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MEDIA MATERIALS THE ART SHOW MARCH 4–8, 2015 The 27th Annual Art Show Park Avenue Armory At 67th Street, New York City TO BENEFIT Henry Street Settlement ORGANIZED BY Art Dealers Association of America F O U N D E D 1 9 6 2 Lead Partner of The Art Show THE ART SHOW ANNOUNCES 39 SOLO AND 33 THEMATIC PRESENTATIONS FOR THE FINE ART FAIR’S 27th EDITION ORGANIZED BY THE ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (ADAA) TO BENEFIT HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT MARCH 4 – 8, 2015 GALA PREVIEW MARCH 3 The Art Show 2014 at the Park Avenue Armory, New York. Photo by Timothy Lee Photography New York, December 16, 2014 —Gallery presentations at the 27th annual ADAA Art Show, the nation's longest running fine art fair, will feature thoughtfully curated solo, two-person, and thematic exhibitions by 72 of the nation’s leading art dealers. The Art Show takes place March 4 - 8, 2015 at the historic Park Avenue Armory, with a ticketed Gala Preview on Tuesday, March 3. All ticket proceeds from the gala and run of show benefit Henry Street Settlement, one of New York City’s most effective social services agencies. AXA Art Americas Corporation has returned for the fourth consecutive year as Lead Partner. Solo Shows One of the premier trademarks of The Art Show remains the emphasis on oneperson presentations, and the 27th edition is no exception. Three galleries will present comprehensive surveys highlighting the work of women artists in their 90s—Tibor de Nagy Gallery will honor the late painter Jane Freilicher, CRG Gallery will feature a selection of work and ephemera from the studio of Saloua Raouda Choucair, and Galerie Lelong will present Etel Adnan’s paintings and accordion-fold books (leporellos). Site-specific installations debuting at The Art Show include Haim Steinbach’s arranged objects at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery and drawings by Wade Guyton inside custom-made vitrines at Petzel. Jan Groover’s first retrospective since her death will be on view at Janet Borden, Inc., with previously unseen triptychs from 1973. Other historical presentations include early works from the 1950s by Lee Mullican at Marc Selwyn Fine Art and sculptures by Nam June Paik at Carl Solway Gallery. Thematic Exhibitions In addition to solo shows, The Art Show 2015 remains unparalleled with its installation of curated, thematic exhibitions. Peter Freeman, Inc. and Fraenkel Gallery will collaborate in a two-booth presentation titled Mirror/Mirror, examining self-portraiture by artists including Mel Bochner, Constantin Brancusi, Thomas Schütte, Diane Arbus, and Irving Penn. Layered Luminescence: Masterworks of Egg Tempera at ACA Galleries will feature paintings by Thomas Hart Benton, Paul Cadmus, Reginald Marsh, and Andrew Wyeth, among others. Maxwell Davidson Gallery’s The Responsive Eye at 50 will explore the historical and current imprint of Op-art with artists Victor Vasarely, Luis Tomasello, Pedro S. De Movellan, Mary Ann Unger, and others. Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions EXHIBITOR 303 Gallery George Adams Gallery Alexander and Bonin Marianne Boesky Gallery Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Janet Borden, Inc. Bortolami Cheim & Read James Cohan Gallery CRG Gallery Tibor de Nagy Gallery Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. Marian Goodman Gallery Howard Greenberg Gallery Sean Kelly Gallery Anton Kern Gallery Greg Kucera Gallery Lehmann Maupin Galerie Lelong Dominique Lévy Gallery Luhring Augustine Anthony Meier Fine Arts David Nolan Gallery P-P-O-W Pace Gallery Petzel Salon 94 Marc Selwyn Fine Art Manny Silverman Gallery Fredric Snitzer Gallery Carl Solway Gallery Sperone Westwater Allan Stone Projects Van de Weghe Fine Art Van Doren Waxter / Eleven Rivington Susanne Vielmetter Los AngelesProjects Meredith Ward Fine Art Michael Werner David Zwirner EXHIBITION TITLE Maureen Gallace Joan Brown Ree Morton “The Botanicals” by Donald Moffett Haim Steinbach Jan Groover Claudio Parmiggiani Al Held Michelle Grabner Saloua Raouda Choucair Jane Freilicher Brodsky and Utkin Tony Cragg Arnold Newman Antony Gormley Marcel Odenbach David Byrd “I Fell in Love” by Tracey Emin Etel Adnan Tsuyoshi Maekawa Michelangelo Pistoletto Sarah Cain Christina Ramberg Anton van Dalen Jim Dine Wade Guyton Lorna Simpson Lee Mullican Sam Francis Alice Aycock Nam June Paik Barry X Ball John Graham Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat Al Held and Michael DeLucia Nicola Tyson and Elizabeth Neel John Marin Gianni Piacentino Forrest Bess Thematic Exhibitions EXHIBITOR EXHIBITION TITLE Layered Luminescence: Masterworks of Egg ACA Galleries Tempera Acquavella Galleries, Inc. Three Modern Schools: Paris, London and New York Latin Americans Abroad in the Sixties: Adler & Conkright Fine Art Why Did They Go; Where Did They Go; Who Did They Meet and What Did They See? Defining Artists of Composition, Color, and Form: Brooke Alexander, Inc. Josef Albers, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, and Barnett Newman Chuck Close, Mark di Suvero, Donald Judd, Yayoi John Berggruen Gallery Kusama, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Ed Ruscha, and others Hard-Edge Abstraction at Mid Century: Charles Valerie Carberry Gallery Biederman, José de Rivera, Burgoyne Diller, Leon Polk Smith, and Tony Smith James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Artists Thomas Colville Fine Art Influenced by Him The Story of American Sculpture in the 19th and 20th Conner -Rosenkranz LLC Century: Hiram Powers, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Carl Akeley, Sidney Gordin, and others The Responsive Eye at 50: Op-art’s Imprint on the Maxwell Davidson Gallery Art World Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art: the Ray Johnson Estate, Max Beckmann, Joseph Richard L. Feigen & Co. Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha, and early works by Frank Stella Contemporaneous Paintings and Drawings by John Forum Gallery Graham, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning Mirror / Mirror: A Collaboration with Peter Freeman, Fraenkel Gallery Inc. Presenting Only Self-Potraits Mirror / Mirror: A Collaboration with Fraenkel Peter Freeman, Inc. Gallery Presenting Only Self-Portraits German Expressionists: Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Galerie St. Etienne George Grosz, Gustav Klimt, Käthe Kollwitz, Egon Schiele, and others James Goodman Gallery Works by Modern and Contemporary Masters: Avery, Arp, Calder, Dubuffet, Miro, Matisse, Picasso, and others Hirschl & Adler Galleries Winold Reiss and Jazz Age Modernism: Winold Reiss with Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, and others Rhona Hoffman Gallery Works on Paper 1968 to the Present: Sol LeWitt, Fred Sandback, Spencer Finch, Hamish Fulton, and others Paul Kasmin Gallery L'impasse Ronsin California Artists: Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Kohn Gallery Joe Goode, and Lita Albuquerque Two Ways of Looking Through Reality: George Barbara Krakow Gallery Segal, Sol LeWitt, Liliana Porter, and others Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc. Matthew Marks Gallery Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art Spanning the Career of Fernand Léger and Artists Influenced by Him Jasper Johns, Fischli and Weiss, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Charles Ray, and others 20th Century Mexican and Latin American Artists: Parisian Influences on Modern Art Barbara Mathes Gallery Uncanny Geometries: Robert Mangold, Jan Dibbets, Peter Alexander, and Ron Davis McKee Gallery Vija Celmins, Marcel Eichner, Philip Guston, Richard Learoyd, and others Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, Historical Survey of 10 Works of Early Modernism LLC from the Ashcan School to the New York School Mnuchin Gallery Abstraction Works Prior to 1975 Pace/MacGill Gallery Night Late Prints of Henri Matisse 1930s-‘40s, Pablo Pace Prints & Pace Primitive Picasso 1930s-‘60s, and others Prints and Works on Paper by Postwar Artists: Kelly, Susan Sheehan Gallery Marden, Twombly, Diebenkorn, and others Red Hot and Blue: Ilya Bolotowsky, Ray Parker, Washburn Gallery Jackson Pollock, and others 50 Years + 50 Artists of Riva Yares Gallery: Milton Yares Art Projects Avery, Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, and others Object Lesson: Transformation of Commercially Pavel Zoubok Gallery Fabricated Objects in 13 Artists’ Sculptural Works The Art Show 2015 List of Exhibiting Galleries 303 Gallery ACA Galleries Acquavella Galleries, Inc. George Adams Gallery Adler & Conkright Fine Art Alexander and Bonin Brooke Alexander, Inc. John Berggruen Gallery Marianne Boesky Gallery Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Janet Borden, Inc. Bortolami Valerie Carberry Gallery Cheim & Read James Cohan Gallery Thomas Colville Fine Art Conner-Rosenkranz LLC CRG Gallery Maxwell Davidson Gallery Tibor de Nagy Gallery Richard L. Feigen & Co. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. Forum Gallery Fraenkel Gallery Peter Freeman, Inc. Galerie St. Etienne James Goodman Gallery Marian Goodman Gallery Howard Greenberg Gallery Hirschl & Adler Galleries Rhona Hoffman Gallery Paul Kasmin Gallery Sean Kelly Gallery Anton Kern Gallery Kohn Gallery Barbara Krakow Gallery Greg Kucera Gallery Lehmann Maupin Galerie Lelong Dominique Lévy Gallery Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc. Luhring Augustine Matthew Marks Gallery Mary-Anne Martin | Fine Art Barbara Mathes Gallery McKee Gallery Anthony Meier Fine Arts Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art LLC Mnuchin Gallery David Nolan Gallery P-P-O-W Pace Gallery Pace/MacGill Gallery Pace Prints & Pace Primitive Petzel Salon 94 Marc Selwyn Fine Art Susan Sheehan Gallery Manny Silverman Gallery Fredric Snitzer Gallery Carl Solway Gallery Sperone Westwater Allan Stone Projects Van de Weghe Fine Art Van Doren Waxter/Eleven Rivington Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Meredith Ward Fine Art Washburn Gallery Michael Werner Yares Art Projects Pavel Zoubok Gallery David Zwirner Gala Benefit Preview To inaugurate The Art Show 2015, a Gala Benefit Preview will be held on Tuesday, March 3 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will benefit Henry Street Settlement’s vital programs across 17 sites and in 25 New York City public schools. For advance ticket purchases or additional information, please call 212-766-9200 ext. 247/248. Henry Street Settlement Founded in 1893 by Progressive reformer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social services, healthcare and arts programs that improve the lives of more than 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Distinguished by a profound connection to its neighbors, a willingness to address new problems with swift and innovative solutions, and a strong record of accomplishment, Henry Street challenges the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children. In 2015 Henry Street celebrates the centennial anniversary of the Playhouse at the Abrons Arts Center, its award-winning program for the visual and performing arts, arts training and artist residencies. www.henrystreet.org Art Dealers Association of America Founded in 1962, the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) is a non-profit membership organization of more than 180 of the nation’s leading galleries in the fine arts. www.artdealers.org AXA Art Americas Corporation International reach, unrivalled competence and a high quality network of expert partners distinguish AXA Art, the only art insurance specialist in the world, from its generalist property insurance competitors. Over the past 40 years and well into the future, AXA Art has and will continue to redefine the manner in which it serves and services its museum, gallery, collector and artist clients, across Asia, Americas and Europe, with a sincere consideration of the way valuable objects are insured and cultural patrimony is protected. For assistance, please contact Global Head of Public Relations, Rosalind Joseph by telephone: (718) 710-5181 or email: [email protected] www.axa-art-usa.com Visitor Information Turon Travel is the preferred US Travel Agency for The Art Show. Hotel reservations can be made through their web site at www.turontravel.com. For group travel arrangements, email [email protected] or call Turon at (800) 952-7646 for the best-negotiated hotel and air travel rates. For further press information or visual materials, please contact: Jenny Isakowitz FITZ & CO T: (212) 627-1455 ext. 0923 E: [email protected] Taylor Maatman FITZ & CO T: (212) 627-1455 ext. 0926 E: [email protected] Paul Kasmin Gallery 303 Gallery Valerie Carberry Gallery A5 P•P•O•W A7 Anthony Meier Fine Arts A9 Meredith Ward Fine Art A11 Brooke Alexander, Inc. A13 Janet Borden, Inc. Conner•Rosenkranz LLC A17 A15 A19 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc. A21 A23 Pace/ MacGill Gallery A25 Coatcheck Acquavella Galleries, Inc. A3 Marianne Boesky Gallery Maxwell Davidson Gallery A4 A6 Mnuchin Gallery Salon 94 Washburn Gallery Michael Werner A8 David Zwirner ACA Galleries Yares Art Projects A10 Barbara Mathes Gallery A12 Forum Gallery A14 Kohn Gallery Pavel Zoubok Gallery Susan Sheehan Gallery A27 Sean Kelly Gallery A2 B3 B5 B7 B9 B11 B13 A16 Emergency Exit A1 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery Luhring Augustine Park Avenue Entrance Pace Prints & Pace Primitive CRG Gallery B2 Pace Gallery B1 James Goodman Gallery B4 Fraenkel Gallery B6 Sperone Westwater C3 C5 McKee Gallery B8 Barbara Krakow Gallery C7 Tibor de Nagy Gallery Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC B10 Hirschl & Adler Galleries C9 B12 A28 Cheim & Read Anton Kern Gallery C11 C13 Allan Stone Projects B14 D29 Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc. Petzel D2 Matthew Marks Gallery Marian Goodman Gallery Peter Freeman, Inc. C2 Adler & Conkright Fine Art C1 Dominique Lévy Gallery C4 James Cohan Gallery D3 Galerie Lelong C6 Richard L. Feigen & Co. D5 John Berggruen Gallery C8 Howard Greenberg Gallery D7 C10 Greg Kucera Gallery D9 Emergency Exit Mary-Anne Martin/ Fine Art C12 Lehmann Maupin Marc Selwyn Fine Art Rhona Hoffman Gallery D11 D13 D28 C14 D4 Manny Silverman Gallery Van de Weghe Fine Art D6 Solo Show Carl Solway Gallery D8 Thematic Show Galerie St. Etienne D10 Bortolami D12 George Adams Gallery D14 Thomas Colville Fine Art D16 David Nolan Gallery D18 Fredric Snitzer Gallery D20 Van Doren Waxter/ Eleven Rivington Alexander and Bonin D22 D24 D26 THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS 303 GALLERY GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY Maureen Gallace For two decades, Maureen Gallace’s practice has taken up an exclusively regional subject matter as an exercise in the reconciliation between abstraction and representation. In her paintings, the coastal New England countryside is rendered with marks at once expressive and concise, improvisational and economical. Seaside houses and beach shacks are reduced to geometric abstraction and iconography, while simultaneously capturing the emotional charge of locality and retreat. Her paintings propose a middle ground between the conceptual rigor of repetition and the communicative potential of expressionism. Novelist Rick Moody has composed a wall text to accompany Maureen Gallace’s paintings. Joan Brown: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the early 1970’s After a roughly six-year absence, Joan Brown (1938-1990) exhibited in a 1971 one-person show a series of large-scale autobiographical paintings at the San Francisco Museum of Art. No longer working in the virtuosic Bay Area Figurative style typified by David Park and her mentor Elmer Bischoff, these paintings are broadly rendered yet closely scrutinized self-portraits as a young girl, a young mother, as a woman, and as a newly-wed. These paintings, rarely seen or exhibited as a group, marked Brown’s re-emergence as a lively artistic force in the California Bay Area, a position she would maintain until her untimely death at age 52. Maureen Gallace September 1st, 2014, oil on panel, 11 x 14 in. Joan Brown Christmas Time, 1971, oil enamel on masonite, 96 x 48 in. ALEXANDER AND BONIN MARIANNE BOESKY GALLERY Ree Morton Ree Morton was born in Ossining, NY in 1936. She produced an extraordinarily rich and varied body of work that challenged the hegemony of minimalism. Creating mostly installation works and utilizing a wide variety of media from painting to sculpture, she rejected the orthodoxies of artistic convention and approached art as a personal search for meaning and identity through questions, provocation, and play. Drawing was vital to Morton’s practice and was influenced by her interests in surrealist literature, plant-lore and non-pedigreed architecture. Donald Moffett: The Botanicals A series of new shag monochrome paintings – in the key of green but with the breadth of all flora. Ree Morton Untitled (Woodgrain, Flower Parts),1974, crayon and colored pencil on printed paper, 19 x 25 in. Donald Moffett Lot 121514 (phthalo white), 2014, oil on Ravaged and drilled. Plant sex abstracted until all that remains is the raw ingredients of perfume. Of rose. Of cabbage. Or better still, an indecent transposition across biology, to musk. linen with wood panel support, 19 x 19 x 2 in. {1} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY JANET BORDEN, INC. Haim Steinbach Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is pleased to present a site-specific solo presentation by Haim Steinbach. Long admired as among the most important artists of his generation, Steinbach explores the human process of collecting through placement of objects from a variety of contexts onto shelving units, which range from handmade shelves to modular building systems. Steinbach was born in 1944 in Rehovot, Israel and has lived in New York since 1957. Steinbach’s 2015 Art Show exhibition will also celebrate the release of his newest catalog, published by Gregory R. Miller and Co. Jan Groover Jan Groover was the defining still life photographer of her generation. Her credo was “Formalism is everything,” and her photographs remain a testament to her vision. Beginning with her groundbreaking triptychs, Groover delighted in the intellectual and visual conundrums her photographs presented. Later work utilized the play of light and color, form and plane in tabletop arrangements. Even on the street, she made the mundane look impossible—layers of objects tumble through various planes—in a modern reinterpretation of the still life. Haim Steinbach Shelf with Kettle, 1981, imitation plastic wood shelf with driftwood, 1950’s chrome Kettle, 12 x 17 x 17 in. Jan Groover Untitled, 1988, chromogenic color print, 30 x 40 in. Edition 3/5. BORTOLAMI CHEIM & READ Claudio Parmiggiani Bortolami presents a solo project with the eminent and iconoclastic Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani, bringing together new and historical works across a variety of media that exemplify Parmiggiani’s concerns with memory, absence, fragmentation, solitude, silence and uncertainty. On the walls will be a series of newly created Delocazione, Italian for de-location, depicting the outline of windows defined by the residue of smoke and soot. On shelves and pedestals will be a series of sculptural assemblages from the 70s consisting of antique plaster heads coupled with books, butterflies and birds nests. Al Held: Armatures 1953–1954 Cheim & Read is pleased to announce an exhibition of six large-scale paintings on paper by Al Held, dating from 1953–54, and shown for the first time in public in this exhibition. These paintings comprise a pivotal and formative series in Held’s body of work, made when he had freshly come back to New York from a three-year course of study in Paris. Held at this juncture was deeply engaged in processing and responding to the achievements of Abstract Expressionism, notably those of Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko, and was, at age 25, taking the first sustained step in his journey to finding his own distinct voice. Claudio Parmiggiani Il Sogno di Marcellino, 1977, boat model, 98 x 49 in. Courtesy the Al Held Foundation, Inc. Al Held Untitled, 1953, oil, gouache and pastel on paper mounted on canvas, plaster cast, books and rope, 43.31 x 17.72 x 11.02 in. {2} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS JAMES COHAN GALLERY CRG GALLERY Michelle Grabner James Cohan Gallery presents a solo painting exhibition by Michelle Grabner, featuring works that transform familiar patterns from domestic life into delicate abstractions. Michelle Grabner works across a variety of media, including drawing, painting, video and sculpture. She is most widely known for her abstract metal point works and her paintings of textile patterns appropriated from everyday domestic fabric. As David Norr writes in the introduction to her 2013 solo exhibition at MoCA Cleveland, I Work From Home, “All of Grabner’s activities are driven by distinctive values and ideas: working outside of dominant systems, working tirelessly, working across platforms and towards community.” Saloua Raouda Choucair Saloua Raouda Choucair, born in 1916, is a pioneer of abstraction in the Middle East. In 1948 she left Lebanon for Paris to study, and attended Fernand Léger’s studio. She was one of the first Arab artists to participate in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles. Her work reflects her interest in science, mathematics, Islamic art and Western modernism. She has created her own striking visual language in paintings, sculptures and other objects. Through her experimental approach to material, she explores the logic of formal themes and her interest in Sufi poetry and art. Saloua Raouda Choucair Composition in Yellow, 1962-65, oil on panel, 20 ¼ x 32 x 1 in. Michelle Grabner Untitled, 1999, flock on canvas, 36 x 36 in. ©Michelle Grabner. TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY RONALD FELDMAN FINE ARTS, INC. Jane Freilicher “Freilicher’s paintings gradually summon fugitive emotions that are beyond words.” - Peter Schjeldahl. Tibor de Nagy Gallery presents a survey of works by Jane Freilicher (1924–2014), who died on December 9. The carefully curated exhibition includes rarely-exhibited paintings and works on paper, which represent more than sixty years. It comprises some of her most celebrated subjects, including evocative cityscapes of Greenwich Village, often with still-lifes in the foreground, and sparkling Long Island landscapes done from her studios in New York City and Water Mill. Freilicher came of age in the era of Abstract Expressionism and was at the center of a circle of New York painters and poets. Brodsky & Utkin: Sculpture & Etchings Ronald Feldman Fine Arts exhibits works from 1990 by the Russian collaborative team, Brodsky & Utkin. Sculptures of bottle-shaped forms and heads with strange iconography dominate the space. On the walls, etchings based on drawings, which won numerous international paper architectural competitions, depict fantastical visions that merge classical, romantic, and modernist imagery. The exhibition revisits that historic era when Soviet artists could first exhibit in the West. The etchings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and The Whitney Museum. Jane Freilicher Poppies and Peonies, 1981, oil on linen, 36 x 36 in. Brodsky & Utkin Untitled Bust (Head with Tower), painted paster. Photo by D. James Dee. {3} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY HOWARD GREENBERG GALLERY Tony Cragg Marian Goodman Gallery presents new sculpture by Tony Cragg, featuring works in bronze, stainless steel and wood. Tony Cragg is one of the most distinguished contemporary sculptors working today. His work has developed within the context of diverse influences, ranging from his experience as a laboratory technician to his engagement with English landscape art and Minimalist sculpture. Through his dynamic and investigative approach to materials and objects in the physical world, Cragg has broadened the boundaries of sculpture as a medium and brought continuous innovation to the language of sculpture. Arnold Newman Howard Greenberg exhibits the known and unknown of Arnold Newman. Newman has been credited as pioneering what has come to be known as “the environmental portrait.” By carefully controlling the surroundings in which he shot his portraits, he conveyed a broad sweep of information about his subjects. Some of these are well known—the portraits of Igor Stravinsky, Picasso and Mondrian— have become photographic icons. But many are not. And amongst those that are not known are portraits of famous artists, writers, musicians and other cultural figures that are beautiful, compelling and truly revelatory. Arnold Newman Marcel Duchamp, 1942, early gelatin silver print, 5 3⁄8 x 6 ½ in. ©the Estate of Arnold Newman. Tony Cragg Pool, 2012, bronze, 70 x 52 x 5 cm. Photo by Charles Duprat. SEAN KELLY GALLERY ANTON KERN GALLERY Antony Gormley Sean Kelly is pleased to present a solo exhibition of six new sculptures and related drawings by the preeminent British artist, Antony Gormley. The work is from Gormley’s ongoing Small Blockworks series, begun in 2013. As Gormley wrote, “the Blockworks series makes physical pixelisations of the human form with a rising canon of four blocks, each eight times the volume of the one before, the articulation of which creates a dynamic between space and mass that permeates and defines the body.” Marcel Odenbach Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to present works on paper by German artist Marcel Odenbach. While primarily known as a pioneer of video art, Odenbach has been creating collages for over 30 years. The centerpiece of our presentation is a monumental-size collage depicting Tiananmen Square on the day before the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Viewed at a distance the work depicts an immaculate and serene public square set up as a flower market. Upon closer inspection, the image breaks apart into hundreds of images relating to the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre and issues of freedom of expression. Antony Gormley Small Screen III, 2013, cast iron, 36 5⁄8 x 8 11⁄16 x 14 in. ©Antony Gormley. Photo by Stephen White, London Marcel Odenbach 08.08.08 (China Collage) (detail), 2008, collage on paper, 77 1⁄8 x 106 1⁄4 in. ©Marcel Odenbach. {4} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS GREG KUCERA GALLERY LEHMANN MAUPIN David Byrd David Byrd (1926-2013) made paintings and sculptures in rural NY for the last 65 years of his life. He never showed his art works professionally until 2013, in the last month of his life, at Greg Kucera Gallery in Seattle. Byrd trained in NYC with Amédée Ozenfant from 1949-51. He was an orderly at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Montrose NY for thirty years, retiring in 1985 to devote himself to painting the landscape around his work and home, as well as the harrowing conditions for patients under his care in the psychiatric ward. This one-person survey exhibition of his work is the first time his work has been shown in New York City. Tracey Emin: I Fell in Love Lehmann Maupin features work by renowned British artist Tracey Emin. The booth is centered on a new bronze sculpture The Heart Has Its Reasons (2014). Alongside this work, we display significant examples of Emin’s paintings that illustrate “limerence,” the state of unattainable love. The title of the sculpture The Heart has its Reasons is from Blaise Pascal who said, “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart.” David Byrd Hospital Hallway (257), 1992, oil on canvas, 43 x 52 in. Tracey Emin The Heart Has Its Reasons, 2014, patinated bronze with American black walnut plinth, 15.98 x 29.49 x 16.5 in. (sculpture), 48.27 x 38.5 x 25.98 in. (plinth). Edition of 6. ©Tracey Emin. Photo by White Cube. GALERIE LELONG DOMINIQUE LÉVY GALLERY Etel Adnan Galerie Lelong presents a solo booth of works by the Lebanese-born artist and writer Etel Adnan. In her continuing series of landscape paintings of Mount Tamalpais (Marin County, CA), Adnan explores the intellectual, emotional, and physical challenges of exile and the intangibility of the concept of “home.” Her vibrant, expressive paintings demonstrate Adnan’s commitment to communication beyond the confines of the written or spoken word, and her use of color, shape, gesture, and perception help to create the landscapes for which she is well known. Also on view are Adnan’s accordion-fold books (leporellos) that fuse her visual and linguistic prowess, promoting a harmonic synthesis of written texts and painted or drawn images. Tsuyoshi Maekawa Dominique Lévy Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the Japanese artist and Gutai member Tsuyoshi Maekawa. Maekawa joined the Gutai Art Association in 1962, after three years of intimate study with its founder, Jiro Yoshihara. In November 1963, a solo exhibition of Maekawa’s works was held at the Gutai Pinacotheca in Nakanoshima, Osaka, the group’s headquarters and exhibition space, which had opened the year before. Featuring primarily paintings from 1963 and a few large works from 1964, Dominique Lévy Gallery seeks to recreate the experience of this original solo show. Etel Adnan Untitled, 2014, oil on canvas, 9.65 x 11.42 in. ©Etel Adnan. Tsuyoshi Maekawa Shiro No Nogare, 1963, mixed media on canvas, 62 3⁄8 x 51 1⁄3 in. Courtesy Tsuyoshi Maekawa. {5} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS LUHRING AUGUSTINE ANTHONY MEIER FINE ARTS Michelangelo Pistoletto Luhring Augustine is pleased to present a solo exhibition of mirror paintings by the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. Comprised of photo-silkscreened images on mirror-polished stainless steel, these signature works were developed in 1962 and represent a crucial and ongoing facet of the artist’s practice. By adhering an image onto a reflective surface, Pistoletto enables a dynamic interaction between the work of art and the viewer. The silkscreened image remains a fixed marker of the past, but the constantly changing spectator animates each painting and places it in the present moment. Likewise, the pictorial space of the painting is extended to include the physical context of the work, thus combining art with its environment. Sarah Cain Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present an exhibition of small works on paper by Sarah Cain. A series of 150 drawings on one-dollar bills, the presentation highlights Cain’s expertise navigating abstract geometric experimentation in a range of materials. Investigating color, line, collage and dimensionality on a confined scale, Cain maintains the identity of the bills with small moments of negative space, exposing their identity. Sarah Cain group ten, 2015, mixed media on dollar bills, set of 5: 10 1⁄2 x 6 3⁄4 in. (each), 10 1⁄2 x 37 ¾ in. (all). Michelangelo Pistoletto Cordoni, 2014, silkscreen on polished super mirror stainless steel, 4 elements: 98 3⁄8 x 196 13⁄16 in. (each). DAVID NOLAN GALLERY P•P•O•W Christina Ramberg David Nolan Gallery presents a solo presentation of Kentucky-born, Chicagobased artist, Christina Ramberg (1946-1995). Ramberg was loosely associated with the Chicago Imagists, a group that included Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson and Ed Paschke. Ramberg is best known for her depictions of corseted female bodies – forced into submission by the bondage-like accoutrements of typical 1950s female garments. Recalling a memory of her mother getting dressed, Ramberg remembered being “stunned by how it transformed her body, how it pushed up her breasts and slenderized down her waist.” Anton van Dalen P•P•O•W presents a solo booth of historical mono-chromatic nightscapes, shadow boxes and cut-outs from 1975-1983 by Anton van Dalen, a Dutch-born artist who has lived in the East Village since 1972. The drawings are executed with a clear graphic vocabulary and style that present his long-standing aesthetic and social concerns for the subjects of nature, home, street, and memory. Exhibited alongside are hand-made dioramas from the artist’s “Avenue A Cut-Out Theater” a traveling performance van Dalen created in 1980. Anton van Dalen The Shooting Gallery, 1982, graphite on paper, 23 x 29 in. Courtesy Anton van Dalen. Christina Ramberg Probed Cinch, 1971, acrylic on masonite, 12 x 12 in. ©Cristina Ramberg. {6} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS PACE GALLERY PETZEL Jim Dine Continuing its fifteen-year tradition of dedicating its ADAA booth to one artist, Pace is pleased to present Jim Dine’s botanical drawings. Since producing drawings and etchings of flowers in the 1970s, Dine has consistently returned to botanicals as a subject matter in his drawings, prints, and ceramics. His most recently botanical drawings, executed in 2014 in charcoal pastel and watercolor on paper, will be the focus of Pace’s presentation. Dine casts a retrospective eye in these works, depicting flora and locations based on memories from his past and highlighting the temporal nature of plant life. Wade Guyton Zeichnungen für lange Bilder is a work consisting of 146 drawings displayed in up to fifteen vitrines lined with yellow vinyl tiles. Shown first at the Kunsthalle Zürich utilizing all fifteen vitrines, in this iteration the work will be compressed to accommodate the space at The Art Show. The drawings bear marks drawn in Microsoft Word, webpages of the New York Times, Swiss airlines, a wiki related to Game of Thrones, a Tumblr on which the artist found a posting of one of his fire paintings, among other motifs. Wade Guyton Untitled, 2013, Epson DURABrite inkjet on book pages in linoleum-lined vitrine, 36.65 x 134.41 x 32.44 in. Courtesy Wade Guyton. Jim Dine Dying Thistle, 2012, charcoal, pastel, and watercolor on paper, 49 x 40 ½ in. © 2015 Jim Dine/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Kerry Ryan McFate/Pace Gallery. SALON 94 MARC SELWYN FINE ART Lorna Simpson Lorna Simpson represents a generation of artists whose work explores issues of sex, race and identity. Her sequential photograph and text pieces, large-scale serigraphs on felt, videos, photo-booths and drawings offer compelling investigations into how sex and race are culturally and historically constructed. Following the success of her recent traveling retrospective which began in 2013 at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and traveled to the Haus der Kunst in Munich, 2013-14; The Baltic in Gateshead, UK, 2014 and more recently at the Addison Gallery in Andover, MA, we would like to present several works which challenge and confront conventional views of gender, identity, culture and history, with hair as the visual point of departure. Lee Mullican Marc Selwyn Fine Art is pleased to present Lee Mullican’s drawings and paintings from the 1950s. Mullican was one of three founders of the Dynaton Group, which served as a link between Surrealism in Europe and Abstract Expressionism in America. Mullican’s drawings were central in his practice and directly linked to the surrealist abstraction and signature linear imagery in his paintings. Often composed of vertical staccato pencil marks, these drawings can be both elegant minimalist compositions and twisting dream-like patterns. Mullican’s drawings are juxtaposed with three late 1950s paintings whose signature palette knife technique relates directly to his works on paper. Lee Mullican Transitory Landscape, 1950, ink and charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 in. Courtesy the Estate of Lee Mullican. Lorna Simpson Going Grey, 2013, collage, ink on paper, 29 ½ x 21 ¾ in. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer. {7} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS MANNY SILVERMAN GALLERY FREDRIC SNITZER GALLERY Sam Francis In 1986, at the encouragement and promise of an exhibition by his good friend, Sam Francis, Manny Silverman quit his day job and set out to open an art gallery. The following year, on famed La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery opened its doors on October 24 with the exhibition, Sam Francis, 1959-1964. A catalogue with texts by Robert Shapazian and Pontus Hulten accompanied the exhibition. Since 1987, Manny Silverman has mounted five exhibitions of Francis’ work and collaborated on countless others. The selection of Francis’ works exhibited at The Art Show is presented with respect for the artist’s contribution to American abstract painting and commemorates twenty years since Sam Francis’ death. Alice Aycock Fredric Snitzer Gallery features Alice Aycock and exhibits her new works which consist of two new sculptures. One is a wall piece the other a free standing pedestal piece. The third sculpture is a maquette of “Hoop-La” one of the sculptures Alice installed on Park Avenue this last Spring. Also we are featuring two works on paper that are representative of her new language in both drawings and sculpture. Alice Aycock From the Series Entitled, “Sum Over Histories”: Study for a Timescape, 2011, watercolor on paper, 50 x 72 in. Courtesy Galerie Thomas Schulte. Sam Francis Untitled, 1958-59, watercolor on paper, 14¼ x 8 7⁄8 in. SPERONE WESTWATER CARL SOLWAY GALLERY Nam June Paik Internet Dweller: jshmha.one.whkbrb, 1994, two Barry X Ball Sperone Westwater presents a one-man exhibition by the contemporary American artist, Barry X Ball. Employing both traditional and advanced processes, Barry X Ball approaches figurative sculpture from a contemporary perspective suffused with historical reverence. For his sculptures, Ball uses extensive digital modeling of data collected from live subjects or physical objects, which are milled by sophisticated computernumerically-controlled machines in marble and onyx, and then painstakingly hand finished. 13” color TVs, one 10” color TV, three antique TV cabinets, Barry X Ball Envy, 2008-13, sculpture: Mexican Onyx, stainless steel, floodlamp, neon, clock, fabric, gold leaf, one channel original Paik pedestal: Macedonian Marble, stainless steel, wood, acrylic lacquer, video on DVD, 59 x 56 x 31 in. steel, nylon, plastic, 68 x 17 ¼ x 12 in. Courtesy Barry X Ball. Nam June Paik Carl Solway Gallery presents a one-person exhibition with rare historical works by Nam June Paik. The exhibition includes a group of smaller-scaled video-active sculptures; never before seen photo collages made as preliminary design studies for “robot” sculptures; rare photographs, signed by the artist, of early performance pieces; and a few never previously seen drawings and assemblages. {8} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS ALLAN STONE PROJECTS VAN DE WEGHE FINE ART John Graham Allan Stone Projects is pleased to present a survey of paintings and drawings by the pivotal 20th Century artist, John Graham. Graham was influential in redirecting American art history, utilizing Picassoinfluenced cubism, alchemical references that integrated classical sensibilities, mythic self-images and obsessive female portraits unique in modern art. Although Graham never taught formally, his progressive ideas on Primitivism, Picasso, Jung’s theory of the Collective Unconscious, Symbolism, alchemy and mysticism made him a formidable instructor. Along with his experience as an art connoisseur, collector and dealer, he became an essential guide for the emerging artists of the New York School from the late 1920s onward. Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s relationship was nothing if not symbiotic, Andy gaining youthful energy from Basquiat’s street art and Basquiat gaining a following from Warhol’s already large circle of friends and followers. The friendship of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat also brought a large body of diverse and antithetical paintings that they worked on together. Through portraits and collaborations, Van de Weghe Fine Art is exhibiting examples of their work and lives, both apart and together. Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol Untitled (50 - Dentures), 1984, acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas, 114 x 176 in. John Graham Sophie, 1943, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 in. VAN DOREN WAXTER / ELEVEN RIVINGTON SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS Al Held and Michael DeLucia Van Doren Waxter / Eleven Rivington presents works on paper by Al Held (1928-2005) and large scale panels by Michael DeLucia (b. 1978). While each artist has his own methods, the side-by-side exhibition draws on a conceptual sympathy in each artist’s exploration of spatial conundrums. Presenting Held and DeLucia in a shared booth brings together the works of two artists who both explore the representation of that which cannot be seen, conceiving of perspectives and vantage points that are illusive through the manipulation of basic geometric objects within created and often converging planes. Nicola Tyson and Elizabeth Neel Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects juxtaposes works by Nicola Tyson and by Elizabeth Neel, two artists from different generations and perspectives with a shared concern: representing moments of friction between the self and its psychological environment. While the artists are invested in opposing painting traditions – Tyson, the figurative; Neel, the abstract – they nevertheless share a feminist point-of-view, conflating those poles within the medium through androgynous painterly acts. Elizabeth Neel The Female, 2014, acrylic on canvas, 95 x 78 in. Courtesy Elizabeth Neel. Photo by Adam Reich. Al Held A 15/16, 1972, marker on paper, 24 x 41 in. {9} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: SOLO & DUAL SHOWS MEREDITH WARD FINE ART MICHAEL WERNER John Marin, Alfred Stieglitz, and the Emergence of the American Avant-Garde Meredith Ward Fine Art presents a one-person exhibition of oils and watercolors by the American modernist John Marin (1870-1953), which will chart the development of modernism from his groundbreaking works of the 1910s to his signature style of the 1920s-40s. The core of the show is a group of watercolors from the John Marin estate that were originally owned by his dealer Alfred Stieglitz, and retain Stieglitz’s distinctive “AS” collection stamp. Together—Marin as an artist, Stieglitz as an impresario—the two men played essential roles in advancing modernism in America in the early 20th century. Gianni Piacentino Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present a selection of works by Gianni Piacentino. Gianni Piacentino was one of the founding members of Arte Povera, a movement he abandoned early to pursue his own individual and maverick path. Piacentino’s early minimal sculptures transformed themselves into new shapes that celebrate the idea of dynamism and speed, recalling the vehicles that inspired his projects—motorcycles, monocycles, automobiles, and planes. Erasing distinctions between individuality and standardization; painting versus sculpture; and everyday objects versus art objects, these boundless objects are distillations of Piacentino’s lifelong disruption of the status quo. John Marin West Point, Main I, 1914, watercolor on paper, 14¼ x 16 in. Gianni Piacentino Stereo, 1965, acrylic on canvas, 51 ¼ x 94 ½ in. DAVID ZWIRNER Forrest Bess David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of significant paintings by the self-taught American artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977). The installation comprises a cohesive grouping of over ten important works on canvas spanning the years 1952 to 1967. Eschewing direct representation in favor of abstraction, the paintings evoke miniature constellations, enigmatic landscapes, or spare, geometric forms that were intended by the artist to convey “something seen otherwise than by ordinary sight.” Forrest Bess A Star, 1967, oil on canvas, 10 ¼ x 12 ¼ in. ©Forrest Bess. { 10 } THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS ACA GALLERIES ACQUAVELLA GALLERIES, INC. Layered Luminescence: Masterworks of Egg Tempera ACA Galleries, established in 1932 has long been a champion for American realism. This exhibition brings together the finest practitioners of the age-old medium of tempera and demonstrates the ways these artists have used this traditional media to express modern subjects, ideas and concepts. Rarely seen paintings from private collections will be on display by important American artists such as Ivan Albright, Isabel Bishop, Paul Cadmus, Jacob Lawrence, Reginald Marsh and George Tooker, among others. Three Modern Schools: Paris, London and New York Acquavella Galleries will present a range of Impressionist, modern and contemporary masters consistent with the gallery’s dealings. Within this selection, there will be a focus on School of Paris painters – among them Picasso, Bonnard, and Matisse. Pablo Picasso Le peintre et son modèle dans un paysage, 1963, oil on canvas, 25 5⁄8 x 39 3⁄8 in. © 2015 the Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. George Tooker Pot of Aloes, 1974, egg tempera, 23 ½ x 12 ½ in. ADLER & CONKRIGHT FINE ART BROOKE ALEXANDER, INC Latin Americans Abroad in the Sixties: Why Did They Go; Where Did They Go; and What Did They See The term “Latin American Art” is a geographical blanket covering many disparate movements from many different places and times. The most transnational in the middle years of the 20th century were Geometric Abstraction/Kinetic Art and Conceptualism. Adler & Conkright Fine Art examines the work of these artists. The stand reflects early exhibitions of Galeria Conkright, founded in Caracas in 1966, which showed the works of these Latin American artists, at that time, virtually unknown in their own countries. Defining Artists of Composition, Color, and Form Brooke Alexander presents work by several defining artists of composition, color and form, including Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman and Ken Price. Throughout each of their long and distinguished careers, these artists have worked in diverse mediums and materials to present their signature visual ideas. Our exhibition offers examples of their paintings, works on paper, prints and sculpture. Ellsworth Kelly Marlarme Suite, 1992, four color lithographs. Edition of 40. Lygia Clark Bicho/Pan-Cubismo Pq (Version II), conceived 1960, realized 1963, aluminum, 11 ¾ x 11 ¾ in. (flat), dimensions are variable. {1} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS JOHN BERGGRUEN GALLERY VALERIE CARBERRY GALLERY Selected Works: di Suvero, Diebenkorn, Kandinsky, Kelly, Mehretu, Oliveira, Serra, Shapiro and Thiebaud John Berggruen Gallery presents a variety of significant twentieth-century paintings and sculpture including quintessential examples by Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud. The exhibition highlights an important painting from 1930 by Wassily Kandinsky. Hard-Edge Abstraction at Mid Century Valerie Carberry Gallery is exhibiting “Hard Edge Abstraction at Mid Century”. Featured artists include José de Rivera, Burgoyne Diller, John McLaughlin, Leon Polk Smith and Tony Smith. While typically used to describe a style of painting from the 1940s-60s, the term “hard-edge” can also apply to work in three dimensions. The gallery exhibits a remarkable suite of three painted aluminum sculptures by José de Rivera that express their own economy of form and use of color as field. Similarly, painted constructions by Leon Polk Smith bring depth and added dimension to the elegant curve of his work on canvas. Wassily Kandinsky Great-Little, 1930, oil on board, 14 ½ x 19 ¼ in. José de Rivera Untitled (Yellow and Black), 1940, painted aluminum, 8 in. THOMAS COLVILLE FINE ART CONNER•ROSENKRANZ LLC James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Artists Influenced by Him Thomas Colville Fine Art showcases the work of James Abbott McNeill Whistler along with those of subsequent generations of American and European artists whose style he influenced. We currently have seven original works by Whistler, which we believe is more than any other gallery today. We are exhibiting specific works that owe stylistic debt to Whistler, including artists such as Dennis Miller Bunker, Frank Duveneck, Giorgio Morandi, and John Henry Twachtman. The Story of American Sculpture in the 19th and 20th Century Conner•Rosenkranz will exhibit American sculpture created in various materials between 1850 and 1950. The leading American Neo-Classical sculptor in Italy of the 19th century, Hiram Powers, is represented by a bust of Proserpine, 1848-49; one of only six examples. Americans of the next generation chose Paris over Rome and bronze over marble. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the most famous sculptor from the period, is represented by the iconic Head of Victory, 1907 from The Sherman Monument in Central Park. Carl Akeley, famous for his group of walking elephants – centerpiece of Akeley Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York – is also represented by a related bronze group, Charging Herd, 1915. James Abbot McNeill Wistler Women and Children outside a Brittany Shop, c. 1888, watercolor on linen, 5 x 8 ½in. Hiram Powers Proserpine, 1848-49, marble, 20 ½ x 16 ½ x 9 ¼ in. {2} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS MAXWELL DAVIDSON GALLERY RICHARD L. FEIGEN & CO. The Responsive Eye at 50: Op-art’s Imprint on the Art World In February 1965, The Museum of Modern Art mounted an exhibition titled The Responsive Eye, comprised of works by nearly 100 artists from around the world who were experimenting with Op-art. To commemorate this landmark exhibition, Maxwell Davidson Gallery presents The Responsive Eye at 50, with works by historical artists featured in the 1965 MoMA show, such as Victor Vasarely, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bridget Riley, Yaacov Agam, and Luis Tomasello. We also show work by artists influenced by the Op-art movement including Pedro S. De Movellan, Mary Ann Unger, Sanford Wurmfeld, Kevin Osmond, Ghost of a Dream, and Sam Messenger. Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art Richard L. Feigen & Co. is exhibiting carefully curated paintings, drawings and collages by surrealist, abstract expressionist and pop artists. The booth will feature important works by Max Beckmann, Joseph Cornell, John Dubuffet, Max Ernst, James Rosenquist, Ed Ruscha and Frank Stella, in addition to a unique group of works by Ray Johnson, represented exclusively by Richard L. Feigen & Co. Joseph Cornell Untitled (L’Abeille), c. 1965, gouache and colored pencil on paper collage mounted on masonite, 12 x 9 in. Victor Vasarely Méandres-Naissances, 1953, acrylic on canvas, 37 ¼ x61 in. Signed Max Weber (lower right). FORUM GALLERY FRAENKEL GALLERY Contemporaneous Paintings and Drawings by John Graham, Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning Between 1925 and 1945, a group of American artists, including Stuart Davis, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky and John Graham sought to create new and inherently American imagery using the objects of everyday life as a foundation. Believing that depiction was best left to the photographic process then developing exponentially, these artists drew and painted bold, modern fantasies that give understanding to the otherwise commonplace. Mirror / Mirror: A Collaboration with Peter Freeman, Inc. Presenting Only Self-Potraits Mirror / Mirror will present two stands directly opposite and facing each other, configured in exactly the same manner. Each stand will be comprised solely of self-portraits. Fraenkel Gallery, with emphasis on the history of photography, will highlight self-portraits by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Eadweard Muybridge, and Hiroshi Sugimoto among others. Directly opposite, Peter Freeman, Inc. will exhibit both historical and contemporary self-portraits by artists including Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, James Ensor, Robert Filliou, Alex Hay, Meret Oppenheim, Catherine Murphy, and Thomas Schütte. Willem de Kooning Untitled (Still Life with Eggs and Potato Masher), 1928-29, oil and sand on canvas, 18 x 24 in. ©the Estate of Willem de Kooning. Lee Friedlander New Orleans, 1970. ©Lee Friedlander. {3} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS PETER FREEMAN, INC. GALERIE ST. ETIENNE Mirror / Mirror: A Collaboration with Fraenkel Gallery Presenting Only Self-Portraits Mirror / Mirror will be presented jointly in two stands, positioned directly opposite and facing each other, configured in parallel manners. Each will be comprised solely of self-portraits, both historical and contemporary and in a variety of mediums by artists including Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Constantin Brancusi, James Ensor, Robert Fillliou, Alex Hay, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Catherine Murphy, Meret Oppenheim, Thomas Schütte, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Peter Freeman, Inc. and Fraenkel Gallery anticipate publishing an illustrated booklet of this collaboration.. Alternate Histories: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St. Etienne The Galerie St. Etienne, which opened in November 1939, is celebrating its 75th anniversary at with a special installation highlighting some of the gallery’s key artists. Included are major works by Otto Dix, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Anna Mary Robertson (“Grandma”) Moses and others. Figural, folk, humanistic —St. Etienne’s artists challenged the formalist narratives that dominated postwar America. Their work suggests alternate views of art history, more in keeping with the multivalent environment of the twenty-first century. Egon Scheile Reclining Girl on Pillow, 1910, gouache, watercolor and pencil with white heightening on paper, 18 1⁄8 x 11 ¾ in. Mel Bochner Self / Portrait, 2013, oil on canvas, 48 x 36 ¼ in. JAMES GOODMAN GALLERY HIRSCHL & ADLER GALLERIES Works by Modern and Contemporary Masters James Goodman Gallery presents a group show of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Modern and Contemporary Masters. The exhibition encompasses significant movements including American Abstraction, European Modernism, and Abstract Expressionism with some meaningful Contemporary works. Featured works by Avery, Arp, Calder, Dubuffet, Miro, Matisse, Picasso and others. This selection echoes the 57-year history of the James Goodman Gallery with a sampling of the major works the gallery has exhibited since its inception. Winold Reiss and Jazz Age Modernism German-born artist Winold Reiss’s (1886–1953) Jazz Age work is the foundation of the Hirschl & Adler booth, and is accompanied by other paintings, drawings, sculpture, and prints from such iconic American Modernists as Romare Bearden, Stuart Davis, Hunt Diederich, Marsden Hartley, William Henry Johnson, Paul Kelpe, Louis Lozowick, Paul Manship, John Marin, and Henry Fitch Taylor. Together, the work offers compelling illustrations of jazz-induced rhythms, Deco-inspired streamlining, and Machine Age abstraction that permeated American art and popular culture in the decades between the World Wars. Arshile Gorkey Untitled, c. 1944-45, pencil and crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 23 ¼ in. Winold Reiss Interpretation of Harlem Jazz I, 1925, ink on paper, 19 7⁄8 x 14 7⁄8 in. {4} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY PAUL KASMIN GALLERY Works on Paper 1968 to the Present Rhona Hoffman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition focused solely on works on paper from 1968 to the present. Drawings by historical artists Sol LeWitt and Fred Sandback demonstrate the medium’s potential as a platform for working out concepts and ideas to be realized in other media and on a greater scale. Works on paper by artists such as Spencer Finch, Hamish Fulton, and Vito Acconci illustrate the medium’s capacity to preserve the memory of a performative action (Fulton and Acconci) or the results of the investigation on the nature of light (Finch). Works by Nancy Spero, David Schutter, Susan Hefuna, and others reveal drawing’s position as a sincere complement to sculpture and painting practices. L'impasse Ronsin "Ronsin…that most distinguished site of Modernism." - John Russell The Impasse Ronsin, behind Montparnasse, was a crucible of postwar culture, a tight band of international artists who during the 1950s shared this ramshackle hamlet of studios; Brâncusi, resident since 1916, Max Ernst, Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Niki de Saint Phalle, Tinguely, and the patron saint William Copley. Artists occupied the Impasse since the 1870s – an academic painter even being murdered here - but now was its hour of glory, forging not a style but a certain touch; poetry, invention, a wit the very enemy of pomposity, some veritable ésprit Ronsinian. Fred Sandback Untitled, 1989, pastel and crayon on light blue paper, 17 ½ x 22 ¼ in. Constantin Brancusi Jeune Fille Sophistiquée, 1928, polished bronze, 21 5⁄8 x 5 7⁄8 x 8 5⁄8 in. Edition 3/5, cast by Susse Fondeur, Paris, 2013. KOHN GALLERY BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY California Artists The Kohn Gallery is pleased to present a carefully curated booth of California's leading assemblage, collage and Light & Space artists. Two Ways of Looking Through Reality: George Segal, Sol LeWitt, Liliana Porter, and others Barbara Krakow Gallery presents Two Ways of Looking Through Reality, including artists from four generations who work with the grey area between reality, representation and legibility. The exhibition juxtaposes two ‘arenas’ of work: works whose forms are instantly identifiable, yet cause some sense of confusion, inquiry or mystery and works that begin with a sense of mystery but allow for focused inquiry. Together, these two approaches provide opposite, but complementary opportunities of exploration. Lita Albuquerque Wallace Berman Bruce Conner Joe Goode John McLaughlin Wallace Berman Untitled (Shuffle), 1968, collage of verifax copies and acrylic on panel, 13 x 14 in. George Segal Woman Against a Blue Tile Wall, 1983, unique plaster cast and glazed tile, 26 x 15¼ x 9 in. {5} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS JEFFREY H. LORIA & CO., INC MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY Spanning the Career of Fernand Léger and Artists Influenced by Him This interdisciplinary exhibition and sale will span the length and breadth of Fernand Leger’s career, exhibiting not only the expanse of his talent in many mediums (works on paper, canvas, painted bronze and ceramic), but also the marked influence of his work on other artists of his time. Jasper Johns, Fischli and Weiss, Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Charles Ray, and others Matthew Marks Gallery presents a carefully selected group of paintings, sculpture, photographs, and drawings by artists the gallery represents, including Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Ken Price, Charles Ray, Tony Smith, and Anne Truitt. Fernand Leger, Femme au Perroquet, 1940, gouache, ink and watercolor on paper, 20 ½ x 14 ¾ in. Lucian Freud Pluto, 1988, oil on canvas, 10 ¾ x 13 ¾ in. BARBARA MATHES GALLERY MARY-ANNE MARTIN|FINE ART Uncanny Geometries From Leonardo through Mondrian, geometry in the history of art has symbolized order, rationality and enlightenment. More recently, however, artists have used geometry to subvert as well as to uphold rationality, and the works in this booth playfully undermine shaped perception. Dadamaino’s “Volume” juxtaposes biomorphic shapes cut into the surface of the canvas with the supporting architecture. Mark Grotjahn’s abstract compositions function as perspective diagrams that represent three-dimensional space but also conjure natural forms such as butterflies, flowers and flowing water. Other artists include Alexander, Bonalumi, Castellani, D’Arcangelo, Dibbets, Mangold, Melotti, Taeuber-Arp among others. 20th Century Mexican and Latin American Artists: Parisian Influences on Modern Art Mary Anne Martin|Fine Art exhibits works by Mexican and Latin American artists who lived and studied in Europe in the early 20th century. Paintings and drawings by Rivera, Lam, Matta, Pettoruti, Izquierdo and Gerzso are included. Artists who originated in Europe and fled to Mexico and Latin America during the 1930s and 40s, including Leonora Carrington, Mathias Goeritz, Alice Rahon, Bridget Tichenor and Wolfgang Paalen, are also shown, as their influence continued in their newly adopted homelands. We have also brought a selection of sculptures by Panamanian/French contemporary artist, Isabel De Obaldía. Diego Rivera Still Life with Book and Candle, 1918, pencil on paper, 14 7⁄8 x 11 5⁄8 in. Mark Grotjahn Untitled, 2002, colored pencil on paper, 16 ¾ x 13 7⁄8 in. {6} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS MCKEE GALLERY MENCONI + SCHOELKOPF FINE ART LLC Vija Celmins, Marcel Eichner, Philip Guston, Richard Learoyd, and others The McKee Gallery will present a variety of paintings and works on paper, original photographs, and sculpture by Vija Celmins, Marcel Eichner, Philip Guston, Richard Learoyd, Leonid Lerman, Harvey Quaytman, Jeanne Silverthorne, William Tucker, Lucy Williams and Daisy Youngblood. Historical Survey of 10 Works of Early Modernism from the Ashcan School to the New York School Menconi + Schoelkopf presents an exhibition of ten important works of American Modernism, tracing the transition from the Ash Can School to the New York School of mid-century. Early works by Stuart Davis demonstrate the transition of American painting from the influence of Post-Impressionism to mature Modernism. Members of the Stieglitz Circle already expressed this move towards explosive color and semi-abstraction: Marsden Hartley will be among the representatives of this fertile and prescient moment. Two post-war works, including an important sculpture by Mark di Suvero, will illustrate the ongoing legacy of the Modernist program. Marcel Eichner Untitled, 2014, acrylic and ink on canvas, 79 x 55 in. Stuart Davis Gloucester Harbor, c. 1919, oil on canvas, 19 x 23 in. MNUCHIN GALLERY PACE/MACGILL GALLERY Abstraction Works Prior to 1975 Mnuchin Gallery presents a curated selection of important Color Field and Hard-Edge paintings. The presentation will feature Tzadik (1958), a superlative example from Morris Louis’s breakthrough Veil series, in which the artist poured layers of thinned acrylic paint onto unstretched canvases to achieve mysterious curtains of color. A pair of Frank Stella Concentric Square paintings from 1977-78 will serve as bold geometric counterpoints to Louis’s enigmatic washes. Composed of precise bands of vibrantly contrasting hues, these paintings’ methodical experimentation with color and value results in a subtle play on perspectival space. Night Pace/MacGill Gallery presents a multimedia exploration of the nocturnal in art. Featuring work by Robert Adams, Alexander Calder, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Emmet Gowin, Zhang Huan, Peter Hujar, Franz Kline, Agnes Martin, Richard Misrach, Louise Nevelson, Irving Penn, Aaron Siskind, Alfred Stieglitz, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cy Twombly, Henry Wessel and Fred Wilson, among others. The selection on view showcases some of the finest examples of photography, painting and sculpture inspired by nighttime and its connotations. Morris Louis Tzadik, 1958, acrylic resin (Magna) on canvas, 91 ½ x 140 ½ in. Photo by Tom Powel Imaging. 5 Zhang Huan Poppy Field No. 1, 2010, oil on linen, 31 ½ x 23 /8 in. ©Zhang Huan Studio. Photo courtesy the Artist. {7} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS PACE PRINTS & PACE PRIMITIVE SUSAN SHEEHAN GALLERY Late Prints by Matisse, Picasso, and Dubuffet Pace Prints presents an exhibition of important late prints by Matisse, Picasso, and Dubuffet. When his physical abilities began to decline in the late 1930s, Matisse devised a number of new printmaking techniques including linoleum cuts and the Jazz series based on the artist’s paper cutouts. In addition to these late prints by Matisse, the installation will include aquatints and linoleum cuts created by Picasso after 1945. In 1964, Dubuffet created a radical new style in his art which he called L’Hourloupe. His innovative silkscreens from this period are characterized by a graphic energy, and embedded in the prints’ maze-like imagery and patches of red and blue are his signature whimsical figures. Post-War American Masters: Works on Paper Susan Sheehan Gallery is delighted to exhibit a collection of Post-War American prints and works on paper from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. One of our most exciting works is by Brice Marden. Zen Studies 1-6: Plate 1 is from the striking suite of six etchings that Marden made in 1990 called the Cold Mountain Series. This group of prints was a departure from the heavy, geometric spaces of the artist's previous work. Richard Diebenkorn's Large Light Blue is one of the most subtle works to be shown. Made in tandem with his celebrated Ocean Park paintings, this work depicts an abstracted vision in washes of blue and green. Brice Marden Zen Studies 1-6: Plate 1, 1990, etching with aquatint, 69 ½ x 89 ½ in. Edition of 35. Henri Matisse La Frégate, 1938, linocut, 12¼ x 9 3⁄8 in. WASHBURN GALLERY YARES ART PROJECTS Red Hot and Blue: Ilya Bolotowsky, Ray Parker, Jackson Pollock, and others “Red Hot and Blue” is a salute by the Washburn Gallery to the history of the Seventh Regiment Armory and a nod to the great 1936 Broadway musical of the same name with a selection of works by nine artists represented by the Gallery whose work is each radically different in style but expressed in these two primary colors. The artists will include Ilya Bolotowsky, Alice Trumbull Mason, Doug Ohlson, Ray Parker, Jackson Pollock, Leon Polk Smith, David Smith, Myron Stout, and Jack Youngerman. 50 Years + 50 Artists of Riva Yares Gallery: Milton Avery, Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, and others Yares Art Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition commemorating 50 years of Riva Yares Gallery’s dedication to modern and contemporary art. The story of modern and contemporary art is also a story of great dealers. Without the efforts of these facilitators, art would not have moved forward the way it has. This exhibition encompasses many facets of her career, but then Riva Yares has never been afraid of exploration. For those have known her, a grand capriciousness is very much part of her genius. Leon Polk Smith Event in Blue, 1994, oil on canvas, 66 x 54 in. Kenneth Nolad Mysteries: Aglow, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 in. {8} THE ART SHOW THE ART SHOW 2015 HIGHLIGHTS: THEMATIC EXHIBITIONS PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY Object Lesson: Transformation of Commercially Fabricated Objects in 7 Artists’ Sculptural Works Our booth installation explores the transformation of commercially fabricated objects in the sculptural works of seven distinguished modern and contemporary artists: Mary Bauermeister, Christo, Sari Dienes (1898-1992), Addie Herder (1920-2009), Man Ray (1980-1976), Charles McGill, and Judy Pfaff. “Object Lesson” surveys the persistence and scope of the readymade in the ensuing century, ranging from unadulterated appropriation to constructions that center on the juxtaposition of commercially manufactured objects. 5 Man Ray Cadeau, c. 1950, iron and nails, 7 ½ x 3 /8 x 4 in. {9} FACT SHEET ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA (ADAA) ORGANIZES THE 27th ANNUAL ART SHOW TO BENEFIT HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT, MARCH 4 – 8, 2015 EVENT: Seventy-two of the nation’s leading art galleries present museum-quality works of art ranging from cutting-edge, 21st-century works to museum-quality pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Considered one of America’s most prestigious art fairs, The Art Show offers an outstanding selection of works by renowned and emerging artists in a variety of styles and mediums, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and multi-media works. LOCATION: The Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue and 67th Street, New York City DATES AND HOURS: The Art Show is open to the public from Wednesday, March 4 through Sunday, March 8, 2014. Hours are as follows: Wednesday, March 4 Thursday, March 5 Friday, March 6 Saturday, March 7 Sunday, March 8 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. to to to to to 8:00 8:00 8:00 7:00 5:00 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. ADMISSION: Admission is $25 per day. All proceeds from ticket sales benefit Henry Street Settlement. Tickets are available online and at the door. KEYNOTE SPEECH: This year, New York City Cultural Affairs Commissioner Tom Finkelpearl will discuss the city’s new cultural diversity initiative, launched in January to help arts institutions better serve audiences from an increasingly wide variety of backgrounds. Finkelpearl notes that “working with our partners at cultural organizations and in the funding community, we are confident that we will find strategies to foster a more equitable cultural landscape for the next generation of artists, administrators, and audiences.” Tom Finkelpearl, Keynote Speaker Friday, March 6, 2015, 6:00 pm The Board of Officers Room at The Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue, NYC, at 67th Street GALA PREVIEW: To inaugurate The Art Show 2015, a Gala Benefit Preview is held on Tuesday, March 3 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and benefits Henry Street Settlement, one of New York City’s best-known and most effective social services and arts agencies. For additional information, please call (212) 766-9200 ext. 248. The preview schedule is as follows: Millennium Circle Super Benefactors Benefactors Patrons Sponsors 5:30 5:30 5:30 6:30 7:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. to to to to to 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 9:30 p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. (Ticket (Ticket (Ticket (Ticket (Ticket $2,000) $1,000) $500) $350) $150) ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: All Art Show exhibitors are members of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), a non-profit membership organization of the nation’s leading galleries. Founded in 1962, ADAA seeks to promote the highest standards of connoisseurship, scholarship and ethical practices within the profession. Visit www.artdealers.org for more information. HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: Founded in 1893 by Progressive reformer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social services, healthcare and arts programs that improve the lives of more than 50,000 New Yorkers each year. Distinguished by a profound connection to its neighbors, a willingness to address new problems with swift and innovative solutions, and a strong record of accomplishment, Henry Street challenges the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children. For further press information or visual materials, please contact: Jenny Isakowitz FITZ & CO T: (212) 627-1455 ext. 0923 E: [email protected] Taylor Maatman FITZ & CO T: (212) 627-1455 ext. 0926 E: [email protected] HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT Founded in 1893 by Progressive reformer Lillian Wald on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement challenges the effects of urban poverty by helping families achieve better lives for themselves and their children. Distinguished by a profound connection to its neighbors, a willingness to address new problems with swift and innovative solutions, and a strong record of accomplishment, Henry Street is one of the city’s largest and most effective social services agencies. Many of its initiatives have been replicated nationwide. Today, Henry Street Settlement enriches the quality of life for over 50,000 Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers each year by providing innovative social services, arts and health care programs at 17 program sites, and at satellites locations in public schools and public housing. Henry Street offers more than 45 programs encompassing workforce development; shelter and supportive services for homeless families, survivors of domestic violence and adults; mental health and primary care clinics; a parent center; a full range of senior services, including home-delivered meals; day care centers, after-school, college prep and employment programs for youth; and academic and health and wellness programs. Henry Street continues Lillian Wald’s commitment to provide access to the arts to everyone. Each year, more than 30,000 students, artists, and audiences create and experience dynamic works of art through the award-winning Abrons Arts Center. In 2015 Henry Street marks the Centennial of Abrons' Playhouse, celebrated with twelve months of art and theater making by vanguard downtown artists, scholarships for arts instruction, and residencies for creation and experimentation. Henry Street’s myriad programs are made possible through individual, corporate, and foundation donations and as well as through government funding. To read more about Henry Street, please explore our website at www.henrystreet.org. For additional information, please contact: Adrian Geraldo Saldaña Special Events Coordinator Henry Street Settlement 265 Henry Street New York, NY 10002 T: (212) 766-9200 ext. 247 E: [email protected]
