New York's Park Avenue Armory is afire with art sales as 72 exhibitors from the Art Dealers Association of America present the annual ADAA Art Show (through March 6). A preview night kicked off the week on March 1, hosting the likes of Leonard Lauder, Agnes Gund, and comedian Steve Martin who recently earned praise for curating the traveling exhibition of landscapes by Lawren Harris (opens at MFA Boston on March 12).

Early buzz centered on a massive and bright work by Frank Stella titled Severambia (Side A), 1995, priced around $1 million. It stretched between the booths of Stella's dealers, Dominique Lévy and Marianne Boesky. Also, unusual Marilyn Minter works, priced between $40,000 and $160,000, at Salon 94 and sculptures by Martin Puryear at Matthew Marks Gallery have been big draws.

Lehmann Maupin is showing works by Hernan Bas and selling immediately was a large screen priced about $200,000. Titled The Fourth of June, Eton, the work depicts what appears to be an idyllic boat ride. Another large folding screen on view, a rare work from 1986 by Sol LeWitt, is offered at Pace.

Hirschl & Adler Modern has successfully stretched with a mesmerizing multimedia installation by Cuban-American artist María Elena González. Her Tree Talk was first inspired by a fallen birch tree in the woods at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. The artist made rubbings of tree bark and then drawings of the bark’s grain in abstraction. A musical score based upon the bark's repeated lines and patterns evolved and will be played in the gallery booth each day at 2:00 and 6:00 pm. 

More single artist shows to see:

Edward Hopper & Company, original works by Hopper paired with the postwar photographers he influenced, at Fraenkel Gallery

Milton Avery works at Yares Art Projects

Small-sized Alex Katz art at Peter Blum Gallery

Jules Olitski abstracts at Paul Kasmin Gallery

Deborah Butterfield horses, those large-scale sculptures that appear both weighty and ethereal, from Danese/Corey

First-time exhibitor Hauser & Wirth is showing Fausto Melotti, the Italian sculptor.