2010 Whitney Biennial artists announced
From the NYT; 32 of the 55 artists live in New York and 12 in Los Angeles. I am also struck by the number of artists who live in two places at once.
David Adamo
Born 1979 in Rochester, New York; lives in Berlin, Germany
Richard Aldrich
Born 1975 in Hampton, Virginia; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Michael Asher
Born 1943 in Los Angeles, California; lives in Los Angeles, California
Tauba Auerbach
Born 1981 in San Francisco, California; lives in New York, New York
Nina Berman
Born 1960 in New York, New York; lives in New York, New York
Huma Bhabha
JoshuaBorn 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan; lives in Poughkeepsie, New York
Josh Brand
Born 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Founded 2001 in Brooklyn, New York
James Casebere
Born 1953 in East Lansing, Michigan; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher
Dawn Clements
Born 1958 in Woburn, Massachusetts; lives in Brooklyn, New York
George Condo
Born 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire; lives in New York, New York
Sarah Crowner
Born 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Verne Dawson
Born 1961 in Meridianville, Alabama; lives in Saluda, North Carolina, and New York, New York
Julia Fish
Born 1950 in Toledo, Oregon; lives in Chicago, Illinois
Roland Flexner
Born 1944 in Nice, France; lives in New York, New York
Suzan Frecon
Born 1941 in Mexico, Pennsylvania; lives in New York, New York
Maureen Gallace
Born 1960 in Stamford, Connecticut; lives in New York, New York
Theaster Gates
Born 1973 in Chicago, Illinois; lives in Chicago, Illinois
Kate Gilmore
Born 1975 in Washington, DC; lives in New York, New York
Hannah Greely
Born 1979 in Los Angeles, California; lives in Los Angeles, California
Jesse Aron Green
Born 1979 in Boston, Massachusetts; lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and Los Angeles, California
Robert Grosvenor
Born 1937 in New York, New York; lives in Long Island, New York
Sharon Hayes
Born 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland; lives in New York, New York
Thomas Houseago
Born 1972, Leeds, England; lives in Los Angeles, California
Alex Hubbard
Born 1975 in Toledo, Oregon; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Jessica Jackson Hutchins
Born 1971 in Chicago, Illinois; lives in Portland, Oregon
Jeffrey Inaba
Born 1962 in Los Angeles, California; lives in New York, New York
Martin Kersels
Born 1960 in Los Angeles, California; lives in Los Angeles, California
Jim Lutes
Born 1955 in Fort Lewis, Washington; lives in Chicago, Illinois
Babette Mangolte
Born 1941 in Montmorot (Jura), France; lives in New York, New York
Curtis Mann
Born 1979 in Dayton, Ohio; lives in Chicago, Illinois
Ari Marcopoulos
Born 1957 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands; lives in Sonoma, California
Daniel McDonald
Born 1971 in Los Angeles, California; lives in New York, New York
Josephine Meckseper
Born 1964 in Lilienthal, Germany; lives in New York, New York
Rashaad Newsome
Born 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana; lives in New York, New York
Kelly Nipper
Born 1971 in Edina, Minnesota; lives in Los Angeles, California
Lorraine O'Grady
Born 1934 in Boston, Massachusetts; lives in New York, New York
R. H. Quaytman
Born 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts; lives in New York, New York
Charles Ray
Born 1953 in Chicago, Illinois; lives in Los Angeles, California
Emily Roysdon
Born 1977 in Easton, Maryland; lives in New York, New York, and Stockholm, Sweden
Aki Sasamoto
Born 1980 in Yokohama, Japan; lives in Brooklyn, New York
Aurel Schmidt
Born 1982 in Kamloops, British Columbia; lives in New York, New York
Scott Short
Born 1964 in Marion, Ohio; lives in Chicago, Illinois
Stephanie Sinclair
Born 1973 in Miami, Florida; lives in New York, New York, and Beirut, Lebanon
Ania Soliman
Born 1970 in Warsaw, Poland; lives in Basel, Switzerland, and New York, New York
Storm Tharp
Born 1970 in Ontario, Oregon; lives in Portland, Oregon
Tam Tran
Born 1986 in Hue, Vietnam; lives in Memphis, Tennessee
Kerry Tribe
Born 1973 in Boston, Massachusetts; lives in Los Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany
Piotr Uklański
Born 1968 in Warsaw, Poland; lives in New York, New York, and Warsaw, Poland
Lesley Vance
Born 1977 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; lives in Los Angeles, California
Mariane Vitale
Born 1973 in New York, New York; lives in New York, New York
Erika Vogt
Born 1973 in East Newark, New Jersey; lives in Los Angeles, California
Pae White
Born 1963 in Pasadena, California; lives in Los Angeles, California
Robert Williams
Born 1943 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, lives in Chatsworth, California
Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Let's get together over at Neptune
Pencil in December 13 at 2 PM at the gorgeous Neptune Gallery in Bethesda.
The event starts with a presentation and tasting with Cacao, fine European Chocolates, immediately followed by "A Conversation with Lenny Campello" in which I will answer any and all questions about anything dealing with art: framing, approaching galleries, collectors, collecting, etc. or even about the art fairs and how to get your gallery to do them, or even some guerrilla tactics on the subject.
Open forum, any and all questions answered if I know the answer.
See ya there!
Future Generation Art Prize
The Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation is a worldwide contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and provide long-term support to a future generation of artists.
Artists around the world, under 35 years of age, without restriction of gender, nationality, race or artistic medium may enter the competition through online application.
20 shortlisted artists will be selected to show their work in an exhibition at the PinchukArtCentre (Kiev). These artists will be judged by an international Jury who will award one main prize and up to five special prizes.
The first prize will receive $100,000.
Details here.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Washington Glass School Open House
This is where I usually get 75% of my Christmas gifts and this year plan to get 100% and get my Xmas shopping out of the way all at once.
Join the Washington Glass School in its 8th annual Holiday Sale - artwork and craft from over a dozen studio artists and instructors. Artists exhibiting include: Michael Janis, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Syl Mathis, Nancy Donnelly, Sean Hennessey, Rania Hassan, Jennifer Lindstrom, David Pearcy, Anne Plant, Cheryl Derricotte, David Cook, Allegra Marquart, Chris Shea, Lillian Fitzgerald, Jim Manning, Nancy Krondstat, Debra Ruzinsky, Marty King and more!
The surrounding artist studios (Red Dirt, Flux Studio, Weiss/Stewart/Sinel, Janis Goodman, Blue Fire Studio) will be participating in the huge event, along with the Gateway Arts District’s Holiday events along Rhode Island Avenue.
Washington Glass School & Studio
Holiday Show /Open Studio / Sale
3700 Otis Street, Mount Rainier, MD 20712
202.744.8222
2 pm til 6 pm , Saturday, December 12, 2009
Free and open to the public
SCOPE reports
From the SCOPE folks:
SCOPE Art Show and ART ASIA closed Sunday, December 6, reporting doubling and tripling of gallery sales. SCOPE, Miami’s longest-running global fair in its eighth year, and second-year standout ART ASIA increased traffic by 20%, bringing in over 30,000 visitors. Both shows attracted prominent institutions, museums, and private collectors from the Americas, Europe and emerging markets from the Middle East to Japan, including Charles Saatchi, Agnes Gund, Marty Margulies, Marc & Livia Straus, The Oppenheimers, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA New York, Guggenheim Museum New York, and artist Chuck Close.
Positioning museum-quality programming alongside an international roster, SCOPE hosted 75 galleries from 25 countries, including a section devoted to Latin American art. Founder, Alexis Hubshman enlisted curator and critic David Hunt to assemble a curatorial board of “the best up-and-coming, next-generation curators,” and Hunt’s four choices, Hubshman said, “were like kernels that popped while they were with us.”
Gallerists offered positive reports, including:
* First year exhibitor Anonymous Gallery from New York, commissioned three works by David Ellis with one going to collector Charles Saatchi, and sold several other pieces including a Romon Kimin Yang for $60,000.
* Mike Weiss Gallery sold $400,000, with two works by the newly discovered German painter Stefanie Gutheil going to Kansas’ Nerman Museum; and artist Liao Yibai selling three editions of Ring, and one Fake Bag.
* Aureus Contemporary sold 75-80% of the work they brought to SCOPE and 80% of that was new buyers.
* First year exhibitor Galeria Christopher Paschall from Bogota, Colombia sold seven pieces to a German museum.
* Irvine Contemporary and Elizabeth Houston reported a 50% increase in sales over last year.
Sister fair ART ASIA, the only Asian art fair outside its own continent, launched an entirely new curatorial platform with independent curator Leeza Ahmady titled TRULY TRUTHFUL that showcased internationally recognized artists whose works contest categorical presentations of truth and reality in the world. ART ASIA continued its film series with Yi Zhou’s THE EAR, featuring Pharrell Williams with music by Ennio Morricone, and costumes designed by Rick Owens and BBC Ice Cream. They also had a Contemporary Arab Art exhibition of non-political works focused on the humanizing factors of the culture.
Gallerists offered positive reports, including:
* Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Grotto Fine Art tripled in sales from last year (around $250,000 and $100,000 respectively).
* Kips Gallery sold six sets of work, selling more in their first time at ART ASIA than at any other fair they have attended in the past.
* Sculpture was a standout medium with RCM Gallery selling multiple pieces priced around $50,000 each. Grotto Fine Art from Hong Kong sold and had commissions for over $100,000 worth of sculptural works.
* 95% of the galleries reported strong sales including X-Power ($500,000) and Kashya Hildebrand ($200,000.)
* While Asian art might be new to the Americas, it sold to a wide variety of buyers, from local Miami collectors and buyers from NYC and CT, to Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, France, Lebanon, Switzerland, Japan, Korea and New Delhi.
