The other art fair
The Other Art Fair, founded in London in 2011, now features emerging talent in locations across the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia—including biannual editions in Brooklyn, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, and Toronto. The fair champions rising, independent contemporary artists. Below, please find some of our top picks from the online Brooklyn fair this year. For more information navigating the online viewing room, feel free to contact Arianna Mastro who would be happy to hand select pieces for you.
Nika P Silva, Redwood Fiction
Gallery: Muriel Guepin Gallery
Nika P. Silva is an Australian artist who lives in Abu Dhabi, mainly working across oil and acrylic paint on large-size canvas, and ink on paper. More recently her works include collage, combining painting, illustration and other elements. This collage is from her series "LA Dreaming," featuring paper-cut silhouettes from LA-based film and TV, and hand-drawn insects indigenous to or otherwise found in California, set against a backdrop of handmade papers from different parts of the world, and embellishments made of hand-embroidered silk.
Alexander Korzer-Robinson, Brockhaus 16, 1894
Alexander Korzer-Robinson uses traditions of collage in pursuing a personal obsession of creating narrative scenarios in small format. He uses antiquarian books, in works that are an exploration and a deconstruction of nostalgia. According to the artist, “We create our own past from fragments of reality in a process that combines the willful aspects of remembering and forgetting with the coincidental and unconscious.” These works illustrate a process that forms our inner landscape. By using pre-existing media as a starting point, certain boundaries are set by the material, which are transformed through the artistic process. These books, that have been stripped of their utilitarian value by the passage of time, regain new purpose. They are no longer tools to learn about the world, but rather a means to gain insight about oneself.
cai lixian, Freedom . commerce . battle
Cai Lixian is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in art experiments, including oil painting, sculpture, animation, and especially digital media— trying to blend traditional art and modern technology to test the possibility of contemporary art, explore cultural diversity, social responsibility. In her words, her art is about, “The advocacy of globalization's leading freedom, world order, multilateralism, etc., have led to prosperity accompanied by rising desires, development accompanied by natural pollution and conflict, and multilateralism accompanied by ethnic differences. The dominance of the world order opened up prosperity, and it also caused constant contradictions and cycles.”
Steve Moors, 6FitnesswomenScareddogSunmirror
Steve Moors is a New York and Los Angeles based artist. His work has an organic appearance, yet it is in fact rendered digitally. Moors is fascinated with the incongruities and conflicting self-deceptions created by the struggle between our primal and present modern selves. His work is printed as as Acrylic Face Mount Print, which is a glossy print mounted face-in to acrylic, giving a depth and vibrancy to the image.
Erin Derby, No. 123 - Limited Edition
Erin Derby is a California based artist. In her more recent work, Reimagining Nature, she has is focused on botanicals. Working digitally and with her unique mindfulness for lighting and detail, she builds wholly new imagery. These results are at once familiar and strikingly unfamiliar. Of the earth yet other worldly. The images are bold, sensual and effervesce with light and color. Amazingly, they are concrete and ethereal simultaneously. And always there is a strong sense of the atmospheric.
Harrison Tobon, Aquí había estado antes - Limited Edition of 10
Harrison Tobon is a Colombian artist and teacher in Bogotá. His Artistic work explores the relationship between representation and its material condition. His pedagogical work is based on appreciation of color in everyday life.