ART & DESIGN

A First Look at the Women Artists of the Armory Show 2016

by Fan Zhong

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Women are making their mark at The Armory Show in New York. Before the VIP opening on Wednesday, a preview of the most striking booths at the fair.

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Sylvie Fleury, at Galerie Thaddeus Ropac And we have lift-off, with one of the Swiss artist’s sexy, shiny objets. It’s a little phallic, and a lot pink — the emasculation is not a coincidence.

Sylvie Fleury. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.

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Zoë Paul at The Breeder Few could take an old refrigerator grill and bead it in so painterly a manner as this young British artist can. Crafting made cool, literally.

Zoe Paul, “Hand Sign C,” 2015. Courtesy The Breeder, Athens.

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Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze at Mariane Ibrahim Born in Nigeria, raised in the U.K., and now based in New York, Amanze’s dreamy drawings, which are part of the Armory Focus section — which this year zeroes in on artists with African roots — are as fluently free-floating as the artist herself.

Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze, “I sent you to survey the world, and when you did not return, I came,” 2016. Courtesy Mariane Ibrahim gallery.

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Sigalet Landau at Hezi Cohen The Israeli artist took black bridal gowns and dunked them in her native Dead Sea until they turned white. Even a Jewish mother might agree that the humor is a little dark, yes?

Sigalit Landau in collaboration with Yotam From, “Salt-Crystal Bridal Gown III” and “Salt-Crystal Bridal Gown VI,” 2014. Photo by Yotam From. Courtesy Hezi Cohen.

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Esther Stocker at Alberta Pane. The Armory is cavernous enough to make you lose your bearings. Maybe save the Vienna-based painter’s geometric environments, which take Op Art to a trippier level, after you’ve found them first.

Esther Stocker, Installation view, “Dirty Geometry,” 2011. Copyright Takeshi Sugiura. Courtesy Alberta Pane Gallery.

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Tracey Emin at Lorcan O’Neill If Cosmo ever does an Art Issue, we have your artist collaborator.

Tracey Emin, “The more of you the more I love you,” 2015. Courtesy Galleria Lorcan O’Neil

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Cecilia Edefalk at Stene Projects F—k the self portrait, the Swedish artist is telling you.

Cecilia Edefalk, “Selfportrait,” 1993/2004. Courtesy Stene Projects Stockholm .

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Laura Aldridge at Koppe Astner Just the thing to soften up the cold, hard edges of any art fair, courtesy of this Glasgow-based artist.

Laura Aldridge, Courtesy Koppe Astner.

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Cindy Sherman at Vivian Horan Let’s go out with one of Sherman’s groundbreaking film stills, featuring herself as ye Old Hollywood clichés — bombshell, career girl, housewife, vamp, and so on. How much has really changed since the ’70s?