Contemporary Art Gallery opened in 1984 in the East Village. By way of SoHo 1988-98 the gallery is located in Chelsea, NYC. Currently looking in archives for treasure for you! www.postmastersart.comTumblr (3.0; @postmastersgallery)http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/458fe35b5f9237780ab9b32c915f729f/tumblr_molkp6rnAq1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Postmasters Tribeca. </p> <p>Installation by Tamas Banovich.</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/53284939061http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/53284939061Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:17 -0400renovationbuildingdemolisiondemoPostmastersgallerytribecanew spacenycNew York CityTamas Banovichinstallationnews<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c3d62121e8accb8965763f6569674e5f/tumblr_mocmw6h3cn1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/> David Diao exhibition at the Arts Club of Chicago in 1979<br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/224ff3fe0000b5fb373a2efe9f7b8a16/tumblr_mocmw6h3cn1rjuyafo2_500.jpg"/><br/> Miniatures of the 70s David Diao paintings at Postmasters Gallery exhibition in 2013<br/><br/> <p>*Archive Treasures*</p> <p>David Diao exhibition at the Arts Club of Chicago in 1979 <br/>you can see in the front David Diao’s <em>Odd Man Out, </em>1974, 90 x 84 inches (228 x 213 cm) </p> <p>Miniatures of the paintings at Postmasters Gallery exhibition in 2013</p> <p>Go here for more info: <a href="http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/diao13/diao13direct.html">http://www.postmastersart.com/archive/diao13/diao13direct.html</a></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/52961478779http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/52961478779Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:31:03 -0400David DiaoarchivearchivestreasuresPostmasters GalleryartcontemporaryexhibitionArts ClubChicagoNYCminiatures<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b74c0177442bb0af4b6523fa57dd2652/tumblr_moclcgnoeY1rjuyafo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>*Archive Treasures*</p> <p><strong>DAVID DIAO<br/>Cardinal Rule: Beware of False Friends<br/></strong>1988<strong> <br/></strong>acrylic on canvas<br/>89 x 111 inches</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/52889706785http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/52889706785Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:09:00 -040019881980scontemporary artartpaintingDavid DiaoPostmasters Galleryacryliccanvasarchivetreasuresnycartworld<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/166a2e28a7f7ea154dbcffddcab82c47/tumblr_mnmcp2eZFG1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">*ARCHIVE TREASURES*<br/><br/>Flashback to PARAVISION 1985:<br/></span></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">PETER HALLEY<br/>“Yellow Prison with Conduit”<br/>1985<br/>roll-a-tex, acrylic, day-glo acrylic on canvas<br/><span class="text_exposed_show">64 x 68 inches</span></span></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/51730122939http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/51730122939Thu, 30 May 2013 12:05:25 -0400peter halleyarchivePostmasters GalleryPostmastersparavisionday-gloacryliccanvas1985group showhalleytreasures<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/85f449b78b1618aae4111d0ac77d69f6/tumblr_mn62vxBvrJ1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Remember 1985?  </p> <p>Postmasters group show PARAVISION curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo showed many art stars of today…like JEFF KOONS…</p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">“New Hoover Delux Shampoo Polishers” 1980<br/>new Hoover Delux Shampoo Polishers, acrylic, fluorescent light<br/>56 x 25 x 14 inches</span></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/51014784800http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/51014784800Tue, 21 May 2013 17:11:57 -0400Postmasters Galleryarchivesarchive198580sgroup showcuratejeff koonshoovercontemporary artartinstallationauction recordacrylicfluorescentlightstricia collinsrichard milazzoparavisionart staravenue anycalphabet citynew york citypolisher<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/64f794aa11764c3c1f7f0537fa2e834b/tumblr_mmwv57zP6j1rjuyafo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e657847259a6c9a20aa9ee08495128df/tumblr_mmwv57zP6j1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong><em>*Treasures from the Archives*</em></strong></p> <p><strong>Tamas Banovich</strong> and <strong>Magda Sawon</strong> in 1985</p> <p>photographed by <strong>Perry Hoberman</strong></p> <p><em>(Its me Paulina posting the treasures)</em></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/50603119759http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/50603119759Thu, 16 May 2013 17:46:18 -04001985Postmasters GalleryMagda SawonTamas BanovichPerry HobermanArchivestreasures<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7b23b4d4db3ffbae85a4ff56dd164549/tumblr_mmwmf6uOIP1rjuyafo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div class="aboveUnitContent"> <div class="userContentWrapper"> <div class="_wk"><em><span class="userContent">*From the Archives*</span></em></div> <div class="_wk"><span class="userContent"><br/></span></div> <div class="_wk"><span class="userContent">First up today: <strong>Postmasters first logo </strong><br/>- designed by long time friend, artist<strong> Filip Pagowski</strong> (you know his work…he is  responsible for the Comme des Garcons PLAY evil heart logo)<br/><br/>Isn’t this precious?</span></div> <div><span class="userContent"><br/></span></div> </div> </div> <div class="photoUnit clearfix"> <div class="_53s uiScaledThumb photo photoWidth1"></div> </div></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/50590390988http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/50590390988Thu, 16 May 2013 14:37:00 -0400Filip PagowskidesignerlogodesignComme des GarconsPlay80s80s designarchivesPostmasters Gallery<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/28cd54882da058b86d19bb81778c1811/tumblr_ml3j5sOvEA1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guys and Dolls in Texas: </p> <p>April 12 - 14, 2013</p> <p><strong>SEVEN is at the Dallas Contemporary</strong><br/>161 Glass Street, Dallas, TX 75207</p> <p>with</p> <p><strong>Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG</strong></p> <p>and </p> <p><strong>Federico Solmi</strong></p> <p>more images to come later. see for yourself. </p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/47703433388http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/47703433388Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:03:27 -0400DallasTexasArt Faircontemporary arteva and franco mattesFederico Solmivideomovie posterSeven<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dde308286025e9045d13b88e44d8e9ea/tumblr_mkr4gbIpj21qdr6jto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blakegopnik.com/post/47138768574">blakegopnik</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>DAILY PIC: </strong>These three little paintings made recently by David Diao are miniature versions, about the size of a large art book, of huge abstract paintings that Diao originally produced in the later 1970s. They are now on view at Postmasters gallery in New York, in <a href="http://www.postmastersart.com/" title="David Diao at Postmasters">the last show</a> in its longtime Chelsea space, from which dealers Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich have been chased by the area’s rent inflation (proving that Chelsea’s rising tide – financially speaking – has been sinking some of its very best boats, even when Sandy couldn’t). Diao talks about them as related to Marcel Duchamp’s “Boite en Valise”, the Frenchman’s miniaturized anthology of his own works. But I find that this project brings Diao much closer to Sherrie Levine’s appropriation: By copying himself, in a new scale, at a new date, Diao has utterly changed the meaning of the works he made earlier: They aren’t serious studies in form, so much as wry, even wistful comments on art and decoration and the demise of painting’s grand pretentions.</p> <p><em><span>For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit <a href="http://blakegopnik.com/archive">blakegopnik.com/archive</a>. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/art-and-photography" title="Art Beast">thedailybeast.com</a>, and on that site’s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/art.html" title="Art Beast at The Daily Beast">Art Beast</a> page.</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/47206284704http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/47206284704Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:30:43 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/59418e2e1bccf83e8644de63f8dceb1a/tumblr_mkc243tCfw1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Anthony Goicolea | Boy’s Room© 2000 | 40x90 Color Photograph</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/46437195050http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/46437195050Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:00:03 -0400equalityphotographyanthony goicoleagay marriage<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/42daf29beaf0bf2b9dc4c1dfc8cbbfeb/tumblr_mjmp5eexUK1rn1qwlo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://robvonl.tumblr.com/post/45344355681/vine-video-art-sold-at-postmasters-gallery">robvonl</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Vine video art sold at <a href="http://www.postmastersart.com">Postmasters Gallery</a>!</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nichelavideoart.tumblr.com/post/45315536198/vine-video-art-sold-at-moving-image-the-most">nichelavideoart</a>:</p> <p><strong>Vine Video Art Sold at Moving Image</strong>: The most surprising milestone of this year’s New York <strong>Armory Week</strong> may be the first-ever sale of a piece of video art made using theultra-hot app <strong>Vine</strong>. The Vine in question, <strong>Angela Washko</strong>’s “Tits on Tits on Ikea” — which features the artist’s friend holding a laptop to her chest with a pair of balloon breasts exposed on the screen, and lasts for the format’s obligatory 6.5 seconds — was part of curators <strong>Kyle Chayka</strong> and <strong>Marina Galperina</strong>’s <a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/03/07/curators-kyle-chayka-and-marina-galparina-bring-the-vanguard-of-vine-to-the-moving-image/" rel="nofollow">“The Shortest Video Art Ever Sold” exhibition</a> at <a href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/875310/moving-image-gathers-no-moss-as-video-art-fair-pushes-the">the <strong>Moving Image</strong> fair</a>, and was purchased by collector and curator <strong>Myriam Vanneschi</strong>. “It represents an alternative model to the gallery system,” Vanneschi said. “When art becomes solely a commodity, I find it very uninteresting, but I see buying internet-based art as very interesting, as an alternative.”</p> </blockquote>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/45345699660http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/45345699660Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:04:48 -0400VINEVideoartcontemporaryMoving ImageArmory ShowArmory weekPostmaters Galleryart salesNew Yorkmilestone<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/b2a55fe82e12a224e489b1eef2b96633/tumblr_miydehaxly1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>*Archive Treasures*</p> <p>Beth Haggard</p> <p>Postmaster’s Soho Space</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44476006591http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44476006591Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:30:48 -0500Beth HaggardPostmasters Galleryartcontemporarysculpture<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e33d661df8c30603d560d20e461dba69/tumblr_miycjejCq11rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>*Archive Treasures*</p> <p>Sylvie Fleury in Postmasters SoHo mid 1990s</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44390063098http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44390063098Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:30:47 -0500Sylvie FleuryPostmastersArchivesinstallationart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/99cf98c763969c7a04a26ac25e3f99df/tumblr_miycfzamVz1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Can you Digit? Installation shot of the Soho Space in 1996.</p> <p>Boom!</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44308472281http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44308472281Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:30:39 -0500Can You Digit?media artartcontemporarypostmasters1990s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/46e91eb380d30b6fa5df776fc2f6f709/tumblr_mixvo6hFBT1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Look what we found in our archives!</p> <p>Postmasters Soho Space (80 green street) mid-1990s</p> <p>Perry Hoberman Installation</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44223426623http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44223426623Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:40:54 -0500archivesPerry HobermanPostmasters GallerySohoNYC1990s<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c151e62b9a4f520fe0f97996c616bb05/tumblr_miue9eTAYM1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Who is ready for a holiday?! </strong></p> <p><strong><br/></strong></p> <p><strong>DAVID DIAO<br/></strong><strong><em>HOLIDAY<br/></em></strong>1971<br/>acrylic on canvas <br/>127 x 79 inches (323 x 200 cm) </p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44077045874http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/44077045874Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:32:02 -0500David Diaoholiday1972paintingcontemporary art<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/2bc41f1583b2796a6968a1ce73dc2c4f/tumblr_mhuzu3IZ6d1rb7h4go1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://piniakot.tumblr.com/post/42509831501/william-powhida-artmagedon-2013-for-village">piniakot</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>William Powhida<br/><em>ARTmagedon, </em>2013</p> <p>for Village Voice<br/>Christian Viveros-Fuane’s article How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art</p> <p><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-02-06/art/uptown-money-kills-downtown-art/"><a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-02-06/art/uptown-money-kills-downtown-art/">http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-02-06/art/uptown-money-kills-downtown-art/</a></a></p> </blockquote>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42930473340http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42930473340Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:38:50 -0500william PowhidapostmastersMagda Sawonart marketartcontemporary artdrawingartmageddonarmageddon<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fe5918d6198635aea545cef17d48931a/tumblr_mhx9cto2fA1qdr6jto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://blakegopnik.com/post/42609838500">blakegopnik</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>DAILY PIC: “Skylight 1” is one of my favorite pieces from <a href="http://www.postmastersart.com/index.html" title="Diana Cooper at Postmasters">Diana Cooper’s solo show at Postmasters</a> gallery in New York, which locals have one more day to catch before it closes.  In this piece and others, Cooper takes a real feature of the Postmasters interior and shifts the place and shape it takes up.  This new tactic gives a firm, real-world grounding to the fantasy that Cooper’s always revealed in her work. It’s also a kind of homage to Postmasters itself: For almost three decades, in one space after another, owners Magda Sawon and Tamas Banovich have given artists room to do the most daring work they know how. It’s nice that there’s now work that’s about the room given.</p> <p><em><span>For a full visual survey of past Daily Pics visit <a href="http://blakegopnik.com/archive">blakegopnik.com/archive</a>. The Daily Pic can also be found at the bottom of the home page of <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsmaker/art-and-photography" title="Art Beast"><strong><span>thedailybeast.com</span></strong></a>, and on that site’s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/art.html" title="Art Beast at The Daily Beast">Art Beast</a> page.</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42693039107http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42693039107Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:10:17 -0500diana cooperPostmastersBlake GopnikDaily BeastArt Beastcontemporary artinstallationsite specificartsolo showgalleryNew York City<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/89ad32cd2fc52b609d4c63de8efcd9d6/tumblr_mhrfwj2JP91rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>David Diao gave an amazing historic talk on Barnett Newman at the DIA Foundation in Chelsea on  Monday, February 4, 2013.</p> <p>For 2.5 hours , nobody left, everybody sat still and listened to facts, anecdotes and personal recounts told by the painter/raconteur David Diao and we are so happy this came to life. </p> <p>We are looking for ways to share it with you. If there is any legal way to do so we will.</p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42365216486http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42365216486Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:41:06 -0500David DiaopaintingBarnett NewmantalkDIADIA FoundationChelseahistoric<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/235abb25b03662110dfd2fcb5b9cd6b5/tumblr_mhr9jsnQBL1rjuyafo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>ADAM CVIJANOVIC </p> <p>in HONG KONG!!</p> <p>with a scroll - moving and all!</p> <p><em><span class="Apple-style-span">“Rolling Panorama Number 1,” a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Adam Cvijanovic, resembles the form of 19th-century American and Chinese spooled panoramas. […] As a mechanized painting its “un-rolling” takes viewers on a vivid global journey through a rich and imagined spectrum of landscapes — from a dry desert and lush vegetative jungle to a dark, icy ocean and grazing animals in a sunken valley. </span></em></p> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/view/2013/adam-cvijanovic.cfm">http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/view/2013/adam-cvijanovic.cfm</a><br/><br/><strong><span>…through March 29 </span></strong></span></span></p>http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42358286249http://postmastersgallery.tumblr.com/post/42358286249Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:23:52 -0500Adam Cvijanovicscrollartcontemporary arthong kongchinesepanoramabrooklynartistpaintingSCAD