The PhotoPhore is proud to be partner of VOLTA NY, the premiere art fair for emerging international art within primarily solo projects, which returns to PIER 90 in Hell’s Kitchen, New York City, from March 02 – 06, 2016. The fair opens in previews for the first time ever on Wednesday, March 02, immediately following previews the same day at adjacent affiliate fair The Armory Show at Piers 94 and 92.
In its most diverse edition yet since its 2008 founding stateside, VOLTA NY welcomes 100 galleries, not-for-profits, and artist-run spaces from 50 cities across four continents, together presenting a dynamic survey of innovative contemporary talent by artists from 43 nations.
Kameelah Janan Rasheed activates the elevated walkway connecting VOLTA NY with Pier 92: The Armory Show – Modern with her ongoing series “HOW TO SUFFER POLITELY (and Other Etiquette)”, a rallying text-based prospectus of respectability politics confronting the ongoing climate of social oppression within the United States and abroad.
Rasheed is sponsored by MoCADA (Brooklyn), a hub for contemporary African Diasporan arts and a first-time VOLTA exhibitor. Additionally, Clocktower Productions, New York’s oldest alternative art project, interviews fair artists and participants for their acclaimed Clocktower Radio series.
VOLTA NY debuts its Video Wall programming, a daily rotation of single-channel works screened on a 30-foot wall at front of the fair. Finally, New York-based multidisciplinary artist Derrick Adams inaugurates the fair’s Curated Section series with his project “Something I Can Feel”.
VOLTA was founded in Basel in 2005 by dealers Kavi Gupta (Chicago), Friedrich Loock (Berlin), and Ulrich Voges (Frankfurt). VOLTA12 returns to Markthalle in Basel and coincides with Basel Art Week from June 13 – 18, 2016.
VOLTA NY
02 – 06.03.2016
Natalia Ossef, Harvest, 2015
Shoplifter / Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Nebula II, 2016
Kristen Schiele, Fake Euro, 2016
Mário Macilau, Stairs of Shadows (from Growing in Darkness), 2015
Scherezade Garcia, Las Terrenas I, 2015
Myra Greene, Untitled (Ref. #10) (from Character Recognition), 2006-7
Tomoko Takagi, Beppu 23, 2015
All images courtesy of VOLTA. Photos by David Willems
Discover: ny.voltashow.com
