Frieze Los Angeles: Booth B7

A selection of paintings by Sarah Grilo—whose first exhibition with the gallery, Sarah Grilo: The New York Years 1962-70, is currently on view in New York—will be presented at our booth. Largely monochromatic and accented by bolts of vibrancy representative of Grilo’s distinct handling of color, the paintings are populated by an assimilation of language. Grilo’s unique fusion of language and abstraction emerged in the 1960s when she began sourcing passages from U.S. print media such as LIFE and women’s magazines using transfer techniques. Works on view from the ensuing decades see the artist favor freehand renderings of text, demonstrating Grilo’s intuitive, expressive approach to painting.

On view at our booth will be an early and rarely exhibited work by Ana Mendieta. Untitled (Cosmetic Facial Variations) from 1972 is a photographic suite of four color photographs that the artist made as a graduate student in the University of Iowa’s pioneering Intermedia program. In this performative act, Mendieta distorted her appearance with shampoo suds on her own hair, using her body to explore issues of self-representation and female identity. This work belongs to a series in which the artist engaged the idea of transformation using hair, cosmetics, and wigs, with only the camera as her audience. A major solo exhibition, Ana Mendieta: Search for Origin, is currently on view at MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, having travelled from MO.CO Montpellier Contemporain, France. The exhibition brings together over one hundred works made between 1968 and 1985, including a dozen works that have never been exhibited.