28.6.23

Focus New York Art Fair 2023

Focus New York art fair is a smaller fair organized by HongLee an international art agency based in Paris (artsy). It features up and coming contemporary artists some of which you can see below. I have selected a few of my favourites here. There's quite a variety of works. I like the thick layering of paint in Gwi Ok Cho's Wildflowers Inside of Me. The colours work well together and create a comely composition. Sori Choi's Visible Sound is reminiscent of Cy Twombly whose scribbles make for a pleasant display. You can scroll down for more. 

1 Gwi Ok Cho, Wildflowers Inside of Me, 2022, Korean


 
2 Sori Choi, Visible Sound, 2023, Korean


3 Mariart, Traveling woman, 2023, South Korean


4 purume hong, 8. Calling, 2021, Korean



5 Enzo Lee, pieceofenzo, Family Picture No.1, 2023, South Korean


6 Ayairo, A Desolate Field, 2023, Japanese


7 Amarildo Ruci, Transition, 2023, Albanian


8 Noriko Shinohara, Cutie as Mariene Dietrichin Fjord, 2023, Japanese


9 Kyaraai, Hollow picnic blanket, 2022, Japanese


10 Kim Hong Nyun, floral butterfly 2019 III, 2019, Korean


11 Hitomi, liberation of sensibility, 2023, Japanese


12 Hiromi, your world, 2023, Japanese


13 Jullia Kim, My friends in Hawaii, 2022


14 Kadiatou Coulibaly, Duniya, 2022, Malian


15 Woolga Choi, 2023 Brooklyn Born Series, 2023, Korean


16 Ziesook You, Scent of Austin 03112022, 2022


17 IKIOU, Migratory birds return, 2023, French



22.6.23

1 54 Contemporary African Art Fair

I love the artwork that is coming out of Africa and its diaspora. And this edition of 1 54 Contemporary Art Fair is no exception. Featuring the likes of Lulama Wolf, Aplerh Doku Borlabi and Jared McGriff, the fair shows that diversity is at the heart of its existence. Meeting of the Wildflowers shows the cerebral ingenuity of its subject matter. Poised and elegant it speaks wonders to the gentlemen rendered. Mmangaliso Nzuza's The Possibility of Change, displays the choices we are presented with, one each swelling with opportunity. This figurative work shows a woman with a door not knowing what's behind it. Slightly abstracted it ponders her fate.

1 Aplerh Doku Borlabi, Okuntakinte, 2022

2 Jared McGriff, Meeting of the Wildflowers, 2023,

 

3 Lulama Wolf, Nomalizo, 2023, South African


4 Dawit Abebe, Hands Matter No.10, 2023, Ethiopian


5 Malick Welli, Untitled, 2017, Senegalese



6 Mobolaji Ogunrosoye, Portraits, 2023, Nigerian


7 Mmangaliso Nzuza, The Possibility of Change, 2023, South African



8 Salifou Lindou, Trois potes dans le bruit, 2022



9 Saidou Dicko, Untitled 2023, Burkina Faso


10 Dindga McCannon, Pat is Pregnant, 1977


11 Tigist Yoseph Ron, Before Shabat, 2023, Ethiopian


                                             12 Option Nyahunzvi, Deja vu, 2022


13 Ngimbi Luve Bakambana, Nanga Boko 2, 2019, Congolese


14 Ronald Hall, Madams of the Black Ether, 2023


15 Mous Lamrabat, Brozart, 2019, Belgian




Amadou Sanogo, La corde a sauter, 2021, Malian


10.6.23

Revisiting Untitled Art Miami Beach 2022

Bryan Fernandez, An Almuerzo made with love, 2021

Carla Jay Harris, Flight One, 2022


Cruz Oritz, Yanaguana Girl in the sun, 2022


Dana Robinson, I'm just a girl from Laurel, 2022, American


Didier Viode, Un ami d'enfance, 2022, Beninese


Evita Tezeno, Running Late, 2022



Evita Tezeno, You're my everything, 2022, American



Gabriel Sanchez, Laura en la ventana 2022, American


Gabriel Sanchez, Long Distance, 2022




Georg Oskar Giannakoudakis, Prince Valium, 2022, Icelandic


Gommaar Gilliams, Sharki, 2022, Belgian


Kika Caravalho, Untitled, 2022, Brazilian



Lamar Peterson, The late spring arrival, 2022, American


Lulu Bennett, Alive in actual time, 2022, British


Lulu Bennett, Incantation, 2022, British


Nelson Makamo, Untitled, 2020,  South African



Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne, Untitled, 20022, Ghanaian


Sheena Rose, Goal Angle, 2022, Barbadian



Shikeith, Hazy Blues, 2022, American


Tewodros Hagos, Closeup 5, 2022, Ethiopian


Todd Pavlisko, Ali 2022, American


Valerie Brathwaite, Untitled, 1972, Trinidadian


Zanele Muholi, Sine IV Melbourne Australia, 2020, South African


Zeh Palito, No ordinary love, 2022, Brazilian


Zemba Luzamba, Untitled, 2022, Congolese