Internationally recognized for its outstanding cutting-edge contemporary decorative arts and design, the 14th
International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA NEW YORK) will open to the public on Thursday, April 14, and continue through Sunday,
April 17, 2011, at the Park Avenue Armory, it was announced by Mark Lyman, Founder/ Director of
SOFA and President, The Art Fair Company.
SOFA NEW YORK 2011 Opening Night Preview, by invitation only, is on
Wednesday, April 13, from 5:00-7:00 pm, with the vernissage open to the
public from 7-9pm by ticket purchase. Opening Night attendees may also
support New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) by purchasing a
ticket to attend a private dinner in the Armory’s Tiffany Room, which starts
at 6:00pm.
“This year, SOFA NEW YORK welcomes a number of outstanding new international exhibitors,” said Lyman. Making their debut are contemporary Asian specialists Korean Craft and Design Foundation (Seoul) and Ippodo Gallery (New York). Gallery S O (London), Sarah Myerscough Fine Art (London), and Litvak
Gallery (Tel Aviv) round out the fifty-five dealer roster.
Top dealers returning to SOFA NEW
YORK include: Heller Gallery, Joan
B. Mirviss Ltd., Scott Jacobson
Gallery, and Dai Ichi Arts, all from
New York; London gallerists Clare
Beck at Adrian Sassoon, Joanna
Bird, Katie Jones, and Contemporary Applied Arts; Donna Schneier Fine Arts (Palm Beach), TAI Gallery (Santa Fe),
Ferrin Gallery (Pittsfield, MA), Jane
Sauer Gallery (Santa Fe), Snyderman-Works (Philadelphia), Schantz Galleries (Stockbridge, MA), and Ann Nathan Gallery (Chicago).
Art jewelry gallerists include Sienna Gallery (Lenox, MA), Ornamentum (Hudson, NY), Jewelers’ Werk Galerie (Washington, DC), Charon Kransen Arts (New York), and Aaron Faber Gallery
(New York).
Expanding to three days this year, the
highly popular lecture series with
internationally prominent scholars, artists, and curators will take place in the Armory’s Tiffany Room on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, April 14, 15, and 16th. In-booth artist talks at individual
dealer stands are also planned. The series includes a panel with Ann
Hedlund, PhD., curator of ethnology at Arizona State Museum and professor of anthropology at University of Arizona, Grace Glueck, former New York Times art critic, and artist Archie Brennan. Among
artists scheduled to speak are: Christie Brown (Contemporary Applied
Arts), Michael Eden (Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon), Sergey Jivetin and Jennifer Trask (Ornamentum), and Geoffrey Mann (Joanna Bird).
Museum notables speaking include: Michael Petry, Director of the
Museum of Contemporary Art and Curator of the Royal Academy
Schools Gallery (London), and Jeannine Falino, Curator of the Museum of Art and Design (New York).