LA ART SHOW The Most Comprehensive International Contemporary Art Show in America Happening Now!

GENERAL SHOW HOURS/TICKETS
General Admission, One Day Ticket $30
Friday, July 30, 2021 I 12pm – 8pm
Saturday, July 31, 2021 I 12pm – 8pm
Sunday, August 1, 2021 I 12pm – 6pm

LA Convention Center

1201 Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA, 90015

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We’re delighted the LA Art Show is now open at the Los Angeles Convention Center from July 29 to August 1, 2021, helping to re-energize the LA art scene after the long quiet months of the pandemic. The most comprehensive art fair on the west coast, the LA Art Show also presents one of the most diverse and engaging programs in the world. This year, we’re pleased to host an exciting lineup of exhibitors specializing in contemporary and modern art, as well as classical and other specialized areas that often command their own dedicated shows. A full agenda of events, performances and specially curated exhibitions along with our exciting DIVERSEartLA program curated by Marisa Caichiolo, will round out the fair. See below for details! In her first year as LA Art Show director and producer, after serving as the fair’s executive director for several years, Kassandra Voyagis expressed her commitment to hosting a spectacular and safe event that will boost the local art market as we emerge from Covid. The fair will also be presented on Artsy, the online platform. For more details, see below or visit the LA Art Show page on Artsy. For our 26th year, the LA Art Show is pleased to welcome more than 80 exhibiting galleries and museums from North & South America, Asia and Europe. See the list of exhibitors below.
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DIVERSEartLA

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The 2021 edition of DIVERSEartLA, curated by Marisa Caichiolo, will focus on the presence, contributions, research and documentation of women and non- binary artists at the forefront of work at the intersection of art, science and technology represented by guest Museums, Institutions and Not-for-Profit Organizations.

“Science, art and technology are human attempts to understand and describe the world around us. The subjects and methods have different traditions and the intended audiences are different, but I think the motivations and goals are fundamentally the same. I think one of the most primal and innate needs of humans is to understand the world around us, and then share that understanding,” said Caichiolo.

In the field of digital art in the last fifteen years, many artists have been working on materializing the digital information and new media practices by audio or visual means (such as installation works, audio-visual and performances which include technology) in order to grasp the imagination of it; while other artists are aiming to present the concept of ‘signals’ from the perspective of synesthesia: they try to visualize sound signals with the aid of machinery and therefore transform the abstract geometric images into sounds through computer operations.

This wave began in the 1920s, when many artists aimed to create time-based visual works. Although some of the works seemed to embody the technology and innovation, much of it actually originated from the most tangible form of reality, the artist’s surrounding natural environments.

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DIVERSEartLA will be an examination and a compilation of material, as well as an exhibition featuring the work of women and non-binary artists who have played a central role in the development of new media practices within art institutions and throughout history. We are also diving into a new period where we’ve had to deal with the breakdown of traditional relationships between the material and the immaterial.

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