Artlog

ARTLOG asked five terrific art advisors to share three of their favorite artists from across Armory Week. Here are the selections from Grace-Yvette Gemmell, Amanda Schneider, Anne Huntington, Susi Kenna, and Kate Robinson.

Grace-Yvette Gemmell

Michael Riedel, David Zwirner Gallery (Armory Show)
Michael Riedel will debut a surprise site-specific installation at the David Zwirner booth, created especially for this year’s Armory show. On Saturday, March 10th, the artist will sign books and posters during a special VIP hour (11:00 a.m.-noon) as well as when the fair opens to the general public (beginning at noon).

Michael Riedel, Work related to the series Four Proposals for Changing Modern (2007-present). Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery.

Anna Tuori, Galerie Anhava (Armory Show)
Finnish artist Anna Tuori’s figurative, painterly compositions are part of the Galerie Anhava’s “Purity and Abundance” presentation for Armory this year.

Anna Tuori, Some Remain So, 2012. Courtesy of Galerie Anhava.

Cooper & Gorfer, Christian Larsen at Nordic Section (Armory Show)
Sarah Cooper and Nina Gorfer hail from the USA and Austria respectively, but are now based in Sweden. The duo creates photographic works that play with assumed notions of place and narrative, memory and the image.

Cooper & Gorfer, Red Shola, 2011. Courtesy Christian Larsen.

Amanda Schneider

Matthew Brant, Yossi Milo (Armory Show)
In an ongoing experiment with how the image reacts with the real, photographer Matthew Brant creates large format photographs of lake and reservoirs, using the water from the lake to develop the photograph.

Matthew Brant, Stone Lagoon from the series Lakes and Reservoirs, CA 3, 2008, C-Print soaked in Stone Lagoon water. Courtesy of Yossi Milo.

Teresita Fernandez, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (Armory Show)
STPI is debuting several unique works on paper from the Night Writing series which were created in collaboration with their master printers and papermakers during a residency in Singapore.

Teresita Fernandez, Night Writing, 2011. Courtesy of Singapore Tyler Print Institute.

Simmons & Burke, Michael Kohn Gallery (Armory Show)
The recent work of Los Angeles-based duo Simmons & Burke will be the focus of a solo booth from Michael Kohn Gallery. Scouring the internet for images and sound, Simmons & Burke create dense, hyper-saturated visual and aural collages.

Simmons & Burke, If Not Summer #2, 2010, lightjet print and custom audio. Courtesy of Michael Kohn Gallery.

Susi Kenna

ArtLiars, a performance piece by Nic Rad at Fountain Art Fair and Spring/Break Art Show (Friday/Saturday)
Nic Rad and his team of improvisers plan to transform an “exhibition talk” into “immersive theatre” using custom backdrops, objects created by artists, and mandatory audience participation. “You might end up on stage in a great debate with the muses, the artists, the dealers, maybe the art itself.” Nic and his team will be performing on 3/9 and 7:00 p.m. at the Fountain Art Fair and again on 3/10 at 7:00 p.m. at the Spring/Break Art Show.

Image courtesy of Nic Rad

Hew Locke, Hales Gallery (Armory Show)
Hew Locke is a Scottish born, London-based artist known for his obsession with painting over his photographs of monumental sculptures. Pan, the piece on view at the Armory this year, is described by Hales as “an obsessive photo work” that features a bronze statue of Peter Pan located in Kensington Gardens, London. This new work is not only the largest hand-painted print the artist has made, it also reveals a new visual direction for the series.

Hew Locke, Pan, 2012, hand-painted C-print. Courtesy of Hales Gallery.

Daniel Phillips, DODGEgallery (Moving Image)
Originally from Boston, MA, Daniel Phillips spent 2010-2011 creating work in Hyde Park, MA at his studio—an abandoned elevator tower that was once part of an old paper mill. In response to this unique location, Phillips documented his experience through high-resolutions photographs of the landscape and environment. Shown as three installations, these images are projected on heavily textured concrete slabs that were excavated from the Hyde Park site.

Daniel Phillips, Installation View River Street, 2012. Courtesy of DODGEgallery.

Anne Huntington

El Anatsui, Jack Shainman Gallery (Armory Show)
This majestic tapestry beautifully highlights the intricate woven parts composed by El Anatsui—the parts seem delicate and soft, yet are solid and hard.

El Anatsui, Bukpa Old Town, 2009, aluminum and copper wire. Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery.

Julian Opie, Galerie Bob Van Orsouw (Armory Show)
Opie plays with the simple beauty of the daisy, magically dancing before us. This work shows the true, essential representation of the object through clear visuals in a playful flower field.

Julian Opie, Daises, 2012. Courtesy Galerie Bob Van Orsouw.

Rob Pruitt, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (Independent)
This is pure conceptual Pruitt—the installation glitters before us, vacant, posing irony at its core—the strong wit defines the simplicity of form and complexity of meaning (or lack thereof). Excellent.

Rob Pruitt, The Congregation, 2010. Courtesy of Gavin Brown’s Enterprise.

Kate Robinson

Greene Naftali (ADAA’s The Art Show)
Greene Naftali has the most coherent, smart, and provocative selection of work by multiple artists at the fair. The works not only present an interesting dialogue amongst themselves (and look pretty rad in context), but they speak to the heart of Greene Naftali’s consistently excellent program. A small Rachel Harrison sculpture entitled Hotdog Dog, an abstract painting by Paul Thek from 1979-1980, complete with its own overhead lamp, and a new collage by Richard Hawkins inspired by the founder of butoh and images of Bacon… This is one meaty affair!

Rachel Harrison, Hotdog Dog, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali Gallery.

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Grace-Yvette Gemmell is an art and cultural historian on the heels of completing her dissertation at Cornell while writing for Artlog and Capital New York and providing curatorial support at the Museum of the City of New York.

Amanda Schneider is the Founder and Director of Dunham Place Salon, an art and design gallery in NYC that collaborates both emerging and established artists. She is also a curator and advisor working with the Brooklyn Museum.

Susi Kenna is the founder of The Creatives Agency, co-founder of Curateam, Director of Contemporary Art for luxury travel company, Excursionist and creator of artseenwithsusi.com.

Anne Huntington is an art advisor and curator based in NYC. She is the founder of AMH Industries, a charity auctioneer, a collector and is involved in various art and cultural institutions She previously worked worked at Phillips Pury & Company.

Kate Robinson is the founder of Kate Robinson Fine Art, a private consultancy serving individuals building fine art collections. Prior to starting Kate Robinson Fine Art, she worked in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and in Post-War and Contemporary Art at Christie’s New York.