Thursday, November 15, 2012

The Curator's Eye - Dealer In Focus & Sales Highlights: Michael Pashby







"Item-specific advertising
helps dealers find the right audience"
Dealer in Focus: Michael Pashby Antiques
The Curator’s Eye congratulates Michael Pashby of Michael Pashby Antiques on the recent sale of an important item of English furniture with distinguished provenance.

(CE) Thank you for sharing the good news with us. It is always thrilling to hear how CuratorsEye.com brings positive, visible impact to the trade. Could you give us some details?
(MP) On The Curator’s Eye, I exhibited a pair of exceptional George III chairs bearing the coat of arms of a distinguished European family. A direct descendant of the person who had originally commissioned the chairs came across the site while he was researching into the family's history. CuratorsEye.com then pointed him my way and we began a conversation.
I maintain my own robust gallery website, but CuratorsEye.com supports every work of art exhibited on it with item-specific, keyword-driven advertising across the web. This helps buyers find what they are looking for and dealers find the right audience for their offerings, and even made my recent sale of English chairs possible.
(CE) Our work focuses solely on making introductions between dealers and collectors. We leave the rest in our member dealers' knowledgeable hands. We firmly believe no amount of technological savvy can replace the depth of expertise our dealers have in art and antiques. What do you think about the way dealers can use technology to supplement their practices?
(MP) It is good to have a venue such as CuratorsEye.com that does justice to quality inventory. I specialize in works from the mid 17th century to the late 19th century and always have an extensive stock of Georgian and Regency period furniture, particularly documented and signed examples from the famous maker Gillows of Lancaster. I am happy that The Curator's Eye has been very selective about who to partner with. Members of the trade who offer historically important, signed pieces by known, well-researched artists, and of important provenance, are more likely to benefit from what CuratorsEye.com does. And as a result it resonates with collector-connoisseurs who are in search of such pieces. 



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Armory Focus: USA to be Curated by Eric Shiner, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum


Eric Shiner, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Appointed Curator of
Armory Focus: USA
In Celebration of the Centennial of the 1913 Armory Show, The Fourth Edition of Armory Focus Will Exhibit the Achievements of Contemporary Art in America
NEW YORK - Armory Focus, the curated section of The Armory Show, highlights the gallery and artistic landscape of a chosen geographic region. As part of this year’s reflection on the arrival of the avant-garde in America, Eric Shiner, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, will curate Armory Focus: USA, presenting a broad snapshot of the country’s contemporary cultural practice. The Armory Show’s 2013 program will celebrate the centennial of the original Armory Show of 1913, a groundbreaking exhibition credited with bringing modernism to America.
As American artists, galleries, and institutions continue to grapple with and re-position modes of self-reflection, Armory Focus: USA will examine the forefront of artistic practice—the core of our inherited legacy stretching back to the 1913 Armory Show—by showcasing contemporary responses to integral questions of artistic production in the United States. In recognition of our country’s extraordinarily diverse cultural output, we will offer a select group of galleries from across America the opportunity to present their unique programming, providing a forum for an ever-expanding national conversation at the fair.
In light of his appointment, Eric Shiner notes, “I am most excited to curate the 2013 Armory Show Focus section and to gauge the pulse of contemporary art production in America today.  A celebration of the first Armory Show in 1913—an event that ushered in the avant-garde to this country—next year’s fair will stand as a testament to the fact that the avant-garde took root here and prospered, just as it will highlight the very best artists and artworks available today.  Although it will certainly be challenging to give a barometer of what contemporary art from America has become, I hope to put together a witty and far-sweeping Focus section that makes visitors stop and think about America, art, and ultimately their place within it.”
Michael Hall, Creative Director of The Armory Show, says, “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Eric Shiner, whose curatorial insights will craft an exceptional take on the visual culture flourishing in our own back yard. At the helm of a cutting-edge institution in the heart of America, Eric was the perfect choice to lead this section, defining the new avant-garde of the early twenty-first century.”
Noah Horowitz, Executive Director of The Armory Show, states, “America has always been a country defined by its attraction to the frontier, and a century after the original Armory Show gave American artists license to break conclusively with the past, that frontier is increasingly being explored through art that addresses the most complex issues of our time, from the pervasive influence of technology on modern life to the atomizing force of globalization. In Armory Focus: USA, we are proud to survey this artistic vanguard through the lens of our distinguished curator, Eric Shiner.”
In addition to Armory programming that will take place leading up to and during the fair, several of our cultural partners will host exhibitions relating to the 1913 Armory and the development of modernism. During the fair, the Museum of Modern Art will present Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925 (December 23, 2012–April 15, 2013); the Metropolitan Museum of Art will exhibit African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde (November 27, 2012–April 14, 2013), displaying African artifacts acquired by New York’s artistic community during the 1910s and 1920s; and the Montclair Art Museumwill show The New Spirit:  American Art in the Armory Show, 1913 (February 17–June 16, 2013). The New-York Historical Society, meanwhile, will host The Armory Show at 100, featuring such canonical works as Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, first viewed on American soil at The Armory Show of 1913. The exhibition will open in October 2013.
About the Armory Focus Curator
Eric C. Shiner 
is the Director of The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. Shiner has organized and curated three major exhibitions since his appointment to Director in 2011, including: Factory Direct: Pittsburgh, an exhibition showcasing the artwork of 14 established contemporary artists invited to conduct artist residencies in Pittsburgh-based factories; Deborah Kass: Before and Happily Ever After, a major mid-career retrospective of paintings and sculpture by the New York artist; and the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial, an exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum dedicated to artists whose work aims at transgressing boundaries and engendering transformative change in a nod to Gertrude Stein and her life’s work. Shiner is committed to positioning The Andy Warhol Museum as the epicenter of Andy Warhol’s legacy, as well as a global contemporary art destination. He is an active writer and translator, a contributing editor forArtAsiaPacific magazine, and an adjunct professor of art history at The University of Pittsburgh. He received a Bachelor of Philosophy in The History of Art & Architecture and Japanese Language & Literature from The University of Pittsburgh’s Honors College in 1994, an M.A. in The History of Art from Osaka University in 2001, and another M.A. in The History of Art from Yale in 2003.  He joined The Andy Warhol Museum as The Milton Fine Curator of Art in 2008.

About The Andy Warhol Museum
Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the place of Andy Warhol's birth, The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the most comprehensive single-artist museums in the world. The Andy Warhol Museum is one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.  Additional information about The Warhol is available at www.warhol.org.

The History of Armory Focus
Armory Focus was initiated in 2010 to highlight the contemporary gallery and artistic landscape from a specific geographic region. This unique section of the fair has quickly become one of the defining features of The Armory Show, presenting a survey of a region’s contemporary cultural practices as framed by a singular curatorial vision.

Armory Focus booths are located in a dedicated section adjacent to the entrance of Pier 94 and associated projects will be presented throughout the fair. Talks and lectures will also be organized around topics pertinent to Armory Focus: USA as part of The Armory Show’s popular Open Forum program of panels.
Armory Focus 2012: Nordic Countries featured the following galleries: Galerie Anhava, Helsinki; Martin Asbæk Gallery, Copenhagen; Beaver Projects, Copenhagen; Gallery Niklas Belenius, Stockholm; Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen; Crystal, Stockholm; D.O.R., Oslo;  Dortmund Bodega, Oslo; ELASTIC, Malmö; Fruit & Flower Deli, Stockholm;  i8, Reykjavik; IMO; Copenhagen; Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm; Christian Larsen, Stockholm; NOPlace, Oslo; Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen; David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen; Galleri Christian Torp, Oslo; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen. 
Armory Focus 2011: Latin America featured the following galleries: A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Isabel Aninat, Santiago; Arroniz, Baro Gallery, Mexico City; Caja Blanca, Mexico City; Casa Triângulo, São Paulo; Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá; Lucia De La Puente, Lima; Faría Fábregas Galería, Caracas; Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Galeria Leme, São Paulo; Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires; Galeria Laura Marsiaj, São Paulo; Mendes Wood, São Paulo; Nueveochenta, Bogotá; Revolver Galeria, Lima; Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo and Vermelho, São Paulo.
Armory Focus 2010: Berlin featured the following galleries: Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Buchmann Galerie, carlier|gebauer, COMA, Galerie Crone, Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender, Johnen Gallery, KLEMM'S, Johann König, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Loock Galerie, Christian Nagel, Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Produzentengalerie: ph-projects, Reception, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Esther Schipper, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Wentrup, Galerie Barbara Wien.
2013 Fair Show Dates 
March 7-10, 2013
Piers 92 & 94
Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street
New York City

Opening Hours
Wednesday, March 6th – VIP Preview for invited guests
Thursday, March 7 - Sunday, March 10, noon to 7 p.m.

Press Contact
Allison Rodman
Communications Manager
The Armory Show
(646) 616-7433
a.rodman@thearmoryshow.com
www.thearmoryshow.com
The Armory Show
7 West 34th Street, Suite 1027
New York, NY 10001

FACTOR 41N-9W: Riad Miah & Luis Nobre


Riad Miah was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and lives and works in New York, NY. Luis Nobre was born, lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Both artists have been colleagues since 2001.

In this show, the Portuguese artist Luis Nobre and the American artist Riad Miah explore ideas of nature, materiality, color and memory. Each is interested in process, in painting and drawing as acts of commemoration and creation; each is also interested in the overlapping of individuals and groups, of one-offs and series. For both, process is often paramount: Nobre gathers inspiration for weeks, until the point at which inspiration gleaned from multiple sources  demands concretization. In a similar vein, Miah draws from both nature and culture- from biology, astronomy, art history- to create work that simultaneoulsly embraces the microscopic and the macrocosmic. Nobre and Miah here present new work in which form and content teach one another, often in surprising and innovative ways. Above all, the imperative to please aesthetically comes to the fore, with play and chance collaborating.

The exhibition presents the two artists’ works on both floors of the gallery. On the main floor of the gallery Nobre will present works that incorporates a distorted geometric pattern that is an Arabic decoration seen in the streets of Lisbon. The motif breaks the flat organized structure by creating an illusion of a form that is simultaneously flat and 3-dimensional.

Miah’s work consists of an installation of 20 hexagonal canvases. The color sequence of the 20 canvases is based on the Fibonacci system. The color of each canvas is based on the numbers in Fibonacci’s sequence, using violet=1, red=1, orange=2, yellow=3, green=5, blue=8. Violet starts the system even though it is often the last color within the R,O,Y,G,B,V color wheel.  Through this mathematical process, organic-seeming images are created.  Aquatic, astronomical, biological, and pop culture imagery is suggested.

The works downstairs are by both artists, both working in an intuitive process, wherein each piece is free to develop in dialog with other pieces, without a superimposed system and without preconception.

Riad Miah holds a B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts and an M.F.A from the Ohio State University. He is an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Vermont Studio Center. He is a recipient of a NYFA Fellowship in the category of Painting and previously a professor at Parsons The New School for Design. Miah’s work has been exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.

Luis Nobre is currently attending the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon where he will earn his PHD. He has participated in the International Residence Program at Location 1 in New York City, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Ilidio Pinho Foundation. His work has been exhibited on a national and international level.


FACTOR 41 N - 9 W: RIAD MIAH and LUIS NOBRE 
ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC
OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 6 – 8PM
EXHIBITING FROM DECEMBER 6 – JANUARY 6


For additional info please visit www.roostergallery.com

 
Alexander Slonevsky, Director                        Andre Escarameia, Curator
212.230.1370                                                    646.637.2097
alex@roostergallery.com                                andre@roostergallery.com

Sophia's Happy Thought - Parallax Art Fair


Sophia's Happy Thought


PARALLAX ART FAIR

booth # G26
International Artist Fair
http://parallaxartfair.eventbrite.co.uk
*get FREE 2 days pass above link!
@Prince George
15 East 27th Street  
New York, NY 10016


11/16/2012 (Fri) 7-9pm private view (invitation only)
11/17/2012 (Sat) 11-5pm public
11/18/2012 (Sun) 11-5pm
public


P(AF) NYC will be held at New York’s Premier Event Venue, Prince GeorgeIt is a direct art-to-consumer experience that makes a uniquely refreshing conceptual statement about subjectivity and the commoditization of taste. It offers an intellectual framework where visitors can dare to be themselves for a change.  
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On going show
14th Annual International Jurored Exhibition
Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.

@ New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368

http://www.nysci.org/visit/1428642/directions
For this exhibition we sought original art inspired by our biological world with a speial interest in what lies beneath its surface, and/or reflects upon scientific research questions, processes, ethics, and the stunning discoveries being made today. We asked; "What vital signs of life pull at your inquisitive mind and imagination?"

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Invitation : Le mois de la photo à la Galerie L'Oeil du Prince (Invitation: The Month of Photography at Gallery Eye of the Prince)


Jeudi 15 novembre de 19H00 à 22H00
Dans le cadre du mois de la photo à Paris, la galerie L’Oeil du Prince
a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage de l’exposition de groupe de :

Thursday, November 15th from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Within the Month of Photography in Paris, the gallery The Prince O eil
is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition group:

Sylvain Demange
Fabrice Deutscher
Yannick Toral

Hv

Christine Mathieu

Yann Deshoulières

Galerie L’Oeil du Prince
30 rue Cardinet
75017 Paris
Métro Wagram ou Monceau
01.42.26.50.49
Yann & Laetitia Deshoulières
mardi au samedi 11H - 19H30
dimanche 15H00 - 19H00



Gallery The Prince O eil
30 rue Cardinet
75017 Paris
Monceau Wagram Metro or
01.42.26.50.49
Yann & Laetitia Deshoulières
Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 7:30 p.m.
Sunday 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Call to Artists - Marion Arts Festival


Marion Arts Festival 2013   
    
 Call to Artists

Click HERE to Watch a Video About This Festival!

WHAT: One of the nation's top one-day fine arts and fine crafts festivals
   
WHERE: Marion, Iowa (Cedar Rapids Metro)

WHEN: Saturday
           May 18, 2013 
           9 a.m. -  5 p.m.

NOTEWORTHY: 

*21st Annual Event. 

*Limited to 50 artists. 

*Estimated attendance: 18,000. 

*Jury/Booth Fees ($25/$225). 

*Named among the Top 25 festivals for 2012 by Art Fair Source Book. 

*Cash awards totaling $2,500. 

*Friday set-up. 

*Artist amenities include: artist's reception; convenient, free parking; overnight security; booth sitters and "energetic volunteers". 

*Extensive event marketing, including posters, billboards, newspaper, TV, radio and full-color program distributed to 80,000 area households.

Marion, Iowa, is a "vintage uptown" type of community, and a part of the Cedar Rapids 
metro area. Our show is regional, one-day, intimate and purposeful, with the mission 
to be an event through which you will thrive. (Here, we're obligated to insert that 
we're volunteer-driven, admittedly hokey and maybe a more than a little mom-and-pop). 
There are no bands, there is no beer...our festival is about the art (we do, however, 
cop to felafel). 

We're one of the most artist-profitable festivals in he country! The Art Fair 
Source Book named the Marion Arts Festival among the Top 25 events in the nation
for 2012 (#17 in fine art; #24 in fine craft).


NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS:  

Deadline:  
January 15, 2013 
Application througwww.zapplication.org

Notification: 
February 19, 2012, via email 

For more details, please visit: www.marionartsfestival.com 

Email inquiries to: 

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