Fair and Fair Alike: Miami 2009. Blanc et Noir

Fair and Fair Alike coverage so far:
. Working the Angles
. A Little Peek at the Geometry of the Next Post
. Five Woven Grids
. House and Home
. Bourgeois, Benglis, Wilke
. Mano a Mano
. The Pretenders
. Art Miami
. Red Dot
. NADA
. Scope
. Aqua Art
. Pulse
. The Big One, Art Basel Miami Beach
. An Overview Before the Individual Fairs
. Art Bloggers at Art Miami
. Are We Out of the Woods?
. A Little Gossip
. Art? Or Not Art?
. Nosing Around
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ABMB: Esther Stocker had the entire booth at Krobath Gallery, Vienna. The booth was small, one of the Art Nova spaces that lay at the south end of the big fair, but it was one of the best

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I ended the previous post on Geometry with a view of the gallery you see here. Clearly, this work is a bridge between the two. The Krobath Gallery created a dramatic mise en scene for what could have been a Bauhaus drama. Here it sets the stage for this post: studies in black and white.
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Two more views of the painting and sculpture, above and below
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Art Miami: Will Insley, Westwood Gallery, New York
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ABMB: Enrico Castellani, Superficie Bianca (White Surface), at Galleria Lia Rumma, Napoli

The surface is given dimension by dowels pushing into it from beneath
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ABMB: Imi Knoebel's big, multipart constructions, at Kewenig Galerie, Cologne

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ABMB: Fergus Feehily's little geometry of what appear to be found materials, at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.

I try to provide images in situ so that you get a sense of scale without my getting into the numbers. Here the screws provide the scale; the longer dimension is about 12 inches
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Art Miami: John Griefen and Tad Wiley at Gary Snyder Project Space, New York

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ABMB: Rashid Johnson at Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

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ABMB: Wayne Gonzalez's eye-rubber, marvelously blurry from a distance, at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

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Art Miami: Jesus Rafael Soto, Circulo en Negro, with kinetic elements that visually activate the black field

Soto's work was shown at four galleries in this venue, but I think this one was at Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami

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ABMB: Jacob Hashimoto construction with paper, dowels and string, at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.

the longer dimension is about 48 inches

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ABMB: The Helsinki gallery, Anhave, also had a black and white booth

Above, Matti Kujasalo, Untitled, acrylic on canvas

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Detail below:

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Also at Anhave: It looks as if Benday dots, above, create the image below--except that the dots are cut out of a black canvas to create the halftone image

Anne-Karin Furunes, acrylic on perforated canvas

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ABMB: An achromatic moment at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin. Work by Allan McCollum, left, and Mark Francis
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Art Miami: Mike and Doug Starn injket-print tree under glass
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ABMB: Jacin Giordano mixed media sculpture, at Frederic Snitzer, Miami

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Detail below
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ABMB: Amanda Ross-Ho's textile silhouettes, cut from black-painted canvas, at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York

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This work will carry us to the next post, which looks at the textile esthetic that has woven itself neatly into contemporary art

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Next up: Pulling a Thread

Fair and Fair Alike: Miami 2009. Working the Angles

Fair and Fair Alike coverage so far:

. A Little Peek at the Geometry of the Next Post
. Five Woven Grids
. House and Home
. Bourgeois, Benglis, Wilke
. Mano a Mano
. The Pretenders
. Art Miami
. Red Dot
. NADA
. Scope
. Aqua Art
. Pulse
. The Big One, Art Basel Miami Beach
. An Overview Before the Individual Fairs
. Art Bloggers at Art Miami
. Are We Out of the Woods?
. A Little Gossip
. Art? Or Not Art?
. Nosing Around
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ABMB: Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery, New York
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I've often said that in my next life I plan to come back as a curator (in a large museum where there's pay and institutional support, thank you). In the meantime, I get to indulge my curatorial urges with posts like these. One of the great things about curating blog-style is that it allows for a nicely non-hierarchical coming together of artists and galleries. .

Art Miami: Charles Arnoldi, Eckert Fine Art, Kent, Conn.
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ABMB: Gerhard Richter, Quattro Colori series, at Marian Goodman, New York
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ABMB: Peter Halley, Cross Currents, at Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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ABMB: Poul Gernes, Untitled, Galeri Bo Bjerggaar, Copenhagen
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ABMB: Robert Mangold, Split Image, at Pace Wildenstein, New York

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Pulse: Shirley Kaneda and David Ryan, at Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
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Below, detail of work by Ryan
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ABMB: Steven Aalders; at Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
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ABMB: Paulo Pasta, Galleria Millian, Sao Paolo
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ABMB: Harvey Quaytman, Recidivist, at McKee Gallery, New York
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NADA: Michael Rey, at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
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ABMB: Victor Vasareley, Axo, 1974, at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
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Pulse: Linda Besemer, at Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
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Installation view below
with another closeup below that
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ABMB: Sarah Morris, Portuguese Bowline, at Capitan Petzel Gallery, Paris and New York
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ABMB: Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (8-116), 2009, at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
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Pulse: Jeff Kellar,Wall Drawing, at Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
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ABMB: Daniel Buren, Emerging Cubes, at Lisson Gallery, London
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NADA: Ben Berlow's tiny geometries on book pages, at Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
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Below, closeup of one
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ABMB: Anne Truitt, acrylic on paper, 1969, at Matthew Marks, New York
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Pulse: Patrick Wilson, at Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco
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Pulse: Robert Courtwright, untitled collage construction, at Pavel Zoubok, New York
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ABMB: Mira Schendel gouaches, installed in the Art Kabinett at Galeria Millian, Sao Paolo
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ABMB: Al Taylor, acrylic paintings on newsprint, 1985, at David Zwirner Gallery, New York .

ABMB: Susana Solano, La Imaginacion III, at McKee Gallery, New York
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Pulse: Siemens Art Lab, Vienna
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Red Dot: George Dunbar, at Myers Contemporary, Annapolis
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NADA: Eva Berendes silk square, at Jacky Strunz Gallery, Berlin
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NADA: Sarah Crowner, pieced paintings, at Nicelle Beauchene, New York
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ABMB: John McLaughlin, V-1958, 1958, oil on canvas, at Greenberg Van Doren, New York
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ABMB: Heimo Zobering, installation wall from Galleries Nagel Grasslin
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ABMB: Esther Stocker installation, at Galerie Krobath, Vienna

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Next post: Blanc et Noir, mostly geometry in an achromatic palette

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Want to see more? There are two important and expansive online resources for abstraction of the geometric and reductive kind: Geoform and Minus Space. While there's some visual overlap, Geoform has the more expansive vision, Minus Space the more stringently reductive; both are international in scope. Each online project is founded and maintained by artists who are passionate about this particular aspect of artistic expression.