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Frieze Art Fair in New York (Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor)

Frieze LA | Feb. 14-17
The inaugural edition of Frieze Los Angeles takes place inside Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. The art fair brings together 70 of the most significant contemporary art galleries from around the world. Frieze LA is the newest venture of the international Frieze art fairs and frieze magazine. The prominent Frieze London began in 2003, followed by Frieze New York in 2012. At Frieze LA, the galleries will be in the familiar Frieze tent. But Frieze Projects – an exciting group of predominantly L.A. artists including Barbara Kruger, Max Hooper-Schneider, and Sarah Cain – are transforming Paramount’s outdoor New York City backlot with large-scale installations. A curated program of talks, site-specific artists’ projects and films enhance the fair experience.
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Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) | Feb. 13-17
The tenth edition of ALAC will have a new look and two new exhibitor sections. Featuring about 65 top established and emerging galleries from around the world, the fair also includes a new Salon section (“The Academy”) and a publishing section (“Moveable Types”). ALAC has a young, fun vibe. You will see works by important world-class artists along with notable emerging talent. ALAC is held at its usual location, Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, but this year it takes place in February to coincide with Frieze LA instead of its former January time slot. A variety of art talks and other events round out the experience at ALAC.
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Felix LA | Feb. 14-17
Felix LA makes its debut, aiming to create a more intimate art fair experience. The fair takes place at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with a diverse roster of about 40 leading galleries exhibiting in the hotel rooms, offering collectors, dealers and artists intimate access in an informal setting. Site-specific art projects, such as the interactive installation “Record Store From Outer Space” presented by Susanne Vielmetter, will be showcased in the lobby and other spaces throughout the hotel. Admission is free.
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stARTup LA | Feb. 15-17
The fair, which takes place at hip and stylish Kinney Venice Beach hotel, connects art buyers directly to highly curated up-and-coming artists in a fun, intimate environment. Over 60 artists not represented by galleries – selected by art world experts – transform hotel rooms into individual exhibition spaces and offer their works for sale to art lovers. 2019 marks the fourth edition of stARTup LA, which also has annual editions in San Francisco. This year, the fair’s theme is Art & Technology. Visitors can interact with videos, augmented and virtual reality projects, and artificial intelligence experiences in the hotel’s public areas.
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Superfine! LA | Feb. 14-17, 2019
Superfine! art fair brings diverse, accessible art to DTLA’s Magic Box at The Reef. Discover and collect the work of over 250 emerging contemporary artists at the inaugural West Coast iteration of the art fair that made waves in New York, Miami, and Washington DC. Most of the artworks on offer range from $100 to $5000. The fair’s focus on accessibility includes spotlighting more work from underrepresented artists — LGBTQ, artists of color and female artists.
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Spring/Break Art Show | Feb. 15-17
Held in downtown L.A. in the stalls of Skylight ROW, a former fruit market, the fair features over 40 participating artists, non-profit organizations, curators, artist collectives and galleries, most of whom are L.A.-based. Spring/Break transplants to L.A. the model it pioneered in New York in 2012, offering curators and artists a low-cost space to exhibit within a disused urban building. The fair’s curatorial theme for this year is “Fact and Fiction”. Surprise programming is taking place in the parking lot.
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Art Palm Springs | Feb. 15-18
Art Palm Springs is the premier art fair in the Southwest presenting post-war and contemporary art. This year’s edition will brings galleries from Asia, Europe, North and South America representing hundreds of artists to the Palm Springs Convention Center. The fair coincides with Palm Springs Modernism Week. Art Palm Springs runs through Monday, so art lovers can jaunt to lovely Palm Springs after Frieze LA and enjoy another worthwhile art fair. While in Palm Springs, don’t miss “Unsettled|Art on the New Frontier” exhibition at Palm Springs Art Museum, and Desert X Biennial.
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Desert X | Feb. 9 – Apr. 21
It’s not an art fair, but I have included Desert X here because it is such a powerful art event. The second edition of Desert X biennial sprawls across 55 miles of the Coachella Valley near Palm Springs, California. With site-specific outdoors artworks by 18 international artists, the installations engage viewers and focus on the natural wonders and socio-polital-economic issues of the region. This year, works include “Specter” by Sterling Ruby, “Lover’s Rainbow” by Pia Camil, a series of billboards by Cara Romero, “Ghost Palm” by Kathleen Ryan, and augmented reality experiences by Nancy Baker Cahill. (Tip: Download the app 4th Wall to view Cahill’s AR installation.) Desert X is free and open to the public. Pick up a map at one of the three Desert X Hubs, or download the Desert X app (see Visitor Info link below).
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Art Los Angeles Contemporary returns for its eighth edition January 26–29, 2017 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica

LA Art Show Jan 11-15, L.A. Convention Center
A visit to LA Art Show, one of the world’s largest and longest running art fairs, offers visitors a diverse menu of contemporary and post-war modern art across many different mediums. With more than 90 galleries from over 18 countries, LA Art Show 2017 delivers broad international programming. The focus this year is on Latin American Art, but you will also discover strong presentations from Europe, China, Cuba, Japan and South Korea. LA Art Show launches ROOTS, an exclusive curated section of classic art presenting exhibitions of 18th Century European, Contemporary Realism, California Plein Air and Hudson River School paintings. Experience live performance art and engaging art installations, as well as Dialogs LA, a series of talks and panel discussions featuring artists, collectors, museum directors, curators and internationally renowned art and cultural leaders.

photo l.a. Jan 12-15, at The REEF/LA Mart, Downtown L.A.
View and enjoy an expanse of photography and photo-based art presented by 40 galleries and art organizations at photo l.a. 2017. You will find innovative contemporary artworks by internationally established artists as well as emerging artists, plus classic works by important figures in the history of photography such as Diane Arbus, Ansel Adams, Andre Kertesz and many others. See special installations throughout the art fair, including artist Penelope Umbrico’s In and Out of Order: TV’s from Craigslist and Bad Display.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary Jan 26-29, at The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica
Experience cutting-edge contemporary art presented by more than 60 international and local galleries at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2017, the art fair’s eighth edition. Located at Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport, booths at ALAC are spacious and the ambiance is ultra-cool. Be sure to check out ALAC’s program of lectures, screenings and on-site collaborations with local artists.

stARTup Art Fair Jan 27-29, at Hollywood Gardens Hotel, Hollywood
Wander from room to room of the mid-century Hollywood Gardens Hotel, where over 30 carefully selected independent artists show their works for stARTup Art Fair. The participating artists are not yet represented by commercial galleries, so it is a great opportunity to discover emerging talent.

LA Art Show, the largest and most diverse of the Los Angeles art fairs, attracted over 70,000
visitors last year.

At photo l.a. last year, Couturier Gallery presented photographic works by Cuban artists.

This booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary last year presented by The Hole NYC featured
works by various artists who create using digital mediums.

stARTup Art Fair will be held at Hollywood Gardens Hotel for a second time, with independent
artists showing their work in the hotel rooms.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, photographed during last year’s event, is one of six art fairs in Los Angeles in January, 2016.

To help plan your visits, I put together this handy L.A. ART FAIR GUIDE 2016 for you:

LA Art Show Jan 27-31,
at L.A. Convention Center
Enjoy a wide spectrum of art genres, from contemporary to classic, presented by over 130 exhibitors. Divided into two distinct shows, the larger fair is LA Art Show. Here you will find diverse contemporary and modern art presented by U.S.and international galleries. Also it includes sections for Littletopia, Works on Paper, Project Spaces and special exhibits from China and Korea. Right next door to LA Art Show is Los Angeles Fine Art Fair, where you will see historic art plus traditional and decorative contemporary art. Your ticket to LA Art Show admits you into both fairs.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary Jan 28-31, at The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica
Experience this world-class art fair and see exciting and cutting-edge contemporary art by an array of established and emerging artists from around the globe. An exciting mix of 60 top international galleries will exhibit. The galleries are from Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, London, Copenhagen, Oslo, Rome, Madrid, Luxembourg, Paris, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Aukland, Seoul, Toronto and more. Also enjoy performances and art talks scheduled throughout the weekend.

photo l.a. Jan 21-24, at The REEF/LA Mart, Downtown L.A.
Visit the 25th anniversary edition of photo l.a. to see a myriad of photographic art. Works ranging from 19th Century to contemporary and innovative photography-based art will be exhibited by leading national and international galleries.

Los Angeles Fine Print Fair Jan 22-24, at Bonhams auction house, Los Angeles
An engaging boutique art fair, Los Angeles Fine Print Fair offers you a unique opportunity to connect with leading art dealers. Here you can purchase prints of impeccable quality from all periods.

stARTup Art Fair Jan 29-31, at Hollywood Gardens Hotel, Hollywood
See diverse artworks and meet 44 carefully selected independent artists who are not represented by galleries at this intimate art fair set in a charming Hollywood hotel. Also experience Special Projects on the hotel grounds.

Fabrik Expo Art Fair Jan 29-31, at Willow Studios, downtown L.A. Arts District
Fabrik Expo is a platform for independent artists who are not represented by galleries. Here you can meet, view and buy directly from 40 rising artists working in wide-ranging media.

Feel free to contact me at Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more information and tips to help you get the most out your art fair experience. Hope to see you at the art fairs!

A scene from photo l.a. last year. The art fair return to Los Angeles Jan. 21-24, 2016

Visitors view art at LA Art Show last year. It returns to Los Angeles Jan. 27-31, 2016

Christopher Wool’s Untitled (Riot), 1990, enamel on aluminum, 108 x 72 in., sold for $29,930,000 at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Sale.

At Christie’s, Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction ($179.4 million) and Alberto Giacometti’s Pointing Man became the costliest sculpture ($141.3 million).

Works by American artists were also in high demand. Christopher Wool’s Untitled (Riot), which Sotheby’s auctioned at its Contemporary Evening Sale for $29.9 million, was a record for the artist. I believe there is still room for future growth in the market for American contemporary art, as sales of works by American artists make up a significant part of the worldwide art auction market today.

While these stratospheric auction results grab the headlines, I offer encouragement to the majority of collectors: There are excellent opportunities to build valuable collections at all levels of the market, not just the high end.

To read the full article click here.

And feel free to contact me at Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more art collecting tips.

Visitors during the VIP preview at The Armory Show experience a vast selection of art. On the right is Dan Graham’s “Triangular Pavilion”.

As an art advisor, I travel to various art fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach throughout the year, and have attended the annual Armory Show in New York many times. My trip last week to The Armory Show and other art fairs did not disappoint! I encountered terrific works of art for my clients, everything from affordable art by young artists, to blue-chip works by leading contemporary artists.

The Armory Show, New York’s biggest art fair, featured 199 galleries from around the globe at its 2015 edition. Thousands of art collectors, museum curators, dealers, critics and academics converged on New York City to engage in one of the world’s largest art showcases. Set up in two sprawling sections – Contemporary at Pier 94, and Modern at Pier 92 – The Armory Show takes a whole day or longer to experience.

Another must-see art fair is The Art Show by ADAA, which is held at the same time as The Armory Show and located across town at the historic Park Avenue Armory. It is the longest running fine art fair in the U.S., where 72 of America’s top galleries presented intriguing thematic exhibitions as well as booths dedicated to works by a single artist.

New York also hosted a number of satellite art fairs during Armory Arts Week, including a brand new fair called Art on Paper. My favorites? Pulse, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, which offered a provocative cross-section of contemporary art. And Volta, held at Pier 90, an engrossing fair with most galleries featuring tight solo projects by fresh emerging artists.

Did you go to the New York art fairs too? I would love to hear which artworks left an impression on you. And feel free to contact me at Perkey Fine Art Advisor to learn more about what is happening now in the world of contemporary art, and find out how you can build a first-class art collection.

The Armory Show in New York City was held March 5-8, 2015 with a VIP Preview on March 4.
Despite snow and cold, thousands of visitors attended each day.

The Armory Show Contemporary at Pier 94 during the VIP Preview.

The Armory Show Modern at Pier 92.

El Anatsui, Adinkra Sasa, 2003, found aluminum and copper wire, 192 x 216 in.

William Kentridge, Tango: For Page Turning, 2012-2013, HD Video, ed. 9

Donald Moffett, Lot 011715 (exo-spore 2 ore yellow), 2015,
oil on linen with wood panel support, 19 x 19 x 2 in.

Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Etched Plaster), 2015, pigmented hydrocal in walnut frame, 61×40 in.

Ryan McGinness, Leave Yourself Alone, 2015, acrylic and metal leaf on linen, 84×60 in.

Glenn Kaino installation

Ahmed Mater, Cowboy Code (Hadith), 2013, plastic gun caps, 157×324 in.

Ann Agee, various porcelain works and Untitled (John Soane wallpaper)

Huguette Caland, Rossinante Under Cover X, 2011, mixed media on canvas, 47.5 x 57.5 in.

Jocelyn Hobbie, Kitten, 2015, oil on canvas, 36×24 in.

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Etta), 2014,
diptych printed with fabric dye on silk charmeuse, ed. 20

Abelardo Morell, Camera Obsura: Late Afternoon View East Side of Midtown Manhattan, 2014,
archival pigment print, 45×60 in., ed. 10

William Wegman, One Two Three Etc., 2015, pigment print on aluminum, ed. 15

Catherine Yass, Lighthouse (East), 2011, photograhic transparency, lightbox, 50 x 40 x 6.5 in., ed. 3

Installation by Mona Hatoum, Turbulence (black)

Matthew Brandt, from the series Burnouts, silkscreen on silk velvet with acid treatment, 54 x 42 in., unique

Valerie Jaudon, Partitia, 2014, oil on linen, 48×48 in.

Gary Hill, Klein Bottle with the Image of Its Own Making (after Robert Morris), 2014, mixed media with video, ed. 4

Patrick Jacobs, Double Fairy Ring with Danelions and English Daisies, 2015,
diorama viewed through 7.5 inch glass window

James Turrell, Suite from Aten Reign, 2014, suite of 3 aquatint etchings,
34 x 22 in. each, ed. 30

The Art Show By ADAA at the Park Avenue Armory.

Engaging booths and wide aisles at The Art Show 2015 By ADAA, featuring 72 galleries.

Lita Albuquerque, Solar Vacillation (February 2015), 2015,
pigment on panel and 23k gold leaf on resin, 30 x 30 in.

Sol LeWitt, Wall Piece No. 4, 1979 and Peter Alexander, Wedge (Purple), 1969

Tony Cragg, stainless steel, 33 x 35 x 27 in.

Lorna Simpson, Seven Felts, 2010, serigraph on felt, 7 panels, each 17×8 in.

Allan McCollum, The Shapes Project-Threaded Shapes, unique digitized embroidered shapes on cotton in walnut frame, each 11×9 in.

Kevin Osmond, Deep Space Anomaly, 2015, 794 wooden spheres, glass fibre rods,
aluminum, silver and copper metalic paints, 36.5 x 36.5 x 8 in.

John Marin, Brooklyn Bridge Series, 1910, watercolor on paper, 15 x 17 in.

Viviane Sassen, Etan:peacock, 2013, chromogenic print, 17.75 x 11.75 each

Fred Wilson, Iago’s Desdemona, 2013, Murano glass and wood,
40 x 25 x 6 in., ed. 6

Contemporary art on view at Pulse NY 2015, held at Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea.

Aaron T Stephan, 28 Columns, 2014, painted polycomposite, 8 x 14 x 14 ft.

Elisabeth Condon, White Swan, 2014, mixed media on linen, 59 x 59 in., hanging on wallpaper created by the artist

Sam Messenger, Cryptographs, 2014-15, ink frozen on paper, 11.5×8.25 each, unique

Jaime Zigelbaum, Pixel, 2013,
interactive light installation activated by human touch

Visitors entering Volta NY 2015, held at Pier 90.

Volta NY 2015, featuring mostly solo-artist presentations.

Sinesa Kukec installation, acrylic mirror

Michelle Grabner, various works, flasche and black gesso on canvas

Miri Chais, Spectrum II, 2015, plexiglas, radient film, 44x20x9.5, ed. 3

Rubens Ghenov, various works, acrylic on linen

Moving Image NY 2015, in its fifth year, showcasing video works from across the globe.

Scope NY 2015 during the VIP Preview.

Damien Hirst’s Spot Clock, left, and Beautiful Manic Spin Chair PHOTO: F. MARTIN RAMIN/THE WALL STREET JOURNAL (CLOCK); OTHER CRITERIA/© DAMIEN HIRST & SCIENCE 2014

WSJ’s David Keeps reports “Jeff Koons’s multiples, in particular, have become trophies. In 1995, the artist released a signed edition of 2,300 porcelain plates and sold them through Los Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art for $250 each. On March 1, Los Angeles Modern Auctions expects to fetch between $10,000 and $15,000 for one.”

Though most such items can’t guarantee that return on investment, the cachet of owning a piece by a “big name” artist is enough for some. “Multiples by prominent artists can be thought of as designer [products],” said art adviser Cheryl Perkey. “It’s the same way someone might carry the Hermès handbag seen on the arms of A-list celebrities.”

Read the whole article and check out examples of hot home decor multiples by artists Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker and Damien Hirst in the Wall Street Journal.

LA Art Show offers diverse art styles, subjects and mediums, from contemporary to historic. Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

Each of the art fairs has a different focus, so be sure to attend the fairs that feature the types of art you like. See following descriptions. Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor and I will be glad to answer your art collecting questions and help you to get the most from your art fair experiences.

LA Art Show  Jan 14-18  (LA Convention Center)
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, LA Art Show is the largest art fair on the west coast, featuring over 120 galleries representing 22 countries. Enjoy seeing a wide range of art genres presented in distinct sections: modern and contemporary art, historic and traditional art, works on paper, and international project spaces. Plus check out various special exhibits including featured guest country United Arab Emirates, presenting works by emerging contemporary UAE artists housed in a Bedouin tent.

photo l.a. Jan 15-18  (LA Mart, downtown L.A.)
National and international galleries showcase diverse photographic art at photo l.a., ranging from 19th Century works to contemporary and innovative photography-based art. This annual event is the longest running photography art fair west of New York.

Classic Photographs Los Angeles Jan 17-18 (Bonhams, Los Angeles)
A world-class exhibition and sale of classic photography with 27 leading photography galleries and dealers together in the showroom of Bonhams on Sunset Boulevard.

Art Los Angeles Contemporary  Jan 29-Feb 1  (The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica)
Encounter contemporary art by an exciting array of established and emerging artists from around the globe at Art Los Angeles Contemporary. The art fair hosts about 60 top international art galleries from Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Oslo, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Brussels and more.

Looking forward to seeing you at the art fairs!

Scene at photo l.a. last year. Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

A booth at Art Los Angeles Contemporary last year. Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

Top three tips from art advisor Cheryl Perkey for getting the most out of your art fair experience during Art Basel Miami Beach Art Week 2014:

So much art, so little time! During the first week of December, Miami hosts over 20 art fairs, plus a galaxy of pop-up art events, museum shows, public art installations and fabulous parties. You will want to stay in Miami at least four days to enjoy this whirlwind art experience.

What to see? Spend at least one full day at the main event, Art Basel Miami Beach, held at the Miami Beach Convention Center. One of the largest and most important art fairs in the world, Art Basel Miami Beach features more than 260 leading galleries from 31 countries and is not to be missed.

Then split the rest of your time in Miami between the other art fairs and events. Select those fairs that interest you the most, since it will be impossible to see everything this week. How to navigate the choices? Check out this Guide to Miami Art Week During Art Basel, with links to websites of the various art fairs. Find those fairs that have the type of art that interests you. Also, look at the “Exhibitors” on each site, and see if any of the galleries listed may offer the type of art you like.

In a given day, visit art fairs located in the same area of the city to minimize the time and expense of travel between fairs. Most of the Miami art fairs and events are located in three areas: 1) Miami Beach, 2) Midtown, Wynwood & Design District, and 3) Downtown, Brickell & Coconut Grove. Plan your itineray with this handy online Map of Miami Art Week 2014.

Contact me at Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more tips and my art picks from Art Basel Miami Beach throughout the week. See you at the fairs!

Balloon Dog (Orange) by Jeff Koons is the the most expensive art work by a living artist ever to sell at auction, achieving $58,405,000 at Christies NY in 2013.

Check out the list Top 100 Living Artists, ranked by total secondary market sales from January 1, 2011 through April 30, 2014.

German artist Gerhard Richter holds the number one spot in this list, with 740 lots of his art works selling for a total of over $760 million, followed by Zeng Fanzhi (Chinese), Jeff Koons (American), Fan Zeng (Chinese) and Christopher Wool (American). Chinese artists occupy five of the top ten highest art auction records by sales volume.

The numbers were crunched by the folks at artnet. Feel free to call Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more analysis of today’s art market.

The pulse of the art world is captured at the art fairs that take place in New York City in March every year. The Big Apple buzzes with excitement as throngs of art lovers flock to the art fairs to get a look at art from around the world, and collectors vie to acquire works by leading international artists and hot new talent.

The Armory Show, one of the world’s largest art fairs, is the main attraction, augmented by number of other fairs in NYC the same week, including ADAA The Art Show, Volta NY, and Scope NY.

Check out my photos below of some of the most remarkable artworks at the NY art fairs I attended.

What catches your eye? Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for the lowdown on art market trends and how to find the perfect art for you!

Scene at The Armory Show 2014, in New York for its 16th year.
Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

ADAA The Art Show 2014 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Volta NY 2014 art fair in Soho.

Scope NY 2014 art fair at Moynihan Station for its 14th edition in New York.

ROBERT LONGO, Untitled (Burning Man), 2013, Charcoal on mounted paper, 90 x 96 in.

TALLUR L.N., Obituary Note, 2013, burnt wood and bronze, 67 x 61.5 x 47 in.

SERGE ALAIN NITEGEKA, Tunnel VIII: Studio Study V, 2013, Paint on wood, 84.5 x 51.5 in.,
and Exterior I: Studio Study I, 2013, Paint on wood, 51.5 x 84.5 in.

KERRY TRIBE, Untitled (This is Timeless), 2014, neon, 53 x 11 in., ed. 3

CHRIS JORDAN, Gyre, 2009, archival pigment prints face mounted to Plexiglas,
3 panels totaling 8 x 11 ft., ed. 3

ULRIK HELTOFT and MILJOHN RUPERTO, four selections from Voynich Botanical Studies, 2013, silver gelatin fiber-based prints by artist, each print unique

KEN PRICE, Fats, 1999, Acrylic on fired ceramic, 16 x 21 x 16.5 in.

TIMOTHY HORN, Gorgonia II, 2014, nickel-plated bronze and mirrored blown glass, 60 x 36 x 8 in.

RETNA, Sensations of a Distance Mark the Diameter Reached Through the Rotation of Matter of Fact, 2013, Enamel, acrylic and crystallina on canvas, 96 x 72 in

E.V. DAY, Transporter-Six Stages, 2014, Laser etched, hand tinted Plexiglas, in six sections in custom display

SHEPARD FAIREY, Global Target, HPM; Arab Woman, HPM; Dove Target Red, HPM; 2012,
Two color relief on hand painted material, each 37 x 28.5 in,, ed. 5

DOUG AND MIKE STARN, Blot Out the Sun 4, 1998-99, Archival inkjet prints on mulberry
and tissue papers with encaustic and wax, 48 x 78 in., ed. 3

TOM STOGDON, Circus, 2013, Polished stainless steel and slate, 35.5 x 35.5 x 4 in.

SEAN LANDERS, Golden Section, 2013, Oil on linen, 52 x 44 in.

MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN, Objects of Our Time, 2014, A set of 12 screenprints, 19.75 x 19.75 each, ed. 50

JULIAN OPIE, City Walkers, 2014, a pair of powder-coated laser-cut steel wall reliefs,
11.25 x 3 x 1.375 each, ed. 50

JORDAN KANTOR, Untitled (Hubble Galaxy), 2014, Oil on canvas, 50 x 62 in.

ANISH KAPOOR, Untitled, 2013, Fiberglas and paint, 63 x 63 x 22 in.

James Turrell, Relection Hologram, 23.5 x 16.875 in.

KEHINDE WILEY, The Archangel Michael and his Miracles, 2014, 22 karat gold leaf and oil on wood panel, framed 40 x 24 x 2 in.

SPENCER FINCH, Cloud (Brooklyn, Germany, Vermont 1, Paris), 2014, Scotch tape on paper,
each 19.75 x 25.5 in.

TOSHIO SHIBATA, Grand Coulee Dam, WA, Gelatin Silver Print, 20 x 24 in., ed. 25

ANALIA SABAN, Wenge Circuitboard with Architectural Details, 2014, laser sculpted wood,
48.25 x 48.25 in.

KATJA LOHER, Triplebubble, 2013, Three-channel video composition, hand blown glass bubbles with video screens embedded in white acrylic, 18 x 14 x 7 in., ed. 5

PAUL WACKERS, Stillness, Acrylic on panel, 60 x 48 in.

MARGIE LIVINGSTON, Falling Grid, 2014, Acrylic paint on string, 53 x 32 x 5 in.

WILLIE COLE, The Warrior, 2013, Bronze, ed. 7 + 3 APs

ARDAN OZMENOGLU, Snow, 2014, mixed media, screen print on multiple glass panels,
52 x 39 x 36 in.

BANKSY, Grumpy Truck, Spray paint on box truck rear door, 7 ft. x 7 ft.

All Photos by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

Visitors at the Armory Show in New York last year. Photo by Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

Plan your visits to leading art fairs around the world with this handy 2014 ART FAIR CALENDAR courtesy of Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

I love attending the art fairs, scoping out the best artworks and leading my clients to new discoveries. Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for guidance. Hope to see you at the art fairs!

JANUARY
15-19 The LA Art Show (Los Angeles, CA at L.A. Convention Center)
16-19 photo l.a. (Los Angeles, CA at L.A. Mart)
18-19 Classic Photographs Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA at Bonhams)
15-19 London Art Fair (London, UK)
16-19 Art Stage Singapore (Singapore)
23-26 Metro Show NYC (New York, NY)
23-27 Art Palm Beach (Palm Beach, FL)
1/30-2/2 Art Los Angeles Contemporary (Santa Monica, CA at Barker Hangar)

FEBRUARY
4-9 American International Fine Art Fair (Palm Beach, FL)
6-10 Naples Art, Antique & Jewelry Show (Naples, FL)
13-16 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair (Palm Springs, CA)
13-17 Art Wynwood (Miami, FL)
19-23 ARCO Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
28-3/2 Art14 London (London, UK)

MARCH
5-9 ADAA The Art Show (New York, NY at Park Avenue Armory)
6-9 The Armory Show (New York, NY at Piers 92 & 94)
6-9 Volta NY (New York, NY at 82 Mercer)
6-9 Scope NY (New York, NY at Skylight at Moynihan Station)
6-9 Moving Image (New York, NY at Waterfront NY Tunnel, 269 11th Avenue)
6-9 Independent (New York, NY at 47 Canal)
7-9 Fountain Art Fair (New York, NY)

APRIL
2-6 Affordable Art Fair New York (New York, NY at The Metropolitan Pavilion)
5-6 Capital Art Fair (Arlington, VA)
10-13 AIPAD Photography Show, (New York, NY at Park Avenue Armory)
10-13 Art Cologne (Cologne, Germany)
11-13 Dallas Art Fair (Dallas, TX)
25-27 Art Brussels (Brussels, Belgium)
25-27 Paris Photos Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA at Paramount Pictures Studio)

MAY
9-12 Frieze Art Fair (New York, NY on Randall’s Island)
8-11 Pulse NY (New York, NY at The Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St.)
15-18 ArtMRKT San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
15-18 Art Basel Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

JUNE
19-22 Art Basel (Basel, Switzerland)

JULY
10-13 Art Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM)
11-13 Santa Fe International Folk Art Market (Santa Fe, NM)
10-13 Art Hamptons (Hamptons, NY)
24-28 Art Southhampton International & Contemporary Art Fair (Southhampton, NY)

AUGUST
7/31-8/3 Art Aspen (Aspen, CO)

SEPTEMBER
16-21 Preview Berlin Art Fair (Berlin, Germany)
17-21 Berliner Liste (Berlin, Germany)
18-21 abc – Art Berlin Contemporary (Berlin, Germany)
18-21 Expo Chicago (Chicago, IL at Navy Pier)
19-21 ArtInternational Istambul (Istambul, Turkey)

OCTOBER
16-19 Frieze Art Fair (London, UK)
24-27 Art Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
30-11/2 SOFA Chicago (Chicago, IL)

NOVEMBER
6-10 Dallas International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show (Dallas, TX)
7-9 Artissima (Turino, Italy)
13-16 Paris Photo (Paris, France at Grand Palais)

DECEMBER
4-7 Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami Beach, FL)

The scene at The Armory Show 2013 in New York City.

Would you like to see highlights of one of the world’s largest contemporary art fairs?

I am excited to share top picks from my annual pilgrimage in March to New York City for The Armory Show, a massive fair featuring over 210 galleries from 30 countries, plus other art fairs happening in Manhattan during the same time.

It is a weeklong feast of art! Along with The Armory Show, I packed in visits to five other art fairs, including The Art Show of ADAA and Volta NY, attended several special art events and dropped by numerous galleries in NYC.

Check out my photos below to see some of the most exceptional works of art at the fairs. Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for guidance with the best choices for your collection. Enjoy!

The Armory Show 2013 entrance at Pier 94 in New York City.

Scene at The Armory Show 2013 in the Modern section at Pier 92.

The Art Show at Park Avenue Armory, organized by Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA).

Moving Image 2013 contemporary video art fair.

Scope Art Fair’s new venue for 2013 at Moynihan Station, a New York City Post Office.

Volta NY 2013, the art fair’s new location in Soho.

Tony Cragg, Accurate Figure, 2012, Marble, 86.6 x 39.4 x 39.4 inches

Jose Davila, A Brief History of Sculpture, 2012, (detail) 51 archival inkjet prints on photobase paper, edition of 2

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1987, enamel on aluminum, 11.75 x 23.5 x 11.75 inches

Mark Bradford, Untitled, 2006, mixed media collage on paper, 30 x 23 inches

Marina Abramovic, Places of Power, The Garden of Maitreya, 2013, c-print, 62×83 in., ed.7

Glenn Kaino, A Perfect Circle, Copper plated steel, 72 in. diameter x 22 in.

Jim Campbell installation view, moving images in LED lights

Chuck Close, Self Portrait/Felt Hand Stamp 2012, oil paint on paper, image 23.75 x 20 in., ed.60

Susan Hefuna, Fenestra, 2012, silver bronze, 13.8 x 19.7 inches, edition of 3

Ryan McGuinness, Finding Meaning, 2013, Acrylic on wood panel in artist’s frame, 48 x 24 inches

Tim Hyde, The Island, pigment print, 50 x 60 inches, edition of 5

Mark Francis, Trojan, 2012, oil and acrylic on canvas, 84.5 x 60.5 inches

Ruth Asawa, Untitled (Hanging, Open Form, Ruffles) c. 1960, crocheted wire, 24 x 22 inches

Mark Innerst, Prism, 2013, oil on board in the artist’s handmade frame, 24 x 42 inches framed

Robert Cottingham, May Co., 1969, oil on canvas, 57 x 56.75 inches

Richard Woods, Offcuts, 2013, a series of six woodcuts, each image 25.1 x 17.6 in., ed. 20

Julian Opie, Woman in the Rain with Hat, 2012, unique silkscreen on painted wooden board, 39.3×23.5 inches

Wim Delvoye, Concrete Mixer (Scale Model 1:4), 2011, lasercut corten steel, nickeled, 30.7×13.6×24 in.

Fred Tomaselli, June 18, 2011, 2013, gouache and collage on printed watercolor paper, 10.75 x 12 inches

Fred Tomaselli, March 18, 2010, 2013, gouache and collage on printed watercolor paper, 10.75 x 12 inches

Mona Hatoum, Dormiente, 2008, mild steel, 10.6 x 90.5 x 39.3 inches, edition of 3

Robert Mapplethorpe,Self Portrait 1977,David Hockney 1976,Self Portrait 1977,Keith Haring1984

Tim Prentice, Flipper Curtain (Vertical), 2012, aluminum, stainless steel and lexan, 40×40 in.

Nina Yuen, Andoe, 2013, video, at Moving Image Art Fair

Todd Lanam, Park School Rail, 2012, oil on panel, 76 x 59 inches

Amy Bennett, Collapse, 2012, oil on panel, 8 x 8 inches

Derrick Velasquez installation view at Volta NY 2013

Lynn Aldrich installation view at Volta NY 2013

The Armory Show in New York. Photo by Cheryl Perkey, Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

I am pleased to give you my recommendations for the top contemporary art fairs in 2013. Mark your calendar!

January 24-27 – Los Angeles is the place to be for the 18th annual LA ART SHOW, presenting over 100 galleries from 14 countries. Unique among art fairs, LA Art Show features four distinct sections: Modern & Contemporary, Historic & Traditional, Vintage Posters, and the IFPDA Los Angeles Fine Print Fair. Also on the same dates you can visit Art Los Angeles Contemporary held in nearby Santa Monica, presenting 70 galleries from around the world.

March 7-10 – Don’t miss THE ARMORY SHOW in New York, one of the world’s most significant art fairs. Plus during this same week you can catch the other art fairs held across Manhattan, including The Art Show, Volta, Scope, Fountain and Independent.

May 10-13 – Check out the second edition of FRIEZE ART FAIR NEW YORK at Randall’s Island Park in Manhattan.

June 13-16 – Head to ART BASEL in Switzerland for the grand daddy of all contemporary art fairs. Over 300 leading galleries participate in Art Basel, one of the world’s oldest and largest art fairs, showing work from great masters of Modern and contemporary art to the latest generation of emerging stars.

October 17-20 – Join collectors from around the world in London for FRIEZE ART FAIR, which hosts 175 top international contemporary galleries.

December 5-8 – Enjoy ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH featuring over 250 participating galleries with premier artworks from around the globe. During the art fair week, Miami Beach is like the Mardi Gras of the art world, with parties, special events and satellite art fairs happening all over town.

Tip: If navigating a big art fair seems daunting to you, try doing a guided tour first to get an overview, then organize the rest of your day to see the areas that interest you the most. Some of the art fairs offer docent-led tours. Or work with your art advisor to plan your visit and get a personal tour.

Worth Magazine interviewed art advisor Cheryl Perkey for Ten Questions for Your Art Advisor. The article offers tips for art collectors, such as: How to start collecting art? What is hot right now? Where are the best places to buy art?

Check out the full article at Worth Magazine. Or contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for advice on collecting art.

Jackson Pollock’s Number 4, 1951, sold at Sotheby’s this week for $40.4 million, a record for the artist

Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale on November 13th reached the highest total of any auction category in Sotheby’s long history, raking in over $375 million (beating the firm’s previous record of $362 million set at Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale in May 2008). World record auction prices were attained for five artists: Hans Hofmann, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Wade Guyton and Jackson Pollock, with Pollock’s “Number 4, 1951,” selling for $40.4 million. A seminal large-scale 1954 painting by Mark Rothko was the top lot in the auction at $75.1 million.

The next night, Christie’s delivered an astounding tally of $412 million, its biggest sale ever in the Post-War and Contemporary Art category, and the second highest in its history (a 2006 Christie’s auction of impressionist and modern art still stands as the largest total at $491 million). Eight artist world record prices were achieved: Richard Serra, Franz Kline, Richard Diebenkorn, Jeff Koons, George Condo, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Grotjahn and Donald Judd.

Bidding was brisk for a 1957 painting by Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline, which sold for a new record of $40.4 million, rocketing above the previous record price for the artist of $9.3 million which had been established just the day before at Sotheby’s.

A monumental Jeff Koons stainless steel sculpture from 1995-2004, “Tulips,” brought a record auction price for the artist at $33.6 million, and a 1981 painting by Jean Michel Basquiat fetched $26.4 million, surpassing the previous record price for the artist’s work. The top lot of the Christie’s sale was Andy Warhol’s 1961 “Statue of Liberty”, which realized $43.7 million.

The contemporary art market remains strong for quality works. The global reach of today’s major auctions has widened the pool of buyers, and there is more foreign money investing in contemporary art than ever before.

For art market guidance and auction strategies, feel free to contact us at Perkey Fine Art Advisor.

Mark Rothko, No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue), 1954, was the top lot at Sotheby’s, achieving $75.1 million

Franz Kline, Untitled, 1957, set a new world record price for the artist’s work, selling at Christie’s for $40.4 million

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled, 1981, sold at Christie’s for a record $26.4 million

Come to the international art fair this weekend! With over 80 exhibitors, you can enjoy art from around the world at Art Platform-Los Angeles, a modern and contemporary art fair now in its second year in L.A. It will be held Sept. 28-30 at historic Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, CA.

Also you will have an opportunity to attend various enlightening panel discussions which will be presented at Art Platform each day. Plus check out a number of special exhibitions such as the Art Platform Projection Series which features a number of interactive and generative works by some of today’s most exciting contemporary digital artists seen at key points throughout the venue.

Contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor to receive our picks for the “must see” artworks at Art Platform-Los Angeles.

For more details and admission tickets, visit www.artplatform-losangeles.com. We will be there, and we forward to seeing you!

Instead of stressing in traffic during Carmageddon II (the Los Angeles 405 Freeway closure on Sept. 29-30), why not stay in your neighborhood and enjoy some art? Walk, bike or metro to an art event near you this coming weekend for ARTmageddon, an artful antidote to Carmageddon. More than 100 artists, art organizations and community partners have teamed up for ARTmageddon.

Find galleries, theaters, museums and music venues in your neighborhood at www.artmageddonla.com.

Or feel free to contact us at Perkey Fine Art Advisor for our recommendations!

See sixty up-and-coming artists at the first Los Angeles biennial, now through Sept. 2, 2012, at the Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

You have just two weeks left to see Made in L.A. 2012, and I hope you will. I love recommending exhibitions that can give busy people like you a unique and enlightening art experience in a single encounter. Made in L.A. 2012 is one of those events.

Featuring sixty artists, it offers a snapshot of the current art trends and practices flowing out of Los Angeles, one of the most active and energetic art communities worldwide! The emphasis is on up-and-coming and under-recognized artists, and will debut new installations, videos, sculptures, performances, and paintings produced especially for the biennial.

Made in L.A. 2012 is presented at three different venues, now through September 2, 2012. Organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, it is held at the Hammer Museum, LAXART, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park.

Here are some details to help you plan a visit to fit your schedule, including evenings and weekends. Or contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more information. Enjoy!

HAMMER MUSEUM
10899 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90024

310-443-7000

http://hammer.ucla.edu/

Hours:
Tue–Fri 11am–8pm
Sat & Sun 11am–5pm
Closed Monday

Guided Tours:
Thursdays at 6:45pm (museum admission is free on Thursdays)
Saturdays at 2:00pm (this tour is free with museum admission)

LAXART
2640 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310-559-0166

http://laxart.org/

Free Admission

Hours:
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY (LAMAG)
Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-644-6269

http://www.lamag.org/

Free Admission

Special Hours:
Tues–Fri 11am–8 pm
Sat–Sun 11am–5 pm
Closed Monday

Docent Led Tours :
Tuesdays at 7:00pm or Saturdays at 1:00pm

Official Website: www.madeinla2012.org

Video Preview: http://hammer.ucla.edu

Download the Free App: Made in LA Soundmap

MADE IN L.A. 2012 ARTISTS

Scoli Acosta
Kathryn Andrews
Animal Charm
Math Bass
Scott Benzel
Sarah Cain
Sarah Conaway
Fiona Connor
Kate Costello
Meg Cranston
Nzuji de Magalhães
Michelle Dizon
Roy Dowell
Zackary Drucker with Rhys Ernst
Patricia Fernández
Cayetano Ferrer
Dan Finsel
Morgan Fisher
Simone Forti
Liz Glynn
Mark Hagen
Zach Harris
Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle
Channa Horwitz
Pearl C. Hsiung
Ashley Hunt
Vishal Jugdeo
Mimi Lauter
Thomas Lawson
Nery Gabriel Lemus
Dashiell Manley
Allison Miller
Nicole Miller
Meleko Mokgosi
Zac Monday
Ruby Neri
D’Ette Nogle
Alex Olson
Michele O’Marah
Camilo Ontiveros
Joel Otterson
Karthik Pandian
The Propeller Group
Vincent Ramos
Laura Riboli
Ry Rocklen
Miljohn Ruperto
Analia Saban
Brian Sharp
Slanguage
Ryan Sluggett
David Snyder
Jill Spector
Koki Tanaka
Henry Taylor
Caroline Thomas
Cody Trepte
Erika Vogt
Lisa Williamson
Brenna Youngblood

Amanda Ross-Ho HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS, 2008, installation view. Photo Credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Is your favorite artist in this list? What do you think of the magazine’s picks? Please let us know in the comments or on our website.

By the way, you can see work in L.A. now by Amanda Ross-Ho, one of the artists included in A+A’s 50 artist list. The first solo museum installation by Los-Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, TEENY TINY WOMAN, just opened this past weekend at MOCA Pacific Design Center and runs through September 23, 2012.

If you would like to learn more about collecting art with an eye to the future, contact us at Perkey Fine Art.

On view at SFMOMA: Mark Bradford (American, born 1961), The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, 2011, Mixed-media collage on laminate paperboard

Mark Bradford takes urban detritus, such as street posters and string that he scavenges from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles or other cities, and transforms it into colorful and richly layered abstract paintings.

Often massively scaled, Bradford’s artworks sprawl and swirl and are every bit as gorgeous and visually captivating as Van Gogh’s landscapes. References to complex social issues – such as race, class, mass marketing and stereotyping – underlie his art and add to its power.

As the MacArthur Foundation stated when it awarded Mark Bradford one of its prestigious genius grants in 2009, “Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.”

Works on canvas and paper, video and an installation by Mark Bradford are on view through June 17, 2012 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., S.F., CA (415) 357-4000. Additional works can be seen at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located just across the street from SFMOMA, 701 Mission St., S.F., CA (415) 978-2787.

Learn about Mark Bradford in this special exhibition website, developed by the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more information about the artist and available artworks.

Scene at an art fair: Scope 2012 in New York City

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Join me at gem, the big, annual multimedia art exhibition and party benefitting Los Angeles Art Association, on April 21, 2012.

Don’t miss this fun evening featuring a fabulous selection of affordably priced works by over 140 artists!

As a member of the 2012 Benefit Committee of the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA), I am delighted to invite you to gem. Come to the VIP Preview, and get first pick. Proceeds of gem help LAAA, a pillar in the California art community since 1925, to continue to provide important resources to artists in Los Angeles.

RSVP online or get your tickets at the door. I hope to see you there!

The contemporary art world converges in New York City this week for the annual Armory Show and other art fairs around Manhattan. I enjoy attending the New York art fairs each year, and here I am again, in search of engaging artworks for my clients.

The 2012 edition of The Armory Show art fair is scaled down in size from previous years, which I found to be a good thing. More meat, less fat!

Check out my art fair photos to experience some of my top picks from the 2012 Armory Show. Like what you see? Feel free to contact me for more infomation.

Visitors enter The Armory Show contemporary art fair at Pier 94 along the Hudson River in New York City. The Armory Show is March 8 - 11, 2012.

ALLAN MCCOLLUM, Collection of Sixty Drawings, 1988/91, artist pencil on museum board, and Perfect Vehicle, 1988/2004, Moorglo on concrete, unique

PETER ZIMMERMANN, Untitled, 2011, airbrush and epoxy resin on canvas, 78 3/4 x 57 inches

JULIAN OPIE, Imagine You Are Driving, (sculpture 4), 1993, concrete, 126 x 147 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches

KEHINDE WILEY, Anthony Metellus, 2011, oil on canvas, 72 x 60 inches

Armory Focus: The Nordic Countries features select galleries from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland

Neon installation Scandanavian Pain by Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson is part of Nordic Focus at The Armory Show 2012

COOPER & GORFER, Shola and the Cat, 2011, archival pigment print, 39.37 x 31.5 inches

OLAFUR ELIASSON, Your Emergence (Blue to Red) and Your Emergence (Yellow to Red), 2012, handmade glass, driftwood, stainless steel, each 28 1/8 x 43 1/16 x 4 1/8

JOHN BALDESSARI, Prima Facie (Second State): Jolly, 2005, archival digital print on canvas, acrylic on canvas, 2 parts, each 47 1/2 x 38

BARBARA KRUGER, Untitled (Now You See Us Now You Don't), 1987, mixed media, 45 3/4 x 54 inches

ANISH KAPOOR, Untitled, 2011, Alabaster, 35.4 x 15.7 inches

LEANDRO ERLICH, La Vitrina Cloud Collection (London), 2011, wood, glass, acrylic, 67 x 50 x14 inches

ROB WYNNE, Purple Vortex, 2011, poured and mirrored glass

EDWARD BURTYNSKY, Oil Spill #9, Oil Slick at Rip Tide, Gulf of Mexico, June 24, 2010, chromogenic color print, printed 2010, Edition of 9

DANIEL KNORR, 2 Dollar Pigs, 2012, Inkjet print on paper, edition of 3

GHADA AMER, Baiser 2, 2011, nickel plated bronze, edition of 6 + 1 AP, 17.5 x 25 x 18 inches

DONALD SULTAN, Black and White Feb 27 2012, 2012, enamel, spackle and tar on tile over masonite, 36 x 36 inches

KATY STONE, Sunspot, 2011, oil on aluminum, edition of 3 + 2 AP, 32 x 32 x 2 inches

Visitors stoll the aisles of The Armory Show Modern in Peir 92

ASYA REZNIKOV, Packing Art History, 2011, video installation, edition AP/7, 20 x 14 x 6 inches

MARC TRUJILLO, 7200 Dodge Street, 2010, oil on aluminum, 23 x 32 1/2 inches

Lillian Bassman, Barbara Mullen (Blowing Kiss VARIANT), Harper's Bazaar, ca 1950, 40x40 in., gelatin silver print

Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor to learn more about the life and art of Lillian Bassman.

Read New York Times Lillian Bassman Obituary

Disappearing Environments by Judy Chicago and Materials & Applications at ALAC 2012

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the international contemporary art fair of the West Coast, brings together 70 blue chip and emerging galleries from around the world with a focus on Los Angeles galleries. Visit ALAC January 19-22, 2012 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California.

Would you like more information on the most exciting artworks offered at ALAC? Feel free to contact me for insights. See some art picks here:

Ed Moses signed posters and met with collectors viewing his new paintings.

Charles Gaines, Faces, 1970's, ink on paper and photographs

Ken Solomon, Rushca Standard Google Search

Peter Alexander, Royal Blue Drip, 2011, polyester resin

Anthony Pearson, bronze sculpture with two framed solarized silver gelatin photographs

Steven Montgomery, Static Fuel #4, 2005, painted glazed ceramic

With five art fairs coming to L.A., it’s fun and easy to view lots of wonderful art this month! You can enjoy diverse artworks from around the world at the art fairs. Its all part of the line up of art events for Los Angeles Arts Month 2012.

photo l.a. – Jan. 12-16 (Santa Monica Civic Center)

Classic Photographs Los Angeles – Jan. 14-15 (Old Helms Bakery Complex, Culver City)

Los Angeles Art Show – Jan. 18-22 (Los Angeles Convention Center)

Art Los Angeles Contemporary – Jan. 19-22 (Barker Hanger, Santa Monica Airport)

Affordable Art Fair – Jan.18-22 (Event Deck at L.A. Live)

If you would like to have an art consultant available while you are browsing these events, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Robert Doisneau, La Baiser (The Kiss), Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950, silver print, 7-1/8 x 7-1/8 in.

Hours are Saturday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12pm-5pm. Admission is $5.00 and is open to the public. www.classicphotographsla.com.

Art by Palmer Earl, Ryan McCann & Olga Lah among the works now at Gallery 825

Join me at the opening reception at Gallery 825, Saturday, Dec. 10, from 6 to 9pm. Presented by the nationally recognized Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA), this exciting show is on view at Gallery 825 through Jan. 6, 2012. Free admission. Gallery 825, 825 North La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069

Learn more about this event here.

A forest of city street lights at LACMA, by Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden, titled Urban Lights

You can sign up online, or call LACMA at 323-857-6151 or visit a LACMA ticket office during regular museum hours. Order by 12/9/11 if you would like your gift memberships to arrive by Christmas. Special offer valid through 12/31/11.

I hope you will enjoy your visits to LACMA, where you can see these engaging exhibitions (and more) currently on view:

California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
On view at LACMA now through June 3, 2012

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
On view at LACMA now through February 12, 2012

Monet/Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals
On view at LACMA now through January 1, 2012

Happy Holidays from Perkey Fine Art Consulting!

In addition to Pacific Standard Time, the unprecedented collaboration of more than sixty cultural institutions across Southern California coming together to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene, three art fairs launch this weekend in Los Angeles:

Art Platform – Los Angeles – Over 90 exhibitors gather at the LA Mart downtown, presenting an expansive assemblage of contemporary art, ranging from exciting works by emerging artists to international blue-chip art.

Pulse Los Angeles – The Pulse art fair takes place on the Event Deck at LA Live, focusing on interesting and relatively affordable contemporary art.

Fountain LA – Set in the loft district by the L.A. River, the Fountain LA art fair showcases edgy galleries and independent artists.

To kick it off, join me Friday evening, Sept. 30, at the Vernissage Party at Art Platform – Los Angeles. You get to scope out the art before the fair opens to the public, party with movers and shakers of the art scene, and proceeds from your ticket will benefit LACMA, MOCA and the Hammer Museum.

Feel free to contact me, and I will be happy to share insights on the best of the Los Angeles art fairs and offer tips for building your art collection. And check my art consulting blog and Facebook page for more recommendations to add to your art collection.

See you at the art fairs!

Barbara T. Smith, Field Piece (detail) - Nude sit in, performance / installation, 1971, (courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, L.A.)

Hope to see you there!

Shepard Fairey, Rose Girl

Purchase tickets online at http://shop.laaa.org/ or call LAAA at 310-652-8272. See you there!

Visitors are loving Beauty CULTure, breaking attendance records at Annenberg Space for Photography. Featuring works from over 100 acclaimed photographers, Beauty CULTure examines photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty and how these images profoundly influence our lives in both celebratory and disturbing ways. Among the nearly 700 print and digital images are works by Melvin Sokolsky, Tyen, Lillian Bassman, Matthew Rolston, Herb Ritts, Bert Stern and other world-renowned beauty, fashion and fine art photographers.

Art/House, one of the hottest art events in So Cal, will feature exciting art by over 40 artists to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles! I am delighted to serve as curator of Art/House. Contact Cheryl for your invitation.

Guests will enjoy fabulous art, fine hors d’oeuvres, sweets, cocktails and music at Art/House, to be held June 1st at Arena 1 Gallery in Santa Monica. Bid to win artworks by Ed Ruscha, Brad Howe, Ann Thornycroft, Bonita Helmer, Lee Silton and other leading artists at the silent art auction at Art/House. Most of the participating artists will attend, so guests will also enjoy meeting many top artists and rising stars.

How does art find its way today from the artist’s studio to a collector? What interactions take place among art world players in the online age?

I enjoyed taking part as one of the four guest speakers to address these issues at the panel discussion “The Art of Collaboration: New Dynamics in the Worlds of Art and Design” which took place yesterday as part of the annual Avenues of Art and Design week in West Hollywood. David Keeps, reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a contributing editor at House Beautiful Magazine, was the moderator of this event, set in the resplendent Phyllis Morris Showroom.

The panel lineup included art advisor Cheryl Perkey of Perkey Fine Art, designer Nancy Isaacs, ArtSeen gallery director Leonardo Ledesma and sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom.

And don’t miss the annual ART & DESIGN WALK, today, Saturday March 26, 2011 from 3 to 7pm on The Avenues in West Hollywood, with cocktail receptions, live music and entertainment, food trucks and more!

Panel discussion moderator, David Keeps of the Los Angeles Times (on left), introduces art advisor Cheryl Perkey (on right), to examine the dynamics of the art world at the annual Avenues of Art and Design Week in West Hollywood. Also in photo is sculptor Cheryl Ekstrom (in center).

The scene at Pulse art fair in New York City 2011

I am pleased to share my top picks from my visits to the New York art fairs this past week. Get a taste here of exciting artworks by new rising stars as well as accomplished contemporary artists, from PULSE, SCOPE and INDEPENDENT art fairs. (See my last blog for my picks of The Armory Show.)

Check out my photos, and feel free to contact me for more details.

Top picks of Pulse, Scope and Independent art fairs, New York 2011:

At Pulse: Nancy Lorenz, Wave II, mother of pearl and pigment on panel, 36 x 72 inches

At Pulse: Three works by Seong Chun, hand-typed text on crocheted paper

At Pulse: David Maisel's aerial photographs of the Great Salt Lake form abstract patterns and breathtaking colors. This piece is Terminal Mirage 2, 2003, C-print, ed. 10, 29 x 29 inches.

At Pulse: Hadieh Shafie, 14,635 Pages, 2011, acrylic and ink on paper with printed and hand-written Farsi text, 30 x 30 x 3 inches. The text in this piece, eshghe (translation love), is written repeatedly inside the rolls of paper used to create the work.

At Scope: Federico Uribe's cloud and rain is a construction of found objects including vinyl records, CD's, paper clips, and plastic ties.

At Scope: Stephan Zirwes, Watertower - Dubai, C-print on dibond and reverse plexiglas, ed. 6, 47 x 38 inches

At Scope: A colossal-sized popsicle and a pair of empty sticks, titled Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, is by Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers. It is a series of 20 available in a choice of five flavors, made of fiberglass, wood and paint, 70 x 70 x 10 inches.

Independent, an alternative art fair in its second year, is held at the former DIA Center for the Arts space in Chelsea.

At Independent: Norwegian artist Ida Ekblad's Forepart of a Lion, 2010, welded steel, rope, cast concrete, 88 x 61 x 39 inches

The Armory Show 2011 at Pier 92 and Pier 94 in New York

It’s that time of year again….New York is bursting at the seams with art and festivities during the annual Armory Arts Week.

I am pleased to share highlights with you as I attend fairs throughout the city.

Check out my photos of the Armory Show, the largest of the NY art fairs, and feel free to contact me for more details.

Highlights of The Armory Show 2011:

Crowds perusing the art at The Armory Show’s contemporary section at Pier 94

Andrea Bowers’ artwork makes a statement at The Armory Show

A bird’s eye view of The Armory Show contemporary section in Pier 94, from the infamously precarious stairway to the modern section in Pier 92.

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusuma’s colossal flower and a yellow painting from her signature Infinity Net series

Jan Mancuska, Untitled, 2011, mixed media (inverse film, light box, metal platform)

Gerhard Richter, Grun-Blau-Rot 789-38, 1993, oil on canvas, 11.8 x 15.7 inches

Mark Innerst, All The Above, 2010, oil on panel, 22 1/4 x 26 1/4 inches

A large-scale site-specific neon fence by Chilean artist Ivan Navarro

Silkscreened canvas by Andrew Hahn and installation of pennies on the floor by Ry Rockland

Alain Bublex, Plug-In City (2000) - Learn French Now, 2010, C Print and diasec mounted on aluminum, 68 x 94 1/4 inches

Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Transmission), 2011, Steel, patina, sandblasted white Portland cement, 81 x 70 x 30 inches

Laurent Grasso, Studies into the Past - Eclipse, 2011, animal adhesive, resin, boiled oil and pigments on oak panel, 16 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches

Sarah Walker, Dark Objects, 2010, acrylic on panel, 26 x 28 inches

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fifth Avenue Theater, Seattle, 1997, black and white photograph, ed. 25, 19 x 23 inches

Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled, 2009-10, inkjet prints, ed. 5, 90 1/4 x 77 inches installed

Artist Beth Campbell discusses her process and her latest artworks with Armory Show visitors

Richard Estes, Supermarket, Columbus Avenue, NY, 2008, oil on board, 25 1/2 x 25 inches

Barbara Takenaga, Nebraska Painting, 2010, acrylic on linen, 54 x 45 inches

El Anatsui, Delta, 2010, aluminum liquor bottle caps and copper wire, creased dimensions: 145 x 130 inches

Evan Holloway at All of This and Nothing at the Hammer Museum

Explore the potential for art to reveal the mysterious and the magical in everyday moments. Visit the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to see ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING, a group show of more than 60 works by 14 artists, who take mundane materials and reinvent them into a new aesthetic life, thereby encouraging us to look at the world differently. Thursdays are a great day to visit the Hammer Museum, because admission is free and the museum is open late until 9pm.

All of This and Nothing is on view now through April 24th, 2011. Hammer Museum address and hours: https://hammer.ucla.edu/visit/

The exhibition features artists based in Los Angeles, Latin America and elsewhere: Karla Black, Charles Gaines, Evan Holloway, Sergej Jensen, Ian Kiaer, Jorge Macchi, Dianna Molzan, Fernando Ortega, Eileen Quinlan, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Frances Stark, Mateo Tannatt and Kerry Tribe.

These artists work with ideas of the ephemeral, fragile nature of life, with their artworks being a reflection of that. The art is conceptual, in that its value resides more in the process of its making and the ideas behind it, rather than in the resulting object. As you explore the show, I think you will find that the wall texts provided by the museum will give you helpful insight into the artist’s process.

I am pleased to give you a small preview, and I hope you can visit in person to see the entire show:

Karla Black employs the floor of a room as her canvas, layering powdered plaster and pigment onto it, an ephemeral work that will exist only during this exhibition.

Jorge Macchi from Buenos Aires created “Vanishing Point ” especially for this exhibition, a handpainted wallpaper distorted so that the corner of the room recedes.

Charles Gaines’s audio-video-drawing piece “Manifestos” translates four 20th-century revolutionary manifestos into music.

Fernando Ortega of Mexico City lets a spider weave its web into an unstringed harp. His photographs document the beauty and small mysteries in everyday occurrences.

Los Angeles artist Kerry Tribe explores the subjective nature of memory and time in her video The Last Soviet, 2010

Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2011

The art fair offered visitors a cross section of what is happening now in contemporary art making. A majority of the participating dealers showcased fresh emerging talents, although the show was peppered with recent works by established artists. Over 70 U.S. and international galleries exhibited at Barker Hanger at the Santa Monica Airport for the second year of Art Los Angeles Contemporary.

I am pleased to share a few highlights of the art fair:

Chilean artist Gianfranco Foschino's Lota, 2010, HD video, flatscreen monitor and artists frame, 10 minutes, edition of 5

Liz Craft, Weed Couch, 2009, synthetic stone, paint, 40 x 48 x 96 inches

An intricate, collaged tapestry by Pae White is exhibited with Pae White's flocked chandelier

Tom LaDuke, Curtains Keep, 2010, oil and acrylic on canvas over panel, 60 x 80

Ken Solomon, Google Portrait - Lichtenstein, 2010, watercolor on paper, 44 x 74 inches

Resolution Revolution! a new piece by Lisa Anne Auerbach, known for textile artworks with politically provocative messages

I hope you had a chance to visit Photo LA 2011 and peruse the vast array of vintage and contemporary photographs. Dealers from around the world exhibited, with galleries from the U.S., France, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Australia and China.

Some of my top picks of the fair are:

• Michael Eastman’s stark and poignant yet unsentimental “Vanishing America” series
• Leslie Awender’s ethereal cameraless photographic images of chinese lantern plants
• Michael Wolf’s composite photo juxtaposing highrise architecture with a lone occupant
• Vintage fashion images by Vogue photographer Horst P. Horst
• Classic and historical works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Julius Shulman

Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art for more information.

Selections from Michael Eastman's "Vanishing America" series shown at Photo LA 2011

Visitors view works by Alec Soth and Robert Mapplethorpe at Photo LA 2011

"Oh Deer" one of the video installions by Dawn of Man presented each evening on exterior walls at Photo LA 2011

Los Angeles Art Show 2011

Don’t miss three world-class art fairs in Los Angeles in January, the centerpieces of Los Angeles Arts Month:

• The 20th annual Photo LA
  International photographic exposition with dealers from around the globe, displaying the finest contemporary photography along with masterworks from the 19th century.
  Santa Monica Civic Center,
  January 13 – 17
• The 16th annual Los Angeles Art Show “From Rembrandt to Ruscha and Beyond”: The largest and most important art fair on the west coast, with over 100 prominent galleries from around the world.
  L.A. Convention Center,
  January 19 – 23
• The second annual Art Los Angeles Contemporary Focusing on contemporary art, featuring over 70 top international blue chip and emerging galleries with a concentration on Los Angeles galleries.
  Barker Hanger, Santa Monica,
  January 27-30

Perkey Fine Art Consulting is hosting FREE GUIDED ART WALKS of the Los Angeles art fairs. Reservations are limited. Please contact us now to inquire about a free professionally guided tour of these exciting art fairs.

Los Angeles Art Show

Live art installation “Vox Humana” at Los Angeles Art Show

Lecture at Los Angeles Art Show

Art installation with video at Los Angeles Art Show.

Read more at Los Angeles Arts Month.

Enjoy special events and free admission to this Los Angeles art museum during opening week of the landmark exhibition “Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years”.

Don’t miss the chance to see the largest and most comprehensive showing ever of MOCA’s world-renowned permanent collection, opening Sunday November 15, 2009! It will feature more than 500 artworks by over 200 artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Barbara Kruger, John Baldessari, Billy Al Bengston, Catherine Opie, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Prince, Bill Viola and many more. View historically important works from 1939 to 1980 filling the galleries at MOCA’s main downtown L.A. site on Grand Avenue, plus check out an exciting array of artworks created 1980 to the present at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary location.

Ready to party? MOCA members are also invited to MOCA’s 30th birthday bash on Saturday November 21, 7-11pm, at MOCA Grand Avenue, to enjoy the blockbuster exhibition plus unique performances by My Barbarian, a dynamic Los Angeles-based artist collective. If you are not already a MOCA member, now is a perfect time to join and support an important Los Angeles art institution, plus receive great member benefits. Join today at https://www.moca.org/support/membership or call (213) 621-1794.

The museum is also hosting a black-tie benefit gala on November 14th to launch the show. Besides enjoying a preview of the new exhibition, guests will be entertained with a performance piece starring pop-diva Lady Gaga and dancers from the Bolshoi Ballet, conceived by artist Francesco Vezzoli. For gala tickets call (310) 201-5033.

Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years
November 15, 2009 – May 3, 2010
Free museum admission Sunday, November 15 to Saturday, November 21
MOCA Grand Avenue and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
www.moca.org

Neighborhoods across Los Angeles come alive with regularly occurring art walks. Make a date with a friend and join in the fun. Art walks are the perfect way to explore diverse art, soak up the local culture and socialize with other art lovers.

DOWNTOWN L.A. ART WALK
2nd Thursday of every month
3-9pm (check website for more info)
Free admission
Explore the bustling street culture of Los Angeles’ Historic Core known as “Gallery Row”, and see the newest art exhibitions of over 40 participating galleries, art centers and museums.

Flag down the free shuttle (running 6-10pm), a brightly painted bus called “the Hippodrome”, and be ready to be entertained while on board with a rotation of live music and art happenings.
downtownartwalk.com

MIRACLE MILE ART WALK
3rd Saturday of every month
Check website for hours
Free admission
With over 40 venues within 4 square miles, (Wilshire/La Brea/Beverly) this art walk has one of the highest concentrations of galleries in Southern California. Enjoy a wide variety of treats, such as artist lectures, complimentary food and beverage, live music, and free entry to art walk after parties. Get around with the free Holly Trolley. Mention Art Walk for free entrance to LACMA, CAFAM, and MAK Center!
www.miraclemileartwalk.com

SAN PEDRO 1st THURSDAY ARTWALK
1st Thursday of every month
6-9pm
Free admission
Art galleries, shops and restaurants are open until 9pm, with some restaurants offering a 1st Thursday Night Special and some with live music.
1stThursday.com

CHINATOWN ART NIGHT
Held once every 3 months on a Saturday
6-9pm
Free admission
Savor the nostalgia of historic Chinatown, while experiencing over 30 of L.A.’s most cutting edge art galleries.
www.chinatownla.com

ARTWALK CULVER CITY
Held in late spring once a year
12-8pm
Tour the Culver City Art District, a cluster of some of L.A.’s hottest galleries that has formed where Washington and La Cienega Boulevards intersect. Also make merry in neighboring restaurants, cafes and bars, many offering special promotions and live music during this highly anticipated annual event.
www.culvercity.org

The Getty Center Museum Garden is a creation of renowned artist Robert Irwin

Enjoy the gardens now in full bloom, as well as the dramatic architecture and breathtaking views, while you take in the Getty’s world-class collection of Western art and well known masterpieces such as Van Gogh’s “Irises”.

Among several special exhibitions at the Getty Center this summer, I recommend “TEN YEARS IN FOCUS: THE ARTIST AND THE CAMERA”, on view now through August. This exhibition of select pieces acquired by the Getty over the last ten years presents an eclectic group of images spanning 160 years and a display of vintage equipment, providing insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology. Photographs on view include groundbreaking 19th century images, an 1895 photograph by painter Winslow Homer, and works by contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney.
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/photographs_10years/

Admission to the Getty Center is FREE-no tickets or reservations required for general admission. Parking is $8.

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California 90049
http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/

Have a fabulous summer!

As the sun came out in New York City and the last mounds of the snow dumped by the big storm a few days earlier melted away, it seemed a fitting day for the opening of the Armory Show, considered by many contemporary art enthusiasts to be the kickoff to the spring art season.

The Armory Show, now in its eleventh year, was held in the cavernous Pier 94 at the edge of the Hudson River from March 5th to 8th, 2009. Plus for the first time the fair included a new section in Pier 92 focusing on modern art and contemporary masters.

With over 250 exhibitors from some 28 countries, the offerings were quite diverse. The feel may have been a bit less edgy than Armory Shows of the past, but I was delighted to find a number of exciting artworks that were real standouts! These included well-priced pieces by major artists, as well as works by emerging artists who show great promise.

My Top Ten Picks (in alphabetical order):

Beth Campbell (American): a branched hanging metal sculpture, plus a witty text “flowchart” that describes many future outcomes imagined by the artist
Ewan Gibbs (British): New York scenes in meticulous drawings on scored paper, and exquisitely executed linocuts
Alexandra Grant (American): elegant and meditative drawings of text in reverse
Richard Misrach (American): mystifying landscape photographs in colors switched in positive/negative
Vik Muniz (Brazilian/American): “Medusa” after Caravaggio, a new piece in Muniz’s “pictures of junk” series
Robin Rhode (South African): the artist creates alchemy with a set of 21 images of his “Empty Pockets” performance
Michal Rovner (Israeli): a mesmerizing parade of figures stroll in horizontal rows across a tall monitor
Thomas Ruff (German): gorgeously colorized appropriations of the Cassini spacecraft mission’s rings of Saturn
Michael Van Ofen (German): paintings that convey nuances and implications in just a few masterful brushstrokes
Michael Wolf (German/American): “Transparent City” series of provocative photographs of the urban environment

Sign of the Times

Works by quite a few historically important artists were shown at the Armory Show, as might be expected with the addition of the new section in Pier 92. But walking through the show, what struck me was that there seemed to be more pieces available by each of these major artists than what might usually be offered at an art fair. For example, at least eight dealers presented work by Robert Rauschenberg, some showing multiple pieces. Also I saw five Joseph Cornell boxes, and seven paintings by Yayoi Kusama (including two rare works from 1953 – pulled out for me from the closet of the gallery’s booth). I surmise that the influx is due to collectors who are liquidating in this tight economy. With major pieces coming onto the market now, and top-flight work available at good prices, this may be an advantageous time to consider adding to your collection.

Certainly the down economy was on the minds of all the Armory Show dealers. But their mood seemed to be upbeat and cautiously optimistic, and most reported to me that although business levels at the fair were down from last year, sales and visitor numbers this year exceeded their expectations.

Duds and Thuds

As with any expansive art fair, I encountered plenty of unremarkable work here too. Not to mention the usual smattering of gimmicky stuff, like a portrait of President Obama made out of Fruit Loops and Lucky Charms. Or Tony Matelli’s bronze and resin sculpture fabricated to look like hunks of real meat and sausages, formed into a head and face. (If Giuseppe Arcimboldo were around after 500 years, he probably would not be very flattered.)

Memorable Installations

Outside the entrance to Pier 94, five live-action murals painted by Kenny Scharf gripped visitors’ attention. Inside the show, Ghanaian artist El Anatsui’s installation of a large metal “tapestry”, woven of countless pieces of colorful found metal such as the tops of wine bottles, undulated along a long corridor. And artist Christine Hill transformed Ronald Feldman Fine Arts’ booth into an interactive “apothecary”, where “patients” lined up to receive their custom made remedy for recession-era malaise. How about a dash of optimism, mixed with a pinch of moxie to help cure what ails you?

Feel free to contact me, and I will be pleased to give you details on specific artworks, or chat about art world news and trends.

Art lovers and “foodies” alike will enjoy these art experiences! Examine artwork from the Norton Simon Museum’s collections with an eye toward food and drink. Join Maite Gomez-Rejon, professional chef and museum educator, for three courses which pair the representation of food in painting and sculpture with culinary history and practices. Period recipes complement each lecture.

Food and Art courses Saturdays, April 12, May 3 & June 14, 2008
Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
Per-session fee of $15 includes admission to the museum on the day of class.
Walk-in registration begins at 10:15 a.m.
For further information and registration, call the Education Department at (626) 844-6980
Nortonsimon.org

A Taste of Southeast Asia
Saturday, April 12, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Bring the art of Southeast Asia to life while examining cooking traditions described in ancient texts, from the Vedas to writings by Alexander the Great’s commanders. Discover the important role of food and drink in religious rituals and festivals.

The Dutch Golden Age
Saturday, May 3, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Examine 17th-century still-life painting through the cornucopia of imported spices and ingredients that would forever change dining in Europe. Learn about the inventories of implements, objects and textiles found in a well-appointed Dutch home.

The French Table in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Saturday, June 14, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Explore French art in the context of the social and political changes that created one of the world’s most refined cuisines. Consider the evolution of cooking and dining practices from the French salon to the Revolutionary kitchen to the Parisian café.

Enjoy!

Visit LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART for the debut of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) on Feb. 16th with a FREE community weekend. You can get your free tickets online at the BCAM website:

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibitions/current

MEMBERS ONLY PREVIEW DAYS:
February 11-15, 2008
Hours: 11 am-4 pm
Free tickets required. Tickets are dated and timed.

LACMA FREE COMMUNITY WEEKEND Sponsored by Target:
February 16-18, 2008
Hours: 11 am-8 pm
Free tickets required. Tickets are dated and timed.

NEW SPACES:

• Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), designed by architect Renzo Piano
• BP Grand Entrance
• Ahmanson Atrium
• Dona S. and Dwight M. Kendall Concourse
• Underground Parking

NEW OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS:

• Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” installation of 202 vintage L.A. street lamps
• John Baldessari’s 50-foot banners
• Robert Irwin designed palm garden

NEW ART:

• Richard Serra’s two enormous walk-through sculptures
• Contemporary art from Broad Foundation, including works by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Raushenberg, Jeff Koons and more.

See sixty up-and-coming artists at the first Los Angeles biennial, now through Sept. 2, 2012, at the Hammer Museum, LAXART, and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

You have just two weeks left to see Made in L.A. 2012, and I hope you will. I love recommending exhibitions that can give busy people like you a unique and enlightening art experience in a single encounter. Made in L.A. 2012 is one of those events.

Featuring sixty artists, it offers a snapshot of the current art trends and practices flowing out of Los Angeles, one of the most active and energetic art communities worldwide! The emphasis is on up-and-coming and under-recognized artists, and will debut new installations, videos, sculptures, performances, and paintings produced especially for the biennial.

Made in L.A. 2012 is presented at three different venues, now through September 2, 2012. Organized by the Hammer Museum in collaboration with LAXART, it is held at the Hammer Museum, LAXART, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park.

Here are some details to help you plan a visit to fit your schedule, including evenings and weekends. Or contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more information. Enjoy!

HAMMER MUSEUM
10899 Wilshire Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90024

310-443-7000

http://hammer.ucla.edu/

Hours:
Tue–Fri 11am–8pm
Sat & Sun 11am–5pm
Closed Monday

Guided Tours:
Thursdays at 6:45pm (museum admission is free on Thursdays)
Saturdays at 2:00pm (this tour is free with museum admission)

LAXART
2640 S. La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA 90034
310-559-0166

http://laxart.org/

Free Admission

Hours:
Tue-Sat 11am-6pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY (LAMAG)
Barnsdall Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-644-6269

http://www.lamag.org/

Free Admission

Special Hours:
Tues–Fri 11am–8 pm
Sat–Sun 11am–5 pm
Closed Monday

Docent Led Tours :
Tuesdays at 7:00pm or Saturdays at 1:00pm

Official Website: www.madeinla2012.org

Video Preview: http://hammer.ucla.edu

Download the Free App: Made in LA Soundmap

MADE IN L.A. 2012 ARTISTS

Scoli Acosta
Kathryn Andrews
Animal Charm
Math Bass
Scott Benzel
Sarah Cain
Sarah Conaway
Fiona Connor
Kate Costello
Meg Cranston
Nzuji de Magalhães
Michelle Dizon
Roy Dowell
Zackary Drucker with Rhys Ernst
Patricia Fernández
Cayetano Ferrer
Dan Finsel
Morgan Fisher
Simone Forti
Liz Glynn
Mark Hagen
Zach Harris
Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle
Channa Horwitz
Pearl C. Hsiung
Ashley Hunt
Vishal Jugdeo
Mimi Lauter
Thomas Lawson
Nery Gabriel Lemus
Dashiell Manley
Allison Miller
Nicole Miller
Meleko Mokgosi
Zac Monday
Ruby Neri
D’Ette Nogle
Alex Olson
Michele O’Marah
Camilo Ontiveros
Joel Otterson
Karthik Pandian
The Propeller Group
Vincent Ramos
Laura Riboli
Ry Rocklen
Miljohn Ruperto
Analia Saban
Brian Sharp
Slanguage
Ryan Sluggett
David Snyder
Jill Spector
Koki Tanaka
Henry Taylor
Caroline Thomas
Cody Trepte
Erika Vogt
Lisa Williamson
Brenna Youngblood

Amanda Ross-Ho HALF OF WHAT I SAY IS MEANINGLESS, 2008, installation view. Photo Credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Is your favorite artist in this list? What do you think of the magazine’s picks? Please let us know in the comments or on our website.

By the way, you can see work in L.A. now by Amanda Ross-Ho, one of the artists included in A+A’s 50 artist list. The first solo museum installation by Los-Angeles-based artist Amanda Ross-Ho, TEENY TINY WOMAN, just opened this past weekend at MOCA Pacific Design Center and runs through September 23, 2012.

If you would like to learn more about collecting art with an eye to the future, contact us at Perkey Fine Art.

On view at SFMOMA: Mark Bradford (American, born 1961), The Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria, 2011, Mixed-media collage on laminate paperboard

Mark Bradford takes urban detritus, such as street posters and string that he scavenges from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles or other cities, and transforms it into colorful and richly layered abstract paintings.

Often massively scaled, Bradford’s artworks sprawl and swirl and are every bit as gorgeous and visually captivating as Van Gogh’s landscapes. References to complex social issues – such as race, class, mass marketing and stereotyping – underlie his art and add to its power.

As the MacArthur Foundation stated when it awarded Mark Bradford one of its prestigious genius grants in 2009, “Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.”

Works on canvas and paper, video and an installation by Mark Bradford are on view through June 17, 2012 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., S.F., CA (415) 357-4000. Additional works can be seen at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, located just across the street from SFMOMA, 701 Mission St., S.F., CA (415) 978-2787.

Learn about Mark Bradford in this special exhibition website, developed by the Wexner Center for the Arts.

Contact Perkey Fine Art Advisor for more information about the artist and available artworks.

Robert Doisneau, La Baiser (The Kiss), Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1950, silver print, 7-1/8 x 7-1/8 in.

Hours are Saturday 11am-7pm; Sunday 12pm-5pm. Admission is $5.00 and is open to the public. www.classicphotographsla.com.

A forest of city street lights at LACMA, by Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden, titled Urban Lights

You can sign up online, or call LACMA at 323-857-6151 or visit a LACMA ticket office during regular museum hours. Order by 12/9/11 if you would like your gift memberships to arrive by Christmas. Special offer valid through 12/31/11.

I hope you will enjoy your visits to LACMA, where you can see these engaging exhibitions (and more) currently on view:

California Design, 1930–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
On view at LACMA now through June 3, 2012

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads
On view at LACMA now through February 12, 2012

Monet/Lichtenstein: Rouen Cathedrals
On view at LACMA now through January 1, 2012

Happy Holidays from Perkey Fine Art Consulting!

Barbara T. Smith, Field Piece (detail) - Nude sit in, performance / installation, 1971, (courtesy of the artist and The Box Gallery, L.A.)

Hope to see you there!

Visitors are loving Beauty CULTure, breaking attendance records at Annenberg Space for Photography. Featuring works from over 100 acclaimed photographers, Beauty CULTure examines photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty and how these images profoundly influence our lives in both celebratory and disturbing ways. Among the nearly 700 print and digital images are works by Melvin Sokolsky, Tyen, Lillian Bassman, Matthew Rolston, Herb Ritts, Bert Stern and other world-renowned beauty, fashion and fine art photographers.

Evan Holloway at All of This and Nothing at the Hammer Museum

Explore the potential for art to reveal the mysterious and the magical in everyday moments. Visit the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles to see ALL OF THIS AND NOTHING, a group show of more than 60 works by 14 artists, who take mundane materials and reinvent them into a new aesthetic life, thereby encouraging us to look at the world differently. Thursdays are a great day to visit the Hammer Museum, because admission is free and the museum is open late until 9pm.

All of This and Nothing is on view now through April 24th, 2011. Hammer Museum address and hours: https://hammer.ucla.edu/visit/

The exhibition features artists based in Los Angeles, Latin America and elsewhere: Karla Black, Charles Gaines, Evan Holloway, Sergej Jensen, Ian Kiaer, Jorge Macchi, Dianna Molzan, Fernando Ortega, Eileen Quinlan, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Frances Stark, Mateo Tannatt and Kerry Tribe.

These artists work with ideas of the ephemeral, fragile nature of life, with their artworks being a reflection of that. The art is conceptual, in that its value resides more in the process of its making and the ideas behind it, rather than in the resulting object. As you explore the show, I think you will find that the wall texts provided by the museum will give you helpful insight into the artist’s process.

I am pleased to give you a small preview, and I hope you can visit in person to see the entire show:

Karla Black employs the floor of a room as her canvas, layering powdered plaster and pigment onto it, an ephemeral work that will exist only during this exhibition.

Jorge Macchi from Buenos Aires created “Vanishing Point ” especially for this exhibition, a handpainted wallpaper distorted so that the corner of the room recedes.

Charles Gaines’s audio-video-drawing piece “Manifestos” translates four 20th-century revolutionary manifestos into music.

Fernando Ortega of Mexico City lets a spider weave its web into an unstringed harp. His photographs document the beauty and small mysteries in everyday occurrences.

Los Angeles artist Kerry Tribe explores the subjective nature of memory and time in her video The Last Soviet, 2010

I hope you had a chance to visit Photo LA 2011 and peruse the vast array of vintage and contemporary photographs. Dealers from around the world exhibited, with galleries from the U.S., France, United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Australia and China.

Some of my top picks of the fair are:

• Michael Eastman’s stark and poignant yet unsentimental “Vanishing America” series
• Leslie Awender’s ethereal cameraless photographic images of chinese lantern plants
• Michael Wolf’s composite photo juxtaposing highrise architecture with a lone occupant
• Vintage fashion images by Vogue photographer Horst P. Horst
• Classic and historical works by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Julius Shulman

Feel free to contact Perkey Fine Art for more information.

Selections from Michael Eastman's "Vanishing America" series shown at Photo LA 2011

Visitors view works by Alec Soth and Robert Mapplethorpe at Photo LA 2011

"Oh Deer" one of the video installions by Dawn of Man presented each evening on exterior walls at Photo LA 2011

The Getty Center Museum Garden is a creation of renowned artist Robert Irwin

Enjoy the gardens now in full bloom, as well as the dramatic architecture and breathtaking views, while you take in the Getty’s world-class collection of Western art and well known masterpieces such as Van Gogh’s “Irises”.

Among several special exhibitions at the Getty Center this summer, I recommend “TEN YEARS IN FOCUS: THE ARTIST AND THE CAMERA”, on view now through August. This exhibition of select pieces acquired by the Getty over the last ten years presents an eclectic group of images spanning 160 years and a display of vintage equipment, providing insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology. Photographs on view include groundbreaking 19th century images, an 1895 photograph by painter Winslow Homer, and works by contemporary artists such as Andy Warhol and David Hockney.
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/photographs_10years/

Admission to the Getty Center is FREE-no tickets or reservations required for general admission. Parking is $8.

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, California 90049
http://www.getty.edu/visit/hours/

Have a fabulous summer!

Art lovers and “foodies” alike will enjoy these art experiences! Examine artwork from the Norton Simon Museum’s collections with an eye toward food and drink. Join Maite Gomez-Rejon, professional chef and museum educator, for three courses which pair the representation of food in painting and sculpture with culinary history and practices. Period recipes complement each lecture.

Food and Art courses Saturdays, April 12, May 3 & June 14, 2008
Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91105
Per-session fee of $15 includes admission to the museum on the day of class.
Walk-in registration begins at 10:15 a.m.
For further information and registration, call the Education Department at (626) 844-6980
Nortonsimon.org

A Taste of Southeast Asia
Saturday, April 12, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Bring the art of Southeast Asia to life while examining cooking traditions described in ancient texts, from the Vedas to writings by Alexander the Great’s commanders. Discover the important role of food and drink in religious rituals and festivals.

The Dutch Golden Age
Saturday, May 3, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Examine 17th-century still-life painting through the cornucopia of imported spices and ingredients that would forever change dining in Europe. Learn about the inventories of implements, objects and textiles found in a well-appointed Dutch home.

The French Table in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Saturday, June 14, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Explore French art in the context of the social and political changes that created one of the world’s most refined cuisines. Consider the evolution of cooking and dining practices from the French salon to the Revolutionary kitchen to the Parisian café.

Enjoy!

Visit LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART for the debut of the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) on Feb. 16th with a FREE community weekend. You can get your free tickets online at the BCAM website:

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibitions/current

MEMBERS ONLY PREVIEW DAYS:
February 11-15, 2008
Hours: 11 am-4 pm
Free tickets required. Tickets are dated and timed.

LACMA FREE COMMUNITY WEEKEND Sponsored by Target:
February 16-18, 2008
Hours: 11 am-8 pm
Free tickets required. Tickets are dated and timed.

NEW SPACES:

• Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), designed by architect Renzo Piano
• BP Grand Entrance
• Ahmanson Atrium
• Dona S. and Dwight M. Kendall Concourse
• Underground Parking

NEW OUTDOOR INSTALLATIONS:

• Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” installation of 202 vintage L.A. street lamps
• John Baldessari’s 50-foot banners
• Robert Irwin designed palm garden

NEW ART:

• Richard Serra’s two enormous walk-through sculptures
• Contemporary art from Broad Foundation, including works by Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Raushenberg, Jeff Koons and more.