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New York Art Fair Week: March 7-11

7 Mar

New York Art Fair Week: March 7-11

New York Art Fair week starts today.

With the arrival of new fairs to the North American market the fairs have divided into two seasons.

May 3-6 we have Pulse, NADA, Frieze and Verge to look forward to.

 March 7 -11 we have Armory Week with the fairs :

The ADAA – Art Dealers Association of America 

Park Avenue Armory - Park Avenue at 67th Street

Featuring 72 blue chip quality galleries who are members of the  ADAA.

The Armory Show 

Pier 92 & 94

Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City

Over 120 exhibitors from around the world, will be great to see the new inovations brought to the piers with Noah Horowitz who has recently assumed the role as Managing Director.

 

SCOPE Pavilion

57th St & 12th Avenue (West Side Highway)
Scope, traditionally has set up tents in Lincoln Square, and now debuts at new location just steps away from the Armory Show piers.

VOLTA NY

7W 34th Street,

 

Waterfront New York Tunnel
269 11th Avenue - Between 27th and 28th Streets

 

The Dependent

ONE DAY ONLY!!!  This renegade fair, is one day only, featuring on the pulse emerging galleries.

THE COMFORT INN
136 LUDLOW STREET

Fountain Art Fair

69th Regiment Armory –  68 Lexington Avenue @ 25th Street

Fountain also announced this year’s fair at a new location, moving a way from the endearing yet terrifying Frying Pan.

Handsdown, Fountain Art Fair is the most fun fair on the scene.  Though the MoMA Armory Launch Party music performance is by  Neon Indian, I can’t wait for Fountian’s Friday Night opening party hosted featuring  Spirit Animal, and a DJ set by New York legend and street art pioneer Fab 5 Freddy!

Miami Art Fairs 2011 : Pulse Art

4 Dec

Pulse is one of my favorite fairs not only because of the consistent high level of quality art and galleries, but also for the gorgeous location and courtyard installations at the Ice Palace.

I loved Blythe Project‘s booth, with these fantastic vibrant abstraction paintings by Mark Schoering and an amazing neon light sculpture hanging in the center of the booth that really pulled together the entire focal motif of the space.

 

On the theme of layered vibrant coloured paintings, we saw Kristen Schiele at Freight&Volume, Johannes Giradoni at Tominson Kong, and this massive diptych of runway at night by Ingmar Alge at Kuckei&Kuckei.

Jason Gringler painting at Galerie Stefan Ropke, and this interesting hanging sculpture made of hundreds of little plastic planes by Teresa Diehl at Galerie Anita Beckers

Eye catching broad horizon photos, Matthew Brandt at M+B, and Simon Lee at Cristin Tierney.

On the attractive aesthetic side, beautiful drawn portrait at Zemack Contemporary.  The video – photo- multimedia works by Nici Jost at Balzer Art Projects, this Swiss artist whose works ring a Pipilotti Rist  meets Alice in Wonderland spin on seeing nature from a distorted miniature perspective.  On the theme of miniatures, charmingly ironic salt shakers turned sand-timers with little figures inside by Alta Price & Jonah Koppel at Artware Editions.

Miami Art Fairs 2011 : NADA

4 Dec

NADA  - New Art Dealers Alliance – Fair is always such a pleasure to attend.  Of all the hotel based fairs, NADA does it right at the gorgeous deco Deauville Beach Resort.  As opposed to maze like cubes and harsh fluorescent lights, NADA’s spiraling floor design and the lustrous chandeliers create a flowing path which is the most pleasurable way to navigate through any fair.

The art program is fun and edgy – New Art dealers assemble to bring forward the youngest and brightest new gallerists.

Loved this installation at American Contemporary Gallery, metallic paintings at Studio Voltaire.

Ryan Foerster at Ribordy Contemporary, series of paintings at Recess, Yamini Nayer photos at Thomas Erben Gallery.

Dynamic photo montages at Clifton Benevento by Martin Soto Climent, dark electric photos at Fitzroy Gallery.

John Hiltunen characateur montages at Creative Growth, the narrative book series at MKG127, painting by John Sparagana at Corbett vs Dempsey. 

Best curated booths go to Curro & Poncho, and Cumulus Studio‘s installation.

Compellingly strange works at Kate Werble whose booth was wrapped in trash bags, Country Club, and Hole Gallery.

Miami Art Fairs 2011: Scope

4 Dec

Scope Art Fair celebrated their 11th year anniversary with a logo redesign.  Scope brands themselves as a progressive fair who invests heavily in encouraging the careers of emerging artists, exemplified in their initiatives like Artists Wanted (a collaboration to showcase new talent) as well as the in fair programs by Primary Flight (see Taco Stand below).  Their  new fluid linking logo is emblematic of these elements – motion, collaboration, and progress.

Hands down favorite booth at Scope was Heiner Contemporary with a booth dedicated to the work of artist Avery Lawrence.  The narrative of youth, industry, nature and industriousness collide in this warmly domestic space.  Lawrence works in a variety of media, including video, painting, self portrait photographer as well as creating this intricate wall paper exploring the disjuncture of contemporary man in constructed outdoor landscapes.

Beautiful landscape photos by Aleix Plademunt of chairs in landscape with the chairs also installed in the booth at Waltman Ortga.  Beautiful assemblage of photos highlighting the many renown artists represented at Hamburg Kennedy.  Loved these gorgeous little paintings of underwater swimming by Eric Zener offered in conjunction with his book of collected work.

Primary Flight, a Miami based multidisciplinary, multifaceted, experimental project space,  presented Kenton Parker’s Taco Shop.  This interactive space reminiscent of the shared cultural phenomena of late night street meat.

Kasia Kay Gallery had a great booth of big pop paintings.  Patrajdas Contemporary gorgeous exploded sculptures of mythological figures by Kate Macdowell.

Miami Art Fairs 2011 : OHWOW

3 Dec

OHWOW presented It Ain’t Fair: Materialism in a pop up tent in the Wynwood Design district.

OHWOW is collective that hosts events, pop up fairs, runs a magazine and different events representing a creative community of a variety of artists working in a range of media from photos, sculpture, mixed media, drawing and performance.

Amanda Ross-Ho,

Michael Genovese,

Nothing in the space was labeled – giving the whole space a united harmonious kind of feel.  I especially liked the works by Michael Genovese, Aaron Young, Amanda Ross-Ho, and Daniel Arsham.

Miami Art Fairs 2011 – Verge and Ink Highlights

3 Dec

Ink Art Fair is a unique fair dedicated to contemporary work on paper.  Inhabiting the surprisingly lovely Suites of Dorchester, the fair hosted 14 galleries on the ground level of the hotel.

Notable spaces included the installation of the Pace Gallery, and this Sangbim Im piece at Mary Ryan Gallery.

Pace Prints

 

Verge Art Fair is an unconventional fair with a real DIY feel.  The small rooms hosted either small galleries or single artists exhibiting their work privately.  An exhibiting artist told me that when the Pool Art Fair got shut down due to incorrect permits, Verge took in some of the orphaned galleries.  Where Verge loses some points for a marque seemingly made out of construction paper scotch-taped to the front of the building — they definitely gain some big karma points for supporting emerging artists and struggling fairs.

Miami Art Fairs 2011 : Red Dot

3 Dec

The Red Dot Art Fair is a very decorative fair featuring around 50 different galleries, with a special selection of about a dozen galleries from Korea.

With an approachable variety of mid-ranged priced art works, there is something here to match any interior design tastes.  My only complaint is that the shaky plywood floors brought a level of cheapness to the fair which diminished the overall look and value of the gallery booths.

Significant mention goes to Adamar Fine Arts with the wall of Warhol camouflage prints.

Nice variety of works from Art Company Misoolsidae of Seoul (paintings by Saya Da Jung)

Lovely vintage looking photographs at Artion Galleries by Courtney Garrett, and abstracted organic paintings by Suzan Woodruff at George Billis Gallery.

Miami Art Fairs 2011: Aqua

3 Dec

As far as the Miami hotel based satellite fairs go, Aqua Miami has the most charm.  Atrium was filled with installations and convivial seating area that made attending feel persuasively like an art fair rather than creeping through hotel windows.

Aqua showcased some very interesting West Coast galleries, and some attractive very street looking art.

Highlights included What it is Projects, from Oak Park IL I really liked this wall installation.

 

Galerie SAS had an amazing space, with a good mix of work especially these murdered ceramic sculptures by Laurent Craste.

Colourfully nostalgic sentimental photographs by Kelli Connell at Gallery 339.

 

The Pentimenti Gallery had an amazing program, featuring attractive approachable works.  Mark Khaisman’s portraits were especially amazing, created with layers of tape on lightboxes.

Get Ready for Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

2 Dec

I’m on my way to Miami… click the banners to link out to each fair’s site.

  Miami Beach Convention Center

 The Ice Palace | 1400 North Miami Avenue

 

   NE 1st Ave (Midtown Blvd)  at NE 30th St

 

  Deauville Beach Resort Collins Ave & 67th St

 

    1671 Washionton Ave Greenview Hotel

 

 2637 N Miami Ave at NE 27th St.

 

   Aqua Hotel 1530 Collins Ave

 

  2505 N. Miami Ave (at the corner of 25th St)

 

 Suites of Dorchester  1850 Collins Avenue (19th St)

 

Bridgeman Art at The HOW Conference

25 Jun

While attending the HOW Design Live conference, I came across the booth of Bridgeman Art, a fine art image licensing agency that work with over 8000 collections.   Bridgeman Art offered a fantastic booth give-away – they had a variety of famous painting cutouts that you posed in, and they offered you the Polaroid framed in a mouse pad.  See mine above as I pose in The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs, by Georges de La Tour.

The Affordable Art Fair 2011

4 May

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The Affordable Art Fair goal is to make art accessible to all buyers at all the price ranges.  A truely wonderful fair, hosting a diverse range of gallerists and artwork, the greatest pleasure was seeing the many people walking out with wrapped artwork in hand.

Though the misconception of Affordable can ring as cheap and low quality, this fair hosted a gorgeous array of work and international galleries from Argentina to Austraila.

Favorites included blue abstracted horizons at Sarah Myerscough, Sean Brannan’s birch trees at Madelyn Jordon, and Edouard Buzon paintings at Envie d’Art.

Independent Fair: Highlights and Favorites

6 Mar

The Independent was one of the best New York fairs I attended.  As last year was the inaugural year, the fair was exciting and new but the aesthetics of the space and the building were left very raw and open concept.

This year the Independent stepped up with some bigger named galleries, and redesigned booths that allowed for flowing spaces while simultaneously embracing the spectacular building and aura that is the former Dia:Chelsea.

Obligatory neon and large large text based works at Meyer Riegger and Sutton Lane.

The Independent seemed to host a lot of sculpture, possibly because the space can accommodate sculpture so well.

Massive chimes by Klause Weber at Andrew Kreps, mixed media industrial sculpture by Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee, the taxidermy puppy by David Shrigley.

Exploded car by Michel François at Bortolami and this intricate metal cube sculpture.

Some beautiful mixed media paitings, Walead Beshty at Tanya Leighton.

Alex Brown and Tom of Finland paintings at Feature Inc. and a large new work by David Salle at Maureen Paley.

Pulse Fair: Highlights and Favorites

6 Mar

This year’s Pulse Fair was held for the first time at the Metropolitan center.

PINTA – the Latin American art fair was held here last year quite successfully since they assumed the entire ground floor space .

The deep narrow booths at Pulse created claustrophobic narrow aisles that made this fair an awkward viewing experience.

Really loved this amazing Packing tape on plexiglass technique by Mark Khaisman at Pentimenti, as well as this nice red square piece at Shshana Wayne.

Nice to see less political works and more approchable paintings like these Markus Linnenbrink and Markus Weggenmann at FTC.

Even the figurative works were mildly abstracted, like Ryan Martin’s collaged paintings at CTS Workshop, Alex Prager photos, Mario Muller painting at Mary Ryan and the Jane Hambleton at Michael Rosenthal.

New perspective in sculpture, the wire speach bubbles by Greely Myatt at David Lusk, and the miniature tree tornado by Jorge Mayet at Horrach Moya.

The upper level hosted ImPulse, hosting galleries that were invited to present solo exhibitions.

ArtJetSet favorite was Damian Stamer’s abstracted landscape paintings at Freight+Volume.

Really enjoyed Mark Schoening’s paintings at Blythe Projects, as well as Rene Barge photos at Dorsch.

ADAA The Art Show: Highlights and Favorites

6 Mar

The Art Dealer’s Association of America’s The Art Show brings together the best of museum quality art and galleries to the Park Avenue Armory.

A considerably small fair, The Art Show invites blue chip galleries to present solo and two artists exhibitions or strategically curated booths.

The interior of the fair was quite somber with a pallet of dark deep gray walls and carpeting, the quiet lull of the space was filled by some nice booths hosting the much expected Matisse, Picasso, and American photography.

The most beautifully curated presentation titled Wishing and Praying was at CRG.

A brilliant and compelling presentation of religious iconography, like these works by Arnulf Rainer and Robert Buck.

Peter Blum presented a solo show of preliminary works on paper by David Reed.  Known for his large abstract works, these gorgeous colour and form studies elaborate on the extensive building, pallet testing, and sketching invested in each painting.

Enoc Perez monochromatic Fountain Bleu hotel painting, and James Welling photo of the Glass House.

Beautiful sculptural pieces at Sperone Westwater and Rachel Whiteread coloured resin works at Luhring Augustine.

Maxwell Davidson presented a humouristic thematic exhibition titled The Objectification of Pop, with works from Tom Wesselmen and the typical 1960s pop artists, along side this work by Leo Castelli, and reconstructed tapedeck by Kiel Johnson.

Exquisitly delicate works on paper David Opdyke at Ronald Feldman, and Jaume Plensa at Galerie Lelong.

Of course large text based works that we’ve seen as a predominant theme through all this season’s fairs, at Cheim&Read and Yazid Oulab at CRG.

Fun bright paintings at Regen Projects, and the miniature sculptures of everyday objects by Tom Friedman at James Cohan.

Fountain Fair: Highlights and Favorites

5 Mar

The musical performance by Gordon Voidwell at Fountain Fair Opening Night reception party, set the perfect atmosphere for this alternative art fair.

Much of the art, like the fair itself, has a crude alternative-pop street feel, especially resonated by its location at The Frying Pan at refurbished lightship that has been resurrected as an event space and bar.

Liked the vitrine by Evo Love at Stash Gallery, massive installation by Greg Haberny that filled one full space with floor to ceiling paintings and constructions.

I especially enjoy Fountain’s dedication to special artist project installations.

I visited In2it,  and had a nice conversation with sculptor and inhabitant Jason Robert Bell.

The igloo is a performance space and occupancy is also being sold as a timeshare.  Layered with carpeting and fur, the igloo features a working air conditioner to underline the irony “selling art is like selling air conditioning in the arctic.”

Tragically, during the set up of this installation, Bell had a studio fire.  I encourage you all to purchase a share of time in In2it support the rebuild.

Volta: Highlights and Favorites

4 Mar

Volta is a fantastic show because the exhibitors present one single artist’s works.

This year Volta offered a very innovative idea for their catalog – instead of a big heavy tome, visitors were given an empty folder and the information prospectus were available at each booth, granting the viewer the ability to personalize their catalog with the information of the art they liked.

Following my current inclination towards big bright abstracted painting, my favorite booth was Pierre-François Ouellette.  Artist Dil Hildebrand starts with a hyperrealistic ground (for this show being the staircase in his studio) and then paints layers and blocks of paint building up vivid abstractions of texture and line.

Several galleries presented very small scaled artworks.   Since Volta is a smaller scaled show, the physical space provides for a more intimate experience with art,  so that these small works are not over looked.

Oana Farcas tiny 2 inch² paintings at Larmgalleri, and the miniature constructed architectural environments by Jeremy Mora at Wolfe Contemporary which paired nicely with tree vitrine rooted in plaster by Paul Nugent at Kevin Kavanagh.

To be expected, beautiful but politically charged art was rampant, like Alberto Borea’s photos about drug wars at Isabel Hurley, Mark Jenkins’ terrifying installation of a masked thugs, Dan Tague’s photos of folded dollar bills which spell out messages for help at Jonathan Ferrara, and Mary Temple’s ink drawings on paper of portraits of political figures.

Of course a stunning array of notable paintings bringing a vibrant dose of colour to the fair.  Jennie Ottinger’s books at Johansson Projects, Peter Oppenheim’s large paintings, Summer Wheat’s portraits of zombie heads.  I had the pleasure of meeting artist Ryan Fenchel who told me about his exploration of working through sculptural design in creating these collaged planed pastels on paper.

The Armory: Highlights and Favorites

4 Mar

The most refreshing aspect of the fair season so far is big bright abstract paintings. I like the acid neon colours and the return to pure aesthetics of paint, textures, and lines.

Loved Anselm Reyle at Michael Schultz, glitter painted by Armleder at Massimo De Carlo, Jason Martin’s pure pigment on metal at Lisson, and Katrina Grosse giant abstract painted sculpture.

With Paul Kasmin Gallery’s entire space was a neon fenced off empty lot, The Armory Show brought forward neon sculpture on a large scale. Wall text piece by Jeppe Hein at 303, Sam Van Aken’s neon forest at Ronald Feldman, and (victim of a personal sentimentality of birch trees) Anthony James at Nicholas Robinson.

Reconsideration of Balloons: Real inflated balloons at Gonzalez y Gonzalez counters Jurgen Drescher aluminum speech bubbles at Mai 36, and Gimhongsok ceramic balloons.

Other works I really enjoyed looking at were Larry Rivers collage at Hilgre, Marc Quinn’s massive scale orchids, Sebastiaan Bremer’s large photo compositions (which we saw in Miami in very small), and hands down favorite Ryan Gander’s arrows shot through the wall at Lisson.

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The Armory: Part I

4 Mar

Armory Week New York has officially opened!
Amongst the expected blue chip big name artworks and ironic money/value references:

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Obligatory Damien Hirst prints for sale on edition, a floor made of pennies at Untitled Gallery, and Reed Seifer dollar bill installation.

This year’s The Armory Show had a strong current of overtly political works. With the socio-political upheavals seen around the world and in local media, seeing artists respond visually is not surprising.


With performance piece at Kukje of an illegal immigrant in a donkey suit, Rokni Haerizadeh at Thaddaeus Ropac which the artist draws animal figures over the faces taken from news media photos, and Tomas Espina at Ignacio Liprandi who paints with gunpowder.

For innovation at the fairs, an applause to Chowaidi&Co gallery at the Modern Pier for their bold green wall, and the Springer & Winckler Gallery for showing Lohner & Carlson’s video installation on iPads.

New York Armory Week Itinerary

28 Feb

New York’s Armory Art Fair Week starts this Wednesday March 2!

Here is a summary of all the fairs that are taking place, with the vital info for visitors.

Click on the links for fair info and location maps!

ADAA The Art Show

Location: Park Ave Armory, Park Ave + 67th St

Hours: Wed – Sat 12pm – 8pm  // Sun 12pm – 6pm

Admission: $20

The Armory Show

Location: Piers 92 & 94, 12th Ave + 55th St

Hours: Thurs – Sat 12pm – 8pm // Sun 12pm – 7pm

Admission: $20

Volta NY Show

Location: 7W – 7 West 34th St

Hours: Thurs 2pm – 7pm // Fri – Sun 11am – 7pm

Admission: $15

Pulse Projects

NEW Location: Metropolitan Pavilion 125 West 18th St

Hours: Thurs 1pm – 8pm // Fri – Sat 12pm – 8pm // Sun 12pm – 5pm

Admission: $20

Scope Art Show

NEW Location: 320 West St (West Side Highway) + Pier 40

Hours: Thurs – Sat 12pm – 8pm // Sun 12pm – 7pm

Admission: $20

Independent

Location: 548 W 22nd St (X-Initiative / Dia:Chelsea)

Hours: Thurs 4pm – 9pm // Fri – Sat 11am – 8pm // Sun 12pm – 4pm

Admission: FREE

Fountain

Location: Pier 66 Maritime, 26th St + 12th Ave (Frying Pan)

Hours: Thurs – Sun 12pm – 7pm

Admission: $10

Moving Image :: NEW ::

Location: Waterfront New York Tunnel 269 11th Ave

Hours: Thurs – Sat 11am – 8pm // Sun 11am – 3pm

Admission: FREE

Red Dot Fair

NEW Location: 82 Mercer St between Spring St + Broome St

Hours: Thurs – 11am – 6pm // Fri – Sat 11am – 8pm // Sun 11am – 6pm

Admission: $10

Verge Art Brooklyn

NEW Concept: Multiple Locations Click HERE for map

Admission: FREE

VIP Online Art Fair

27 Jan
VIP, the fist Online Art Fair, opened at 8am EST, January 22, 2011.

Hosting 137 booths, VIP was divided into four exhibition halls – Premier Large and Premier Medium for leading galleries, Focus presenting 23 galleries each showing only 8 works by single artists, and Emerging presenting works created within the last 2 years by emerging artists.

The fair was highly criticized for the tech glitches, like the chat function not working, and the slow server due to overwhelming traffic.

My own criticism is that while users could “favorite” work or share their collections, but this information was only available during the course of the fair. After the closing of the fair, all the “favorite” information was lost and not retrievable by the user.



VIP was a information and sensory overload, with the click through scrolling and size scaling of the images, artist bios and CVs, gallery history, pricing, sizing, pop up windows and drop down menus.

Compelled by the urge to click and read about every galleries, artist, and info bubble possible, I spent 3 hours just clicking and browsing before attempting to look at anything seriously.



One true pleasure was experiencing video art. Personally a tough critic of video works – I was impressed by the sound, quality, presentation and streaming of video work. Truly enjoyable experience to actually watch and experience video works on the VIP Fair platform – admittedly video that I would likely skip over at traditional fair.

As a non-traditional fair, many of the galleries used this forum to explore and expand the boundaries of the “fair” concept.

Untitled Gallery offered Brendan Fowler performance at the price range of $0-5000.



Where other galleries uploaded high resolution images and videos, Limoncello Gallery used tiny Polaroid images displaying the works for sale, forcing the visitor to click and zoom into each one in order to see them. Though an interesting motivation, I do not think this was so effective.

As e-commerce presents new platforms for artists, gallerists, and collectors to view and acquire art, I believe that the art fair should retain its integrity as a physical forum to meet and experience the art world first hand.

The Armory Show

9 Mar


Armory View from above, Warhol pillows at Ferrus Gallery

Richard Mosse and Robert Shana Parkeharrison at Jack Shainman,


Gabi Trinkaus at Georg Kargl Vienna, Lisson Gallery, Sebstiaan Bremer at Hales London,


Carter and Douglas Gordon at Yvon Lambert,

Galerie Jousse Entriprise, Enoc Perez at Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Richard Jackson

Independant

7 Mar

As the spectacular last act of the X Initiative, ‘The Independent” branded a Hybrid Forum, suggested that a new generation was finding ways to create structures of the Art industry.

A fair with free entry for the public exhibited art for sale that was not in booths. Hosted presentations and installations by highly regarded international figures and has been developed with creative advisors, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, New York and Matthew Higgs, Director of the nonprofit White Columns, New York.


Fountain Art Fair

7 Mar

 

The Fountain Art Fair was held at the Frying Pan on boat off 26th street Pier 66.
Fountain brands itself as an exhibition of avant garde artwork, it is really more akin to outsider art.


Loved Raphael Denis Tower of Babel giant installation paired with the preliminary sculpture.


Photos, assemblage piece by Nikki Johnson, stunning piece by Nicholas Forker,

The chaotic atmosphere, the weird smell, and the dizzying swaying of the boat did impede the interesting variety of galleries:

Art Bazaar
ArtSlant
Boltax Gallery
Christina Ray
CREON Gallery
Galerie Zeitgeist
Greg Haberny
Holster Projects
Leo Kesting
Nudashank
Open Ground
Red Truck Gallery
Sarah Nightingale
We-Are-Familia

Verge

7 Mar



Hosted at the Dylan Hotel, the inaugural Verge Art Fair New York is named as the Only Fair Exclusively for Emerging Art.

Going back to the traditional origin roots of the Art Fairs in hotel rooms, each gallery occupied a hotel room, as well as larger installations in the lobby and stairwells.
Favorites included…..

Fuse Works and Front Room gallery that shared one room, selling multiples and editions. Loved Domenick Di Pietrantonio’s Arctic Sweat and Andrew Eyman’s Shell Beach watches.


Maki Hosokawa’s Japanime takes on Dutch Masters at Gallery Cellar, road scenes at Sara Nightingale Gallery.


Really enjoyed this collaborative work of interwoven texts by two artists Ali Umut Ergin and Lorand Revault at Galerie Yellow Fish Art. Which really complimented and integrated the hotel feeling of the Verge Fair.

Volta New York

5 Mar

Volta, titled the No Guts No Glory Solo Project Art Fair, is a sister fair to The Armory Show, held at the MMPI showroom headquarters opposite the Empire State Building.
Loved Volta’s VIP dogtags instead of plastic clip on badges.


Charley Friedman @ Gallery Diet Miami


Karl Kuikkanon @ Nordin Gallery, Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen@ Vanessa Quang Paris, Giuseppe Stampone @prometeogallery Milan


Mickey Smith @Invisible Exports, Heather Cantrell @ Kinkead Contemporary creating black and white Polaroids portraits for sale.


Soyeon Cho @ SKL stunning sculptures made of plastic disposable forks.


Really enjoyed Alexander Tinei@Ana Cristea, and thought Ben Turnbull@ Eleven was clever.

Pulse New York

5 Mar

Aqua Fairs Miami 2009

19 Dec

Fountain Miami 2009

18 Dec

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Design Miami 2009

17 Dec

Design Miami, now in its fifth year, has become the forum for preeminent design. Housed in a temporary structure created this year by New York based Aranda/Lasch in the Wynwood design district.

Highlights include retrospective by Dutch designer Maarten Baas who received this year’s Designer of the Year award.

Greg Lynn’s Carbon Crystal Sails


Veuve Cliquot was one of the sponsors, made special edition lamps that were given away at the end of the fair. Ornamentum (Hudson) presented contemporary jewelry. The ears of these stuffed rabits are ornamented with beading by Iris Eichenberg.

Mitterrand + Cramer gallery from Geneve, showing emerging and mid-career designers. Like this gas mask flighterjet table by Studio Job.


CraftPunk sponsored by Fendi presented this design performance space combining low-tech design process with creative experimentation for this light and sound installation.

NADA Miami 2009

16 Dec

Wayne White paints irony over found paintings.


Tom Scicluna installation


Paul Gabrielli at Invisible Exports


Stunning installation by Ellen Harvey, these are in fact mirrors reflecting a mountain landscape.

Agathe Snow, who featured an intensive space with James Fuentes at the main Art Basel fair, as well as these ring sculptures here at NADA.

Misa Inaoka tiny sculptures of birds.
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