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Dear Clients and Friends,
In January, Blue Tangerine Art visited the LA art fairs and while well attended, patrons were still cautious about buying. Collectors and dealers alike will be watching this month's contemporary art auctions in London, leading up to the spring art fair season in New York. Please see our Art Diary Dates below.
For collectors in the Bay Area this month, we are excited about SFMOMA's SECA Award exhibition (February 12 through May 10, 2009). This biennial award honors four local artists of exceptional promise and is sure to ignite their careers. Through our contacts at SECA we have access to a limited number of tickets for the opening reception on February 11th - please contact us for an invitation.
This month, we feature artist Miya Ando Stanoff who creates works on steel in varying shades of grey as a space for meditation and reflection.
We look forward to seeing you at our San Francisco gallery space. Please email us to make an appointment.
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LA Art Fair Highlights
Attendance strong, sales weak
 Despite strong attendance at both art fairs last week, sales were weaker than dealers would have liked.
Los Angeles' contemporary art fair, Art LA, reinvented itself this year with a new location in Santa Monica's Barkar Hangar. Collectors, dealers and advisors were impressed with the strong display of installation, video and two-dimensional art from over 60 galleries. The majority of exhibitors hailed from LA galleries with a handful of dealers from New York, Chicago as well as from Berlin, London and Hong Kong. LA gallery booths of note included solo shows at LA Louver's Rogue Wave projects (Eduardo Sarabia), blue chip artists at Patrick Painter and Kim Light/Lightbox LA (Peter Alexander), and emerging stars at Chung King Projects (Dan Bayles).
Across town at the LA  Convention Center, presidential art was in vogue at the LA Art Show with portraits of Presidents Obama, Lincoln and Bush gracing the gallery booth walls. Work was mixed across the show, but we saw strong work at Hespe Gallery (Eric Zener's underwater swimmers and Kevin Moore's lifesize baseball shoe painting installation), Gallery 825, and there were gems to be found at the Print Fair (non-profits Tandem Press).
Also at the same location, Supersonic 2009 featured multi-media exhibits from 80 artists presented by MFA candidates from southern California arts institutions.
Other treats included 'Weekend', a show curated by
Heather Harmon, and held across from Barker Hanger, a group show of
painting by Ed Moses, James Hayward and Andy Moses among others.
Image credits: top: opening night at Art LA 2009, and Martin Luther King/Obama courtesy: Artworks Gallery, Pasadena, CA.
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SFMOMA's 2008 SECA Award Exhibition
February 12
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents this month the 2008 SECA Art Award exhibition, which honors local artists of exceptional promise - Tauba Auerbach, Desiree Holman, Jordan Kantor
and Trevor Paglan - with an exhibition at the museum (February 12 through May 10, 2009).
This year's presentation includes a range of media - painting, sculpture, photography and video - and will devote an entire gallery to each artist, making it one of the largest SECA exhibitions to date.
The biennial SECA Award is administered by
the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, an SFMOMA art
interest group. This year the museum considered more than 200 artists working in a
broad range of media who were nominated by Bay Area art professionals,
including museum and alternative space curators, art school
instructors, gallery owners, critics, SECA members, and former
recipients of the SECA award. After visiting the studios of 31
finalists, the winners were selected by SFMOMA Assistant Curators of
Painting and Sculpture Apsara DiQuinzio and Alison Gass. Since 1967 SECA has honored more than 50 Bay Area artists with its award program.
Blue Tangerine Art founder Trudy Montgomery is Co-Chair for Accessions and collecting on the SECA Council. Through our contacts at SECA, we are able to extend a limited number of tickets to the opening reception on Wednesday February 11th. If you would like to attend this event, please contact us for a free invitation (first come first served). Image credit: Tauba Auerbach, Static 1I, 2008; chromogenic print; 60 x 42 in. (152.4 x 106.7 cm); Collection of the artist; © 2008 Tauba Auerbach; photo: Vegard Kleven, courtesy STANDARD (OSLO), Norway
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Miya Ando Stanoff
Steel Canvases
 Miya Ando Stanoff has an affinity with steel which she can trace as far back to a Japanese ancestor who was a Bizen sword maker. Learning to weld from her father at age five, she has continued to develop her understanding and interest in the material.
Raised in Northern California, half Russian and half Japanese, she grew up visiting the Buddhist temples of Japan. Later, she studied East Asian Studies and then completed a Master's program in Buddhist Iconography.
Ando Stanoff's highly meditative steel canvases reflect her heritage, academic and spiritual interests. She uses different techniques to create the patina she desires, including acids, pigments and various sanding techniques.
The canvases can be understood as abstract landscapes of endless horizons or the calm before the storm. The relective nature of steel also becomes a way for the viewer to transcend and become one with the work. View Ando Stanoff's work online.
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Art Diary Dates
Upcoming art events
2009 Art Fair Calendar:
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We look forward to helping you with your art needs. Feel free to call us on (415) 438-0188 or email us with your questions.
Happy Collecting!
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Trudy Montgomery
Blue Tangerine Art Advisors
237 Clara Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Open by appointment
www.BlueTangerineArt.com
trudy@bluetangerineart.com
(415) 438-0188
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