We spoke to the artist and
gallerist about the origins of the much - buzzed art fair, which is returning for its second edition this weekend.
«I wouldn't go so far as to say it's a pervasive theme,» curator Alex Glauber told
Gallerist about his inspiration for the show, «but over the last year and a half, I've noticed the Rorschach image in a lot of contemporary work I've been seeing — works by Donald Moffett, Louise Despont, Blake Raynes.»
ABN chatted up a handful of forward - thinking
gallerists about the unique ways in which they're finding success.
We spoke to the Material Art Fair
gallerists about how their apartment gallery grew into an international operation — and how they stopped being artists themselves along the way.
We spoke to the Material Art Fair
gallerists about how two artist - founded nonprofits came together to start a gallery, and everybody profited as a result.
Not exact matches
Allison Moon presents How to Have Opinions
About Art posted at Tales of the Pack, saying, «In my former life, before I was an author, I was a theater reviewer,
gallerist, and curator.
24:40 - Rex talks
about the different ways he sells his work, and the value of cultivating long - term relationships with collectors, curators,
gallerists, etc..
You've got to be realistic
about the market — that's another place where a knowledgeable
gallerist can help.
I've reviewed exhibitions, interviewed
gallerists, talked
about how to care for my pieces, had a jewelry - speak glossary, etc..
Dollars are important at the end of the day, but the best
gallerists know that it's important to build a community first, then worry
about the bottom line.
If there are lots of other artists doing the same thing as you, a
gallerist isn't going to get excited
about your work.
Artists are paired with critics, curators,
gallerists, writers or other artists to converse
about art and the potential of exploring new ideas.
Anat Ebgi interviewed
about her experience as a
gallerist, in a feature by Gallery Monthly.
Let me tell you: The best way to do it is to walk around and make connections, get to know the
gallerist and the work, and think
about it.»
All the conversation, however, was
about two passings — Fidel, from this planet, and Brett Gorvy, from Christie's chairman to partner of
gallerist / art adviser Dominique Levy, in a reprise of the collusion that slid Tobias Meyer from Sotheby's auctioneer to private adviser, and Amy Cappellazzo from Christie's to an art advisery business conceived largely to supply Sotheby's from her power - base Rolodex.
Here's a poem that the artist /
gallerist Joel Mesler spontaneously intoned when asked
about his splendid solo show in the Deauville Hotel's room 1245, which he embellished with a few hilariously odd balloons that he found at the Walgreens across the street:
I'm always more enthusiastic
about the model where the
gallerist is
about the same age as the artist, and they grow up together and establish something together.
Collectors, curators,
gallerists and museum directors descended on the nation's largest art fair, as they do every year, for an infusion of art in all its translations, magnified in memory by poolside festivities that are joined for the most part by reading
about them the next day.
This is because few galleries captured the explosive change the art world was
about to undergo, with new artists, collectors,
gallerists, and critics all arriving at the same time and with money not in abundance and AIDS a horrible psychic backdrop, and new multicultural, transnational interactive aesthetics in the air.
And really, most
gallerists love talking
about their galleries and artists, so Rosen's letter was just garden - variety self - revelation.
The massive expansion of the art market in recent decades has aroused much intrigue
about how galleries operate, particularly as critics, artists and independent curators take the lead in opening their own spaces, enhancing the appeal of the
gallerist's role.
Actually, I was just talking to the great Houston
gallerist Fredericka Hunter
about how, even before the days of the Internet, the information systems among artists
about who was doing what in what part of the world were really effective, so they were able to keep score.
Because of this, Multiplied is an ideal place to learn
about multiples and how they are produced, as artists and
gallerists are on hand to explain the finer points of the intaglio printmaking process or photo - gravure.
Following our conversation with Edward Winkleman and Murat Orozobekov, the co-founders of Moving Image, we discussed with some of the participants
about the relevance of the Moving Image art fair and the uniqueness of video as an artistic medium: with Paula Alzugaray (independent curator, São Paulo, Brazil) and Sabine Brunckhorst (collector, Hamburg, Germany)
about their perspective on the fair from a curator's and a collector's perspective, and with
gallerists Serra Pradhan (Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA), Catharine Clark (Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA), Barbara Polla (Galerie Analix Forever, Paris, France), Catlin Moore (Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA, USA), Wagner Lungov (CENTRAL Galeria de Arte, São Paulo, Brazil), Nancy Atakan (5533, Istanbul, Turkey), Lise Li (Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China), Kelani Nichole (TRANSFER, Brooklyn, NY, USA), Asli Sumer -LRB-.
I'm also really excited
about another of our new artists, Jason Brinkerhoff, who won the
Gallerist's Vogel Award last year at the fair.
Our guests are Hollywood
gallerist Michael Kohn, who walks us through the retrospective exhibition «Wallace Berman — American Aleph,» on view at Kohn Gallery through June 25, 2016, and the artist's son, the author and publisher Tosh Berman, talking
about his father's craft and character, and his importance in the mid-century West Coast cultural scene.
«It's very funny and critical of the art - gallery scene, how
gallerists talk
about works in a way that are difficult to understand,» said Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art.
Joseph Rishel (Philadelphia Museum of Art) sketched large themes
about the crucial role of Chicago collectors, teachers, and
gallerists in making important surrealist work accessible to local artists.
In this interview, Stephanie Syjuco talks
about the idea behind her work Copystand, how it is received by the audience and
gallerists, and her work in general.
Marianne Boesky,
gallerist: It hit a crazy peak when I found Paris Hilton in an elevator drunk, and I thought, «This is not
about art anymore.»
In the interview below she talks
about her history as a
gallerist and how she...
In this video,
gallerist Michael Zink talks
about the concept of the exhibition and the works on display.
We spoke with some exhibitors at Frieze Masters and Pilar Ordovas, the Mayfair
gallerist,
about their impressions of the fair.
But we're probably in a situation where curators and
gallerists are looking for work that «goes together» whilst still «exploring a range of possibilities», and that you can make broader non committal statements
about that don't really mean all that much.
Gallerist Sundaram Tagore's 2,500 sq ft Mid-Levels flat is filled with artwork that speaks volumes
about his family.
Blouin Artinfo speaks with Sundaram
about STG's early days; what makes a good
gallerist; and which historical figure he would like to share a drink with.
At Emalin, the
gallerists were planning a group exhibition
about the deconstruction of the face as a site of identity, and the work of Shana Moulton — represented by Gregor Staiger (Zurich)-- fitted the brief perfectly.
It is a show
about a
gallerist who embodies the memory of a bygone era of art in the Hamptons, and anyone who was present and working in the arts during that time will be warmed to see it.
I don't think any
gallerist does feel good
about it, but there's no avoiding participating in it, because it's now an important part of the market.
In this video interview at ARCO 2011 in Madrid, the renowned
gallerist taks
about her career as an art dealer, the importance of art fairs for her gallery, how ARCO came
about, and what she thinks of the recent development at ARCO.
And the
gallerist did just that after seeing the group show that Richard Bellamy put together in Noah Goldowsky's gallery during the summer of 1966, later claiming: «I had relatively little doubt
about Nauman, because there was an element there that was very familiar to me — like in earlier Jasper Johns.
In this video we attend the opening reception of the exhibition, and
gallerist Javier Peres talks
about how he and James Franco developed the idea for the exhibition and the basic concept of the show.
The juror, architect,
gallerist, and planner, Glynis Berry has selected thirty - five artists with fifty - five photographically based works
about water in all forms — representational and abstract, how precious, powerful, beautiful, or messy it can be.
Click here to read our interview with
gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn
about collecting at art fairs.
A
gallerist that references other artists is okay, but to just talk
about another one for no reason is annoying.
The show is curated by Carlo McCormick and
gallerist Eric Firestone to explore the ways America's pastime is making its way into contemporary art, why we care
about the game and the ways it restores belief in heroes and come - back stories.
Following the presentation, Laurie Wilson and Arezoo Moseni converse
about Nevelson's unshakeable self - confidence, even in the face of failure, her relationship to other artists of her era (Mark Rothko, Diego Rivera, Willem de Kooning), and the
gallerists, curators and critics who shaped her career, most especially The New York Times critic Hilton Kramer and the art dealer Arne Glimcher, founder of the Pace Gallery.
She's
about to have another, with the arch
gallerist David Zwirner.
South Florida - based
gallerists Fred Snitzer and Sarah Gavlak were peppered with questions
about Enrique Martínez - Celaya, Hernan Bas, Orly Genger, Andrew Brischler and Jose Alvarez (respectively), which kept their assistants working at a full gallop.
In a demonstration of solidarity, fairs, artists and
gallerists have banded together with Downtown for Democracy to educate fairgoers
about what's at stake in the upcoming midterm elections on November 6, 2018.