Ok, I admit I was not expecting much when I want to the Art(212) fair last night at the 68th Regiment Armory on 26th Street and Lexington Ave, NYC. I can't even identify half the artists that I saw whom I liked - the show was not organized in a way that makes it easy for Art Writers, like me, to write about it (maybe next time, they can printup cards for each artist in the show with a picture or two and the contact information - that's my suggestion). I'm going to just mention what I liked - even if I don't have the name of the artist - readers, try to figure it out if your interested by going to the Art 212 listing. The most impressive art in the show was Devorah Sperber's After van Eyke, and the artist will be having a show next month at the Brooklyn Musuem of Art which ArtNewYorkCity.com will cover as I live in Brooklyn, NY and do go the Brooklyn Museum from time to time.

 

I did collect a packet with Devorah Sperber's informaiton - the work is 5024 spools of thread arranged to appear like a painting from Van Eyck when you appear in front of it with the crystal ball.  Amazing!

I also talked a woman from the Art Gallery website creator called THEO - Theo Digital Gallery System at www.theodigitalgallery.com ; it's a web content management system just for galleries.  I asked if it was profitable enough to run something like this and the lady said ...."yes" but she does travel a lot (I guess there are galleries all over).  Anyway, I like the idea of a CMS system for galleries as most Art Gallery sites are awful from the point of view of Search Engines - and I question if any of them do well, in many cases, even on the Artist's name.  Yes, I'm sure they will work OK for the Gallery name...but few people search that way.  Anyway, if THEO solves an Art Galleries Search needs, all power to them.

I also liked the works of David Kramer who was being shown with the Birch Libralato Gallery located in Toronto (but I think he lives here).

And here's a couple of extra shots of the show and work (don't have names, sorry).

An Andy Warhol photo by some famous photographer - I liked it.

I liked the artist - who lives in the midwest, but where it's warm - it's a made up scene - but I liked it so that's why it's here in ArtNewYorkCity.com.

And here's the Art(212) show itself. It's on though the weekend in case anyone lives in NYC and reads this blog.

And now I'm off to paint today. Chow.