The Armory Party

Tickets are available for The Armory Party! Annually, the Museum of Modern Art hosts The Armory Party, a benefit event with live music and DJs celebrating the opening of The Armory Show. The evening reception, along with the daytime Early Access Preview at The Armory Show, benefits exhibition programming for The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1. On March 6, 2013, the acclaimed musician Solange will perform live at The Armory Party in MoMA's Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. VIP Access: 8:00PM–12:00AM General Admission: 9:00PM–12:00AM featuring a special musical performance If you have further questions, please contact the Department of Special Programming and Events at (212) 708-9680 or e-mail specialevents@moma.org. Tickets available here.

The Armory Show 7 West 34th Street, Suite 1027 New York, NY 10001

Call to Artists - Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival

Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival 

Call to Artists

WHAT: 40th Annual Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival  

WHERE: Burlington Park, Downtown Hinsdale, IL  

     

WHEN:    June 8 & 9, 2013
              Saturday & Sunday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

A jewel in the western suburbs of Chicago!Located in the heart of historic downtown Hinsdale, the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival has been a cherished tradition for over 39 years. The show hosts 130 artists throughout the shady trees of Burlington Park. Returning artists treasure Hinsdale's dynamically upscale neighborhood, along with a high class shopping district just south of the park.  Hinsdale's show, year after year, is a favorite for the art elite of Chicago. 

           

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Applications available at: www.hinsdalechamber.com 

Deadline: Postmarked March 9, 2013

Application Fee: $30.00

Booth Fee: $250.00

Notification: April 30, 2013

Email questions to: info@hinsdalechamber.com

Or call: 630-323-3952

2/17/13 SALON EXHIBITION / Art Sale Closing Reception to Benefit the Museum of Russian Art (MoRA)

INVITES YOU TO THE CLOSING RECEPTION OF SALON EXHIBITION and ART SALE   for the Benefit of the Museum of Russian Art (MORA)   Sunday, February 17, 2013, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. The doors open at 12:00 Noon! ARTWORKS WILL BE ON VIEW daily (except Monday) through Sunday, February 17, 2013,  4 p.m. - 7 p.m. High-quality art priced to sell  all works priced from $50 to $500 MORA/Museum of Russian Art  80 Grand St. Jersey City, NJ 07302 (near Exchange Place Path train Subway station) For directions, click here. For additional information email: aonthehudson@gmail.com or call: 201-451-4862

Call to Artists - Covington Art Fair

Covington Art Fair  

 
Call to Artists

WHAT:  Premier Fine Art Show in Fort Wayne Area

WHERE: Covington Shopping Plaza, Fort Wayne, IN

WHEN:  Saturday and Sunday 

            June 22 & 23, 2013

NOTEWORTHY:

*Art Fair Source Book Top 100 Ranked Fine Art Festival, 2010.

*Limited to 100 juried fine artists in 10 categories.

*Loyal, long-term repeat customer base.

*Jury/Booth Fees ($25/$175); double booths are available at $350.

*Friday setup; drive/park at space for load-in and load-out.

*24-hour security; booth sitters; all-day private artist hospitality center.

*For more details about the show, click HERE

The Covington Art Fair has grown into one of the best fine art fairs in the region.  In its 21st consecutive year of operation, the festival features a unique variety of local, regional and national artists.  Set in one of the area's most unique shopping destinations, Covington Plaza, the event augments the artists' displays with fine dining and great specialty shops that are a magnet for upscale customers.

Jazz music accompanies the high-quality art.  Thousands of attendees exude a spirit of excitement and camarderie with the exhibiting artists.  Artist hospitality is unmatched, making every artist feel welcome.  And as a special benefit, artists park right at their booths!

NOW ACCEPTING INQUIRIES.

APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE JANUARY 20, 2012

Deadline:  

February 28, 2013

Notification: 

April 5, 2013

Booth Fee Due: 

May 17, 2013

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: 

www.asheragency.com

Email inquiries to: 

glendas@asheragency.com

You may also contact by telephone: 

Glenda Stoppenhagen 

800-900-7031 

260-424-3373

[It's LIQUID News] Chiara Scarpitti

.design news	February 13, 2013
Chiara Scarpitti   The symbol word originally means to throw together, but also unite, put together. The symbol in the jewel isher essence. “The symbolic moves itself in the unpredictable feeling, in the natural instinct. The irrationality and the mysticism is a concept that encompasses ancestral all peoples by ever”. The symbol evokes feelings of things in unpredictable ways. Its presence in the jewel is in a dialectical relationship with that elementpoetic and visionary, and becames concrete action in the reality of all days. The assumption is that the fascinating and mysterious world of natural geometric forms, dominated by images, lines, dots, numbers and enigmatic formulas, is particularly suitable for the design of a contemporary jewelry. This stimulating survey of the forms in the universe often leads us in front of ancient myths, who magical powers attract still now.   The design approach is alchemic. The starting point of alchemy is the unity of matter: matter is one, but can take myriad forms and be combined in many others inexhaustible ways. From raw material borns also the work of a designer. Both a designer that an alchemist work with the idea of “practice trasmutatoria”. For both, values are given specifically to the mass, space, light and shadow, and is active the participation of the body to these physical elements. Both live and think the object of their search. Oriented research, however, to the “recovery of manual dexterity, to the practical experiment, to the verify in the laboratory”. The haute couture tailoring techniques, along with inkjet prints on silk combine the industrial chemical cut steel to create a new type of jewellery between design and craftsmanship, unicity and seriality. There’s an attempt to return with an aura of mystery and magic in who wears this jewel. Reactions between jewelry and body, between jewelry and another, between jewelry and the space around him, “Reaction Poétique”.   Chiara Scarpitti is a designer, specialized in contemporary jewellery. Her works are spread over different levels of the contemporary, on new design methodologies, using the most innovative and experimental production techniques between industry and craft.   more. www.chiarascarpitti.com | info: info@chiarascarpitti.com

Call to Artists - Fine Art Show & Four Rivers Craft Show

37th SMOKY HILL RIVER FESTIVAL  

Celebrating Artists, Celebrating Excellence!  

Call To Artists

Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9  

Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

What: 37th Smoky Hill River Festival

    Presented by Salina Arts & Humanities   

Where: Oakdale Park, Salina, KS (730 Oakdale Drive) 

When: Four Rivers Craft Show, June 7, 8 & 9 

           Fine Art Show, June 8 & 9 

Noteworthy:   

• Over half-a-million dollars in sales annually, with record high sales the past three years!  
• Ranked in the top 100 art fairs in the country and one of the finest in the central midwest. Kansas' finest!
• 90 exhibitors in the Fine Art Show
• 50 exhibitors in the Four Rivers Craft Show
• Very high quality juried shows - long standing tradition of excellence
• Knowledgeable patrons and a sophisticated buying audience  
• Weekend attendance of 75,000 drawing patrons from the region and across the country
• $130,000+ Art Patron Program - Fine Art Show
• $9500 cash Jurors' Merit & Purchase Awards - Fine Art Show
• $1800 cash Jurors' Merit Awards - Four Rivers Craft Show
• Outstanding organization 
• Reasonable booth fees and jury fee
• Exceptional show layout
• Access to discounted lodging
• 24 hour security 
• Great artist amenities: booth sitters, water/tea/coffee brought to booth, assistance with unload and loading, Artists' Reception, Artists' Breakfast, free reserved parking within the event for inventory access
• Presented with an arts-based mission by the acclaimed Salina Arts & Humanities 
• Both show applications are easily accessed online at www.zapplication.org, or the Festival website, www.riverfestival.com if opting to submit by mail. 

   

An Arts Festival Like None Other! 

The first breath of summer marks the arrival of the highly anticipated and award winning Smoky Hill River Festival, one of the top festivals in the Central United States and Kansas' finest! The dynamic cultural life of Salina has been celebrated at the Festival for now approaching 37 years, drawing people together to commemorate this place - through art, artistry and artists - and through the joy of marking time with one another. Sponsored by the Salina Arts & Humanities, the Festival honors its Mission -(to change lives and build community through the power of the arts). The mission becomes reality it its evident commitment to quality, education, and exchange.

The Festival presents a sophisticated palette of events: exceptional fine art and contemporary craft, art installations, superb entertainment, and interactive arts experiences for all ages. Salina is widely acknowledged as an Outstanding Arts Community...where recognition at national levels is a frequent occurrence within its remarkable array of established cultural organizations and offerings...where art and culture are a $23 million industry annually. A model in its rich cultural landscape, Salina is a vibrant example of a community that grows, thrives and reaches for the future, through the arts.

Community ownership is exemplified in the commitment of over 2,000 enthusiastic volunteers and an extensive base of financial support. 75,000 attendees enjoy the artistic excellence and outstanding hospitality which continue to define the event. Outstanding artist amenities, a highly successful Art Patron Program and a knowledgeable and enthusiastic buying audience set the tone for a quality exhibiting experience

We welcome your application to the Fine Art Show (90 exhibitors) and Four Rivers Craft Show (50 exhibitors). These two outstanding venues are highly acclaimed among artists for incredible organization, quality of exhibition, artist hospitality, sales promotion, and community support. The Festival has earned a stellar reputation as an award winning and well juried visual arts venue. Both shows are recognized by many artists' resource publications online and in print, including ArtFair SourceBook, The Crafts Report, and Sunshine Artist, with extensive statewide and regional marketing.

Experience a "pleasant surprise" - the unmistakable spirit of the Smoky Hill River Festival - An Arts Festival Like None Other!

THE FESTIVAL MISSION: (To celebrate the arts and this community through a festival accessible to anyone - physically, psychologically, and economically)

DEADLINE:  February 15, 2013

NOTIFICATION:  March 13, 2013

BOOTH FEE DUE:  April 15, 2013

APPLICATIONS:

www.riverfestival.com 

     www.zapplication.org 

CONTACT:

Karla Prickett, Visual Arts Director

karla.prickett@salina.org 

785-309-5770 ext. 2306

Call to Artists - Kings Drive Art Walk

Festival in the Park
presents:

Kings Drive Art Walk

Call to Artists

WHAT: Fine Arts & Fine Crafts Festival

   

WHERE: Little Sugar Creek Greenway, Charlotte, NC

WHEN: Saturday and Sunday

           April 27 - 28, 2013

           Saturday: 11 a.m. - 8 p.m.; Sunday: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
          

NOTEWORTHY: 

*Third Annual Fine Art and Fine Craft Juried Festival. 

*Limited to 75 fine and emerging artists in total. 

*Jury/Booth Fees: $25/$250; electricity available for an additional $25.    

*Artists' amenities include free parking and 24-hour security. 

*All booth locations along a greenway; no "hidden" spaces. 

*Strong community support. 

*Short dolly-in for setup and teardown. 

*For more details about the show, click HERE 

 
Since the fall of 1964, Festival in the Park has brought Charlotteans from all walks of life together to enjoy arts, crafts, music and family entertainment. With the mission of bringing the community together by celebrating the arts, the Festival Board is excited to broaden its reach and to announce the third year of its spring fine arts event, the Kings Drive Art Walk.

We invite you to participate in our spring event which will be held along the Sugar Creek Greenway, a newly reclaimed natural waterway between East Morehead Street and Pearle Street Bridget along Kings Drive. With a focus on fine and emerging artists, our new spring festival on this beautiful and easily accessible venue will become an annual fine arts outing!

Most importantly, the King's Drive section of the Sugar Creek Greenway is adjacent to some of Charlotte's most prestigious and affluent neighborhoods - with homeowners who appreciate and can afford fine are. We intend to target these neighborhoods with appropriate promotional materials.

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Deadlines:

March 1, 2013 

Notification: 

March 20, 2013 

For more details, artist's prospectus, and to apply, visit: 

http://www.festivalinthepark.org/kingsdrive.asp

Joshua Neustein, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner at Steven Zevitas

Joshua Neustein, Jacob El Hanani, Roland Flexner  StrokeTraceBlow February 7th - March 9th, 2013 Reception: Friday, March 1st, 5:30 pm Steven Zevitas Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of three mature artists who have influenced the direction of drawing and contributed to the acceleration of the discourse surrounding drawing over the past decade. They have each founded notable points of interest or milestones for emerging artists. The show’s title, StrokeTraceBlow, describes the physical activities, the methods of these artists’ studio practice. Joshua Neustein (pronounced noy-sh-tine), Jacob El Hanani and Roland Flexner have developed highly personal bodies of work, but share a discourse. There is a critical link between the facture of their work and its content; or, put differently, each produces work whose “meaning” is immanent and derives largely from the way in which it was created. Neustein’s Carbon Copy Drawings address a number of issues, but carry a particular resonance right now in how they bridge the gap between two and three- dimensional practice. The incised, torn, and folded markings are not on but in the surface, creating a new relationship between figure and ground. Carbon black surfaces trace markings from one surface and transmit them to another, mapping a network of provisional forms. The cut, gouged and reversed grease sheets iterate drawing in an expanded field. As Barry Schwabasky wrote: “The “Carbon Copy Drawings” can be seen as a remarkably sustained and far reaching investigation of the nature of gesture in its most controlled, intimate, at times almost microscopic scale...based on his own experience as an artist of heroic scale, Neustein’s little works demonstrate that diminutive gesture can point with clarity and force far beyond the immediate situation of its making, to the weightiest and most urgently public questions.” click on image for preview of exhibition Neustein’s prolific career embraces a range of media, including environmental installations, that was first exhibited in this country at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts in a show called Earth Air Fire Water. Neustein’s notable exhibitions include solo shows at UNTITLED in New York 2012, The Israel Museum in Jerusalem 2012, Land Art at L.A.MOCA 2012 and Haus Der Kunst in Munich, Germany 2013, the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011, the Royal Museum in Ontario, Canada 2009, the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, NY 1992, and the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, MA 1998. “The Possessed Library,” a building sized project, was featured at the Venice Biennale in 1995. El Hanani makes extraordinarily intricate works on paper, built up from thousands of constituent ink strokes, and he is a pioneer of the now widespread phenomena of obsessive mark making and labor-intensive imagery. As of late, a new lyrical energy has entered El Hanani’s work. While the images he produces are still resolutely abstract, the artist has expanded his vocabulary of forms and allowed subtle references to the landscape to emerge. In an interview the artist remarked

“We cannot achieve everything. If I am known as the artist who brought drawing to its most minute element, I’ll be happy.”
El Hanani has been exhibiting internationally since the mid-1970s, including solo exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun in New York, Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, and Mark Moore Gallery in Los Angeles. His work is in more than two-dozen museum collections, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Flexner is involved, not so much with process, as with the technique of frottage in the tradition of surrealism. He brings forward the artistic visual culture of French Tachisme. The images suggest dreamlike, or manic lunar landscapes. Flexner’s works blur the line between illusionistic landscape and pure abstraction. Working with ink, he uses his breath, chance and gravity as his primary tools. Shane McAdams describes his methods:
“Flexner’s affinity for the finer qualities of sumi ink took him to Kyoto, Japan to study... “Prolonged interaction” here is relative, and “afterplay” is more precise than foreplay. While still wet on the surface of the paper, Flexner reworks each piece. The window of opportunity is narrow as the ink dries in minutes.”
Flexner’s recent exhibitions include shows at D’Amelio Gallery in New York, Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, and Galeria Massimo Carlo in Milan. Flexner’s work was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial and will be featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum.
For additional information, please contact Steven Zevitas at 617.778.5265 (ext. 22). Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11AM – 5 PM.

Hi All - Take a Look at the New York Spring Art Shows for 2013

The Armory Show-Modern

Venue: Piers 92 & 94, 12^thAvenue at 55^thStreet

Website: http://www.thearmoryshow.com/

Dates: March 8 – 11

Daily Hours: Thursday - Saturday, 12pm-8pm; Sunday, 12pm – 7pm

Venue: 7 W, 7 West 34th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues

Website: http://www.ny.voltashow.com/

Dates: March 8 – 11

Daily Hours: Thursday, 11am-2pm (VIP Preview); Thursday, 2pm - 7pm; Friday – Sunday, 11am - 7pm

Image: huber.huber, Im Garten der Lüste, 2012, collage, varnish on paper, 9.5 x 8 inches, Courtesy WIDMER + THEODORIS contemporary, Zurich (booth 2.14)

Venue: MAve Hotel, 62 Madison Avenue at 27th Street

Website: http://www.artnowfair.com/

Dates: March 8 – 11

Daily Hours: Thursday, 11am-10pm (opening reception 6pm-10pm); Friday – Saturday, 11am – 8pm; Sunday, 12pm – 6pm

Venue: Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street

Website: http://www.artdealers.org/artshow.html

Dates: March 7 - 11

Daily Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12pm - 8pm; Sunday 12pm – 5pm

Image:  Photo by Timothy Lee Photography

Fountain

Venue: 69th Regiment Armory, 25th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues

Website: http://www.fountainartfair.com/

Dates: March 9 - 11

Daily Hours: Friday, 12pm-5pm (VIP/Press preview); Saturday, 12pm – 7pm; Sunday, 5pm – 7pm

Venue: 548 W 22nd Street, New York, NY 10011

Website: http://www.independentnewyork.com/

Dates: March 8-11

Daily Hours: Thursday, 4pm-9pm; Friday, 11am-8pm; Saturday, 11am-8pm; Sunday 11am-4pm

 Image: B. Wurtz, Untitled, 2009
Courtesy Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin/Ljubljana.

Venue: Waterfront New York Tunnel, 11th Avenue between 27th Street and 28th Street

Website: http://www.moving-image.info/

Dates: March 8 - 11

Daily Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11am-8pm; Sunday, 11am – 4pm

Image: Zhao Zhao (b. 1982), “I cannot Sleep Sadly by Your Side,” 2012, Single channel video, 15:00 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Chambers Fine Art, New York / Beijing.

Venue: hpgrp Gallery NY, 529 West 20th Street #2W

Website: http://www.newcityartfair.com/

Dates: March 7 -11

Daily Hours: Wednesday, 11am-6pm; Thursday, 11am-9pm (opening reception 5pm – 9pm); Friday, 11am-7pm; Saturday, 11am-7pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm

Image: Shusuke Ao / eitoeiko

Venue: Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street

Website: http://www.poolartfair.com/

Dates: March 9, 10 & 11, 2012

Daily Hours: 2pm-10pm

Venue: The Old School, 233 Mott Street, New York City 10012

Website: http://www.springbreakartshow.com/

Dates: March 8-11 2012

Daily Hours:12-9pm

 Image: TOM SMITH, Untitled, 2013, Curated by Gabriela Alva

Image Above: Gagliardi Art System | Acquisto | Strings | 2012

Venue: 57th St & 12th Avenue (West Side Highway)

Website: http://www.scope-art.com/

Dates: March 7-11

Daily Hours: Wednesday, 3pm-9pm (FirstView); Thursday - Saturday, 11am-8pm; Sunday 11am-7pm

159 Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village
May 9 - May 12, 2013

PUBLIC HOURS
Friday & Saturday, 10 - 11 May, Noon to 8 pm
Sunday, 12 May, Noon to 6 pm
Thursday, 9 May, 2013, 6:00 pm to 10pm

 

Image: Jordi Williams, "Artificial Plantlet Array," 2011.

 

Website: http://www.vergeartfair.com/vergenyc/vergenycmain.html

David S. Allee: Closing Brunch Saturday, Feb. 16th

Room, 2013, Edition of 2, Chromogenic Print, 56h x 84w in Join DAVID S. ALLEE on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 10AM-1PM for a closing brunch in celebration of his third solo exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery, FRAME OF VIEW, recently featured in The New Yorker and New York Magazine. In Frame of View, Allee continues to explore the common theme of shifting perceptions of reality in the current digital age of photography. By focusing his lens primarily on the window frame, Allee transforms three-dimensional views, such as a city skyline or an overgrown garden, into the illusion of a two-dimensional picture plane, emphasizing how we increasingly view the world through the frame of a flat surface or screen. Taking inspiration from illusionist and tromp l'oeil paintings, Allee challenges the view to reconsider what is in front of them. Frame of View acknowledges the capacities of our current digital age and stops to consider the changing perception and definition of images, photography, reality and illusion.  View more of Frame of View here. Current Exhibitions: David S. Allee: Frame of View THE STUDY Project Space: David Fertig January 17 - February 16, 2013    Upcoming Exhibitions: Kysa Johnson: Empire Loop THE STUDY Project Space: Firelei Baez February 21 - March 23, 2013 The Armory Show: Kysa Johnson March 7 - 10, 2013 Booth 532 | Pier 94 | New York City   535 West 22nd Street New York, NY 10011 email: art@morganlehmangallery.com phone: 212.268.6699 fax: 212.268.6766 web: morganlehmangallery.com