Over 70 galleries and special exhibits from around the U.S., South America and Europe will converge on Palm Springs for Art Palm Springs (art-palmsprings.com) on February 16 through 19 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

“This year’s list of galleries is truly impressive,” said Donna Davies, Vice President, Art Group for Urban Expositions. Along with the expanding number of galleries, the show is also expanding the number of talks, tours and special events throughout the weekend. “Our goal is to offer guests the opportunity to immerse themselves in the galleries, artists and Palm Springs for the weekend,” she added. Each year the show draws thousands of unique visitors to the convention center over the course of the Presidents’ Day weekend.

The fair will debut new work by several artists including Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Memorial for Poor Teddy, exhibited by Imago Galleries. Hovnanian is known for her interactive installations including Perfect Baby. In “Memorial for Poor Teddy,” viewers will climb into an enormous bed overflowing with hundreds of teddy bears, and in doing so instantly disrupt a dormant arrangement. Drawn in by the tactile nature of the installation, viewers then become the object of the conversation as they are surrounded by a symbol of early childhood incongruously paired with markers of their digital lives: “tags” around the bears’ necks name a smartphone app the toy has been “#replacedby.”  Elsewhere in the installation, a stainless steel reflective sculpture of a slain teddy bear with a knife protruding from its chest is illuminated by neon wall sculptures that state, “YBR / You’ve been replaced” and “I love my phone more than you / ILMPMTY."

The international galleries will feature hundreds of artists including Ed Ruscha, Lita Albuquerque, Moshe Elimelech, Preston Singletary, Julie Blackmon, Wolf Kahn, Karen Margolis, Roger Reutimann, Miriam Cabessa, Emmi Whitehorse, Paul Sarkisian, Frank Stella, Emi Ozawa, Laurence Jones, Sam Francis, Grace Hartigan, Chul Hyun Ahn and Joseph Stashkevetc.

The galleries at the fair include:

57 Projects (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Adam Blaue Gallery (Cleveland, Ohio)
Adamar Fine Arts (Miami, Florida)
Addison Rowe Fine Art  (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Adrien-Kavachnina Contemporary (Paris, France)
Anthony Brunelli Fine Art (Binghampton, New York)
Arcadia Contemporary (Los Angeles, Calif.)
art HAAS (New York, New York)
Artspace Warehouse (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Axiom Contemporary (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Blue Rain Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Bruce Lurie Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD)
Cassera Arts Premiers (New York, NY; Laconner, WA; Vancouver, BC)
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Chiaroscuro/Gerbert Contemporary (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Christopher Martin Gallery (Aspen, Colo.)
CMay Gallery (West Hollywood, Calif.)
Contemporary Artifact (Carpinteria, Calif.)
Cordesa Fine Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
The Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London, UK)

DECORAZONgallery (London, UK)
Duane Reed Gallery (St. Louis, Mo.)
Fine Art Maya (San Diego, Calif.)
Freight + Volume (New York, New York)
Galeria Moro (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
Gallery K.A.G. (Annapolis, MD; Ojai, CA)
Garis & Hahn (Los Angeles, Calif.)
George Billis Gallery (New York, New York)
HOHMANN (Palm Desert, Calif.)
Imago Gallery (Palm Desert, Calif.)
J. Willott Gallery (Palm Desert, Calif.)
Jai & Jai Gallery  (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Jane Kahan Gallery (New York, NY)
Jean Albano Gallery (Chicago, Ill.)
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Jorge Mendez Gallery  (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts (New York, New York)
Kidder + Smith Gallery (Boston, Mass.)
Lassiter Fine Art (Birmingham, Ala.)
LewAllen Galleries (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Maria Elena Kravetz Gallery (Cordoba, Argentina)
Michalopoulos Gallery (New Orleans, La.)
Milano Style Art (Milan, Italy)
MJ Laberge Gallery (Boucherville, Quebec, Canada)
MRG Fine Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Myers Kovich (Laguna Beach, Calif.)

Nancy Toomey Fine Art Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.)
NanHai Art (Millbrae, Calif.)
Okay Spark (Norfolk, Va.)
Peimbert Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Peter Blake Gallery (Laguna Beach, Calif.)
Peters Projects (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
photo-eye Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Pushkin Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Rebecca Fine Art (Cathedral City, Calif.)
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (New York, NY; London, United Kingdom)
Richard Levy Gallery (Albuquerque, New Mexico)
SCAA - Sergott Contemporary Art Alliance (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.)
Scott White Contemporary Art (San Diego, Calif.)
Sensate Gallery (Ojai, Calif.)
TAI Modern (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
ten|Contemporary (Grass Valley, Calif.)
Throckmorton Fine Art (New York, New York)
Timothy Yarger Fine Art (Beverly Hills, Calif.)
Tom Ross Gallery (Palm Springs, Calif.)
Von Lintel Gallery (Los Angeles, Calif.)
William Havu Gallery (Denver, Colo.)
William Siegal Gallery (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Winston Wächter Fine Art (Seattle, Wash.)

Tickets for Art Palm Springs are available on the website at art-palmsprings.com/tickets/. Tickets range in price from $100 for a First Look Pass that admits two throughout the weekend; $75 for VIP Pass, which also admits two throughout the weekend; or $20 for single day passes ordered online; or $25 for single day passes at the door.
For further information about Art Palm Springs, go to the website at http://www.art-palmsprings.com.