Filed under: Art Fairs, Art Market | Tags: Frieze, NADA, NAP, NYC, Steven Zevitas
I had the opportunity to take a quick trip down to New York for the art fairs this past weekend. You would think that gallerists and collectors alike would have had their fill with the Armory Show and a number of smaller fairs having just taken place in early March, but there was no evidence of fatigue.
Frieze New York was an extraordinarily well run event. The massive tent that the promoters constructed was something of an architectural marvel in and of itself. Inside, more than two hundred galleries were given ample space to mount shows, and best off all, the tent allowed for natural lighting conditions. Dealers brought solid work from artists at a range of career points. I was happy to see several New American Paintings’ alumni in the mix. One of them, Joshua Abelow (NAP #44), had perhaps the most raucous booth at the fair with walls that were literally filled with small paintings. Other highlights for me included the one two punch of Keltie Ferris and Sarah Braman at Mitchell-Innes & Nash; Richard Aldrich’s work at Bortolami; Xylor Jane at Canada; Aaron Curry’s work at Michael Werner; Nathan Hylden at Richard Telles; and Jon Pestoni at David Kordansky. The painting that you “couldn’t get away from” was Mary Heilmann’s diptych at Hauser & Wirth…even at its small scale, it held sway over everything else around it.
Photo Credit: Linda Nylind, Courtesy Artnet.com
Over at NADA New York, several dozen dealers put on a typically edgy NADA affair. Again, there were New American Paintings’ alumni throughout the fair. Favorite painting: Eddie Martinez’s large canvas at Sorry We’re Closed….it was stunning. Other favorites: Mariah Robertson at American Contemporary; Dave Miko at Parisa Kind; Viktoria Binschtok at Klemms; and Hugh Scott Douglas at Clint Roenisch.
I used my IPhone to take pics, so please excuse the quality of some images. And please let us know what caught your eye if attended either fair.
Steven Zevitas, Publisher
See my photos after the jump!
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Filed under: Art Fairs, Art Market | Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Matthew Smith, Print Fair
Last weekend the Baltimore Museum of Art hosted its bi-annual print fair, bringing together a group of exciting printmakers for a small two-day event that featured an artist talk by Trenton Doyle Hancock. Some of the notable shops that participated in this year’s fair included NYC-based cooperative Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, which showcased collaborations with artists Eddie Martinez, Willie Birch, Joseph Hart, among others. The highlight in their booth was Tom Spleth’s Book of Skulls, a fabulous collection of 32 relief prints exploring the visual dramatics of the human skull using a veritable encyclopedia of printmaking methods.
At WesternXeditions, Chicago’s Western Exhibitions printmaking arm, the highlights were the vastly horizontal woodblock and drypoint prints of Stan Shellabarger, part of his artist book series. And Minnesota’s High Point Center for Printmaking featured, among other works, a collaboration with Minnesota native and Brooklyn based Rob Fischer, best known for his sculptural installations with found materials. Created from recycled gymnasium floor boards, his intaglio print — as well as the rest of the work on view at the fair — highlight the buzzing synergy that makes up collaborative contemporary printmaking. Lots of photos after the jump. — Matthew Smith, Washington D.C. contributo
The Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair 2012, all photos by Matthew Smith
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Did you catch the 60 Minutes report on the current state of the contemporary art scene? “Art Market” aired on April 1, by Morley Safer, produced by Ruth Streeter.
“Even if contemporary art seems alien or odd to you, consider this: the market for this art has outperformed the Standard & Poor’s list of 500 common stocks since 2003. Morley Safer is back on the art beat, attending the most important contemporary art fair in the world: Art Basel Miami Beach. It’s a matter of taste whether the paintings, sculpture, and what-nots are good art, but as a good investment, art is indisputably hotter than ever. In fact, elite art buyers – many from Russia and China — are so ravenous that the contemporary art market raked in over $5 billion in auction sales last year.”
Click on the image below to watch the video. For the entire script, visit CBS News.
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Filed under: Art Fairs, Art World | Tags: Adam Scott, Alexa Kinne, armory, Drew Katz, Ellen C. Caldwell, Fountain, Gavin Bunner, INDEPENDENT, Josh Reames, Joshua Field, Lee Gainer, volta, Whitney
Last weekend was fun, with a trip to NYC for the art fairs. That led to quite a few posts summarizing our experiences there. We also had some great interviews throughout the week given to us by contributors Ellen C. Caldwell and Josh Reames. If you missed any of the posts, check them out below!
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Filed under: Art Fairs | Tags: Alexa Kinne, armory, Drew Katz, INDEPENDENT, Steven Zevitas, volta
It was great being in the city for the fairs this past weekend. Between the three NAP staffers on the trip, and our two guest photo bloggers (Lee Gainer and Joshua Field), we saw a lot of art. While our publisher, Steven Zevitas, was manning his gallery booth at Volta, Associate Publisher, Drew Katz, and Communications Manager, Alexa Kinne, bobbed and weaved their way through the aisles of the Armory, Volta, and Independent fairs and captured their favorite works for you to check out, just in case you couldn’t make it. If that isn’t enough for you, be sure to check out our pictures from the Whitney Biennial, which we are posting on Wednesday. Enjoy!
(We tried to identify all pieces that we photographed, but apologize if we missed something. Sometimes it wasn’t our fault, galleries need to “label their sh*t!) If you can help us out, please shoot us an email.
Duncan Wylie, JGM. Gallery, Paris
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Well we are back from New York and we are beat! If you call the office today, go easy on Alexa, it was a late night traveling. We still have tons of our own photographs to go through from the fair, which should be posted tomorrow. In the meantime, we have a final round of images submitted by our guest photo blogger, Lee Gainer. Last time she checked in, Gainer had sent images from Armory and Scope. Now she shares her favorite pieces from the VOLTA fair (one of our favorites!). See her pictures after the jump, and be sure to come back tomorrow for our staff favorites from Armory, Volta, and Independent.
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Filed under: Art Fairs | Tags: Fountain, Guest Blogger, INDEPENDENT, Joshua Field, NYC, volta
Our guest blogger Joshua Field was busy this weekend. In addition to the Armory and Scope (click for previous post), he made it to Fountain, Volta, and the Independent. After the jump, check out some works he was admiring at the remaining three fairs. Be sure to keep checking in over the next few days to see more from our other guest blogger, Lee Gainer, and our own New American Paintings staff.
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Filed under: Art Fairs | Tags: armory, Christopher Steinmeyer, Diana Al-Hadid, Fair, Gerard Ellis, Gideon Rubin, Hernan Bas, Josh Dorman, Joshua Field, Karim Hamid, Laura Lancaster, Natelie Frank, Nathan Wasserbauer, NYC, Philippe Cognee, Rachel Howard, Retna, Ryan Travis Christian, scope, Sigmar Polke
We heard earlier from Lee Grainer at the Armory and Scope. Now it’s Joshua Field’s turn to share what caught his eye while at the fairs. Joshua is our second guest photo blogger helping us cover the fairs in New York City. We are excited to have another painter share their perspective and favorite pieces while observing the large gathering of contemporary galleries and artists in Big Apple. When I asked Joshua to share his thoughts thus far, he offered the following:
- less white neon (thank god)
- fewer skulls (apart from a few giant gold ones)
- more large caliber guns
- lots of small framed works on paper
- lots of clusters of small works (all roughly 8.5″x11″)
- much less chinaphilia
- independent got slick all of a sudden
- zwirner: huge empty booth again (really? they rep such great stuff though)
- surprising number of galleries from… istanbul
- the cobbled together floor at scope = really distracting
Check out some photos Joshua sent-in after the jump!
Joshua Field | The Itinerant Preacher, oil, acrylic, on canvas, 30 x 40 Inches
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Filed under: Art Fairs | Tags: Alison Blickle, armory, art fair, Bo Christian Larsson, Brad Woodfin, Casey Gray, Daniel Karrer, Eric Finzi, Eric Yahnker, James Chronister, JongSeok Yoon, Lee Gainer, Martin Basher, Michael Joaquin Grey, Mike Bayne, NYC, scope, Tom LaDuke, Tomory Dodge
Our guest photo bloggers are on the ground and covering fairs in NYC this weekend. We first heard from Lee Gainer, a painter from Arlington, VA, who sent some notable pieces from the Armory Show and Scope Art Fair. Gainer noted that, “Scope was lean this year. Due to gusty winds, the tent was rockin’! It also made the floor twist a bit and some works on pedestals were in danger of tipping. Funny thing, there were many works involving doughnuts or optical illusions using mirrors…While Scope had doughnuts, the Armory had many (!) mirrored and or chromed works. Also the free Nordic gallery section posters was a big hit. Many guests were grabbing at least one of each. Later that evening, two lovely young ladies knocked over a large multi-chair sculpture with their rolled poster bundles. They left in an embarrassed shuffle, leaving behind a few of their posters but the sculpture was unharmed. Sculpture 1, guest 0.”
Check out one of Lee’s paintings directly below, and see her favorites from Scope after the jump! And look for more pictures throughout the weekend.
Lee Gainer, | Gay Dolphin Park, 2011, Acrylic on Panel, 36 x 48
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Filed under: Art Fairs | Tags: armory, blog, contributor, NAP, scope, volta
We try to cover as much contemporary painting as we can on the NAP/Blog, and sometimes we need your assistance. Are you going to be visiting the art fairs in NYC March 7-11? Do you have a nice camera? Are you the type of person that likes to document visits to your favorite gallery? If so, we could use your to help covering the fairs for our blog. We want to post photographs of your favorite artworks and installations while at the fairs next month (Armory, Volta, Scope, The Art Show, etc..). Share your art fair experience with our blog readers all over the globe.
The selected “photographer” will receive a two-year subscription to New American Paintings, a dedicated blog post for the photographs (with full credit, of course), and a link to their personal website or blog.*
To be considered as our guest photo contributor, please fill out the form here by February 26th. We need to know a little bit about you and get a few samples of some photographs that you’ve taken while gallery-hopping or visiting an art fair.
Thanks for participating and good luck! We will introduce our guest contributor(s) at the end of the month.
