LA Art Show’s 30th anniversary edition returns Feb 19-23 2025 at LA Convention Center.
(WestHollywoodToday.blogspot, CA February 5 2025) By Karen Ostlund
As LA’s largest and longest-running art-fair with over 100 global exhibitors, the 30th anniversary edition of LA Art Show promises a wide collection of international art from young American artist Daniel Yocum - to famed British poet and artist Arch Hades, as well as powerful and war-inspired works by female Ukrainian artists.
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| British poet and artist Arch Hades. |
The 2025 edition will also welcome new local and international galleries including LICHT FELD Gallery (Switzerland); Gama Gallery (Turkey), Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (UK), L.E.Gallery (Belgium), K+Y Contemporary Art (Paris), Casterline|Goodman Gallery (Aspen), Arcadia Contemporary (New York) and Fabrik Projects (Los Angeles).
“Art is most impactful when it transcends borders and diversity is our strength,” said LA Art Show’s director & producer, Kassandra Voyagis. "LA Art Show has played a significant role in LA’s global art epicenter for 3 decades, and worked on to offer a range of price points to established art collectors".
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| American artist Daniel Yocum. |
LA Art Show 2025 will showcase "Artistic Voices from Around the World":
• The fair’s popular non-commercial platform “DIVERSEartLA,” will be returning with a compelling retrospective and highlighting diversity. Three of the featured installations include: "Celebrating Diversity" by Chiachio & Giannone presented by MOLAA, "Dactiloscopia Rosa: Video Art and QUEER Constructions" curated by Nestor Prieto and presented by Museo La Neomudejar (Madrid, Spain) and Carlos Martiel | Cauce/Riverbed curated by Marisa Caichiolo.
• LICHT FELD GALLERY (SWITZERLAND): Multidisciplinary artist & bestselling poet, Arch Hades – named the highest paid living poet in the world in 2021 – presents her sculpture the ‘Isle,’ a tribute to the island of San Michele in Veneto. Situated between the main islands of Venice and Murano, the entire island is a cemetery known as the ‘island of the dead’. This sculpture began from the line of poetry ‘poems, like gravestones, marking where love lies’, etched in Arch Hades’ handwriting on the black, polished ‘lagoon’ plane. The ‘graves’ of the island themselves are represented by many books forming the sculptures’ distinctive shape.
• SNISARENKO GALLERY (UKRAINE): “She, Unbroken” brings together Ukrainian-born female artists who have lived through the horrifying experience of war. Through each piece, the artists share their resilience and strength, navigating the challenge of staying connected to who they were while adapting to who they are becoming.
• CORAL GALLERY (MIAMI) Roberto Vivo's sculptural works will be showcased, including his highlight piece "The Human Tribe Totem," a large-scale bronze sculpture, which debuted at the 2024 Venice Biennale, standing 77 x 95 inches tall. The work embodies the artist's vision of human diversity and inviting viewers to understand the relationship between form and space.
• CASTERLINE|GOODMAN GALLERY (ASPEN): Young American artist, Daniel Yocum has gained recognition for his unique approach to figurative abstract expressionism infused with hip-hop aesthetics. His distinctive style is characterized by vivid colors and lurking marks of black, often incorporating imagery of cars and flowers.
• ART IN DONGSAN (SOUTH KOREA): Sculptural works from Steel Che (Youngkwan Choi) re-purpose industrial materials into artistic forms with the exhibition's centerpiece, "Steam Robot," demonstrating his mastery of traditional craftsmanship along with his ability to transform industrial materials into large-scale and provoking art.
• COLUMBIA ROAD GALLERY (LONDON, UK): The gallery brings the pulse of East London's vibrant art scene to LA Art Show. Primarily focused on up-and-coming UK-based artists.The gallery will present works by four notable artists: Kate Boxer, Thomas Gosebruch, Hannah Ludnow, and Jonathan Schofield.
• DANUBIANA MUSESUM (SLOVAKIA): Viktor Freso’s breathtaking 30-foot Bear Sculpture will be located in the lobby as a symbol of power and resilience, setting the tone for the event as bigger, braver and more ambitious than ever before.
Tickets are at www.laartshow.com with 15% of proceeds donated to the American Heart Association’s Life is Why TM campaign.
