new york art fairs
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A
few weeks ago, New York City played host to a number of art fairs
kicking off the new Spring season. Here are
our top picks of artists to watch:
Ivana Brenner is a young South American
artist who lives and works in Buenos Aires. Her work lies somewhere
between sculpture and painting as she uses solidified paint to
create her tactile three-dimensional pieces.
Israeli-born Ori Gersht's latest project
includes freezing and then hard-wiring floral arrangements,
blowing them up, and then catching the explosion on film.
Another artist who works with flowers
is Portia Munson. She grows them in her own
garden and then arranges them on a scanner in meticulous
combinations of form and color. Time is of the essence in this work
so the flowers do not wilt before the composition is complete.
Jeffrey Milstein's photographs are
fascinating. Although they appear to be pictures of model airplanes,
they are actually real aircraft captured just before landing at Los
Angeles International Airport. Despite the fact they are traveling
at over 200 mph, the images are sharp and precise. Milstein then
uses Photoshop to remove the sky in order to highlight the symmetry
of the machinery.
In Yuken Teruya's sculptures, the delicate
branches carefully cut out by hand fall out just enough from all
sides of his chosen medium, whether it be a mass-produced shopping
bag or cardboard tubes. The trees remain attached to
the original source in order to create depth from
the shadows cast by the reflection of light off the
work.
Mindy Shapero uses found objects in her
works on paper. They are made with simple materials including
buttons, beads and sequins. Shapero then uses spray paint
to obtain silhouetted shapes of the objects.
These mosaic montages, created by
famed rock-and-roll photographer Lynn Goldsmith, are made up of over 2,000
thumbnail images that are then strategically placed to create a
larger iconic image. |
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