Forrestall Family's Life in Art: March 2011

Friday, March 11, 2011

Dad's 75th Birthday today

Dad celebrated his birthday today by painting and having a party with his family.

Tom in Karsdale, Nova Scotia. He is standing near the end of a rainbow.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Frank Forrestall's short film of his and dad's adventure in Israel in late 2010.

For six weeks my dad, Tom Forrestall had an amazing adventure traveling all over Israel with my brother Frank. Along the way Frank photographed and filmed their journey from the Dead Sea , north to the Golan Heights. Back in Nova Scotia, Frank created this beautiful film of their trio together, giving us all a window into their fascinating trip. Robinson Kinsman Gallery, who represent dad in Toronto, posted it on their website.

http://www.kinsmanrobinson.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=4&ShowVideo=TRUE

--Monica Forrestall

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tom Forrestall's painting hangs at The Armory show

Tom Forrestall's painting of a figure in a landscape scene on the far right.

Dad's egg tempera painting was chosen as one of the pieces to be exhibited in the Contemporary Canadian Art show in The Art Dealer's Association of Canada booth at Pier 94 at The Armory 2011. The painting was loaned by his Toronto gallery Robinson Kinsman, who had this painting in a one- person show of dad's a few months back.

I visited the booth on the very busy Saturday afternoon to see the painting installed and take some photos of dad's beautiful painting. The imagery in this egg tempera painting is a quiet scene of downtown Dartmouth. Here are some shots of the booth (above).

Close-up of the painting.

Max taking an upclose look at his
grandfather's painting in the booth.

Here's an overview shot of part of the Armory from the stairwell that leads to the modern wing on Pier 92. This are is mainly contemporary European and South American galleries.

The Armory show as seen from stairwell leading to Pier 92.

--Monica Forrestall

Saturday, March 5, 2011

The Kids are Alright: NYC's newest art fair The Dependent at The Sheraton put the fun back into fairs.

Call it old school, if you will, but the history of The Armory began as an inexpensive art fair in the Gramercy Hotel (then called The Gramercy International Art Fair) in 1994. It was organized by four hip young art dealers who couldn't get into the established fairs; Colin De Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris.

Last night, Swiffer-looking "yarn art pieces" wandered the halls of the twelfth and fourteenth floors, with one room devoted to a performance of hanging out, drinking beer and watching art videos. Affordable for all the invited and fun, the newest NYC art fair, The Dependent was a one-night wonder where participants had an hour to set up their rooms and where, appropriately, many participants rolled their art in, in suitcases.

At KS Art in room 1407, gallery director Kerry Schuss showed Freddie Brice paintings
of watches and Ray Hamilton outline watercolors.

It took over two floors of The Sheraton Hotel at 160 West 25th Street for one afternoon and evening, Friday, March 4th. Some galleries rooms looked like artist club houses, others fitted up the room with items that "made sense" like Polly Apfelbaum's tie dye bedding (below) and artful pillows and curtains in Cleopatra's room #1408. Then there was all the crazy, creative ways artists installed art in the bathrooms. Plastic flowers stuffed into one, sculptures in shower stalls next to the drain---tubs filled with ice and beer was everywhere. The lines to get in were long, 45-minutes we were told by someone who made it up.