A stairway to heaven it is not: the UK artist Cornelia Parker has transformed fragments of a staircase used by the US guitar legend Jimi Hendrix into an installation (There must be some kind of way outta here, 2016, on Frith Street Gallery’s stand). The remnants of the stairs come from a house in Mayfair, London, where Hendrix lived between 1968 and 1969. Parker salvaged the painted wood pieces after the property was recently converted into a museum. The price of the work is available upon request.
Works by Mary Corse, Liza Lou and Catherine Opie—the three artists from California that Lehmann Maupin has chosen for its Frieze stand—are also linked by their use of light, whether in Corse’s softly glimmering canvases, the transparency of Lou’s woven glass beads, or the glare of the floodlights in Opie’s Football Landscape #3 (Notre Dame vs St Thomas More, Lafayette, LA) (2007), offered in the range of $35,000 and $45,000.
Seats are too often in short supply at an art fair. One solution is to purchase one by Donald Judd, whose foundation is exhibiting for the first time at Frieze. The Judd Foundation’s display at stand B39 includes furniture, writings, and preparatory drawings from the archives in Marfa, Texas. Among the works that can be immediately taken home are two types of chair, the Pine Library Stool, priced at $1,900, or the aluminium Corner Chair, priced $6,900.
