5 Exhibitions to see outside of Frieze art fair. (my personal picks)

1.] KENNY SCHACHTER: Artist

Kantor Gallery | Feb. 12 - March 15, 2019

The world of renowned Art dealer Kenny Schacter is taking on new colors and forms. Stay tuned and check out this video: https://vimeo.com/315940916

2.} LEE QUIÑONES : If These Walls Could Talk

Charlie James Gallery | Jan. 12 - March 2, 2019

Four decades on from his influential mark on New York City’s graffiti movement of the late 1970s that eventually pushed the illicit visual vernacular of the subway graffitists through the lips of contemporary art society, Lee Quiñones has created intimate new works meditating on the passage of time and the organic process by which meaning speaks through his artistic practice.

3.} RAUSCHENBERG: The ¼ Mile

LACMA | Oct. 28 - June 9, 2019

The 1/4 Mile reveals the broad scope of Rauschenberg’s practice through the multitude of mediums and techniques employed, and serves as a self-contained retrospective of his oeuvre. This presentation is the first time The 1/4 Mile or 2 Furlong Piece will be exhibited in its entirety

4.} SARAH CAIN: The Sun Will Not Wait

Honor Fraser Gallery | Jan. 12 - March 9, 2019

The artist will create a new floor painting onsite prior to the opening along with a body of new canvases concluding with an upward view through a skylight work inspired by a major commission by the San Francisco Arts Commission for a stained-glass wall at the San Francisco International Airport to be unveiled in June 2019.

5.} THE MISTAKE ROOM (TMR): Ceramica Azul

1811 20th ST. LA | Through March 16, 2019

Established in 2014, TMR operates from a renovated industrial warehouse along the Alameda Corridor at the southernmost edge of Downtown LA’s Arts District. The use of our physical venue changes according to each curatorial cycle. Its purpose however, remains constant—to be a dynamic nexus through which Los Angeles connects to people, places, and histories well beyond its confines.

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LA POP UP

Exclusive pop-up event celebrating the launch of RIMOWA x Alex Israel, a new special edition collection of color-graded aluminum suitcases inspired by Israel's hometown of Los Angeles.

Join us at 8495 Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood for a memorable event featuring an immersive experience, music, special surprises, and curated refreshments courtesy of LA-based coffee company Alfred.

Open daily from February 14 – 16, 2019, 11am-6pm.

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What’s a BLUE CHIP ARTIST? (and who cares?)

In standard poker sets, blue chips have the highest value. 

And after a storied visit to the Stock Exchange, a Journalist accidentally coined the phrase "Blue Chip" and over time our culture now recognizes Blue Chip Stocks, Blue Chip Companies, or Blue Chip Art - and they all equal one thing = High Value (and the resultant HIGH VALUE OF RETURN ON INVESTMENT)

The excitement of each year (2019 is already off to an amazing start) can be found in obscure and up and coming artists, who cross the threshold and go on to become bonafide BLUE CHIP ARTISTS.

I always look at each new artists collections and assess what or when or how a piece of theirs can speak to culture in such a way as to hold that possibility. There is nothing more gratifying than both helping an artist on that road, alongside enriching my collectors acquisitions with pieces that go on to become seminal blue chip art.

Some classic Blue Chip artists (Partial List)

Picasso, Pollack, Francis Bacon, Barnett Newman, Fernand Leger, Mark Rothko, Kandinsky, Miro, Giacometti, Brancusi, De Kooning, Basqiuat, Salvidor Dali, Anselm Kiefer, *Glenn Ligo, Henry Moore, Tracy Emin, Tyeb Mehta, Mark Flood, Yoshitomo Nara, Agnes Martin, Takashi Murakami, Lucien Smith, Anish Kapoor, Manjit Bawa, Jan Chobolits, Neo RauchIrma, Stern Albert, Oehlen, Sol Lewitt, Mark Grotjahn, Alberto Burri, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Keith Haring, Jay DeFeo, Alexander Calder, Sigmar Polke, Jeff Koons, *Damien Hirst, *Gerhard Richter, * Jasper Johns, * Robert Motherwell, Christopher Wool, * Kazimir Malevich, Lucio Fontana, *Brice Marden, *Bruce Nauman', *Robert Ryman, *Richard Prince, *David Hammons, *Ed Ruscha, * Martin Kippenberger Helen Frankenthaler Simon HantaiSam FrancisJules Olitski Bernar VenetLarry Rivers Lee Krazner, Eva Hesse, Wilfredo Lam, Botero, & Roberto Matta * Living Blue Chip Artists 

Lisa Frieman steps into an Independent Curatorial role with a Paul Stephen Benjamin exhibition at Marianne Boesky Gallery

Here is an exhibition I am excited to attend, and a woman in the industry that inspires me greatly. She has been a tireless and passionate force in the industry and I can’t wait to see all that is accomplished in 2019!

In a release announcing Freiman’s departure from VCU Institute for Contemporary Art, which noted her work completing a $37-million capital campaign for the museum alongside the completion of a new building, VCU’s provost, Gail Hackett, praised the director’s leadership and said, “Lisa advanced the university’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in the arts and worked to integrate the strategic goals of the university into the ICA.”

Her first project after her term at VCU is fast on the heels, opening January 19th:

Marianne Boesky Gallery Announces Exhibition

Of Work by Paul Stephen Benjamin,

Curated by Lisa Freiman

Pure, Very, New Marks the Atlanta-Based Artist’s First Solo Show in NYC

On View January 19 - February 16, 2019

Opening Reception January 19, 6:00-8:00 PM

On January 19, Marianne Boesky Gallery will open Pure, Very, New, Atlanta-based artist Paul Stephen Benjamin’s first solo exhibition in New York. Presented across both of the gallery’s Chelsea locations, at 509 and 507 W. 24th Street, the exhibition will feature Benjamin’s paintings, photographs, sculpture, and single and multi-channel video installations, as well as a new site-specific black light installation to be created in the internal passageway between the two spaces. Curated by independent curator Lisa Freiman, the exhibition will highlight Benjamin’s years-long examination of the word “black” as a linguistic, conceptual, and cultural construct. Pure, Very, New, which will be accompanied by a catalogue, will remain open through February 16, 2019. 

Ones to watch (and collect)

Each year becomes it’s own signature personality that is evidenced in the artists who come to the forefront to provide a cultural mirror that resonates across the globe.

In the news, big gains in gavel prices for a particular piece at the larger auctions from Sotheby’s and Christies set the market ablaze with activity that impacts other pieces and the artists who made them. An investment in these artists before the market has these dynamic shifts is optimum. I keep my research, consistent studio visits, auction attendance and general market knowledge always targeting these opportunities to serve collectors both new and established. Here are some ones to watch this year!

RICHARD HAMBLETON

In 1982, Hambleton began his most widely known urban art project, the "Shadowman" series. Hambleton painted shadow figures into the landscape of New York City from 1982-1986. He continues to explore landscape in his current series, "The Beautiful Paintings." Feature articles on Hambleton can be found in Art in America, Life Magazine, People, and The New York Times, among others.

MCDERMOTT & MCGOUGH

McDermott & McGough consists of visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough. McDermott & McGough are contemporary artists known for their work in painting, photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and New York City. 

McDermott & McGough are best known for using alternative historical processes in their photography, including the techniques of cyanotype, gum bichromate, salt, tri color carbo, platinum and palladium. Among the subjects they approach are popular art and culture, religion, medicine, advertising, time, fashion and sexual behavior.

LEE QUINONES

Quiñones’ collaboration with Supreme dropped for the SS18 collection. A huge cosign, bound to bring his work into the forefront for 2019. Quiñones is a graffiti icon, one of the OGs of street art, his boundary-pushing defined both the aesthetics and medium of modern graffiti and it continues to impact content and media as well as creating new stages and settings for the works themselves.

KAWS

The New Jersey native kicked off 2016 with his first UK museum exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park that featured a 10-meter-tall sculpture dubbed SMALL LIE. A couple of months later, the artist had his first solo show in South Korea’s Galerie Perrotin that spotlighted a life-size sculpture of the Companion and a series of abstract paintings inspired by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, and 2019 holds many co-signs, exhibitions and installations that are sure to shake the market and intrigue collectors and fans alike.

2019 MOVING FORWARD>>

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I am excited for what awaits us and to uncover 2019's breakthrough stars as well as witness new works by some of my established go-to artists. 

Here is a list of some of my top picks of favorite Iconic annual events to attend this year that will transport me both physically, to many cities around the world, as well as lift my spirits and inspire me in the way only the art world can!

Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair

For the first time, Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair, presented by Art Miami and hosted by the City of West Palm Beach, will kick off in West Palm Beach, sponsored by Christie’s International Real Estate. Making its debut at West Palm Beach City’s Tent Site near CityPlace, the 65,000 square foot pavilion will offer collectors, art connoisseurs and art world luminaries the opportunity to acquire investment quality Blue Chip contemporary, Post-War works from 60 top international galleries from as far as Japan, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Venezuela.

MATERIAL ART FAIR, MEXICO

In 2019, Material Art Fair will celebrate its sixth edition from February 7th – 10th at the Frontón México, an Art Deco-era sporting arena located directly alongside the breathtaking Monument to the Revolution, in the heart of Mexico City.

Material’s milestone fifth edition was described as “an architecturally-charged, holistic physical and cultural experience” and “a living monument to the vitalization of Mexico City as a distinctive part of the international art community,” which was “packed with collectors, curators, and artists” and “wowed visitors” with “an impressive display of artistic talent” and “innovative individuality.”

FRIEZE LOS ANGELES

Frieze Los Angeles is located at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood California

Frieze’s new contemporary art fair offers an unparalleled opportunity to discover 70 of the world’s most significant and forward-thinking galleries inside a bespoke structure designed by architect Kulapat Yantrasast. Taking place during Los Angeles’ Awards Season and celebrating the wealth of art and cultural activity across the city, Frieze Week promises to be an unmissable moment in Los Angeles.

THE ARMORY25

Staged on Piers 92 & 94, The Armory Show features leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs.

The Armory Show is New York City’s premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. Staged on Piers 92 & 94, The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery and patronage in the visual arts.

The Armory Show was founded by four New York gallerists – Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris – who sought a platform to present and promote new voices in the visual arts. In its 24 years, The Armory Show has stayed firm to its mission while establishing itself as an unmissable art event set in the heart of New York City and welcoming over 65,000 visitors annually.

ARTBASEL HONG KONG

Underlining Art Basel's commitment to the region, half of the participating galleries once again have exhibition spaces in Asia and Asia-Pacific. The show provides an in-depth overview of the region’s diversity through both historical material and cutting-edge works by established and emerging artists.

SEE YOU IN BASEL MIAMI?

Here are some highlights of the Local Museums exhibitions we have put on our calendars to visit during BASEL MIAMI 2018

I am excited to be a guest at the upcoming private showing at the ICIA MIAMI of JUDY CHICAGO: A Reckoning and will share the experience with you here next week! 

Judy Chicago: A Reckoning” is a major survey of works by the pioneering feminist artist. This exhibition highlights her iconographic transition from abstraction to figuration, and explores the ways in which the artist’s strong feminist voice transforms our understanding of modernism and its traditions.

Alongside Basel, there are three local museums I can't wait to visit this year for the exhibitions they have planned:

NSU ART MUSEUM

THE BASS

PEREZ ART MUSEUM MIAMI

The Beginners: Why and How to Start An Art Collection

You know the one. That cold modern art gallery you walked past the other day?

The art world’s entry points for those who may be beginning to form an interest and start to build a collection often are very intimidating.

The wonders and excitement however, of immersing yourself in the many offerings of the Art World are vast and far reaching and find their way into ones individual life beyond just one aspect. How you relate to, and place yourself in the culture that surrounds us, becomes more evident and as unique to you, as the many artists and their expressions we experience and recognize shared value in.

Here is a list of some films that explore that wonder and take a bit of the sting out in case you wandered into a gallery that made you feel like you didn’t belong!

1) Blurred Lines: Inside The Art World

2) Style Wars

3) The Price of Everything 

4) Shadowman

5) Basquiat: Boom for Real

6) Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict

7) The Art of the Steal (2009)

8) The Cool School (2008)

9) Guest of Cindy Sherman (2008)

10) National Gallery (2014)

THE KITCHEN BENEFIT ART AUCTION

One of New York City’s oldest nonprofit organizations, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines, The Kitchen’s annual benefit art auction draws support from major artists and established members of the industry. 

Daria is honored to be selected to be a committe member for the 2018 season fundraiser. 

Bringing the spotlight to charity through her relationships in the art world, Daria curated and organized custom pieces by artists including a piece by Trevor Andrew aka Gucci Ghost. The Kitchen Organization's annual benefit auction includes pieces by Wade Guyton, David Salle, with participating Galleries, ‪David Zwirner‬, Skarstedt Gallery, Pace Galleries and the 303 Gallery with special thanks to Paddle 8 and Christies.