Éva Pelczer

Having visited SCOPE Art Fair at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park the morning after it opened, I found a much more sedate crowd than the one that had probably patronized the place during the previous night’s party. Since the Markt wing of the show was strategically placed by the coat check, I, along with much of the crowd, started there. The eclecticism of the fashion/video/painting/installation here was a pretty good introduction to the rest of the fair—a somewhat oversexed and hapless collision of commerce, design, and sculpture. There was a lot ...

Jade Doskow



1. Carlo Van de Roer
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M+B Gallery, Los Angeles

2. Elena Rendeiro / galleria isabel hurley, Malaga, Spain



3. Kiki Taira / BTAP: Tokyo Gallery + Beijing Tokyo Art Projects,

4. Shih Chieh Huang / Virgil de Voldére Gallery, New York



5. Enrique Gomez de Molina / Spinello Gallery, Miami

The Two Hands Art Store:
Infinite Dimensions



This March Turkish artist Gulay Alpay will construct of her signature environmental installations, at the Art Expo show New York. The Two Hands Art Store Alpay’s most recent happening, is a collaborative effort between herself and the audience which she creates using florescent paints and a variety of other media. In such environments, Alpay recreates her studio, a free-for-all, anything-goes space where anyone and everyone can draw, paint, talk, move, and interact and make marks on ...

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg kicked off Armory Arts Week at the Art Dealers Association of America Art Show at the Park Avenue Armory on Tuesday. Declaring New York the arts, fashion, and financial capital of the world, he praised the week of art activities for drawing some 60,000 visitors that will spend an estimated $44 million. A dozen art fairs, which could cost $145 in total to visit, and take more leisure time than most of us have, are running concurrently. In order to help you navigate the shows, we’ve highlighted what they have to offer.

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Olivia Bennet

Artist Carla Elena transforms horses in her vision onto canvas with diligent yet carefree brush strokes. Animalistic and instinctive, Elena’s approach brings her subjects to life, each vivid and wild as if they were to leap off from the canvas any instant, their look soft and gentle, their energy spirited and vibrant. While emitting strength and vigor, Elena’s works are sensitively rendered, each composition thoroughly thought out. The harmonious balance of the negative and positive space alters the static image into an exuberant spectacle springing from the ...

Billich’s paintings read as smoothly as photos. They are composed mostly of architectural elements with arbitrary touches of human figures and statues. The majority of subject matter is depicted in a flattened, slick manner, with a consistently ultra smooth gradation. Despite these flattened surfaces, the scenes composed in these paintings are arranged in so many layers that the picture as a whole perpetuates a great sense of depth. Microenvironments are found within the larger picture many times over. Sharp, mirrored architectural spaces can be discovered existing inside each other. Whispy, ...

Though differing vastly in mark, Domingue’s pieces all have a characteristic feeling of a slow growth and gradual manipulation. In his piece, Symbol of Inner Strength, the gracefulness of the steady easing of the bright orange into the black background tames the difference between the two opposites. The two colors at their most saturated moments are quite extreme and it’s remarkable to see such a peaceful transition between the two. The subtle scale changes in the fragmentation are rather slight and very delicate, as well. The differing size, shifting from larger ...

Exuberantly colored in bright blues, oranges, pinks, light purples, Colina’s work gives the immediate feeling of a children’s book. Through the setting’s abstract forms she composes a fantasy-like playground for the characters in her narratives. Her figures range in form, from a shape analogous to human, to creatures that look more similar to insects, bacteria, or perhaps an anticipated alien? Regardless of their representative associations, Colina’s characters’ relationships and interactions definitely add to the complex plot that exists within each of her pieces. Maybe more visually intriguing than the figures ...

Geffray Powel


Steffi Kaschlik's overture is immersed in the culture of painting and its potential for alchemical transformation. A new breed of painting Kaschlik’s work invites viewers to a world full of vibrant colors and mysterious visages. She gracefully incorporates picturesque elements into the paintings she creates—landscapes and dreamscapes that stand for a reality observed through her own vision. The result is a representation that is dreamy, capricious, and out of this world. Producing endearing and mesmerizing works, that emerge out of a place where fantasy and reality intersect Kaschlik’s ...

Simone Cappa



Minimalist artist John Gesager Nielsen’s oveture are a tribute to the legacy of sculpture and engineering as well as to its visionary union of art and nature. Nielsen’s questioning of the conventional attitudes of art and culture does not stop with the creation of objects and images; he is committed to exploring of attitudes and ideas as a critical component of his work. Nielsen has been creating evocative figurative and abstract sculpture for many years. An earnest devotee to the human condition, he renders both Plexiglas, and metal in an ...