Armory Week: Some Geometry

A must read: My First Blog AwardMore Armory Week here, here, here and here .Chelsea: Larry Zox at the Stephen Haller Gallery.In this last post about Armory Week, I've rounded up the best of the geometric work I saw. I have a soft spot for hard edge, so that's where we'll begin, but you'll note some juicy materiality as well. And I have to say that the painting I loved best was not at the fairs at

Armory Week: Stacked

(Marketing Mondays will return next week with "The Rogue Consultant").More Armory Week here, here and here .Armory: Joachim Schonfelt at Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg..Seeing so much stacked work at the fairs, it occurred to me that the format represented a large slice of what was being shown throughout the fairs: taxidermy, abject or commonplace materials, textiles, structure, materiality. If

Five Uneasy Pieces

More Armory Week here and here.Sometimes the fairs are not about the big picture so much as they are about about smaller, idiosyncratic expressions. That's the case with these five works. I found them all compelling. If I had to give you one formal word for them, it would be materiality; one personal word would be uneasy. And I mean that in a good way. I didn't instantly like several of them but

Armory Week Report: The Overview

. Wandering the fairs last week, there was a brief moment when I couldn’t remember where I was. Call it Art Fair Alzheimer’s. Was I in Miami? New York? Maybe Basel? It's not that I was like The Sleepwalker, left, but that the same galleries had brought many of the same artists they always bring. No wonder I didn't know where I was. .Tony Matelli, Sleepwalker, at Leo Koenig, New York. Armory

Get Your Retinas In Shape!

. Manfred Kuttner at Johan Konig Gallery, Berlin. Independent Art.My month is busy. I have two openings in the area in the next two weeks, and another just after that in Tucson (links to all three here), so for the recent Armory Week you're not getting anything close to my Miami coverage. Still, I have several posts in the works. This is the first of them. The vertiginous, eye-watering quality of