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Galerie Zeitgeist - Raphael Denis, WTB - World Towers of Babel, Sculpture

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galleries displaying the freshest work in a spacious and collaborative installation environment. Our initiative is designed to break free of the traditional art fair model and offer art enthusiasts, collectors and critics an engaging new platform for experiencing contemporary art. This is the 4th year for Fountain in New York - The 2010 venue is over 10,000 sq. foot at Pier 66 (aka The Frying Pan). The exhibition runs during The

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Armory show.

175 Seventh Avenue New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212 242 6220 art@artbazaar.tv http://www.artbazaar.tv

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Thurs March 4 > VIP/Press Preview > 11am - 7pm (to benefit MAD) Fri March 5 > Reception for Public > 7pm - midnight > Depreciation Guild > ADULT Sat March 6 > ARTLOG Live > 7pm - midnight > DJ Marky Ramone (from The Ramones)

Fountain is an independent exhibit of cutting-edge art

The Art Bazaar founded in 2009 by Michael Lyons Wier, of the Lyons Wier Gallery, is a platform for unrepresented artists to connect with clients and collectors in response to the decreasing amount of exhibition opportunities available in New York City.

Director Hans Wolf manages and maintains The Art Bazaar Agency, a vehicle that helps to find artists further representation in the global arts community.

ArtSlant

8721 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90069 Phone: 626 345 0145 ben@artslant.com http://www.artslant.com

ArtSlant presents Eye on the Prize, featuring the works of Julie Davidow, Yo Fukui, Adam Jahnke, and Michael Zelehoski. Chosen from a list of finalists juried by leading gallerists and art professionals over the course of 2009, these four artists are the winners of the 2009 Juried Showcase. They are getting some more deserved exposure with ArtSlant’s debut exhibition, curated especially for Fountain NY. Rather than opting for a standard gallery exhibition, ArtSlant is taking this novel, alternative approach to highlight the artists who give us all something to talk and write about. Started in 2006, ArtSlant is known for its comprehensive online global network that includes interviews, reviews, exhibition listings, and the latest in contemporary art, artists and buzz.

Left: Adam Jahnke, Loathing the Leviathan, Various Sizes Right: Julie Davidow, The New Strain #13, 48” x 48”

21 Nor th Ferry Road Shelter Island, NY 11964 Phone: 631 749 4062 info@boltaxgallery.com http://boltaxgallery.com

Boltax Gallery

Boltax Gallery is pleased to present Nuala Clarke’s site specific installation “One of One Thousand Worlds”. This one world will be on exhibition in the Lackawana “kaboose”. The multi-media installation will include drawings, paintings, word maps, video and sound and is the first in a series of intimate views of one thousands worlds.

Left & Right: Nuala Clarke, One of One Thousand Worlds

Established in 2001, Boltax Gallery is located 100 miles east of New York City on Shelter Island. Representing a diverse and international group of emerging and mid-career artists, it is our objective to present progressive work in all artistic mediums, while remaining true to the time-tested tradition of painting.

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Left: Charlene Lanzel, Fresh Fish, 48” X 34” Right: Evan Levine, Love Slash No Time, 72” X 48”

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Christina Ray

30 Grand Street New York, NY 10013 Phone: 212 334 0204 info@christinaray.com http://christinaray.com

Christina Ray gallery & Fountain are pleased to present “Idea For the Here and Now”, a group exhibition of limited edition hand-pulled screen prints to benefit Transformazium, an emerging collaborative arts center in Braddock, Pennsylvania. For the benefit, local and internationally renowned artists have donated a short “Idea for the here and now”: doings, imaginings, practices and interactions geared toward the transformation of resources into tangible social and economic benefits for small communities and the world at large.

Left: Josh Tonies, Still from Transformazium Music Video Right: Emma Hedditch, Roofers. Visit www.transformazium.org for additional information

238 East 24 St, #1B New York, NY 10010 Phone: 646 265 5508 norm@creongallery.com http://www.creongallery.com/

CREON Gallery

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Transformazium is an active formation of artists, designers, inter-activists, fledgling farmers, visitors and residents of the 15104 area.100% of proceeds from the exhibition will benefit repairs to Transformazium’s headquarters.

A new venue, CREON Gallery for the last year has been staging a diverse mix of events in a Gramercy/Flatiron hideaway location.

CREON’s founder and director Norm Hinsey’s approach is based on the Dali maxim that “So little of what could happen, does happen” and has established a serendipitous program that confounds expectations and operates outside the decorous rules of the artworld.

“A warmness of anomie filled me at the CREON Gallery”- Charlie Finch, Quoted on Artnet.

Galerie Zeitgeist

4B rue du Chevalier, de la barre Paris, FR 75018 Phone: +33 (0) 664 188 522 habibdiab@galeriezeitgeist.com www.galeriezeitgeist.com

Created in August 2009 by Habib Diab (Art Collector & Chairman of Curart Association), Galerie Zeitgeist is an unconventional Parisian gallery. Mr Diab promotes essentially Contextual Art as Contemporary Art. Galerie Zeitgeist will exhibit three artists Zevs, Yevgeniy Fiks and Raphael Denis, as eyewitnesses of our period.

Zevs uses the original colors & re-paints corporate logos with excess drawing attention to, & visually disturbing the recognizable & omnipresent trademark. Yevgeniy Fiks paints his subjects; current members of the Communist Party USA, from life in trivial interiors of their New York offices. Raphael Denis realizes WTB – World Towers of Babel, a monumental sculpture that symbolizes the culture shock between two civilizations and precariousness of the world.

Left: Zevs, Nasdaq, 2010 Right: Raphael Denis, WTB - World Towers of Babel, sculpture

105 Thompson Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: 203 912 4030 gpzero234@hotmail.com http://www.suckerchump.com

Greg Haberny

Pop Culture Wasteland...

Left: Greg Haberny, Patriotic Insemination, 6” X 9” Right: Greg Haberny, The Dyslexia Of War, 24” X 22”

Where do icons flee to rest? Where does truth dare lay its weary head? Why such a famine of yesteryears’ glamour? All the answers, and more, can be found on the walls at Greg Haberny’s installation: Pop Culture Wasteland!!! A ubiquitous plethora of fallen heroes, faded fads and historical lore; resurrected in a cauldron of sociopolitical mayhem. Come; relax with the penniless, the heartbroken and the disillusioned in a fun-filled installation of art and performance at Pop Culture Wasteland!

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Left: Dianne Bowen, Unseen Lines Seek shelter: As it sat, I test time, Installation detail Right: Nikki Johnson, Winking Blonde Cover #1, 20“ x 16”

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Holster Projects

81 Westbourne Park Rd London, UK. W2 5QH Phone: +44 (0)207 221 5215 info@holsterprojects.com http://www.holsterprojectscom

Holster Projects is pleased to present “I, You, He, She” in which artists Larry Achiampong, Mattia Biagi, and David Huglin examine concepts of identity and history; both personal and collective.

Left: David Huglin, Cain, 40” x 60” Right: Mattia Biagi, tar on crucifix

812 Washington St New York, NY 10014 Phone: 917 650 3760 info@leokesting.com http://www.leokesting.com

Leo Kesting Gallery

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Biagi’s largescale installation “Freedom from Prison of Perception” was inspired by the artist’s own personal journey & also his interest in the universal human desire for the path to freedom, often thwarted by nothing but our own perceived restrictions. Achiampong questions a more collective journey, involving the social, political, and racial history of the US with the election of the first black president. As a natural enquirer into the mechanics of the world around him, Huglin’s “Cain” & “Redemption” are collections of honed meanderings, intrinsically connected to his Jewish heritage.

Founded in June 2007 by David Kesting and John Leo, Leo Kesting is the sister gallery of Capla Kesting Fine Art which opened its doors 4 years earlier in the gallery hub of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Leo Kesting gallery offers the art viewing public an opportunity to see forthcoming talents in an intimate setting.

Leo Kesting constantly seeks to expose new, undiscovered artists with a cutting edge to their craft that would be otherwise missed by the contemporary art scene. In this way, they present their collectors with an off the beaten path approach to acquiring artwork that shines in our minds and culture.

Nudashank

405 W. Franklin St, 3rd Floor Baltimore, MD 21201 Phone: 203 273 8289 nudashankgallery@gmail.com http://www.nudashank.com

Nudashank gallery is a new independent, artist-run gallery space in Baltimore, Maryland whose mission is to showcase young artists.

Founded by Seth Adelsberger & Alex Ebstein, Nudashank is devoted to bringing new blood into the Baltimore scene, benefitting regional artists, & providing a new venue for national and international artwork. Located in the H&H building, the gallery hosts approximately 8 exhibitions per year, featuring group and 2-person shows.

Nudashank has earned tremendous praise and support from Baltimore’s art community. The gallery has received two grants since their inaugural show; one from the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts, the second from the Baltimore Community Foundation for making “significant contributions to Baltimore’s vibrant arts and cultural scene in 2009.”

Left: Michael Dotson, Straight To The Dome, 30” x 40” Right: Matthew Craven, Highly Decorated, 27” x 20”

Contact: Patrick May Phone: 347 232 5208 open-ground@hexane.org http://open-ground.org

Open Ground

Open Ground is a social space and an open network, constituted by artists, and open to all. Open Ground has emerged from an 8 year experiment with a revolving roster of multidisciplinary artists who support and contextualize each other’s creative work through exhibitions, performances and studio critiques. Our dialog is based on profound respect for each other’s cultural and artistic differences.

Left: Christa Toole, Gravitational Flow, 12” x 12” Right: Catherine Tafur, The Death Of A Mermaid, 36” x 48”

Originally housed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the space became a breeding ground for community building, supporting local politics, and headquarters for radical ideas and progressive dialogue. Nurturing a wide range of artistic styles, the participating artists have leveraged the support of Open Ground to develop their voice, creating artwork that is unexpectedly inclusive & beautifully aware of their environment.

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Left: Brian Leo, Asian Avian, 48” x 48” Right: Nina Bednarski, Trapped, 13“ x 13”

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Red Truck Gallery

New Orleans, LA Contact: Noah Antieau Phone: 504 231 6760 noah@redtruckgallery.com http://www.redtruckgallery.com

Red Truck was founded in New Orleans in 2005. After Katrina, we, like everybody else, were forced to look elsewhere for income. For the first year or so after the storm we were strictly an online entity, focusing primarity on gallery show attendace (ie. Art London, Bridge Miami, etc) In late 2006 we opened a space in Ann Arbor, MI, and in late 2007, we proudly re-opened in New Orleans to great success.

Left: John Whipple, Workaholic, 22” x 15” Right: Chris Roberts-Antieau, Chimpanzees Are Dangerous, 36” x 24”

21 North Ferry Rd Shelter Island, NY 11964 Phone: 631 793 2256 sara@saranightingale.com http://www.saranightingale.com

Sara Nightingale

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When it comes to environment, Red Truck tries to bring about a feeling of real comfort. We show art that can be appreciated by anyone. Art that requires no description, no handholding or escoteric interpretation.

As we see it, art is not for some idiot with an affected accent to explain to a confused client. Art’s got to be accessible, MOMA membership or not, & that is what we try to collect & show through Red Truck.

The mission of the Sara Nightingale Gallery is to be a leader in the exhibition of significant and challenging contemporary art, with an emphasis on emerging artists.

The gallery encourages experimentation, diversity, innovation, dialogue and risk in new art of all mediums. It seeks to enhance the careers of its artists by exposing them to new markets and opportunities. The gallery was founded in 1998 and has been participating in art fairs since 2001.

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Left: Alicia Gibson, Ladies in Heels, 48” x 40“ Right: Christian Little, Young Love, 12” x 12”

We-Are-Familia

Contact: Jennifer Garcia Phone: 646 709 6702 art@wearefamilia.com http://www.we-are-familia.com

We-Are-Familia is an extensive global network of creative individuals from all disciplines whom have come together to explore the powerful, complex ties which consciously and unconsciously touch all that we experience as humans. Spearheaded

by Creative Director Jennifer Garcia, their primary ongoing project is a series of 25 one-of-a kind keepsake boxes showcasing original “mementos” contributed by its family of 50 artists and artisans. The keepsake boxes themselves are an elegant assembly of found objects and discarded furniture fragments.

Both strange and beautiful, nostalgic & contemporary, the We-Are-Familia keepsake boxes offer unexpected juxtapositions, a new and exotic understanding of ordinary things. We-Are-Familia presents Keepsake Boxes No’s. 5 through 8 of 25, in addition to new work by Jeff Lewis, Tine Lundsfryd, Marc McAndrews, Thundercut, Change Design, Tobias Zarius, David Trumpf & Jesse Brown.

Left: Fabian Bedolla & Jennifer Garcia, Video Box, No. 5/25 Right: Fabian Bedolla & Jennifer Garcia, Bricolage, No. 8/25

ARTIST PROJECTS

Allison Berkoy

http://www.berkoy.com

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Allison Berkoy is a Brooklyn-based video and installation artist.

Berkoy takes over the caverns of Lightship #115, the legendary “Frying Pan” docked at Pier 66. In her fourth exhibition with Fountain Art Fair, Berkoy installs a collection of large-scale video sculptures & smaller media objects throughout the once sunken ship. Navigating a labyrinth of rooms and corridors, descending deeper into the belly of the lightship, viewers encounter a series of scenes & spectacles set against the detritus of the ship’s storied past. Life-sized dummies come to life, & curiosities offer themselves to a world operating just below consciousness.

Gawker Artists http://artists.gawker.com

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Gawker Artists presents NSFW (“Not Safe For Work”), a selection of works from a group show currently on display at Gawker Media’s headquarters. Featuring sexually suggestive works by Steve Ellis, Emiliano Granado, Justine Lai, Heather Morgan & Randy Polumbo, NSFW showcases Gawker Artists’ playful irreverence & ongoing exploration of the boundaries of corporate art programs. NSFW questions the meaning, role, & audience of sexually provocative art work, in the context of a corporate setting which commonly avoids works that are not safe.

Temporary States http://www.temporarystates.com

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Brooklyn based Temporary States will present an exhibition of artwork inspired by the concept of “art a child could do.”

Participating artists will choose a real child-made picture that they feel has aesthetic value. They will then interpret the child’s work, riffing on the piece or appropriating it as they see fit, understanding this to be a gesture honoring the unaffected creative capacity of the child. The artist must not use any mechanical means of reproduction for this “Fountain of Youth” project. Temporary States, is a conceptual art project formed as a response to the changing reality of the contemporary art world.

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Seth Mathurin http://www.sethmathurin.com

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The radiance of light through a piece of artwork continues to intrigue Seth Mathurin. Of most interest is how illumination enhances artwork, bringing a different dimension to its aesthetic properties. Mathurin breaks boundaries by adding his own innovative spin to classical stained glass. He combines the art and craft skills of traditional studio work with contemporary computer graphics by electronically rendering the texture & color of favrile glass, creating contemporary light installations that shine day and night. His unique light box constructions showcase one-of-a-kind work.

Miguel Paredes

http://www.miguelparedes.com

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Miguel Paredes is a Miami based painter, sculptor and multi-media artist creating work on steel, marble and on thin-screened light displays. He is a Hip-hop and Anime fuelled digital pioneer who integrates the spirit of urban America with a distinctly Latin American flavor. With his Los Niños series of paintings, Paredes has taken what he calls “the best he has ever created in his life”, his children, & made them the subjects for his revealing drama about the multiple expressions of “self” & identity in today’s global landscape.

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The outlaw offspring of the Leo Kesting Gallery, Murder Lounge offers the underground view to the alternative art environment that Fountain allows; it is the hard line to that cutting edge. The art is bold & fresh from the art collective known as “Team Murder”. Walls are hung salon style to amplify the power of the artists as they hang their works & work together. A place to view art in a cool & relaxed manner with no uptight pretenses. “Team Murder” welcomes you & yours to come bear witness to the madness & magic that is Murder Lounge. Located in the bowels of the barge - We want your eyes, your hearts & your minds.