SPOTLIGHT: Everything We Loved at This Year’s 2026 Frieze Week in LA

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Despite being in LA in February once again for my annual winter sojourn, I promised myself this year that I would finally take it easy during Frieze week, not run around so much, maybe pick three new artists to spotlight in my newsletter rather than trying to digest it all. Well, dear readers, I failed at that task; I did skip the Frieze fair proper for the first time, but then ran out to the west side anyway to check out the second annual Post Fair (oops), a smaller show for up and coming galleries inside a 1930s Santa Monica post office. I stopped by the even newer, smaller fair Enzo, saw the newest work at The Future Perfect in Hollywood, and spent a lovely afternoon at Felix, where I found my new favorite painter, Alessandro Teoldi, showing with Marinaro gallery. John Zabawa had a solo show with Francis Gallery at the Neutra VDL House, Rhett Baruch filled his apartment gallery with works by glass and craft artists, and Lobster Club released a fresh batch of work by emerging artists.

In the end I felt the urge to go gallery hopping, too, but that’s where reality finally hit — I had a newsletter to write, and a hardware showroom to run. So I restrained myself, tore through Frieze’s online viewing room, and put together this roundup. Enjoy!

Felix Art Fair

Alessandro Teoldi, Marinaro Gallery Yuka Mori, Atla Los Angeles 1930 mosaic Portrait of a Man by Elsa Schmid (top) and 1949 painting by Virginia Dudley (bottom), New York Life Gallery
Porfirio Gutierrez, Volume Gallery

Frieze Art Fair

Sophia Flood, Babst GalleryHiroshi Sugito, Mendes Wood DMElise Peroi, Carvalho Greg Parma Smith, Hoffman DonahueAhn Jisan, Johyun Gallery Corydon Kowansage, Kaufmann RepettoAaron Glasson, Roberts Projects Emma Soucek, Sebastian GladstoneTonia Calderon, VielmetterJemima Murphy, Anat Ebgi

Lobster Club

Maja Dlugolecki Kristin Giorgi Heidi Hundseth Hart

Post Fair

Carsten In Der Elst, Marta GalleryEdward Kay, Roland Ross

Glass Half Full at Rhett Baruch Gallery

Shay AlfiaNienke SikkemaKirsten Hermansson (sculpture), Preston Daniels (paintings)Jacob Shumaker (green glass figure), Alissa Volchkova (glass vase)
Jacob ShumakerJacob ShumakerLisette Schumacher