Before I plunge into few thematic posts, including painting, I want to give you an overview of the other fairs I saw: Miami Project and its sister fair, Art on Paper, and NADA both in north Miami Beach; and Scope, in a tent on the sand in South Beach.
Tony Scherman's painting of Serena Williams, at Winston Wachter Gallery, New York City and Seattle
For the past several years, Miami Project took place under an enormous tent in Wynwood, near Art Miami. It was one of the best fairs--big and airy, smartly designed, and full of great galleries and work. This year it moved over to the beach side and into the Deauville Beach Resort, the mid-century modern venue formerly occupied by NADA. The fair took place this year not only in two ballrooms and a function room, but in the lobby as well. Though I don't miss the slog to Wynwood, I miss the tent, which is one of the things that made this fair special. Still, the carpeting was balm for fair-weary feet, and there was a lot to see.B
Gianluca Franzese at K. Imperial Art, San Francisco
View of the ballroom (oh, those chandeliers!) set up with booths
Jonathan Ryan Storm at Cardoza Fine Art, Houston, with a down-the-aisle view of the space
One of the best booths at the fair: Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis
Foreground: David Row, with Andrew Masullo, left, and John Zinsser
Foreground: David Row, with Andrew Masullo, left, and John Zinsser
Also at Philip Slein: Tim McFarlane
Ann Glazer at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas
Matt Bahen at Claire Oliver Gallery, New York City
Some modernist work
Above: Auguste Herbin (1882-1960), installation of gouache on paper, at Jill Newhouse, New York City
Below: Leon Polk Smith in blue and red, at Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City
Michael Scoggins welcomes you to a second function room, one with a view of the ocean should you care to be distracted; at Victori + Mo, Brooklyn
A sense of the room, with a painting by Alex Ebstein that's pieced together from yoga mats, at Randall Scott Projects, Baltimore
Detail below
Robischon Gallery, Denver, had the best booth in this room
Above and below: Ted Larsen Sculptures (read a feature on him in Ann Landi's new online magazine, Vasari21)
One more Larsen, with Don Voisine
Derrick Velasquez
Deborah Zlotsky and Jason Karolak, also at Robischon, with closer views below
Zlotsky
Karolak
Mel Prest at Chandra Cerrito Gallery, Oakland
Though art on paper was on view throughout the fair, the room dedicated to it had some interesting work, as here: prints by Marcus LIinnenbrink, executed with James Stroud at Center Street Studio, Milton, Massachusetts
In the lobby: Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City
Below: Helen Miranda Wilson, Girlfriend, oil on panel
Detail below
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NADA
An acronym for New Art Dealers Association, this is a fair for its member galleries. The booths range from nicely sized to tiny cubbies. The work in this fair has a Lower East Side/Bushwick aesthetic, which is to say that it skews young (conceptually if not chronologically), and it's a lively counterpart to the more blue chip ABMB. Anecdotally, and substantiated by a few overheard conversations, sales here were through the roof. If red dots were an indicator, you wouldn't know.
Above: the large booths in the center of the ballroom;
below: the cubbies lining one side of the fair
Detail below
Booth view below
Steve DiBenedetto at Derek Eller Gallery, New York City
Matt Connors at Markus Luttgen, Cologne
(Some galleries post the info on the booth walls, some don't)
Anna Betbeze at Markus Luttgen, Cologne
Detail below
(I overheard the dealer tell a collector that the entire booth had sold)
Closer view of one below
Nancy Shaver at Derek Eller Gallery, New York City
Closer view below
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Scope
Once a mighty fair, Scope has lost its mojo. The beach location, next to Untitled in South Beach, pumped some energy into the event, and there was some good work being shown--highlights below--but on the whole it felt too glittery and gimmicky. But one woman's poison is another's poisson, so take my comments with a few grains of beach sand.
Detail below
Closer view below
Rachel Hellman at (I think) Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York City
Closer view of sculpture below
The headline of The Art Newspaper on December 2 read, "US collectors make mad dash to Cuba." That may not have been entirely necessary, as a number of Cuban artists were well represented at the fairs, as here.
Detail of digital print below
Medrie MacPhee at Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto
Artist Tim Tate at Habatat Gallery. This is one happy guy. He'd gotten married and bought a house the day before arriving, and on this day had sold a significant number of his cast-glass sculptures, one of which you see behind him. Mazel tov!
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Up next: Yes, Pink
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2 comments:
Thanks so much for the shout out Joanne. also the unidentified artist (green Painting) at Cardoza fine Art , untitled fair , is Jonathan Ryan Storm , A friend and great painter
Thanks, Clark. I just added the info.
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