Monday, June 30, 2014

PICTURE THIS: Upper East Side Summer Art Festival at Waterfall Mansion by Kateshin Gallery

There is even art on the ceiling
Summer Art Festiveal 2014
Summer Art Festiveal 2014
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
Garon and Virgine Sommet at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
Superstar Designer Karim Rashid (Center) photo from Alessandro Berni
Kate Shin (Left) and superstar Designer Karim Rashid (Center) with a guest
AF coined “the gritty bosom” for the Lower East Side and now we ended up last June 12th at “the exquisitely exfoliated cleavage” of the Upper East Side for Summer Art Festival 2014 held at the $65 million Waterfall Gallery and Mansion. All floors were filled with established and emerging artists that showed technical prowess in line with artistic might. It was a night of champagne and elegance as the stellar power of art made the mansion shine like a diamond. Every floor was a majestic installation of great art staged in a luxurious interior and the very epitome of the art zenith called the Blue Chip bracket. This is the more refined and adult version of the New York Art Scene where the supernovas of the art world congregate to celebrate the best of the best. It will always be the allure of this said world that keeps people dreaming of million dollar gavel auction prices and the prestige of belonging to a secret impenetrable circle. But those of us who gained enough credit by being in the actual trenches and have paid our dues as pilgrims in the Valhalla of art, well it is a privilege to brush our shoulders with the haves because close proximity to fortune feeds the fantasy in hopes of becoming a reality.

Summer Art Festival (SAF) 2014 / June 12 – August 1, 2014
KATESHIN gallery at the Waterfall Mansion. 170 East 80th Street. New York City, NY
(212) 988-0472. Gallery Admission is by appointment only

Text by: Oscar A. Laluyan
Photography by: Olya Turcihin
Serious wheeling and dealing at the Summer Art Festival 2014
Serious wheeling and dealing at the Summer Art Festival 2014
Co-Curator Alessandro Berni at the Summer Arts Festival 2014
Co-Curator Alessandro Berni at the Summer Arts Festival 2014
Another superstar designer Antonio Pio Saracino (right) photo from Alessandro Berni
Another superstar designer Antonio Pio Saracino (right) 
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
The scene at the Waterfall Mansion for Summer Art Festival 2014
The stairwell at the Waterfall Mansion during Summer Art Festival 2014
The stairwell at the Waterfall Mansion during Summer Art Festival 2014
It is a celebration so drink up ladies!
Celia and Helene Faussart (Les Nubiens)
Spiderman gets into the art event
Spiderman gets into the art event
Wearable Art abounds at the Upper East Side show
Wearable Art abounds at the Upper East Side show
The Upper East Side art scene for Summer Art Festival 2014
The Upper East Side art scene for Summer Art Festival 2014

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