This 12 months’s Armory Present will mark the Thirtieth anniversary of New York’s largest business artwork honest. With a brand new honest director, flooring plan and nonetheless recent off final 12 months’s acquisition by Frieze, The Armory Present could also be on the point of a brand new period within the honest’s three-decade historical past. Beginning with a VIP preview day on 5 September, the honest will final till 8 September.
“Whereas we rejoice 30 years of The Armory Present, this particular version gives intersections of reflection and risk throughout its curated sections, particular shows and the principle honest,” Kyla McMillan, the present’s new director, stated in an announcement. “The Armory Present’s group, with the help of our Frieze colleagues, have organised an unbelievable lineup of expertise this 12 months.”
This 12 months’s honest will characteristic greater than 235 galleries from 35 nations, in addition to a brand new flooring plan, reoriented honest sections, an on-site theatre for programming and new assembly areas.
Highlights from the honest’s core part embrace the London gallery Victoria Miro displaying work by Isaac Julien, whereas Two Palms from New York will present a brand new collection of Tschabalala Self’s silkscreens, collages and three-dimensional paper-cast works.
Chryssa Vardea’s White Plaster with neon N’s (1975-76) Courtesy Blue Velvet, Zürich
The late Greek American mild artist Chryssa Vardea will make her solo debut at a world artwork honest on the stand of Blue Velvet, a Zürich gallery that has chosen at the very least three vital works from every of Vardea’s 4 inventive durations. Seoul’s Gallery Baton has ready a 20-year survey of the Korean American artist Suzanne Track’s work together with their customized frames that blur viewers’ perceptions of the borders of the canvas.
Almine Rech’s stand will embrace artists like Sasha Ferré, Ana Montiel, Tia Thuy-Nguyen and Gwen O’Neil, whereas Sean Kelly has ready a stand centred across the theme “metamorphosis” with sculptures by Jose Dávila and work by Laurent Grasso. New York’s Kasmin will spotlight Twentieth- and Twenty first-century artists, together with new work by Nengi Omuku and Diana Al-Hadid and work from Robert Motherwell’s Persian collection. The New York gallery Broadway will present a stand of works by the native artists Meg Lipke, Josh Tonsfeldt, Andrew Kuo, Adrianne Rubenstein, Sky Hopinka, Victoria Roth and the sculptor Lars Fisk, amongst others.
The honest’s Presents part highlights galleries lower than a decade previous, with solo and twin artist shows. Individuals this 12 months embrace Proxyco, a New York gallery highlighting the artist Diana Sofia Lozano’s horticultural sculptures product of braided metal, resin clay, wool and cloth, together with Hannah Traore Gallery’s pictures by Camila Falquez that doc the method of passing the primary invoice that protects transgender and non-binary folks in Colombia.
This 12 months’s Gramercy Worldwide Prize has been given to Blade Examine, a gallery on the Decrease East Facet. Annually, a New York gallery is awarded a complimentary stand on the honest. Blade Examine will present a solo presentation of artwork by Paige Ok. B., together with work, pictures and sculptural works. Final 12 months’s winner, No Gallery, will return to The Armory Present within the honest’s core part with a number of work by the artists Maggie Dunlap and Todd Lim, each of whom discover Americana myths and icons.
Diana Al-Hadid’s The Caravan and The Lovers (2024) Picture by Wendy Timana, Courtesy Kasmin
Within the Solo part, made up of intimate single-artist stands from both the Twentieth or Twenty first century, highlights embrace Charlie James Gallery’s presentation of city landscapes by Manuel López, and new work by the South African painter Kate Gottgens that explores gender dynamics and home suburban life in Smac Gallery’s stand.
The Armory Present’s Focus part is usually reserved for extra experimental works that mirror the legacy of the honest’s first 1994 iteration on the Gramercy Park Lodge, in addition to its namesake—the 1913 Worldwide Exhibition of Fashionable Artwork at New York Metropolis’s 69th Regiment Armory. This part shall be organised by Robyn Farrell, senior curator on the New York non-profit The Kitchen, for the second 12 months working. For the Focus part, the Chicago heavyweight Corbett vs. Dempsey and the Decrease East Facet gallery Fierman have teamed as much as current a solo stand devoted to Jimmy Wright’s daring drawings of queer life in New York.
Nightwatch: The Anvil (1975) by Jimmy Wright Courtesy the artist; Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago; and Fierman, New York
One other joint presentation, between Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles and Mexico Metropolis’s Labor, will spotlight a video set up by American Artist based mostly on the science-fiction writing of Octavia E. Butler. New York’s Kapp Kapp will dedicate a stand to Louis Osmosis’s multidisciplinary work, whereas Monique Meloche from Chicago will spotlight Ebony G. Patterson’s garden-like work reflecting the visibility of sophistication, race, gender and different types of identification in postcolonial areas.
The Platform part of large-scale installations and site-specific works designed for the honest will as soon as once more be curated by Eugenie Tsai, former curator of latest artwork on the Brooklyn Museum. This 12 months’s works centre round reminiscence, materials and spirit, and can characteristic a brand new sculpture by Sanford Biggers, whose Chimeras collection blends Greco-Roman and African influences, introduced by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Additionally within the Platform part shall be a brand new “shoelace” piece by Nari Ward with Lehmann Maupin, and sculptures by Dominique Fung reflecting public conceptions of Asian moist markets introduced by Jeffrey Deitch.
