Armory Week: Some Geometry

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Chelsea: Larry Zox at the Stephen Haller Gallery

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In this last post about Armory Week, I've rounded up the best of the geometric work I saw. I have a soft spot for hard edge, so that's where we'll begin, but you'll note some juicy materiality as well. And I have to say that the painting I loved best was not at the fairs at all but in Chelsea. I guess the moral for all you fairgoers is that you need to leave a couple of extra days to take in the galleries, too.

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Armory: Odili Donald Odita at Jack Shainman, New York

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ADAA: James Little at June Kelly, New York
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Armory: Kenneth Noland at Galerie Michael Schultz
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ADAA: Nola Zirin at June Kelly Gallery, New York
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Armory: Ruth Root at the Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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Armory: Greg Bogin at Keo Koenig, New York
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Armory: Julia Fish at Rhona Hoffman, Chicago

(Fish is also in the Whitney Biennial; this is the first time I've seen her work, which is based on architectural floor plans)
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Armory: Will Fowler at David Kordansky, Los Angeles

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Armory Modern: Alfred Jensen at Amy Wolf/Elrick-Manley Fine Art
(This 10.8 x 8 inch painting is from 1958)
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ADAA Modern: Martin Kline at Jason McCoy, New York

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Armory: Mary Heilmann at 303 Gallery, New York
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Armory: Michael Samuels at Rokeby Gallery, London

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Armory: Herbert Hamak at Studio La Citta, Italy

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Armory: Stuart Arends at Studio La Citta, Italy

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ADAA Modern: Josef Albers at Leonard Hutton Gallery, New York

(Yeah, yeah, I've seen Albers' paintings a million times, but I still love them)
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Armory: Nicole Wermers, Herald Street Gallery, London

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Back in a couple of days with Spring Greens to celebrate the Vernal Equinox
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Armory Week: Stacked

(Marketing Mondays will return next week with "The Rogue Consultant")
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More Armory Week here, here and here .

Armory: Joachim Schonfelt at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

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Seeing so much stacked work at the fairs, it occurred to me that the format represented a large slice of what was being shown throughout the fairs: taxidermy, abject or commonplace materials, textiles, structure, materiality. If the medium is obvious, or shown in detail, I'm not mentioning it. Those of you who were there, I'd love to hear how your impressions jibe with mine.

Armory: Artist unknown at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

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I love these little sculptures, the way the different lengths of pencil fit together, the way the points meet the surface of the shelf, and the way the artist selected particular rubber bands to bind the stacks. But it's also true that you can put almost anything on a shelf or pedestal and call it art.

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Armory: Tony Tasset at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
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Armory Modern: Peter Hallery at Galerie Forsblom
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Armory: Rosa Brun at Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid

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Armory: Ebru Eygun at Dirimart, Istanbul
Full view below
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Armory: Lisa Lapinski at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

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Detail below

(I think they're squares of wallpaper that have been overprinted or painted)
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Armory: Jim Lambie, painted or polished aluminum, at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

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Installation view below
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Armory: Jose Pedro Croft at Galeria Senda, Barcelona
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Armory: Omar Careno at Faria Fabregas Galeria, Caracas

(Painting inset with painted and stacked wooden blocks)

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Volta: Nikolai Bendiz Skyum Larsen at Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris
(Stacked and glued business cards)

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Armory: Jacob Dahlgren at Andrehn-Schipjenko, Stockholm
(Stacked plastic hangers)
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Armory: Niko Luoma, photographs, at Bryce Wolkowitz, New York
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Armory: David Brooks at Museum 52, London

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Armory: Rachel Whiteread at Galleria Lorcan O'Neil, Roma

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Armory: Michaela Meise at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
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Armory: Takaaki Isumi at unknown gallery
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Armory: Jessica Jackson Hutchins at Laurel Gitlin, New York
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Pulse: Megan Whitmarsh at Michael Rosenthal, San Francisco
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Armory: Richard Nonas at Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg and Beirut
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Detail below
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Armory: Leslie Wayne at Jack Shainman

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Installation, above, and closeup below
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Armory: Nari Ward at gallerie unknown (possibly Lehman Maupin)

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Armory Modern: Elizabeth Turk

Detail of a work, above, through which we see the works below:
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Armory: Antony Gormley at White Cube, London

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Detail below

So we started with stacked animals and ended with the stacked figure of a person. Next (and last) post: some geometry. Did you think I wouldn't cover that? Oh, no, you dittn't.