Noah Purifoy, Desert Tombstone, 1995. Mixed media, 64 × 41 × 18 cm. Courtesy: Tilton Gallery
Eight Standout Solo Shows at Frieze Los Angeles 2025
December 12, 2024
From April Bey’s glitter-filled universe to Eamon Ore-Giron’s kaleidoscopic deities, discover new and unseen solo projects at this year’s fair
Featuring ‘obsessive’ new marble works by Greta Schödl and some of Noah Purifoy’s final creations, solo presentations at Frieze Los Angeles 2025 champion pioneering artists past and present.
Noah Purifoy presented by Tilton Gallery (New York)
Noah Purifoy was a key voice in the Black arts movement in Los Angeles in the 1960s and ’70s and is notorious for making art from the debris of the Watts Rebellion. His work inspired the Hammer’s exhibition ‘Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living’ and continues to influence new generations of artists. Tilton Gallery presents Purifoy’s later sculptural assemblages and collages, most of which have never been exhibited in Los Angeles, which he made in Joshua Tree between 1989–2004, the last years of his life.