Fair Game: Painting in the Big Box

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The posts so far:

What to Wear to an Art Fair
Miami Overview 
Domestic Affairs 

Aisle views of Art Basel Miami Beach. Look at all the painting!

 

There was more painting at ABMB than I can ever remember--and this was my seventh fair. As always, there was a combination of contemporary and secondary-market work. I loved the opportunity to see work that had been hitherto hidden away. The Tornabuoni Art booth dedicated to the work of Lucio Fontana was stellar. And wait until you see the geometry of the very contemporary Carmen Herrera (now 90-something) with the work of John McLaughlin and Jo Baer from the Sixties.

Above and below: More aisle views

I made a real effort to look beyond my personal geometric preferences. I even put some figurative work into the mix. The order is visually fluid, looping into and out of geometry, and there are some interesting material surprises. In another post I'll show painting from the other fairs--because there was a lot of painting everywhere.

Ron Gorchov, foreground, at Cheim & Read, New York City

 

Ugo Rondinone, left, and Alex Israel at Almine Reich Gallery, Paris and Brussels

 

Julie Mehretu at John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

 

Some artists have a significant presence at several booths. Here, Gunther Forg at Galerie Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt . . .

 

. . . and elsewhere, above and below

Foreground: Sean Scully at Galerie Lelong, New York City

 

Keltie Ferris at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York City

 

Bridget Riley at Pace, with sculpture by Bosco Sodi

 

Bosco Sodi painting with detail

Bill Jensen at Cheim & Read, New York City

(I'll show you the sculpture in another post)

 

Ghada Amer also at Cheim & Read

 

Richard Aldrich at Bortolami, New York City

 

Henrique Oliveira at Galleria Millan, Sao Paolo

 

Joe Bradley at gallery undetermined

Detail below

 

 

 

Howard Hodgkin and Ameringer|McEnery|Yohe, New York City

Installation below with Patrick Wilson

 

Keltie Ferris again at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, with a small Kenneth Noland from 1967, below

 

Jon Thompson at Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

 

Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City

 

Agnes Martin at Pace

 

John Golding at Annely Juda Fine Art, London

 

Imi Knoebel at Kewenig Galerie

Individual work below

 

Sarah Morris at Petzel, New York City

 

Morris again at White Cube, London

 

 Max Bill, center and right, at unidentified gallery; Josef Albers at left

(I liked seeing Albers in this context; usually the paintings are paired with John Chamberlain sculptures, oh, everywhere)

 

Angela De La Cruz at Lisson Gallery, London

Detail below

 

Stanley Whitney at Team Gallery, New York City

 

Pablo Rasgado (?) at Arratia Beer, Berlin

 

James Brooks at Greenberg Van Doren, New York City

 

Kirsi Mikkola at Carlier|Gebauer

 

Installation view, Janaina Tschape at Galerie Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paolo

 

Juan Usle at Cheim & Read, New York City

 

Ernst Wilhelm Nay, from 1967; gallery unidentified

 

Leslie Wayne at Jack Shainman, New York City

Closer view below

 

Angel Otero at unidentified gallery

Detail below

Wu Shanzhuan, Long March Space, Beijing

 

Alexandre da Cunha at unidentified gallery

Detail below

 

Beatriz Milhazes at Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art, New York City

Detail below

 

Ryan McGinness at unidentified gallery

 

Caetano De Almeida at Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo

Detail below

 

Another Almeida from Luisa Strina

 

 

Marcus Linnenbrink at Ameringer|McEnery|Yohe, New York City

(Don't you love the dialog with the caution tape?)

 

Valentin Carron painting and Franz West sculpture at unidentified gallery

 

Charlotte Posenenske at Galerie Nelson-Freeman

 

 

Installation view of Alice Trumbull Mason painting at Joan Washburn Gallery. New York City, with Jack Pierson work via Richard Gray Gallery

Alice Trumbull Mason, Fire Festival, 1951

 

Sarah Crowner at Galerie Nordenhake

 

Yaima Carrazana at Galerie Elba Benitez, Madrid

Yes, they're painted chair seats

 

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Shape Shifter, left, at Galerie Chantal Crouse

 

Detail below. Can you guess the material? Here's the label info:

"Used sandpaper sheets on canvas"

 

Adam McEwen, Untitled, graphite mounted on aluminum panel, at Art: Concept, Paris

Detail below

 

Andy Warhol, Diamond Dust Shoes, 1980-81, at Michael John Gallery, Los Angeles

 

 

Above and below: Pae White prints on metal at Kaufmann Repetto, Milan

 

Carmen Herrera at Lisson Gallery, London

Full view of painting below

 

 

Two paintings by John McLaughlin, circe early Seventies, at Greenberg Van Doren, New York City

 

Closer view, below 

 

Joe Baer, Untitled, 1968-69, at unidentified gallery

Detail below

 

Tornabouni Art, Paris, dedicated an entire booth to the Concetti Spaziali of Lucio Fontana. The walls resembled stage wings, adding to the drama of the installation

Detail below of the red painting shown above and above that, in a view from the aisle

Another installation with closer view below

 

Let's close on a figurative note. One thing I noticed was the number of paintings of girls, not just at ABMB but throughout the fairs. These were not Henry Darger girls but surprisingly strong young women who met the viewer's gaze (perhaps even challenged it). I'm sure it makes a difference that two out of the three here were painted by women

Eduardo Berliner at Juliana Cerqueira Leite Gallery

 

Chantal Joffe at Victoria Miro, London

 

Nicola Tyson at Petzel Gallery

 

And my new favorite favorite painter, whose work I  saw for the first time at NADA two years ago: Rose Wylie, a British painter, at Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin

 

Fair Game: Domestic Affairs

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The posts so far:

What to Wear to an Art Fair

Miami Overview  

 

ABMB: Artist unidentified, at Galleria Franco Noero, Turin

 

Halfway into my first go-round at ABMB I saw Martha Stewart pass by. She must have felt right at home, as there was a strong river of domestic energy running through the fair. I’d already photographed the painted roasting pans, the folded shirts, and the mother-and-son quilting team—and hadn’t even hit the other fairs at that point.

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There’s always a lot of fiber and fabric at the fairs, but this time the domesticity extended to include cooking and cleaning. When I saw the eggs, I looked around expecting to see chickens. They would not have been out of place.

 

Pulse: Mateo Mate at Galeria Nieves Fernandez

 

Installation view below  

Pulse: Jean Philippe Illanes, gallery unidentified

 

Detail below 

 

ABMB: B. Wurtz Untitled painted roasting pans at Metro Pictures, New York City

Love these!

 

Details above and below

 

Left-wall view

 

 

ABMB: Marepe, Are You Hungry for What?, metal and paint, at Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo

 

ABMB: artist and gallery unidentified

ABMB: Kris Martin at Sies + Hoke, Dusseldorf

 

ABMB: Doris Salcedo at Alexander and Bonin, New York City

 

Installation view below 

 

ABMB: Jeff Koons, cleanup in Section B

 

ABMB: Rachel Harrison at Regen Projects, Los Angeles

Yes, that's an air conditioner

 

ABMB, Art Positions section: Atsushi Kaga and his mom, Kazuko, at Mother's Tankstation, Dublin

 

Here's the story: As a self-described nerdy boy, Kaga was embarrassed by his mother's homemade totebags, which she made him carry to school. Somewhere between elementary school and adulthood, he embraced the nerdiness, the totes, and his mom's

penchant for sewing . . .   

. . . and now they're sewing together, using his drawings as the source material