The minute the VIP session of the first-ever edition of Frieze Los Angeles opened this morning at Paramount Pictures Studios, there was a feeling of pent-up hunger being unleashed: The city finally had an art fair that matched its status as an art world capital. It’s been a long time coming.
A throng of collectors ducked inside from a driving rain and busily got to work—they’d been waiting for this—threading through the 70 or so booths (not counting the excellent shows in the Frieze Projects area on the famed Paramount backlot).
Alexander Gray, who runs the eponymous New York gallery, agreed that it was the natural next step given that “there’s such a big gallery base and collector scene now.” He was showing the work of the talented realistic painter Hugh Steers, including Black Bag (1993), featuring a male sashay in a pair of high heels. He said that Steers was becoming a favorite of “gay Hollywood”; the works also got a quizzical double-take from Stallone as he walked by with wife Jennifer Flavin.
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