art on paper Press Release - Exhibitor List, Benefit Preview, Special

For Immediate Release Media Contact Kelly Freeman, Communications 212.518.6912 ­ kelly@artmarketproductions.com **Moving to Pier 36 ­ same dates, new location** 2015 Exhibitor List Opening Night Benefit for Brooklyn Museum Pier 36, New York City ********* March 5 ­ 8, 2015 Brooklyn, New York ­ February 17, 2015 ­ art on paper is moving inside to Pier 36, launching this March 5 ­ 8. Our new location affords us new opportunities. We’re ramping up our installations, and we’re partnering with some of the city’s top institutions and best restaurants to make the Lower East Side’s premier event space a dynamic destination. art on pape r’s 55 exhibiting galleries will feature work by artists who look to paper as a major influence in their sculpture, drawing, painting, and photography. OPENING NIGHT ­ PREVIEW BENEFIT The proceeds of an exclusive opening night celebration featuring great food, local bands, and the best in paper­driven art from around the world will support art on paper ’s Beneficiary Partner Brooklyn Museum and its school programs. Morris Sandwich Shop will offer their famously decadent, local & seasonal grilled cheeses, speciality appetizers, and house­made cocktails to Preview Benefit guests. The beloved food truck’s brick and mortar Crown Heights spot may be new to the scene, but it’s already an institution, hitting Eater’s Brooklyn Heatmap just last week. Brooklyn­based Live Footage ­ the two part jazz + classical = electronic performers ­ will provide the evening’s cinematic hip hop musical entertainment. New York City’s high profile art world luminaries, including top collectors, curators, museum directors, and artists, will be in attendance to support the Brooklyn Museum and to have first look at the art on paper presentations and special project installations. HIGHLIGHTS & SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS art on paper will include monumental installations by Wayne White, Mia Pearlman, William Beckman, Michael Scoggins, and best­selling author of A Heart­Breaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers, each reaching into the fair's public spaces. Presented by Joshua Liner Gallery, Wayne White's larger­than­life, hand­cut sculptures constructed of cardboard will dominate exhibition space, towering over the viewer. JHB Gallery will fill the fair's common area with Mia Pearlman's colossal suspended paper cloudscape, Maelstrom , 2008. Forum Gallery will present a 10­foot­long charcoal on paper from William Beckman's Bull Series, a fitting nod to the fair's new proximity to the bulls of Wall Street. Dave Eggers’ Untitled ­ blown into oversized proportions ­ will welcome the public to art on paper with its towering rabbit image shouting “glory” along the fair’s front promenade. art on paper 's innovative exhibitor presentations will include an installation of Rose Eken sculpture by New York City's The Hole and an exhibition of Swoon and RETNA by LA's New Image Art Gallery. Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects will bring a mix of modern masters and the contemporary including Diebenkorn, Arshile Gorky, and Ann Gale works on paper. Richard Levy Gallery will present John Baldessari's National City from 1996/2009, a series of eight photographs of the artist's hometown with hand painted acrylic circles, and Catharine Clark Gallery will show a solo booth of large­scale drawings from Sandow Birk's monument series. PARTNERS Presenting partner The Wall Street Journal will have an active presence at the air, with exclusive tours, receptions and complimentary passes for WSJ+ members, as well as free daily copies of the paper and WSJ. magazine for everyone at the fair. Sponsor Palomino will have their Blackwing pencils on hand for fair­goers. Once the favorite writing utensil of famous writers, musicians, and artists, including John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, and Stephen Sondheim, the rarely available pencils will be the official scribe of art on paper. Sponsor Perrier will be on hand, filling the art in paper bars and public spaces with their innovatively designed bottles and cans. ART ON PAPER 2015 EXHIBITOR LIST ● Adelson Galleries New York ● Aperture Foundation New York ● Benrubi Gallery New York ● Birnam Wood Galleries New York ● browngrotta arts Wilton ● Catharine Clark Gallery San Francisco ● ClampArt New York ●
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David Lusk Gallery Memphis/Nashville Edward Cella Art+Architecture Los Angeles Eleanor Harwood Gallery San Francisco Electric Works San Francisco Elisa Contemporary Art New York FMLY Brooklyn Forum Gallery New York Freight + Volume New York galerie 103 Kauai Gallery Molly Krom New York Gallery Sam Oakland Garvey|Simon New York Hashimoto Contemporary San Francisco Hespe Gallery San Francisco The Hole New York jack fischer gallery San Francisco Jenkins Johnson Gallery San Francisco JHB Gallery New York Jill Newhouse Gallery New York Joshua Liner Gallery New York K. Imperial Fine Art San Francisco Kathryn Markel Fine Arts New York Kenise Barnes Fine Art Larchmont L. Parker Stephenson Photographs New York LN Art Gallery Vienna Muriel Guépin Gallery New York Nancy Hoffman Gallery New York New Image Art Los Angeles Porter Contemporary New York The Proposition New York RandallScottProjects Baltimore Rebecca Hossack Gallery New York/London Richard Levy Gallery Albuquerque Robert Mann Gallery New York Sandra Lee Gallery San Francisco Sasha Wolf Gallery New York Sous Les Etoiles Gallery New York Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects New York Three Kings Studio Brooklyn Traywick Contemporary Berkeley Art Vitam Miami/Paris VICTORI + MO New York ● William Holman Gallery New York ● Winter Works on Paper Brooklyn ● Winston Wächter Fine Art New York/Seattle HOURS & TICKETING Preview Benefit Hours Thursday, March 5, 2015 ­ 5:30pm to 8:00pm VIP Party Hours Thursday, March 5, 2015 ­ 8:00pm to 10:30pm General Hours Friday, March 6, 2015 ­ 11:00am to 7:00pm Saturday, March 7, 2015 ­ 11:00am to 7:00pm Sunday, March 8, 2015 ­ 11:00am to 6:00pm Purchase Tickets http://thepaperfair.com/for­visitors/tickets ABOUT ART MARKET PRODUCTIONS Art Market Productions is a Brooklyn­based production firm owned and operated by Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause. Working in concert with a talented and passionate network of dealers, curators, and arts professionals, Art Market Productions is proud to present forward thinking, progressive, and successful events across the country. For more information about art on paper and Art Market Productions, please visit www.artonpaperny.com