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Feature | Ceramics Dominate the First Object + Things Fair

Feature | Ceramics Dominate the First Object + Things Fair

NEW YORK––Object & Thing kicked off its inaugural exhibition last month in Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg May 3 – 5. The installation exhibited more than 200 design objects and things (that’s the whole deal, right?) from more than 30 exhibitors, but the booth-less art fair strived to upend the traditional art fair. Instead, the creative director opted for 15 so-called “islands” throughout the the industrial 99 Scott Avenue complex. As artnet reports, each island showcased objects from multiple exhibitors, and even gallery submissions were divvied among the groupings.

Abby Bangser, Object & Thing’s founder and creative director, told artnet News that this installation concept arose out of a desire to “erase the hierarchy between art and design,” as well as any “preconceived notion about the works” that would arise from separation of any kind.

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Installation view
Left: Ian McDonald, Shade Vessel (Grey), Patrick Parrish Gallery; Middle: Anton Alvarez, 106181800, Salon 94 Design; Right: Ian McDonald, Shade Vessel, Patrick Parrish Gallery
Left: Rick Dillingham, Gas can vessel, Shiprock Santa Fe; Middle: Mineo Mizuno, Untitled, Reform; Right: Anton Alvarez, 2905181156, Salon 94 Design
Left: Ruby Neri, Small Woman, David Kordansky Gallery; Middle: Peter Shire, Rock House Bauhaus Kenbishi, Kayne Griffin Corcoran; Right: Aneta Regel, Elka, Jason Jacques
Left: Bonnet, Table lamp, Magen H Gallery; Middle: Maggie Wells, Head, de Vera; Right: Martin Creed, Work No. 1650 Trophy, Hauser & Wirth

Left: Tom Sachs, The Twelfth Night, Salon 94; Middle: Thaddeus Wolfe, Vessel, R & Company; Right: Ann Agee, Untitled (Garniture Drawing 3, P.P.O.W
Left: Morten Løbner Espersen, Purple and Grey Horror, Jason Jacques; Middle: Evan Holloway, #164, David Kordansky Gallery; Right: Takuro Kuwata, Tea Bowl, Salon 94
Left: John Souter, Hang Tough, Jason Jacques; Middle: Beate Kuhn, Tree, Jason Jacques; Right: Anne Marie Laureys, Scaramouche, Jason Jacques

These works are no longer for sale. Please be in touch with Object & Thing for further information.

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Whitney Jones

Whitney Jones is a journalist and contemporary dancer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Driven by the inherent social, economic, and political breadth of physical expression, Whitney enjoys work that challenges traditional notions of line, form, audience, and performer.

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