Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 1

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Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 1, ABMB, Untitled, Pulse

Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 2, A Couple of Hotel Fairs

Fair Fetched: Navigating Miami Part 3,  Miami Project,  Nada, Scope

Fair Fetched: Yes, Pink

Fair Fetched: The Phrygian Cap      

Fair Fetched: Some Paintings  

Fair Fetched: Punctum  

Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 1   

Fair Fetched: Material Mashup, Part 2

ABMB: The queen of material, Louise Nevelson, at Pace

For me, one of the pleasures of the art fair experience is seeing the vast variety of materials used to make art, from wood to wax, wire to movie film, precious metals to fiber.  All of the previous posts contain some such work, but in this post and the next I'm focusing on the materiality of art, its gorgeous stuffness. I'm doing this not to ghettoize material-specific work but give you a way to view and process a huge variety of painting and sculpture in a cohesive way. As with the previous post, Punctum, I've included a lot of details to bring you as close as I was able to get.

ABMB: Leonardo Drew at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

Detail below

ABMB: Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman, New York City

Detail below

ABMB: Celso Renato at Mendes Wood, Sao Paolo

Pulse: Johannes Girardoni at PDX Contemporary, Portland, Oregon

Detail below (pigmented beeswax on found wood) 

NADA: Charles Harlan at JTT , New York City

ABMB: Jannis Kounellis at unidentified gallery

Work from 1987; detail below (wax, wood, burlap)

ABMB: Lynda Benglis at Cheim & Read, New York City

Work from 1968-70; detail below (wax)

Pulse: Sopheap Pich at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York City

Detail below (wax, rattan and bamboo, oil paint)

ABMB: Adam McEwen at Petzel, New York City

Detail below (graphite)

ABMB: Giuseppe Penone at Marian Goodman, New York City

Detail below (graphite)

ABMB: Petah Coyne at Galerie Lelong, New York City

Detail below  (the list of materials is long, including "chicken wire fencing, tomatow wire fencing, steel, wire, cable, cable nuts, paint, black sand from pig iron" and more)

ABMB: Hassan Sharif at Alexander Gray, New York City

Detail below

ABMB: El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City

Detail below

ABMB: Walter Oltman at Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Detail below

Untitled: Andres Bedoya at Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Santiago

Detail below

ABMB: Laurent Grasso at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City

(copper)

Pulse: Marietta Hoferer at Jayne H. Baum Gallery, New York City

Detail below (brushed chrome tape on black paper)

ABMB: Maya Lin at Pace, New York City and elsewhere

Detail below ( silver, cast or poured)

Pulse: Nancy Lorenz at Morgan Lehman, New York City

(metal leaf and stones on gesso on burlap)

Installation view with another work below

ABMB: Arch Connelley at P.P.O.W., New York City

Detail below

ABMB: Paola Pivi at Massimo De Carlo, London and Milan

Detail below (natural pearls)

ABMB: Tara Donovan at Pace

(stacked buttons; sorry, no detail)

ABMB: Teresita Fernandez at Lehman Maupin, New York City

Detail below (glazed ceramic)

ABMB: Jannis Kounellis at Galeria Christian Stein, Milano

("iron, fabric, enamel, coats")

Pulse: Charles McGill at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City

Detail below ("reconfigured golf bag parts on wood panel")

Miami Project: Derrick Velasquez at Robichon Gallery, Denver

Detail below (vinyl strips on wooden form)

Pulse: Sabrina Gschwandtner at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica

Detail below (16 mm film and polyester thread)

Aqua Art: Frank Hyder at Projects Gallery, Miami

(light as a material)

ABMB: Jessica Stockholder at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City

Untitled: C.J. Chueca at unidentified gallery

Closer view below (ceramic) 

Untitled: Sabina Ott at Aspect/Ratio, Chicago

Large work on right wall is shown below

("polystyrene, mirror, spray foam, canvas, spray enamel, graphite and watercolor")

Below: One of Ott's small works on the far wall

Untitled: Magdalena Atria at Galeria XS, Santiago
(wool yarn)

Next up: Material Mashup, Part 2 (Fiber)

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