Bridge New York

From Pulse, we made our way to our last stop, Bridge New York. Our first stop was New York-based Susan Eley Fine Art:

We enjoyed a couple sets of paintings by Japanese artist, Kentaro Hiramatsu (above and below):

A couple mixed media pieces by Tracy Silva Barbosa (below) also caught my attention:

Another piece by Barbosa (below):

Finally, we paused at a set of encaustic pieces by California-based artist Amber George:

I next stopped into New York's Collective Gallery:

I enjoyed digital prints by Gary St. Clare (above) and photography by Frank August (below):

The only San Francisco gallery that I found at Bridge was Toomey Tourell, which was exclusively featuring works by Igor Josifov:

The burned image portraits above are based on photographs taken by the artist over several trips. However, the primary display was a performance piece where the artist had a line tattooed across his scalp (video is below top):

The line signified the separation of the two halves of the brain, which killed a friend of the artist after she suffered a tragic bicycling accident. Portraits of the victim, Renata, wrapped around the booth (above), while an illuminated cast of her face gazed up from the floor (below):

Finally, we stopped at Mexico City's Ginocchio Galeria:

There, we enjoyed paintings by Hugo Lugo (above and below) that were done on paper made to look like pages from a giant notebook:

That wraps up our coverage of this year's New York Contemporary Art Fairs. Check out the Arteaser Calendar to see local shows and events featuring artists that have been interviewed by artists interviewed on Arteaser.

Pulse New York 2009

After the Armory Show (and some much needed sustenance) we headed down to Pier 40 for Pulse New York. In terms of tracking down San Francisco galleries participating in the shows in New York, I hit the jackpot. 

Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions was showing several local Bay Area artists, including Brion Nuda Rosch (above) and Clare Rojas (below):

Work by Chris Duncan (below) was also on display:

My personal heritage obliged me to stop at the Lena & Roselli Gallery booth, apparently the only Hungarian gallery at New Yorks contemporary art fairs:

The gallery was featuring Hungarian artists Istvan Nadler (above) and Laszlo Lakner (below):

This piece by Jamie Vasta (below) was at the booth of San Francisco's Patricia Sweetow Gallery:

The gallery was featuring a number of works by David Huffman, including this large piece (below):

David Huffman also had a glittery piece (below):

Next, I stopped by San Francisco's Rena Bransten Gallery, where I enjoyed this piece by  Vic Muniz (below):

The gallery also featured a colorful photographic series by Uta Barth (below):

I paused at a series of eerie works by CCAC grad, Marci Washington (below):

My next stop was Marx & Zavattero, also of San Francisco:

The gallery was showing works by David Hevel exclusively: 

The show, called "How Deep Is Your Love," included over a dozen adorned porcelain monkey statues (above and below):

Finally, San Francisco's Catherine Clark Gallery featured several artists. The installation piece below required the viewer to step on a platform to prompt the video and music over headphones:

Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet had an intriguing piece using airport imagery: 

A detail of their piece, "The 99 Names of God (SFO)", is below:

On a similarly Middle Eastern inspired theme, the gallery was showing a peice by Al Farrow built using bullets and artillery shells (below):

I enjoyed Christoph Draeger's 8000 piece puzzle (below):

The gallery was also showing work by Chester Arnold (below):

One final chapter in the New York Contemporary Art Fair series remains: Bridge...

The Armory Show New York

Welcome back for another installment of my Spring 2009 Art Fair review! From Scope, where San Francisco art dealer Andrei Rozanoff eventually joined our troupe, we headed over to Pier 94 for The Armory Show contemporary fair was being held. I only saw one San Francisco gallery, Ratio 3, which was showing several artists, including Ruth Laskey (below):

Photography by New York artist Ryan McGinley (below) were also on display:

Recent SFMOMA SECA award winner Jordan Kantor (below) also had works showing with Ratio 3:

Santa Monica-based Angles Gallery had a couple dramatic works by Israeli artist Ori Gersht (below):

I also enjoyed this piece by Tom LaDuke (below) in Angles booth:

Kukje Gallery from Seoul had an installation that was hard to ignore. No really, I feel the same way:

We paused again at Berlin's Gallerie Mehdi Chouakri:

The gallery was featuring several glittery works by Swiss artist, John Armleder (above and below):

This postcard-sized piece by Andrea Bowers (below) was easy to miss, but timely indeed: 

I enjoyed this set of Egon Schiele-esque works by Hope Gangloff (below) at New York's Susan Inglett Gallery:

Sharon and I took a long pause at Vienna's Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie to take in works by Drago Persic (below):

Stay tuned for more coverage of last weekend's NY art fairs! Next: Pulse. Tha-thud. Tha-thud.

Scope New York

I spent this Saturday visiting several art fairs going on in New York City with my dear friend Rex and Sharon Reaves of San Francisco's Reaves Gallery:

Our first stop was Scope NY at the Lincoln Center, where over 40 galleries held booths. There we found San Francisco's Shooting Gallery:

In addition to works by Greg Gossel (above) was a large piece of assembled homeless signs by EriK Foss:

Works by Ron English (below) were also am display with the Shooting Gallery. We also had a chance to meet Libby Nicholaou (below, far right):

Also representing San Francisco at Scope was Lincart:

The gallery featured work by Charles Linder (below left), among others:

Several works by Jeff McMillan were also on display (below):

Graham Gillmore also had several works selected for the Lincart booth:

The Costa Rican-based Jacob Karpio Galeria had some intriguing works by New York artist Jordan Eagles, who uses blood as one of his materials:

NY-based dFAULKEN was present with five artists:

Karim Hamid (above and below right) had several pieces on display:

Also with dFAULKEN was painter Sara Carter (above left):

From Miami was the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, which featured works by five artists, including Anne Brunet (below):

I enjoyed a matchbox book by Julie Lopez (below). The drawing portrays the artist's route home:

From Madrid was Galeria Fernando Pradilla:

Dominating Fernando Pradilla were several works by Juan Francisco Caras (above and below):

Casas uses bic blue pens to create his photo-realistic portraits on paper:

Munich-based Galerie Andreas Binder featured five artists in its booth:

Among the works at Andreas Binder were paintings by Matthias Meyer (above) and works by Tina Berning (below):

Jonathan LeVine Gallery from New York featured Camille Rose Garcia (below) exclusively:

Hamburg-based Heliumcowboy Artspace had a decidedly low-tech presence:

Bringing virtually no materials, artist Jon Burgerman (below center) was on-site creating original works with the help of "lab assistants", Jorg (right) and Ollie (left):

Stay tuned for more coverage of New York's art fairs!