This Week’s Events: AIPAD Photography Show, Philadelphia Furniture Show, Brice Marden & More
New York
AIPAD Photography Show
Pier 94
March 30–April 2, 2017
711 12th Avenue, New York, NY 10019
For information, call 202.367.1158 or visit https://www.aipadshow.com
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The stage is set for the 37th edition of the longest-running fair dedicated to the photographic medium. Next week in Manhattan, new and established gallerists will convene at Pier 94 for the AIPAD Photography Show, a four-day extravaganza that will include sixteen talks, a section dedicated to book dealers and publishers, and three exhibitions with works from the private collections of Artur Walther, Martin Z. Margulies, and Madeleine P. Plonsker. Among the notable galleries in attendance: Robert Klein Gallery (Boston, Mass.), Throckmorton Fine Art (New York), and Peter Fetterman Gallery (Santa Monica, Calif.).
Read more about this year’s edition of the event.
Brice Marden: Prints
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery
March 11–April 22, 2017
210 11th Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10001
For information, call 212.213.6767 or visit http://www.seniorandshopmaker.com/current-exhibition/
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Now on view at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, in New York, is a selection of works on paper made by Brice Marden between 1973 and 2001. The show traces the artist’s stylistic development from Tiles (1979), made with a twig dipped in sugar solution, to Cold Mountain: Zen Study 1 (1991), the culmination of the artist’s experimentation with a looser, more calligraphic style following a trip to Asia in the mid-1980s.
Like Jacques Jarrige, Marden was a student of the meandering line, and the braided squiggles of Cold Mountain: Zen Study 1 have the appearance of light refracted on the bottom of a pool. This new exhibition makes the case that these linear tapestries are rooted in the tradition of Abstract Expressionism.
Marden (b. 1938) was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006. He lives and works in Manhattan.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Furniture Show
23rd Street Armory
March 31–April 2, 2017
22 South 23rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
For information, call 215.387.8590 (Green Tree Events) or visit http://www.philadelphiafurnitureshow.com/
- Ted Saxerud, Grecian chaise lounge. Maple finished with boiled linseed oil, shellac, and paste finishing wax, 36 x 76 x 24 in.
Coming up at the 23rd Street Armory, in Philadelphia, is the 23rd Annual Philadelphia Furniture Show, a showcase of custom furniture by woodworkers across the region. Among the eighty artisans who will be represented: Big Sand Woodworking, Red Metal, Bok Read Woodworking, The Bazis Collection, Markel Design, Stonis Consulting, Castonia’s Woodworks, and Lambkin Studio. The event will get underway with the ceremonial splitting of a log with a two-person gang saw.
One of the highlights of the show is this Grecian chaise lounge by the Arlington, Virginia,-based Tex Saxerud, master of the simple graceful line. As he says, “In every piece that we design, we seek that grace and balance with the goal of creating a unique center piece that clients can enjoy and hand down through the generations.”
Rockland, Maine
Andrew Wyeth at 100
Farnsworth Art Museum
March 18–December 31, 2017
16 Museum Street, Rockland, Maine 04841
For information, call 207.596.6457 or visit http://www.farnsworthmuseum.org
- Andrew Wyeth, Her Room, 1963. Tempera on panel, 24.75 x 48 inches. Courtesy the Farnsworth Art Museum.
On the centennial of the artist’s birth, the Farnsworth Art Museum, in Rockland, Maine, has organized a series of five shows dedicated to Andrew Wyeth. Over a nine-month period, the institution will present an assortment of drawings, watercolors and temperas, including Her Room (1963), which shows a conch shell on a six-board chest as light rakes across an open door. As with Wyeth’s signature work, Christina’s World (1948), this painting is a composite of tenderness and melancholy, invoking the hardscrabble villages of Maine, a subject artist Marsden Hartley also knew well.
The Farnsworth Art Museum was a champion of Wyeth even before it opened its doors, buying watercolors from the young artist following a show at Macbeth Gallery, in New York, in 1944. The museum opened four years later and, in 1951, staged Wyeth’s first solo museum retrospective in conjunction with the Currier Gallery of Art, a precursor of the Currier Museum of Art, in Manchester, N.H.
- Andy Goldsworthy, proposal drawing for Laumeier Cairn, 1991. Courtesy Laumeier Sculpture Park.
St. Louis, Missouri
Drawing from Collection: 40 Years at Laumeier
Laumeier Sculpture Park
April 1-July 16, 2017
12580 Rott Road, St. Louis, MO 63127
For more information, call 314.615.5278 or visit http://www.laumeiersculpturepark.org
To mark the 40th anniversary of the institution, Laumeier Sculpture Park will present a selection of preparatory drawings, prints, works on paper, collages and photographs related to sculptural commissions throughout its history. As with “Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture,” which opened at the Kimbell Art Museum, in Forth Worth, Texas, earlier this month, this exhibition is concerned with the creative process, rather than the finished article. Among the artists featured are heavyweights of contemporary sculpture like Vito Acconci, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy, and Donald Judd.
“[This exhibition] focuses on the unique way these artists approach drawing as a method used to brainstorm, engineer, translate and complement their three-dimensional creations,” says Dana Turkovic, curator of exhibitions at Laumeier Sculpture Park. “There is an immediacy in the artist’s thought process that these works on paper communicate as they explore the gap between ideas and reality.”
Yorktown, Virginia
Grand Opening
American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
March 23–April 4, 2017
200 Water Street, Yorktown, VA 23690
For more information, call 888.593.4682 or visit http://www.historyisfun.org/yorktown-victory-center/new-yorktown-museum/
- The New Nation Gallery at the American Revolution Museum in Yorktown. Courtesy the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation.
Following a $50 million redesign, the Yorktown Victory Center has reopened as the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, a state-of-the-art facility that will explore the birth of the nation through a collection of Revolution-era art and artifacts, outdoor living-history areas, an introductory film, interactive displays, and an experiential theater that engages all the senses. (The latter is a semicircular screen with vibrating seats, wind, puffs of smoke and the smells of gunpowder, seawater, and coffee.)
The Grand Opening, which continues through April 4, is only the first of many happenings to mark the occasion: “AfterWARd” (June 10-November 27, 2017) will address Alexander Hamilton’s connection to Yorktown, and “Pocahontas Imagined” (July 15, 2017-January 28, 2018) will interrogate the exploitation of the Native American notable in popular culture.
Beyond its innovative programming, the museum has sizable holdings of Chippendale furniture, tablewares, and portraiture. It recently acquired Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (William Hoare, ca. 1730s) with a $150,000 grant from the Richard S. Reynolds Foundation, of Richmond, Va.
