Louise Bourgeois, Untitled (2004). All photos on site by Art Observed.

The last of the throng at the first Frieze Art Fair on Randall’s Island in New York City petered out Monday afternoon yet, the most avid collectors simply shifted course to the remainder auction sales at Christie’s and Philips de Pury. Overall, gallerists at the fair appeared to be immensely pleased with the inaugural event, some booths claiming blowout sales, while others were content with merely executing reserve transactions.

John Ahearn casts a fairgoer in plaster as part of Frieze Projects

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Nate Lowman, Swiss Cheese and The Doors: A One Night Stand (2012). All installation images via Massimo De Carlo and the artist.

Massimo de Carlo is showing 40 new works by NYC-based artist Nate Lowman. The press release states that ‘drawing on histories of collage, appropriation, and assemblage since the 1960s,’ Lowman aims ‘to craft a formal and strategic approach around a personal and cultural identification with images.’ A varied body of works, ranging from alkyd and oil rendered pointilist paintings to the more ‘theatrical’ lighting installations meant to evoke dusk and dawn, Swiss Cheese and the Doors: A One Night Stand is preoccupied with the ‘shift between narrative themes and experiential space.’

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