Private Skies #2

NEW YORK
Now recognized as the world capital of contemporary art by virtue of
record sales and dazzlingly diverse artistic hubs, New York never sleeps.
Instead, beneath her vast pinions, she harbors a brood of artists already
gaining notoriety and spreading their own wings to fly.
Reconnue aujourd’hui comme la capitale mondiale de l’art contemporain
au niveau des ventes record et de la diversité de ses foyers artistiques, New
York ne dort jamais. Sous ses ailes germent de nouvelles graines d’artistes
dont certains commencent à faire parler d’eux.
© The artists and kumsthaus Bregenz
NEW YORK, PÉPINIÈRE
D ARTISTES ÉMERGENTS
in the early 2000s, a generation of emerging artists
had already begun popping up in the brownfields
of Chelsea, the mecca of New York underground
art. Edla Cusik landed her first solo exhibition at
the Asly Gallery on 28th Street. A little further
afield, in SoHo, young Cecily Brown exhibited her
newest energetic canvases heavily tinged with
eroticism. Painting was all the rage. The young
upstarts had eyebrows raising and tongues
wagging. Jessica Craig-Martin, John Currin, Will Cotton, Inka
Essenhigh, Matthew Ritchie, and Lisa Ruyter splashed downtown
Wade Guyton – Photo Markus Trette
Manhattan with their lyrical, colorful exuberance. Famed gallery
owner Mary Boone had the chutzpah to exhibit their early
manifestations of pictorial insolence.
Thirteen years later, in its new location in Pantin, France, Galerie
Thaddaeus Ropac cooked up a fascinating exhibit, Empire State.
New York Art Now, covering what the New York scene saw as
promising artists beyond Jeff Koons and other stars long since
crowned sacred. Amidst the myriad worlds of these budding
creators, visitors had the opportunity to discover the
phantasmagorical world of Nate Lowman, a young bad-boy artist
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