After a skipped year due to the pandemic, Art Basel Miami is back. It's December in Florida, in the high 70s☀️, and it's Miami Art Week here. There are several smaller shows happening simultaneously, including Art Miami and Context Art Miami, art events and installations at Faena Art Forum. It's impossible to be everywhere (I'm a one-woman band after all), but here is my (limited) take on it. Like in Basel earlier this year, masks and wristbands are required (I got a nice pink one). Despite the pandemic, the show attracted about 60,000 visitors, lots of first-timers - both among the visitors and exhibitors. I heard that the entry requirements are more lenient this year, and some art is quite perplexing (I left it out 🤷🏻♀️ but I am no expert), and the rumor goes that some old-timers are not happy...The poster child of the art world, NFTs are ubiquitous (I covered NFTs last year in one of my posts). After three years of schlepping around art fairs, I finally can recognize same artists and galleries, and the experience is not a complete vertigo, but still overwhelming especially carrying all my equipment like a sherpa. But I wouldn't do it any other way, and the best thing about shows, is meeting new interesting people. I just wish I could do more and better... Whoever is watching, if only one person, enjoy and thank you! Plain Jane 😘
Tag: painting
Ole Aakjaer | Alter Ego
Meet Danish watercolor artist Ole Aakjaer. After two years of Covid-related restrictions, he finally travels to the U.S. for his third solo exhibition at Chase Contemporary gallery in Soho, New York. Find out how creativity helped him dealing with childhood trauma, the career path that took Aakjaer from streets of Czechoslovakia to the corporate world, and later to becoming a full-time artist while "being different from the correct people." And a little trivia: matreshka is known in Denmark as... Enjoy!
Ole Aakjaer | Preview
Stay tuned for my upcoming interview with Danish watercolor artist Ole Aakjaer. His solo exhibition "Alter Ego" is on view at Chase Contemporary gallery through December 12, 2021.
Art Show | Park Avenue Armory
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America, is back at the Park Avenue Amory in New York. It comprises 72 member galleries. It’s mainly modern and contemporary art. Here some highlights from the show. David Klein Gallery from Detroit, MI, presents Mario Moore; Berggruen Gallery from San Francisco has brought Cy Twombly’s lithographs; artist Isabella Kirkland talks about marine fauna research behind her paintings; Hirschl & Adler has several humorous paintings by American surrealist Honoré Sharrer; Coreen Simpson’s photographs at the Jessica Silverman booth; P.P.O.W. - queer art by Katharine Kuharic. A few galleries I visited the day before during the Upper East Side Gallery Walk — David Nollan presenting Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Gray with McArthur Binion, who uses his address book and his birth certificate in his works. Then, there are some unexpected treats – rare prints by old masters —Rembrandt, and Albrecht Dürer at David Tunick gallery. Part of the proceeds from the show goes to non-profit organization Henry Street Settlement that supports low-income New Yorkers.
Jill Newhouse Gallery | New York
Jill Newhouse, a fourth generation art dealer, gave me a tour of her eponymous gallery during the Upper East Side Gallery Walk 2021, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America. The current exhibition is called "Dot Dot Dot.." and is dedicated to pointillism.
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