Curator extraordinaire Renee Riccardo has put up a page on Artnet with images of artists within her purview, including Michelle Weinberg and Fritz Chesnut (just to name two artists whose work we have).

Speaking of Michelle Weinberg, I love this 2004 work from her web site:

Perfect Intersection, 2004
132” × 90”

Updated: Also, for those in Miami, Michelle’s collaborative project IPO is in performance this week.

Sorry I haven’t posted much. I’m working and feeling a bit under the weather after all of the art excitement last weekend. To tide you over, here is a book recommendation. It’s one of our favorite books to give as a gift (particularly to visitors from other countries), and it’s on sale at Amazon and elsewhere for a very good price right now.

We saw some good stuff today (now yesterday) at Eric Doeringer’s one-day show at Apex Art.

We went to the DiVA Art Fair today, and it was definitely the most pleasant experience of all of my art-going this weekend. It’s at the Embassy Suites downtown on two floors, with a big atrium, so there is a nice feeling of openness and light as one wanders from room to room. I think it’s also a result of the pace of viewing video works. It’s harder to just run from space to space. One spends a minute or two seeing if a work is interesting, and then staying longer if it seems to be. Having plenty of chances to sit and look at work in dimmed lighting is a welcome change from the Armory and Scope experience. I found it intereresting that the majority of the galleries are from foreign countries. Also, an art fair featuring time-based work that gives out tickets that allow one to return on following days is a great idea.

My top picks, in somewhat random order:

• All of the video work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Paris-based Yukiko Kawase – quirky, funny, and brilliant work by a 20-year-old(!) artist

• Jill Miller’s I am making art too at Galerie Anne Barrault. The artist received permission (described as “enthusiastic” in the press release) from John Baldessari to create a new work based on his 1971 performance video titled I am making art. The resulting video, mixing her performance with that of Baldessari, all set to Missy Elliot’s Work It is both funny and brilliant.

• Patrick Jolley’s Here After (2004) at Prato-based Nicola Fornello. Yes, that’s edgy video work from a gallery in a town outside of Florence. Can you imagine such a thing in Westchester? We last saw Jolley’s work when we saw Burn in a group show at the Chelsea Art Museum.

• Steffan Saffer, Susanne Weirich, and Christoph Draeger at Müller DeChiara

• Federico Solmi at Boreas — see James for more info on the artist

• Corinna Schnitt’s video Living a Beautiful Life at Galerie M+R Fricke. The artist interviewed adolescents about their idea of happiness and filmed this work about idealised lives at a luxury home in Beverly Hills.

• Robert Boyd’s Xanadu at LMAK Projects. We first saw it at White Box, and it gets better upon each viewing.

• Carina Diepens’s two videos at Marijke Schreurs

• Carolee Schneemann at Elga Wimmer

• Alexandre Castonguay’s interactive video-based works and Marc Audette’s amazing video installation involving projections on curved photo screens in the back at Montreal-based Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain.

• Eva Koch’s NoMad at Galería Magda Bellotti

Some more quick notes, before I head out to the DIVA fair and Apex Art:

Two of the best overall gallery booths I visited were Alison Jacques from London — including Dean Sameshima, Jon Pylypchuk, and a wall of Mapplethorpes selected by David Hockney — and Dallas-based Angstrom Gallery with a cool video/sound/movement sculpture by Jeff Shore and John Fisher, plus work by Kevin Landers, Ann Craven, Paul P. (including his first prints!), and outsourced-to-China editioned paintings by Ludwig Schwarz.

Oh, and someone needs to buy me the Mary Heilman paintings at Kenny Schachter.

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.