One of Cooc Fusco's billboards during Frieze Los Angeles 2025 Courtesy Frieze, Orange Barrel Media, Coco Fusco and Mendes Wood DM
Since moving to Santa Monica Airport in 2023, Frieze Los Angeles has featured aeronautical art, from Basil Kincaid’s quilt-covered plane (2023) to this year’s aerial- choreography project by the artist Madeline Hollander and the Santa Monica Flyers flight school. Another project takes the theme citywide during this year's edition: a collaboration between the conceptual artist Coco Fusco, the gallery Mendes Wood DM and the out-of-home advertising company Orange Barrel Media, which has placed images from Fusco’s skywriting project Only in Darkness on digital billboards throughout Los Angeles. The displays feature azure skies punctuated with skywritten words and phrases like “Can you see the stars”, provoking reflection about the state of our environment.
Fundraising events both in California and New York aim to support affected artists and art workers
Post-Fair will take place in an Art Deco former post office building in downtown Santa Monica, a short drive from Frieze
The New York-based artist, who marries elements of graffiti and Mexico’s modernist murals, is rewarded with a solo stand at Frieze Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Lacma and Moca jointly acquire two works
