Highlights from Downtown Fair 2014
EmptyLighthouse.com, 05/12/2014
rrrachel

Yesterday was the opening day of the inaugural Downtown Fair in NYC. The contemporary art fair is being held in the 69th Regent Armory in lower Manhattan, and is host to nearly 600 artists from galleries across the globe.

It was an impressive turn out, with floods of people crowding in to see never before exhibited works from big names like Jasper Johns, David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Picasso, and Google Glass artist David Datuna.

Some of my personal favorite works on show were Silvia Levenson's sculptures; frosted, Barbie-pink glass conveys dangerous items, like guns and grenades, touching on gender and political themes. Beverly Fishman, who was exhibited alongside Levenson in the David Richard Gallery space, was another personal favorite. Her blown glass and neon sculptures of pop culture icons are playful and impossible not to notice. Apart from Levenson and Fishman, there was Maria Berrio's startlingly delicate collages featuring Japanese paper and watercolor. Julie Blackmon's indulgent photographs of misbehaving children were also quite enjoyable.

This is a huge week for art in NYC. Aside from Downtown Fair, Frieze Art Fair, New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA), Pulse, and the Outsider Art Fair just kicked off. The fair will go on until Sunday, May 11th. To see more of the artists' work and learn more about Downtown Fair, visit: http://www.downtownfair.com/.

Associated Exhibitions

• DOWNTOWN FAIR Booth DT11
  May 7, 2014 - May 11, 2014
  MORE INFO

Associated News

• February 22, 2016
  Silvia Levenson
  Identidad Desaparecida
  Museo del Vetro di Murano, 02/22/2016
  
  


• November 18, 2015
  Logan Lecture: Beverly Fishman
  Denver Art Museum, 11/18/2015
  
  


• October 22, 2015
  Islip Exhibition Explores How Science Influences Art
  New York Times, 10/22/2015
  Karin Lipson
  


• October 6, 2015
  Capsule Concern
  Chrysler Museum
  Arte Fuse, 10/06/2015
  Amanda Acosta
  
  


• October 4, 2015
  Compendium, October 4 through December 27, 2015
  Islip Art Museum, 10/04/2015
  
  


• September 10, 2015
  3 contemporary artists inaugurate redone Columbus College of Art & Design’s Canzani Center space
  The Columbus Dispatch, 09/10/2015
  Melissa Starker
  
  


• July 16, 2015
  In Sickness and In Health
  Chrysler Museum of Art, 07/16/2015
  
  


• June 3, 2015
  Pills, Protest, and Piracy
  The Brooklyn Rail, 06/03/2015
  John J. Corso
  
  


• March 28, 2015
  Silvia Levenson - The Jüdische Kulturbund Project


• February 19, 2015
  Two Artists but one
  The Washington Post, 02/19/2015
  
  


• September 23, 2013
  Celebrated Detroit Artist Beverly Fishman Opens Her Exhibition at the Broad MSU
  The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, 09/23/2013
  
  


• September 18, 2013
  ArtPrize 2013 Exhibition Center review: Meijer Gardens focuses on use of glass in contemporary art
  Michigan Live, 09/18/2013
  Joseph Becherer
  
  


• September 15, 2013
  OPENING: Michigan sculpture park exhibits the diversity of contemporary glass art
  Glass Quarterly, September 2013
  Paulina Switniewska
  
  


• September 12, 2013
  Shattered: Contemporary Sculpture in Glass is ArtPrize at Meijer Gardens


• October 15, 2012
  BEVERLY FISHMAN NONFUNCTIONAL FRAGILITY


• September 26, 2012
  FOURTH FRIDAYS FOR FRIENDS


• August 31, 2012
  DIA GETS DOSE OF BIG PHARMA
  Huffpost Detroit, 08/31/2012
  John Corso
  
  


• January 3, 2012
  Beverly Fishman
  DECEPTIVE PLEASURES
  ArtNet, January 2012
  Donald Kuspit
  
  


• June 12, 2010
  Press Release - BEVERLY FISHMAN "FUTURE NATURAL"
  
  


• May 13, 2014
  Artnet News: The Best and Worst of Downtown Art Fair.
  ArtNet, 05/09/2014
  Benjamin Sutton
  
  


• May 12, 2014
  Highlights from Downtown Fair 2014
  EmptyLighthouse.com, 05/12/2014
  rrrachel