Frieze Seoul 2024

Here are a few quick picks from this year's Frieze Seoul art fair. I hope you enjoy.

Peter Stichbury, Oraculus, 2024, New Zealander

Davide Balliano, Untitled 0299, 2024, Italian

Yu Kobayashi, Untitled, 2022

 

Highlights from the Armory Show 2024

These are my favourites from the Armory Show this year. I hope you like them as much as I do. Enjoy.

1 Amie Dicke, Sub Rosa, 2024, Dutch

2 Jonas, Burgert, blieb ihr still, 2024, German

3 Janet Werner, Brandy, 2024, Canadian

4 Santidio Pereira, Untitled, 2024, Brazilian

5 Lynette Yiadom Boakye, Rose Nether Poetry, 2012, British

6 Enoc Perez, Ocho Rios, 2023, Puerto Rican

7 Kehinde Wiley, Portrait of Emmanuel Goudiaby, 2024, African American

8 Tim Braden, Cadmium Orange, Pink, Violet, and Magenta, 2024, British

9 Kitti Narod, Horizon Sharing, 2024, Thai

10 Lucy Fradkin, Arthur with Flowers, 2023, American

11 Chester Higgins, A Young Muslim Woman in Brooklyn, 1990, American

12 Zhu Jinshi, Du Fu Tower, No. 03, 2023, Chinese

13 Anastasia Samoylova, Crabbing, Georgia, 2018, Russian

Intersect Aspen Art Fair 2024

1 Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, Armenian Mirror, 2023, Armenian

 2 Vera Girivi, Untitled, 2024, Italian

3 Mary Ronayne, Race Day, 2023, Irish

4 Ilan Baruch, Tzabarim and Sparrows, 2022, Israeli

5 Annie Leibovitz, Whoopi Goldberg, 2023, American

6 Vladinsky, Let me Finish, 2023, Romanian

7 Saidou Dicko, Princess of gold, FR GREEN3, 2024, Burkina Faso

8 Ojo Ayotunde, Reclining Man, 2023, Nigerian

9 Donald Martiny, Lacaille, 2024, American

10 Antoine Rose, Winter Colors, 2016, Belgian

Seattle Art Fair 2024

These are some of my favourite picks from the Seattle Art Fair 2024. Please enjoy.

1 Andrea Gallotti, NoName11, 2020

2 Hart James, Grasslands Before the Mountain, 2023, American

3 Hiroshi Sato, Night, 2024, Japanese

4 Simone Christen, l'heure d'apero, 2024, Swiss

5 Kate Lewis, Pretty Life, 2024, American

6 Sali Swalla, All We Dreamed, 2023

8 Hazel Thomson, Spring, 2024, British

Changing the Beauty Myth with Artist Lasisi Babtunde Damilare

 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare is a Nigerian artist who focuses on the ironies of the human body. In his work he challenges the notions of beauty and youth and uses humour to portray people with exaggerated bodies. They are depicted in the throes of daily life without any awareness of their size. As a result they become human, sympathetic and genuine. We see his talent securely matching his subject matter. He doesn’t shy away from poking fun at the ideal beauty. Through careful consideration of what it means to be thin or not thin he strips away society’s ideal. In turn, he reveals a fresh new image. We can appreciate his efforts as we empathize with his subject matter. No one is perfect and it is through carefree disregard that we can attain freedom from the ideal body.  

1 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Life in a Fishbowl, Nigerian

2 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Sound on Silence, 2020, Nigerian

3 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, My Goal Not Yours, 2022, Nigerian

4 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, My Goal Not Yours 2, 2022, Nigerian

5 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Quiet Time, 2023 Nigerian

6 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Painting Sounds on Silence, 2020, Nigerian

7 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, My Confession, 2023, Nigerian

8 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, I Have a Dream Song, 2022, Nigerian

9 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Hard to say Goodbye, 2022, Nigerian

10 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Check the Balance, 2020, Nigerian

11 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Spreading Your Linen, 2024,J Nigerian

12 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, The Custodian, 2021, Nigerian

13 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, The Sojourner's Diary, 2022, Nigerian

14 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Our Tango Moment 2020, Nigerian

15 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, My Happy Place, 2023,J Nigerian

16 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Towards the Unknown, 2024, Nigerian

17 Lasisi Babatunde Damilare, Madame Lisa, 2020, Nigerian