For us at PATRON, April is the best time of the year. Dallas’ Art Month highlights the wealth of artistic talent, culture and events that Dallas has to offer, and crowned by the Dallas Art Fair. The Fair gives Dallasites to explore the best that Dallas galleries have to offer, as well as, national and international galleries. The Fair, co-founded by John Sughrue and Chris Byrne has built itself out of the ground to become one of the nations largest fairs in the nation. DAF survived the pandemic and a sense of normalcy is beginning to emerge like flowers in spring. “We are so excited to have an incredible line up of galleries this edition. The acquisition fund guarantees that galleries bring the highest caliber of work for both the museums and collectors,” Kelly Cornell Executive Director of Dallas Art Fair. Cornell continues, “We continue to provide a wide range of work from emerging to established artists of the highest quality.” Last week, we highlighted a few galleries participating in the fair, and we’re back to shine a light on a few more of our favorites before the Fair officially kicks off tomorrow night for the VIP Preview.
Nino Mier Gallery:
Nino Mier Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on the historic Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. With spaces in Los Angeles, Marfa, and Brussels, the gallery maintains a comprehensive and cohesive roster of emerging and prominent artists. While predominantly focused on painting, the gallery also shows a distinctive program of sculpture and photography.
In 2015, Nino Mier Gallery was established in a 500-square-foot space at 1107 Greenacre Avenue in West Hollywood. With a desire to bring an international program to Los Angeles and initially focused on the Rhineland region, Mier’s place of origin, the gallery opened with a young German painter, Jan-Ole Schiemann. The Rhineland, not unlike Los Angeles, has a rich history of prestigious art schools, and both places attract artists for a myriad of reasons to live, work and collaborate together.
Kasmin Gallery:
Founded by Paul Kasmin (1960–2020) in SoHo in 1989, Kasmin cultivates a rigorous exhibition program that places historic figures of Post-War art in dialogue with the evolving practice of established and emerging artists working today. For over 30 years, the gallery has nurtured the careers of eminent modern and contemporary artists including Tina Barney, Walton Ford, James Nares, Roxy Paine, Elliott Puckette, Mark Ryden, Bosco Sodi, and Bernar Venet, among many others, and put on the first-ever U.S. gallery shows of artists including Les Lalanne. Kasmin was among the first galleries to move to Chelsea in 2000 and continues to expand its program to include more artists and estates, now encompassing three gallery spaces anchored in the heart of the Chelsea Arts District at 10th Avenue and 27th Street.
In addition to supporting contemporary artists, Kasmin leads the field in advocating for the legacy of artist estates, currently representing some of the most influential artists of the 20th century, including Constantin Brancusi, William N. Copley, Stuart Davis, Max Ernst, Barry Flanagan, Jane Freilicher, Robert Indiana, Lee Krasner, and Robert Motherwell.
Beatriz Esguerra Art:
Since opening in 2000, Beatriz Esguerra Art has promoted selected Colombian artists locally and internationally. The gallery is committed to fostering the careers of its represented artists, from emerging to established, through carefully curated projects, exhibitions, publications, art fair participation in the US and Latin America, and joint ventures with American galleries.
Over The Influence:
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Over the Influence was founded in Hong Kong in 2015 and expanded to Los Angeles in 2018. The gallery represents an international roster of emerging and established artists working across different mediums and disciplines, and provides them with global opportunities through fairs, special projects, and overseas exposure. Over the Influence supports artists and the infrastructure of artists where they are living and working while offering global opportunities through the various gallery locations and special projects.
Erin Cluley Gallery:
Erin Cluley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery exhibiting emerging and mid-career artists based in Dallas and the East Coast of the United States. The gallery presents a provocative program of artists working in both traditional and alternative forms including painting, sculpture, new media, photography, sculptural installation and public intervention.
In conjunction with mounting exhibitions inside the gallery space, Erin Cluley Gallery will maintain a focus on presenting public projects conceptualized by the gallery’s artists. Negotiating projects on the artists’ behalf, the gallery will make this an ongoing part of the exhibition program and an impactful contribution to public art in Dallas.
Erin Cluley served as the Director of Exhibitions at Dallas Contemporary from 2009 – 2014 where she worked on the production of exhibitions by Zoe Crosher, Gabriel Dawe, K8 Hardy, Georg Herold, Aaron Parazette, Richard Phillips, John Pomara, Rob Pruitt, Jennifer Rubell, Julian Schnabel, Juergen Teller, Walter Van Beirendonck, Inez & Vinoodh, Erwin Wurm and others. Erin Cluley also worked with artists and their crews producing murals by Shepard Fairey, Soner, JMR, Sourgrapes, Faile, Michael Sieben and JR.
galerie frank elbaz:
galerie frank elbaz opened in 2002 in the district of Le Marais, Paris. The gallery celebrates French artists by presenting the work of Davide Balula, Bernard Piffaretti, and others. Simultaneously, it offers insight into the American scene, exhibiting artists such as Ja’Tovia Gary, Sheila Hicks, William Leavitt, Ari Marcopoulos, Kaz Oshiro, Mungo Thomson, and Blair Thurman. The European scene is also explored with artist Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili. Over the years, the gallery has focused on rediscovering historical artists including Wallace Berman, Jay DeFeo, Dmitri Prigov, as well as artists from the Zagreb conceptual scene, such as the Gorgona Group (Julije Knifer, Mangelos), Tomislav Gotovac, and Mladen Stilinovic. The gallery regularly invites curators and artists to propose exhibitions projects. It participates in many international art fairs such as Frieze Art Fair (New York), Art Basel (Basel), Fiac (Paris) and Art Basel Miami Beach (Miami).
Martha’s Contemporary:
Martha’s Contemporary, an art gallery based in Austin, Texas, specializes in working with artists early in their careers. Our aim is to foster an inclusive and diverse ecosystem for artists and collaborators spanning all media. Martha’s, founded by Ricky Morales and Meredith Williams, started in a small project space in East Austin in 2018 and recently moved into a 1,500 square foot exhibition space in the Hyde Park neighborhood of North Austin. Here the gallery has hosted solo exhibitions from our core program artists, as well as community projects such as John Lewis’s Protect Our Vote Initiative. While collaborating closely with our Austin and Texas-based artists, we have also brought in talent from around the country to create a national art scene that benefits the Austin arts community.
Perrotin Gallery:
Emmanuel Perrotin founded his first gallery in 1990 at the age of twenty-one. He has worked closely with his roster of artists, some for more than twenty-five years, to help fulfill their ambitious projects. Perrotin has galleries in Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai, totaling approximately 7,500 square meters (80,500 square feet) of exhibition space across its ten locations.
The gallery has expanded its mission in recent years, most notably through the production of thoughtful editorial content, such as podcast and video, as well as developing a programmatic calendar, which includes panel discussions, education workshops for children, and concerts. The gallery also publishes catalogues, editions, and goodies, available in its bookstores.
Van Doren Waxter Gallery:
Van Doren Waxter presents a cross generational program reflecting the shared vision of John Van Doren, Dorsey Waxter, and Elizabeth Sadeghi. It brings together foundations and estates with a roster of emerging and international artists specializing in artists working from the post WW II era to the present with an emphasis on American Abstraction. The gallery represents the James Brooks Foundation, the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, the Tom Fairs Estate, the Harvey Quaytman Trust, and the Hedda Sterne Foundation. Contemporary artists include Caetano de Almeida, Marsha Cottrell, TM Davy, Jeronimo Elespe, Volker Hüller, Brian Rochefort, Jackie Saccoccio and Daisy Youngblood. Additionally, the gallery handles secondary market work specializing in John Chamberlain, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, Ellsworth Kelly, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and Anne Truitt, among others. The combined program positions contemporary artists who are actively creating new work within the context of historical artists.
Galerie Droste:
Galerie Droste is a contemporary art gallery in Düsseldorf and Paris. The focus of the program is on internationally emerging and established artists, most of whom practice painting and sculpture. The representation of the younger generation of artists, with academic and non-academic backgrounds, creates an exciting diversity in the exhibition prospectus without classifying. The program is intended to open up new perspectives, to work out points of mutual contact and to illustrate cultural and social trends.