Andrew Valli

ARTmostfierce forgot to mention the work of this talented artist during the Pool Fair in NYC. Andrew Valli captures the essence of the American landscape in a realistic and stylish manner. His photographs have a reminiscent effect of Richard Prince photos except that Andrew's images are his own creation and not like Prince's appropriation of pop culture western (Marlboro cigarette) ads. There is also an Ansel Adams influence as well when it comes to the landscape images.

For me living in a concrete jungle like NYC, it is rather refreshing to find nature, western outdoors , landscape and rural life represented in photos with such refinement. One of my favorite images is the first one in which Andrew told me himself that he was in some wooded area in 2003 and stumbled upon this sign that said ''Where is Osama?'' . This is the question that most of us are still asking today. I thought it was brilliant to capture such a haunting image and message in one photo all together from a remote place in America. His prices are very affordable and the body of work may I suggest, quite collectable! Keep an eye on him.

Please find below a small bio and personal statement plus a link to his website!

Another ARTmostfierce find...enjoy!

Born in Wisconsin and raised outside of Chicago,
Andrew Valli's In-Dependence photographic series
captures stolen moments from Americana, in humor and
in darkness. Shot over many years, states, and odd
jobs, the series is still developing.

"I like photographs for the stories they tell and the
truths they can convey. Photography is like visual
music. I can remember the time, place and smell even,
from a photograph I have taken. I am a searcher, and
as any good photographer is I believe, a voyeur. I
like to shoot what we all see, but what we never take
the time to see."

“Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an
art.” – Oscar Wilde

http://www.andrewvalli.com/

Keith Haring Wanna Be's?

May 04, 2008 — December 31, 2008
Houston Street and Bowery

The Keith Haring Foundation, Goldman Properties and Deitch Projects announce the recreation of Keith Haring’s celebrated Houston Street and Bowery mural. The mural became an instant downtown landmark after Keith painted it in the summer of 1982. The mural was up for only a few months in the summer of 1982 before it was painted out but its image remains imprinted in the memory of many people who were part of the downtown artist community in the early 1980s.

The mural is being repainted by Gotham Scenic using the extensive photographic documentation of the original work. The work will be unveiled on May 4, 2008 the day that would have been Keith Haring’s 50th Birthday.

ARTmostfierce thinks ...very touching about the birthday and recognition aspect but...see below!

The Mural titled Crack is Whack over 135 th Street in (Harlem)Upper Manhattan was just recently restored without any fanfare. No gallery or organization was ever involved.This once again proves that most NY institutions, organizations and the art establishments ignores anything happening above 96st. including out current Mayor. Can we say Congestion Pricing above 96st?
Hell, No!
Let me hear your thoughts about it!
What do you think?
Time to rant?

Go 4 it

Jeff Koons @ The Met Roof

A balloon dog. A chocolate heart wrapped in shiny red. A silhouette of Piglet from a “Winnie the Pooh” coloring book. These are the subjects of three glossily lacquered, stainless steel works — all previously unexhibited — by the Pop artist Jeff Koons now on view in the Cantor Roof Garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

ARTmostfierce is still recovering from the party!

More to talk about that later on!

In the meantime please enjoy the header photo courtesy of artist Pablo Colon (didn't even have the energy to post my own this week) and the NY Times article by Ken Johnson. The roof opens today and the weather today is going to be fantastic, so go and check out Jeff Koons iconic sculptural images.

By KEN JOHNSON
Published: April 22, 2008

With its breathtaking, panoramic views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline, the Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art may strike you as an excellent place to mount a seasonal outdoor sculpture show, which it does every year. In truth, it is an inhospitable site for sculpture, as demonstrated by the 2008 display that opens on Tuesday: three wonderful, previously unexhibited works by the celebrated Pop artist Jeff Koons. Each of these sculptures is a greatly enlarged, glossily lacquered, stainless-steel representation of something small: a toy dog made of twisted-together balloons; a chocolate valentine heart wrapped in red foil, standing en pointe; and a silhouette of Piglet from a “Winnie the Pooh” coloring book, randomly colored as if by a small child.


They are mischievously meaningful works. With its pneumatic, sausagelike parts, “Balloon Dog (Yellow)” is a sly Trojan Horse: it seems innocent but is loaded with aesthetic and erotic perversity. “Sacred Heart (Red/Gold)” acidly comments on the commercial debasement of emotional and religious experience. “Coloring Book” reflects the youth-obsessed infantilism of modern culture and society.

But placed on the architecturally nondescript patio, where there are also shaded areas for patrons of the Roof Garden Cafe, the sculptures too easily turn into benign, decorative accessories.

The biggest problem is scale. Seen in an indoor gallery, the elephantine, shiny metallic “Balloon Dog (Yellow),” which rises to 10 feet at its highest point, would have a weirdly imposing, slightly menacing presence. On the roof it appears dwarfed by the vast sky and by the open expanses of space to the south and west of the museum.

The intimacy of Mr. Koons’s sculpture is also diminished. Perfectionist attention to detail is one of his work’s most compelling aspects: note the exactingly formed knot that serves as the balloon dog’s nose, or the folds, pleats and stretch marks in the heart’s wrapper. The distracting outdoor environment, though, discourages careful, contemplative looking.

Because it is both the biggest and the simplest, the 18 ½-foot-tall “Coloring Book” is the least undermined by its environment. But it is also the least interesting formally, being little more than a flat, irregularly contoured slab whose colors are thin and watery.

Their setting aside, Mr. Koons’s sculptures remain intellectually and sensuously exciting objects — “Balloon Dog” is a masterpiece — and they are worth visiting under any circumstances.

“Jeff Koons on the Roof” is on view through Oct. 26 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; (212) 535-7710 or metmuseum.org.

Marilyn Minter Supreme Skateboards Decks

Can't afford a Marilyn Minter painting or photograph?

No? 

Well then you might try to hurry and go to Supreme to get the latest Skateboard Deck by the multi talented artist Marilyn Minter. Supreme has been for a while using the artist of the moment like Larry Clark, Richard Prince,Ryan McGinness etc..etc to use their most popular images on the skateboards. 

Three of the most popular glamorous  images of her work: The Shit Kicker heels , The Glitter Eye and the Lips With Pearls are available now for a cool $78.00 USD each. They don't take phone orders or hold it for you but, they do take American Express! 

Artist  Jeff Koons did his Monkey Train series last year (were only $64.00) and thanks to the Ebay flippers now they sell  as high as $1,400.00 each! Crazy right?

 ARTmostfierce loves the images so, got the set of three.Hurry !they will sell out fast and you will have nothing glamorous  to sell on Ebay or something cool to adorn in your house. How you decorate with them?... well I might have to charge you for that but, there is a way...go figure!

By the way the Ebay flippers already have them going for $300.00-$500.00 USD.See how fast it is? Go and get yours now!

www.supremenewyork.com

Gregory Crewdson @ Luhring Augustine

Photos courtesy of: Luhring Augustine Gallery and Ruben Natal-San Miguel



This show is a must see!

Gregory Crewdson is one of the most talented photographers of our time.His photos in my opinion are the closest you can achieve to resemble paintings.They have such an ethereal, sublime and reflective quality !

This is the last of his body of work series called Beneath The Roses.

The photographs were sponsored by Epson  America. Aperture Foundation has a wonderful online Photo documentary about Crewdson(see link below) in which you can take a peek behind the scenes, giving and idea of the vision , process and brilliance of how this masterpiece photographs are created. 

 The 15 photos in this show are all the same size and in an edition of 6 you can have one for a cool $75,000.00 each. Do the math! Most of the show was already sold out before it even opened (who said recession?).

In his latest body of work, made over the last three years, the artist continues his exploration of the fertile edges of the American vernacular. The photos are quite reminiscent of the paintings of the great Edward Hooper , which  the theme of voyeurism is expressed in a before and after situation.The viewer is seduced and left with its own conclusions. Its all about the moment of  and its consequences. There is a strong and latent sense of solitude, meditation and displacement. For some of us these are the kind of feelings and thoughts  experienced at times when  living or coming from small towns with no future to strive for. Also when  the environment and its surroundings turn into suffocation and anxiety (God knows I was one of those people).

 The photos also have a strong message as if when taking  action or  making decisions it may  have its consequences . Capturing that precise  moment of when that crucial and life changing decision is about to be made. 

In addition, published by Harry N. Abrams the book tilted Beneath The Roses was available for sale for $60.00. ARTmostfierce and his posse happen to be there when Gregory Crewdson was present at the gallery for a book signing. Not being the best kind of bookkeeper at home, even ARTmostfierce got his skinny butt (maybe not so skinny!) and bought the signed book. Crewdson was extremely polite and pleasant considering all the art fanatics and some vultures buying his book and looking at his art on the walls. It was quite a mob scene. 

Also I  had been noticing lately  (last week Ryan McGinley's opening show and this show)  that there is a very... very young generation of kids sometimes too young for college present at these shows looking seriously at the art and buying the books. Finally the... ME generation is looking around to others other than themselves. It was refreshing to observe their fascination and curiosity. I love when an artist work is so powerful that moves people in  large droves. It was a mob scene of the civilized kind.

                      

                                                                                          ARTmostfierce kept snooping around and also managed to obtain a poster of the show (great image) for $10.00 and got  Gregory Crewdson to sign it as well...sweet!

So after I salivated looking at these great photos  way out of my $$$ mula reach at least, I got to take home a signed book and poster. We are so fortunate to live here and be able to experience all these first hand.

I really think that even to  the most untrained eye will enjoy looking at this body of work.

It runs from April 5-May 3, 2008. Go and see it!

www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=66

www.aperture.org/crewdson/

Saturday's @ Phillips DePury

HAROLD EDGERTON
Densmore Shute Bends the Shaft, 1938Gelatin silver print. 10 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (25.7 x 26 cm). Signed, titled and numbered on verso. This work is from an edition of 60.


This Photo...Rocks!!!
Love it!

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Horse Silk (Night Sights Series), 1992Offset lithograph, dated 1993. 28 1/2 x 20 in. (72.4 x 50.8 cm). Signed, dated and numbered lower edge. This work is from an edition of 100.

PROVENANCE Aperture Foundation, New York

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
Merce Cunningham, 1994Gelatin silver print, printed 1997. 12 7/8 x 13 in. (32.7 x 33 cm). Signed and numbered lower edge. This work is from an edition of 100.

PROVENANCE Aperture Foundation, New York

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
Untitled (Head), 1983/2001Screenprint on paper. 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm). Signed, dated and stamped by the Estate on verso. Numbered lower edge. This work is from an edition of 85.

PROVENANCE DeSanctis Carr Fine Art, Los Angeles

Saturday's @ Phillips April 26, 2008

ARTmostfierce will be present at this auction. There some pieces in this lot that are in my collection so, it will be interesting to see their current market value . The lot is quite interesting ranging from jewelery , Clothing from the eighties , furniture, photography , some prints and believe it or not toys. Most of the auction starting prices in my opinion were extremely low but , I can see it as a good strategy to lure American buyers and get European more for their money.

Rumor has it that Marisol Delicious is the one dumping some of this pieces of her collection.

Girl...get ready for some serious cash$$$$. ARTmostfierce owns three of these pieces...go figure!

See some highlights from the auction and also click on the link below to see the entire lot.

Enjoy!

www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/online-catalog.aspx?sn=NY000108&search=&p=&order=

Chinese Art Continues to Soar!

Sotheby’s
A detail from Zhang Xiaogang’s “Bloodline: The Big Family No. 3.”


While ARTmostfierce continues event party planning, please enjoy this article by David Barbosa of the NY Times.
Got any Contemporary Chinese Art already?...lucky you! If you don't get on it!
Chinese Art Continues to Soar at Sotheby’s

By DAVID BARBOZA
Published: April 10, 2008
BEIJING — Sotheby’s sold $51.77 million worth of Chinese contemporary art in three auctions in Hong Kong on Wednesday, allaying concerns that the global economic slowdown would depress the prices.

Chinese Contemporary Art Auction The highlight of the day was the highly anticipated afternoon sale of more than 100 works from the Estella Collection, which Sotheby’s has called the largest and most important collection of Chinese contemporary art ever to come to auction.

That sale brought in nearly $18 million from aggressive bidders who crowded into a Hong Kong convention center and from others who called in bids.

The star of that auction was a 1995 painting by Zhang Xiaogang, one of China’s most prominent artists, which sold for just over $6 million, the highest price ever paid for a painting by a Chinese contemporary artist.

That oil on canvas, “Bloodline: Big Family No. 3,” depicts a family of three during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in China, when children were sometimes led to denounce their parents. Three collectors bid feverishly for the piece, which sold for far above its high estimate, about $3.4 million.

Sotheby’s identified the buyer, who bid by telephone, as a Taiwanese-born collector now living in the United States.

The price was a bit above the record set at Sotheby’s auction house last October, when a Yue Minjun painting called “Execution,” inspired by the 1989 crackdown on student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, sold for about $5.9 million.

Collectors also offered high bids on works by other well-known Chinese artists like Zeng Fanzhi, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ai Weiwei and Sui Jianguo.

The most sought-after artists are mostly in their 40s and 50s and came of age in the 1980s and early 1990s, when contemporary art was just beginning to blossom in China after broad economic and political changes. An installation and sketches based on Chinese characters by the artist Xu Bing sold for nearly $1 million. And “Two Wandering Tigers,” a gunpowder-on-paper work by Mr. Cai, sold for over $973,000.

In an equally ebullient evening session, a set of nine paintings by the realist painter Liu Xiaodong sold for $7.9 million.

The works, “Battlefield Realism: The 18 Arhats,” portray soldiers from Taiwan and China.

A colorful painting by Yue Minjun, known as a cynical realist artist for his toothy, delirious self-portraits, sold for $2.6 million.

The soaring prices of Chinese contemporary artists over the past few years has jolted the global auction market, setting off a building boom in arts districts in Beijing and Shanghai and turning many Chinese artists into multimillionaires.

Just a few years ago works by Mr. Zhang sold for less than $50,000. But last year Mr. Zhang, 50, was one of the hottest living artists in the global auction market, just behind Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter and ahead of Jeff Koons, according to the Artprice publication Art Market Trends 2007.

That report also said China surpassed France last year as the world’s third-biggest auction market, behind only the United States and Britain.

Among the biggest winners on Wednesday was Sotheby’s, which along with William Acquavella, the Manhattan dealer, had recently acquired the Estella Collection. It originally belonged to a small group of investors and collectors, including Sacha Lainovic, a director of Weight Watchers International, and Ray Debbane, the chief executive of the private-equity firm the Invus Group. The Manhattan art dealer Michael Goedhuis helped them amass the collection.

A few years ago Sotheby’s did not even hold auctions of Chinese contemporary art. But last year it sold nearly $200 million worth of Asian contemporary art, the bulk of it by Chinese artists.

Christie’s auction house has also benefited with record-breaking sales of Chinese contemporary art in recent years.

In September Sotheby’s plans to sell more works from the Estella Collection at a New York auction.

The $51.7 million raised over all on Wednesday was far above the auction house’s high estimate of $46 million, and about 90 percent of the works sold. The $18 million from the sale of the Estella Collection was far above a high estimate of $12 million.

Estimates did not include Sotheby’s commission and buyer’s premium, which are incorporated into the final prices.

Takashi Murakami at the Brooklyn Museum

Attention Shoppers, Bag Ladies and Label Whores!

Is Takashi Murakami shopping spree at the Louis Vuitton Store at the Brooklyn Museum!
You know him as the designer of the most coveted of it-bags; now see Takashi Murakami as the city’s biggest art star.

 His retrospective, opening tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum, covers 18,500 square feet with cartoony drawings, sculptures, paintings, video and smiley-face flowers. And, oh yeah, a functional Louis Vuitton store. Roberta Smith calls it one of the show’s “visual high points,” adding that “it’s an ingenious key to the Pandora’s box of Mr. Murakami’s art and stuffed with questions of art and commerce, high and low, public brand and private expression, mass production and exquisite craft.” Stick around for the First Night party, which features anime, Japanese bands and a D.J., and a manga-based costume contest.
See articles by Carol Voguel and Roberta Smith of the New York Times listed accordingly in the links below.
ARTmostfierce might not get to see it till next weekend. Very busy over here planning a party to launch this blog. Crazy right?


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/arts/design/02mura.html?_r=1&8ur&emc=ur&oref=slogin

www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04mura.html?8ur&emc=ur

The Pool Fair @ The Chelsea Hotel

Victor Grasso-Self Portrait

The Pool Fair was a bit of a disappointment. However there were some artists worth mentioning. Here are some highlights of my favorite ones.
Sharing a room together (I mean only the room) was Victor Grasso and Maxi Cohen.

Victor Grasso is a painter and they are quite vibrant, photo-realism and uses topic and elements of our current pop culture. The paintings are quite nice and full of energy.


Maxi Cohen-East Side Air Terminal, 1981

Maxi Cohen specializes in photography and video.
She is an artist and filmmaker. Her work is in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Israeli Museum in Jerusalem and more. Her films appear in movie theaters and on television. Her photos of the series ‘Ladies Rooms Around the World’ were quite engaging and interesting. She also has photos of Area and Danceteria clubs(party girl days) bringing back a lot of memories.

See links below for more artist info.

www.maxicohenstudio.com

Ryan McGinley @ Team Gallery

Untitled (Black Bear) 2007 c-print 24 x 20 inches edition of three $ 6,000

ARTmostfierce loves the photos of Ryan McGinley.

April 3rd – May 3rd 2008
Reception on Thursday April 3rd at 6:00PM

Photos courtesy of Team Gallery

Dusk Flip Smoke Strip
Ryan McGinley
2007, c-print, 7 x 5 inches

$2,500.00

Fireworks Hysteric
Ryan McGinley
2007-08, c-print, 40 x 30 inches

Ryan McGinley’s “snapshots” have been evolving steadily since his guerilla show at 420 West Broadway in 2000. In the intervening eight years he has moved away from an artistic practice that was the soul of casual and towards an elaborated production schedule that raises the ante on “being there.” McGinley has gone from being perceived as the hottest young photographer in town to being considered a serious artist with a rare gift for creating enduring color photographs — photographs that show us the best of youth. The title of this exhibition, taken from an early B-side by Belle & Sebastian, is more than just a piece of poetic musing. McGinley does, in fact, know where his summers go. In the summer of 2007, for example, he traversed the United States with sixteen models and three assistants, shooting 4,000 rolls of film. From the resulting 150,000 photographs, he arduously narrowed down the body of work to some fifty images, the best of which are on display here at the gallery.The inspirational images for the project were culled from the kinds of amateur photography that appeared in nudist magazines during the 60s and early 70s. McGinley would sit with his models and look through all of the ephemera of the period that he had collected, discussing with them the mood that he was hoping to capture that day. McGinley had chosen a very specific itinerary that would bring his troop through the incredible range of landscapes that are available across the US and carefully planned a battery of activities, sometimes orchestrating the use of special effects. He has always been quite fond of fireworks and fog machines and in this new work they play a major role.The very artificial constructedness of the project allows for situations in which the models can both perform and be caught off guard. The resultant pictures of nude young men and women playing and living in the great outdoors are innocent yet erotic, casual yet calculated. McGinley’s photographs are included in the collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and many others. The 30 year-old artist has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art and at PS1 in New York, in Spain at the MUSAC, and last year mounted an ambitious public project in conjunction with the Kunsthalle in Vienna.

Check out this show! It is a must!

http://www.teamgal.com/exhibitions/131

Pulse Art Fair

The Pulse Art Fair was quite good. See below some highlights of the show.


At P.P. O.W. Gallery booth they were some great pieces.
The work of Julie Hefferman, Carolee Schneemann and Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz were ARTmostfierce favorites.


JULIE HEFFERNAN Self Portrait as Slow Growth, 2008oil on canvas, 86 x 56 inches

CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN Nude on Tracks1975/2005, 1 of sequence of 5, archival Giclee print on Hahn rag with pigmented ink, 18 x 26 inches

WALTER MARTIN & PALOMA MUÑOZ Blindness , 2007c-print35 x 69 inches

I really liked the elegant chandelier that artist and old friend of mine Yeni Mao was commissioned to create for the Pulse VIP lounge. In my opinion it was quite beautiful. Yeni also has some affordable pieces in limited editions available at Art Ware Editions. See link below for more info.

Bobby Neal Adams

c-underbelly C print edition 1/3 72 x 27 1/4 inches

At the Schroeder Romero Gallery booth the photographs of Bobby Neal Adams were not to be missed due to their size and visual effect. The airplane images on the air at different locations explore its relation with the environment and surroundings below. They have a dramatic effect and gives the urge to hop in a plane and disappear! Quite nice indeed!

Bobby Neal Adams
Venus C print edition 1/3 72 x 27 1/4 inches

http://www.schroederromero.com/

http://www.yenimao.com/

http://www.artwareeditions.com/

http://www.ppowgallery.com/artists.html

The Armory Show New York City @Pier 94

These are some highlights of the 

Armory Show.

At Cheim & Read Gallery booth, Jenny Holzer had a whole booth  dedicated to her work and it was quite impressive . 



This Vic Muniz Diamond Series photo was just spectacular and so was the price tag that it sold for !

$175,000.00 USD ...yes folks money is still 

running around in NYC.

What recession?

At The Deitch Projects Gallery Booth

This painting from Ryan McGinness was a dream and you can be looking at forever finding new images each time. Somebody took it home for a cool $85,000.00 USD

Mickalene Thomas had some great pieces spread throughout the Armory.

This painting in particular adorned with Swarowski crystals was just beyond words ...Magnificent!

Rumor was that the price tag was $120,000.00. Not bad right?

CerealArt has the wrestlers sculpture in case the wallet is short for a cool $10,000.00 USD edition of 40.

Mary HeilmannGhost Palette, 2008Archival Pigment Inkjet Print on Hahnemule German Etching35" x 26"Edition of 45 + 20 APsCourtesy of the artist, 303 Gallery, New York, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich London

John WatersStudy Art, 2007Cibachrome20" x 30"Edition of 45 + 15 APsCourtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

ARTmostfierce  toured   as a  VIP the Armory Show . The benefits prints above By John Waters (my Favorite) and Mary Heilman look pretty good. The prices are $2,800.00 USD.

The Armory Show runs from March 27-30, 2008 and has about 150 International Galleries

featuring new art by living artists.

http://www.thearmoryshow.com/

http://www.deitch.com/artists/index.php

SCOPE NY @ Lincoln Center

Here are some highlights from SCOPE NY Art Fair.



Corey Arnold
The Wave (Bering Sea, Alaska)
Chromira C-Print 2003

This photograph is my favorite of all the Art Fairs combined. Corey Arnold photographs are mostly taken while working in a fishing boat at sea. Considered one of the most dangerous jobs, the photos are quite stunning, full of energy and edgy. keep an eye on him. Sara Tecchia of Sara Tecchia Gallery and Risa Needleman epitomized what costumer service and pleasant gallery atmosphere should be . Their gallery booth rocked more than a boat at sea in so many ways. See link below and pay them a visit!


Carlos Betancourt -The Hedge 2007
Giclee print
Keep a close eye on this Puerto Rican artist. During Miami Art Basel 2007 he had a great installation on display.His photos are insanely delicious and extremely colorful in every meaning of the word. See the link below and for more of this fiesta art!




Judith Larsen
Ocula-2007, Iris print on Somerset velvet paper
63'' x 73 ''
At the RHYS Gallery booth we found the work of Judith Larsen quite mesmerizing. See link below for more info.

Bahk Seon Ghi

Point of View Table, 2007

At Regis Krampf booth this installation was just brilliant! It was made mostly with chunks of coal and fishing wire . The shadows effects and space created within was worth seeing.

See link below for more artist and gallery info.

http://www.saratecchia.com/artists/corey_arnold/
http://www.carlosbetancourt.com/

http://www.rhysgallery.com/

http://www.krampfgallery.com/

Paul Lee'' Arm's Length'' @ Peres Projects LA

1.Sculpture-soda can,light bulb, magnifying glass, coal,string, Xerox, spray paint4 x 6.5 x 5.25 (10.2 x 16.5 x 13.3 cm)
2.
Untitled (can sculpture), 2008Paul LEE
Sculpture – soda can, coal, light bulb, string, Xerox, spray paint4 x 4 x 6 inches (10.2 x 10.2 x 15.2 cm)


ARTmostfierce recommends that if you are visit La La Land during March 1- 29,2008 , stop by Peres Projects and check out this show. Paul Lee uses everyday objects and gives them more character and personality almost indicating the posession of a soul into the objects.
Very interesting media to collect in a current art wold oversaturated with photography.
Check it out and say hello to my friend Richard Lindinsky manager of Peres Projects.
Also check out DADDY magazine a publication by Peres Projects getting quite popular.
Please find below links for Peres Projects and DADDY magazine.
Enjoy!

http://www.peresprojects.com/home_berlin.php?location_id=1

DADDY 1
http://www.daddythemagazine.com/magazines/daddy-1/
DADDY 2
http://www.daddythemagazine.com/magazines/daddy-2/
DADDY 3
http://www.daddythemagazine.com/magazines/daddy-3/
DADDY 4
http://www.daddythemagazine.com/magazines/daddy-4/
DADDY 5
http://www.daddythemagazine.com/magazines/daddy-5/

Peter Hujar'' Second Avenue @ Matthew Marks

ARTmostfierce really liked this show. ''Second Avenue'' by Peter Hujar demonstrates and exemplifies how some photographs endure time and with it develop a classic expression and lasting impression of its subjects.

This series of photographs taken by Peter Hujar in his studio located at 189 Second Avenue at East 12th street. All of Hujar images display a distinct realism unseen in other photographers of the era. They eschew the fashion backdrop and pose for the recurring ,bare, cracked wall of his Second Avenue studio.They focus on a beauty that comes with mortality which never verges towards the manipulative or grotesque . His work always reflects a  unique empathy, whoever the subject might be.

http://www.matthewmarks.com/index.php?n=2&c=7&e=452&l=&im=1