# Frieze New York 2021

URL: https://vielmetter.com/fairs/frieze-ny-2021/
May 5 — 9, 2021 · Artists: Esther Pearl Watson

Vielmetter Los Angeles is pleased to present a new group of paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Esther Pearl Watson for Frieze New York 2021. The works will also be on view in the Greenhouse space at the gallery from May 5-15. Continuing her series of diaristic narrative paintings documenting the Covid-19 pandemic as it unfolds, Watson’s works give a personal perspective filtering the timeline and reality of living through the pandemic through her own life in Los Angeles. Picking up from where her first series of pandemic paintings left off, these new works date from November of 2020 through March of 2021. Chronicling life post-election, these paintings document the height of the pandemic in Los Angeles as the city became the national epicenter of the crisis and as the nation transitioned presidential administrations and the vaccine rollout began. Through the details of each work, Watson records both the mundane and the surreal details of living through the pandemic displaying both the resilience and fragility of our existence.