{"id":650,"date":"2021-05-10T11:19:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/?p=650"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:19:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:19:24","slug":"after-a-year-of-isolation-frieze-new-york-strikes-notes-of-normalcy-as-uncertainty-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atelierauction.com\/globalupdates\/artist\/after-a-year-of-isolation-frieze-new-york-strikes-notes-of-normalcy-as-uncertainty-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"After a Year of Isolation, Frieze New York Strikes Notes of Normalcy as Uncertainty Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"

The experience of going to an art fair after a year of few in-person experiences of any kind turns out to be extremely strange before it turns slightly less strange and then not strange at all over the course of just three hours. The scene at the entrance of\u00a0Frieze New York<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday was a bit scattered and manic, as fairgoers fumbled to show proof of vaccination or negative coronavirus tests with more than a little anxiety in the air.<\/p>\n

Once you got inside, though, with some time to calibrate, this scaled-down edition of Frieze\u2014held this year at The Shed (the arts venue in Hudson Yards)\u2014felt surprisingly open and free. Hosting 67 galleries and nonprofits compared to 190 at Frieze on Randall\u2019s Island in 2019, The Shed makes more sense than expected as a site for the fair, which runs through Sunday. Different settings on three different floors make for a variety of environments, and there\u2019s enough space to avoid a cramped-aisle feeling between booths\u2014all the better for attempts at social distancing, however strenuous or not.<\/p>\n

Though some of the art displayed lacks some of the pomp and spectacle of years past, dealers seemed pleased to get back to selling their wares in person after a period that has left so many feeling dazed.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good, but it feels strange<\/a>,\u201d said Casey Kaplan, whose booth is showcasing paintings by a new addition to his gallery\u2019s roster, Caroline Kent. \u201cI\u2019m trying to remember how to socialize, with a mask and a little bit of face-blindness, combined with being out of practice. It\u2019s tricky.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander Gray said Frieze\u2019s timed-entry policy, which makes the crowd less a crush than a slow and steady stream, helped him ease back in. \u201cOne of the things that\u2019s made it in some ways a soft landing is the flow of people,\u201d said Gray, who is showing work by Melvin Edwards, Jennie C. Jones, Harmony Hammond, Lorraine O\u2019Grady, Joan Semmel, and Valeska Soares. \u201cIt\u2019s allowed us to have conversations without looking over our shoulder or being dragged by thirty people at once. The intimacy and scale are so right\u2014I wish we could keep it like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gray said he was happy to be back in action in the city after spending time during lockdown in upstate New York and Palm Springs. \u201cWe become art dealers because we thrive on people\u2019s energy,\u201d he said. \u201cPlaying the role of educator and evangelist in front of artworks doesn\u2019t work unless we\u2019re with people, having conversations and making connections. The burnout of OVRs underscored that the art world is not scalable. It\u2019s about relationships and intimacy, and that\u2019s how it should be.\u201d<\/p>\n

The booth for Goodman Gallery, which operates spaces in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and London, was manned by Justin Davy, an associate director who moved to New York just before the pandemic. \u201cIt feels like a social experiment,\u201d Davy said of the fair. \u201cThe overall feeling is one of excitement for being able to speak to people face-to-face about art again.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the situation in South Africa is quite different. \u201cWe\u2019re just recovering,\u201d he said of a dire wave of Covid-19 cases back home at the end of December. \u201cBut I think we\u2019re in a bit of denial. Things are opening very quickly in South Africa and not many people are vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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London\u2019s Stephen Friedman Gallery is showing work by Sarah Ball.<\/span>CASEY KELBAUGH<\/p>\n

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Because of international travel restrictions, some dealers could not make the journey to New York, giving Frieze a decidedly domestic feel. The directors of London\u2019s Stephen Friedman Gallery asked Alexandra Eagle, a former intern, to serve as their proxy. \u201cI\u2019m in constant contact with them via WhatsApp,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s probably really strange for them and really stressful, not knowing how everything is going.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the walls around Eagle were paintings by Sarah Ball, an English painter who took anonymous photos from social media, newspapers, and magazines and transformed them into arresting portraits that seem to stare a viewer down.<\/p>\n

Figurative painting prove more affecting at the fair than usual, a sensible result of the dulling absence of people over the course of a trying year. New York\u2019s Peter Blum Gallery has a delightful little Alex Katz painting of a woman in a white dress against a yellow background. There are beguiling portraits by Jonathan Wateridge at Nino Mier Gallery. And Marinaro has caught a lot of eyes by showing highly stylized Ridley Howard portraits of couples in various forms of embrace, which are both soothing and haunting at once.<\/p>\n

Of the scene around him, Jamie Bayard, assistant director of Marinaro, said, \u201cThere\u2019s an energy here. In New York there\u2019s a lightness lately. People are eager to be out and about again, and they want to see art.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The booth for Marinaro, with paintings by Ridley Howard and sculptures by Johannes VanDerBeek.<\/span>COURTESY MARINARO<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Despite the anxiousness at the start, the first day of Frieze settled into a state of normalcy. Hometown collectors like Agnes Gund and Glenn Fuhrman were joined by those visiting from San Francisco, like Helen Schwab, Komal Shah, and Katie Page, or Miami, like Mera Rubell. Museum directors Max Hollein (of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a>) also made appearances, as did at least one celebrity, supermodel Christy Turlington.<\/p>\n

New York collector and film producer Debi Wisch said the toned-down fair is marked by \u201cmore engagement with the work and fewer distractions.\u201d Bree Zucker, a director for the Mexico City\/New York gallery Kurimanzutto, agreed, \u201cIt\u2019s special to be back in a social environment that is so welcoming after of a year of isolation for everyone, on so many different levels.\u201d<\/p>\n

And despite things starting to feel familiar, some in attendance are more cautious than overly optimistic. Dealer David Lewis, who is showing work by Barbara Bloom, Thornton Dial, and Tom\u00e1s Esson, said, \u201cIt\u2019s starting to feel like people are getting ready, like this is the beginning of something. But I feel like Covid has taught me not to expect anything ever. I just know that the mood is shifting and people are starting to feel like reemerging, without really knowing what that will look like. I know there\u2019s another chapter starting, I just have no idea what it will be like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Sarah Douglas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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