Fountain Art Fair

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

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 06:

Exhibition hours: 11am – 6pm

9 – 11am: Fountain Art Fair VIP Press Brunch [contact us to request VIP/Press Pass]

Grace Exhibition Space Performances:
1pm: Melissa Joyce Lockwood [NY, USA]
3pm: Rachel Hoffman [FL, USA]

All weekend: Michael deFeo on the exterior walls of Fountain with Ad Hoc Art as part of Primary Flight.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 07:

Exhibition hours: 11am – 6pm

Grace Exhibition Space Performances:
1pm: : Melissa Joyce Lockwood [NY, USA]
3pm: Performance: Rachel Hoffman [FL, USA]
4pm: Liza Morozova [Moscow, Russia
5pm: Talena Sanders [NY, USA]

7pm – midnight: Reception for the artists

7pm – 10pm: Glowlab’s Kurt Bigenho presents Experiential Modifiers performance

7pm – 10pm: Mobile Performance Group outdoor audio/video performance with Glowlab

10pm -11pm: Live Music by Treewave (Pauls Slocum, Lauren Grey + Atari 2600)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 08:

Exhibition hours: 11am – 6pm

Grace Exhibition Space Performances:
1pm: Performance: Melissa Joyce Lockwood [NY, USA]
3pm: Performance: Rachel Hoffman [FL, USA]
5pm: Talena Sanders [NY, USA]

5 – 10pm: Glowlab’s Bethany Bristow creates outdoor installation around the Fountain exhibition space

7 – 10pm: Wynwood District Art Walk

Grace Exhibition Space Performances:
7pm: Jeremy Slater [NY, USA]
8:30pm: Jon Winfield Nicholson [NY, USA]: “American Xenophobia” - a special 3 part music/sound performance

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 09:

Exhibition hours: 11am – 6pm

Grace Exhibition Space Performances:
1pm: Performance: Melissa Joyce Lockwood [NY, USA]
3pm: Performance: Rachel Hoffman [FL, USA]
5pm: Talena Sanders [NY, USA]

The avant-garde has always laid claim to history through its challenges and victories over the status quo. In 1917, at the unjuried Society of Artists exhibition, Marcel Duchamp unveiled the world’s most famous ready-made art object: “Fountain”. It is in this spirit of the unexpected that some of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s most forward-thinking and cutting-edge galleries have collaborated to present “Fountain Miami.” The exhibition will make its mark in a massive 10,000 square foot warehouse at: 2841 NW 2nd Avenue in the Wynwood Gallery District, in close proximity to various other international art fairs, the Rubell Family Collection and many local galleries. Fountain Art Fair will run Thursday Dec 6th until Sunday December 9th with a press brunch preview on Thursday morning Dec 6th at 9am until 11am and a reception for the artists on Friday Dec 7th from 7pm until midnight.

“Fountain Miami” is a guerrilla-style art fair - under the radar, but highly influential. “Fountain” was launched in March 2006 in New York, in an effort to leverage support for independent galleries largely overlooked by corporate-sponsored art fairs. In defiant contrast with both Art Basel Miami Beach, Pulse, Scope and the slew of other International art fairs, “Fountain” has received wide public support and critical acclaim for its independent slant. This independent aspect gives Fountain its edge: young galleries showcasing fresh work without official booth spaces or selection committee juries. In form and spirit, the artwork shown truly reflects the avant-garde and in-your-face attitude equated with the Dada movement.

Fountain Miami is currently featuring the galleries: Ad Hoc Art, Bipolart, Buenas Artes, Capla Kesting Fine Art, Front Room Gallery, Steven Gagnon, Gitana Rosa, Glowlab, Grace Exhibition Space, Like The Spice, McCaig-Welles Gallery, Miguel Paredes, VertexList and Yum Yum Factory. Special guest appearances to be announced.

Come and experience the unfiltered, uncouth and enterprising excitement of Fountain. See advanced art as it was meant to be seen – without blinders, without “taste merchants” – straight from the source.

Media Contacts: David Kesting 917.650.3760 or John Leo 917.292.8865.

“Fresh and in their faces, a perfect example of avant-energetics” - The Brooklyn Rail

“An ‘Alternative Fair,’ organized by Williamsburg, Brooklyn dealers, which presents the work of young artists and galleries” - Art in America

A “smaller, independent fair” - The Miami Herald

“Fountain” (after Duchamp’s title for his “ready-made” urinal) is the perfect moniker for this independent, experimental, mini art fair with its Duchampian spirit of philosophic irony.” - Douglas Kelley Show

“A salon des refusés” - Time Out New York

“Contemporary art in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp” - Artnet.com

“Independent and experimental” - Juxtapoz magazine

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