Volta at Pier 90
Right down the dock at the next pier is Volta at a new venue. It's convenient if your at the Armory Show and worth a visit.The show is entirely one person exhibitions. This is becoming more and more popular with fairs. For the dealers it becomes like a gallery exhibit and probably takes the pressure off getting fresh material from all of their artists for fair after fair. Many of the exhibits hold interest, and I want to highlight 3 of them.
Notably, Haines gallery is exhibiting the Iranian artist Monir Farmanfarmaian, a 91 year old phenom who has a retrospective opening next week at the Guggenheim. For the last half century, she has been making dazzling geometric sculptures out of mirrors and glass, most of which will be seen in New York for the first time at the Museum.
At Rena Branston, Marci Washington is showing her meticulous water colors.
Her process is to draw in the figures first and to fill in the backgrounds last. The body of the figures becomes a kind of negative space, so that she's there but not.
Speaking of there but not, Michael Foley has the works on paper of Simon Schubert.
These precise architectural renderings of interiors are made by merely folding the paper to create the images. To accentuate this, Foley has made his booth entirely white including himself in a white tux.