Photo: Clockwise from top left: Caroline Gutierrez, Yurim Gough, Steve Moors, Sasha Brito. Forget about sterile galleries, snooty attendees, and ultra-expensive pieces. The Other Art Fair, which is coming to the Brooklyn Expo this weekend, offers a welcoming and accessible alternative to art show stereotypes. The biannual event is known for its support of emerging talent and is a jumping-off point for many art careers. Read on to meet ten of the 130 talented exhibitors you’ll see this weekend.
Yurim Gough / @yurimgough Do you? Why? Photo: Yurim Gough The girl who does not resist. Photo: Yurim Gough No way! Photo: Yurim Gough The process to create one of Yurim Gough’s unique ceramic stoneware bowls is a long one. Working with live models, she begins by drawing their figure on the bowl, and then bisque firing it. Then she adds images — layering, firing, and glazing as she goes. She repeats the process up to five times for a single piece.
Emily Shopp / @printshopp Sand Ghosts. Photo: Emily Shopp Smooth Surfaces. Photo: Emily Shopp Opening Up. Photo: Emily Shopp Emily Shopp’s work combines printmaking with collage, layering etchings and woodcuts on top of each other with semi-transparent paper. Heath Kane / @byheathkane Phastasiam. Photo: Heath Kane Rich Enough to be Batman. Photo: Heath Kane In Brands we Trust. Photo: Heath Kane Heath Kane’s multimedia work ranges from large acrylic and oil pant canvases to screen prints and sculptures. Described as a “cynical take on pop-art,” his pieces challenge the fascination and romance our society has of the past.
“The point is to paint everyone with broad paint-strokes and vibrant colors in such a way that defies the boundaries of old school conventional portraiture,” she says. “They defy the real so that the people they portray become different personas altogether.” Steve Moors / @stevemoorsart HousePlanFamily. Photo: Steve Moors FlyingFrogConservatory. Photo: Steve Moors BambiFigurineCouple. Photo: Steve Moors Steve Moor creates his detailed, hand-drawn images on a tablet with a digital pencil. He then prints the illustrations, and mounts them on black aluminium.
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