SPRING/BREAK Art Show
SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week. The eighth annual exhibition will be held from March 5th – March 11th, 2019. All artworks in the show are displayed and available for purchase online, giving artists unknown, emerging, mid-career, and beyond a virtual compliment to their tactile exhibition.
In March 2019, over 100 curators will premiere new artworks created by over 400 artists, all selected around this year’s central art theme, FACT AND FICTION.
The “fact” of a person and their environment—the artist and their world—and the “fiction” of their creation—their art—feel blended more than ever.
In light of this osmosis, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2019 seeks similar inquiries into the paradoxes of FACT AND FICTION. The 2019 exhibition aims for works dealing with self-mythology, history, memory, cultural conspiracy, propaganda, appropriation, psychedelia, and/or a focus on subjects related to the utterly un-provable—the occult, religious, pseudoscientific, and pseudohistorical, pseudepigraphica to mythopoetica.
Art on Paper
Art on Paper returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 in March of 2019 (March 7-10) with eighty-five galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. Art on Paper’s medium-driven focus lends itself to significant projects – unique moments that have set the fair apart and established an important destination for the arts in New York City.
Samuelle Green
Samuelle Green constructs large scale installations from hundreds of thousands of hand rolled paper cones, typically consisting of paperbacks slated for recycling or being discarded. These adorn a hidden framework which transforms typically rectilinear spaces into organic, otherworldly environments. These elements combine to reference the complex and often overlooked art forms found in nature. Green’s installations reference these forms on a human scale- inspiring contemplation.
Roland Poska
Jerald Melberg Gallery presents the ‘Sentinels’ a series of cotton fiber and pigment sculptures by the artist Roland Poska.
Other Art Fairs Worth Mentioning
SCOPE
The 19th edition of SCOPE New York returns to its Chelsea location at Metropolitan Pavilion. Known for presenting groundbreaking contemporary work, SCOPE New York will welcome 60 international exhibitors at its centrally-located venue. In addition, SCOPE will continue its legacy of critically-acclaimed VIP Programming with strategic partnerships, a focused schedule of events, and talks.
The first fair to run concurrent with The Armory Show, SCOPE New York’s spirit of innovation has consistently forged the way for emerging artists and galleries. Attuned to nuances in the market and itself an influential force in the cultural sphere, SCOPE continues to usher in a new vision of the contemporary art fair.
SCOPE New York 2019 opens on Thursday, March 7, 2019, with the Platinum First View and VIP & Press Preview, and will run through Sunday, March 10, 2019. General Admission: $25
Thomas Canto
The concept of space and movement is rarely confined, defined or limited in Thomas Canto’s work. The organic structures of Thomas Canto’s works are also inspired by urban architectural environments which interplay humanity and functionality. For him, the dialect and exchange between human and architecture is as prominent a subject matter as the elements of color, line, form and shadow in his work. The sculptural and painting aspects of Canto’s concepts play a role within the perception of how the spectator immerses himself into the work itself. Depth, geometry, and illusion are intricately intertwined in each work, drawing into questioning how humanity and created material respond to one another.
SCOPE is delighted to have Mirus Gallery bring Thomas Canto to SCOPE New York where he will be creating a site-specific installation at the front of the fair to welcome our guests.
VOLTA
NEW YORK, JANUARY 29, 2019: VOLTA New York returns to Pier 90 for its twelfth edition in
New York City, from March 6 – 10, 2019, concurrent with Armory Arts Week and the 25th
anniversary of its neighbor, The Armory Show. VOLTA promotes its mandate of “global vision –
solo focus” by welcoming 70 international exhibitors across North America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia, and presenting established and emerging artists from 37 nations.
General Admission: $25