Culture

Don’t pay retail at Armory! Get thee to Apex Art today to check out the Eric Doeringer Cattalan-inspired installation, and buy some of his bootlegs afterward.

!!! ONE DAY ONLY !!!

Saturday, March 12
1-7 PM (reception from 5-7)

In the main gallery, Maurizio Cattelan, an
installation by Eric Doeringer

In the back room, Eric Doeringer’s Bootlegs

This will be the largest exhibition to date of Eric
Doeringer’s Bootlegs!!!

Works inspired by Currin, Peyton, Hirst, Koons,
Schnabel, Richter, Sillman, Reed, Rauch, Katz,
Yuskavage, Tomaselli, Clemente, Close, Ruscha,
Saville, Ofili, Prince, Wool, Halley, Nara, Ali,
Essenhigh, Ritchie, Kawara, Bochner, Durant, Blake,
Barney, Brown, Artschwager, Arcangel, Owens, Friedman,
Sherman, Muniz, Pettibon, Emin, Schutz, McGee,
McCollum, and much more at low, low prices!!!

Shop the Armory Show, then shop Eric Doeringer and
save!!!

Astrid Bowlby installation (Gallery Joe)

Too tired to post much, but the galleries that made the biggest impression on me were:

• Black & White – Julian Montague and Kim Bennett
• 31 Grand – the whole thing, but especially John Copeland, Tom Sanford, and Michael Cambre
• Andrew Edlin – “outsider” art of great interest, especially Tom Duncan
• Samson Projects
• Gallery Joe

That’s certainly not the whole list, and Gae Savannah’s work at Curcio Projects and the entire room of Stephanie Theodore should not be missed either. Overall I think it’s the strongest Scope I’ve seen.

The list of presenters is here.

P.S. The elevator situation at the hotel for Scope is awful. Be prepared and don’t plan to leave on short notice.

P.P.S. That’s not my best photo above, but I think it gives you an idea of the work. I love the fact that the artist also does good black and white abstract drawings, and that visitors to the room didn’t believe those were by the same artist as the bed installation.

My shoes on Logo no. 16 (2005) by Richard Woods at Kenny Schachter

An impressionistic account of our first Armory Show day follows. My emphasis is on artists I hadn’t seen before, with occasional lapses if amused by someone whose work I already know.

I agree with James that, so far, I have found the Armory more interesting than last year. There is a bigger variety of non-blue chip artists. Last year there were a lot of works by Gerhard Richter, for example. I didn’t see one so far.

The best thing about having a press pass (other than getting into the press preview and not having to pay to come back): Choire Sicha’s face when he saw us at the press conference.

Some images:

Untitled, 2005
Gelatin
Glass, teddy bear, oil
(Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin)

Susan Turcot is a French Canadian artist with something in common with our friend Joy Garnett. She creates works inspired by images in the media, but not directly from such images.

Susan Turcot, drawing from Ghost Series
(Arndt & Partner)

One of my favorite discoveries was the work of Andreas Siekmann from the Berlin-based Galerie Barbara Weiss, a mix of excellent drawing and political content. He had a show at the gallery titled The Exclusive. On the Politics of the Excluded Fourth. The fourth refers to a fourth branch of government, in addition to executive, legislative, and judicial. “Exclusive” is a play on words. To us it means an elite of some kind, but in his case he means those excluded from regular political access, such as the very poor and immigrants.

Die Exclusive auf dem Plattenspieler, 2004 [The Exclusive on a record player]
Andreas Siekmann
Model on a record player, wood, plastic, paper
45 × 35 × 190cm

Andreas Siekmann
Rote Zone (Die Exclusive), 2005 [Red Zone (The Exclusive)]
Four color print on alufoam
167 × 102 cm

Andreas Siekmann
[This is from The Exclusive series, but I don’t have any more information on it]

The Hamurg-based Galerie Karin Guenther Nina Borgmann had two artists whose work intrigued me. I apologize for only having their names, but here are two images:

Ellen Gronemeyer, oil on paper

Gunter Reski

More to follow, from Armory, Scope and DIVA.

See also the post by James about today.

For details on Armory, Scope, DiVA, Art Rock, etc., check out this artnet.com page.

Armory update: Regarding press access, James talked to their PR firm and all seems OK now.

Remy Toledo Gallery is hosting a moderately-priced art benefit for Queer Dharma featuring a lot of emerging artists on Wednesday, March 10th, 6-8PM. The web page has more details.

I don’t think we’ll get to it, but it sounds like a good thing to attend. This week is crazy…

Yeah for Clementine Gallery! After being rejected by The Armory Show, they took matters into their own hands and ended up with a contemporary show at the Rockefeller Center Plaza called Art Rock. It started today, and runs through March 14. Some snapshots:

Rob Fischer’s glass & metal house (Mary Goldman Gallery)

Example of lounges at either end, designed by Todd Oldham. Note the more attractive use of orange than we got from The Gates.

Ivan Navarro (Roebling Hall)

Neutral white flags put up by Tishman Speyer (owners of Rockefeller Center) for the duration of Art Rock

Taylor McKimens has a wonderful paper house installation. It was impossible to photograph, at least for me, so I’m showing you a detail of his little grass edge in the room. His installation is outstanding.

Also, the Richard Aldrich show presented by Oliver Kamm/5BE is really good. I just couldn’t get a good photo, otherwise I would have one here as well. The same goes for the excellent photography of South African Trevor Appleson presented by the London-based Hales Gallery.

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We can relate to being rejected by the Armory Show. Scope gave us a press invite, but we were cc-ed on a mass rejection letter with grammatical problems from an Armory press person. I guess bloggers don’t count, when they can reserve space for magazines that will print articles a couple of months after the Armory Show is over.

Spotted in my subway station.

We watched Hi, Mom (1970) by Brian De Palma, with Robert De Niro, tonight. My reaction to the Be Black Baby theater segment was “Wow! This tops anything I saw by Reza Abdoh!”

There is a lot going on March 9, including the latest Second Wednesday downtown. I doubt we will make it, as we have an artist coming by to show us his work, but I would definitely hit several shows if we could, including Michael Zansky at Gigantic Art Space and a Rick Prol-curated show of East Village work from the 80s at Hal Bromm. We ran into Rick yesterday at MoMA while viewing the UBS show.

[That last sentence was an hommage of course.]

I have been intrigued by her work when I see it, but I would like to read some more about her and her work. Is this Phaidon book the way to go, or is there something better to read?