New York Fall: Fair Director’s Picks

The wait is over, your, official, unofficial guide to Affordable Art Fair NYC is here. Fair Director, Erin Schuppert lends her expertise to give you her top picks for the upcoming Fall edition this September.

Take a tour through the fair and let Erin be your guide below.  

Kal Mansur | Myta Sayo Gallery

While this work by Kal Mansur hangs on a wall, it feels and reads very much like a 3-dimensional sculpture. He imbeds fluorescent pigments in plexiglass and encases the entire work in a translucent panel, allowing him to dictate how light will interact with the work’s surface. It feels at once retro and futuristic.  

“It feels at once retro and futuristic.”

Kelly Grace | Lustre Contemporary

Kelly Grace’s cinematic paintings take the viewer somewhere familiar, yet mysterious. In each of her works, you get the sense that you’re seeing a snapshot of a full, complex narrative. The world she’s constructed feels nostalgic and inviting.  

Faustine Badrichani | InSight Artspace

Faustine Badrichani explores femininity through her paintings and sculptures of the female body, often from unique perspectives. This work catches a young woman in a private, intimate moment of either dressing or undressing. Badrichani depicts her subject with a tenderness, making it sensual, but not voyeuristic.

Galina Kurlat | treat gallery

Galina Kurlat’s lumen prints are unique abstract representations of the female body, defying figuration and embracing chance and chaos. Kurlat’s hair, saliva, blood or breastmilk are placed directly onto silver gelatin paper and then the paper is exposed to light for an extended period of time to develop. These are deeply personal works that feel as universal as they are hauntingly beautiful.

Ai Campbell | Established Gallery

Ai Campbell was inspired to explore minimal colors and simple forms when she received a package from her mother containing landscape drawings her grandfather created while serving in World War II. Through ink droppings, dots, and fine lines, her work investigates the human desire to control the uncontrollable. The juxtaposition of free-flowing ink against the precise dots and lines creates a liminal space that is both captivating and enigmatic.

Gentaro Yokoyama | 100c Degree Gallery

Gentaro Yokoyama first encountered ceramics in a high school class and hasn’t looked back. His polished, yet surreal works seem as if they may come alive at any moment. The bright colors and playful forms speak to a childlike sense of wonder.

Carol Greenan Bouyoucos | see | me

The fantastical landscapes Carol Greenan Bouyoucos creates all begin as images captured on her iPhone. Using various apps to manipulate and Photoshop to retouch, Bouyoucos embraces technology in order to depict the tenacity and ferocity of nature. She takes inspiration from traditional American landscape painters, imbuing her works with a sense of nostalgia, but the vibrant colors and digital process are unmistakably current.