Photo LA and Bergamont

22 Jan Photo LA and Bergamont

Ran up to Photo LA today to take a quick peek. Lot’s of good stuff but man was it packed. I’m glad that artLA is going to be a little more spread out and I’m hopeful that as many people attend.

Anyway, all the big names were there but my personal favorite was Michael Garlington’s wall (pictured) over at Stephen Cohen’s booth. I have known of his work for about 3 or 4 years now and I didn’t know that Cohen had picked him up. The work looked good. Yossi Milo brought Loretta Lux and Alec Soth and they seemed to be selling a lot of both.

I also ran into OMC Gallery from Berlin who had Huntington Beach on their sign so I had to introduce myself. It seems he’s just working out of his house now but we’re going to talk again. He’ll be coming to artLA. Maybe I can convince him to cluster with me and I can get a Bergamot South thing going. OC could use one.

Speaking of Bergamont, I ran over there on the way out. Outside of Mark Moore gallery it was pretty weak….Oh, and Patricia Corriea had a good show up.

Mark Moore was showing Christoph Schmidberger, a painter from Austria. The show was sold out and it was easy to see why. It’s up for a couple more weeks so if you get a chance check it out.