Mustafa Ali Clayton, Natural, 2024. Earthenware, glaze, wood pedestal hand-built from found materials. 61 × 55.9 × 50.8 in. Courtesy the artist and Dominique Gallery
Mustafa Ali Clayton’s ceramic sculpture Natural (2024), presented at Frieze Los Angeles by Dominique Gallery (Booth F4), has been selected by the jury of the new California African American Museum Acquisition Fund. Frieze Los Angeles and the California African American Museum (CAAM) have partnered on this new initiative to acquire a work from the fair’s Focus section for the Museum’s collection.
The California African American Museum Acquisition Fund's selection panel comprises Taylor Renee Aldridge (Visual Arts Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum), Christine Messineo (Director of Americas, Frieze) and V. Joy Simmons (collector, philanthropist and CAAM board member). The acquisition was made possible thanks to the support of Terri Holoman, Todd Hawkins and V. Joy Simmons. This new acquisition prize has been established in honor of Essence Harden, curator of Focus at Frieze Los Angeles 2024. Harden is visual arts curator at the California African American Museum and was recently announced as co-curator of the 2025 Made in L.A. biennial.
