Whitehot Magazine
"The Best Art In The World"
by Paul Laster
The second edition of artMRKT Hamptons opened last night to a lively crowd of summering art enthusiasts on the grounds of theBridgehampton Historical Society in the heart of the Hamptons. More than 40 exhibitors from across the United States presented a wide range of colorful contemporary art in a variety of mediums.
“We launched artMRKT Hamptons in July of last year,” managing partner Max Fishko, who co-founded the fair with Jeffrey Wainhause in 2011, told us at the opening. artMRKT Productions has since expanded to three other locations, with artMRKT San Francisco, Texas Contemporary, and Miami Projects premiering this year. “We try to tailor each fair to its particular market,” Fishko added, “and we listen to the dealers and collectors to figure out what we should be doing.”
“We’re really happy with the galleries we brought out to artMRKT Hamptons this time,” concluded Fishko. “We’ve increased the quotient of New York galleries with a strong showing from Chelsea and the Lower East Side and people are responding to it. We’re bringing some of the best elements of Manhattan to the Hamptons.”
artMRKT Hamptons continues through July 22, 2012. WM
Manish Vora and Kyle DeWoody
Eric Firestone
Max Fishko and Jeffery Wainhause
Mindy Solomon
Carli and Sloan Schaffer
Karen Boltax
Stephanie Hirsch and Michael Lyons Wier
Ultra Violet
Shira Adler and Allegra LaViola
Mel Dogan and Lisa de Simone
Eva Faye and Abby Terkuhle
Jay Lehman and Sally Morgan
Kelly Freeman, Anneliis Beadnell and Penny Pilkington
Gary Krimershmoys and Julie Keyes
Charles McGill
Daniel Weiner and Tamara Zahaykevich
Kathryn Markel and Katherine Mulherin
Dennis Christie and Ken Tyburski
Greg Haberny
Kevin Berlin and Tessa Knox
Paul Laster is a writer, editor, curator, artist and lecturer. He’s a contributing editor at ArtAsiaPacific and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art and writer for Time Out New York, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Galerie Magazine, Sculpture, Art & Object, Cultured, Architectural Digest, Garage, Surface, Ocula, Observer, ArtPulse, Conceptual Fine Arts and Glasstire. He was the founding editor of Artkrush, started The Daily Beast’s art section, and was art editor of Russell Simmons’ OneWorld Magazine, as well as a curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, now MoMA PS1.
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