Notes from Felix Fair
Last weekend we attended the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles for the first time. Here's highlights.
Last weekend we attended the Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles for the first time. We skipped Outsider Art Fair for the first time in a few years and we were glad to switch it up.
#arteagora melds outsider and street art, and it was good to be in Los Angeles in early March :-)
Each “booth” at the fair is an actual hotel room. Way better/ more intimate vibe than subdivided office-like cubicles. Here’s six galleries that caught our attention.
Corbett vs. Dempsey
This Chicago-based favorite had a series of drawings by Chicago born and raised Karl Wirsum. It was great talking with them about #arteagora, especially the long history of outsider artists who make and sell their work on the streets.
Creative Growth
We first heard about Felix Fair via a marketing email from this longtime leader in the field of arts and disabilities. Their participation marked “a significant moment for the representation of artists with disabilities in mainstream art events”. We picked up this piece, by Donald Mitchell which @shawlaree first saw at OAF 2023.
Mitchell’s work is in an upcoming show at SFMOMA with Creative Growth artists and also some from NIAD Art Centerand Creativity Explored.
Charlie James Gallery
The breath of work in this show was amazing. Including @leequinones and @ozziejuarez. They had a wide variety of price points and lots of red dots on the wall.
Storage
Curator Onyedika Chuke @onyedikachuke shared his thoughts behind curation for this booth, including the work of @barbaranitke. He spoke of uplifting older artists who have “cycled out” of popularity or favor and he seeks to create intergenerational spaces in his NYC studio.
Kavi Gupta
Occupying one of the large suites on the 12th floor, this gallery had a number of pieces by Chicago’s Roger Brown and Richard Hunt as well Wadsworth Jarrell, one of the original five founders of the Black arts collective AFRICOBRA. Gupta's Black Voices Initiative “amplifies printed matter that centers Black artists, Black writers, and their work.”