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Pier 66
4-7 March 10
Zeitgeist is based in Paris and represents a small stable of emerging artists. ZEVS creates paintings of bleeding corporate logos which often take the form of public interventions. For Fountain, Denis built two massive monoliths wrapped in black plastic that evoked ominous associations with the World Trade Center towers.
Open Ground is a platform that serves as a loose community of artists who are open to collaboration and collective endeavours. Brynna Tucker weaves human and synthetic hair into abstract wall tapestries. I liked the decorative simplicity of Bicht’s contact paper wall installation.
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Pier 66
4-7 March
I’m a big fan of Baltimore based Nudashank gallery. It’s fairly a new gallery run by Alex Ebstein and Seth Adelsberger. As mid-Atlantic kid myself, I’m always interested in the art happening in the D.C.-Baltimore corridor.
We-Are-Familia is an international collaborative founded by Jennifer Garcia. The Familia consists of 50 international artists, designers, musicians, etc. that have collaborated on a series of 25 multi-media Keepsake Boxes and other projects.
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Pier 66
4-7 March ‘10
For those of you that missed it, the latest manifestation of Fountain Art Fair sprouted up on the barge that is Pier 66 for four days of anti-Armory Fairness. Sounds like it could be a right-wing militia manifesto, which in this day and age one can’t be too careful about. In this case, it was a mix of 20 galleries and artist projects, live performance and music, and a crowd that evoked the energy of a New York that is often written off as nostalgia. The fact that it was held on a floating pier dangling off Chelsea, the putative capital of cold art world credence and calculation, only lent the affair an enhanced glow of satisfaction.
John Leo and David Kesting of Leo Kesting Gallery founded Fountain for fun, five years ago (I added for fun so there would be five f’s in a row). Greg Haberny/Yum Yum Factory is one of the original repeat offenders.
