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ADAA The Art Show: Highlights and Favorites

March 6, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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 […]

Categories: ADAA Fair, Uncategorized • Tags: Arnulf Rainer, David Opdyke, David Reed, Enoc Perez, James Welling, Jaume Plensa, Kiel Johnson, Robert Buck, Tom Friedman

Fountain Fair: Highlights and Favorites

March 5, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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 […]

Categories: Fountain, Uncategorized • Tags: Fountain Fair, Greg Haberny, Jason Robert Bell

Volta: Highlights and Favorites

March 4, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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 […]

Categories: Volta • Tags: Dil Hildebrand, Jennie Ottinger, Jeremy Mora, Oana Farcas, Paul Nugent, Volta

The Armory: Highlights and Favorites

March 4, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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 […]

Categories: The Armory Show • Tags: Anselm Reyle, Anthony James, Armleder, Gimhongsok, Jason Martin, Jeppe Hein, Jurgen Drescher, Katrina Grosse, Larry Rivers, Marc Quinn, Massimo De Carlo, Michael Schultz, Nicholas Robinson, Ryan Gander, Sam Van Aken

The Armory: Part I

March 4, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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

Categories: The Armory Show • Tags: Damien Hirst, Lohner & Carlson, Reed Seifer, Rokni Haerizadeh, Tomas Espina

New York Armory Week Itinerary

February 28, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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: […]

Categories: Art Fairs, Uncategorized • Tags: New York Armory Week

NewArtNetwork Winter Social at the Sculpture Center

February 27, 2011 by ArtJetSet

The NewArtNetwork and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts hosted their winter social, a glam evening of performance, dance and music at the SculptureCenter. The incredible recovered wood sculptures by Ursula von Rydingsvard became the stage for a modern dance peformance choreographed by Nancy Garcia to present the F/W jewlery collection of SAMMA , by designer Hanna Sandin. As the dancers moved the jewlery clanged together and against the performers adding a weight to the sound of the performance.

Categories: Gallery • Tags: Nancy Garcia, NewArtNetwork, SculptureCenter, Ursula von Rydingsvard

Nic*Rad at Lu Magnus

February 24, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Lu Magnus is a new space in the LES framed as an art laboratory and salon. Hosting a variety of events, Lu Magnus goes beyond the traditional notion of gallery as exhibition space towards a participatory environment of the salnons of the past. The diversity of their program brings together a spectrum of genres of art including performance, book readings, fashion, film, dance and food. Check their website for upcoming events. Nic*Rad’s live performance of his Celebrtiist Manifesto was the […]

Categories: Gallery, New York - Lower East Side • Tags: James Franco, Lu Magnus, Nic*Rad

Highways Connect and Divide at Foxy Productions

February 11, 2011 by ArtJetSet

The sound installation at the opening of Highways Connect and Divide at Foxy Productions, blew the crowd away! Gas tanks expelled a cold wind of oxygen and sound. The piercing shrill lulled into a humming buzz as the tanks emptied.

Categories: Gallery • Tags: roxy productions

Trey Speegle at Benrimon Contemporary

February 11, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Its Not About You is a clever pop show, which integrates paint-by-numbers sets, vintage icongraphy, and montage of frames and images with text to create a humorous narative. The side gallery at Benrimon Contemporary hosts RePop, a popup store where buttons, prints, multiples like carved soap and catalogues can be purchased.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Benrimon Contemporary, trey speegle

Vito Acconci Artist Lecture at New York Studio School

February 9, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Vito Acconci presented From Words Through Action to Architecture, a discussion on the evolution of his artistic career. A compelling narration through his early performance and body work of the 1970s and how his desire to move his art beyond self reflective works into a greater reactive realm escalated his creative oeuvre towards architecture and public art. He founded Acconci Studio, where he and his team have created some remarkable projects which resonante the ideas of the interjection of private […]

Categories: Panel + Symposiums • Tags: Acconi Studio, New York Studio School, Vito Acconci

Bonjour! Bienvenu chez ArtJetSet

February 3, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Welcome to ArtJetSet’s new platform.

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VIP Online Art Fair

January 27, 2011 by ArtJetSet

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. […]

Categories: Art and E-commerce, Art Fairs • Tags: Brendan Fowler, Limoncello Gallery, VIP Online Art fair

Charles LeDray at the Whitney

January 25, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Charles LeDray installation titled workworkworkworkwork recreates a thrift store sorting facility and sales floor at a shrunken scale.  The awkward perspective sets the viewer above the ceiling.  This all encompassing eerie field of view makes the objects seem not like children or doll clothes but a sad real life Gulliver’s Travels. The remarkable part is that each piece of clothing is meticulously hand sewn, and each artifact from the garment bags to the hangers are all hand crafted.

Categories: Museum • Tags: Charles LeDray, Whitney Museum

Exhibition A towards an E-Commerce Art World

January 24, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Exhibition A is a members only limited released editioned work of contemporary artists. Prints are purchased on-line and delivered stamped and signed with a Certificate of Authenticity. Founded by Bill Powers, owner of the Half Gallery and Rx Arts (a non-profit that places art in hospitals) his wife and fashion designer Cynthia Rowely, Exhibition A seems to be selling a for profit extention of what they used to offer as fundraising fodder for Rx Art. Many galleries and e-commerce inititatives […]

Categories: Art and E-commerce • Tags: E-Commerce, Exhibition A

En-Garde II: omg at Ronald Feldman

January 20, 2011 by ArtJetSet

A show featuring predominantly video, film, and sound installation, En-Garde II: omg at Ronald Feldman Gallery, brings a challenging group show of artists who question and challenge the status quo. The exhibition includes the video A Fire in My Belly, by David Wojnarowicz, that had been recently censored by the Smithsonian and created much uproar in the conversation around censorship and religious iconography in the museum space. oh my god, by Sam Van Aken is a wall of stereo speakers […]

Categories: New York - Lower East Side, New York - SOHO • Tags: David Wojnarowicz, Ronald Feldman, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Sam Van Aken

Sharon Stone in Abuja at Location One

January 19, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Location One is an independent non-profit space dedicated to exhibitions, performance, and artists residency programs meant to encourage experimentation and dialogue around social and political discourse. Sharon Stone in Abuja combines video, photo, and installation in a discussion around Nollywood – Nigeria’s growing film industry. The space is engaging and inviting, pushing a comfort and familiarity with photos by Pieter Hugo, an inviting salon installation by Mickalene Thomas, and video piece by Zina Saro-Wiwa, British-Nigerian film-maker and founder of AfricaLab.

Categories: New York - Lower East Side, New York - SOHO • Tags: Location One, Mickalene Thomas, Pieter Hugo, Zina Saro-Wiwa

Reprise at Aicon Gallery

January 16, 2011 by ArtJetSet

Exhibiting uniquely artists from the Indian Subcontinent, the Aicon Gallery brings forward strong visual aesthetics underlined by socio-political thematics in the current show Reprise. The show presents an extensive range of themes, textures, subject matter. Gorgeous painting made with paint and tea bags and urban landscaped created on a reflective surface shot by paint. The sculptural works of Debanjan Roy, Ruby Chishti, and G.R. Iranna resonnate issues of the human condition in India extending from gender, class and social political […]

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Aicon Gallery, Debanjan Roy, G.R. Iranna, Ruby Chishti

Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney

December 15, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art showcased New Acquisitions in Context including work by contemporary Australian artists Hany Armanious, Tim Silver, among others.

Categories: Australia • Tags: Hany Armanious, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Tim Silver

National Gallery of Australia Renovated!

December 14, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra was recently renovated, including James Turrell’s Within Without sculptural installation added to the entrance.

Categories: Australia • Tags: James Turrell, National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Australia

December 13, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Street art and grafitti has proliferated in Australia with support of the arts councils and city support, especially in Melbourne.A spectacular presentation of Australia’s street arts showcased at the Space Invaders show at the National Gallery of Art in Canberra.

Categories: Australia, Graffiti, Street Art • Tags: Graffiti Art, National Gallery of Australia, Space Invaders

Vancouver Art Gallery

December 10, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander from the Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition looks at ways artists have approached the human body as a site in which identity is shaped and a register of our inescapable progression toward mortality. Featered are works by Larry Fink, Liz Magor, Mina Totino, Patrick Traer and Theodore Wan, among others.

Categories: Uncategorized, Vancouver • Tags: Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander, Larry Fink, Liz Magor, Mina Totino, Patrick Traer and Theodore Wan

Song Dong – Waste Not at the Vancouver Art Gallery

December 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Song Dong’s Waste Not— describes a generation of Chinese people who grew up during the Cultural Revolution with the experience of displacement, poverty and the constant shortage of goods. Exhibited in the atrium of the MoMA in New York, the installation occupied a massive space, and stood as a monument of this period in Chinese history, a record of his mother’s life, as well as a tribute to his father’s death. Exhibited in Vancouver Art Gallery through several rooms, the […]

Categories: Vancouver • Tags: Song Dong, Vancouver Art Gallery, Waste Not

Pure Beauty: John Baldessari Retrospective at the Met

November 30, 2010 by ArtJetSet

This remarkable retrospective of American conceptual artist John Baldessari spans the diversity and evolution of his career in a poignantly well curated show. In 1970, for Baldessari’s Creamation Project, he incinerated all his works created before 1966. It was great to see a few of the surviving pieces in this show.Spanning all his major thematic movements, including my favorites, the photocompositions like Kiss/Panic and the red dot series. As well as some of his video works:

Categories: New York • Tags: John Baldessari, Metropolitain Museum, Pure Beauty

Bowery Mural – Kenny Scharf

November 29, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Kenny Scharf mural on the Bowery+Houston wall, now being maintained by the Hole Gallery.

Categories: Graffiti, Street Art • Tags: Bowery Mural, Deitch, Kenny Scharf

Pae White at the PowerPlant

November 16, 2010 by ArtJetSet

2010 Commissioning Program and the PowerPlant, showing stunning wallsized woven tapestries of textured smoke and paper, by Pae White titled : Pae White: Material Mutters At the closing of this show, the PowerPlant will undergo a massive re-looking. Including renovations to the physical building interior, refreshing the branding strategy, and online personality. Looking forward to the relaunch March 2011.

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Pae White, Power Plant Toronto

PS1 Move

November 2, 2010 by ArtJetSet

MOVE! was a two-day event at PS1 where fashion and art merged through the collaboration of designers and artists, organized by V Magazine’s Cecilia Dean and style journalist David Colman Spectacular Olaf Breuning and Cynthia Rowley. Rowley created bespoke denim outfits, and the models had paint poured on them by Breuning. A photographer captured the performative aspect of the pouring and the presentation of the new work of art, while the garment became the unique art object. Conveniently hosted Halloween […]

Categories: New York • Tags: CHERYL and American Apparel, Olaf Breuning and Cynthia Rowley, PS 1 Move, Rob Pruitt and Marc Jacobs, V Magazine

Rob Pruit at Gavin Brown

October 27, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Rob Pruit’s super pop show at Gavin Brown Enterprise is a fun must see show. Pruit’s self portrait montages give homage to great artists and personalities including Andy Warhol, Magritte, and many others. Love the silver painted chairs and the piles of tires as sweet bowls.

Categories: New York - SOHO • Tags: Gavin Brown Enterprise, Rob Pruit

Alejandra Almanza Pereda at Magnan Metz Gallery

September 28, 2010 by ArtJetSet

An amazing show with a poetic title, The Heaviest Luggage for the Traveler is the Empty One, at Magnan Metz Gallery, Pereda uses large scale sculpture set against a stunning black and white wall papered forest. Contrasting light and dark, strong and fragile, massive cinder block sculpture mirrored by ghostly pencil on paper drawings of cinder blocks – leave the viewer questioning the ideas of what we occupy and the limits of weight and space consumed around us.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Alejandra Almanza Pereda, Magnan Metz Gallery

Pace, 50 Years of Pace

September 27, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Celebrating their 50th anniversary, Pace Gallery presents a multi-venue retrospective highlighting some key pieces that have passed through their doors. Thematically divided by Pop art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalist, Post Moderns and contemporary, this blockbuster show exemplifies the power house artists and the major collections that have acquired the works.My favorites include Chuck Close portrait of Zhang Huan, Kiki Smith sculpture, Michal Rovner, amazing Clifford Still, Zhang Huan airplanes.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Chuck Close, cliford Still, Kiki Smith sculpture, Michal Rovner, Zhang Huan

Pipilotti Rist at Luhring Augustine Gallery

September 24, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Heroes Of Birth, at Luhring Augustine presents new works by Swiss installation artist Pipilotti Rist layers light sound and video into a naive childhood memory dividing the corporal and the spiritual bodies.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Luhring Augustine Gallery, Pipilotti Rist

Sarah Sze at Tanya Bondakar

September 23, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Sarah Sze uses bottles, cartons, found objects, and constructed objects that resemble everyday objects to build an intricately ornate installation at Tanya Bondakar Gallery. The Uncountables (Encyclopedia) is a structural labyrinth. Sze obscures the familiar by wrapping milk cartons, and whitewashing bottles. She effectively blurs the cognizance of our relationship with details of the everyday things that surround us.I really loved the abstract film created by the flickers of light reflecting off a styrofoam plate filled with water, and the […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Sarah Sze, Tanya Bondakar

Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin

September 22, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Jennifer Steinkamp recreates nature using 3-dimension animation in her wall projections. This projection was stunning and captivating. Staring up from under a massive tree, Steinkamp skillfully recreates the passage of time through the seasons. With blooming leaves and bursts of colourful flowers — then petals rain down on the viewer as summer moves to autumn, until there are only bare tangeled branches stretched out towards you. The seamless snaking arms of the tree loop back into each other and then […]

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Jennifer Steinkamp, Lehmann Maupin

Zilvinas Kempinas Ballroom at Yvonn Lambert

September 21, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Lithuanian installation artist Zilvinas Kempinas uses magnetic tape film, fans, reflective panes of mylar to create this cool and visually striking space. Red and Blue coloured lightbulbs hanging by their wires circle and spin around in localized confinement while noisey fans push the bulbs and the loops of magnetic tape. The experience is an overwhelming sensation of chaotic and static at the same time.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Yvon Lambert New York, Zilvinas Kempinas

Marc Newson at Gagosian

September 20, 2010 by ArtJetSet

A brilliant showcase of Australian designer Marc Newson’s reinterpreted designs for different modes of transportation. Newson’s fluid aesthetics of design and the buoyant functionality of the machines stirs a desire for a James Bond-esque Mediterranean vacation.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Design, Gagosian, Industrial, Marc Newson

Dan Colen at Gagosian

September 2, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Dan Colen is quoted as saying that this current show at Gagosian is about “failure and potential, accident and intention, most minute and most infinite.” Colen creates a transitionary space using an inverted skateboard half-pipe, and installation of knocked over customized Harley Davidson motorcycles, and massive canvases with abstract patterns painted with chewing gum. A self-reflective self-indulgent show.

Categories: New York - Chelsea • Tags: Dan Colen, Gagosian

Julian Schnabel at the Art Gallery of Ontario

August 11, 2010 by ArtJetSet

The AGO opened Julian Schnabel: Art and Film in conjunction with the premier of his new film titled Miral at the Toronto International Film Festival. Julian Schnabel is famous for is vibrantly beautiful biographical films Basquiat, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and the one of my most favorite films Before Night Falls. His skill is in capturing the creative energy of his subjects and then building captivating and vivid visual imagery. His masterful cinematography is enhanced by engrossing narratives […]

Categories: Toronto • Tags: Art Gallery of Ontario, Julian Schnabel

Cinder Gallery – Temple of Blooom Closing

August 9, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Cinders Gallery in Williamsburg held a closing party for their summer show Temple of BLOOOM! The video piece by Jessie Rose Vala was beautiful, as well as the intricate drawings by Marc Waren Jacques. The closing also featured great live music Cassie Ramone, lead vocalist for Vivian Girls.

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Cinders Gallery

Marion Spores Summer Project 2010

August 2, 2010 by ArtJetSet

Marion Spores gallery, in Industry City Brooklyn, hosted an amazing summer party and reception for the opening of their summer projects. Joe Winter’s Models for a History of Light, is a compelling sculputral installation of works on paper that negotiats the effects of light on construction paper. Brings back the nostalgia of elementary school and the fading transformation and passage of time. Joyce Kim’s Traces of Blue, a cerebral instalation with references back to Yves Klein and modernist spacial discourse. […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Joe Winter, Joyce Kim, Marion Spores, Thom Kubli

Drink and Draw at 3rd Ward

July 30, 2010 by ArtJetSet

3rdWard is in an amazing collective space in Brooklyn, which offers studio work space, equipment, tools, and resources to the areas creative professionals. ArtJetSet has been recently attending the Wednesday night Drink and Draw. 3rd Ward offers a great atmosphere, cold beer and good music to satiate all your creative appetites during the 2 hour life drawing class. Today’s AM New York newspaper wrote an article about the events, coincidentally featuring ArtJetSet in the photo!!

Categories: Alternative Spaces • Tags: 3rd Ward, Art Studios, Brooklyn, Drink and Draw