Fair and Loathing: Coincidences, Trends and a Coupla WTFs
There was a lot of painting at the fairs. A lot. Figuration and abstraction, gestural and geometric, contemporary and modern, young artists and veteran painters, from blue-chip galleries and emerging dealers. What follows is a broad look. I don't love everything, but I do love that I have so much to show you--and it's fairly representative of some trends, including a lot of shiny, a fair amount of black, a surprising amount of pink, and some strongly material elements. As much as possible I tried to include enough of the floor or wall to give you a sense of scale (my criterion for "big" was wider than an arm span), and I included a fair number of details.
Chris Ofili at David Zwirner, New York City; ABMB
Detail below
Gert and Uwe Tobias at Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels; ABMB
Larry Zox at Berry Campbell, New York City; Miami Project
Bridget Riley at David Zwirner, New York City; ABMB
Pat Stier at Cheim + Read, New York City; ABMB
Rosemarie Trockel at Spruth Magers, Berlin and London; ABMB
Detail below: yes, it's a knitted painting
Mark Bradford at Hauser & Wirth, New York City and elsewhere; ABMB
Detail below
Sean Scully at Kewenig Gallery, Berlin; ABMB
Bernard Frize at Galerie Nachst St, Stephen/Rosemarie Schwartzwalder, Vienna; ABMB
Liu Wei at Long March Space, Beijing; ABMB
Installation view
Wang Jianwei painting and sculpture at Long March Space
Imi Knoebel at Kewenig Gallery, Berlin: ABMB
Gunter Forg and Imi Knoebel at unidentified gallery; ABMB
Gunter Forg below
Anne Truitt painted sculpture and work on paper at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York City; ABMB
Chris Martin at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; ABMB
Paul Feeley at Garth Greenan Gallery, New York City; ABMB
Jorge Macchi at Gallerie Continua, San Gimignano and Beijing; ABMB
Katharina Grosse at Galerie Nachst St. Stephen/Rosemarie Schwartzwalder; ABMB
John Armleder and Rudolf Stingel at Massimo DeCarlo, Milan and London; ABMB
Detail of Armleder, above; and Stingel below
Hugo McCloud at Sean Kelly, New York City; ABMB
Detail below
Michael Maxwell at Drisoll Babcock, New York City; Miami Project
Detail below, with silver leaf
Jackie Sacoccio at (I think) Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago; ABMB
Jon Pestoni at Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn; ABMB
Bernd Haussmann at William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth; Miami Project
Despina Stokou at Derek Eller Gallery, New York City; NADA
Tomory Dodge at CRG Gallery, New York City; ABMB
Eddie Martinez at Kohn Gallery; ABMB
William Anastasi at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris; ABMB
Janaina Tschape at Galerie Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paolo; ABMB
Rodrigo Andrade at Galeria Millan, Sao Paolo; ABMB
Detail below
Florian and Michael Quistrebert at Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam; ABMB
Detail below
Philip Taaffe at Luhring Augustine, New York City; ABMB
Robert Kushner at DC Moore; Miami Project
Armin Boehm at Meyer Reigger, Berlin; ABMB
Artist unidentified at Vermelho, Sao Paolo; ABMB
John Zinsser at Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis; Pulse
Valerie Jaudon at DC Moore; Miami Project
Andrew Holmquist at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago; Untitled
Matthew Carter at Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles; Untitled
Maya Hayuk at C C Gallery, Berlin; Pulse
Stanley Whitney at Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm; ABMB
James Hugonin at John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; ABMB
Detail above; full view below
Shaan Syed at Ana Cristea Gallery, New York City; Untitled
Tiziana Pierri at Galeria Nora Fisch, Buenos Aires; Untitled
Michael Dopp at Tilton Gallery, New York City; ABMB
Klaus Jorres at Dittrich & Schlechtreim, Berlin; Untitled
John Walker at Adelson Galleries, New York City; Miami Project
Sarah Morris at Petzel, New York City; ABMB
Fred Tomaselli at James Cohan Gallery, New York City; ABMB
Beatriz Milhazes at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; ABMB
Detail below
Caetano de Almeida at Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo; ABMB
Detail below
William Conger at Zolla Lieberman, Chicago; Art Miami
Eduardo Terrazas at Mils Staerk, Copenhagen; ABMB
Detail below
Rebecca Morris at Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicgo; ABMB
McArthur Binion at Kavi Gupti, Chicago; ABMB
Travess Smalley at Foxy Productions, New York City; NADA
Detail below
Juan Usle and Ron Gorchov at Cheim + Read, New York City; ABMB
Gorchov detail below
Meg Cranston at Marisa Newman Projects, New Yrk City: Untitled
Torey Thornton at Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London; ABMB
Jim Shaw at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles and New York; ABMB
Katherine Bernhardt at China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles; NADA
Claude Villat at Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris; NADA
David Hammons at White Cube, London; ABMB
Paascale Martine Tayou at Galleria Continua, San Gimignano and Beijing; ABMB
Detail below
5 comments:
WOW, thanks for the peek over your shoulder, Joanne.
at first glance, I loved the Sean Scully from the German gallery, Despina Stokow, Rodrigo Andrade, Shaan Syed, William Conger, and Ron Gorchow.
I know if I could see all of them up close and in person, I will add to the list.
Thanks for another fantastic report! Painting seem more prominent this year than last.
Hello Joanne. I took a good look this morning. It was fun to see P. Steir, and S. Scully to see what they are doing these days -- I am somewhat familiar w/their work and have seen them in shows. I was attracted to K. Jorres' bright colors and overlapping. The texture of R. Andrade was interesting and I think very adaptable for wax. I would like to go someday to the Fair but I would have to do it in 3 hr. blocks. I can get over saturated and feel bombarded and then start running around. Again, thanks for taking the effort to post this.
There were some wonderful paintings there! I'm glad to see that big, juicy (or delicate) painting is still going strong. Scully's new work was a surprise. Lots of interesting new - to me - painters. Thanks.
Some beautiful work here............reminds me a bit of contemporary bauhaus with a jump in time to de Kooning
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