Art fairs are platforms where the commercial art world gathers to exchange ideas, assets and discuss art and artists. One of the edgiest art fairs, Frieze, is held this week in NY with international and US galleries presenting the best on their booths.

One of the most remarkable presentations is Gagosian which features Nan Goldin’s debut presentation with the gallery. Following its recent announcement of her representation, Goldin showcased eight grid works made over the last fifteen years.

Goldin selects the photographs for her grids according to formal or psychological themes. The grid format, with which she has been working for over twenty years, emerged from the same associative impulse as her slide shows. As Elisabeth Sussman has written, “The grid, an echo of the slideshow, sums up her view that history and time exist as an aggregate of individual lives.”

Nan Goldin is one of the most celebrated American photographers. Her most notable work is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986). The monograph documents the post-Stonewall, gay subculture and includes Goldin’s family and friends. Frieze NY closes at the end of today.