March 28 (Bloomberg) -- Macedonian artist Igor Josifov will shower in the buff as part of a performance piece called ``Purification Process.'' Transgender star Amanda Lepore is scheduled to belt out a few tunes while fountains spout absinthe.

They're among the attractions at the Bridge Art Fair, which is taking up temporary residence in the space once occupied by the Tunnel -- a defunct Manhattan nightclub known for stabbings and drug busts in the '90s.

The fair's founder, Michael Workman, has gotten dealers from 50 cities, including Jakarta, Rome and Seoul, to stock booths with works by young hopefuls, mostly priced from $5,000 to $20,000.

Bridge is one of several art fairs around town that run through the weekend. All dovetail with the larger Armory Show, with 160 international galleries, at Pier 94.

Bridge Art Fair is at 222 12th Ave., at 27th Street. Information: http://www.bridgeartfair.com.

Nine Nudes

Sculptor Richard Dupont has created nine hairless, naked, outsized versions of himself -- and they're standing in the lobby of Lever House in Manhattan.

In ``Terminal Stage,'' on view until May 3, the 6-foot-6- inch, flesh-toned, polyurethane resin figures, based on scans of Dupont's body, represent anonymity and superficiality. His distorted everymen are creepy, fascinating and eye-boggling.

Dupont, at the gallery during the installation of his fleshy men (the artist was fully clothed in jeans and a black hoodie), told me that he was scanned with lasers during a body measurement study at an Ohio Air Force base. Testers refused to take the entire measure of the man, so he tackled that part at his SoHo studio by immersing himself in the pink mold substance used by dentists and pouring plaster in the impression.

Lever House is at 390 Park Ave., at 53rd Street. Information: +1-212-326-8901; http://www.leverhouse.com.

Warhol Obsession

Jamie Wyeth has partied with Andy Warhol, sketched a nude Arnold Schwarzenegger and lives alone part-time in a Maine lighthouse.

So it's fitting that an artist with such an eclectic life is showing a bizarre series of seven paintings in which colorful, expressive, sometimes vicious, seagulls act out the seven deadly sins at the Adelson Galleries in New York until April 18.

Why seagulls instead of humans? ``I grew up around more animals than people,'' Wyeth, 61, explained to me recently by phone from his other home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. ``Had I grown up in New York, I would have been painting transvestites.''

Wyeth was raised in Maine and on a family farm in Chadds Ford. Son of famous realist painter Andrew Wyeth -- and grandson of illustrator artist N.C. Wyeth -- he attended public school until the sixth grade and then was home schooled.

The Adelson show includes paintings inspired by his friendship with Warhol, who let Wyeth work in a corner of the Factory. ``I became totally obsessed with Warhol,'' said Wyeth. The sin series has already been sold.

The Adelson show isn't all about animals. A 2007 painting on brown cardboard, ``Masturbation -- Victor Hugo and Andy Warhol'' is priced at $400,000.

Adelson Galleries is at 19 E. 82nd St. Information: +1-212-439-6800; http://www.adelsongalleries.com.

(Lindsay Pollock writes on the art market for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the writers of this story: Lindsay Pollock in New York at lindsaypollock@yahoo.com.

Last Updated: March 28, 2008 00:01 EDT