20th-Century Icons at Frieze Los Angeles 2026

Alexander Gray Associates | B05

A highlight of Alexander Gray’s group show, Melvin Edwards’s (b.1937) welded steel sculptures and works on paper distill compression, tension and release into physical form. This presentation debuts several rare 1960s works, including Inside and Out (1963–64), from his series ‘Lynch Fragments’, created in Los Angeles more than 60 years ago. 

These investigations into what materials hold – physically, historically, emotionally – trace back to Betty Parsons’s (1900-1982) mid-century abstractions, including Looking Back (1957), which recall a foundational moment when risk and improvisation opened new possibilities for American painting. 

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