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The Museum of New Mexico Foundation to Host FIRST LOOK Opening Night Preview at 3rd Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair SOFA WEST 2011 and New! Spotlight Presentation The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art at Santa Fe Convention Center
Released: May 19, 2011Mark Lyman, President, The Art Fair Company, announced the Museum of New Mexico Foundation's (MNMF) continued participation in the Opening Night Preview of the third annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA WEST 2011 and, new this year, Spotlight Presentation The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art in Santa Fe, NM. Lyman said, "After the tremendous turnout of over 2,000 attendees at our second SOFA WEST Opening Night Preview last year, the Foundation plans an intimate, private preview for its highest level supporters, inviting members of The Circles and Business Council to...
SOFA NYC: AARON FABER GALLERY
Released: March 21, 2011Aaron Faber Gallery presents “METAL+SCULPTURE+JEWELRY” a group exhibition of bold three-dimensional works in metal, both sculpture and jewelry, as its ‘Focus’ exhibition at the Park Avenue Armory, Wednesday April 13 through Sunday April 17. The works shown include sculpture and jewelry by Michael Good, legendary metalsmith; a collaborative installation work by jeweler Enric Majoral and painter Michael Mouffe; and Atelier Zobel’s richly innovative jewelry by Peter Schmid. Collectors and aficionados are invited to meet both Michael Good and Peter Schmid. Michael Good will give an info...
World Record for Ceramicist Peter Voulkos Broken at Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction
Released: November 8, 2010Most Important Piece to be offered in a Decade Sells for Six Figures. With a room full of bidders at Chicago’s Navy Pier, and phones busy for nearly every lot, the inaugural Cowans + Clark + DelVecchio Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Auction radiated palpable energy throughout the entire 84-lot sale. The auction totaled $500,000, with over 80 bidders from six countries participating. “The auction greatly exceeded our expectations,” commented Garth Clark, who, along with Mark Del Vecchio, partnered with Auctioneer Wes Cowan to produce the auction. “Prices were on average higher tha...
2nd Annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair: SOFA WEST: SANTA FE 2010 July 8 - 11, 2010 at the Santa Fe Convention Center
Released: June 1, 2010Long heralded as the nation's premier fairs for outstanding contemporary decorative arts and design in New York and Chicago, SOFA's 2nd annual Western edition, SOFA WEST: Santa Fe will run from Thursday, July 8 - Sunday, July 11, 2010 at the Santa Fe Convention Center. Opening Night, Wednesday, July 7, is an invitation-only Special Member Preview for the Museum of New Mexico Foundation and SOFA VIP Cardholders. Mark Lyman, Founder/Director of SOFA and President, The Art Fair Company says, "We are delighted to partner on Opening Night with the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, which w...
SOFA NEW YORK 2010 WRAPS WITH STRONG SALES AND RECORD ATTENDANCE
Released: April 30, 2010Considered one of the foremost fairs for masterworks bridging contemporary decorative, fine art and design, the 13th annual Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory enjoyed buoyant sales and steady crowds, from the packed vernissage on April 15 straight through its four-day run, which ended on Monday, April 19. An estimated 2500 persons attended the preview throughout the course of the evening, up from 2200 last year. A sold out, after-preview benefit dinner for the Museum of Arts & Design in the Armory's Tiffany Room honored longtime MAD trustee, collector,...
ARTIST’S DEBUT NYC INSTALLATION TO GREET SOFA NEW YORK VISITORS; WENDY WAHL TO PRESENT branches; April 15 – 19, Park Avenue Armory
Released: March 30, 2010For the first time in New York, artist Wendy Wahl will create a massive sculpture entitled branches exclusively for SOFA: New York, which opens with a gala preview on Thursday, April 15 and runs through Monday at the Park Avenue Armory, at East 67th Street and Park Avenue. The fifth in a series she began in 2005. Grand in scale and in concept, Wahl’s inviting work seeks to make connections between perception, knowledge, and tactility through fashioning discarded pages from various volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica into whimsical and arresting sculptural forms. As digital technolog...
WITH A SPOTLIGHT ON CUTTING-EDGE CONTEMPORARY DECORATIVE DESIGN, THE SCULPTURE OBJECTS & FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS FAIR OPENS IN NEW YORK AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Released: March 12, 2010When the Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair opens its doors for a four-day run at the Park Avenue Armory with an evening preview on April 15, cutting-edge modern and contemporary design, decorative arts, and jewelry will take front and center stage. Sixty galleries from the United States, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Turkey, Japan, and Brazil will come together and push the boundaries of medium and genre, reinforcing SOFA’s leading reputation amongst art and design enthusiasts. The pieces on offer, produced by artists and designers from around the globe, go far b...
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