As summer comes to an end and the art world gears up for business, New York’s Armory Week returns to usher in the busy fall season. Named after the heavy-hitting art fair Armory Show, the week will also see the opening of two other art fairs: Independent 20th Century and Art on Paper.
To celebrate the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary and its move from the Lower East Side to Tribeca, Cristin Tierney is presenting Fifteen, an eclectic group show of artists it has shown and worked with over the years. The diverse range of works on view encompasses paintings, video installations, and sculptures by artists including Joan Linder, Dread Scott, and Judy Pfaff. In line with the gallery’s mission of supporting experimentation, collaboration, and community, the works in the show also include performance, an inherently challenging medium for commercial galleries.
One such piece, Tim Youd’s 100 Novels Project (2012–ongoing), will take place over the course of the exhibition. The project sees Youd retype novels in locations central to the stories (he began with Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). For Fifteen, Youd is on his 85th novel, retyping Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney’s ode to the yuppie party scene of New York in the 1980s, typified by the gallery’s new surroundings of Tribeca.
