Kapwani Kiwanga, who was interviewed in the most recent issue of NYAQ, is included in
the Armory Focus section this year.
A few booth - filling installations are among the most rewarding experiences this year, while
the Armory Focus section, «African Perspectives,» holds several strong presentations by galleries and artists that rarely reach New York.
But The New York Times flagged Young and fellow University of Cape Town graduate Dan Halter as highlights of this year's
Armory focus section.
Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze at Mariane Ibrahim Born in Nigeria, raised in the U.K., and now based in New York, Amanze's dreamy drawings, which are part of
the Armory Focus section — which this year zeroes in on artists with African roots — are as fluently free - floating as the artist herself.
The exhibition space is divided amongst Contemporary, Modern, Armory Presents, and
Armory Focus sections, with the Armory Presents section featuring emerging artists and galleries and the Armory Focus section dedicated to African perspectives.
Not exact matches
ART FAIR Contemporary & founders Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba curate «African Perspectives» in the
Focus section of the
Armory Show (March 3 - 6).
Already featured this year in the Sharjah Biennial and the
Armory Show's «
Focus: MENAM»
section, Dawood recently completed a residency at ICA London's buzzy fig - 2, opened a new show at the Honolulu Museum of Art, and will make an appearance at MoMA on April 20th with the screening of his 2013 film Piercing Brightness, which brings together UFO - sighting footage with the psychedelic colors of a Kenneth Anger.
Armory Focus is an invitational
section on Pier 94 that spotlights the artistic landscape of a different region each year, bringing together influential galleries, artists and art professionals to present unique geographic and cultural perspectives via gallery presentations, special projects, a dedicated symposium and the annual
Armory Artist Commission.
Previous editions of The
Armory Show's
Focus section include:
Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (2015), curated by Omar Kholeif;
Focus: China (2014), curated by Philip Tinari;
Focus: USA (2013), curated by Eric Shiner;
Focus: Nordic Countries (2012), curated by Jacob Fabricius;
Focus: Latin America (2011) and
Focus: Berlin (2010).
ART FAIR 2016
Armory Focus: African Perspectives @ The
Armory Show, New York, N.Y. (March 3 - 6, 2016): Each year
Armory Focus, the invitational
section of the New York's marquee art fair, explores a different region of the world.
Kapwani Kiwanga has been named as the commissioned artist of the
Focus Section at the
Armory Show 20...
The
Armory Show's quieter
section,
focusing largely on 20th - century modernism, stretches out along New York's Pier 92 once again this week, having opened to VIPs on Wednesday, a preview during which Sofia Coppola could be seen browsing the offerings unhampered by too much unwanted attention.
Previous editions of The
Armory Show's
Focus section have included:
Armory Focus: China (2014), curated by Philip Tinari;
Armory Focus: USA (2013), curated by Eric Shiner;
Armory Focus: Nordic Countries (2012), curated by Jacob Fabricius;
Armory Focus: Latin America (2011), and
Armory Focus: Berlin (2010).
From the gallery, Kiwanga spoke to Studio International about how anthropology has informed her research - led art practice and her response to being named as the commissioned artist of the
Focus Section at the
Armory Show 2016.
Uptown at The
Armory Show, Vigo Gallery, situated within the
Focus: Africa
section, devoted its booth to El - Salahi's black - and - white series of works dating from the 1960s to the present (the gallery noted that the series is the artist's favorite).
Armory Arts Week is New York's March art fair stravaganza now in year 14, and kicked off yesterday with a press preview starring Paul Morris and Glenn Lowry smiling (sort of), special VIP access in the noon hour, Pommery champagne being poured under a neon sign (art project) reading SCANDIVANIAN PAIN, and legions of black tee - shirted Staff stamping the paper giveaways in the Nordic
focus section.
This
section of the fair is dedicated to showcasing international galleries, invited exhibitors as part
Armory Focus, and Solo Projects, featuring single artist presentations by a selection of emerging galleries and artists.
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This year's edition introduces
Armory Focus, a new
section that...
The
Armory Party 2013 moma >
Armory Shows Attract Beyonce, Solange, Jay - Z, VIPS blooberg + The
Armory Show, New York's biggest contemporary art fair wsj + Homages, Giddy Humor and Less Clutter nyt +
Armory Show «
Focus»
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This year will be the centennial anniversary of the
Armory Show and Eric Shiner, the Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, will be at the curatorial helm of the American
Focus section that is bound to be terrific.
This year he was also responsible for Cyprus's pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the
Armory Show's
Focus section.
When visitors arrive at the
Armory Show next spring, they will find the
Focus section in a far more prominent place: it will be the first
section that one encounters at Pier 92, as opposed to the 16 contemporary art booths that were there in the 2017 edition.
Armory Focus is a specially curated
section of The
Armory Show that highlights the artistic landscape of a chosen geographic region.
In New York, the
Armory Show 2016
Focus section was devoted to African Perspectives.
Beyond the purview of the curated
focus section, the
Armory also included a raft of galleries showing work from the continent among the world's top galleries.
We spoke to the curator of the
Armory Show's «
Focus: China»
section about new directions being explored by the country's artists.
Gabriel Beveridge, installation at Parisian Laundry, Montreal, booth in the
Focus section of The
Armory Show, New York (photograph by Nancy Nesvet).
Saudi artist and educator Rashed Al Shashai will participate in The
Armory Show's
Focus: «MENAM»
section curated by Omar Kholeif this March.
Shattering preconceived notions about what contemporary African art may look like or be concerned with, The
Armory Show 2016 will present eight special projects curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, who are also the curators for the 2016
Focus Section of The
Armory Show: African Perspectives.
This year, The
Armory Show will host five exhibition sectors between Piers 92 and 94: the first will
focus on modern artworks; the second on contemporary spaces and practitioners; the third is entitled Focus: China; the fourth is a section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The Armory's version is called Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizat
focus on modern artworks; the second on contemporary spaces and practitioners; the third is entitled
Focus: China; the fourth is a section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The Armory's version is called Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizat
Focus: China; the fourth is a
section for solo artist projects (similar to the Statements sector of the Art Basel franchise, The
Armory's version is called
Armory Presents); and the fifth will be devoted to non-profit organizations.
Pier 94 is the larger exhibition hall, the Contemporary
section featuring mainstay galleries Lisson Gallery, Sean Kelly, Victoria Miro, Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery, David Zwirner, Sprüth Magers, Gallery Hyundai, and Kaikai Kiki, among many others — including 19 invited Nordic galleries in the «
Armory Focus» — while the Modern sector on Pier 92 is home to Marlborough Gallery, O'Hara Gallery, Inc., Pace Prints, Peter Findlay, and many more.
Artwork by Francisco Vidal on view at London gallery Tiwani Contemporary's booth in the
Armory Focus: African Perspective
section.
He also curated the 2015 Cyprus Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale and the 2015
Armory Show
Focus section, where he presented work by artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean, showcasing his deep knowledge of the Global South.
As in years past, the
Armory Show's most interesting and unknown quantity is its
Focus section.
Kiwanga's ability to parse the subjective tendencies of culture — the Rashomon - effect that history can have — drew the attention of the curators for The
Armory Show's
Focus section, Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, who selected her as the fair's 2016 commissioned artist.
Ibrahim's gallery, which works with artists from across the African Diaspora, and which was recently featured as part of the
Armory's
Focus section, is based in Seattle.
We talked with Omar Kholeif, curator of this year's
Armory Focus: MENAM, a
section dedicated to the Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean inside The 2015
Armory Show art fair in New York City.
The 2015
Armory Show features
Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa, and the Mediterranean (
Focus: MENAM), a
section curated by Omar Kholeif (curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London) that examines contemporary cultural and artistic practices from these regions, by hosting gallery presentations, not - for - profit institutions, and site - specific projects.
On Pier 94 alone there were 141 galleries, with 105 included in the main
section, 15 exhibition in «
Armory Focus: Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean (MENAM),» curated by Omar Kholeif, and 21 galleries with the solo booth
section titled «
Armory Presents.»
The first part of the tour will begin at The
Armory Show's «
Focus»
section, and continue on afterward in an attempt to «connect artists, bridge communities and inspire renewed collaboration across borders,» according to The
Armory Show's press release.
The
Armory Show and Edge of Arabia are teaming up for this year's sixth edition of
Armory Focus, a specially curated
section devoted to a highlighted region of the world.
Recent exhibitions include ShanghART, Beijing, China, The
Armory Show,
Focus Section, New York, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Austria, the Biennale of Lyon, Lyon, France, The Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, TAOPU Contemporary Art Center, Shanghai, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai and the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing among many others.
The Interview Issue coincided with the
Armory Show in New York during which the editors curated «
Focus: African Perspectives»
section of the fair.
This year's edition introduces
Armory Focus, a new
section that features an important art community every year.
The
Armory Show today announced the participating artists in the 2018
Focus section, curated by Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).
NEW YORK — Gavlak Gallery is exhibiting works by Simone Leigh in the
Focus USA
section of the
Armory Show.
At the
Armory Show New York in 2014 Zhang Ding had a solo in the
Focus Section.
The
Armory Focus: African Perspectives, an invitational
section curated by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, presented selections from African galleries as well as the work of established and emerging contemporary artists from Africa and the African Diaspora.
Based on the «critical success» of last year's
Focus programming,
Armory Show organizers said they are doubling the amount of space devoted to the
section in 2018.