It’s 5:30am and I usually need my first cup of hot brew to get it all together. But you had me at the start and I read this article as passionately as you wrote it - literally as if I were that young emerging, frail, wide eyed, ready to take the art world by storm emerging artist before I even started the coffee pot. So much to say, but you really said it all anyway. Thank you for captivating me and sparking my old passion for seeing and creating in our crazy, mixed up, beautiful world. Onward!!!
It’s too bad the Affordable Art Fair was not a better experience, as I’ve seen so many underrepresented and undervalued artists of quality in my travels whose works rarely gets the light of day in the big name fairs or galleries. As to the lack of topical subject matter, it struck me as ironic, because the premise of the fair is in itself topical if it’s premise is meant provide a market for artists (and dealers )who are underrepresented for economic reasons.
Fantastic article. The Hockey piece got me angry (Bigger Splash is one of my favorites) and then Basquiat piece looked like any street side art in a tourist area. Co-opting PoC and LGBTQ artists, is that really the message this fair wants to propagate?
It sounds like a homogenized whitewashing reducing art to be as palatable as possible to young uneducated folks looking to buy 'real art'. It's a shame and a missed opportunity to showcase emerging artists of merit.
I encourage you to submit this article to relevant publications ASAP.
Thank you for this article! I had no idea about zombie formalism as a term, the practice of course (sadly?) also I am familiar with. Sad that an event that sounds really intriguing and like something that would make art accessible for everyone isn't actually that.
Also the difference between the two sorts of galleries was quite enlightening.
Funnily enough just yesterday I talked with my sister in law who works in a small glass maker and framer / gallery company (I'm not sure about the actual terms. Lost in translation from German to English I guess) about something which is probably similar. She and her coworkers went to a posh gallery we passed yesterday in the more expensive part of Hannover and she told me that they are all about commerce and the moment you stop in front of a painting to look at it you'll be approached by some salesperson who then will soon offer you a 20% discount * nudge nudge wink wink *
It’s 5:30am and I usually need my first cup of hot brew to get it all together. But you had me at the start and I read this article as passionately as you wrote it - literally as if I were that young emerging, frail, wide eyed, ready to take the art world by storm emerging artist before I even started the coffee pot. So much to say, but you really said it all anyway. Thank you for captivating me and sparking my old passion for seeing and creating in our crazy, mixed up, beautiful world. Onward!!!
It’s too bad the Affordable Art Fair was not a better experience, as I’ve seen so many underrepresented and undervalued artists of quality in my travels whose works rarely gets the light of day in the big name fairs or galleries. As to the lack of topical subject matter, it struck me as ironic, because the premise of the fair is in itself topical if it’s premise is meant provide a market for artists (and dealers )who are underrepresented for economic reasons.
Fantastic article. The Hockey piece got me angry (Bigger Splash is one of my favorites) and then Basquiat piece looked like any street side art in a tourist area. Co-opting PoC and LGBTQ artists, is that really the message this fair wants to propagate?
It sounds like a homogenized whitewashing reducing art to be as palatable as possible to young uneducated folks looking to buy 'real art'. It's a shame and a missed opportunity to showcase emerging artists of merit.
I encourage you to submit this article to relevant publications ASAP.
Thank you for this article! I had no idea about zombie formalism as a term, the practice of course (sadly?) also I am familiar with. Sad that an event that sounds really intriguing and like something that would make art accessible for everyone isn't actually that.
Also the difference between the two sorts of galleries was quite enlightening.
Funnily enough just yesterday I talked with my sister in law who works in a small glass maker and framer / gallery company (I'm not sure about the actual terms. Lost in translation from German to English I guess) about something which is probably similar. She and her coworkers went to a posh gallery we passed yesterday in the more expensive part of Hannover and she told me that they are all about commerce and the moment you stop in front of a painting to look at it you'll be approached by some salesperson who then will soon offer you a 20% discount * nudge nudge wink wink *