There are too many good booths here, and at the risk of running too long, I’ll briefly reel off a few extra recommendations. There’s a strong solo presentation of Mary Lovelace O’Neal at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, showing works that officially date to the 1990s but have been worked on an altered between the 1980s and 2021. In the Focus section, Toronto’s Daniel Faria Gallery has an intriguing presentation of new work by 82-year-old, Harlem-born, Toronto-based artist June Clark, and Seoul’s Whistle has cool abstractions by Seoul-based Min ha Park. Tina Kim Gallery has a few works on view by Pacita Abad to complement its solo show for the artist in Chelsea (as well as her traveling retrospective that recently opened at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis).
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As Frieze New York opened to VIPs this Wednesday, midway through the second week of fairs the city has seen in a row, a line stretched toward 11th Avenue. Everyone seemed buzzed with excitement, and the energy continued to be felt inside, where thrumming crowds were packed into the aisles. By the day’s end, several dealers reported robust sales.
Among those in attendance were collectors like Lonti Ebers, Maja Hoffmann, Estrellita Brodsky, Komal Shah, Pamela Joyner, and Ricard Agakawa, as well as museum directors and curators like Johanna Burton and Naomi Beckwith. Former Real Housewives of New York star Kelly Killoren Bensimon even pushed me out of the way to take a photo in front of a Jack Whitten work.
Below, a look at the best on offer at the 2023 edition of Frieze New York, which runs until May 21 at the Shed in Hudson Yards.
