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s I craft this note, things are finally looking up for the economy. Stocks are rising, the job market is growing and by the time this issue reaches your mailbox nature’s reflection of that prosperity will be apparent. Spring will be in full swing, with trees and flowers starting to blossom. Spring is a time of growth on all fronts, and the art industry is no exception. In early February, Sotheby’s had a record-breaking sale in London, with Monet’s “Le Grand Canal” fetching $35.6 million. This economic health trickles down to every level of the art world, and we saw proof of that vigor in our wildly successful ART SAN DIEGO and SPECTRUM Miami shows just a few months ago. We can’t wait to see what gainful surprises await us with our next show, Artexpo New York, which runs from April 23–26. One exciting aspect of Artexpo this year is the return of trade days. All of Thursday and half of Friday will be for trade buyers only. With thousands of new pieces available, the show’s offering of wholesale days provides a perfect opportunity for designers and architects looking to score large quantities of artwork for their latest projects, for galleries to check out new artists to represent and for the exhibitors to gain exposure. Other don’t-miss features of Artexpo include the Topics & Trends Education Series, free to all attendees; the party on Thursday night, replete with drinks and demos; and the unveiling of the 2015 Poster Challenge winner. Check out the article by Redwood’s Rosana Rader (page 58) for a closer look at what awaits you at this year’s Artexpo. Also in this issue of Art Business News, Lance Evans explores how the art industry has transitioned over time—and not without resistance—into the digital realm (page 52), and Megan Kaplon showcases some of spring 2015’s special exhibits taking place in museums and galleries across the eastern United States (page 38). Linnea Jessup profiles several artists to find the source of their inspiration (page 46), and Marc Hopkins takes a look at the ever-important issue of arts funding in education (page 28). As always, we’ve packed a lot of food for thought into this issue, and we hope you enjoy every morsel. We look forward to seeing you at Artexpo New York in April!
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FINDING FUNDING FOR ARTS EDUCATION
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News and notes from the art world
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Stacy Conde’s captivating Miami gallery BY MEREDITH QUINN
22 ART BEAT Harness the selling power of LinkedIn. BY L A N C E E VA N S
26 CANVASSING THE LAW How does the Visual Arts Rights Act apply to you? BY AL A N E . K AT Z
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Check out the DECOR section on p. 91. On the Cover: “Grace,” Alain Mailland. Image courtesy Peabody Essex Museum. Photo by Walter Silver. See more from this exhibit on page 38. This page: “On the Dillon Farm,” Travis Tarbox Hotaling. Read more about Hotaling's work on page 46.
CONTRIBUTORS
Lance Evans is a fine artist, pho-
Marc Hopkins is a writer
San Francisco-based free-
Alan E. Katz is a partner in
tographer and commercial artist
based in Washington, D.C.
lancer Linnea Jessup loves
the New York City law firm
whose work has been featured in
His work has appeared in The
to write about international
Greenfield Stein & Senior, LLP,
international ad campaigns. He is
Atlantic, The Wall Street Jour-
destinations and has profiled a
where he specializes in art law,
the author of numerous books, ed-
nal, JazzTimes, and Black
variety of artists and celebrities
real estate law and software
ucational DVDs and articles for var-
Enterprise.
along the way.
licensing.
ious art and design publications.
Meredith Quinn is a
Rosana Rader has over a
Boston-based writer, edi-
decade of experience leading
tor and graduate of New
sales organizations and teams
York University’s journalism
and has consulted for numer-
program.
ous clients, including authors and artists. She is currently an account executive for Redwood Media Group.
Images from the Revolution of the Eye exhibit at The Jewish Museum in New York City (see page 38). LEFT: Still from The Dinah Shore Show, NBC, 1953; ABOVE: Cover art for Get Smart, TV Guide, March 5, 1966, Andy Warhol
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SHARING CUBAN STORIES STACY CONDE, DIRECTOR OF THE CONDE CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY IN MIAMI, SHINES A SPOTLIGHT ONTO THE ART STARS OF AN INACCESSIBLE ISLAND NATION
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he stories of Cuba, a land so close yet so far away, are teaching the world about life and people’s struggles in an isolated country. Perhaps no one has been more inspired than Conde Contemporary owner Stacy Conde, who, in her hometown of Miami, runs a gallery specializing in Cuban art. Though she started out in the fashion world as a protégé of British design icon Barbara Hulanicki, Conde says that making the transition to art “was almost a no-brainer.” After redesigning gutted Art Deco hotels and working on the clothing Hulanicki sold in her London store, Biba, Conde found that “Art was fashion. Art was everything.” Married to contemporary Cubanborn artist Andres Conde, Stacy Conde first entered the art world in 1998 with the Goodman-Conde Gallery. She has now set up shop in Little Havana to share the work and stories of a culture with which she so strongly identifies.
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We asked Conde about her journey, her Miami gallery and the effect of the newest Cuba-U.S. diplomatic announcement on the art world. ART BUSINESS NEWS: What is it about Cuban artists that has made you devote so much of your career to spotlighting their work? STACY CONDE: I was born and raised in Miami, so proximity is something. There were several waves of Cuban immigration into the United States, and one of them was [the Mariel Boatlift, a mass emigration of Cubans who departed from Cuba’s Mariel Harbor for the United States between April 15 and Oct. 31, 1980]. I was 10 years old, and it just affected me so deeply. We received more than 100,000 Cubans in … a year to Miami, and [it] was almost painful to watch. You had these people who had left everything—lost everything, except their dignity and their quest for freedom—and, as they began to assimilate
into society, you grew up with them. And I just found the culture so very close to, believe it or not, a Southern culture, where my grandmother is from. It’s very food-centered, family-centered. You laugh, you fight, you dance, you kiss, you hug and you eat. It’s really a beautiful, warm culture that is very rich in so many ways. The different influences in the culture are expressed in the art—European influences, African influences and native influences. It’s this gorgeous amalgamation.
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ABN: What makes you want to work with an artist? SC: I have to see the work and really be moved by the work because … there’s so much art out there. There are so many people out there doing pretty good work, so, when I see something, I have to go, “Wow. That has moved me.” After that, I have to relate to the artists in some way because … I’m looking for a long-term partnership with the artist. We very much rely on each other. As much as I’m helping [the artists], they’re
happy. And what could be better than being surrounded by beautiful work and beautiful people inside—the beautiful souls that created this work? At the same time, it’s tremendously hard work. I don’t know that I’ve ever worked this hard in my life. It’s constant. You do what you have to do to make it happen. It’s not just my career. It’s not just my gallery. It’s all of these really talented and wonderful people that I work with who I want to keep working. [I do] not want to see some of
ing outlook. And if you get an artist who is like that, you watch what they channel onto a canvas or into a sculpture, and it’s pretty remarkable.
helping me. We’re building our careers together. So if I don’t have someone that I feel like I can have a partner in, that I can work with, then I don’t want to work with [that person]. Life is too short to be miserable. I’m not interested in fighting. We’ve worked out our lives so that I spend the vast majority of my time with my husband. His studio is at the back of the gallery. I’m running everything from the front. But we have coffee together. We talk. And this is how I want my life to be. I want it to be
these people have to do other jobs just to make ends meet.
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ABN: Why did you feel compelled to share this artwork with the world? SC: It speaks to me. If you relate so much to a culture and you genuinely like the people, you like their way of being and you like their chutzpah, you’re going to like their expression on many levels. It’s a love for the culture. And then you look at a group of people who have suffered and struggled for such a long time and, in so many cases, maintained this sense of buoyancy, this sense of humor, this amaz-
ABN: What do Cuban artists offer that is unique to their culture? SC: Their point of view is very specific because they have been almost locked down. Even the Cubans that are out in the diaspora are coming from that perspective. They’re seeing the outside world from a different perspective.
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ABN: What makes people so enthusiastic about the work you represent? SC: Number 1: the quality of the work … the backstory of the work itself, as well as the artists. The artists have very compelling stories, and [they express] these stories in their work. You look at a painting—for example, Andres’ Social series [a re-creation of covers from the famous Cuban magazine, Social, which
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“I'm looking for a long-term partnership with the artist. We very much rely on each other. As much as I'm helping [the artists], they're helping me. We're building our careers together.” closed down in 1938]—and you see very graphic, commercial, pretty work, and you can just take that at face value, or you can kind of dig into it and try to see exactly what it is. … Andres’ idea was to reopen this magazine in 1939 in his own head and do 240 new covers and reclose the magazine again symbolically on the date of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. On some of these canvases, he’s using precious metals, like 23-carat gold, to further drive home the point: “This is what it was,” as opposed to, “Look at the misery; look at what you’ve created. Let’s go backward and take a hard look back at how wonderful this place was.” Andres has become kind of tired of seeing the same symbolism in Cuban protest art over and over again—the inner tubes and the paddles. That’s a legitimate expression, but you become desensitized to seeing these things, especially here in
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Miami, where everybody knows some really painful and tragic stories. ABN: Is your clientele also largely Latin American, or do your artists and their themes cross cultural lines? SC: They absolutely cross cultural lines, which I find so interesting. I initially thought it would probably appeal more to Cuban-Americans, but the fact of the matter is that we’re probably about half and half—maybe even more so American at this point, which is really wonderful. It means that the larger population is really looking very seriously at Cuban art. ABN: Sometimes you look at a piece of art, and it just speaks to you. It doesn’t matter what the culture is. SC: Right, and that’s the point. I’m not trying to have some kind of super-political Cuban protest gallery; that’s not what it is
Stacy and Andres in their Miami gallery.
about at all. I have one kinetic sculpture in the window that has six dolls that salute whenever you walk by them, and they’re dressed as Cuban schoolchildren. That is the only political piece I have in the gallery right now [of] about 60 works. It’s meant to transcend the political situation in Cuba. It’s honestly about the art. ABN: What effects do you think the recent accord reached between the United States and Cuba will have on the Cuban art scene? SC: Initially, I think there is going to be a mad rush. I think it’s going to further stabilize the art market. When you have a greater exchange between the United States and Cuba, it’s going to create very stable prices—both in the U.S. and on the island—because now you’re not going to try to undercut another market or oversell it. It’s going to stabilize everything. Everyone that I’ve talked to—regardless of their political affiliation—is at least hopeful [that] it will affect not just Cuban artists, but the Cuban people, in a positive way. Whether it will I have no idea, but it is certainly my most sincere hope that the Cuban people have more freedom to live their lives in the way that they would like to live them. ABN
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growth and greenery as New Yorkers exchange boots for sandals, the tulips bloom in Central Park and the cherry trees blossom around the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. Celebrate spring on the East Coast with these top 15 exhibits in galleries and museums. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: “Willem de Kooning,” Elaine de Kooning; “This is not a fountain (detail),” Subodh Gupta; Evening dress, Roberto Cavalli; “KinetiCairo,” Christina Zwart.
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Subodh Gupta, Seven Billion Light Years Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street Feb. 10 – April 25 A painter and sculptor who lives and works in New Delhi, Subodh Gupta uses objects he gets from junkyards and antiques markets in his home country to inspire and build his art. The resulting creations celebrate Gupta’s small-town upbringing and explore the realities of Indian life. This exhibition will be his second at a New York location of Hauser & Wirth. hauserwirth.com Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility. Mirror Works and Drawings The Guggenheim Museum March 13 – June 3 Farmanfarmaian’s geometric designs find their roots in Islamic art. The prolific Iranian artist, now 90, is most famous for her mirror mosaics and mirror-reverse glass painting; however, the Infinite Possibility collection also features a number of her sketches and drawings, providing a unique look at this extraordinary artist. guggenheim.org
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Inaugural Exhibition The Whitney Museum of American Art Starting May 1 The Whitney reopens for the first time this spring since moving to its new 220,000-square-foot, Renzo Piano-designed building in the Meatpacking District. The museum’s inaugural exhibition promises to be the largest and most comprehensive display to date of the museum's vast permanent collection of 20th and 21st century art. whitney.org Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television The Jewish Museum May 1 – Sept. 15 This exhibit provides a look at the way avantgarde art shaped the look of television in the 1950s and ’60s with works by Saul Bass, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and more, as well as memorabilia and clips from iconic films and television shows, including Batman, The Ed Sullivan Show and The Twilight Zone. thejewishmuseum.org
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FROM FAR LEFT: “My Egypt,” Charles Demuth; “Untitled,” Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian; “Panel One,” “Panel Two” and “Panel Three,” Mark Rothko; “Full Moon II,” Greg S. Smith; “Phi Square Root,” Mark Reynolds.
China: Through the Looking Glass Metropolitan Museum of Art May 7 – Aug. 16 Housed in the Met’s Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center, this exhibit showcases Chinese high fashion and costumes, as well as paintings, decorative arts, porcelains and films in an exploration of Chinese imagery from the 1700s to the present. metmuseum.org Mark Reynolds Pierogi Gallery June 5 – July 5 Artist Mark Reynolds’ geometric drawings get their dizzying effect from the mathematical relations he uses to build the images. He sometimes derives the ratios in his drawings from nature or music, and he uses geometry to create intricate, weblike drawings that captivate the observer. pierogi2000.com
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Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA Through July 26 On display at the new Harvard Art Museums, this exhibit features a camera projector system that helps restore the appearance of Rothko’s murals to how they looked when originally painted. (The colors faded while the murals were on display in a penthouse faculty dining room of Harvard’s Holyoke Center in the ’60s and ’70s.) harvardartmuseums.org Audacious: The Fine Art of Wood from the Montalto Bohlen Collection Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Feb. 21 – June 21 Nearly 100 diverse wood pieces from around the world come together for this exhibit of contemporary wood art at the Peabody Essex Museum. Shaped as vessels, bowls and vases or entirely abstract, the works in this exhibit showcase the versatility of wood as a medium. pem.org
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Herb Ritts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston March 14 – Nov. 8 In 2007, the Herb Ritts Foundation donated $2.5 million to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to build the first gallery at the museum dedicated solely to photography. This spring, the Herb Ritts and Clementine Brown Galleries at the museum will be filled with Ritts’ work, including many pieces from the 1996 MFA exhibit Herb Ritts: Work, which was one of the most popular exhibitions at the museum to date. It will also showcase other images from the late fashion photographer’s vast body of work. mfa.org Christina Zwart Boston Sculptors Gallery April 1 – May 3 Zwart, a native of Wayland, Massachusetts, challenges perceptions of reality with her indoor and outdoor installations. Through multiplication and manipulation, Zwart, who got her start as a window-display artist, dislodges familiar objects from our associations and gives them an entirely
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new—and sometimes bizarre—existence. bostonsculptors.com
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O’Keeffe and Friends: Dialogues with Nature The Phillips Collection Through May 31 Georgia O’Keeffe’s Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV and Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. VI are on display alongside landscapes and other paintings from American modernists of the early 1900s, including Alvin Langdon Coburn, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and John Marin, who contemplate and celebrate elements of nature. phillipscollection.org Elaine de Kooning: Portraits National Portrait Gallery March 13 – Jan. 10, 2016 Abstract expressionist portraitist and painter Elaine de Kooning is best known for her portrayals of men, including her husband, painter Willem De Kooning; critic Harold Rosenberg; poets Frank O’Hara and Allen Ginsberg; and President John F. Kennedy, all
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FROM FAR LEFT: “Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage,” Herb Ritts; “Rosekill,” Christina Zwart; Daoist priest’s robe (detail), China, mid19th century; “Reflection,” Ysabel LeMay; “The Calling,” Jason Wright.
of which will be on display in this curated exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. nationalportraitgallery.org Unraveling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories The Textile Museum at the George Washington University Museum March 21 – Aug. 24 The largest exhibition in The Textile Museum’s history, Unraveling Identity will feature more than 100 pieces spanning 3,000 years and five continents. Clothing, decorative pieces, housewares and more explore culture, politics and social identity through textiles. museum.gwu.edu
will feature two versions of each painting, one in black and gray and another in color. His intention is to show how the same scene in different colors evokes different feelings from the viewer. longviewgallerydc.com Organic Matters—Women to Watch National Museum of Women in the Arts June 5 – Sept. 13 The fourth installment of NMWA’s Women to Watch series features 13 up-and-coming female artists from all over the country and the world. Each of the pieces feature elements of this year’s theme: imagery and materials from the natural world. nmwa.org
Jason Wright LongView Gallery May 8 – June 7 Wright, a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art and Design, got his first taste of art illustrating skateboards at home in Hawaii and is now a seasoned artist known for his geometric paintings. Wright’s spring show at LongView, “VERSUS,”
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The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760-1860 March 6 – July 26 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut The Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art team up to present works that celebrate the richness and range of Yale’s Romantic pieces. artgallery.yale.edu Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs March 7 – May 24 Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware A collection of memorable canine photographs taken by Erwitt in various locations around the world between 1946 and 2004. delart.org Halston and Warhol: Silver and Suede March 7 – June 14 Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina This exhibit unites the work of Andy Warhol and Roy Halston Frowick to explore the art and fashion of the ’60s and ’70s. mintmuseum.org Rinehart’s Studio: Rough Stone to Living Marble March 29 – August 30 The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland Explore the striking marble sculptors of 19th-century artist and Maryland native William Henry Rinehart. thewalters.org
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“Hadleigh Castle, The Mouth of the Thames—Morning after a Stormy Night,” John Constable
Young Contemporaries: Annual Student Exhibition April 4 – May 2 Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina The brightest stars of the College of Charleston’s School of the Arts show off their work in this annual exhibition. halsey.cofc.edu Robert Lobe: In the Forest of Drawn Metal April 11 – January 17, 2016 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey Lobe’s textured and patinated aluminum wall reliefs are made by hammering sheets of aluminum over natural forms. groundsforsculpture.org
Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association April 24 – August 2 RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Boyarsky assembled this collection of drawings during his time as chairman of the Architectural Association. It includes work by some of the most prominent architects and artists of the late 20th Century. risdmuseum.org
Eric Standley: In Depth May 21 – August 16 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia Revel in the intricate craft required to bring to life Standley’s impossibly detailed paper sculptures. virginiamoca.org
Japanese Tattoo: Perseverance, Art, and Tradition May 30 – September 27 Virginia Museum of Fine Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, Fred Arts, Richmond, Virginia Wilson: The Order of Things The work of seven internationally acclaimed tattoo May 16 – August 3 artists, eachof whom finds The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania inspiration in the Japanese Three new large-scale instal- tradition of tattooing, dislations, each created specif- plays alongside tools and ically for the Barnes Founda- relief carvings, as well as a tion, will be displayed in this recreated Shinto shrine. vmfa.museum ABN three-month-long exhibit. barnesfoundation.org
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rtexpo New York has always focused on innovation and creativity. Its parent company, Redwood Media Group, hosts art shows and events across the country and is always on the lookout for the newest, latest and never-beforeseen pieces. Artexpo New York 2015 promises to be even bigger than in years past. Featuring more galleries, more artists and more events, including an extensive Topics and Trends Education Series, Artexpo New York welcomes several returning masters, including Anna Razumovskaya, Alexis Silk and Samir Sammoun, along with several first-time attendees, galleries and industry experts. From national and international galleries to the individual artists’ exhibits to the trade exhibitors, myriad attractions will make Artexpo New York a destination event this April. Artexpo brings together 25,000 visitors at Pier 94 in the heart of Midtown Manhattan for one exciting weekend.
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NEW FACES This year, Artexpo attendees will be sure to notice first-time exhibitor Ben Riley. An accomplished British artist, Riley takes music and art to another level with his pieces. He starts with damaged records and grinds them into pure beauty, capturing iconic artists with broken pieces and dust from vinyl records. The feelings you get when listening to vinyl—nostalgia, rawness, purity—are the same emotions you experience when viewing a Riley original. If your passion is sculpture, look no further than Carmen Stiffelman, who debuts her collection in New York for the first time this spring. Born in Romania, she moved to Israel at age 3 and then to California in her early 20s. Stiffelman’s sculptures capture a sense of movement, giving dynamic life to the human body and spirit. Mexico-based artist Peter Terrin had a successful showing at SPECTRUM Miami during Art Basel Week. His large-scale paintings sold for more than $20,000, and international collectors
clamored for his work. The native Belgian says that he feels pure joy when he paints, and that sense comes through in his colorful, striking paintings. GALLERIES GALORE More than 50 galleries will exhibit at Artexpo this year, including Stoa Gallery, which will be exhibiting for the first time in New York. Stoa, with locations in Estepona and Málaga, Spain, both on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, represents both established and emerging artists, many of whom feature a strong Spanish influence. This truly international gallery hosts shows and exhibitions throughout the world. The Mahlstedt Gallery of New Rochelle, New York, will also make an appearance at Artexpo. Featuring a variety of international contemporary art, Mahlstedt will display work from abstract artist Malo, figurative painter Guillermo De Rosa and surrealist David Whitlam, among others. Two additional galleries making their Artexpo New York debut are Art
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on a Whim, with locations in Breckinridge and Vail, Colorado, and Miami’s Wynwood 28. Both galleries represent an amazing collection. Art on a Whim has fun, whimsical work with an AllAmerican flair, and Wynwood 28 presents a more serious collection. Florencia Aise, a featured Wynwood 28 artist, engages the viewer with her oil-on-canvas paintings of children that are so realistic they seem apt to jump off the wall at any moment. ARTEXPO FAVORITES Don’t worry; favorite exhibitors from 2014 will be back this year as well. Anna Razumovskaya, a highly acclaimed Russian artist, revives the romanticism of the Renaissance artists, bringing together old and new to create her masterpieces. Mattson’s Fine Art exhibition will feature another returning master, Alexis Silk. Silk has trained under the glass masters of Murano, Italy, for the last two years. Although Silk is young, her work displays an astounding ma-
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turity. Silk sculpts each piece freehand, requiring as many as six skillful assistants to handle the glass as she sculpts it. The result is handblown glass figures, some soft and alluring with angelic wings and others raw and intense hanging from meathooks. Hailing from Lebanon, Samir Sammoun makes his annual return to Artexpo as well. Six museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, house Sammoun’s paintings, which capture the colorful landscape of his Mediterranean childhood home. Sammoun moved to Canada at 21 to further pursue his art and education and has exhibited at Artexpo New York since 1996. DECOR EXPO SHOWCASE DECOR Expo Showcase joins Artexpo New York for the second time this year. The Expo will feature top international framing suppliers alongside boutique manufacturers. Returning under new ownership, Pease Pedestals will feature
its traditional pedestals, as well as a collection of pieces with special features. Vermont Hardwoods will exhibit beautiful wood mouldings. Whether you operate a small neighborhood frame shop or a large manufacturing company, Gunnar’s computerized mat cutters can help make your work more precise and help you produce top-quality products more quickly. So, don’t miss out. Artexpo New York presents an opportunity to meet amazing people and see creations that will keep you talking until next year when the show returns. ABN Rosana Rader has more than a decade of experience leading sales organizations and teams. Specializing in sales to diverse clients worldwide, she has a proven track record in driving profits. Rosana has consulted for numerous clients, including authors and artists. Currently, Rader is Director of Sales and Exhibitions for Redwood Media Group. In her spare time, she writes and is a new contributor to Art Business News.
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