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L&M Arts' booth, features a "Solo Show" of John Baldessari's conceptual works. |
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John Baldessari "Portraits, Various Identities with Name/Date Cards" 1974, L&M Arts NY. |
NY ARMORY
ARTS WEEK
SPECIAL REPORTS
The Art Dealers
Association of America
Presents "THE ART SHOW"
at the Park Ave. Armory
67th & Park Ave., NYC
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| The Park Avenue Armory, is home to ADAA's "THE ART SHOW". The exhibition is also a fundraiser for the Henry Street Settlement. |
72 leading art galleries from across the country, all members of the ADAA, are showing this weekend as a part of THE ART SHOW. ADAA's show has the longest history of all of the current crop of NYC art fairs, including the "ARMORY SHOW" at the Piers.
The Art Show has the ambiance and sophistication of the Upper-East-Side, NYC and a more reserved atmosphere when compared to the hustle, bustle and mega crowds of The Armory Show. Many of the galleries in this show also have booths at The Armory Show. This Art Show is organized into two approaches for their galleries to choose from, either "Solo Shows" (35) or "Thematic Exhibitions" (37).
(The ADAA is an organization of American art dealers, who promote high standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practices. To join the galleries must have been in business for at least five years and have a reputation for honesty and integrity amongst their peers, along with expert knowledge in the art they exhibit. Membership is by invitation only.)
Enough said about the organization, the approach and the venue, let's look at some of the world class art presented at THE ART SHOW.
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| Mark Wagner's "Took for Granted" 2008, 30" x 25" is a collage made from dissected US Dollar Bills. at Pavel Zoubok Gallery |
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| "Detail" of Mark Wagner's "Took for Granted" at Pavel Zoubok Gallery |
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| Alice Neel 1900-1984 "Portrait of Bill White" 1971 Oil on Canvas 40" x 40" at Richard L. Feigen & Co. |
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| Mel Bochner, "Blah, Blah, Blah" 2008 at Fraenkel Gallery |
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| Mel Bochner, "SIN" at Fraenkel Gallery |
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| Metro Pictures's Solo Show is an early work by Cindy Sherman. In this series she created a theatrical production where she plays all of the characters of the murder mystery. She made photographs in black in white of herself, printed the images to scale, then cut them out and pasted them together to compose the individual scenes of the story. |
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| Metro Pictures - Cindy Sherman (above) |
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| Diego Rivera "Self-Portrait" c. 1949 tempera on linen 13" x 11" Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art Latin American Art - Realism and Surrealism |
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| Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) "Drawing with War Theme" 1946 Sepia Ink on Paper 7 1/8" x 10" Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art Latin American Art - Realism and Surrealism |
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| David Smith Sculpture Acquavella Galleries, Inc. Postwar Abstraction and Figuration |
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| Winslow Homer drawing with white painted accents at Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC |
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| Thomas Hart Benton painting of the Chicago World's Fair executed from his own observations, at Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC. |
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Allan McCollum's "The Shapes Project" 144 framed monoprints from Vector files Each 5 7/8 x 4 3/8 x 1/4" on 3" ledges Installation is 64" x 124" at Barbara Krakow Gallery |
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Detail of Allan McCollum's "The Shapes Project" at Barbara Krakow Gallery |
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| Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) paint on panel at Washburn Gallery |
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| Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) Untitled c. 1952-56 Ink on matchbox cardboard at Washburn Gallery |
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| Jim Nutt "Twig" acrylic on linen and MDF frame 25" x 24 2/8" at David Nolan Gallery |
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| Detail - Jim Nutt graphite on paper at David Nolan Gallery |
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| Henry Taylor, "Van Lamprou" 2012 Acrylic on Canvas 24" x 20" at Blum & Poe |
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| Yoshitomo Nara "Works on Paper" at The Pace Gallery |
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| Yoshitomo Nara "Works on Paper" at The Pace Gallery |
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| Matthew Monahan shows us the fragmented and fragile nature of humans at Anton Kern Gallery |
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| Egon Schiele drawing at Galerie St. Etienne |
Well, I got carried away with all of the great art at THE ART SHOW. I hope you enjoyed it. Look for more of Armory Arts Week to come.
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| One last stop at Crown Point Press's display of prints on the way out. |
FOOD
"The Art Show" Cafe
The cafe had a great setting and typical art fair sandwiches, soup, coffee, soda pop, and salads. The room itself was a magnificent left over from the days when the officers needed a place to meet back in the day at the Park Ave. Armory.
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| A grand dining room can make dreary and banal food and plastic table clothes - fun! |
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| Fire hose in the armory hallway. |
© Jack A. Atkinson 2012. Contact websites for this issue: www.artdealers.org & www.henrystreet.org)
Jack
ARTSnFOOD, All rights reserved. Concept & Original Text © Copyright 2012 Jack A. Atkinson under all International intellectual property and copyright laws. Images © individual artists, fabricators, respective owners or assignees.
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