A new dribble of press info from the Texas Contemporary Art Fair! Two things stick out as really new:
1.They’re “currently in the process of accepting applications from galleries and Texas-based artists for exclusive showcase in solo booths,” reviewed by fair co-directors Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause in collaboration with Kerry Inman of Inman Gallery and Federicka Hunter of Texas Gallery.
2.They also unveiled MRKTworks, an online and live auction of works donated by participating dealers benefiting Houston non-profits (100%!). Bidding begins two weeks prior to the fair on, 3:30 p.m. Monday, October 3 on the fair’s website, and continues in the meat world on-site at the fair until 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 22.
Participating galleries so far (in case some have been added since the last dribble):
ACME (Los Angeles)
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (San Francisco)
Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco)
Fredric Snitzer (Miami)
Inman Gallery (Houston)
Lennon Weinberg (New York City)
Moody Gallery (Houston)
Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco)
Samuel Freeman (Santa Monica)
Sicardi Gallery (Houston)
Texas Gallery (Houston)
Wade Wilson Art (Houston)
Host committee members so far:
Carlos Bacino
Clare Casademont
Jereann Chaney
Susie and Sanford Criner
Fairfax Dorn
Marita and JB Fairbanks
William Goldberg
Melissa Grobmyer
Janet Hobby
Sissy and Denny Kempner
Julie Kinzelman
Dillon Kyle and Sam Lasseter
Virginia Lebermann
Marley Lott
Libbie Masterson
Kelie Mayfield
Leigh and Reggie Smith
Lea Weingarten