Frieze Los Angeles

David Zwirner is pleased to participate in the sixth edition of Frieze Los Angeles this February. The focus of the gallery’s booth will be a number of single-sitter portraits dated between 1995 and 2000 by John Currin, Karen Kilimnik, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans, and Lisa Yuskavage. Inspired by the groundbreaking 1997 exhibition Projects 60: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this special selection of paintings highlights how these artists pioneered an exciting new mode of figuration in the 1990s that proliferated in the ensuing decades. In Faucet (1995), first shown in Santa Monica in 1996, Yuskavage elaborates on a figure that is seen throughout her body of work as well as in her solo exhibition at David Zwirner Los Angeles, on view during the run of the fair. The gallery’s fair presentation also includes canvases from the early 2000s by LA-based artists such as Noah Davis and Laura Owens that evoke the spirit of the Los Angeles arts scene, as well as paintings from the same period by Nicole Eisenman and Dana Schutz. Grouped together, the work by this younger generation represents a continuation of the figurative impulse established by painters in the 1990s. The gallery will also feature new works made especially for the fair by Emma McIntyre and Walter Price.