Chicago art fair SOFA
Founded in 1994, SOFA CHICAGO (Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design) is Chicago’s longest continuously running art fair and the world’s foremost fair displaying masterworks of contemporary art and design in all media. It is dedicated to bringing together the spheres of design, decorative arts, and fine arts. Artists, collectors and designer workshops, demonstrations and lectures are also featured.
The SOFA Chicago art fair attracts collectors, art patrons, curatorial staff and art historians who attend to admire the unique works of art and mingle with galleries and artists. In all, around 37,000 people attended the Fair in 2016, presented by more than 70 established and emerging galleries from across the globe. On display were the very best in ceramics, wood, glass, fibre, studio jewelry, metal, painting, sculpture, photography and works on paper.
The premier showcase event has its 23rd exhibition of decorative and functional artistic pieces coming up on NOV 2-5, 2017 at Navy Pier.
‘Seaforms’ – 2013 – Michael Behrens
Habatat Galleries
‘Pasha’ – Jan Huling — Duane Reed Gallery
SOFA 2013
Vivian Beer – Bridge Bench steel, patina and ferrocement (concrete)
Wexler Gallery
‘Peaceful Morning’ by Miyashita Zenji
Stoneware and applied layers of colored clay..
Joan B Mirviss
2009
Shozo Michikawa – Natural ash twisted vase
Erskine Hall Coe, London
Sally Rogers – ‘Cradle’
Thomas R Riley Galleries
‘Daedalus’—-steel and marble – Sally Rogers
Riley Galleries
Jan Huling beaded head
SOFA Chicago
‘Architectural Volume (Blue) 1’, 2011 -Bodil Manz
Clark+Delvecchio
SOFA Chicago, 2010
SOFA Chicago glass vessels
Allison Mercer sculpture
SOFA – Maria Elena Kravetz Galeria
Katherine Glenday – Vessel 243
SOFA – Amaridian Gallery, NY
Andy Nasisse ceramic ‘Tea Bowl’ ( koala bear inspired?)
Sherrie Gallerie
Ani Kasten
Bart Johnson ceramic vessel
Eight Modern
Benjamin Sewell – ovoid striped glass vessel
David Richard Contemporary
Black and red urn pair – Peter Pincus
Wexler Gallery, SOFA 2016
Les Namingha – SOFA, Chicago
Blue Rain Gallery / Santa Fe New Mexico
Bruce R. Macdonald wall art panel
Calvin Ma – ‘Let It Go’
“I utilize the action figure form in my sculptural work to explore personal issues and struggles with social anxiety.”
Abmeyer-+-Wood Fine Art—2014
Chris Antemann porcelain sculpture
Chris Gustin ceramic vase, SOFA Chicago
Clare Beck curation for Adrian Sassoon
SOFA, NY
Lino Tagliapietr — ‘Strombol’
sofaexpo 2009
Colin Schleeh wood sculpture vessel
William Zimmer Gallery
Mikyoung Jung sculpture vessel
Cristina Cordova – ‘La Conquista’ wall sculpture
Ann Nathan Gallery
David Regan
SOFA Chicago 2010, Barry Friedman
Devyn Baron-Griley
Morgan Glass Gallery
Diego Romero ceramic sculpture, SOFA
Lino Tagliapietra
SOFA Chicago – Donna Schneier Fine Art
Don Reitz ceramic sculpture bowl
SOFA NY 2009, Lacoste Gallery
SOFA
SOFA Chicago
‘Judith’ – Emil Kazaz female warrior sculpture
George Rodriguez – ‘Lion’
Foster White Gallery – SOFA-Chicago 2015
Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman vessel
Gareth Mason ceramic vase
SOFA – Mindy Solomon gallery
Henk Wolvers ceramic bowl
SOFA Flow Gallery
Irina Zaytceva porcelain
Jason Walker- ‘Expecting’ -ceramic penguin sculpture
Allegra Marquart — ‘Beaver and Turtle’ glass panel
Maurine Littleton Gallery
Jean Nicolas Gérard ceramic vase
Joey Watson — 2016 SOFA Chicago
Kang Hyo Lee, South Korea
SOFA, Mindy Solomon Gallery
Keith Schneider, SOFA Chicago
Crystal Stubbs glass sculpture
SOFA, Kirra Galleries
Kurt Weiser— ‘Princess’ ceramic bottle
SOFA, Ferrin Gallery
Kyohei Fujita Kazaribako Hand Blown Glass Box Casket
Ceramic wall panels – Don Reitz – 2011
Lacoste Gallery
Lacoste Gallery—Ronnie Gould
Lindsay Pichasek
Bob Clyatt — “Three Standing Men”, 2012
Noborimia-fired porcelain on ceramic
Maria Elena Kravetz Gallerie
Michael Eden’s “Grey Bloom” recalls the forms of antique ceramics, but is made with 21st-century materials and processes.
Michael Lucero
Donna Schneier Fin Art
Ree Soo Jong ceramic calligraphy vase
Mindy Solomon Gallery -SOFA
Jin Morigami –
TAI Gallery, SOFA Chicago 2012
Kim Myungjin
Jenny Pohlman & Sabrina Knowles — ‘The Linguist’ (Man as a Series), 2009
Duane Reed Gallery
Norio Tamagawa Flower Vase No 425
2015 Onishi Gallery_SOFA Chicago
Female figure sculpture — Viola Frey
Donna Schneier Fine Arts
Les Namingha ceramic seed pot
Philip Moulthrop ceramic vessel
Sarah Myerscough Fine Art – SOFA 2012
Hand carved Queen Mothers Pipe, Bamun Cameroon
Douglas Dawson Gallery, SOFA Chicago
Irina Zaytceva ‘Red Admiral Butterfly Cup’
Jane Sauer Gallery, SOFA
Robert Lugo lidded ceramic jar
Wexler Gallery
Sergei Isupov
Seth Rainville ceramic chair
Ferrin Gallery, SOFA
SOFA Chicago Intuit Show Opening Night—Tiffany Massey
Seth Rainville ceramic teapot
Ferrin Gallery
KéKé Cribbs — ‘Catalina’ glass sculpture -Scott Jacobson Gallery
Kirra Galleries — Crystal Stubbs
‘Rapture’—Sheryl Zacharia—Jane Sauer Gallery
Sofa-2013
Sheryl Zacharia ‘Pinstriped’
Shozo Michikawa — Koniki Pot 2009
Gallerie Besson, SOFA
SOFA Chicago
Ypichi Ohira—Notturno con due Montagne Vase
SOFA, Barry Friedman
SOFA Chicago
SOFA Chicago
Dorte Visby raku vase
SOFA Chicago
SOFA, New York
Sue Averell and Joseph Woodford
Sunkoo Yuh ceramic sculpture
Terry Garcia Wall panel
Blue Rain Gallery
Wayne Higby ‘Stone Gate’ 2007
SOFA Chicago Photo Brian Oglesbee
Yamamura Shinya
Ippodo Gallery, SOFA
Koji Hatakeyama — ‘ Eight Faces’
Ippodo Gallery
Tammy Garcia — bronze bear panel
Blue Rain Galler
Jan Hopkins — ‘Forbidden’
Jane Sauer Gallery
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