Smart art
Wed Jun 4 2008
Affordable Art Fair director Laura Meli’s three favorite picks from this year’s event:
Dan Baldwin
Apocalypse Wow Last Chance, 2007$595
“Baldwin incorporates elements that are part of our daily lives—American flags, U.S. dollars, pop-culture imagery, cartoons—and meshes them in an eerily beautiful way. This is a piece that will certainly instigate interesting discussions, but is also an easy piece with which to coexist.”
Giclée with silk-screen varnishes on 310gsm paper; Gallery One (galleryone.com)
John Olsen
January 2006, 2007$500
“January 2006 is based on a series of photographs depicting mundane scenarios in which the main subjects all wear the same striped sweatshirt. The viewer is made to feel uncomfortable by the fact that there is no explanation. I can’t stop trying to come up with backstories for this piece.”
Oil on MDF panel; Sam Lee Gallery (samleegallery.com)
Ross Bonfanti
Bear C212, 2008$450
“In a twist on taxidermy, a child’s toy is stuffed with concrete, distorting our associations. Bonfanti alters our ideas of humor, beauty and our cherished childhood memories.”
Concrete, plastic, fur; AWOL Gallery (awolgallery.com)
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