This Week's Events: Art Market San Francisco, California Impressionism, Design on a Dime & More
San Francisco
Art Market San Francisco
Fort Mason Center - Festival Pavilion
April 27-30, 2017
2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco, CA 94123
For information, call 212.518-6912 (Art Market Productions) or visit http://artmarketsf.com
- Last year’s iteration of Art Market San Francisco, which is fast emerging as the top modern and contemporary art fair in the Bay Area.
Kicking off this week at the Fort Mason Center is the seventh iteration of Art Market San Francisco, a conclave of eighty galleries specializing in modern and contemporary art. Among the notables who will participate: Gerald Peters Gallery (New York) and Rehs Galleries (New York). Organizers are hopeful that this year’s event will exceed last year’s mark of 28,000 visitors.
In conjunction with the fair, Art Market San Francisco has organized a variety of large-scale installations to enhance the experience of fair-goers. One work of note is Lisa Solomon’s Seninbari (1,000 stitched knots), a monumental web of hand-dyed rope (2,200 feet in total) with 1,000 French knots. Another work, Lewis deSoto’s Paranirvara (1999-2015), is a 26-foot-tall inflatable Buddha that addresses the subject of mortality with an ironic edge.
The fair is run by the New York-based Art Market Productions, established by Jeffrey Wainhause and Max Fishko in 2011. The company currently produces six art fairs: Art on Paper, Art Market San Francisco, Market Art + Design, Seattle Art Fair, Texas Contemporary, and Miami Project.
Palm Desert, California
California Impressionism
Heather James Fine Art
On view through May.
45188 Portola Avenue, Palm Desert, CA 92260
For information, call 760.346.8926 or visit http://www.heatherjames.com/
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In time for its 20th anniversary, Heather James Fine Art (Palm Desert, Calif.) has organized an exhibition of California Impressionism, an early-twentieth-century movement that brings together the dynamic brushwork of Impressionism with a bright, sunny palette in keeping with the carefree spirit of California. In Pheasant (1920), by Jessie Arms Botke, a bird with festive plumage is the focal point of a sublime landscape with a riot of wildflowers in the foreground and, in the distance, a conical peak that may be a dormant volcano in the Sierra Nevada Range. The exhibition is meant to be a microcosm for the movement as a whole, with works by John Frost, Joseph Kleitsch, Gehring Cressey, Paul Lauritz, John Marshall Gamble, Millard Owen Sheets, and Jack Wilkinson Smith.
Heather James Fine Art, which began as Heather James Art & Antiquities, is widely admired for its eclectic holdings, which extend from the Old Masters to the present. Over the years, the gallery has presented works by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol, and Fernando Botero, among others.
Click here for more works from Heather James Fine Art.
New York
Design on a Dime
Metropolitan Pavilion
April 26-29, 2017
125 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011
For information, call 347.473.7400 (Housing Works) or visit https://doadnyc2017.splashthat.com
- James Huniford, founding chair of Design on a Dime.
This week at the Metropolitan Pavilion, in midtown Manhattan, is the 13th iteration of Design on a Dime, a four-day program of events organized by Housing Works to combat AIDS and homelessness. Design on a Dime will feature seventy room vignettes designed by top-tier designers such as Robert Stilin (on behalf of Incollect), 2Michaels, Antonino Buzzetta Design, Foley&Cox Interiors, Matthew Patrick Smyth, and Phillip Thomas Inc.
When Housing Works was founded in 1990, an estimated 13,000 HIV-positive individuals were living on the streets of New York. The surge in homelessness was aggravated by official indifference and ill-advised policy decisions, such as the elimination of single-room occupancy hotels (SROs). Since then, Housing Works has played a leading role in reversing this trend by offering housing, primary care, job training, and legal help to tens of thousands of HIV-positive homeless individuals.
Design on a Dime, the annual fundraiser for Housing Works, was conceived by its founding chair, James Huniford, a regular on AD100 and Elle Décor’s A-List. “I want designers to have fun and take chances,” says Huniford. “I hope this will be a playful event, an opportunity for designers to take a break from the highly competitive nature of our industry. You don’t have to have the best room or the most expensive chandelier. This is about coming together.”
Click here to learn more about the event.
Fritz Henle Photographs
Throckmorton Fine Art
April 27-June 24, 2017
145 East 57th Street - 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022
For information, call 212.223.1059 or visit http://www.throckmorton-nyc.com/home.html
- Fritz Henle, George Braque in Paris Studio, 1957. From Throckmorton Fine Art.
Like Irving Penn and Mark Shaw, Fritz Henle produced both fine-art photography and commercial images, assembling an archive of some 110,000 negatives over the course of a six-decade career. Referred to as the “the last classic freelance photographer” by photo-historian Helmut Gernsheim, Henle specialized in sharply defined, elegant compositions, frequently capturing well-known figures in moments of rest or contemplation. (Frida on Chinampa Boat [1936], in which we see Frida Kahlo trailing her fingers in placid water, was a hit at this year’s annual showcase organized by the Association of International Photography Dealers, or AIPAD.)
Opening this week at Throckmorton Fine Art, in New York, is an exhibition of works by the twentieth-century photographer that includes shots of a Mexican miner, a carved wooden figure from Honolulu, a Louisiana oil derrick, and the neon advertisements of Piccadilly Circus, London, on a rainy evening. Henle considered himself a student of light, remarking, “You will spend the rest of your life learning to see light. It will not take you long to learn all about the camera, but you will never come to the end of discovering about the effects of light itself. The only rule is to watch the world around you, even when you have not got a camera in your hand.”
Click here for more works from Throckmorton Fine Art.
Kansas City, Missouri
Opening of Bloch Galleries of European Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Now on view.
4525 Oak St, Kansas City, MO 64111
For information, call 816.751.1278 or visit http://www.nelson-atkins.org
- Now open at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art are the Bloch Galleries of European Art. Photograph by Joshua Ferdinand.
After an extensive renovation, the Bloch Galleries of European Art have opened at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, in Kansas City. The new gallery space, located in the museum’s original 1933 Beaux-Arts building, will feature twenty-nine masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. The Bloch Galleries was made possible by a $12 million gift from the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, given to the museum in 2015.
The opening of the Bloch Galleries of European Art coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Steven Holl-designed Bloch Building, a 165,000-square foot expansion that dramatically boosted the public profile of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art by increasing the institution’s permanent collection space by 71 percent. The Museum, which currently draws more than half a million visitors each year, is renowned for its European collections, which includes canonical works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and El Greco, as well as one of only twenty-five authenticated works by Hieronymus Bosch.
Among the highlights in the Marion and Henry Bloch Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art are works by Édouard Manet, Claude Money, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse. Marion and Henry Block began assembling the collection 40 years ago, beginning with Auguste Renoir’s Woman Leaning on her Elbows (1976). Rounding out the collection is a snow scene by Alfred Sisley; Manet’s White Lilacs in a Crystal Vase (1882 or 1883), painted while he was confined to bed by illness at the end of his life; Van Gogh’s Restaurant Rispal at Asnières (1887); and Cézanne’s Man with a Pipe (1890-1892).
