DOWNTOWN FAIR AT THE LEXINGTON AVENUE ARMORY AT 25TH
STREET SHOWCASES DYNAMIC LIST OF EXHIBITORS
WITH EXCEPTIONAL INVESTMENT QUALITY WORKS OF ART
ART DESTINATION FOR 20TH & 21ST CENTURY WORK FROM OVER 50
INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES
New York City – (April 30, 2014) - The inaugural edition of the Downtown
Fair, May 8 – 11, will be the only fair that offers a versatile array of
fresh primary and important secondary contemporary and modern blue chip
works from leading galleries from around the globe. From upward of 200
dealer submissions, the Downtown Fair will host over 50 galleries with
nearly 600 artists from more than 35 countries. The galleries were carefully
selected by the Downtown Fair’s formal Dealer Selection/Advisory Committee,
which includes Yossi Milo, Nancy Hoffman, and William Shearburn.
Participating exhibitors include: Yossi Milo Gallery, Danese/Corey,
ARCHEUS/POST-MODERN, BOSI Contemporary, Coagula Curatorial, William
Shearburn Gallery, HackelBury Fine Art, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Nicholas
Metivier, David Lusk Gallery, Armand Bartos Fine Art, Cynthia-Reeves,
Arcature Fine Art, David Klein Gallery, Chowaiki & Co, Durham Press, Richard
Levy Gallery, Mixografia, Modernism Inc., Peter Blake Gallery, Robert Mann
Gallery, Wasserman Projects, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Sundaram Tagore
Gallery, Catherine Edelman, Jerald Melberg Gallery, C. Grimaldis Gallery,
Galerie von Braunbehrens, Galerie Andreas Binder, among others (full list
available at www.downtownfair.com).
The featured international galleries will have a strong focus on emerging
talent, as well as mid-career cutting-edge artists. Exhibitor highlights
include:
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Artist Deborah Butterfield created a sculpture specifically for the
Danese/Corey gallery & Downtown Fair. In addition, the gallery will
feature artist April Gornik, “Cloud Over the Sea”, 2011, oil on linen,
and sculptures by Susie MacMurray, who opened the Fall 2013 season
with her inaugural exhibition at Danese/Corey's new gallery space in
Chelsea
·
Yossi Milo Gallery will show select works by photographer Marco
Breuer. Breuer’s Work is also included in the permanent collections of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; J.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany;
International Center of Photography, New York along with many other
prestigious institutions
·
·
Shearburn Gallery will be featuring works by Andrew Milner, Jasper
Johns, John Chamberlain, and Mel Bochner’s Head Honcho”, 2014,
Monoprint, engraving and embossment on hand dyed and collaged Twinrock
handmade paper, among many others
Peter Blake Gallery will show artist John M. Miller’s “Untitled 2
Panels #4 A, Untitled 2 Panels #4 B”

Nancy Hoffman Gallery will feature artist Don Eddy’s work “Seasonal
City IV”, 2014, 73 x 73 inches, acrylic on canvas
·
Robert Mann Gallery will have solo show photographer Julie Blackmon,
featuring the work “Homegrown Food”, 2012, archival pigment print
·
ARCHEUS/POST-MODERN (UK) will be exhibiting Ruth Asawa, “Untitled”,
(S.606, Hanging Single-Lobed Five-Layer Continuous Form Within a
Form), c.1962, copper, naturally oxidized to a green patina along
with, David Hockney, Agnes Martin, Picasso, Lucian Freud, among other
blue-chip artists
·
Catherine
Edelman
Gallery
will
be
exhibiting
Gregory
Scott,
“Warholian” 2014, 32½ x 40” pigment print, oil on panel, and HD video,
Ed. of 8
·
Jenkins Johnson will exhibit the work of famed photographer Michael
Eastman, featuring the work “Shotgun House, New Orleans”, 2005,
Digital c-print
·
Arcature Gallery of Palm Beach will exhibit George Condo’s “The
Antipodal Family” 1998, Oil on canvas, Along and Robert Indiana’s One
Through Zero (The Ten Numbers) 18” polychrome aluminum along with
works by William de Kooning, Jim Dime and Robert Motherwell
·
HackelBury Fine Art (UK) will be exhibiting two, previously unseen
large scale works by pioneering British artist Garry Fabian Miller
·
Musician & Artist Moby will be debuting his photographs including
Moby, “Masters”, Archival pigment print on hahnemuhle fine art baryta,
at the Downtown Fair with Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
·
Chowaiki & Co will highlight great works by Keith Haring, Andy Warhol,
Giorgio Morandi, and Vik Muniz along with Alexander Calder, “Blue and
Yellow Butterfly”, 1973, Gouache on paper
·
Durham Press will be exhibiting works by NYC-based artist Polly
Apfelbaum, currently exhibited at the Perez Art Museum, and artist
Emil Lukas’s impressive portfolio titled “Bubble-up”
·
Currently on exhibition at Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA), artist
Bo Bartlett will be featured by David Klein Gallery
·
Galerie Andreas Binder (Munich) will
painting, “Park 2”, 2014, Oil on canvas
·
Eckert Fine Art will bring nine never before exhibited works by the
late Robert Rauschenberg, (1925-2008) “Heartistic Call (Anagram)”,
1996, Vegetable dye transfer on paper
·
Contessa Gallery will exhibit new works by renowned street artist
Thierry Guetta, now internationally known as Mr. Brainwash
Susie MacMurray
Swarm 2, 2011
wax, steel pins
15.75 x 21.75 x 15.75
inches
DANESE / COREY
Don Eddy
Seasonal City IV, 2014
acrylic on canvas
73 x 73 inches Nancy
Hoffman Gallery
Charles Bierk
Peter, 2014
oil on linen
70 x 60 inches
Nicholas Metivier
Gallery
exhibit
Matthias
Meyer’s
Garry Fabian Miller
In Blue, 2010-2014
Light, water, Lambda cprint from dyedestruction print
46 x 48 inches
HackelBury Fine Art
Deborah Butterfield
not yet titled, 2014
unique cast bronze with
Marco Breuer
patina
Untitled, 2012
40.5 x 42 x 21 inches
Chromogenic
Paper, burned
DANESE / COREY
31 3/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Yossi Milo Gallery
Julia Fullerton- Batten Susan Goethel Campbell
Seasonal Flyers: Spring,
Renaissance 4,
Gregory Scott
2013
(Schizophrenia),
Warholian,
2014
Dandelion
fluff
2013
32½
x
40”
pigment
print,
4
x
7
1/2
x
5
1/2
inches
C-Print
oil
on
panel,
and
HD
David
Klein
Gallery
45 x 45 inches
video
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Ed. of 8
Catherine Edelman Gallery
Concurrent with Frieze Week and alongside the highly-anticipated post-war
and contemporary art auctions at the major auction houses, the Downtown Fair
will conveniently cater to seasoned and new art collectors who are looking
to experience the best of the global contemporary art market in NYC this
May. Additionally, the Downtown Fair will offer all Frieze VIP cardholders
complimentary admittance to the fair, as well as a courtesy shuttle service
to and from the Frieze Ferry, which is located just 10 blocks away on 35th
street.
Some of the curated programming being offered at the fair includes:
ART TALKS
Katy Donoghue, Whitewall, Editor in Chief – a talk with renowned designer
& architect, Dror Benshetrit
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WILLEM DE KOONING - a lecture by Molly Barnes, curator, art dealer, radio
host, teacher, and collector from Los Angeles
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Bruce Helander, Moderator/Panelist, with Anthony Haden-Guest, Panelist.
Title: The Curious Legacy of Collage and its Current Affiliation to
Contemporary Art
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Bruce Helander, Moderator Title: A Conversation with Hunt Slonem about
Bunnies!
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The History of the
art journalist and
Graduate School of
Wooster Street and
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The curatorial team of No Longer Empty will lead tours of the Downtown
Fair.
69th Regiment Armory - a lecture by Roslyn Bernstein,
professor of journalism at Baruch College and the CUNY
Journalism. She is the author of Illegal Living: 80
the Evolution of SoHo.
Sponsors & Partners
The generous 2014 sponsors and partners for the Downtown Fair include:
Bourlet Art Logistics – Official Art Handling and Transport Provider; Turon
Travel – Official Travel Agency; Quintessentially Luxury Lifestyle
Concierge; Uber, Bootlegger 21 New York Vodka, VOSS Artesian Water, New York
Academy of Art, Harvard Business School Club, The Art Newspaper, Art &
Antiques, Surface Magazine, Whitewall Magazine. Philanthropic partners
include: Creative Capital; No Longer Empty; Time in Children’s Art
Initiative.
About The Downtown Fair
The Downtown Fair is operated and produced by a partnership consisting of
art and media industry veterans Nick Korniloff, Mike Tansey and Brian Tyler.
The ownership team also produces Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua, Art Wynwood, Art
Southampton, Miami Masters and Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco Fairs.
About Creative Capital
Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the
country through funding, counsel and career development services. Our
pioneering approach—inspired by venture-capital principles—helps artists
working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build
sustainable practices. Since 1999, Creative Capital has committed $29
million in financial and advisory support to 419 projects representing 529
artists, and our Professional Development Program has reached 7,000 artists
in more than 300 communities through workshops and webinars. www.creativecapital.org
About No Longer Empty – A New York City-based organization whose mission is
to widen and deepen the public engagement with contemporary art, to promote
the work of experimental and socially-conscious artists, and to build
resilience in communities through art. We do so by presenting professionally
curated, site specific, public art exhibitions in the heart of communities.
www.nolongerempty.org
About Time In Children’s Art Initiative – a groundbreaking arts initiative
that brings some of New York’s youngest, most at-risk public school children
out of underserved classrooms in Harlem and the South Bronx, and into the
world of the living arts every week of the school year as part of their
normal school day. Founded in 2006, Time In transforms the lives of inner
city children, as it inspires learning and engagement in a nurturing, multisensorial learning environment that enriches children’s lives and helps them
reach their fullest potential. www.timeinkids.org
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