Must see
exhibitions
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Anish Kapoor, Royal Academy, London
(thru Dec 11) America, captured in a Flash Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (thru Jan 3) Charles BurchfieldHammer Museum, Los Angeles thru Jan 3, 2010 Turner Prize 2009Tate Britain, London (Oct 6 - Jan 3) John Baldessari
Tate Britain, London
(thru Jan 10) Georgia O'Keeffe: AbstractionWhitney Museum, NYC (through Jan 17) David Hockney Nottingham Contemporary (through Jan 24) Richard BurtonMOMA NYC Nov 22 - April 26, 2010
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Dear Friends and Clients,
Thanks for your support in Miami, it was great to see many of you there. For those of you that didn't make it to the art fairs, I can report a much brighter mood as confidence returns to the art market. Overall, sales were stronger than last year as buyers at all levels were finding quality works and at sensible prices, and dedicated collectors made considered acquisitions. Latin American art was on plentiful supply as dealers catered to a growing collecting force.
Another trend was the rise of the satellite fairs which, despite being less numerous than in previous years, were popular enough to rival the main ABMB fair. Art Miami was a strong favorite, with gems also to be found at Scope and Pulse. NADA found applause among curators who agreed the show has firmly positioned itself as the place to find some of the most cutting edge contemporary artists today.
In other art world news, two new artist prizes were announced this
month. In Britain, a painter, Richard Wright, is the surprise winner
of the Turner Prize at Tate Britain. And a new $100,000 prize for artists under 35, funded by a Ukrainian billionaire, will include an online
People's Choice Award for art lovers to vote for their favorite artist.
Finally, this month we feature new work by Chris Crossen, a watercolorist working with jewel-tone mosaics created in meditative patterns. I am also sharing a new series of my most recent abstract paintings, titled 'Union'. Please visit Trudy Montgomery under the 'Artists' page. I look forward to your comments.
Happy Holidays,
Trudy Montgomery
@trudymontgomery
"There is no must in art because art is free." - Wassily Kandinsky
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Miami: Stronger Sales at all levels than last year (but 500,000 is the new million)
Art Newspaper: December 5, 2009
After the bustle, glamour and razzmatazz of Art Basel Miami Beach's opening day, a picture is emerging of a newly sober, sedate fair that has, in the words of David Juda of Annely Juda Fine Art (C22), "grown up". "The froth and the partying have gone away," he said, and many observed that the city certainly felt quieter.
The pace of sales at the fair reflects this new sobriety. For most galleries, business is far better than it was last year [...] But collectors are taking their time. Read on...
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Brighter Mood at Miami Beach
Art Newspaper: Dec 3, 2009
 As Art Basel Miami Beach opened to VIP guests yesterday at high noon, among the early arrivals were Las Vegas art collector and casino mogul Steve Wynn, arm-in-arm with ex-Guggenheim head honcho Lisa Dennison. He quickly bagged a 2007 James Rosenquist from Acquavella (B21), entitled Zone, for just under $1m. Right next door at Gmurzynska (B20), actor Sylvester Stallone was introducing his abstract paintings to the lavender-clad British royal, Princess Michael of Kent-a recently hired consultant to the gallery. Elle McPherson, John McEnroe and Calvin Klein rounded out the celeb quota, but big-hitting art world players were also in evidence, from collectors such as Eli Broad and Susan and Michael Hort to museum heavyweights Glenn Lowry and Michael Govan with a posse of trustees in tow.
Greeting them was a confident display by the 265 galleries in the expanded fair space, with a clear emphasis on blue-chip modern and contemporary art by tried-and-tested artists. Works by Picasso, Calder and Giacometti were to the fore, with strong showings of major names such as Gerhard Richter, Alex Katz and Frank Stella. At Michael Werner's stand (B23), five works on paper by Sigmar Polke sold or were reserved for prices nearing $1m.
Gone are the days when young unknowns could be unveiled at inflated prices, as art consultant Nicholas Maclean of Eykyn Maclean noted: "There's less interest in buying average quality material. There's more confidence: it's a good, sensible market." Read on..
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New Series by Trudy Montgomery
'Union'
My new series of abstract paintings, Union, has evolved naturally, based upon an exploration of color and composition in recent months. These paintings are not directly inspired by the landscape but are rooted in landscape. For example, the horizon line always present, along with a
sense of distance or depth but also flatness. The works are energetic and gestural, and a wide angle 'V' or 'U' shape has emerged
as an expression of the sacred feminine.
In this series I am exploring the forces which we perceive and those we do not - known and unknown - yet
which still exist and exert their influence upon us. I am interested in the union between land and sea, sky and
earth, spirit and body, not just as a meeting point, but as an integration of the forces that keep these perfect yet
ever-changing systems in harmony.
View more online...
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New Watercolors by Chris Crossen
Jewel-tone refractions of light
I have worked with Chris Crossen since 2004 when we gave him his debut showing at Blue Tangerine Art's first exhibition, Color Abstraction, in San Francisco. In researching his paintings, I visited his studio where he shyly produced his newest series of watercolors, a body of work that I hadn't known about. It was these we exhibited, and since then, the work has matured.
A keen surfer, Crossen's inspiration is the myriad
refractions of light upon the surface of the ocean as he waits for the
set wave. Crossen builds up layers of paint, arranging and overlapping
brushstrokes in cascading patterns that are at once calming and mesmerizing. Each painting is uniquely rendered with a meditative quality, a mosaic of jewel-like tones.
Crossen's watercolors are available in several sizes:
15" x 22", 22" x 30", 30" x 40" and 40" x 60". He has completed large-scale
commissions for
several collections, the most recent of which is installed at the Ritz
Carlton in
Lake Tahoe, Ca.
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A painter, Richard Wright, wins Britain's Turner Prize at Tate Britain
49 year old Richard Wright, a British artist known for temporary wall paintings that he destroys after exhibition, has won the 2009 Turner Prize.
His intricate gold-leaf work, "Untitled", shimmers 'like a mirage that might disappear at any moment' [The Guardian]. Catch it soon at Tate Britain - it will be painted over once the exhibition closes on Jan. 3, 2010.
NYTimes Arts Beat Blog, Dec 7, 2009
To the surprise of British bookmakers, at least, the artist Richard Wright has won the Turner Prize. Tate Britain, which oversees the selection process and stages an exhibition of the four finalists, announced the winner during a live broadcast Monday evening. [....]
Where the Turner Prize is concerned, it is not always possible to feel that the best artist won, but this time it very much is.
Read Bloomberg's article (Dec 8, 2009)....
The Turner Prize was set up in 1984 to reward emerging contemporary
artists in the U.K. It is given every year to "a British artist under
50 for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work in
the 12 months preceding." The prize money is 25,000 pounds ($41,000)
for the winner and 5,000 pounds each for the three runners-up.
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New Prize to Honor Artists under 35
NY Times, Dec 7, 2009
A new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35 is being announced on Tuesday by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by its namesake Ukrainian billionaire and art collector.
The award, the Future Generation Art Prize, will be given every two years and is open to any young artist who applies online. About 100 professionals will also be asked to nominate candidates they think are producing exceptional work. Though the jury has yet to be announced, Mr. Pinchuk has drafted an international board of starry names that include Elton John and Miuccia Prada.
In a telephone interview Mr. Pinchuk said he created the competition after serving on the jury of Geisai (art festival in Japanese), a semiannual contest for young Japanese artists sponsored by Takashi Murakami and his company, Kaikai Kiki. "It was a very fascinating system," said Mr. Pinchuk, whose center in Kiev exhibits works he has collected by Mr. Murakami, Damien Hirst and others. "I am hoping that the Future Generation Art Prize will help promote the Ukraine and Kiev as an important contemporary art center."
The $100,000 award comes with strings: because Mr. Pinchuk wanted to ensure that the winner keeps working, he said, $40,000 of the purse must go into the production of art. Read on...
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Blue Tangerine Art provides art advisory services to private and corporate collectors. We source contemporary art from a wide range of sources, including direct from artists and galleries, from the US and Europe.
We offer paintings, drawings and limited editions by artists including: Chris Crossen, Patter Hellstrom, Angela Findlay, Rachel Holloway, Kathy Montgomery, Trudy Montgomery, Bella Pieroni, Anne Stahl, Nicola Wood, Suzan Woodruff and Eric Zener among others.
And photography-based work by: Sparky Campanella, Sebastien Davila, Bjornulf Dyrud, Allison Hunter, Cressandra Thibodeaux, Sieglinde Van Damme as well as many others not listed on our website.
We look forward to helping you find just what you're
looking for, whether it be limited edition prints or original works.
Please feel free to contact us with your request via email or on (415) 515-6094.
Happy Collecting!
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Trudy Montgomery
Art Advisor and Principal, Blue Tangerine Art
web: http://www.BlueTangerineArt.com
email: trudy@bluetangerineart.com
twitter: @trudymontgomery
tel: (415) 515-6094
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