Verge

SPECIAL EVENTS

VERGE emerging art fair is proud to announce an extraordinary list of programs for its inaugural New York fair, March 4-7, coinciding with The Armory Show. VERGE is THE source for emerging art during Armory Arts Week, located a short six block stroll from The Armory sister fair, VOLTA, and one block from the landmark Grand Central Terminal. Representing seven countries, VERGE is the only art fair exclusively devoted to emerging art in Manhattan and throughout the New York art fair scene. Come meet us for our inaugural effort.

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM)

The Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) is a hacked together custom fine art dispensing device inspired by self service kiosks, Japanese automats, slot machines, ATM?s, juke boxes, shopping malls and carnival games. The Art Machine(SM) creates a fun and accessible means for the public to engage with original 21st century avant-garde artwork and acquire it at recession level pricing. Artist Meeting is able to do this through intentionally undervaluing its products, cutting out the middle-man and automating the process of valuation, choice and the art of the sale. The Art Machine(SM) creates a subtle critique on capitalism and the art world and changes the art buying experience for the viewer. It is an art market hack.

The Art Machine(SM) will dispense an assortment of custom made objects and drawings via a $20 token operated system of mechanical and digital modules embedded in a 10 x 8 foot transparent plastic wall. The Art Machine(SM) process will randomly alternate between a drawing module and object module dispensing various AM art objects such as AM t-shirts and underwear, DIY intervention kits, AM 'Zines, photo books, digital prints, and other small artworks and ephemera the member artists have created for this project including over 300 feet of collaborative mixed media drawing.

Artists Meeting is an international, semi-anonymous arts collective based in New York City. Begun in 2006, as a research project and experiment in collaboration and the creative process, Artists Meeting has participated numerous events including; Conflux, Pulse Miami, Dokfest, the Dumbo Arts Festival and Postmasters Gallery. Artists Meeting members have exhibited their work in many major museums around the world including; MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Jeu du Paume, SF MoMA, Musée D'Art Contemporain de Marseille, The Walker Art Center, Musée D'art, Contemporain de Lyon, PS1, The State Hermitage Museum and MCA Chicago.

Organized by Lee Wells, IFAC Arts

NURTUREart

For Verge New York, acclaimed not-for-profit NURTUREart will present several projects in public spaces throughout the Dylan Hotel by artists including works by Dan Carlson, Suzanne Strobe and Joy Curtis. A special video screening program will also be presented in the conference room of the Dylan with works by Peter Dobil, Shanna Moutlon and Alexa Horochowski.

ABOUT NURTUREART
In 1997, George J. Robinson founded NURTUREart Nonprofit Inc. to realize his vision of an organization dedicated to helping emerging artists. He began by mounting guerilla exhibitions in donated spaces whenever and wherever possible, starting a slide registry in a filing cabinet in his Washington Heights apartment. As the Artists’ Registry grew exhibits took place in all corners of the city from the United Nations and Citibank to empty Lower East Side storefronts. In 2003 NURTUREart opened a gallery space of its own in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, creating the exciting opportunity for a full season of exhibitions by collaborating emerging curators and artists from the registry. In 2006 NURTUREart found a bigger and better permanent home on Grand Street in East Williamsburg and long time volunteer and trustee Karen Marston took the helm as Executive Director, and in 2007 Benjamin Evans joined the team as Gallery Director. With the help of many dedicated volunteers NURTUREart has grown into the dynamic organization it is today, playing a vital role in the cutting-edge emerging art community.

Sculpture Space

Utica-based Sculpture Space will present several projects for Verge New York in the public spaces of the Dylan Hotel, including works by Adam Smith, Marc-Anthony Polizzi and Hong Seon Jang.

ABOUT SCULPTURE SPACE
Sculpture Space is unique in North America for its support of sculptors, both those who come to Utica, New York, as residency participants and those who continue after their residencies as working artists. The organization selects 20 artists each year for two-month residencies and has helped to advance the careers of more than 400 national and international artists since 1976. A non-profit organization with a 30-year record of success, Sculpture Space also offers the public a valuable opportunity to meet innovative artists and to learn about contemporary sculpture. As a unique cultural resource, Sculpture Space promotes interaction between national and international visiting artists and the local community throughout Utica and the surrounding region.

BENEFIT PROGRAMS

ASMPNY Doctors Without Borders for Haiti Fundraiser

The American Society of Media Photographers will stage a fundraiser for Haiti relief, with all proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders, curated by Elizabeth Avedon. More than 100 prints donated by ASMP members will be on sale for $100 each at a booth donated by the Verge Art Fair and 100% of all sales go directly to Doctors Without Borders. Work available from John Dolan, Aaron Lee Fineman, Deborah Gilbert, Robert Hooman, Michelle Kawka, Salem Krieger, Stephen Mallon, Cynthia Matthews, Philip Mauro, Margaret McCarthy, Viviane Moos, Clayton Price, Susan May Tell, Gilberto Tadday, and more! Click here for more information on Doctors Without Borders' relief efforts in Haiti.

For more information on the fundraiser, please email Stephen Mallon or call (917)554-3871; or email Susan May Tell or call (917)733-6553.

Verge VIP Dylan Penthouse Party and Fundraiser for Hudson Guild

Closed to the public. Verge New York will host a special silent auction fundraiser for the Chelsea-based Hudson Guild. VIP guests, Verge exhibitors and guests will enjoy an evening of food and drink while helping to support one of Manhattan's mainstay social service organizations. For additional information on the works to be presented and to support Hudson Guild, please contact them at 212-760-9800.

Founded in 1895, Hudson Guild is a community organization focused on Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Through a variety of programs and services, including after-school care, professional counseling and community arts, the Guild seeks to empower individuals and families in economic need to achieve their highest potential. Last year, the Guild provided services to more than 14,000 people in five program areas: Children and Youth Services, Adult Services, Arts Programming, Community Building and Mental Health. Click here for more information on Hudson Guild.

THE ARTS AT HUDSON GUILD
The Guild’s Arts Program helps make Chelsea a vibrant and cohesive community, where diversity and self-expression flourish among all age groups. The Guild provides opportunities for the underserved in our community to both see and create art – i.e., to experience art created by professionals and to create art on their own. Participants in Adult, Children, and Teen Services programming both participate in and attend live performances and receive gallery tours.

Zachary Fabri Video Installations

At the Verge VIP Penthouse party, a selection of works by Zachary Fabri will be presented. This selection of work is a collection of three different videos that all relate to “cultural burden.” From a personal view and also from a larger global perspective, this theme of culture is investigated through landscape, news media and abstract oddity.

Emerging Artist-Edition Verge Tote by Claudia Lara

Chicago-based artist Claudia Lara has produced a limited edition Verge tote bag for the inaugural Verge NYC fair. Lara is currently Co-Lead artist at After School Matters teaching for the Printmaking Arts & Multimedia Media Arts. programs. When she is not teaching she enjoys working on pieces that combine her illustration skills with screen printing, collage and typography.

SHOWCASE PROGRAMS & AFFILIATES

Brooklyn Round-Up

Verge New York will showcase the extraordinary talent and innovation of Brooklyn with a list of participating galleries, artists and organizations including ANTIDOTE, Pierogi, Front Room Gallery, Slate Gallery, Alice Chilton Grace Gallery, Mighty Tanaka, Gitana Rosa Gallery, MS Projects, Corridor Gallery and NURTUREart. In addition, Verge has partnered with the Williamsburg Gallery Association, WAGMAG, and SITE fest Bushwick to highlight affiliate off-site events that provide visitors and patrons of emerging art a host of activities throughout the week across Brooklyn's sprawling art communities.

Williamsburg Gallery Association events

Saturday, March 6, from 6-10pm, Verge co-sponsors the annual WGA Williamsburg Night art walk and after-party. Participating galleries, including Like the Spice, Slate Gallery, Capricious Space, Pierogi, and others will stay open late into the evening to give collectors a chance to visit these energetic art spaces. Afterward, join Verge and the WGA at Hope Lounge, 10 Hope Street between Havemeyer and Roebling, to celebrate the RAW Guide release and with an after-party that starts at 11pm.

SITE fest Bushwick

Join VERGE and Arts In Bushwick on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, 1pm-9pm for SITE Fest, a two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick. Now in its second year, SITE arose in response to the amazing outpouring of live art that Arts in Bushwick receives every year for BETA Spaces and Open Studios. Encompassing and blending a variety of forms including theater, dance, and music,

SITE investigates the Bushwick neighborhood as an unfolding collaborative performance enacted in urban space. SITE Fest will open with a party at Bushwick’s Beauty Bar on Friday, March 5 (9pm – 4am), and conclude with an after-party at Page Not Found on Sunday, March 7 (7pm – 12am). Please click here for further information on SITE Fest Bushwick, or contact Chloë Bass at performance@artsinbushwick.org.

PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW
Thursday, March 4, 2010, Noon to 6:00 pm

OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6:00 to 10:00 pm

VIP Party - Dylan Penthouse
Thursday, March 4, 2010, 9:00pm to Midnight

PLEASE NOTE: Admission to the Professional Preview is given to press and VIP (both Verge, Armory Show and Volta cards are accepted) cardholders only. The Opening Night Preview is for those cardholders and for paid public admission.

PLEASE NOTE: All further VIP requests will no longer include admission to the VIP Reception. The Verge VIP Reception event is currently at maximum capacity, and name-check admission is required. This event is not open to the public.

Adam Parker Smith, Untitled (player piano), 2010. Burnt hand-built wooden player piano. This charred and dilapidated hand-built player piano continues to play despite it's condition. Music written and recorded by Nathan Parker Smith. Courtesy Sculpture Space.

Alexa Horochowski, Run Barbara (3:50), 2008, footage from Night of the Living Dead directed by George A. Romero, 1968. Courtesy NURTUREart.

Hong Seon Jang, Rainbow forest, 2010. 50x 43X 23 inches, Bar Stirrers, Trafic cone, Hot glue, wire, Paper Tube. Courtesy Sculpture Space.

Shanna Moulton, still from “Whispering Pines #4,” 2007. Courtesy NURTUREart.

Zachary Fabri, still from Hortabágy. Courtesy Rush Arts.

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SPECIAL EVENTS VERGE emerging art fair is proud to announce an extraordinary list of programs for its inaugural New York fair, March 4-7, coinciding with The Armory Show. VERGE is THE source for emerging art during Armory Arts Week, located a short six block stroll from The Armory sister fair, VOLTA, and one block from the landmark Grand Central Terminal. Representing seven countries, VERGE is the only art fair exclusively devoted to emerging art in Manhattan and throughout the New York art fair scene. Come meet us for our inaugural effort. SPECIAL PROJECTS Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) The Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) is a hacked together custom fine art dispensing device inspired by self service kiosks, Japanese automats, slot machines, ATM?s, juke boxes, shopping malls and carnival games. The Art Machine(SM) creates a fun and accessible means for the public to engage with original 21st century avant-garde artwork and acquire it at recession level pricing. Artist Meeting is able to do this through intentionally undervaluing its products, cutting out the middle-man and automating the process of valuation, choice and the art of the sale. The Art Machine(SM) creates a subtle critique on capitalism and the art world and changes the art buying experience for the viewer. It is an art market hack. The Art Machine(SM) will dispense an assortment of custom made objects and drawings via a $20 token operated system of mechanical and digital modules embedded in a 10 x 8 foot transparent plastic wall. The Art Machine(SM) process will randomly alternate between a drawing module and object module dispensing various AM art objects such as AM t-shirts and underwear, DIY intervention kits, AM 'Zines, photo books, digital prints, and other small artworks and ephemera the member artists have created for this project including over 300 feet of collaborative mixed media drawing. Artists Meeting is an international, semi-anonymous arts collective based in New York City. Begun in 2006, as a research project and experiment in collaboration and the creative process, Artists Meeting has participated numerous events including; Conflux, Pulse Miami, Dokfest, the Dumbo Arts Festival and Postmasters Gallery. Artists Meeting members have exhibited their work in many major museums around the world including; MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Jeu du Paume, SF MoMA, Musée D'Art Contemporain de Marseille, The Walker Art Center, Musée D'art, Contemporain de Lyon, PS1, The State Hermitage Museum and MCA Chicago. Organized by Lee Wells, IFAC Arts NURTUREart For Verge New York, acclaimed not-for-profit NURTUREart will present several projects in public spaces throughout the Dylan Hotel by artists including works by Dan Carlson, Suzanne Strobe and Joy Curtis. A special video screening program will also be presented in the conference room of the Dylan with works by Peter Dobil, Shanna Moutlon and Alexa Horochowski. ABOUT NURTUREART In 1997, George J. Robinson founded NURTUREart Nonprofit Inc. to realize his vision of an organization dedicated to helping emerging artists. He began by mounting guerilla exhibitions in donated spaces whenever and wherever possible, starting a slide registry in a filing cabinet in his Washington Heights apartment. As the Artists’ Registry grew exhibits took place in all corners of the city from the United Nations and Citibank to empty Lower East Side storefronts. In 2003 NURTUREart opened a gallery space of its own in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, creating the exciting opportunity for a full season of exhibitions by collaborating emerging curators and artists from the registry. In 2006 NURTUREart found a bigger and better permanent home on Grand Street in East Williamsburg and long time volunteer and trustee Karen Marston took the helm as Executive Director, and in 2007 Benjamin Evans joined the team as Gallery Director. With the help of many dedicated volunteers NURTUREart has grown into the dynamic organization it is today, playing a vital role in the cutting-edge emerging art community. Sculpture Space Utica-based Sculpture Space will present several projects for Verge New York in the public spaces of the Dylan Hotel, including works by Adam Smith, Marc-Anthony Polizzi and Hong Seon Jang. ABOUT SCULPTURE SPACE Sculpture Space is unique in North America for its support of sculptors, both those who come to Utica, New York, as residency participants and those who continue after their residencies as working artists. The organization selects 20 artists each year for two-month residencies and has helped to advance the careers of more than 400 national and international artists since 1976. A non-profit organization with a 30-year record of success, Sculpture Space also offers the public a valuable opportunity to meet innovative artists and to learn about contemporary sculpture. As a unique cultural resource, Sculpture Space promotes interaction between national and international visiting artists and the local community throughout Utica and the surrounding region. BENEFIT PROGRAMS ASMPNY Doctors Without Borders for Haiti Fundraiser The American Society of Media Photographers will stage a fundraiser for Haiti relief, with all proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders, curated by Elizabeth Avedon. More than 100 prints donated by ASMP members will be on sale for $100 each at a booth donated by the Verge Art Fair and 100% of all sales go directly to Doctors Without Borders. Work available from John Dolan, Aaron Lee Fineman, Deborah Gilbert, Robert Hooman, Michelle Kawka, Salem Krieger, Stephen Mallon, Cynthia Matthews, Philip Mauro, Margaret McCarthy, Viviane Moos, Clayton Price, Susan May Tell, Gilberto Tadday, and more! Click here for more information on Doctors Without Borders' relief efforts in Haiti. For more information on the fundraiser, please email Stephen Mallon or call (917)554-3871; or email Susan May Tell or call (917)733-6553. Verge VIP Dylan Penthouse Party and Fundraiser for Hudson Guild Closed to the public. Verge New York will host a special silent auction fundraiser for the Chelsea-based Hudson Guild. VIP guests, Verge exhibitors and guests will enjoy an evening of food and drink while helping to support one of Manhattan's mainstay social service organizations. For additional information on the works to be presented and to support Hudson Guild, please contact them at 212-760-9800. Founded in 1895, Hudson Guild is a community organization focused on Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Through a variety of programs and services, including after-school care, professional counseling and community arts, the Guild seeks to empower individuals and families in economic need to achieve their highest potential. Last year, the Guild provided services to more than 14,000 people in five program areas: Children and Youth Services, Adult Services, Arts Programming, Community Building and Mental Health. Click here for more information on Hudson Guild. THE ARTS AT HUDSON GUILD The Guild’s Arts Program helps make Chelsea a vibrant and cohesive community, where diversity and self-expression flourish among all age groups. The Guild provides opportunities for the underserved in our community to both see and create art – i.e., to experience art created by professionals and to create art on their own. Participants in Adult, Children, and Teen Services programming both participate in and attend live performances and receive gallery tours. Zachary Fabri Video Installations At the Verge VIP Penthouse party, a selection of works by Zachary Fabri will be presented. This selection of work is a collection of three different videos that all relate to “cultural burden.” From a personal view and also from a larger global perspective, this theme of culture is investigated through landscape, news media and abstract oddity. Emerging Artist-Edition Verge Tote by Claudia Lara Chicago-based artist Claudia Lara has produced a limited edition Verge tote bag for the inaugural Verge NYC fair. Lara is currently Co-Lead artist at After School Matters teaching for the Printmaking Arts & Multimedia Media Arts. programs. When she is not teaching she enjoys working on pieces that combine her illustration skills with screen printing, collage and typography. SHOWCASE PROGRAMS & AFFILIATES Brooklyn Round-Up Verge New York will showcase the extraordinary talent and innovation of Brooklyn with a list of participating galleries, artists and organizations including ANTIDOTE, Pierogi, Front Room Gallery, Slate Gallery, Alice Chilton Grace Gallery, Mighty Tanaka, Gitana Rosa Gallery, MS Projects, Corridor Gallery and NURTUREart. In addition, Verge has partnered with the Williamsburg Gallery Association, WAGMAG, and SITE fest Bushwick to highlight affiliate off-site events that provide visitors and patrons of emerging art a host of activities throughout the week across Brooklyn's sprawling art communities. Williamsburg Gallery Association events Saturday, March 6, from 6-10pm, Verge co-sponsors the annual WGA Williamsburg Night art walk and after-party. Participating galleries, including Like the Spice, Slate Gallery, Capricious Space, Pierogi, and others will stay open late into the evening to give collectors a chance to visit these energetic art spaces. Afterward, join Verge and the WGA at Hope Lounge, 10 Hope Street between Havemeyer and Roebling, to celebrate the RAW Guide release and with an after-party that starts at 11pm. SITE fest Bushwick Join VERGE and Arts In Bushwick on Friday and Saturday, March 6 and 7, 1pm-9pm for SITE Fest, a two-day interdisciplinary event highlighting the diversity of performance in Bushwick. Now in its second year, SITE arose in response to the amazing outpouring of live art that Arts in Bushwick receives every year for BETA Spaces and Open Studios. Encompassing and blending a variety of forms including theater, dance, and music, SITE investigates the Bushwick neighborhood as an unfolding collaborative performance enacted in urban space. SITE Fest will open with a party at Bushwick’s Beauty Bar on Friday, March 5 (9pm – 4am), and conclude with an after-party at Page Not Found on Sunday, March 7 (7pm – 12am). Please click here for further information on SITE Fest Bushwick, or contact Chloë Bass at performance@artsinbushwick.org.	PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW Thursday, March 4, 2010, Noon to 6:00 pm OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW PARTY Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6:00 to 10:00 pm VIP Party - Dylan Penthouse Thursday, March 4, 2010, 9:00pm to Midnight PLEASE NOTE: Admission to the Professional Preview is given to press and VIP (both Verge, Armory Show and Volta cards are accepted) cardholders only. The Opening Night Preview is for those cardholders and for paid public admission. PLEASE NOTE: All further VIP requests will no longer include admission to the VIP Reception. The Verge VIP Reception event is currently at maximum capacity, and name-check admission is required. This event is not open to the public. Adam Parker Smith, Untitled (player piano), 2010. Burnt hand-built wooden player piano. This charred and dilapidated hand-built player piano continues to play despite it's condition. Music written and recorded by Nathan Parker Smith. Courtesy Sculpture Space. Alexa Horochowski, Run Barbara (3:50), 2008, footage from Night of the Living Dead directed by George A. Romero, 1968. Courtesy NURTUREart. Hong Seon Jang, Rainbow forest, 2010. 50x 43X 23 inches, Bar Stirrers, Trafic cone, Hot glue, wire, Paper Tube. Courtesy Sculpture Space. Shanna Moulton, still from “Whispering Pines #4,” 2007. Courtesy NURTUREart. Zachary Fabri, still from Hortabágy. Courtesy Rush Arts.
info@vergeartfair.com