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SOFA
NEW YORK 2005 WRAP UP REPORT:
An energetic crowd of over 1000 artists, collectors, curators and patrons opened SOFA NEW YORK 2005 on Wednesday evening with a festive gala preview benefit for the Museum of Arts & Design. Collectors and dealers agreed that Opening Night sales were strong. Linda Schlenger, President of the national collector group, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics (FCC), which attended SOFA NEW YORK, said, “I have never seen so many red dots (on sold artwork) so early at any SOFA ever. All the really wonderful work has sold.”
Joan Mirviss of Joan B. Mirviss, Ltd., New York, specialist in Asian decorative and fine arts, said on Sunday that sales at SOFA NEW YORK were “Spectacular! Across the board. I can’t tell you how many new clients...I am totally gratified by the response. Whatever SOFA is doing (to attract top clientele), it’s doing something very right.” By Sunday noon, Mirviss had sold 23 pieces by mixed artists, in addition to all the ceramic vessel forms in her focus show by contemporary Japanese sculpture artist Sakiyama Takayuki. Mirviss said, “All the major pieces sold Opening Night.” She also reported securing 16 private and museum commissions for large-scale pieces by Sakiyama. VIEW SAKIYAMA TAKAYUKI SPEAKING ABOUT HIS WORK.
Garth Clark Gallery, New York, said “We’ve done extremely well. It’s been a great fair for us.” Clark reported selling 14-15 pieces by early Sunday afternoon including Akio Takamori’s Tall Envelope Vessel, North Wind by Rudy Autio, Untitled Head by Jean-Pierrre Laroque. Also selling well were vessel forms by Rick Dillingham, Robert Turner and Richard De Vore. Clark observed “a step up in quality of the general audience and overall attendance on the floor.” Garth Clark Gallery also sold two large-scale sculptures by Beth Cavener-Stichter, new to SOFA NEW YORK this year. VIEW BETH CAVENER-STICHTER SPEAKING ABOUT HER WORK.
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SOFA NEW YORK 2005: FOREVER, NEVER AND NOW By Michael Workman
New friends, old allies and an unceasing flow of curious lookers, serious collectors and all kinds in-between animate this year’s installment of SOFA NEW YORK. It’s a good looking show and well-attended, by any consensus. Again at the Seventh Regiment Armory here on Park Avenue and 67th Street, glass glistens and gallerists beam. Examples of every assorted material are in evidence: clay, steel, fiber. What makes it so exciting is the ability of anyone to wander these aisles and find something to their liking: an object, an embodied idea. Something to make their home more beautiful, their leisure time reflection more illuminating, their experience of art steeped in a finer degree of things that are well-made and that surprise, mesmerize, tantalize.
New this year we have a number of New York’s own contemporary galleries, including Dean Project, whose focus includes work from emerging artists, with glass, ceramics and furniture, the Danish Galerie Grønlund with “Nineties generation” glass and Tokyo Art Projects/Mika Gallery, with moving images, photography, ceramics and sculpture. Returning are such long-time staples of SOFA NEW YORK as Heller Gallery with their sculptural glass, often scientific and vaguely extraterrestrial in appearance, and Garth Clark Gallery, whose magnificent stable includes such work as Beth Cavener Stichter’s “Strange Attraction,” a menacing bunny rabbit of stoneware with porcelain slip, straight out of a darker version of Wonderland.
SOFA
NEW YORK 2005:
CHICAGO, MAY 2, 2005. The 8th annual SOFA NEW YORK 2005, June 2 - 5 at the prestigious Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue, will assemble fifty-four of the world’s finest galleries and dealers presenting masterworks bridging the decorative and fine arts in a synergy of materiality, virtuosity and meaning. The Opening Night Preview Gala, 5 – 10 pm, June 1 at the Armory, will again benefit the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The acclaimed SOFA Lecture Series featuring internationally renowned artists, collectors and arts professionals, and two Special Exhibits are complimentary with admission. VIEW LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE.
Mark Lyman, President and Founder of SOFA NEW YORK and its sister show, SOFA CHICAGO, said, “Many of the artworks at SOFA are outstanding material expressions, created with a virtuosity of process. And as with all serious art, they are often self-reflexive and rich with allusive meaning.”
GALLERIES
AND DEALERS AT SOFA NEW YORK 2005
CHICAGO,
MAY 2, 2005. 54 top international galleries and dealers at SOFA
NEW YORK 2005 present artworks rich in material expression, virtuoso
process and meaning—from modernist simplicity to contemporary
abstraction, technologies and camp that distance us from the physical
world.
Since 1997, Moderne Gallery has exhibited at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, the first all-20th century gallery to be invited to the prestigious show. Moderne Gallery also regularly exhibits in New York’s trend setting Modernism show, and has led the way at SOFA expositions for the exhibition of vintage works by important 20th century designers and furniture artists such as George Nakashima and Wharton Esherick (1887-1970). Robert Aibel, Director/Owner of Moderne Gallery reports that he will also bring vintage works from the 60’s and 70’s by Arthur Espenet Carpenter and Wendell Castle, among the first to link furniture with sculpture and the fine arts.
TWO
SPECIAL EXHIBITS AT SOFA NEW YORK 2005 Two Special Exhibits at SOFA NEW YORK 2005, complementary with admission, will feature international artworks bridging the fine and decorative arts. Special Exhibits at SOFA are educational in nature and are designed to supplement the gallery presentations.
Bellas Artes/Thea Burger of Santa Fe, NM and New York, NY, in cooperation with the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, presents a Special Exhibit entitled Estelas by Colombian textile master, Olga de Amaral. In the past 10 years, major exhibitions of de Amaral's work have been held in museums in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Japan, Germany, France and the United States. Her work is in numerous museum collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Musee d' Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto.
THIRTEEN
LECTURE SERIES PRESENTATIONS AT Let
us not make teacups but be studio artists!
Complimentary with admission to SOFA NEW YORK 2005 (except where otherwise noted), the acclaimed Lecture Series will feature internationally renowned artists, collectors and arts professionals. Topics include how decorative arts and artists have transcended their traditional roles and meaning, responding to cultural change and the fine arts market; and the collection and presentation of contemporary decorative arts in the museum. The Lecture Series takes place at the exposition from Thursday, June 2 – Saturday, June 4 in the Tiffany Room at the Seventh Regiment Armory.
Jack Lenor Larsen, President, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY and internationally known textile designer, author, and collector, will honor art critic Rose Slivka in Readings from Rose Slivka’s Five Decades of Writings Instigating the Metamorphosis of Craft. Paying tribute to her seminal critical discourse on the essential nature of the pure object, Larsen and select panelists will read key writings by Slivka, who passed away last year.
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