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Black Tie
International:
Art Southampton 2015
Photos by:
Annie Watt |
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ART SOUTHAMPTON 2015 DRAWS CRITICAL ACCLAIM FROM TOP
INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS, ART ADVISORS & CURATORS |
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Record
attendance and sales, stunning new location at Nova’s Ark
Project, mark fourth and largest-yet edition of East End’s
premier contemporary art fair
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Henry
Barguirdjian and Graff models |
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Nick Korniloff,
Pamela Cohen, Terrie Sultan and Christopher French |
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Southampton, NY (July 17, 2015)
- Wrapping
up its fourth and largest edition yet, Art
Southampton, the leading international contemporary
and modern art fair for acquiring investment-quality
20th and
21st century
works of art, presented by Art-Miami, drew a record
21,000 collectors, art enthusiasts, curators and art
lovers to the world-renowned pastoral grounds of
Nova's Ark Project.
Attendees resoundingly noted the
distinguished array of contemporary artworks and
installations, paintings, photography, prints,
drawings, design, video art, and indoor and outdoor
sculptures showcased by more than 80 international
galleries at the fair.
Sales began almost immediately after
the fair opened its doors to the lavish and
exclusive two-tiered VIP Private Preview, which
benefited the Parrish
Art Museum and Southampton
Hospital and
set the tone for both the evening and the fair's
five-day duration.
"We were so pleased to work in
concert with Art Southampton this year, with a great
exchange of ideas and resources that makes
everyone¹s experience richer." said Terrie Sultan,
Director of the Parrish Art Museum.
Upon arriving, guests were treated to
the eye-catching large-scale contemporary art
sculpture fields of the Nova's Ark Project - the
backdrop of this year's new, and based on attendees'
accolades, extraordinarily beautiful fair location..
From there, guests walked through the equally
stunning sculpture garden designed by LaGuardia
Design and
supported by Summerhill
Landscapes,
featuring works by Paul
Oberst (Banded
Poles/Long Island Four), David
Hayes (Totem,
Group),Boaz
Vaadia(Baraq
with Cat), Sam
Tufnell (Power
Gnomes), Heiner
Meyer (Garden
Kelly),
Hamilton Aguiar (It's
a Girl!) Tuki
Moses (Off) and
others, with Cracking
Art Group's florescent
pink, larger-than-life Giant
Rabbit drawing
hundreds of "selfies."
During the exclusive preview, guests
enjoyed Ruinart champagne
and hors d'oeuvres provided by
theSouthampton
Social Club while
admiring the stunning display of precious jewels
exhibited by sponsorGraff
Diamonds. Christie's
International Real Estate played
host to local and visiting East Enders with an
impressive selection of exclusive Hamptons and other
international properties available.
Red dots quickly appeared beneath
many works, as collectors and well-known prominent
art advisors snapped up blue-chip works by the likes
of Lichtenstein, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Stella and
many others, as well as contemporary stars that
included Hirst, Tomaselli,
Kevin Berlin and
street artistBanksy.
Emerging artists featured Rubem
Robierb, Julian
Lennon (son
of the late John
Lennon),Bernie
Taupin,
and Banksy buddy "Mr.
Brainwash," and
many more also were in high demand, as were works by
local artists Eric
Fischl, Jeff
Muhs, Eric Dever,
and Bonnie
Englebardt Lautenberg,
among others.
"We were extremely pleased with the
enthusiasm and excitement that lead up to and
continued throughout this year's fair," said Art
Southampton Director Nick Korniloff. "From this
year's location to the galleries represented to the
breadth and depth of the contemporary works
available, the feedback we received was resoundingly
positive. We are excited to return to the East End
next year with even more cutting-edge works on
offer."
Dealers reported a flurry of five-
and six-figure sales throughout the weekend, right
through to the fair's closing on Monday, and
expressed optimism about artworks on hold,
observing that many collectors planned to follow up
post-fair. Dealers also noted numerous commissions
confirmed by artists such as Vadim
Dolgov and Anna
Razumovskaya,
presented by Hazelton
Fine Art Galleries,
and Lluis
Barba,
presented by the Cynthia
Corbett Gallery.
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Some of the more notable sales
included:
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Hollis Taggart Galleries reported
multiple sales throughout the fair,
including two pieces almost as soon as
the doors opened on VIP Preview night: Jack
Tworkov's House
of the Sun Variationin
the $200,000 range, and a Norman
Bluhm, also
in the six figures
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Cynthia Corbett Gallery,
representing works by Andy
Burgess, Deborah
Azzopardi and David
Hayes,
among others, noted "numerous six-figure
sales," as well as several Azzopardi pieces
in the $10,000-$15,000 range, Klari
Reis'Webbing for
$19,000, and several Charles
Moxon works
in the $9,000-$12,000 range. At the
fair's end, the gallery also was
negotiating final sales forTom
Leighton and Barba,
including a commission for Barba from
an influential Miami-based collector
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Galerie Mark Hachem had
at least a dozen sales during the fair,
including a Rene
Magrittestatue, Les
Menottes de Cuivre, for
$75,000, and Gorilla, a
statue by Stefano
Bombardieri,
for $18,000. The gallery also placed no
fewer than three of Mauro
Corda's bronze Femellebulldogs,
with an asking price of $125,000 each
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Pushkin Gallery,
presenting the works of Russian painter Boris
Chetkov,
placed a whopping 16 pieces on site,
including Red
Wagon for
$110,000
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Peter Marcelle Project placed
Frank Stella's Then
Waters Came and Quenched the Fire, which
had an asking price of $100,000
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RJD
Gallery placed
one of Andrea
Kowch's haunting
portraits, In
the Distance for
$85,000, among other sales
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Contessa Gallery placed
over two dozen pieces, with a large
portion of their upper six-figure
revenue derived from multiple sales of
artist David
Drebin,
along with paintings by Mr.
Brainwash, whose Tomato
Spray went
for $60,000 and Banksy
Thrower, which
fetched $80,000
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Hexton | modern and contemporary completed
several sales of local Hamptons-based
artistEric
Fischl's stunning
works, all in the "six figure" range.
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Taglialatella Galleries reported
multiple sales "almost the moment the
fair opened its doors," that included a Damien
Hirst as
well as a Jeff
Koons sculpture
in the "five-figure" range.
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Vogelsang
Gallery placed
a
Frank
Stella work
for $75,000, a Gregory
Watin work
for $29,000, several Rubem
Robierb works
in the $18,000-$20,000
range, and two Marcel
Ceuppens in
the $10,000-range.
reported
selling several Picasso lithographs
in the $40,000 range, as
well as a Fernandez
Arman statue
titled Molting
Statue of Liberty for
$30,000.
placed Phillip
Maberry's Pool Toy, outdoor
sculpture, 2015 among other
sales.
placed Jeff
Muh's Blue
Chip for
$22,000, ID
Bronze, a
sculpture byDoug
Thielscher for
$7,500, and two of Jerome
Lucani's works, BB (Bridgette
Bardot), for $25,000 each.
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Sponder Gallery placed
three of Michael
Halsband's iconic Warhol/Basquiat photographs
to multiple buyers, one Stanley
Boxer painting
and several Max-Steven
Grossman Bookscapes
- all in the
$15,000-$20,000 range.
reported
sales of two Jeff
Robb pieces
for $20,000 each, a Christopher
Thompson for
$16,000, and two
effervescent light box
pieces by Hwang
Seontae for
$6,500 each.
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NOW Contemporary Art placed 3(three), a
mixed-media compilation
of three unnamed
Japan-based artists, in
the $25,000 range. The
gallery also placed an
untitled Andres
Schiavo piece
for $15,000, and two Chris
Maynard works, Flight
Pattern 1 and 2,
for $6,000 each.
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Berry Campbell Gallery,
also
representing local
Hamptons art, placed a
stunning piece by Eric
Dever for
$16,000, as well as a
work by Tapp
Francke.
placed
all of the Uno
Hoffmann works brought
on site, with an asking
price of $15,000 each.
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Lawrence Fine Art reported
a Joe
Novak piece
placed for $15,000.
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Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
placed Antoine
Rose's Swarmanoid and What's
up for
$10,000 each, as well as Drew
Tal's Porcelain
Dynasty for
$16,000 and JP Kadzinski'sFire
Escapes of NYfor
$6,000.
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Galleria Ca' D'oro reported
selling a Ewa
Bathelier piece
for $12,000.
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The Public
House of Art reported
sales of several large-scale
photo pieces in the
$6,000-$8000 range.
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Galerie von
Braunbehrens placed
five of Marck's Current
Flow Mixed Electronic Media
installations for $6,000 each.
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Hazelton Fine
Art Galleries Toronto
Canada. The price range of sales
from our portfolio of art works were
from 12000.-50,000. The Andy
Warhol prices
were 40,000 for the Karen
Kain, and 65,000 for the Marx
Bros. A total number of 8
paintings have sold from the exhibit
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Among the distinguished collectors, art
patrons, art advisors, cultural leaders, government
officials and philanthropists that attended this year's
fair were Howard
Stern & Beth Ostrosky Stern,
former New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani &
wife Judy, author
and playwright Joe
Pintauro &
partner Greg
Therriault,
Broadway producers Stewart
Lane & Bonnie
Comley, Tracy
Pollan,
wife of actor Michael
J. Fox,
former Carnival Cruise COO Howard
Frank, BillySquier, Bill
Mack, Wilbur & Hilary Ross,internationally
acclaimed architect Stephen
Valentine,lecturer,
author and Russian art collector Dr.
Fred Levine &
wife Marilyn,
and many other collectors and notables, including Norman
& Irma Braman, Ted
& Ruth Baum, Elayne
Mordes, Kevin
Berlin, Baroness
Sheri de Borchgrave, Edwina
Sandys, President
of Graff Diamonds Henri Barguirdjian, James
Nederlander Sr., John
& Joan Gruen,Gary
& Katherine Andreassen, Melanie
Wambold, Nicole
Noonan, Randi
Schatz, Sara
Herbert-Galloway, Steve
Bernstein, Sylvia
Hemingway, Audrey
& Martin Gruss, Steve
and Kara Ross, New
York Academy of Art President David
Kratz,
Christie's International Real Estate President Dan
Connand
many more.
The internationally acclaimed New
York Academy of Art,
of which Andy
Warhol was
among the original founders, once again partnered with
Art Southampton, with renowned artist April
Gornik as
guest curator of exceptional alumni works.
Art Southampton also hosted a series of
educational seminars and special events, including:
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1AN Art,
which held daily symposiums of opinion leaders and
industry experts on a variety of contemporary art
topics and trends, including The
Art of Collecting Art,
and Six
Events that have Transformed the Art Market.
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An invitation-only art curation by LUXECANVAS, featuring
Luxe Interiors + Design Editor-in-Chief Pamela
Jaccarino and
top interior designersJennifer
Post and Scott
Sanders on
the interplay of art, interior design and home.
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VIP Artist Studio Tours, hosted by Berry
Campbell Gallery,
and featuring Eric
Dever, Dan Christensen and Susan
Vescey's studios.
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A book signing by Jules
Feiffer,
hosted by Jean Albano Gallery: Out
of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer,
by Martha
Fay,
with a foreword by Mike
Nichols.
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A cocktail reception hosted by the New
York Academy of Art,
featuring Academy President
David
Kratz along
with renowned artist April
Gornik, who hosted
collectors and patrons to meet with featured Academy
artists for cocktails and conversation, all while
enjoying an exhibition of their work. April also
signed copies of her book, April
Gornik Drawings.
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Art Southampton Beneficiaries, Partners &
Sponsors
Art Southampton is pleased to have
supportive partnerships with a number of the East End's
most prominent organizations, including the
aforementioned Parrish
Art Museum and Southampton
Hospital, as
well as the
Ross School, and Southampton
Fresh Air Home.Key
sponsors include the previously stated Christie's
International Real Estate, Graff Diamonds, and Ruinart
Champagne, as
well as LUXE
Interiors + Design, which
has partnered with Art Southampton as the fair's Design
& Media Sponsor, and ARTSY.
Additional supporters and partners include LaGuardia
Design,Summerhill
Landscapes, One
Art Nation, PXLGram, Bourlet
ArtLogistics and Turon
Travel.
Other supporters include The
Wall Street Journal, Blouin
ARTINFO, Artnet, Soho
House, New York,ARTnews, Whitewall, New
York Observer, The
Art Newspaper, Hamptons
Magazine,Hamptons.com, Dan's
Papers, Hyperallergic, Fairweather,
AVENUE,Veev, VENÜ and Voss.
Additional local supporters and partners include: Ross
School, HBSC
New York, Town
of Southampton, Southampton
Fresh Air Home, Southampton
Chamber of Commerce, MAD, Islip
Art Museum, National
Academy Museum and School, Silvermine
Arts Center, Smithsonian,
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, ArtTable, Southampton
Historical Museum and
the International
Center of Photography.
Art-Miami LLC
Art Southampton is operated and produced
by a partnership consisting of art and media industry
veterans Nick Korniloff, Mike Tansey and Brian Tyler.
The ownership team also produces Art Miami (26th edition),
CONTEXT and Aqua, all taking place during Miami Art Week
(December), Art Wynwood (February), CONTEXT NY (March),
Art New York (May), and Art Silicon Valley / San
Francisco in October. |
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