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22/2/2005

The Art Show

Seventh Regiment Armory, New York

17th Annual Exhibition with 70 of America's Leading Art Galleries

Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America
The Nation's Leading Art Dealers

Seventy of the nation's most prominent art dealers will exhibit paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs by artists of all periods at the seventeenth annual The Art Show. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), the exhibition will run from February 24-28, 2005, at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street. Proceeds from the The Art Show Gala Preview on February 23 benefit Henry Street Settlement, one of New York City's oldest and most comprehensive social service agencies.

Museum-quality works of art in all genres will be exhibited at The Art Show, America's most prestigious art fair, from February 24 - 28, 2005. An outstanding selection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and ceramics from the 19th century to the 21st century will be on exhibition at the Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City. Organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), to benefit Henry Street Settlement, for the 17th year, the show is known for extraordinary opportunities to see rare and highly sought after masterpieces from prominent artists. Proceeds from The Art Show Gala Preview on February 23, 2005, will benefit Henry Street Settlement, a pioneering social service agency on New York's Lower East Side.

The Art Show continues to be the most prestigious art fair in the United States based on the quality and diversity of the works of art presented by this very select group of modern and contemporary art dealers," says Richard Solomon, President of Pace Prints and the Art Dealers Association of America. The Art Show Chairman Roland Augustine, of Luhring Augustine, notes, "In a field now populated with an abundance of art fairs worldwide, The Art Show continues to distinguish itself not only by the quality and selectivity of the works exhibited but by the intimacy and scale of the fair itself. The range of these seventy galleries under one roof, including many of the nation's best contemporary galleries, provides clear evidence of the dynamism of the Art Dealers Association of America, upon which the resounding critical success of The Art Show is founded."

HIGHLIGHTS
Solo Exhibitions at the 2005 Art Show

An unprecedented number of solo exhibitions will be on view at The Art Show 2005 including exhibitions of work by Gene Davis, Françoise Gilot, Nancy Graves, Jess, Isamu Noguchi, Adam Straus, Tom Wesselmann, and Christopher Wool. Françoise Gilot's self portrait with her two children Claude and Paloma Picasso, entitled The Telephone Call, 1952, will be offered by Elkon Gallery, Inc., which will devote half of their space to a one person exhibition. On the occasion of The Art Show 2005, Gilot, 85, recently wrote about the painting and noted that, "In the upper left corner of the canvas, a mirror, instead of reflecting objects in the room, is mostly black as if announcing a dark fate in complete opposition to the youth and joy of the three characters depicted." To celebrate the centennial of Noguchi's birth, PaceWildenstein will present a solo exhibition of a dozen small stone sculptures from the 1980s that have never before been seen by the public.

A one-person exhibition of paintings, prints and drawings by Gene Davis (1920 - 1985) will be shown at Charles Cowles Gallery, Inc., including the artist's vibrant stripe paintings from the 1960s though 1985. The works, from the Estate of Gene Davis, are offered at the bequest of the artist's widow to benefit the Gene Davis Memorial Fund at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which supports the Smithsonian's' activities related to 20th century art.

Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art has organized a solo exhibition of the work of Nancy Graves (1935 - 1995). A full color catalogue will accompany the exhibition. On view at The Art Show will be Pleistocene Skeleton, 1970, the last existing camel skeleton made of the original materials (including wax, marble dust and acrylic) that has not been cast into bronze. The sculpture has not been exhibited publicly since 1971. While Graves did extensive research on modern day and prehistoric camels, her forms were from her own imagination. As a result, she saw the works more as abstract objects rather than literal ones.

A retrospective of work by Jess, the reclusive San Francisco-based artist who died this past January, will be the focus at Odyssia. Known for his idiosyncratic paintings and densely layered collages, works by Jess are in the collections of major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Just Short of Too Late, a one-person show of recent landscapes by Adam Straus will be on view at Nohra Haime Gallery. Straus covers topics from the latest newspaper headlines, including global warming and war, with a combination of irony and sincere concern for our planet's future. Carroll Janis will devote his space to a solo exhibition of recent oils by Tom Wesselmann entitled The Great American Nude. A one-person exhibition of text work from 1988 through 2000 by Christopher Wool will be shown at Luhring Augustine. Wool is best known for his iconic text pieces. The show will include his proclamation Sex Luv Sex Luv from a 1988 untitled work on paper.

Modern and Contemporary
Scores of exceptional works from important artists can be found at The Art Show 2005. A Picasso pen and ink of a heavy set man who worked for the circus will be offered by Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and New York. The drawing, Le Saltimbanque, 1905, is thought to be a study for Family of Saltimbanque, a masterpiece from Picasso's circus period in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The year before, Picasso had moved to Montmartre and his mistress, Fernande Olivier, introduced him to a circus troupe camped out under a massive red tent at the foot of Montmartre. Olivier said later, "I never saw Picasso laugh so happily...he was like a child and quite unaware of the relative shallowness of the humor."

Pace Prints will exhibit Portrait de Jacqueline, 1959, a Picasso linocut. The work is one of the most beautiful and noble portraits the artist made of his last wife Jacqueline Roque. By 1963, Picasso had made more than 100 linocuts, exploiting the medium to create a revolutionary reductive method of printing multiple colors on a single block of linoleum.

Galerie St. Etienne will exhibit a rare oil by Gustav Klimt, which will be shown in the U.S. for the first time. Klimt painted Portrait of a Lady Facing Front, 1898 - 99, at the height of his popularity in turn of the century Vienna. The sitter may be Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy patron of Klimt's who is also thought to have been his lover. The portrait belonged to Bloch-Bauer's family but was stolen by the Nazis. The artist had numerous affairs with his models and consequently a number of illegitimate children. In a rather shocking turn of events, one of Klimt's sons grew up to be a Nazi. As a result, he had access to Klimt paintings snatched by the Nazis and actually was able to donate his father's work to the Austrian National Gallery. Recently the museum restituted the painting, and it now belongs to several of Bloch-Bauer's relatives.

A rare watercolor and ink drawing by H.C. Westerman, Woman Descending into Paradise, 1979, will be on view at Lennon, Weinberg. Westerman only made about 30 drawings in the last five years of his life, and most of them are in museum collections, including The Museum of Modern Art.

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, will exhibit Andy Warhol's The Men in Her Life, 1962. This work is among the earlier Elizabeth Taylor portraits done by Warhol in the 1960s. The silkscreen portrays Taylor and her then husband Mike Todd meeting with Eddie Fisher and his then wife Debbie Reynolds with their newborn child.

An oil by Richard Diebenkorn from 1965 of a seated woman will be exhibited at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis. Diebenkorn turned from abstraction to figurative work for 10 years beginning in the 1950s. This painting was completed not long before he started on his famous Ocean Park series and several elements in this work are precursors to the series.

The highly sought after, Roman Notes, a group of lithographs by Cy Twombly, will be the focus at Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore. A rare lithograph by Bruce Nauman, Pay Attention, 1972, will be on view at Brooke Alexander. "Pay Attention" and a profanity are shown backwards on the work.

When Lee Krasner had insomnia, she would often get up and paint in the middle of the night in low light of her studio, with Jackson Pollack's dog underfoot. The night owl Krasner preferred painting in dark tones, saving her more colorful work to paint during the daytime. Cosmic Fragments, 1962, a monumental monochromatic canvas, is said to be based on the umber color of the Pollack's poodle, known as Ahab, and can be seen at Robert Miller Gallery.

Sculpture
Important sculpture by contemporary artists will fill the Seventh Regiment Armory during The Art Show 2005. A porcelain sculpture by Lee Bontecou from the artist's collection, which was recently included in the retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, can be seen at Knoedler & Company. The minimal sculpture of Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and Fred Sandback will be on view at Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston. Popples, 1988, a sculpture by Jeff Koons will be offered by C+M Arts. Koons as a part of the Banality series, which includes Michael Jackson and Bubbles, created the overstuffed plush toy. Popples clearly highlights Koon's sense of irony: the soft, cuddly stuffed animal, cast in porcelain, does not retain those physical qualities. The artist has discussed the critter's sidekick, a small bird chirping below, as representing himself. All work from the series was made in an edition of three plus one artists proof. A Louise Bourgeois sculpture from 1954 in painted wood will be offered at Cheim & Read. The work is part of a series from the 1940s and 1950s of "personages" as Bourgeois calls her sculptures. The pieces move and pivot like a vertebrae. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, which will be at The Art Show for the first time, will show the work of Cuban born artist Jorge Pardo. The artist is also a designer and both his paintings and lamp sculptures will be on view.

Photography
Outstanding contemporary and vintage photography will once again be a highlight at The Art Show 2005. DoDo Jin Ming's turbulent seascapes from 2004 will be exhibited at Laurence Miller Gallery. The artist tethers herself to a jetty and extends the camera over the rocks into the pounding surf to capture the ocean's intensity, getting soaked to the bone in the process. Lynn Davis made her fourth trek to Disko Bay, Greenland, recently to photograph a favorite subject: icebergs, the results of which can be seen at Edwynn Houk Gallery. A new series of photographs by Vik Muniz will be on view at Brent Sikkema. Muniz laboriously recreates famous still lifes by using miniscule hole punches cut from magazines. The tiny dots of paper are assembled into collages, which are then made into large-scale photographs. Ana Mendieta's well-known earth/body work is documented in a photograph, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973. The artist's human form can be seen using sand, water and red pigment at Galerie Lelong. Andre Kertesz's Paris (Mondrian's Pipe and Glasses), 1927, a vintage silver print, will be offered by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

American Art, All Periods
A rare Robert Henri portrait entitled Nora from 1913 will be on view at Forum Gallery, New York and Los Angeles. The work is from a private collection and has not been exhibited publicly for more than 20 years. Henri painted the oil at Corrymore House, Achill Island, Ireland. John Marin's watercolor, Stonington Harbor, 1922, will be a highlight at Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc. Paul Strand originally owned the work by the photographer, who bought it from Alfred Stieglitz (who represented Marin). When Strand, who owned a small but important collection of American Modernist pictures, passed away in 1976, his estate was put on long term loan to the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire. In the early 1980s, the Strand Foundation decided to sell the works in his collection. While the majority of the works were sold to museums, Stonington Harbor was sold to a private collector. It has remained in the family since that time.

Gala Benefit Preview
To inaugurate The Art Show 2005, a Gala Benefit Preview will be held on Wednesday, February 23, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and will benefit Henry Street Settlement, a prominent social services and arts agency located on New York's Lower East Side. For advance ticket purchases or additional information, please call 212-766-9200 ext. 248.

Press Preview
A press preview for The Art Show 2005 will be held on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at the Seventh Regiment Armory from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, please contact FITZ & CO at 212-627-1455 x226 or at daniel@fitzandco.com.

Art Dealers Association of America
All of The 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 practice within the profession. More information on the Art Dealers Association of America may be found at: http://www.artdealers.org.

Henry Street Settlement
Founded in 1893 by social work pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social services and arts programming that improves the lives of more than 100,000 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 information please contact: Nicole Polletta / Daniel Tanzilli - FITZ & CO - 535 West 23rd Street - New York - T 212-627-1455 x221 / x226 - F 212-627-0654

Admission is $15 per day. The show hours are as follows: Thursday through Saturday, 12 noon to 8 p.m., Sunday and Monday, 12 noon to 6 p.m. No advance purchase is required. Tickets will be available at the door

Seventh Regiment Armory - Park Avenue and 67th Street - NY

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