Installation view: Alexander Gray Associates, Frieze New York, 2023
At its debut in 2012, Frieze New York, a spinoff of Frieze in London, came off as an imperious enterprise. The fair commanded an island in the East River. Getting there could be difficult and expensive. And once there, negotiating the miles of pedestrian aisles formed by some 120 galleries made for a humbling degree of exertion.
These include dynamite paintings by Harmony Hammond and Joan Semmel at Alexander Gray’s booth, and an exquisite Bethany Collins text piece there. Jac Leirner’s skinny, spear-like collages at Esther Schipper (Berlin) and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel (Brazil) are reminders that this Brazilian artist’s first major New York survey recently opened at Swiss Institute here and is on view through Aug. 27.
