Fountain Art Fair

Fountain Miami is on! We will be going to Miami to scout and sign a venue on Monday and the space we are getting is SUPER HOT!!!! Please keep posted to the site as next week we will be sending out invitation to participate and publishing the exhibition application as well as photos of the venue.

After two years of successful runs in New York, Miami and Chicago, Fountain has chosen to stand aside this art fair season in New York and return to our underground roots. With the sudden influx of alternative fairs on the circuit, it’s clear that the scene is over-run. Witnessing Art Chicago’s decline leading to its sale into the fold of the Merchandise Mart, and with the Armory Show encountering a similar fate, it is imperative that Fountain look inward and reinvent itself in an effort to draw attention back to the independent gallery.

The needs of Fountain have not changed. The needs of the independent gallery have not changed. The needs of our artists have not changed, but the format that we structure to fulfill these needs must. No longer can the gallery fall to the annual exhibition of commercial contemporary art located in a mall near you.

Fountain will be back in 2008 in Miami and will relaunch in New York City in 2009. We are actively accepting applications for these new and improved Fountain events from galleries weary of the same old-same-old.

Keep your eyes peeled as we will resurface when and where you least expect it; raw, blunt and as guerrilla as ever.

The application for Fountain New York 2008 is live and can be downloaded here! fountainNY2008.pdf

It’s four pages and details all the info for the upcoming exhibition. Please print it, fill it out and return it to us ASAP. Space in the exhibition is limited and we will only be able to accommodate a few new galleries.

Thanks and we look forward to seeing your proposals.

Fountain gets full coverage today in The Economist’s Art Basel Miami Diary. More recent Fountain press here.

Here are a few photos of our space in Miami — 10,000 square feet of it and looking nothing like your average art fair, right? Check out more of the latest Fountain photos here. Got your own pix of Fountain Miami 2007? Tag ‘em just like that: “fountainmiami2007” and add to Flickr.

Bay 1: Front Room Gallery, Capla Kesting Fine Art, Glowlab, Like the Spice

Bay 2: Vertex List, Miguel Paredes, The Yum Yum Factory

Bay 3: Grace Exhibition Space, Ad Hoc Arts, McCaig-Welles Gallery

Bay 4: Buenas Artes, Steve Gagnon Projects, Bipolart, Gitana Rosa Gallery

Fountain Miami exhibition space exterior with murals as part of Primary Flight