Jéfe aka Johnny Chiba first-person experiential of the great
art fair that is ART BASEL, and select satellite art fairs


LAUREN KELLEY

Lauren Kelley's stop-motion animation video "Get the Bones from 88 Jones: Because She Also Eats Meat" was shown
on the wall of La B.A.N.K. (
Bank Galerie France ) on the tiniest of screens, but the originality and humor caught my
stop-motion-animation-loving eye.
Using dolls and claymation, Kelley explores stereotypes of femininity and race in
a demanding and oversexed world. Kelley breathes life into plastic characters, a world in which dolls and puppets are
caught in endless streams of consciousness and are trapped in a bizarre theater of the absurd.
Kelley currently lives and works in Houston, Texas.

See Lauren Kelley's stop-motion video "Big Gurl" from 2006, c/o New Museum

 

LOUISE DESPONT

remarkable pieces using graphite, watercolor, and colored pencil on antique ledger book pages
well repped
c/o Nicelle Beauchene Gallery NYC. The piece to the left sold before my eyes!

Nicelle Beauchene also showed

RUBY SKY STILER

interesting paper-cut art from a Picasso-esque sculptress
rubyskystiler.com

 

STEVEN TABBUTT

I enjoyed this "Dust and Beast" piece from Steven Tabbutt,
even more impressive was the nice framing job, to go with
the beastly brown.

c/o Galerie Yukiko Kawase France

 

AIDS - 3D


Art made on solar panels proved to have a sunny disposition,
c/o AMP Gallery - Greece

 

PETER KOGLER

Working on the fringes of decorative and digital art,
Peter Kogler's synthetic motifs are drawn from a universe of
electronic culture (tubular forms, lines of ants, capsules, bulbs, etc),
equally at home printing, painting or doing large-scale installations

c/o Mitterand-Sanz Zürich

 

NIKOLAI NOEL

the interestingly dark work of Nikolai Noel was well represented by
White Columns Gallery, NY. plenty of red dots abounded! congrats!

 


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