Frieze Art Fair - Los Angeles - February 17-20, 2022

For Frieze Los Angeles 2022, Ortuzar Projects is pleased to exhibit a solo presentation of painter, dancer, poet, and scenic designer Suzanne Jackson spanning more than fifty years of work. Her earliest acrylic paintings, in which vibrant color is washed in layers onto canvas, poetically merge the natural and the personal in near abstract compositions. (As in Triplical Communications, 1969.) Her most recent suspended acrylic paintings release color from any traditional fiber support, drawing organic and other materials— loquat seeds, lace, mesh and woven cane fragments — into lyrical gestures scaled to the room. A special feature of this selection is the major triptych In A Black Man’s Garden, 1973, originally shown at the Ankrum Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard. Its sparse and mystical forms—defined by color—envision an environmental utopia that aesthetically countered the militancy of that era. Ortuzar Projects presented a groundbreaking exhibition of Jackson’s work in 2019, followed by a historic group exhibition focusing on her activity in 1970s Los Angeles in 2021.

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