Spring Masters New York to Return to the Park Avenue Armory in May

The second edition of Spring Masters New York will take place at the Park Avenue Armory from Friday, May 8 through Tuesday, May 12, 2015, featuring 65 leading international art and design galleries. Marking a significant evolution of the fair model, Spring Masters presents exceptional works of art and design in a contemporary context.

Now in its second year, Spring Masters has established itself as an important destination on the spring art world calendar, responding to the global demand for a high-quality fair that offers a breadth of material, during this active time in the auction season. 2014 exhibitors praised the inaugural year's quality of collector turnout, diversity of work on view, and groundbreaking, hexagonal layout by award-winning architect Rafael Vin?oly.

Spring Masters directors Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin of Artvest Partners bring their combined knowledge of the gallery business to the art fair landscape. "The trend has become increasingly clear-collectors are looking to visit cities with convergent art events so that they can experience the best of both worlds: art fairs and auctions at the same destination," said Jeff Rabin, co-Director of Spring Masters New York.

Spring Masters' inaugural edition in May 2014 introduced the fair's signature design by Rafael Vin?oly, representing the most dramatic change in the Park Avenue Armory's fair format in three decades. The hexagonal booths provide a new framework within the iconic Drill Hall, fostering a dialogue between the diverse periods and styles of work on view. The non-linear format of the fair creates unexpected juxtapositions between painting, sculpture, and design objects across the centuries.

"Going back to the Grand Tour, the greatest connoisseurs have collected across centuries, from the arts of Antiquity to the works of their contemporaries. Spring Masters New York was created to reinvigorate this concept," said Michael Plummer, co-Director of Spring Masters New York.

The fair will feature expertly curated and thoroughly vetted presentations by exhibitors from the U.S. and Europe, to be announced in early 2015.