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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!

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.

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

The Armory 2009 at Chelsea Piers

7 Mar


Art Fair week in New York openned to much worry and whispers about the state of the economy and the reprocussions upon the art market.

Break it down…. there is the Art Dealers Association of America ADAA Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, then there is The Armory Show at the Chelsea Piers. Volta, featuring a single artist in a curated booth, is a sister fair owned by the same parent company as The Armory Show. Pulse and Scope are independent fairs focusing on contemporary emerging art.

When past years inflated prices were encouraged by speculating Hedgefund guys, we are all curious to see what the fairs will offer.

At The Armory Show, the lanes were wide, the carpet was purple, and there was not a lot of noise.

The obvious lack of political, war, and super large conceptual pieces…. I found a sweet little trend… airplanes!!!!


Barbara Astman at Corkin Gallery, Alexandra Mir at Laurent Godin, and Martha Rosler at Mitchell-Innes Nash.
Food…..

Tony Matelli (bronze sculpture, flies and all) at Leo Koenig, Kenny Scharf at Paul Kasmin , and photorealistic painting by James White.


Ian Wallace at Yvon Lambert, James Casebere at Sean Kelly, Gabi Trinkaus at Georg Kargl.


Tadashi Kawamata at Kamel Mennour, Pascale Tayou at Continua.
Embroidery on paintings give such a stunning quality.

Kibong Rhee at Kukje Gallery, and Nicolas Hlobo large embroidered work.
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