The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has announced program highlights of the 2016 edition of The Art Show. The nation’s most respected and longest-running art fair, will take place on March 2-6, 2016 at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, with a Gala Preview on March 1 to benefit Henry Street Settlement. This year the ADAA is pleased to welcome Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts, as The Art Show’s keynote speaker who will discuss the role of the arts in America’s economic landscape on Friday, March 4, at 6:00 p.m.
Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with gallerists. As part of the ADAA’s philanthropic partnerships, admission from The Art Show and proceeds from the Gala Preview benefit the Henry Street Settlement, one of New York’s leading social service, arts and health care organizations. AXA Art Americas Corporation, a pioneering specialist in the fine art and collectibles insurance space, has returned for the fifth consecutive year as Lead Partner.

“Thoughtfully curated, high quality presentations are a signature of The Art Show—a unique art fair created and organized by a community of art dealers, rather than by an art fair operator. The show's intimate scale which encourages one-on-one interactions between visitors, experienced dealers, and artworks—represents an emphasis on meaningful and lasting relationships, beyond just transactions,” remarked Adam Sheffer, newly appointed ADAA president and Cheim & Read partner and sales director.

ADAA Member Presentations at The Art Show 2016
The Art Show’s 72 presentations are selected from over 100 proposals from ADAA member galleries, providing audiences with high quality presentations of works from the 19th century through today, by artists of a variety of genres, practices, and national and international origin.

“This year’s presentations are dynamic, ambitious, and vibrant, and speak volumes about the global breadth of art and market expertise of ADAA members. We look forward to welcoming collectors, arts professionals, and the public to experience these high-quality presentations and engage personally with experts in the field,” commented Chair of The Art Show, Anthony Meier.

Notable solo exhibitions for The Art Show 2016 include a joint presentation by Marianne Boesky Gallery and Dominique Lévy Gallery of painting, drawing, and sculpture by Frank Stella, and early work by Marilyn Minter presented by Salon 94. Paul Kasmin Gallery will present the first exhibition of seven different bodies of work by Jules Olitski, spanning 45 years of the artist’s career. In three ambitious presentations, ADAA members will re-examine the contributions of 20th century African-American artists: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery will present works by American modernist Beauford Delaney; Betty Cuningham Gallery will feature paintings by Bill Traylor; and Galerie Lelong will highlight works from the 1970s by McArthur Binion. Rare, vintage performance photographs by Carolee Schneemann will be on view from P.P.O.W, while David Nolan Gallery will present a bold installation of a single work by Barry Le Va, retracing his groundbreaking investigations in sculpture from the late 1960s.

First-time Art Show exhibitor, Haines Gallery of San Francisco, will bring kaleidoscopic sculptures and works on paper by Monir Farmanfarmaian, following her critically acclaimed retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Other newcomers include Hauser & Wirth, presenting works by the Modernist Italian sculptor, installation artist, and poet Fausto Melotti, and Tilton Gallery will debut new sculptures by Chicago-born artist Simone Leigh, whose work explores female African-American subjectivity.

A number of presentations will feature new works displayed publicly for the first time at The Art Show, such as mechanical sculptures and works on paper by installation artist Rebecca Horn at Sean Kelly Gallery, new photographic work by Gillian Wearing at Tonya Bonakdar Gallery, and recent Hernan Bas paintings influenced by mythology and literature at Lehmann Maupin. Tibor de Nagy Gallery will present new non-objective paintings by Andrew Masullo, and Cheim & Read will feature recent works by prominent American artist Ron Gorchov. In a thought-provoking juxtaposition of sculpture and photography, Bortolomi will pair new sculptural works by Tom Burr with Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites from the 1980s. Additionally, noted sculptor Deborah Butterfield will create two large-scale bronze works especially for the fair, presented by Danese /Corey.

On Wednesday, March 2, at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., Cuban-American artist Maria Elena González will debut her first public performance of Tree Talk, as part of her installation at Hirschl & Adler Modern. Performed on a player piano, the piece translates the bark patterns of birch tree into music. Subsequent performances will played by a pianolist twice each day on Thursday, March 3 through Saturday, March 5, at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., and on Sunday, March 6, at 2:00 p.m.

Several member galleries will present group exhibitions of stimulating artistic juxtapositions. As part of Rhona Hoffman Gallery’s group exhibition Cut, Sliced, Stitched, Torn, new works by emerging artist Natalie Frank will be shown alongside established international artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Spencer Finch, Lucio Fontana, Jim Hodges, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Richard Tuttle, exploring the gesture of cutting, tearing, and stitching in artists’ practices from 1966 to the present. An equally ambitious exhibition presented by Howard Greenberg Gallery and Hans. P. Kraus Jr. Inc. will explore the Photo-Secession movement—founded in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz to advance photography as an art form—through photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, and Gertrude Käsebier, among others.

The Art Show 2016 Special Events and Programming
The Art Show will open with a Gala Preview on Tuesday, March 1, at 5:30 p.m., to benefit Henry Street Settlement. The annual event brings together the international art world and New York City philanthropists in support of the vital services Henry Street Settlement provides to New Yorkers each year. Tickets range from $175 to $2,000, and are available to purchase online here or by contacting Henry Street Settlement at 212-766-9200 ext. 248.

On Friday, March 4, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Robert Lynch, will present a keynote speech “Art & America: The Role of the Arts in America’s Economic Landscape”. With more than 40 years of experience in the arts industry and 30 years of leadership at Americans for the Arts, Lynch is motivated by his personal mission to empower communities and leaders to advance the arts in society, and in the lives of citizens. The keynote is an annual highlight of The Art Show and one of many public programs presented by the ADAA throughout the year.

The Art Show 2016
Wednesday, March 2 through Friday, March 4, 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Sunday, March 6, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Location: The Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue and 67th Street, New York
Tickets: $25 per day. Available online here or at the door. All proceeds from ticket sales benefit Henry Street Settlement.
The Art Show Gala Benefit Preview The Art Show Gala Benefit Preview will be held on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to benefit Henry Street Settlement. Tickets are available online here or through Henry Street Settlement at 212.766.9200 ext. 248. The evening will be in partnership with David Yurman.

Keynote Speech: Robert Lynch, President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Friday, March 4, 6:00 p.m. The Board of Officers Room at The Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York Free entry with fair admission.

Generous support for The Art Show is provided by Lead Partner AXA Art Americas Corporation.

The full list of ADAA member presentations at the 2016 edition of The Art Show includes:
303 Gallery Multimedia works by Nick Mauss

Acquavella Galleries, Inc. Selection of Impressionist, Modern, and Postwar masterworks, including paintings by Lucian Freud and Henri Matisse

Adler & Conkright Fine Art Exhibition exploring abstract movements of the 1910s and 1920s across Europe, United States and Latin America

Alexander and Bonin Paintings of architectural and pastoral spaces by Stefan Kürten

Brooke Alexander, Inc. Artists working in sets or series: Works by Josef Albers, John Baldessari, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol

John Berggruen Gallery Selection of pivotal works in the gallery's history to celebrate its 45th anniversary

Peter Blum Gallery Small paintings of portraits and landscapes by Alex Katz

Marianne Boesky Gallery and Dominique Lévy Gallery Joint presentation of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Frank Stella

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery New work by Gillian Wearing

Bortolami Barbara Kasten's Architectural Sites from the 1980s and new sculptural works by Tom Burr

Cheim & Read New paintings by Ron Gorchov

James Cohan Gallery New paintings by Trenton Doyle Hancock

Thomas Colville Fine Art "In Foreign Lands: Artists Abroad": Paintings and works on paper by significant painters of the 19th and 20th centuries

CRG Gallery Works by mid-century Italian sculptor Leonardi Leoncillo

Crown Point Press Video and new etchings by Marcel Dzama

Betty Cuningham Gallery Works by 20th-century African-American artist Bill Traylor

Danese / Corey Large-scale sculptures created for The Art Show by Deborah Butterfield

Maxwell Davidson Gallery Motion and Color Theory: Selection of works by Optic and Kinetic artists

Tibor de Nagy Gallery New non-objective paintings by Andrew Masullo

Richard L. Feigen & Co. Selection of surrealist works and 20th-century collage, including works by Joseph Cornell, Jean Dubuffet, James Rosenquist, and never-before exhibited collages from the Ray Johnson Estate

Debra Force Fine Art, Inc. "Isolation": Exhibition portraying the varying perspectives of American artists from the first half of the 20th century

Fraenkel Gallery "Edward Hopper & Company": Exhibition of Hopper watercolors and works by photographers he influenced, including Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, and Stephen Shore

Peter Freeman, Inc. Paintings by Catherine Murphy Galerie St. Etienne Selection of works by German Expressionists

James Goodman Gallery Selection of works by modern and contemporary masters

Marian Goodman Gallery Works on paper and recent sculpture by Arte Povera artist Giuseppe Penone

Alexander Gray Associates Paintings and works on paper from Jack Tworkov's Knight Series (1975-77)

Richard Gray Gallery Selection of works by modern and contemporary masters

Howard Greenberg Gallery and Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc. Joint presentation of photographs by Photo-Secessionists, including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Gertrude Käsebier, Frederick Evans, Karl Struss

Haines Gallery Kaleidoscopic sculptures and works on paper by Monir Farmanfarmaian

Hauser & Wirth Sculpture from the Estate of Fausto Melotti

Hirschl & Adler Modern Site-specific installation and live performance by Maria Elena Gonzalez from the series Tree Talk

Rhona Hoffman Gallery "Cut, Sliced, Stitched, Torn": Exhibition exploring the gesture of cutting, tearing, and stitching in artists' practices

Paul Kasmin Gallery Exhibition of seven bodies of work spanning 45 years by Jules Olitski

Sean Kelly Gallery New mechanical sculptures and works on paper by German artist Rebecca Horn

Kohn Gallery "The Continental Divide: East and West Coast c. 1960-80"

Barbara Krakow Gallery Exhibition of artists utilizing text or installation-based elements, including Robert Barry, Richard Artschwager, Daniel Buren, Franz Erhard Walther, Allan McCollum, and Allen Ruppersberg

Lehmann Maupin New paintings by Hernan Bas

Galerie Lelong Selected works from the 1970s by McArthur Binion

Jeffrey H. Loria & Co., Inc. "Spain and Its 20th-Century Masters: Picasso, Miro, and Dali"

Luhring Augustine Drawings and sculpture by David Musgrave

Matthew Marks Gallery Selection of work by Robert Gober, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin Puryear, and Charles Ray

Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art Exhibition of Surrealist paintings, drawings and sculpture by 20thcentury Mexican artists

Barbara Mathes Gallery Exhibition exploring the legacy of Surrealism in contemporary art, including works by Joseph Cornell, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Karen Kilimnik, Yayoi Kusama, Ed Ruscha, and Lucas Samaras

Anthony Meier Fine Arts New work by Jasmin Sian

Menconi + Schoelkopf Fine Art, LLC Selection of American modernist works circa 1913-50

Metro Pictures Drawings from the 1970s and 1990s and new paintings by Jim Shaw

Mnuchin Gallery Selection of leading examples of American minimalism

Donald Morris Gallery, Inc. A selection of works by 20th century American and European artists, including paintings by Bob Thompson

David Nolan Gallery Installation of a single work by Barry Le Va, retracing his groundbreaking investigations in sculpture during the late 1960s

P.P.O.W. Pilkington-Olsoff Fine Arts, Inc. Rare vintage performance photographs by Carolee Schneemann

Pace Gallery Historic boxes and pin works by Lucas Samaras

Pace/MacGill Gallery 20th and 21st-century photographs featuring a range of subjects shown solely from behind

Pace Prints & Pace Primitive Selection of prints from the second half of the 20th century

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC Paintings by American modernist Beauford Delaney

Mary Ryan Gallery, Inc. Drawings, prints, selected photographs, and video by Hugo Gellert

Salon 94 Early work by Marilyn Minter

Julie Saul Gallery Richard Artschwager's Locations (in six parts) from 1969 and photographs from Bill Jacobson's Place (Series)

Susan Sheehan Gallery Postwar prints and works on paper by Ellsworth Kelly, Cy Twombly, Brice Marden, Richard Diebenkorn

Manny Silverman Gallery Selection of American abstract art from the post-World War II period

Skarstedt American and international artists working since the 1970s

Sperone Westwater "Passageway": Selection of works in various media by Wolfgang Laib

Tilton Gallery New sculpture by African-American artist Simone Leigh

Van Doren Waxter / 11R Spray-painted works by Hedda Sterne from the 1950s and new paintings by Mike Tajima

Meredith Ward Fine Art "Back to Nature: Modernism Comes to America": Selection of naturebased abstractions by American modernists, including Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove, John Marin, and Alfred Maurer

Washburn Gallery "On and Off the Wall": Exhibition of works by artists working in multiple media, including Ilya Bolotowsky, Charles Hinman, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Leon Polk Smith, Richard Stankiewicz, and Jack Youngerman

Michael Werner Selection of work by gallery artists Yares Art Projects Paintings and works on paper by Milton Avery from 1912-1962

Pavel Zoubok Gallery Sculptural work by German multimedia artist Mary Bauermeister

David Zwirner Works by Sherrie Levine