Jose Parla
José Parlá “Order, Pattern, Organization, Form and Relationship”. Image Courtesy of the gallery.
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 West 24th Street
NYC 1001
212 243 8830
Art Bazaar
Whether it’s a stencil, a wheat-pasted drawing, or even a framed photo glue-gunned to a wall, Street Artists show us that it is all about love, as you know. Here are a number of different takes on the theme from Street Artists around New York. It’s our Valentine to you, because you are beautiful.
The Dude Company (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)
QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)Scope
Image courtesy of Spinello Gallery | TYPOE | Confetti Death, 2010New York’s Destination Fair Commandeers
60,000 square foot Hall Minutes from Armory Show
NEW YORK- Building on Miami’s overwhelming success, SCOPE launches its 2011 season with its flagship fair, SCOPE New York. Serviced daily by shuttles, this year SCOPE expands to a 60,000 square foot hall on the West Side Highway, minutes from The Armory Show. The fair opens to Press and VIP’s on Wednesday, March 2 with the FirstView benefit.
This year’s New York edition of the fair, March 2–March 6, 2011, will present 50 international galleries from four continents and sixteen countries including China, Mexico, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Spain, and Canada. SCOPE New York’s invitees will uphold its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows providing the real opportunity for gallerists, collectors, curators, artists, critics and art lovers alike to experience a view of the contemporary art market available nowhere else.
“Our new monumental location will highlight SCOPE’s core mission of introducing international galleries alongside museum quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. Anchoring SCOPE as New York’s destination fair, programming expands in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance. “SCOPE New York will again highlight our lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business” says SCOPE President & Founder Alexis Hubshman.
With over 40 fairs spanning ten years in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE Art Show’s have hosted an impressive line-up of A-list galleries, blue-chip institutional groups, and respected patrons, garnering critical acclaim, sales of over $150 million and attendance of over 350,000 visitors.
Location
320 West St (West Side Highway)
Across from Pier 40
New York NY 10014
Opening Schedule
FirstView
(For VIPs and Press
or $100 donation at the door)
Wednesday | March 2 | 3pm-9pm
General Admission Fair Hours
Thursday | March 3 | noon – 8pm
Friday | March 4 | noon – 8pm
Saturday | March 5 | noon – 8pm
Sunday | March 6 | noon – 7pm
SCOPE FOUNDATION
Program to be announced
Admission
Free for VIP cardholders
FirstView | Wednesday Only | $100
General | Thursday – Sunday | $20
Student | Thursday – Sunday | $10
Subway
SCOPE’S 320 West St entrance is walkable from the Subway Spring St A,C,E and Subway Houston st 1,2. Christopher St PATH train is also close by. Upon exiting these stations head west towards West St (West Side Highway). SCOPE is across from Pier 40.
Bus
The following bus routes stop within the vicinity of SCOPE. The 8 line runs West on Christopher St. The 20 line runs South on Seventh Ave & North on Hudson St. The 21 line runs West on Houston St
Pulse
ANNOUNCES METROPOLITAN PAVILION AS 2011 VENUE
MARCH 3-6, 2011 | Metropolitan Pavilion | 125 West 18th Street, New York
NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 17, 2010 – New York, September 15, 2010 – PULSE Contemporary Art Fair Director Cornell DeWitt announced today that its 2011 New York edition, his first as Director, will be held at Metropolitan Pavilion. Located in Manhattan’s Flatiron District, the centrally-located venue is a five minute walk from each of the major subway lines, and a fifteen minute walk from the Chelsea Gallery District. The new venue is also highly finished, featuring polished oak floors, cast iron columns, and comfortable amenities, including free wifi access for all exhibitors and visitors.
“After a thorough study of the available locations with our team, I have decided that our guests and exhibitors are best served by a venue that is both convenient and flexible, to accommodate a fluid and creatively produced fair,” DeWitt announced, continuing that “In the new location, where we are central to both the Chelsea Gallery District and a transportation hub like Union Square, we are not only a leader among New York art fairs, but now also by far the most accessible.”
PULSE New York will take place from March 3-6, 2011. On view will be approximately 50 contemporary art galleries in the main fair and IMPULSE section.
METROPOLITAN PAVILION
Metropolitan Pavilion is located at 125 West 18th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron District. For more information and to see images of the venue visit www.metropolitanevents.com
PULSE
Through its annual editions in New York and Miami, PULSE serves as the junction between central and satellite art fairs. Its exhibitors consist of a select group of leading and pioneering international galleries that present works by premier contemporary artists with those of emerging and undiscovered talents. A central component of the fair is its program of commissioned cultural projects that link its audience to all aspects of the visual and performing arts.
VISIT
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair at http://www.pulse-art.com/ or contact by phone at +1 (212) 255-2327.
| FAIR HOURS | |
| Thursday March 3 | 10am-1pm |
| Press and VIP Private Preview | |
| Thursday March 3 | 1pm- 8pm |
| Friday March 4 | 12pm – 8pm |
| Saturday March 5 | 12pm – 8pm |
| Sunday March 6 | 12pm – 5pm |
Fountain Art Fair
Fountain New York 2011 Spotlight: Artist Greg Haberny
When you first encounter the artwork of Greg Haberny, you find yourself on a detour off the main road of contemporary art, exploring an alluring roadside attraction of weather-beaten highway signs, familiar childhood characters nightmarishly stripped of their make-up, and political and pop icons soaked in acetate. Though the images and creatures are entrancing, below the feeling of familiarity is a lingering discomfort, an unease that spreads throughout the subconscious. Be it politics, commercialism, or consumerism, Haberny scrapes images of their superficial veneer, revealing grotesque truths that are otherwise glazed over.
Inspired by family members practicing Impressionism and Folk Art, swayed by classic film and repulsed by the perversion of the human psyche, Haberny combines the beauties and the monstrosities of everyday life in a way that resonates with each viewer. His art takes on a life force of its own, deviously sinking into the dark corners of the minds of those who look.
When you come upon Greg Haberny in the maze of Fountain booths, you will discover yourself immersed in his version of a brave new world. Haberny goes beyond individual artworks, transforming his entire space into an all-consuming installation, an atmospheric sensory-overload. While we can’t reveal what Haberny has in store for Fountain NY 2011, his previous Fountain installations Pop Culture Wasteland and Wanker’s Ball ensure we are all in for a surprising, unruly, and uniquely-Haberny experience.
Fountain Exhibitors: Camel Art Space, Brooklyn * Cheap & Plastique, Brooklyn * Christina Ray Gallery, New York * G-Spot presents: Cronin-Smith-Rose, Brooklyn* Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn * Leo Kesting Gallery, New York * The Marketplace Gallery, Albany * Marianne Nems Gallery, New York * McCaig-Welles, San Francisco * Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn * Mighty Tanaka, Brooklyn * Murder Lounge, Boston/New York * Temporary States, Brooklyn * Thaddeus Kwiat Projects, New York * We-Are-Familia, New York * What It Is, Chicago
Independent Artist Projects: Allison Berkoy, Brooklyn * Danni Rash & GILF!, New York * Evo Love, Miami * Greg Haberny, New York * Marni Kotak andJason Robert Bell, Brooklyn * Mark Demos, New York
About FOUNTAIN ART FAIR:
“The artists displaying their multimedia wares here are true avant-garde upstarts… Saturating your eyeballs with new imagery while listing on a rusty boat? Priceless.” —NBC New York
“Presenting a solid mix of street art, fine art, installation, performance, and all around general creativity, the Fountain Art Fair was a breath of fresh air for those tired of the white tents and fancy cocktails.” —Warholian.com
“A New York favorite, Fountain is the [fair] we always check out for punk, funk, and unvarnished bolts of creativity. With a number of Brooklyn galleries, artists, and undercover rebels getting into this mix, you never know what you are getting, but there will be something mind blowing.” —Brooklyn Street Art
“Possessed of a scrappy, youthful verve lacking in its more prestigious neighbors… Fountain was distinguished by a vintage street/self-taught aesthetic…” —ArtForum
“The way an art fair should be.” —The Economist
“For a riverside art fair with more grit, the Fountain Art Fair truly delivers. Named after Duchamp’s famous urinal, this one had the piss and vinegar…. It’s this scrappy energy that augurs well for the continued vitality of art in the age of the declining Dow.” —Time Out New York
Fountain Art Fair was founded in 2006 as an attempt to leverage support for smaller independent galleries to gain access to larger collectors and critics. Since its inception, Fountain has held five exhibitions in Miami, one in Chicago, and is now celebrating its sixth exhibition in New York. From its roots deep within the independent Williamsburg art scene, Fountain has grown to represent over 20 international avant-garde galleries and projects, showcasing progressive primary-market works. Fountain’s venue, Pier 66 Maritime, is a 10,000 square-foot complex adjacent to all the major New York exhibitions such as The Armory Show and Pulse New York.
Fountain is an exhibition of avant garde artwork in New York during Armory week and Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Pier 66 Maritime @ 26th Street & 12th Avenue in the Hudson RIver Park
March 3 – 6, 2011
General Public Hours:
March 4–March 6, 12pm–7pm
Special Events:
Thursday March 3, 12am – 5pm – VIP & Press Preview
Friday, March 4, 7pm – 12am – Opening Night Reception – Performance: Gordon Voidwell and Tecla
Saturday, March 5, 7pm – 12am – Performance: Ninjasonik
The Armory Show
The Armory Show – Contemporary
PIER 94
MARCH 3-6, 2011
The Armory Show is America’s leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the 20th and 21st centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week
The Armory Show – Modern
PIER 92
MARCH 3-6, 2011
The Armory Show – Modern is a section dedicated to international dealers specializing in historically significant Modern and contemporary art. With one admission ticket, visitors to The Armory Show on March 3 – 6, 2011 will now have access not only to the newest developments in the art world, but also to the masterpieces that heralded them.
Piers 92 & 94
Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City
The Armory Show 2011 Opening Day takes place Wednesday, March 2nd for invited guests.
Opening Hours:
Thursday, March 3 – Saturday, March 5 Noon to 8 pm
Sunday, March 6 Noon to 7 pm
VOLTA
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artist’s projects, it is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005. VOLTA NY was conceived by art critic and fair director Amanda Coulson to continue the original mandate to create a tightly-focused, boutique event that is a place for discovery and a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions — regardless of the artist or gallery’s age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair.
A platform for challenging, often complimentary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character with visitors positively comparing VOLTA NY to doing a series of intense studio visits.
7W — 7 West 34th Street
between 5th and 6th Avenue / 11th floor
New York, NY 10001
USA
Since 2004 artist Ryan McGinness has been at work on a series of round paintings on canvasses and on wood panels he calls “Black Holes”. He completed the series in 2010 and, since December, twenty-four of these paintings have been running at the Phillips de Pury galleries in the Meat Packing District of Manhattan. Influenced by skateboard culture, poster design, and graffiti, the artist synthesizes the energy from the street in this entrancing collection.
The Black Holes paintings, blasting flourescent arabesque patterns too crisp for hippy psychedelic reveries, will instantly mesmerize you and draw you ever further into them. It’s a natural high, and suddenly it is apparent why they are called “Black Holes”.
The labyrinthine floor plan of the galleries assists your light infused discovery of increasingly vivid contrasts and pattern and color until suddenly you find yourself lost in a dark universe of exploding stars. From the gallery’s press release we learn that the panels comprise layers of screen printed concentric symmetrical “event horizons” which McGinness defines as the “point in space-time before which everything disappears into the black hole”.
As the sun is setting on the public walkway called The High Line that rises above this part of Chelsea, you can enjoy the show from your vantage point in the public sphere as well. McGinness has created ten site-specific large-scale paintings positioned along the gallery windows facing the High Line and at night these paintings are illuminated from inside the gallery to give the public an experience of a black-lit extravaganza.
As the outside light fades the flowering glow of rich pungent color punctures the pale winter grays – rather, laser cuts it. The paintings escape from the confines of the canvas and run like newly freed ivy through the windows to meet you, a surreal garden of exotic flowers no longer behind glass.
If you do go to view this portion of the installation from the High Line, it’s good to know two things; the park closes at 8:00 pm and the last entrance to the park is 7:45. Also, to see the paintings from the High Line one must look up slightly as the pieces are not precisely at eye level and the bottom portion of the paintings is lost. If they were hung a little higher the windows could better frame them without cropping from this vantage point, but maybe that would have made the indoor show off-kilter. You could also wear platform boots.
“Black Holes” is up until March 8
Phillips de Pury Gallery
450 West 15th Street
New York, NY 10011-7097
(212) 940-1200
Fresh from his sold out show with Primary Flight at this year’s Miami Art Basel, LA-based Street Artist Retna brings his fine art “Hallelujah Tour” to New York City for a solo show in SOHO this week.
Retna has built a strong reputation for being not only an exceedingly talented artist but well regarded personally. His uniquely invented style of calligraphic letters, often done on massive walls, tell stories about the people that he encounters. Each one has made an impression on him and his life experiences.
Retna’s letter style, created and refined over the years is the product of his life as a graffiti artist as well as his interest in English calligraphy and Egyptian hieroglyphics. Retna often collaborates with El Mac, who paints the portraits while Retna tells their stories. According to accounts from the street, certain friends can read the messages as easily as those on a milk carton.
Retna
560 Washington Street
New York, NY 10014
West Village
Frida Kahlo appears in New York, by VIE3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
New York, monopoly, banker. Pretty much sums it up Alec. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ceci n’est pas une Banksy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
This is exactly what I said to myself yesterday morning ouch! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hey there, dinosaur breath! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Don’t overdose now. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
You get the thumbs up from Terry Richardson (photo © Jaime Rojo)
That’s right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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