Art Fair Week: Volta

Now I will give you highlights from each fair. These weren’t categorizable to the previous posts about text, abstraction, children, etc.
I was in and out of Volta in 2 hours. It was the first fair I attended and the single artist booth layout made the viewing experience less confusing, more straightforward, and easy to navigate. [...]

Art Fair Week: Textual Imagery

There were a few works that incorporated text and narrative mixed with illustrative depictions. Whether the image follows the text or vice versa is relative. There were cartoonish comic book elements mixed with high modernist styles and superbly drafted figures. In some there was a disconnect between the two factors, in others a perfect union.
Picturesque [...]

Art Fair Week: Signage

The economic crisis was on everyone’s lips this year and their worries were reflected in a few works found mostly at Armory.
Signage:
Alejandro Diaz at Happy Lion, CA (Volta)
I remember seeing these in a group show about commercialization of art, can’t remember where…
Adam McEwen at Nicole Klagsbrun, NY (Armory)
I heard many galleries are going deeper than [...]

Art Fair Week: Abstract vs. Non-Abstract

There was a bunch of works in all the fairs that provided a balanced co-mingling of abstraction and representational. There are hints of familiar figures and landscapes, as well as a blurring of shape and form through geometric pattern and monochrome fields.
Abstracted Representations/Representational Abstractions in abundance:
Angelina Gualdoni at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago (Volta)
An atmospheric and [...]

Art Fair Week: Children, Interrupted.

Following are works I’ve seen throughout the fairs that depict with children and adolescents in states of disturbia.
Without further ado, Disturbed Adolescence:
Dietrich Wegner at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago (Pulse)
Branded baby, an imprint of the child’s future consumptions and commodity abuse.
Christian Curiel at Galerie Baumet Sultana, France (Volta)
Jarring and dreamy, the adolescent figures in these paintings [...]

Art Fair Week Recap

It was pretty crazy. I hardly slept, came down with a cold, ate ferociously to fill a stressed void, and traumatized my eyes with the visual overload. In the midst of it all I did enjoy attending most of the fairs and being witness to a vast array of mediocre art with a sprinkle of [...]