One Armory Show emerging artist, Camille Fishel, previewed her work at a starry, intimate bash at private NYC club Zero Bond on Tuesday night \u2014 before the work is shown at the Javits Center.<\/p>\n
Fishel, the partner of Fanatics billionaire Michael Rubin, is being repped by gallerist Adam Cohen \u2014 the Gagosian vet who launched his own Manhattan gallery, A Hug From the Art World, to focus on emerging artists.<\/p>\n
At the gathering celebrating Fishel\u2019s new art was Rubin, plus Cohen and his wife \u2014 art world darling and curator Michelle Hellman \u00a0\u2014 Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns, top artists George Condo and Rashid Johnson, photog Sophie Elgort, Noah Tepperberg and Melissa Wood-Tepperberg, comedian Keegan-Michael Key, Gayle King, Russell Wilson, former Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Zack Bia, Zero Bond co-founder Scott Sartiano, Will Makris, Gary Vaynerchuk and more.<\/p>\n
Armory Show emerging artist, Camille Fishel, previewed her work at a starry, intimate bash at private NYC club Zero Bond on Tuesday night for guests including Karl-Anthony Towns. Getty Images for Camille Fishel<\/p>\n
Towns, greeting Michael Rudin, was among the A-list crowd at the party. Getty Images for Camille Fishel<\/p>\n
Some paintings in Fishel\u2019s inaugural oil-on-canvas series, \u201cBending Over Backwards,\u201d were snapped up even before they hit the Armory Show floor, we hear. All eight paintings from the series were on display, four of which will be shown at Booth 128.<\/p>\n
Towns and his new wife, Jordyn Woods, just curated a show for Sotheby\u2019s <\/a>that included art by Condo, Johnson, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Helen Frankenthaler, Alma Thomas, John Chamberlain and more. The couple\u2019s Contemporary Curated auction kicked off with a VIP dinner at the Sotheby\u2019s Breuer building.<\/p>\n KAT, who dramatically won a ring with the Knicks, was speaking authoritatively at Fishel\u2019s VIP preview about the works by Warhol and others that could fetch millions at his Sotheby\u2019s show<\/a>. The exhibition opens publicly on Oct. 2 at the Breuer in New York, and a live auction hits Oct. 7.<\/p>\n Fishel showed off her \u201cBending Over Backwards\u201d series. Getty Images for Camille Fishel<\/p>\n Towns (pictured with George Condo and Rubin) and his new wife, Jordyn Woods, just curated a show for Sotheby\u2019s. Getty Images for Camille Fishel<\/p>\n \u201cA year ago I went to her studio and saw the beginnings of these paintings,\u201d Cohen said of Fishel. \u201cI told her I\u2019d been working a Gagosian for 20-odd years and one of the reasons I opened my own gallery five years ago\u2026 was so I could work with emerging artists like Camille.\u201d Fishel noted that all of her work examines the different ways in which women are put into boxes.<\/p>\n Condo was a guest at the wedding of Towns and Woods, and the NBA star is close pals with Johnson \u2014 whose work he collects. Vogue previously reported that Towns is a particular fan of Roy Lichtenstein.<\/p>\n