Progress

After 4 months of negotiating and working VFA

opens our doors

VFA presents Bobby Grossman

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New Works

VFA works hard to find the right new and

exciting works for your collection.

VFA

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Curated by Gary Santoro and Bill Pugsley.

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We started with the floors, which took over a week to grind and dye to achieve the finished product. The end result was a beautiful gold polished floor that

We are just thrilled with. We have received many

compliments over the last few months.

Chuck the Hammer started out by constructing

an office and storage room. The dust almost

killed our A/C unit but it survived and we scolded

Chuck before he left for an alcohol infused – work related gambling trip. When he returned the

storage unit was built in the back and the walls

painted. We now started to bring art into the gallery

and began to hang the walls.

In the meantime, we needed desks and chairs

and sofas or settees. Check out the Steelcase settees we decided on. On November 15th we

finally opened our doors less than 2 months after taking over the space. Vertu is now open for

business

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Photographs by Bobby Grossman

Coming to VFA in February 2012

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Andy with Camera 1977

Jean Michel Basquiat 1979 Debbie Harry 1977

David Byrne – Talking Heads Jean – Michel Basquiat and Glenn O’Brien from T.V. Party 1980

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Bobby Grossman arrived on the New York scene in the mid-seventies with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His first job was assisting Richard Bernstein, the artist known for his covers of Andy Warhol's Interview. Bernstein's studio was at the Chelsea Hotel, ground zero for the punk explosion, and the hotel became Grossman's home. In addition to assisting, Grossman worked as a magazine illustrator, but he became more interested in photographing the scenes he encountered at the Chelsea, at Warhol's Factory, and C.B.G.B.'s. His ability to get inside scenes and befriend his subjects, and his punky photographic

style made his pictures popular with a host of publications - Rolling Stone, Interview, Artforum, The New York Times, Soho Weekly News, The Village Voice and many more. Clients as diverse as MTV and Vogue picked up his photos. He also created promotional pictures for his artist friends, including Blondie, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, The Ramones, Robert Fripp and The Talking Heads (for whom he shot the cover of Psycho Killer.)

Grossman was on the scene at the punk clubs and Glenn O' Brien's TV Party, the weekly cable show David Letterman called "The greatest show ever" where he was the official photographer. In 1981, Diego Cortez at P.S. 1 Institute featured Grossman in the seminal “New York/New Wave” exhibition curated for the Arts and Colab's legendary "Time Square Show." Since then he has exhibited his work in museums and galleries around the world. In 1994, he exhibited in "Beat Art” at the Grey Gallery at New York University.

In 1996-1997 Bobby Grossman and Roberta Bayley curated the traveling photo exhibition "The Cool and the Crazy - Images of Punk” which included over 40 photographers including Robert Mapplethorpe, Gerard Malanga and Andy Warhol.

In 2000, Grossman collaborated on the book "New York Beat" that documents the film "Downtown 81", starring Jean-Michel Basquiat. (Grossman made a cameo appearance in that film.)

His photographs have appeared in numerous biographies, including those of Andy Warhol, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed, Blondie and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Recently his photographs illustrated the annual report of the Warhol Foundation, and the catalogs of the "East Village USA" show at The New Museum and "Basquiat" at The Brooklyn Museum. His photos are featured in the documentary film "TV Party" which debuted at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, and in the TV Party DVD series released by Brink Films.

In 2006-2009 Grossman was part of the group exhibition - "Bande a part: New York Underground 60’s 70’s 80’s." The show sponsored by Anges b. opened in Paris and then traveled to London, Los Angeles, Portland, Tokyo, Hong Kong and NYC. Grossman's "Andy Warhol Corn Flakes" photograph was used as a billboard overlooking Beverly Hills to promote the exhibition. The catalog/book for "Bande a part" is available in the United States by Gingko Press.

He is currently living in Palm Beach, Florida and working on a book of his photographs.

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Anthony Frost

Yellow Buzz Ohio

Vertu Fine Art

Date 2011

Medium screenprint with woodblock

Edition size 35

Sheet size 61.5 X 37 in.

Price $4000

Alex Katz

Kym

Vertu Fine Art

Date 2011

Medium woodcut/woodblock/ukiyo-escreenprintlithograph

Edition size 55

Sheet size 27 X 32 1/2 in.

Price $7500

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Alex Katz

Magrit Smiles

Vertu Fine Art

Date 1994

Medium Color aquatint

Edition size 40

Image size 48 x 36 in.

Sheet size 48 x 36 in.

Price $7500

Tom Wesselmann

Cut Out Nude

Vertu Fine Art

Date 1965

Medium silkscreen

Edition size 200

Image size 20 x 24 in.

Price $14,000

This work is a blown formed silkscreen on plastic, mounted behind board. The work was done for the 11 pop artists portfolio. Signed and numbered on the board.

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Chuck Close

Lyle

Vertu Fine Art

Date 2003

Medium Silkscreen printed in 149 colors

Edition size 80

Sheet size 65-1/2 X 53-7/8 inches

Price $35000

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Roy Lichtenstein

Portrait With Still Life

Vertu Fine Art

Date 1974

Medium lithograph and screenprint

Edition size 100

Sheet size 47-1/4 X 37-1/2 inches

Price $28,000