With so many returnees, evacuees and relocatees walking the track at the Fest these days, I keep finding myself pulled into a mini-reunion around every corner with relocated friends like Jimmy Descant whose found object artwork rocked the art booths.
With the greedy eyes of speculators at auctions, they screamed and cheered for artist-made tattoos, photos of themselves and a Damien Hirst spin-art booth.
The liquid can then be deposited on a spinning wafer, forming a thin film through centrifugal action (much like a spin-art booth at a carnival) or printed using an ink-jet process.
Last week, What Lies Beneath was exhibited at browngrotta arts' booth at Art on Paper, alongside some of his other work.
Hooked is on view at the David Benrimon Fine Art booth as part of the Art New York fair.
In a huge print of a 1981 Richard Avedon photograph at the Bernheimer Fine Art booth, a nude Nastassja Kinski lies eerily still as a giant snake slithers over her.
She will also be signing at the Lightspeed Fine Art Booth.
I did notice the same Georgia O'Keefe drawing I'd seen at their Art Show booth a couple of years ago now on exhibit at their Armory Show Booth.
As jumbled as any art fair booth, it nonetheless rewards the eye on almost every front, suggesting a broad artistic continuum that renders labels moot.
Eric Fischl, Art Fair: Booth #22, Evil Live, 2013, Oil on Linen, 68 x 82 inches.
