An overview shot of SOFA CHICAGO 2009, where the number of exhibiting galleries was down from 100 to just under 70, but where the attendees included many enthusiastic buyers.
Saturday morning, at the Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’s annual meeting that takes place at SOFA CHICAGO each year, there was a call for a quick show of hands for those who had purchased artwork in the previous 12 months. This was a repeat of an exercise done exactly one year ago at the 2008 SOFA, a bleak time when even the most serious collectors were nervously watching the plummeting stock market.
“This year, so many more hands went up,” Bruce Bachmann, former president of AACG, told the GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet on the floor of Navy Pier’s Festival Hall on the second day of SOFA, where he was looking at artwork with his wife, Ann. “It’s totally different than last year, you can feel the energy just walking the show.”
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