Frieze Art Fair photography highlights

Katy Grannan, Salon 94

Ryan McGinley, team gallery inc.

Geert Goiris (A former Cheap & Plastique contributor!)

Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery

Thomas Ruff

Alec Soth

James Casabere

Other photography:

The Armory Show

More highlights from The Armory Show:::

Natalie Frank, Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York

Peter Linde Busk, Josh Lilley Gallery, London

Jonathan Meese, sies + hoeke galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany

Dana Schutz, Two Palms, New York

Grimm Gallery , Amsterdam

Karthik Pandian, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

Phillipe Cognee Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris

Anna Malagrida, Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain

Tobias Bernstrup, Andrehn Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Sigmar Polke, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Denmark

Tal R, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Denmark

Orri Jonsson, i8, Reykjavik, Iceland

Abigail Reynolds, Ambach and Rice, LA, CA

Jesse Ash, Monitor, Rome, Italy

Barnaby Furnas, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Ryan Foerster, Clearing, New York/Brussels

James Casabere, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

I cannot find my information for this work, oops.

Bjarne Melgaard at The Armory Show

My favorite booth at The Armory Show this year::: Bjarne Melgaard at Rod Bianco Gallery, Oslo, Norway. Bjarne Melgaard was also in my top picks from Armory in 2012.

Volta Art Fair Part II

My favorites from the Volta Art Fair Part II:::

Geraldine Swayne, Fred [London] Ltd, London

John Stark, CHARLIE SMITH, London

Eva Lake, frosch & portmann, New York

Dana Copperwhite, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Ireland

Ian Toms, Season, Seattle, Washington

Michael Zelehoski, ETHAN COHEN NEW YORK, New York

Kris Knight, MULHERIN, Toronto

Amy Schissel, PATRICK MIKHAIL GALLERY, Ottawa

Volta Art Fair Part I

My favorites from the Volta Art Fair:::

Greg Haberny, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York

Patrick Lo Giudice, Galerie Römerapotheke, Zurich, Switzerland

Patrick was hanging out in the booth at Volta. I chatted with him a bit about his work, he was super nice and showed me this video of how his work is made:

IC-98, Galleria Heino, Helsinki, Finland

William Bradley, EB&Flow, London, England

Marc Fromm, Jarmuschek + Partner, Berlin, Germany

Jock Mooney, Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Stefan Lenke, galerie baer, Dresden, Germany

art to see

If you happen to be in Texas in the next couple of months be sure to check out Mie Olise, Crystal Bites of Dust, at Barbara Davis Gallery. The exhibition runs from January 11, 2013 – March 9, 2013

Mie Olise is one of my favorite NY artists. Her and I did a studio visit a couple of years ago in Brooklyn and she was featured in the printed version of Cheap & Plastique Magazine when she still lived in London and was studying for her Masters in Fine Art.

From the gallery website:
For this exhibition, Danish artist Mie Olise unveils her exploration of the Gowanus Canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn through a series of new paintings that investigate the impact of industrialism on the surrounding area. Laden with desolation and abandonment, Olise viewed the Gowanus Canal as a subject worth reviving and uplifting, as her paintings romanticize the seemingly forgotten monuments, factories, and landscapes. Inspired by Robert Smithson’s article “Monuments of the Passaic,” published in 1967 in ArtForum, Olise recreates his journey along the Hackensack River in New Jersey. As Smithson traveled west of Manhattan, toward the Passaic bridges of New Jersey, describing the decaying monuments and ruins near the Hackensack River, Olise journeyed east to Brooklyn and found a similar situation surrounding the Gowanus Canal. Smithson documented his voyage with an Instamatic 400 and referred to the deserted locations he photographed as “non-spaces.” Olise mirrors his concept by illustrating the scenery of the Gowanus Canal through a series of monumental paintings, in order to find what she calls the empty “pores” of the city, spaces left behind to fall into dust. Olise examines the monuments of Gowanus, the hidden spaces beneath the bridges, the uninhabited factories, and the polluted waters of the canal, and ultimately gives them new life by painting them, thus solidifying their existence and transforming them into “crystals of industrialization.”

Searching

Here Is Always Somewhere Else: The Disappearance of Bas Jan Ader

Searching: Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa & Mie Olise
September 6 — October 6, 2012, Opening: Thursday, September 6, 6—8PM
at Mixed Greens, Chelsea. More information here.

Installation views, Mie Olise paintings, photos by Etienne Frossard

From the Mixed Greens website:
Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Searching, a group exhibition focusing on the work of Bas Jan Ader, Arianna Carossa, and Mie Olise. All three artists explore formal and conceptual ghosts, romanticism, and myth. Through open-ended narratives and juxtapositions, their work comes to represent an artist’s timeless search for connection and communication.

It is often said that a sailor’s boat becomes an extension of himself. In Searching, the artists use the horizon, the ocean, and the vessel as stand-ins for their own quests for meaning. Their work is an extension of their personal histories and research. All three are searching for something that is more easily felt than named, and the process of searching is far more important than any one object of the search.

Artist’s websites:
Bas Jan Ader
Arianna Carossa
Mie Olise

Some photographs from a studio visit I did with Mie a couple of years ago when her studio was in Bushwick/Williamsburg.

yayoi kusama

Went to see the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney Museum today.
She is my favorite polka dot lady ever.
More information on the show here. Kusama’s Self-Obliteration below.

frieze art fair new york

Went to the Frieze Art Fair NY last Monday and have just finally had the time to go through the images that I shot and think more about what I saw.

A lot of folk like to hate on the art fair but I honestly enjoy them. Yes, they are usually situated in a pretty sterile environment for art viewing (but aren’t most galleries in a similar situation too?), they are generally overcrowded (but not on an off day like Monday!!!), & too hot, with a lack of refreshments. But, despite these negative aspects, it is pretty great to see such a variety of artwork, from an international roster of artistes, and only have to devote a few hours of my life to the effort—no need to fly to Switzerland, Germany, China, or Estonia (although if I had the time and money I would do that as well)!

It was fantastic to see my favorite galleries from London right here in NYC (and much easier to navigate here, in the tent, than in Londontown!) Every year I discover many galleries from Berlin and elsewhere that I have never heard of before, who end up on my list of galleries to monitor on the web. These discoveries help me when gathering information and looking for new artists for future issues of Cheap & Plastique. Seeing all of these non-NYC galleries also helps me to keep an open mind and gain a broader perspective on what is happening in the art world internationally, not just here in New York City. And I do tend to prefer what the international galleries have on offer.

So, yes, I was pretty psyched about the addition of Frieze to the art fair frenzy in NYC.
And I was especially glad that they decided to throw the art party on a weekend other than Armory Week, which is always too crazy, with too much to do and too many fairs to try to get oneself to! Frieze, please come back next year!

Here are some of the works that stood out to me:

Going on Monday versus the weekend was a really good idea, minus that waiting for the ferry was kinda crappy with lots of rain and wind.

Thomas Ruff

Anish Kapoor

Adrian Ghenie, Galerie Plan B, Berlin
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this painting!

Huda Lutfi, The Third Line, Dubai

Ivan Seal, Carl Freedman Gallery, London (4 images above)
My second favorite works at the fair, a write up on Ivan here.

Tracey Moffatt

Mike Kelley (RIP)

Raymond Pettibon

Paul McCarthy

Grand Openings, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo

Chelsea wanders

My favorites during my last Chelsea wander:

Yorgo Alexopoulus: Transmigrations at Cristin Tierney Galley

Stan Douglas: Disco Angola at David Zwirner

Michelangelo Pistoletto: Lavoro at Luhring Augustine

Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures

Afro Burri Fontana at Haunch of Venison

Ryan McNamara at Elizabeth Dee Gallery

Alan Shields, The Spirit Level at Gladstone Gallery

Sarah Lucas, The Spirit Level at Gladstone Gallery