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Robert Motherwell, Red Sea I, Aquatint, Leslie Sacks Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

For the month of love (not just exclusive to couples!) this FADABlog post is an homage to red. Vibrant, energizing and impactful: FADA’s inventory holds many canvases with eye-popping red accents. The color is often associated with passion-perfectly analogous to this introduction to the month of February.

 

 

Frederick William MacMonnies, Woman in Red, Oil on canvas, Avery Galleries. Click to inquire.

 

 

 

Craig Alan, Populus: Lichtenstein ‘Eye’, Acrylic on canvas, Guarisco Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

The color always seems to call for our gaze: an attractive color interrupting muted landscapes. Its power can be seen in canvases. Frederick William MacMonnies’ Woman in Red (ABOVE) draws our attention to the lush ruby roses of its subject.

 

 

 

 

Raymond Jonson, Watercolor No. 26, 1941, Watercolor on paperboard, Addison Rowe Gallery. Click to inquire.

 

The color is often wielded by artists to provoke: our eyes can not help but be drawn to the pigment!

 

 

Joseph Stella, Butterflies, 1918, Watercolor and gouache on paper, survey Gallery. Click to inquire.

 

 

 

 

Charles Ragland Bunnell, Untitled, Oil, David Cook Galleries.  Click to inquire. 

 

Five FADA Member Galleries participated at the FADA-Founded LA Art Show. Enjoy their booths and art fair tips!

 

Arcadia Contemporary

Culver City, CA

 

 

 

Gallery Booth Artwork Highlight: Adapt by Annie Murphy-Robinson, Charcoal on Paper, 42″ x 30″

 

 

 

 

The artist with her work 

 

Fair Highlight: Jeremy Lipking, Casey Baugh, and J. Louis opening night (Below)

 

 

Art Fair Tip? Bring extra battery packs to charge your cellphones during long fair days!

 

 

Bert Green Fine Art

Chicago, IL

 

 

Gallery Booth Artwork Highlight: William Powhida, What is an Artist?, Graphite, watercolor, colored pencil on paper, 20 x 16″, 2017 (ABOVE)

 

Bert Green in action

 

Fair Highlight: Very well attended, super busy every day.

 

 

Art Fair Tip: For visitors, don’t be afraid to ask questions and if you want to buy something, ask if discounts are available.

 

Jane Kahan Gallery

New York, NY

 

 

Jane Kahan Holding Court

 

 

Jane Kahan Gallery’s Modernist Booth Program

 

 

Booth with a view

 

Rehs Galleries, Inc.

New York, NY

 

The Rehs Family

 

 

An active gallery participant of the LA Art Show, this year Rehs Galleries changed it up and created a private room featuring our historic works within the contemporary booth.

 

 

 

Timothy Yarger Fine Art

Beverly Hills, CA

 

Gallery Owner Timothy Yarger at the Fair

 

 

John William Bailly, Cutler Fossil Site Roma, 2017, Oil on canvas.

 

FADA Member Gallery LnS has Gallery Artist John William Bailly on display at the Miami International Airport.

Cutler Fossil Site Roma, 2017, an oil on canvas, reflects his exploration of the random nature of information and the methods we employ we process it.  View more work by the artist. 

BIOGRAPHY

John William Bailly is a French–American artist born in the UK. He received his MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University, and has been a Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at Florida International University since 2004. His work explores the random nature of information and the methods we employ we process it. Utilizing juxtapositions of diverse data and multiple historical references, Bailly’s work intends for us to reflect on the manner in which we conceptualize our realities. His works have been exhibited at University of Maine Museum of Art, Patricia and Philip Frost Museum of Art, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Texas State University, as well as other venues in the US and France. He was awarded the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a State of Florida Individual Artist Grant. In 2007, Bailly and critically acclaimed poet Richard Blanco produced a collaborative project, Place of Mind.

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

I like to paint, not write about painting. Some dear friends have stated the following, and I am humbled.

“Bailly is no stranger to the complexities of intercultural exchange; born in England to a French father and an American mother, he has constantly been caught in between different cultures, a circumstance that has become a major theme in his art. From this starting point, “10,000 Years of Miami” is combination of the artist’s personal experiences, his connections to Miami, and his fieldwork as Deering Estate’s Artist-in-Residence. The Miami that Bailly paints is not the stereotypical palm trees and beaches, but one of remarkable multicultural exchange, diversity, and historical richness. Like his paintings, Bailly’s Miami is profound, complex, and multilayered. The pieces tell a story that isn’t clean-cut and linear, but rather one that is rich, complicated, and even messy.”
Stephanie Sepulveda

 

 

Jules Cheret, Théâtre de l’Opéra, Carnaval, 1894, Color lithograph, Galerie Michael.  Click to inquire.

 

 

Decadence, a term most closely associated with the pathological symptoms of Aestheticism, characterized the perceived immorality of the Victorian era.

Now associating the term with indulgence ultimately recalls the slumber we are slowly emerging from after the holiday season. While Aesthetic artists’ lavish bacchanale-inspired paintings perhaps did not mirror Christmas dinner with grandma, they nevertheless visually resemble the overwhelm-ness one may have felt over the break.

 

 

David Drebin, Girls Night Out, C-Print, Contessa Gallery.  Click to inquire.  

 

 

Michael Chapman, The Firewatcher, Oil on canvas, Arcadia Contemporary.  Click to inquire.

 

Seen in Jules Cheret’s Théâtre de l’Opéra, Carnaval, 1894, contemporary to Aestheticism, reflects the parties of its time.  In modern and contemporary art, decadent attributes can be found. Whether in LnS’s floral headpieces that recall Greco-Roman bacchanals, or in the contemporary photos by David Drebin in the inventory of Contessa Gallery, they ultimately reflect an indulgent feeling. In frenzied revelry whether feasting, shopping, vacationing, those decadent victorians-and their warnings- continually can be referenced in today’s modern world.

 

Sinuhe Vega Negrin, The Four Seasons from Artifacts Series, Oil painted fiberglass and synthetic flora sculpture on iron and wood pedestal, LnS Gallery. Click to inquire.

Jonathan Seliger, Midnight Ride, 2017, Tasende Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

Sinuhe Vega Negrin, The Four Seasons from Artifacts Series, Oil painted fiberglass and synthetic flora sculpture on iron and wood pedestal, LnS Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

ARCADIA CONTEMPORARY

 

 

BOOTH 917

FEATURING NEW WORKS BY:

Brad Kunkle

Malcolm T. Liepke

Jeremy Lipking

 & Others

 

 

BERT GREEN FINE ART

 

 

Booth 7055, Works on Paper Section

Presenting all of the prints that they have published to date, for the first time in one place.

 

JANE KAHAN GALLERY

 

 

Booths 701, 800

Featuring artwork by:

SONIA DELAUNAY (1885-1979)
JEAN LURCAT (1892-1966)
FERNAND LEGER (1881-1955)
& Other Modern Masters

REHS GALLERIES, INC.

 

Booths 925, 1024

Their booths reflects a curation of the historic booth within the contemporary booth.

Featuring historic artworks from: Corot, Cortes, del Campo

Featuring contemporary artworks from:  Anthony Mastromatteo, Tony South, Tim Jahn

 

TIMOTHY YARGER FINE ART

 

 

Booth 4001

Light & Line: A thematic curated collection at the LA Art Show

Featuring: Mads Christensen, Pancho Luna, Jim McHugh & others

 

 

HOURS

Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Vanguard Entrance
7pm – 8pm

Patron Reception
7pm – 11pm

Opening Night Premiere Party
8pm – 11pm

Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018
11am – 7pm

Friday, Jan. 12, 2018
11am – 7pm

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018
11am – 7pm

Sunday, Jan. 14, 2018
11am – 5pm

 

LOCATION

 

LA Convention Center

1201 S Figueroa St

South Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90015

 

BUY TICKETS

 

 

 

Ron Kleemann, Study for ‘Pecker Heads’, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art.  Click to inquire. 

 

 

New Years Eve draws tremendous crowds with the lure of spectacular fireworks.  Inspired by the thrill of sharing in the excitement-but also with the annoyance of traffic, this FADAblog posts highlights FADA Member Gallery inventory of crowds. In reflection on the history of depicting crowds, one also notes the most original artwork of a clongomerate, the Ara Pacis friezes documenting the Roman Triumph of Augustus’ times.

 

 

Mary Henderson, Marchers, Oil on panel, Arcadia Contemporary.  Click to inquire.

 

 

 

 

Antoine Blanchard, Avenue de L’Opera, Oil on canvas, Rehs Galleries, Inc.  Click to inquire.

 

In lieu of personalization, artworks depicting crowds seemingly present one shared idea.  Breughel’s sixteenth-century The Harvesters lacks the personalization of a portrait and typifies (and humorizes) peasants.  In Southern Europe, Florentine frescoes, like Gozzoli’s Journey of the Magi in the Medici Palace, includes portraits of the Medici family within the religious procession in a unified testament to the elite family’s wealth and importance.

 

 

Michele Byrne, Community, Oil on canvas, Eckert & Ross Fine Art. Click to inquire.

 

 

 

Ralph Huntington McKelvey, Children at the Movie Theater, Oil on canvas, George Stern Fine Arts.  Click to inquire. 

 

In regarding FADA Member Galleries’ inventories in context to crowd depictions, they most definitely evoke Post-Industrial, capitalist displays of middle-class leisure. Whether on the way to the movies or as spectators to parades, the artistic depictions of modern and crowds reflect the intricacies of contemporary public interaction.

 

 

 

Fernando Amorsolo, Sunday Market Baguio, Oil on board, Douglas Frazer Fine Art.  Click to inquire.

Howard Rehs, FADA Member Gallery Owner, and former FADA President of the Board of Directors, was featured in a Washington Post profile on the IRS’s panel of art experts that appraise art-allowing the FBI to properly tax it. Rehs sits on the panel alongside curators from the nation’s museums.

 

Prominently featured throughout the article, Rehs relays the inner workings of the panel to Glenn Dixon in his article: “The secretive panel of art experts that tells the IRS how much art is worth.” To read the article in its entirety, click here.

Illustration: Mikel Jaso

 

 

Willard Nash, Road to Las Vegas, ed. 1 of 9, Color etching, Addison Rowe Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

In the midst of the holiday exodus, many will be taking journeys-to both familiar and unfamiliar places.  The road, the quintessential symbol of transcendentalists, expands upon these literary connotations in artworks.  As a passage from one place to the next, roads in artwork often include the viewer within the landscape-the ultimate subjective experience.

 

 

William McKendree Snyder, The Road to the River, Oil on canvas, Eckert & Ross Fine Art.  Click to inquire.

 

 

Robert Aaron Frame, Bend in the Road, Oil on canvas, George Stern Fine Arts. Click to inquire,

 

 

 

Many of FADA Galleries specialize in American Art, and thus artworks reflect the lineage of the New England foliage providing inspiration for Theroux and co. While some holiday journeys will not be as serene as the settings depicted in these artworks, there nevertheless is an excitement in the possibility of unexpectedness in a journey.

 

 

 

Edward Willis Redfield, Winter Road, Oil on canvas, Avery Galleries.  Click to inquire.

 

 

 

 

Donald Teague, On the Road to Aville, Espangne, Watercolor, Thomas Nygard Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

While today’s roads are highways-the roads depicted-subtle interruptions within natural landscape, reflect hard-to-come by meditative states during travel.

 

 

 

Theodore Robinson, Farmer on a Country Road, Oil on canvas mounted on board, Godel & Co. Fine Art.  Click to inquire.

 

Daniel Coves, Back Steier No. 5, Oil on canvas, Arcadia Contemporary.  Click to inquire.

 

 

With the upcoming Royal Wedding revving up dreams of spectacular hats, we look to the art of fashion-particularly those fabulous accessories adorning the head.  Major museums, like the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, have dedicated exhibitions to the art of hat making.

 

 

 

Sinuhe Vega Negrin, The Four Seasons from the Artifacts series, 2017 Oil painted fiberglass and synthetic flora sculpture on iron and wood pedestal, LnS Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

 

 

 

Irving Ramsey Wiles, Woman at a Table, Oil on canvas, Avery Galleries.  Click to inquire.

 

At the Milliners, Impressionist painters captured the latest french fashions of the bourgeoise.  Hats, throughout the the 19th and 20th centuries have been identity and social markers.  In the photographs of Contessa Gallery, laborers wear newsboy caps, in a Questroyal painting, the artist glamorizes traditional Italian hats: the styles abound. Paintings and other mediums instantly date their subjects through style which designers are rethinking and re-appropriating for modern times.

 

 

 

Seymour Joseph Guy, Young Woman in Traditional Italian Dress, Oil on board, Questroyal Fine Art.  Click to inquire. 

 

 

 

Andreas Feininger, Unloading Coffee at Brooklyn Dock, New York, Silver gelatin print, Contessa Gallery.  Click to inquire.

 

Beyond keeping us warm or shielding us from the sun, hats extend personalities, allowing wearers to become new characters: the ultimate fashion statements. Which hat is for you?

 

 

 

 

Ignacio Guibert Amor, Untitled (Dancers), 1972, Ink on paper.  David Cook Galleries.  Click to inquire.

 

 

 

 

Victor Manuel Garcia, Mujer Con Sombrero, Oil on canvas board, Cernuda Arte.  Click to inquire.

 

 

Cernuda Arte

Booth A210

FEATURED ARTISTS: 

Wifredo Lam, René Portocarrero, Amelia Peláez

 

 

Contessa Gallery

Booth A137a & B137b

FEATURED ARTISTS: 

MR. BRAINWASH, David Drebin & Introducing Brendan Murphy

 

 

Jerald Melberg Gallery

Booth A426

FEATURED ARTISTS: 

Thomas McNickle, Kim Keever, Robert Motherwell

 

 

Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art

Booth A520

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Jim Dine, David Hockney, Sam Francis

 

 

Rosenbaum Contemporary

Booth A530

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Nancy Dwyer, Simon Procter, Louise Nevelson

 

 

 

Arcadia Contemporary

Booth C-325

FEATURED ARTISTS:

Nick Alm, Casey Baugh, Jeremy Lipking

 

LOCATION

The Art Miami Pavilion
One Miami Herald Plaza @ NE 14TH STREET

 

FAIR HOURS

 

VIP

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

FIRST VIEW VIP Preview:4.30pm – 5:30pm

VIP Preview:5.30pm – 10pm

GENERAL ADMISSION 

Wednesday, December 6 11am – 8pm

Thursday, December 7 11am – 8pm

Friday, December 8 11am – 8pm

Saturday, December 9 11am – 8pm

Sunday, December 10 11am – 6pm