The 2017 AD20/21 Show
April 9th, 2017
Boston, Massachusetts
One decade in and moving right along, Fusco & Four’s AD20/21 returned for its tenth year at the Cyclorama in Boston’s South End April 6-9. The show has become the showpiece of Boston Design Week, also a Fusco & Four venture, which draws greater attendance each time. The 12-day design week attracted 12,000 visitors to 81 events in and around the city and elicited requests for participation from more and more organizations. Similarly, more and more dealers are requesting exhibit space at AD20/21.
Gala preview visitors enjoyed the drinks, hors d’oeuvres, music, and presentations throughout the event, which benefited the Design Museum Boston.
The lecture “Floral Diplomacy: Bringing the White House Home” by Laura Dowling, chief floral designer in the Obama White House for six years, was heavily subscribed and well appreciated.
Tony Fusco (right) presented the tenth anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award to eminent Boston curator Jonathan L. Fairbanks.
This year’s Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Jonathan L. Fairbanks, curator extraordinaire and acclaimed artist, whose work is held by the National Portrait Gallery, the Boston Public Library, the Alhambra in Grenada, Spain, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), among other institutions. He established the American decorative arts and sculpture department at the MFA and was curator there for three decades. A curator at Winterthur for nine years, he is the director of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. In his remarks to well-wishers he observed that while Boston can boast many world-class museums and cultural organizations, the city itself is a museum—albeit one without walls.
For more on the show, go to (www.ad2021.com).
Towards North Station, a 36½" x 24½" acrylic on linen Boston scene by Massachusetts artist John Bonner was available from McGowan Fine Art, Concord, New Hampshire.
Iris Gallery, Boston and Aspen, Colorado, showed evocative archival pigment ink prints of Venice by Canadian artist David Burdeny (b. 1968). San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, (top) in a limited edition of four, 22" x 27", was priced at $2150; Grand Canal, Venice, 22" x 27", also a limited edition of four, was priced at $2500.
Oehme Graphics, Steamboat Springs, Colorado, publishes work by a number of Massachusetts artists. Two monotypes by Massachusetts artist John Thompson, Yampa II (left) and Yampa XX, each 28¾" x 23¼", were tagged $2000 apiece.
The Henry Moore (1898-1986) bronze Standing Man and Woman of 1981 is signed and numbered 3/9. The 7¼" high sculpture was available for $58,000 from Martha Richardson Fine Art, Boston.
Maine artist Margaret Gerding’s coastal scene Warmth of Day was tagged $6000 by Powers Gallery, Acton, Massachusetts.
Pascoe & Company, North Miami, Florida, represents Ardmore Ceramic Art, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, an artist community of more than 60 ceramic artists. The objects, anthropomorphic and brightly colored, are simply show-stopping. The zebra jug by Slindile Mchunu and Somandla Ntshalintshali, 18" x 13½", was priced at $4500.
Originally published in the June 2017 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2017 Maine Antique Digest
