Spring is here, and the IPFDA Fair is at the Armory!
My final photo capping a lovely day looking at prints.
James Siena at Phil Sanders' workshop in Asheville, NC in the Invitees section of the fair.
Amy Sillman print. Appears the paintings are following suit, which is great news! The looping lines gleam copper in life.
Kathleen Kucka at Kim Schmidt.
Marilla Palmer at Kim Schmidtt. Note opaque red shapes with carefully applied petals and watercolor.
A 1974 Frankenthaler on the softest of paper.
A series of Rauschenberg photos at Graphicstudio shows a more innocent time.
Of hope and discovery.
Merce Cunningham drawing at Sigrid Freundorfer's booth with a Katia Santibanez drawing as well.
Gary Hume at Paragon Press, a woodcut. Large flowers were a motif throughout the Armory.
Gorgeous Anish Kapoor prints, sprayed through mesh with subsequently smaller interstices.
Sam Francis Watercolor at Kovak - saw many of these raucously painted works throughout the day.
Charming Warhol ink sketches from the 1950s, usinga technique folding paper that on one side bleeds into that bled to the other, leading to a 'stuttering' of the ink at Lang Sharp Gallery.
Warhol
Matthew Weinstein at Carolina Nitsch
Salle 1985. I will always love these works on paper in shades of black.
Stunning Sam Francis grid watercolors from 1990s.
Another. The third elsewhere. They inspire with clotted, powerful color and unleashed paint.
A lovely Louis Fratino still life.
Sam Francis from the Blue Balls period? perhaps at Kovak
Dana Frankfort, on view in two venues, with dynamic text works. Really loved these.
Sylvia Plymack Mangold, a gorgeous tree drawing.
Sam Gilliam!
Some crazy, torn up sexy Sam Francis works!
Across the way one from the '50s.
Sam Francis digging into the surface! Such material awareness yet still light.
Rauschenberg at Graphicstudio, new take on landscape.
Whipsawing back to Sam Francis, another 'dug out' work on paper.
Andy Warhol, Orchids, 1983, unique screenprint, 40 x 40 inches - returning to large flowers and in such a sumptious way on a vinyl like surface. Top work seen today.
Mangold. It is beyond me why these images load out of sequence.
Saw a fair amount of Stanley Whitney today, this most special and unusual.
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Frankenthaler, deep and loamy.
Picasso after Rembrandt. He is such a satisfying technician.
Detail of the Warhol Orchids.
Picasso after Cranach, is that right? 1954? He goes there as candidly as an artist could, to the nooks and crannies of his own experience and I love the candor and technical summation.
The third Sam Francis. Let's roll with it. I'm so excited he did lattice in his final years--he'd always played the edge, but these are so wild, free, thick, thin, complex, joyful.
A superb Picasso linocut, 5 layers, to start the day...what a feat!
In her majesty. Looks 70s or 80s.
Cruz Ortiz at Ruiz-Healy, lovely assembled shapes and textures.
The Katia Santibanez drawing from Sigrid Freudendorfer (2013).
Sam Francis, unusual vertical drawings.
More overt imagery than we are used to seeing. Clearly a relationship to pattern that remains unexplored, historically.
Close up of one of the Francis grids to show the thickening of watercolor in areas.
William Tillyer at Bernard Jacobsen - watercolor. Look at that faint pattern - what a technician!
A beautiful Matisse head.
Joan Mitchell at Zwirner.
Lovely Matisse from 1929.
Concluding with a Rauschenberg at Graphicstudio.
