50 Foot Woman By Monica Mangano is just $1500 (All Photos By Gail)
I’ve been attending NYC’s biannual Affordable Art Fair for the past ten years, with the exception of 2020, when both the Spring and Fall fairs — like everything else — were preempted by Covid. Since that Year Without Art, the AAF has come back bigger than ever! This season, the art seemed especially vibrant and varied, and I had a fantastic time, strolling from floor to floor while sipping a free Hard Iced Tea from the open bar and checking out all of my favorite art and art peeps. Please enjoy my photos from a really good first night at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Continue reading Favorite Art from The Affordable Art Fair, Spring 2024!→
Not since the Fancy Animal Carnival of 2016 has a menagerie of exotic of creatures like those you’ll see in Hacer: Transformations been set loose in NYC’s Garment District. For just a few more weeks, New Yorkers and visitors to Midtown Manhattan can experience a series of seven gigantic, origami-inspired sculptures that comprise this public art exhibit, which features two dark turquoise coyotes, two medium turquoise rabbits, a magenta elephant, a yellow dog and a green bear cub.
One of Taiwan’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, Hung Yi (洪易), in association with NYC’s Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, has brought a selection of his large scale, fantastical and cheerful sculptures to New York City in a Fall/Winter exhibition. Fancy Animal Carnival is currently on view outdoors in the Garment District Pedestrian Plazas, between 34th Street and 42nd Street.
Dromedary Camel
Hung Yi creates animated and personified interpretations of animals based on symbols from Taiwanese traditions, which are believed to be lucky. He paints the whimsical sculptures with patterns and texts that are aligned with fortuitous intention. Yi’s works are displayed in many locations outside of Taiwan, which include airports, theater halls, plazas and universities all around the world, and it is very cool to have this exhibit here in the city for all to enjoy!
Bactrian Camel
All sculptures are created from painted, baked enamel on steel plate, and they are mounted on granite pedestals.
Bactrian Camel, Detail
Here are a few of the sculptures that you will encounter as you walk along Broadway between Herald Square and Times Square.
Fortunate Round Dragon
Dynamic Round Dragon
Yellow Ox
Buffalo and Eagle
Dragon Horse
Hung Yi’s Fancy Animal Carnival will be on Display Along NYC’s Garment District Pedestrian Plazas, Broadway between 34th Street and 41st Street, Through April 15th, 2017.
Pink Teddy Bear By Valay Shende, $4,000 (All Photos By Gail)
The late summer edition of the Affordable Art Fair is back at the Metropolitan Pavilion through Sunday, September 13th! We hit the Preview Night on Wednesday and were thrilled with the variety of artworks for sale and the friendliness of the gallery representatives on hand to help move each piece along to an art-loving home.
We took a ton of photos, as usual, but managed to edit this post down to 10 (or 11, actually) of our favorite Pink Things we saw at the show. Enjoy!
Adam KouKoudakis, Tiger Requiem (Pink) at Jealous Gallery London
Twiggy By Elisabetta Fantone at Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, IN
Brooklyn Bridge by Thierry Hoyau at Arteria Gallery, Canada
Bubblegum Sculptures By Maurizio Savini at Emanuel Fremin, NYC
Pink Panther in a Pink Suit, By JuanRamon Garcia at standARTe, Madrid Spain
Emma Levine, Flouro Tree II at LCA, London Contemporary Art
Emigre Collection, Tokyo Japan
Art By Lumir Hladik at Reference Contemporary, Toronto CA
Dong Hee Lee, Pink Cell Division at H.O.V Art (High on Visual Art), Brooklyn, NY
That was fun right? And there is so much more to see, so make sure to go this weekend!
The Metropolitan Pavilion is located at 125 West 18th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) and the Affordable Art Fair hours are as follows:
Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is currently exhibiting a portfolio of 15 large photographs shot by Julian Lennon during his travels through Kenya and Ethiopia as part of his involvement in the Water and The White Feather Foundation initiative for Africa.
Reverence
Happy Girl (Top), Wheels of Fortune (Bottom)
While I was admiring these, a guy standing behind me asked if I knew where they were taken. “I think they were taken in Africa,” I replied, “No,” he interjected, “They were taken on the Moon.” What an ass.
Haven
I really like this one.
Secret Way
You can see that Julian has an amazing talent for composition and capturing the human spirit.
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This exhibit will be up for all of April so make a point to check it out.
Julian Lennon Horizon will be on Exhibit Through May 2nd, 2015 at Emanuel Fremin Gallery, Located at 547 W. 27th Street #510, in the Chelsea Gallery District.
