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TO BENEFIT Henry Street Settlement ORGANIZED BY Art Dealers Association of America March 1– 5, Gala Preview February 28 FOUNDED 1962 Park Avenue Armory at 67th Street, New York City MEDIA MATERIALS Lead sponsoring partner of The Art Show The ADAA Announces Program Highlights at the 2017 Edition of The Art Show ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 205 Lexington Avenue, Suite #901 New York, NY 10016 [email protected] www.artdealers.org tel: 212.488.5550 fax: 646.688.6809 Images (left to right): Scott Olson, Untitled (2016), courtesy James Cohan; Larry Bell with Untitled (Wedge) at GE Headquarters, Fairfield, CT in 1984, courtesy Anthony Meier Fine Arts; George Inness, A June Day (1881), courtesy Thomas Colville Fine Art. #TheArtShowNYC Program Features Keynote Event with Museum and Cultural Leaders from across the U.S., a Silent Bidding Sale of an Alexander Calder Sculpture to Benefit the ADAA Foundation, and the Annual Art Show Gala Preview to Benefit Henry Street Settlement ADAA Member Galleries Will Present Ambitious Solo Exhibitions, Group Shows, and New Works at The Art Show, March 1–5, 2017 To download hi-res images of highlights of The Art Show, visit http://bit.ly/2kSTTPW New York, January 25, 2017—The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) today announced additional program highlights of the 2017 edition of The Art Show. The nation’s most respected and longest-running art fair will take place on March 1-5, 2017, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, with a Gala Preview on February 28 to benefit Henry Street Settlement. For the fair’s keynote public program, the ADAA is pleased to host a panel discussion featuring insights from arts and museum leaders on the health of the country’s cultural nonprofits. Gathering Lawrence J. Wheeler, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art; Kaywin Feldman, Nivin and Duncan McMillan Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Zannie Voss, Director of the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University; the discussion will be moderated by Art in America Editor in Chief Lindsay Pollock and will take place at the Park Avenue Armory on Friday, March 3, at 6:00 p.m. Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with gallerists. As part of the ADAA’s philanthropic partnerships, all admission from The Art Show and proceeds from the Gala Preview benefit the Henry Street Settlement, one of New York’s leading social service, arts, and health care organizations. AXA Art Americas Corporation, a specialist dedicated entirely to protecting art and collectibles, once again supports The Art Show as Lead Partner. In conjunction with The Art Show, the ADAA Foundation will offer Alexander Calder’s The Clove (c. 1936) for sale to benefit the Foundation’s mission to advance appreciation of art and art history through its support of curatorial research and exhibition development. The sculpture, which was gifted by the artist to the ADAA Foundation in 1971, will be on public view at The Art Show for the first time since 1937. “The Art Show is a vital platform for our members to strengthen existing relationships with collectors, as well as forge new ones,” said Adam Sheffer, ADAA President and Cheim & Read Partner and Sales Director. “One of very few fairs organized by a nonprofit community of art dealers, The Art Show’s intimate atmosphere encourages active dialogue with the public and emphasizes our members’ deep engagement with the work and the artists they represent.” ADAA Member Presentations at The Art Show 2017 The Art Show’s 72 presentations are selected from over 100 proposals from ADAA member galleries, providing audiences with high-quality presentations of works from the 19th century through today, by artists of a variety of genres, practices, and national and international origin. The 2017 show will include a number of first-time exhibitors, including Fergus McCaffrey, who will present works by Viennese artist Birgit Jürgenssen; James Fuentes, who will juxtapose works by Tamuna Sirbiladze and Noam Rappaport; Hosfelt Gallery, who will highlight four decades of work by Argentinian artist Liliana Porter; and Casey Kaplan, who will present paintings by American artist Sarah Crowner. Longtime ADAA members who are newly returning to the fair include Paula Cooper Gallery, presenting new works by post-conceptual artist Kelley Walker; and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, presenting a sculptural installation by Rirkrit Tiravanija. “We’re pleased to welcome new and returning members to The Art Show in 2017,” said Chair of The Art Show Anthony Meier. “This year’s fair will showcase an amazing range of international artists and works that span over two centuries of art history. Through both solo and group exhibitions, members will provide a platform for artists who deserve further exploration as well as offer exciting approaches to well-known artists, which helps to shed new light on their work.” With its distinctly intimate and contemplative atmosphere, The Art Show serves as a platform for many ADAA members to develop thoughtful presentations curated around specific conceptual or formal themes of visual art practice. Such highlights this year include Women of (New) Abstract Painting, organized by Crown Point Press, which will bring together paintings by Tomma Abts, Jacqueline Humphries, and Charline von Heyl; while Barbara Mathes Gallery will explore Painting and the Photographic Image through works by Allan D’Arcangelo, Jan Dibbets, Joe Goode, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, and others. Pace/MacGill Gallery’s collection of photographs by Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Irving Penn, Alfred Stieglitz, and others will focus on the myriad ways artists have explored and interpreted line. Many of the fair’s solo exhibitions will explore the practices of some of the most significant artists working today, including several debuts of artworks created specifically for The Art Show 2017. David Zwirner will present new paintings on canvas and on paper by Chris Ofili, which have never been shown publicly before. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery will present recent environmentally focused works by Olafur Eliasson, including watercolors formed with water from fragments of melting glacial ice. Coinciding with the Ohio-based artist Scott Olson’s first solo exhibition with James Cohan at its Lower East Side location, the gallery is dedicating its Art Show booth to new paintings by Olson that ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA 205 Lexington Avenue, Suite #901 New York, NY 10016 reflect the centrality of material production and transformation in his practice. Salon 94 will debut work by MoMA-honored Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha; 303 Gallery will unveil a new triptych, Antiquarian Sleeping in His Shop, created specifically for The Art Show by Rodney Graham; and Petzel will present the first four-decade survey of Joyce Pensato’s work. In addition to presentations of leading contemporary artists, member galleries’ exhibitions will offer new insights on established and influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, such as abstract expressionist Lee Krasner, whose Solstice Series collages will be presented by Paul Kasmin Gallery; and Richard Diebenkorn, whose major prints from the Ocean Park series will be presented by Van Doren Waxter. Additional exhibitions of note feature Louise Bourgeois, whose rare and early works will be highlighted by Peter Blum Gallery; Norman Lewis, whose paintings will be presented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery; post-impressionist Édouard Vuillard, whose paintings and works on paper will be presented by Jill Newhouse Gallery; and American landscape painter George Inness, whose work will be featured in a historical survey for the first time in decades by Thomas Colville Fine Art. The fair also includes notable surveys of Latin American and Mexican artists, including an exhibition spanning more than 40 years of work by Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, presented by Galerie Lelong. CRG Gallery will present a solo exhibition of works by Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha, and Alexander Gray Associates will present works created collaboratively by German-born Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer and the New York Graphic Workshop. Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, noted for its Latin American art program, will celebrate the gallery’s 35th anniversary with selections from modern Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo, 20th-century Abstract Expressionist and Surrealist Roberto Matta, Afro-Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, and Uruguayan-Catalan Modernist Joaquín Torres García. The Art Show 2017 Special Events and Programming The Art Show will open with a Gala Preview on Tuesday, February 28, at 5:00 p.m., to benefit Henry Street Settlement. The annual event brings together the international art world and New York City philanthropists in support of the vital services Henry Street Settlement provides to New Yorkers each year. Individual tickets range from $175 to $2,000 and are available to purchase online or by contacting Henry Street Settlement at 212.766.9200, ext. 248. On Friday, March 3, Art in America Editor in Chief Lindsay Pollock will moderate the keynote event, “Beyond New York: Cultural Vibrancy Across the U.S.,” a panel discussion between Lawrence J. Wheeler, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art; Kaywin Feldman, Nivin and Duncan McMillan Director of the Minneapolis Institute of Art; and Zannie Voss, Director of the National Center for Arts Research at Southern Methodist University. The group will discuss their individual successes and strategies for engaging their local arts and cultural communities. The keynote is an annual highlight of The Art Show and one of many public programs presented by the ADAA throughout the year. Henry Street Settlement is pleased to continue its tradition of offering artworks for sale through a silent bidding process available online via Paddle8 beginning February 17, as well as on-site through the run of The Art Show.