During the months of July and August last year, I viewed the web-sites and
the entire rosters of 700 art dealers nationwide, 250 in Chelsea alone.
I suspect that the approximate figure of 14,000 artists whose work I viewed is too little.
It certainly was a quasi-mystical experience. I tried, without success,
to come up with some grand-scale oracular pronunciamento until I realized that I,too, was
succumbing to an afflatus of the election year. Thank Heaven, I was spared and so were you.
Also : I have always wondered what eyrie the large-scale surveyors of history--it could be Spengler,it could be Foucault--perch on.
While a general thesis eluded me, I did have the pleasure of discovering for myself
a number of artists of whom I had been unaware; some have influenced
my thinking, and I will write about them eventually.But for a time, here is the list of those I found compelling, starting in Chelsea, but proceeding to Brooklyn,Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Austen, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Seattle,
Portland, Montreal, and Toronto.
(footnote: as this list was put together before the economic crisis,it inevitably
mentions dealers no longer in existence; it is important to remember that their artists
still are.To those dealers who remain: permissions to reproduce work will speed
any comment I might make, and the prompt response to correspondence
will provoke astonishment as well as gratitude. The asterisk means: I adore you from afar; the + means seriously elegant work;the marginilia preserves my notes, but inclusion is proof of my admiration.)
the entire rosters of 700 art dealers nationwide, 250 in Chelsea alone.
I suspect that the approximate figure of 14,000 artists whose work I viewed is too little.
It certainly was a quasi-mystical experience. I tried, without success,
to come up with some grand-scale oracular pronunciamento until I realized that I,too, was
succumbing to an afflatus of the election year. Thank Heaven, I was spared and so were you.
Also : I have always wondered what eyrie the large-scale surveyors of history--it could be Spengler,it could be Foucault--perch on.
While a general thesis eluded me, I did have the pleasure of discovering for myself
a number of artists of whom I had been unaware; some have influenced
my thinking, and I will write about them eventually.But for a time, here is the list of those I found compelling, starting in Chelsea, but proceeding to Brooklyn,Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, Austen, Los Angeles, Scottsdale, San Francisco, Seattle,
Portland, Montreal, and Toronto.
(footnote: as this list was put together before the economic crisis,it inevitably
mentions dealers no longer in existence; it is important to remember that their artists
still are.To those dealers who remain: permissions to reproduce work will speed
any comment I might make, and the prompt response to correspondence
will provoke astonishment as well as gratitude. The asterisk means: I adore you from afar; the + means seriously elegant work;the marginilia preserves my notes, but inclusion is proof of my admiration.)
| CHELSEA | ||
| DL. Alvarez | Derek Eller | |
| roger anderson | Sarah Meltzer | |
| esao Andrews | J Le Vine | |
| paolo Arao | Jeff Bailey Gallery | |
| assume vivid astral focus* | ||
| John Connolly Presents after the wake, an orgy | ||
| ali Banisadr | Leslie Tonkonow | |
| gary Baseman | The big stories are all fairytales | |
| gary Batty | Feature | |
| james Barsness* | George Adams | He draws like Rackham; he thinks like Tex Avery |
| tony Bechaka | Andre Zarre | |
| Berkowitz and Brua | Derek Eller | tables climb walls decked with the soul's laundry |
| Tim Bishop | J Le Vine | |
| suzzane Bocenagra | Lucas Schoormans | |
| Hilary Brace* | Edward Thorpe | Apparitional Whiteness from the Hollow Earth |
| alex Brown | Feature | |
| jason Brown | Rare | |
| jeff Burton | Casey Kaplan | |
| dean Byington* | Leslie Tonkonow | an Heir of Richard Dadd |
| olaf Breuning | Metro Pictures | |
| ingrid calame | James Cohan | |
| james casabere + | Paul Kasmin | the de Chirico sublet |
| jonathan Callan | Nicole Klagsburn | |
| Beth Campbell | Nicole Klagsburn | |
| martines Canas | Julie Saul | |
| gillian Carnegie | Andrea Rosen | |
| nathan carter | Casey Kaplan | |
| St Clair Cemin* | Sikkemma Jenkins | |
| peter Coffin* | Andrew Kreps | the wreck of the Hegel in the form of crunched stairs |
| matthew Collishaw | Bonakdar | |
| lia Cook | Nancy Margolis | |
| george condo | Luhring Augustine | De Kooning and Saul Steinberg fight over a broad |
| petah coyne* | Gallerie Lelong | Miss Havisham and Madeleine Usher discuss Nerval |
| andy cvijanovic | Bellwether | |
| Inka Essenhigh | 303 | |
| tim daly | DFN | |
| james Davis | Rare | |
| edith derdyuk+ | Haim Chanin | String theory meets Atropos |
| leonardo Drew* | Sikkemma Jenkins | |
| jeff Elrod+ | Fredericks Freiser | |
| jean-michel fauquet | Haim Chanin | Physical stairways to metaphysical oubliettes |
| angelo filomeno* | Galerie LeLong | as true (and as artificial) as Chopin or Baudelaire |
| roland fisher | Von Lintel | |
| roland Flexner* | D'Amelio Terras | Taoist of the profound soap bubble |
| Mark Fox* | Larisa Goldston | The Paganini of Scissors shapes a Tornado |
| adam Fowler | Margaret Thatcher Projects | |
| yuichi higashiona | Boesky | |
| Francesca Gabriani | Sarah Meltzer | |
| stan Gregory | Sunduram Tagore | |
| orly Genger | Larisa Goldston | |
| sam Gibbons | Claire Oliver | |
| Tomoo Gokita | ATM | |
| Anthony Gormley | ||
| richard Greaves* | Andrew Edlin | The bigfoot of the Canadian Rockies |
| jonah Greensberger | Bellwether | |
| stan Gregory | Sunduram Tagore | |
| Andreas Gursky | Matthew Marks | |
| diana al hadi | Perry Rubinstein | |
| Liz Halloran | DCKT | streaks of speed in progress |
| trenton doyle Hancock | James Cohan | |
| Jutta Haeckel | Hosfelt | |
| Jacob el Hanani | Hosfelt | |
| Ann Hardy | Bellwether | |
| lyle ashton harris | CRG Gallery | |
| jeppe Hein | 303 | |
| julie heffernan | PPOW | |
| kent hendricksen | John Connally | Presents Part of the problem is that my boyfriend dabbles in dark arts |
| oliver Herring* | Max Protech | Victor Frankenstein's career in high fashion |
| eva Hild | Nancy Margolis | |
| julie Hirst | Pavel Zoubok | |
| Karsten Hollier | Casey Kaplan | |
| timothy Horn* | Hosfelt | the debate of the baroque with the rococo conducted in spun sugar |
| jacqueline humphries | Greene Naftali | |
| aaron johnson | Stux | |
| butt johnson | CRG Gallery | I was in the outhouse when Daddy got raptured |
| cassandra c jones | Vanina Holasek Gallery | |
| brian Jungen | Casey Kaplan | |
| jen kim | Steinberg | |
| Ron Klein | Howard Scott | |
| jolyn kystosek | Lucas Schoormans | |
| Jeff Ladouceur | Zieher Smith | |
| rezi van lankveld | Petzel | |
| sarah Leahy | Kim Foster | |
| Catherine Lee | Galleries Lelong | the disaffection of the great horizon |
| wonju lim | Boesky | |
| graham little | CRG Gallery | |
| donald lipski* | Gallerie Lelong | the charioteer of found objects |
| nicola lopez | Caren Golden | |
| john maeda+ | Christenrose | So slick it becomes another substance |
| Marco Maggi* | Hosfelt | depict the cryptogram and decrypt the pictogram |
| frank magnotta | Cohan + Leslie | |
| didier Massard | Julie Saul | |
| tatsuya Matsushita | Mehr Gallery | |
| josiah mc elheny | Andrea Rosen | |
| maureen mc quillan | Mc Kenzie | |
| jason meadows | Bonakdar | |
| sarah Morris | Petzel | |
| ron mueck | () | |
| james nakes | Paul Kasmin | |
| ernesto neto* | Bonakdar | angelic snot sacks |
| aaron Noble | Pavel Zoubok | |
| ludwika orgozelec | Nancy Margolis Gallery | |
| jean michel Othoniel+ | Sikkemma Jenkins | |
| gary panter | Clementina | |
| james paterson | Bitforms | |
| jorge Pardo* | Petzel | |
| roxy payne | James Cohan | |
| emilio perez | Galerie Lelong | |
| diego perone | Casey Kaplan | |
| ara Peterson* | James Connally presents | |
| jack Pierson+ | Danziger | |
| jaume Plensa* | Galerie Lelong Alphabody Fountainface | |
| ken price | Matthew Marks | |
| matthew ritchie | Andrea Rosen | |
| john rappeleye | jeff bailey | Snakes writhe through skulls in desert blanched colors |
| mary reilly | DFN Gallery | |
| anil reuri | Sundurum tagore | |
| matthew ritchie | Andrea Rosen | |
| michel angelo roca | ATM | |
| jimmy joe roche | Rare | |
| betsabee romero | Galerie Ramis Barquet | |
| alexander Ross | Boesky | |
| victoria Ryan | John Stevenson | |
| ursula von rydinguard | Galerie Lelong | Treetrunk Tankards for Fafner and Fasolt |
| dennis rudolph | Perry Rubinstein | |
| alain saret+ | James Cohan | |
| tojkijito Sato | Leslie Tonkonow | |
| robert Sagarman | Marguerite Thatcher Projects | |
| peter sarkissian | ||
| aaron spangler | Rare | |
| peter schuyff | Nicole Klagsbrun | |
| michelle segre | Derek Eller | the cracquelature of the biomorphic forms found near Oz |
| hiroshi senjo | Sunduram Tagore | |
| gary simmons | Metro Pictures | |
| john stashkevitch | Von Lintel | |
| james everett stanley | Freight+Volume | |
| simon starling | Casey Kaplan | |
| max streicher | Ricco Maresca | |
| mark Swanson+ | Bellwether | |
| francesca sundsten | Jenkins Johnson Gallery | |
| james Surls | Charles Cowles | Old Wild Cowboy Ropes Trickster Tree |
| barbara takenaga | Mc Kenzie | |
| maki Tamura | Lucas Schoormans | |
| whiting tennis | Derek Eller | |
| gordon Terry | Jeff Bailey | |
| fred tomaselli* | James Cohan | vast worlds from small aspirins |
| tam van tran | Cohan + Leslie | |
| scott trealeaven+ | James Connally presents The Commedia del Arte meets the Neopolitan Inquisition on toile | |
| james Valerio + | George Adams | |
| mark dean veca | J le Vine | |
| michael velliquette | DCKT Gallery | |
| mark wagner | Pavel Zoubok | |
| hugh walton | Clementina | |
| wayne white | Clementina | |
| adam wallacavage | ||
| kit white | Andre Zarre | |
| wayne white | Clementina | |
| terry winters | Matthew Marks | |
| mike womack | Zieher Smith | |
| c yass | Gallerie Lelong | |
| amy yoes | Steinberg | |
| jason young | Christenrose | |
| Michelle Zapony | Esso | Spook girl sends large postcards |
| Rhonda Zwillinger | Pavel Zoubok |
(no James Turrell or Christian Boltanski or Mona Hatoum or Olafur Eliasson or Yayoi Kusama?
no one from certain galleries I greatly respect? No, merely a certain mental footweariness
and the understanding that a jeux d'esprit does not have to be ecumenical-- so many a blue chip's
been left out, not that I'd mind owning one) Oct.9th, 2009
