The Images Present, the longest-running honest devoted particularly to the medium, will mark its forty third version in April 2024 with a return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, organisers say. Placed on by the Affiliation of Worldwide Images Artwork Sellers (Aipad), the honest is open for functions solely from member galleries.
“The Park Avenue Armory has at all times been the favorite venue of our members, collectors and curators,” Aipad govt director Lydia Melamed Johnson mentioned in a press release, including that the organisation has “advanced post-Covid with a renewed sense of optimism and vitality and a burgeoning membership of younger galleries providing new views on the medium”.
The Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan’s Higher East Aspect will host Aipad’s honest, The Images Present, in 2024 Photograph by James Ewing, courtesy of Park Avenue Armory
The honest beforehand occurred on the Park Avenue Armory on 67th Avenue and Park Avenue from 2006 to 2016. The occasion moved to Pier 94 in Hell’s Kitchen in 2017, the place it was held till 2019. After the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the honest was held at Center415 in Midtown Manhattan in 2022 and 2023. Final yr, the Images Present welcomed 44 galleries to the honest.
Aipad’s new president, Martijn van Pieterson, says the expansive Park Avenue Armory will give the honest extra space for galleries to participate. Aipad says between 70 and 80 galleries will have the ability to take part in subsequent yr’s version, just like the exhibitor numbers of different festivals held on the Park Avenue Armory, similar to Tefaf New York and the Artwork Sellers Affiliation of America’s honest, The Artwork Present.
Initially constructed as a headquarters for a militia regiment made up of many members of New York’s social elite through the American Civil Conflict, the sprawling Gothic Revival constructing is now leased to the non-profit arts organisation Park Avenue Armory Conservancy, which works to assist artwork, music and performances within the Armory’s 55,000-square-foot drill corridor and historic Gilded Age rooms.
