The Armory Show - Modern    Mar 5 - Mar 8, 2009

We are happy to announce our participation in the first Armory Show Modern in booth #446 on Pier 92. The show will feature a range of works all relating to modernism in different ways.

An installation of 20 vintage color photographs from around the 1970s will feature several of the artists from our summer 2008 show "When Color was New" including Harry Callahan, Helen Levitt, Luigi Ghirri, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Joel Meyerowitz and Martin Parr. Ken Johnson described the show as "an absorbing, deceptively modest time machine of a show". We will give out catalogs gratis to interested visitors.

Andrew Bush's Vector Portrait series which will be shown here in a redux show in April 2009 will be heralded by a spectacular large scale print of "Woman Gliding Southeast at 64MPH..." from 1990. The 6' print will be flanked by a variety of examples from his Envelope series- also from the 1990s. Bush has shown with this gallery since 1984, and among many museums his work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum. A monograph called Drive of the Vector Portraits was just published by Yale University Press, Bush's alumni institution.

A series of conceptual portraits of Modernist artists in the form of collage by Elaine Lustig Cohen (b. 1927) will be shown for the first time. Subjects include Moholy Nagy, Malevich, Rodchenko and Hannah Hoch. Each work evokes the artist and his work both symbolically and through historical documents. We will distribute free copies of Cohen's 2007 exhibition catalog published on the occasion of her survey show "The Geometry of Seeing".

Michael Wolf, (b. 1954) an artist new to the gallery, will present an image from his new monograph The Transparent City. The geometry and patterning of this glowing architectural image is reminiscent of the New Bauhaus work done in Chicago, where this project was executed as a commission. Wolf lives between Asia and Europe and will have a solo show concurrent with ours late 2009 at Aperture Gallery in New York.

The modern color photographs made from 1950s slides by self trained artist Morton Bartlett (1909-1992), will have their Armory Show premier after their acclaimed presentation here in the summer of 2007. Bartlett created half life scale "dolls" and dressed then photographed them in the mid 1950s.

Finally, we will present Maira Kalman's infamous print "Keep Calm and Carry On", a limited edition near the end of its run! We will also have a portfolio of selected paintings and prints.