SOFA WEST This Weekend August 4-7

Don't Miss SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2011, this weekend August 4-7 at Santa Fe Convention Center 12 Noon to 6pm Daily

Long heralded as the nation's premier fairs for outstanding contemporary art and design in New York and Chicago, SOFA's 3rd annual western edition returns to the Santa Fe Convention Center August 4-7. The much-anticipated International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair, SOFA WEST: Santa Fe 2011 will feature 35 exhibitors, up in dealer participation from last year's 28. Show hours each day at the convention center are 12 Noon to 6 PM.

An exciting addition to SOFA WEST this year is a spotlight presentation of The Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art. Mark Lyman, Founder/Director of SOFA and President of Chicago-based The Art Fair Company say, "After a successful inaugural partnership of SOFA and Chicago's respected Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art at SOFA CHICAGO last fall, we are delighted to work together again on SOFA WEST."

It is fitting that three seminal Chicago galleries--Carl Hammer Gallery, Russell Bowman Art Advisory and Judy. A Saslow Gallery--lead the way for The Intuit Show at SOFA WEST, representing many masters of outsider and folk art. The respected Ames Gallery of Berkeley, CA also joins the mix.

Lyman reports exciting new additions to SOFA WEST's dealer lineup including Flow Gallery and ZeST Contemporary Gallery, both of London (UK); Douglas Dawson (Chicago) specialist in historic, antique and contemporary art from Africa, Asia, and the Americas; fine art dealers 222 Shelby Street Gallery and Eight Modern (both of Santa Fe); Darrell Bell Gallery (Saskatoon, Canada) presenting contemporary Canadian sculpture and furniture; Jerry Szor Contemporary Jewelry (Dallas), adding to the contemporary studio art jewelry mix at the fair; and fine art, limited-editions
publisher, Landfall Press (Santa Fe). Contemporary Asian art promises to be well represented by dealers Joan B. Mirviss Ltd. (New York), TAI Gallery (Santa Fe), and Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd. (New York).

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