussels
- Rob Tufnell, Cologne
- UNION PACIFIC, London
- UV Estudios, Buenos Aires
- VI, VII, Oslo
- VIGO GALLERY, London
- Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland
- Western Exhibitions, Chicago
- Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
Publishers: “Movable Types”
- Accattone, Brussels
- Art Los Angeles Reader, Los Angeles
- Bartleby & co., Brussels
- Case Publishing, Tokyo
- fivehundred places, Berlin
- GAGARIN, Antwerp
- Hotel, London
- Humboldt Books, Milan
- Ibid, Los Angeles
- Juan de la cosa, Mexico City
- Lodret Vandret/One Thousand Books, Copenhagen
- Lovely Daze, Taipei
- MER.Paper Kunsthalle, Ghent
- mono.kultur, Berlin
- Monograph Bookwerks, Portland
- Night Diver Press, Oakland
- Onomatopee, Eindhoven
- OSMOS, New York
- Printed Matter, New York
- Reserve Ames, Los Angeles
- Terremoto, Mexico City
- WAAP ART, Vancouver
- X Artists’ Books, Los Angeles
- Zulu Press, Mexico City
Salon: “The Academy”
- careva contemporary, Riga with Edgars Gluhovs
- Castiglioni, Milan with Thomaz Rosa
- Downs & Ross, New York with Vikky Alexander
- Lisa Kandlhofer, Vienna with Lindsay Lawson
- Klemm’s, Berlin, with Renaud Regnery
- O – Town House, Los Angeles with Juliette Blightman
- PPC Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main with Tobias Donat
- Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger with Ilija Wyller
- Bonny Poon, Paris with Marie Karlberg
- Roman Road, London with Alix Marie
- Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin with Julian Irlinger
- Setareh, Düsseldorf, with Jim Thorell
- Smart Objects, Los Angeles with Paul Rouphail
- Sweetwater, Berlin, Berlin, with Kayode Ojo
- Weiss Berlin, Berlin with Elif Erkan