Los Angeles February 2023 - 2: Richard Heller Gallery, and Arches of Agony at Guest House
Shortly before I left for Los Angeles, the Richard Heller Gallery there sent me my latest purchase, an extraordinary little oil painting on board, called Have Fun! , by Sean Norvet (pictured above). For my stay in LA, I booked a spartan, overpriced hotel on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica, to the north of the airport and within walking distance of Frieze. As it happened, my lunch guest on the second day, an LA resident, chose a restaurant (Lunetta) just ten minutes' walk along the boulevard. Over breakfast in the hotel, I opened Google Maps to see if there was anything I could visit locally to while away the time until lunch, and spotted a place called ' Bergamot Station Arts Center '. I looked it up to get details, and it turned out to be a cluster of galleries, including, believe it or not, Richard Heller, just north of the restaurant. So after breakfast, off I went, clutching my camera. The gallery was just setting up two new exhibitions, one in each of its rooms, openin...