The inaugural Seattle Art Fair opens Thursday, July 30, with an evening preview for invited guests. The fair will bring together 62 galleries from around the world to the lively art scene of the Pacific Northwest, attracting some of the biggest galleries in the art world—including Gagosian, Pace, and David Zwirner. The fair is already being called a “big deal” by some. While that remains to be seen, the fair is the brainchild of major collector Paul Allen, a cofounder of Microsoft and of Vulcan. Organized by Vulcan and Art Market Productions, who runs smaller art fairs during Armory Week and Art Basel Miami, the fair will also present six installations throughout the city, including a new Robert Montgomery work near Amazon’s South Lake Union campus. The fair will close August 2.
Among the highlights are Julie Blackmon at Seattle’s G. Gibson Gallery, Ivan Navarro at New York’s Paul Kasmin Gallery, An Sung-Ha at Seoul’s Gana Art, William Kentridge at Seattle’s Greg Kucera Gallery, and Carlos Javier Ortiz at Jenkins Johnson Gallery of San Francisco and New York.
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Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco and New York
Carlos Javier Ortiz, Night Vigil, Lil’ Al, Englewood, Chicago, 2008, archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Silk Baryta, 18 x 24 inches.
Gagosian Gallery
Takashi Murakami, Yume Lion (The Dream Lion), 2009, bronze with platinum leaf on marble base, 75¼ x 50 x 43¾ inches.
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Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
William Kentridge, IF YOU HAVE NO EYE, 2014, collaged prints and multiples and linocuts printed on a selection of non-archival dictionary pages, 75½ x 41½ inches.
Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle
Jean Claude Moschetti, Ouri 01, 2010, archival digital print, 29 x 43 inches.
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami
Roberto Gomez, Untitled, 2015, ink on Latex paint on canvas. 5¾ x 10 feet.
David Zwirner
Dan Flavin, untitled (fondly, to "Phip"), 1976, pink, red, and green fluorescent light, 96 inches.
Pace Gallery
teamLab, Flowers and People – Dark, 2015, interactive digital installation, endless.
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Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
Ramiro Gomez, View (Gold), 2014, acrylic over archival pigment print on paper, 59 x 47 inches.
Ryan Lee, New York
Clifford Ross, Hurricane LXII, 2009, silver gelatin print, 48 x 82 inches.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Ivan Navarro, Conduit #1, 2015, neon, steel, mirror, one-way mirror, and electric energy, 36¼ x 36 inches.
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Masami Teraoka, AIDS Series/Geisha in Bath, 2008, 46 color woodblock print made from 34 blocks on Hosho, 100-percent Kozo paper, 18⅜ x 12¼ inches.
CYNTHIA-REEVES, New York
Jennifer Moller, 06-08-2012, 2014, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 40 x 40 inches.
Traver Gallery, Seattle
Jamie Walker, Pieta, 2011, wheel-thrown stoneware with auto enamel, 52 x 36 x 36 inches.
G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle
Julie Blackmon, Airstream, 2011, archival pigment print, 24 x 31 inches.
Abmeyer + Wood, Seattle
William Morris, Mazorca Installation (detail), 2004, blown glass, rope, and steel stand, 99 x 30 x 28 inches.
SEASON, Seattle
Dawn Cerny, A Mound Above and Below, 2013, silkscreen diptych, 22 x 30 inches.
Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles
Jason Burgess, perpetual effect, 2015, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 40 inches.
Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans
Regina Scully, Floating World, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 inches.
Upfor, Portland
Rodrigo Valenzuela, Negative Concord No. 6, 2015, archival pigment print on Dibond, 30 x 40 inches.
Gana Art, Seoul
An Sung-Ha, Untitled, 2014, oil on canvas, 39¼ x 63¼ inches.