This year's
Art New York 2019 Fair offered up an impressive row of galleries; all representing incredible works of art by noteworthy artists from contemporary, modern, post-war, and pop eras. The fair held approximately 300 artists by 70 international galleries across 50 cities in 18 countries. Previously, I covered
seven standout galleries from the fair; however, in
this post, I'll be narrowing down the top seven artists who I believe stole the show.
LET'S BEGIN WITH
1. Valay Shende | Follow
(Valay Shende - photo courtesy of Opera Gallery)
Eternity Gallery
Valay Shende is an Indian sculptor and video artist. His sculptural installations reveal an artistic, social, and moral vision in a unique way; adding a new dimension to classical ideas of sculpture. His life-sized sculptural pieces are built out of minute metal discs, pocket watches, copper-plated fiberglass, and other non-traditional materials. He is concerned with the everyday tribulations affecting contemporary urban society and uses his art as his commentary and observations.
(Valay Shende, Mumbai Dabbawala, 2015, Eternity Gallery)
(Valay Shende, Mumbai Dabbawala, 2015, Eternity Gallery)
2. Fredrico Uribe | Follow
(Fredrico Uribe - courtesy of Pork Belly Times Archive)
Adelson Cavalier Galleries
Federico Uribe is a Colombian artist living in Miami, Florida. He transforms various objects, such as bullet shells, into colorful figures that stretch the limits of a given material’s original use and value. The artist moved to the United States in order to study painting, but he abandoned his painting practice in the early 2000s to create sculptures and installations of human figures and animals.
(Federico Uribe, Black Panther, 2017)
(Federico Uribe, Running Tiger, 2019)
(Federico Uribe, Running Rabbit, 2018)
3. Olga Kosheleva | Follow
(Olga Kosheleva - courtesy of the biennale belvedere)
VK Gallery
Olga Kosheleva is a Ukrainian artist, who recently broadened her medium to include sculpture and other objects. She has participated in many exhibitions, which are held in many private collections across Europe and the Americas. Olga was also awarded the Leonardo da Vinci prize in Florence, 2018 and an award from the Biennale del Belvedere di San Leucio, Italy in 2017 for her collection, "Icebreakers". I'm drawn to the playful and positive nature inspired by Olga's pieces, certainly urging the viewer to consider their impact on the world.
(Olga Kosheleva, Survival, 2018)
(Olga Kosheleva, Animals Adapting To New Realities, 2019)
4. Marc Sijan | Follow
(Marc Sijan - photo courtesy of prestige online )
Eternity Gallery
Marc Sijan is an extremely talented sculptor whose works are found all over the world and who in fact is rated Number One in his genre. His art form is called Hyperrealism. As you can see from the photos, he maintains a high level of detail on his sculptures. He is considered a genius in the art world and is better known in cities of Europe, Asia, and The Middle East. Marc is from Milwaukee and keeps a low profile.
5. Paul Rousso | Follow
(Paul Rousso, photographed by Mitchel Kearney)
Smith-Davidson Gallery
Paul Rousso's fascination with paper - currency, advertising, newspapers, magazines - its history and use, its rise and fall, is an emblematic theme reflected frequently in his compositions. Rousso endeavors to express his commentary on the human condition while physically, psychically, and temporally committing his entire life to the imaginative evolution of his visual artistry.
(NYT SUNDAY STYLES 11-6-16, Paul Rousso)
(MARILYN PROOF SHEET, Paul Rousso)
(POPS FUN SIZE, Paul Rousso)
(APPLE JACKS FUN SIZE #1, Paul Rousso)
6. Benjamin Shine | Follow
Benjamin's work has attracted a range of clients encompassing fashion labels, products, and interior manufacturers, international Arts, and Design institutions such as The Crafts Council, UK, and The New York Museum of Arts and Design. Global brands include Givenchy, Barclays Wealth, MTV, Eurostar, Deutsche Bank, Coca-Cola, and Google. To date, Benjamin has won the Red Dot Design Award, The Enterprising Young Brit Award, and The Courvoisier Future 500 Art & Design Award.
7. Kinki Texas | Follow
The visual motifs in Kinki Texas´ universe are characterized by their reference to landmark history, psychology, culture, and art history. He paints, sprays, writes, wipes, and scrapes away until he reaches a state where any additional painterly touch would overload the image. The raw appearance of these heroes and anti-heroes are matched by the roughness of the painted gestures captured in the German artists, large-scale pieces in vibrant color.
(left to Right, NAMENLOSER LOHENGRIN, 2019 & TRANSLATOR IMPERII, 2013 , Paul Rousso)
Avant Gallery
LaSsO re-envisions motifs, metaphors, and imagery experienced through different periods of the artist’s life, combined with tropical flowers and plants to create an uncanny integration between these seemingly disparate sources. A selection of LaSsO’s works was also showcased in the window displays of Valentino and Issey Miyake. In 2017, LaSso was included in ArtNet’s list of “10 Rising Street Artists Who Are Taking the Art Form Beyond Banksy.”
(LaSSo Artwork, Avant Gallery, Art New York 2019)
(The Marias, 2019, Lasso, Avant Gallery)
(Ruana, 2019, Lasso, Avant Gallery)
Avant Gallery
BNS is best known for pulling pop-cultural memes into a frenzied burst of color accompanied by dry humor, from bespoke-suited Stormtroopers to a tatted-out Mona Lisa. He uses aerosol paint, acrylic, and silkscreen to create his non-stationary murals and lustrous canvases. His canvases and murals appear in cities throughout the U.S., Spain, Australia, Russia, and Argentina.
(Menace to Society, 2019, Lasso, Avant Gallery)
(Too Cool for School, 2018, Lasso, Avant Gallery)
MARCK is a contemporary Swiss artist known for his melding of sculpture and video installations. The artist’s use of sculpted metal frames to confine his videos of women, function as metaphors for the boundaries women face in society. MARCK’s works are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Doosan Art Center in Seoul, and the Art Center Istanbul. The artist currently lives and works in his hometown of Zurich, Switzerland.
(Wasserfall, 2018, Marck)
(Clockwork, 2015, Marck)
(Artstudent (philosophize) klein, 2015, Marck)
