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Alicia DeBrincat's After Bruegel's Beekeepers at Dream Dowtown
upload as many as they want. As the company has added artists and venues, they've added three employees (includ- ing an art curator) and an intern to help facilitate further growth. T eir plan is working. In Dream Downtown, Indiewalls
currently has art in the lobby (mixed media and paper work by Joseph Grazi and Allan Hasty), the rooſt op bar (mixed media works by street artist AVONE) and in the presidential suite (photorealist paintings by LJ Lindhurst); and they have art in 19 other venues throughout Manhattan.
The Prowler: 17x30x14": steel relief No Fish: 26x31x5": painted steel relief
"IT'S A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO START A COLLECTION WHILE
AVOIDING GOING TO IKEA AND BUYING A MASS-PRODUCED PRINT.
" As I toured the bar with Indiewalls' founders, I under-
stood the signifi cance of seeing these works presented in non-gallery spaces; looking at AVONE's prints—which were four variations of a model in a tie—it is clear that there's a palpable realness to art when viewed in such environments. At a place like Dream Downtown, there's an instant cred- ibility lent to such images. Additionally, with the decision to rotate their installations every three to six months, In- diewalls is wisely capitalizing on an unfl inching contempo- rary belief: T at there is nothing as exciting as the new. Indiewalls is still a young business, but if there's any
"The Prowler looking for Fish and there being No Fish"
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marker of real success in New York, it's when you can do business with one man in particular: Next up for the gang is the Presidential Penthouse at the Trump SoHo. For more information, visit Indiewalls.com. ABN
WINTER 2012
