Jéfe aka Johnny Chiba first-person experiential of the
great
art fair that is ART BASEL, and select satellite art fairs
The
Aqua hotel is 2 floors, each room housing a sweet gallery space, all opening
into a breezy
courtyard. one of the nicest satellite fairs in terms of feeling good as you
meander door-to-door
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From Budapest to Brooklyn,
brilliant Balint Zsako has been on TestPress radar for years,
since his art was shown at SCOPE
Miami 06. Balint also does collages and takes photograhs,
but my heart belongs to his phenomenal drawing skills, the use of color and
imagination
are out of this world, and definitely draw from an otherworldly, alien landscape.
Consistently humorous, sexually deviant & highly whimsical, his work is
amazing.
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Pics below from Balint's excellent personal website
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Toronto CANADA
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Natalie Waldburger's encaustic
painting is a highly technical skill, aka
hot wax painting, involving the use of heated beeswax. she seems to enjoy
painting her beautiful caustic self, truth be known... how is the far left
panel
(taken at Aqua) different from the far right panel (from blunt site)?
i don't know, but it looked ripe for a Majabanimation!
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AJ's grand circular paintings
are created with the eraser side of a #2 pencil.
the artist told me each circle represented a person from a specific time in
her life.
I mentioned a certain gray circle must have been a nice guy.
so circular, so animated, so animoishi....ajoishi.com
c/o Stephanie Breitbard Fine Arts
also representing:
graphics programmer slash art director
slash artist combines modern tech with
traditional painting techniques
collage artist/painter
blends different time |
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bag painter
brings new life to discarded |
2 interesting artists, well-represented by
SF CA
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As I waited for
embyronic "thing" |
...I enjoyed judging altered books by their non-covers. |
Claire
and Brian c/o
SF, CA
Mat Sicko is just one of
the great pop surrealist artists repped by
Harold Golen Gallery (Miami FL). Other Juxtapoz/High
Fructose-loving greats include
Tim Biskup, Ron English, Dalek, Liz McGrath, Mitch O'Connell, etc, the list
goes on;
well worth a trip to their trippy Miami gallery and cybermiami-website.
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Estelle Mee Moon
acrylic on wood panel
c/o
G. Gibson
Gallery
Seattle
WA
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foxy drippy woman gazing
out her Aqua
hotel window c/o Eyewash Projects
Brooklyn
see other TEST PRESS Art Basel 2010 and satellite fair reviews
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