Presented by James Cohan Gallery, Booth 303
Thursday, July 30 - Sunday, August 2 | All Day
Location: Outdoor CafeSpencer Finch's ice-cream truck is bringing the timeless practice of plein air painting to delectable new intensity with Sunset to the Seattle Art Fair. Fair-goers can enjoy a free ice cream that is a deliciously poetic gesture in reverence of summer sunsets in a series of what the artist calls an “edible monochrome.” Finch’s featured work, Sunset, was previously presented at the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and in Central Park by Creative Time.
Thursday, July 30 - Sunday, August 2 | All Day
Location: Fair Entrance
Spencer Finch uses a diverse range of mediums to investigate the ways in which history, memory, and sensory perception conflate and mutually influence. Working in painting, photography, and installation, Finch is best known for producing large-scale sculptural installations that filter or transform natural light or create synthetic light effects. Finch attempts to recreate his impressions of natural phenomena and landscapes, leaving his materials visible so that the constructs underlying his optical illusions are laid bare—as in Sunset(Over the Atlantic),(2004), a curving space installed with glass, tiles, and tubes of fluorescent light. “There is always a paradox inherent in vision, an impossible desire to see yourself seeing,” Finch has said. “A lot of my work probes this tension; to want to see, but not being able to.” Finch observes, documents, and studies with scientific precision (often using a colorimeter) the color and light effects of specific locations, much in the manner of Impressionist Claude Monet, whom he considers a major influence on his work.
Thursday, July 30 - Sunday, August 2 | All Day
Location: Seattle Art Fair Main Floor
Made In China by Negar Farajiani is an interactive outdoor art installation. This 4-by-4 meter giant inflatable beach ball explores an invisible and inevitable power play. The project was conceptualized in Iran, produced in China, and will tour a number of cities throughout the globe. Cheerful and harmless in appearance, Made-in- China Ball evokes playful memories from our childhood while simultaneously questioning economies of scale, globalization and homogenization of cultures.
Location: Paul Kasmin Gallery
Conduit #1 by Ivan Navarro. Chilean-born artist Ivan Navarro creates installation-based sculptures whose infinite landscapes seemingly regress into fictive space. Often focused around charged words and phrases, the combination of text and form works to subtly call into question power dynamics in contemporary society. In Conduit, 2015, the viewer is forced to contemplate the nature of the portal while peering downward into the abyss.
Ivan Navarro represented Chile in the 2009 Venice Biennial and was included in Under the Same Sun at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in spring of 2015. The artist’s wildly popular monumental public installation at Madi- son Square Park in New York in 2014, entitled This Land is Your Land, later traveled to the North Park Center in Dallas and has been viewed by tens of millions of visitors.
Conduit #1 by Ivan Navarro. Chilean-born artist Ivan Navarro creates installation-based sculptures whose infinite landscapes seemingly regress into fictive space. Often focused around charged words and phrases, the combination of text and form works to subtly call into question power dynamics in contemporary society. In Conduit, 2015, the viewer is forced to contemplate the nature of the portal while peering downward into the abyss.
Ivan Navarro represented Chile in the 2009 Venice Biennial and was included in Under the Same Sun at the Guggenheim Museum, New York in spring of 2015. The artist’s wildly popular monumental public installation at Madi- son Square Park in New York in 2014, entitled This Land is Your Land, later traveled to the North Park Center in Dallas and has been viewed by tens of millions of visitors.
Presented by David Zwirner, Booth 111
Thursday, July 30 - Sunday, August 2 | All Day
Location: David Zwirner, Booth 111Yayoi Kusama, PUMPKIN, 2015, is on view as part of a new series of stainless steel pumpkins featuring either painted or perforated dots. Their exaggerated sizes—the tallest being approximately 70 inches (178 cm) high—seem measured after human proportions, and their mirrored surfaces are thus able to contain viewers’ full body reflections. While pumpkins have appeared in Kusama’s work since her early art studies in Japan in the 1950s, they gained increasing prominence from the late 1980s onwards. The juxtaposition between the lush organic shape and its shiny, steel materiality here creates a psychedelic impression, but ultimately the bulbous forms emerge as celebratory and animated, absorbing viewers and their surroundings in their own image.
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