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20/2/2007

The Art Show 2007

Seventh Regiment Armory, New York

19th Annual Exhibition with 70 of America's Leading Art Galleries
Gala Preview on February 21 to Benefit Henry Street Settlement

The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) will organize the nineteenth annual Art Show from February 22 through 26, 2007, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, New York City. Museum-quality work will be exhibited by 70 of the nation's leading art dealers, all members of the prestigious, by-invitation-only ADAA. Dealers are known to save their best materials for this highly anticipated annual event that will feature paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, photographs, and multimedia work from the 19th century to the 21st century. A record number of galleries will offer solo exhibitions.

To inaugurate The Art Show 2007, a Gala Benefit Preview will be held on Wednesday, February 21, 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 Manhattan's Lower East Side.

"We have assembled an extraordinary group of the most important and influential art dealers working in the U.S. today. From key emerging and established artists to the greats of the last century, we have once again struck the right balance of contemporary and Modern work," said Roland Augustine, President of the ADAA and partner in Luhring Augustine. "Collectors consistently look forward to The Art Show as they enjoy its intimate scale, allowing them to visit exhibiting galleries multiple times." Linda Blumberg, Executive Director of ADAA, added, "The remarkable roster of Art Show 2007 exhibitors clearly displays the extraordinary collective knowledge and connoisseurship of ADAA members."

Timed with The Art Show, the ADAA has organized an historic gathering of museum directors, including Glenn Lowry of The Museum of Modern Art and Sir Nicholas Serota of the Tate, London, who will participate in an ADAA Collectors' Forum on February 24, 2007 at The Museum of Modern Art. The panel discussion, The Museum As Collector, will focus on how leading institutions compete with key collectors for the world's most important works of art. Complete information available below.

The Art Show 2007 will be held concurrently with The Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, which has moved its March dates so that both fairs can be held in February, providing international collectors ease of access to two remarkable yet unique art world events. The Armory Show is scheduled from February 23 though 26 and is held at Pier 94, 12th Avenue at 55th Street. More information at www.thearmoryshow.com

Highlights of The Art Show
An unprecedented number of solo exhibitions-more than a dozen-will be the highlight at The Art Show 2007. Recent paintings and watercolors by Malcolm Morley will be exhibited at Sperone Westwater (New York). Louise Bourgeois's recent small bronze sculpture will be shown by Cheim & Read (New York). The 95-year-old artist's work will be the subject of a retrospective at the Tate Modern in London in October of this year. A survey of Jennifer Bartlett's signature paintings on small steel plates will be on view at Locks Gallery (Philadelphia). PaceWildenstein (New York) is presenting a solo exhibition entitled Ad Reinhardt: 1945 Works on Paper. A solo show of Anish Kapoor sculptures will be exhibited by Gladstone Gallery (New York). A retrospective of six important works by Janine Antoni, including a pair of classical sculptures in soap and chocolate entitled Lick and Lather, will be on view at Luhring Augustine (New York). Michael Werner Gallery (New York) will present a solo show of eight never before exhibited black and white works on paper by Sigmar Polke.

Other solo exhibitions include a survey of Lesley Dill's sculpture, tapestries and works on paper from 1992-2006 at George Adams Gallery (New York). Paintings from the early 1960s by Pop artist Richard Smith will be exhibited at Richard L. Feigen & Co (New York). Sculpture and drawings by Jim Hodges from 1991-1992 will be on view at CRG Gallery (New York). Tasende Gallery (Los Angeles/La Jolla) will offer a retrospective of sculpture and drawing by Italian artist Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991), known for the doors he created for St. Peter's in Rome, the first major addition to the church since the Renaissance.

This year, three galleries will be highlighting solo shows of contemporary Asian artists. Lehmann Maupin (New York) will exhibit work by the young Taiwanese painter Suling Wang, whose paintings are in many major collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Robert Miller Gallery (New York) will be exhibiting Ai Weiwei, including of sculptures. An expert on Chinese history with an understanding of China's traditions, Ai uses his country's cultural artifacts, as well as contemporary products, to create works. An exhibition of rare paintings, sculpture and drawings by Yayoi Kusama, spanning from the 1950's to the present, supplemented with works by artists that have been influential to her work or influenced by her work will be presented by D'Amelio Terras (New York).

Chicago artist David Klamen's landscape paintings will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago /New York). Made specifically for The Art Show 2007, Kate Shepherd is creating a series of small, highly saturated, multi-paneled paintings, which will be on view at Galerie Lelong (New York).

The Art Show 2007 will offer the largest number to date of new galleries to exhibit at the show, including Sonnabend, Andrea Rosen Gallery, D'Amelio Terras, Skarstedt Fine Art and Peter Freeman, Inc. all of New York; and, Rhona Hoffman Gallery and Donald Young Gallery of Chicago.

Contemporary and Modern
Daniel Buren, who just received a commission from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will have work on view at Barbara Krakow Gallery (Boston). Vitoria Gitman, a young artist whose work can already be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum of American Art, has created intimate portraits of women made in pencil on mylar from 2007. Four of the portraits, she refers to as "Beauties," can be seen at David Nolan Gallery (New York).

Best known for her cut paper silhouettes, Kara Walker attacks issues concerning race, gender and sexuality. A number of new works by the artist will be on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co (New York). Walker's mid-career retrospective will be on view at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, during The Art Show and will travel to the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Matthew Ritchie, who holds the distinctions of having lectured at the 2005 Einstein Centennial Conference in Berlin, and been named by Time magazine as one of 100 innovators of the new millennium, will show work at Andrea Rosen Gallery (New York) that was part of a 2005 installation in the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibition Remote Viewing.

Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York) will present a curated exhibition, Surrealism, at The Art Show, which will explore the movement and its importance to artists working today. Work by Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy and Man Ray will be seen along with contemporary work by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, Kenny Scharf and Santi Moix.

The landscape is the most frequently reoccurring motif in Gerhard Richter's oeuvre and no other subject has preoccupied the artist over such a long period of time. One of Richter's most arresting landscapes, Landschaft mit Wolke (238), 1969, can be seen at David Zwirner Gallery (New York). With a gun aimed at the viewer, Ceci n'est pas un pistolet, a work by James Rosenquist from his 1996 anti-gun series, delivers a potent message. It will be on view at James Goodman Gallery (New York). Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art (New York) will feature work by some of the most important contemporary Chinese artists working today including Feng Zhengjie, Wang Guangyi and Zhang Huan.

Galerie St. Etienne (New York) will exhibit a drawing by Gustav Klimt, Portrait of a Lady in a Fur Collar, c. 1916, one of the first works of art to be restituted from Vienna after Austria passed its groundbreaking Holocaust restitution law in 1998. The owner, a private collector, had tried for years to recover the drawing, which for many years hung in the Albertina Museum. The drawing was a study for a painting of the same title, which was at one time owned by a collector who was killed by the Nazis. The painting has not been seen since the war, and only the drawing is known to have survived.

A rare work by Pablo Picasso, never shown in the U.S., will be the highlight at Pace Prints. In 1968, Picasso worked on a series of etchings in Mougin, France, which became known as the "347 Series," illustrating the 15th century Spanish novel "La Celestina." During the printing of the series, Picasso had the idea of printing 66 plates together on one sheet. Only nine impressions were printed.

It is a rarity to find a Jackson Pollock painting on the market and Silver Square, c. 1950, is particularly notable. Chosen by Lee Krasner to hang in her New York City apartment, it remained there until her death in 1984. Silver Square will be on view at Washburn Gallery (New York). Knoedler & Company (New York) will offer works by mid 20th-century masters, with a special concentration on the New York School, including Milton Avery, Lee Bontecou, James Castle, Willem de Kooning, Mark di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler and Robert Motherwell.

Toward the end of 1917, Diego Rivera made an abrupt break with Cubism and began to experiment with painting strongly influenced by his "first Idol" Cézanne. Rivera's dealer, Léonce Rosenberg, at first suppressed these paintings because he did not want the public to get the message that "Cubism was over." One such work, a landscape from 1918 that has never been shown in the U.S., will be view at Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art (New York).

Sculpture
A monumental sculpture by Japanese Pop master Takashi Murakami, Mr. Pointy, 2002-03 will be a highlight of The Art Show 2007. Mr. Pointy made his New York City debut as larger version in front of Rockefeller Center in the fall of 2003. Another version will be offered by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (St. Louis). In 2003, Sir Anthony Caro began work on his Kenwood Series, a group of 18 ceramic steel and stone sculptures, which will be on view at Garth Clark Gallery (New York). The work was made for a 2004 exhibition at Kenwood House, a former stately home in Hampstead Heath in London, where the 1999 movie Notting Hill was partly filmed. The "house broken" sculptures deconstruct domestic items such as tables and chairs.

Photography
A large-scale photograph by Robert Polidori depicting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina will be exhibited by Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York). The photograph, 2732 Orleans Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005, is currently at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled, New Orleans After the Flood, which was on view through the end of 2006. The artist notes, "Having lived in New Orleans as a teenager, I felt compelled to return to the city to bear witness to the stunning scope of the crisis and to ensure that the city and its citizens will not be forgotten."

Doorways & Windows: Early Photographs of Architecture, a rich overview of 19th century photographs of architecture by such major artists as Eugène Atget, Roger Fenton and William Henry Fox Talbot, will be exhibited by Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs (New York). Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), will offer a focused exhibition of important 20th century and contemporary photographs, with a concentration on portraiture by major photographers such as Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Nicholas Nixon and Hiroshi Sugimoto, including an extraordinary 1979 portrait of Francis Bacon by Richard Avedon.

American Art, All Periods
Recently, Peter Fairbanks of Montgomery Gallery (San Francisco) appeared on the PBS television program "Antiques Roadshow." A woman in Nevada noticed his appraisal of a painting that resembled one owned by her aunt-and sent an image of the painting to Montgomery Gallery. Covered in smoke residue and grime from hanging behind the bar in a restaurant in Costa Mesa, California, the Gallery's research revealed that the painting was a lost masterpiece by the American Impressionist Louis Ritman (1899-1963). The oil on canvas of a young woman in a garden, Déjeuner (Breakfast), c. 1913, will be on view at The Art Show 2007

Originally designed as a weathervane for a tower of Madison Square garden in 1891, the sculpture Diana, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) is well known to those who frequent the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Engelhard Court. A cast c. 1990 of gilded bronze on painted steel plate, made from a plaster model given to the architect Stanford White, will be the highlight at Conner Rosenkranz LLC (New York).

ADAA Collectors Forum
The Museum As Collector, an ADAA panel discussion at The Museum of Modern Art will be held on Saturday, February 24, 2007, from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. The panel will feature an historic gathering of distinguished museum directors who will discuss one of the most critical issues affecting the art world today-the creation of major public collections. The panelists include: Glenn Lowry, Director, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate, London; Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Founder and Chairman, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. The Moderator will be Tom Eccles, Executive Director, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. With prices at astronomical levels, the collecting atmosphere has never been more heated and challenging. The conversation will include discussion of what strategies are museums using to survive and thrive. Tickets are $35. This program is sponsored by Lehman Brothers. For more information, please call 212-940-8925 or visit ADAA Events.

Media Preview
The media will be the first guests to preview The Art Show 2007. A Media Preview will be held on Wednesday, February 21 from 12 noon to 2 p.m. A light lunch will be served. To register as a member of the media online please visit The Art Show Media Registration and fill out the form before February 16, 2007, or register with us on site at the Media Desk during normal show hours. Please direct any questions to Dan Tanzilli of FITZ & CO at 212-627-1455 x226 or dan@fitzandco.com.

Gala Benefit Preview
To inaugurate The Art Show 2007, a Gala Benefit Preview will be held on Wednesday, February 21, 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 Manhattan's Lower East Side. For advance ticket purchases or additional information, please call 212-766-9200 ext. 248.
The preview schedule is as follows:

Millennium Circle 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Ticket $2,000)
Super Benefactors 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Ticket $1,000)
Benefactors 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Ticket $500)
Patrons 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Ticket $275)
Sponsors 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. (Ticket $150)

Entrance Design, Location, Dates and Admission
The Art Show 2007 will be held from Thursday, February 22, through Monday, February 26, at the Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, New York City. The Art Dealers Association of America and Henry Street Settlement gratefully acknowledge Rexrode Chirigos Architects, Principals Elizabeth Rexrode and Michael Chirigos, for their design of the entry to the The Art Show 2007. Lighting provided by Erco Lighting. Both firms' creativity and generosity are greatly appreciated. Elizabeth Rexrode notes, "The design of The Art Show entry is based on maximizing the impact of the Armory's grand entry designed by George C. Flint in 1880 in the Renaissance Revival style. The new design of The Art Show's entry accentuates the grandness of the space, its scale and proportion, and highlights this unique 19th century interior. The introduction of a screen-like curtain created with reflective silver mylar and light provides a focus toward the entry to the show, and affords a clean, crisp, element with a temporal nature." More information on the Armory building can be found at the Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy's web site: www.armoryonpark.org
Admission is $20 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.

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.

Art Dealers Association of America
All 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. 2007 marks the 45th anniversary of the ADAA.

Image: Andy Warhol $1, 1982. Courtesy Brooke Alexander

The Art Show media information and visual materials available from:
Sara Fitzmaurice / Daniel Tanzilli
FITZ & CO 535 West 23rd Street #SI0H New York, NY 10011
T 212-627-1455 x226 F 212-627-0654 sara@fitzandco.com / daniel@fitzandco.com

Seventh Regiment Armory
Park Avenue at 67th Street New York

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