day 1 peek at expo chicago 2015.
Things started off creatively. Upon picking up press credentials last night we were given this very cleverly designed wristband. Looking like a yellow tongue depressor when handed to us, when bent a bit it snapped around the wrist. TY MCA.
Expo Chicago 2015 is our fourth consecutive visit. Our first impression, the event is maturing, getting better. But to-the-point. In 2013, our second year, the concept of asking the galleries if they’ere showing work from artists who studied architecture and/or design.
To solidify this bent, the night before at the Making place: The Architecture of David Adjaye at an Art Institute special conversation with David, we learn he discovered architecture while attending an art school. In his acceptance speech of the 2016 McDermott Award, “in my career I have sought to cross creative platforms and to focus on the creative discourse surrounding the act of making things.”
above> washington skeleton chair, 2012 | david adjaye for knoll | salon 94 – the very chair that david and zoë ryan were sitting on at Making Place the night before.
What does DesignApplause look for? You have to consider our introduction to the co-existence of fine art and design, found at Art Basel and DesignMiami. The last three years we’ve asked Tony Karman if the design gallery would pop-up. Here’s what he said in our 2013 interview, “we want quality over quantity, meaning a smaller show, about 100 exhibitors. ‘When the marketplace can sustain it and quality of dealers are beating down the door, we’ll consider it. But only if the exhibitors want it, not me. It’s their space.’
We didn’t have to ask in 2015. When sent the 2015 exhibitor list, near the bottom:
To complement the intersections between art and design, the 2015 edition will present some of the leading international exhibitors specializing in this field interspersed throughout the main fair. Galleries include: HOSTLER BURROWS | New York; casati gallery | Chicago; R & Company | New York; and Volume Gallery | Chicago.
above> beddy white, 20015 | the haas brothers | r & company – when we approach zesty meyers, founder of r & company, and one of the 15 founding galleries Design Miami ten years ago, we ask who’s a trained architect or designer, he says, “pick anyone you like.”
An aside, the past three years about 50% of the galleries are showing trained architects, designers or artists inspired by architecture & design. Tonight we have three hours and our ‘see first’ list are those galleries we posted in the past. We’ve put an (*) next to their name in the exhibitors list below. There are 26 on this list, a testament to returning galleries, and regretfully three hours is not enough to see all tonight.
Rhona Hoffman Gallery wowed us by saying none of their artists were formally trained but the gallery provided a special room for those artists (5) inspired by a&d.
above> circus, 1978 | gordon matta-clark | rhona hoffman gallery – matta-clark creates installation art from buildings about to be demolished. below> untitled (15-05), 2015 | richard rezac | rhona hoffman gallery – created works are comprised of discarded architectural hardware.
Another surprise, furniture by Chicago-bred Virgil Abloh. We know him as the outspoken creative director of Kanye West, a popular D.J., a fashion designer, with a Chicago clothing store, RSVP gallery. We didn’t know he’s an architect and engineer and left a Chicago office to do what he’s doing now.
above> grid system, 2015 | virgil abloh – his furniture appears to embody a little of abloh’s energy too.
above> portraits with mona, 2015 | gregory scott | catherine edelman gallery – former graphic designer mr. scott is admiring his own work.
We look at our watches, it’s 9p. We’re hungry. btw, before we left we took an aisle by aisle walk with an at-glance eye at everything. this is a great event.
above> – we walk out a side door to the outside – we’re hungry AND tired. TY Expo Chicago
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The 2015 exhibitor list was chosen by the international Selection Committee comprised of Marianne Boesky, Marianne Boesky Gallery * | New York; Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie | Berlin; John Corbett, Corbett vs. Dempsey | Chicago; Chris D’Amelio, David Zwirner | London, New York; Rhona Hoffman, Rhona Hoffman Gallery * | Chicago; David Nolan, David Nolan Gallery | New York; Jessica Silverman, Jessica Silverman Gallery | San Francisco; and Susanne Vielmetter, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects | Los Angeles.
(*) galleries that designapplause posted in prior years
1301PE | Los Angeles *
Galería Alvaro Alcázar | Madrid
Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe | New York
Gallery Paule Anglim | San Francisco *
BASE GALLERY | Tokyo
John Berggruen Gallery | San Francisco *
Peter Blake Gallery | Laguna Beach
Marianne Boesky Gallery | New York *
Bortolami | New York
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Berlin
BORZO Gallery | Amsterdam
Brame & Lorenceau | Paris
Rena Bransten Projects | San Francisco
Browse & Darby | London
Buchmann Galerie | Berlin, Lugano
casati gallery | Chicago
Cernuda Arte | Coral Gables
Chambers Fine Art | New York, Beijing
CONNERSMITH. | Washington, DC
Corbett vs. Dempsey | Chicago
CRG Gallery | New York
Alan Cristea Gallery | London
Crown Point Press | San Francisco
Stephen Daiter Gallery | Chicago
Maxwell Davidson Gallery | New York *
Douglas Dawson | Chicago *
MASSIMO DE CARLO | Milan, London
Catherine Edelman Gallery | Chicago *
Flowers Gallery | London, New York
Galerie Forsblom | Helsinki
Forum Gallery | New York
Honor Fraser | Los Angeles
Freight + Volume | New York
Taymour Grahne Gallery | New York
Richard Gray Gallery | Chicago, New York *
Garth Greenan Gallery | New York
Kavi Gupta | Chicago *
Hackett | Mill | San Francisco
Hales Gallery | London
Carl Hammer Gallery | Chicago *
Richard Heller Gallery | Los Angeles
Galerie Ernst Hilger | Vienna
Hill Gallery | Birmingham
Nancy Hoffman Gallery | New York *
Rhona Hoffman Gallery | Chicago *
HOSTLER BURROWS | New York
Edwynn Houk Gallery | New York, Zürich
Inman Gallery | Houston
Alison Jacques Gallery | London
Galerie Michael Janssen | Berlin, Singapore
Kayne Griffin Corcoran | Los Angeles
Robert Koch Gallery | San Francisco *
Koenig & Clinton | New York
König Galerie | Berlin
Alan Koppel Gallery | Chicago
Greg Kucera Gallery | Seattle
Pearl Lam Galleries | Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore
Lisson Gallery | London, Milan, New York
Diana Lowenstein Gallery | Miami
MA2Gallery | Tokyo
Matthew Marks Gallery | New York, Los Angeles
Barbara Mathes Gallery | New York
The Mayor Gallery | London
McCormick Gallery | Chicago *
Anthony Meier Fine Arts | San Francisco *
moniquemeloche | Chicago *
Laurence Miller Gallery | New York
Robert Miller Gallery | New York *
THE MISSION | Chicago
Morgan Lehman Gallery | New York
Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie | Basel
Carolina Nitsch | New York
David Nolan Gallery | New York
Gallery Wendi Norris | San Francisco *
Richard Norton Gallery | Chicago
Claire Oliver Gallery | New York
P.P.O.W | New York
Pace | Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Menlo Park, New York *
Pace Prints | New York
Gerald Peters Gallery | New York, Santa Fe
R & Company | New York *
ANDREW RAFACZ | Chicago
Ratio 3 | San Francisco
Yancey Richardson Gallery | New York
Roberts & Tilton | Culver City
ROSEGALLERY | Santa Monica
rosenfeld porcini | London
Salon 94 | New York *
Galerie Thomas Schulte | Berlin *
Carrie Secrist Gallery | Chicago *
Marc Selwyn Fine Art | Beverly Hills
Sicardi Gallery | Houston
Jessica Silverman Gallery | San Francisco
Louis Stern Fine Arts | West Hollywood
Allan Stone Projects | New York
MARC STRAUS | New York
Hollis Taggart Galleries | New York
Tandem Press | Madison
Galerie Daniel Templon | Paris, Brussels
Paul Thiebaud Gallery | San Francisco *
CRISTIN TIERNEY GALLERY | New York *
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects | New York
Leon Tovar Gallery | New York
TRAVESIA CUATRO | Madrid, Guadalajara
Steve Turner | Los Angeles
Vincent Vallarino Fine Art | New York
Various Small Fires | Los Angeles
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects | Los Angeles
Volume Gallery | Chicago *
Von Lintel Gallery | Los Angeles
Weinstein Gallery | Minneapolis *
Wentrup | Berlin
Western Exhibitions | Chicago
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery | Chicago
Pavel Zoubok Gallery | New York
Zürcher Gallery | Paris, New York
David Zwirner | New York, London
EXPOSURE, the section of the fair dedicated to galleries that have been in business seven years or less, allows the opportunity for younger galleries to participate in a major international exposition. A special exhibition of one or two artists by each of the participating galleries provides critical exposure for their programs, offering an important opportunity for curators, collectors and art enthusiasts to survey the best in innovative and emerging work. The EXPOSURE Selection Committee was led by returning gallerist Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays | New York and Kate Werble, Kate Werble Gallery | New York.
The list of 2015 EXPOSURE exhibiting galleries includes:
11R Eleven Rivington | New York
Albertz Benda | New York
Aspect/Ratio | Chicago
Chapter NY | New York
LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES | Los Angeles
Edel Assanti | London
Evelyn Yard | London
Greene Exhibitions | Los Angeles
Halsey McKay Gallery | East Hampton
Higher Pictures | New York
Charlie James Gallery | Los Angeles
Louis B James | New York
LUCE GALLERY | Torino
MIER GALLERY | Los Angeles
Nicodim Gallery | Los Angeles
On Stellar Rays | New York
OTTO ZOO | Milan
PAPILLION ART | Los Angeles
David Petersen Gallery | Minneapolis
Rawson Projects | New York
Regards | Chicago
Romer Young Gallery | San Francisco
SILBERKUPPE | Berlin
Rachel Uffner Gallery | New York
VAN HORN | Düsseldorf
Kate Werble Gallery | New York