Affordable Art Fair New York 2023.

Following our participation at Volta, we are coming back to New York City to resume our fair calendar.

Opening September 20 through the 24th at the Metropolitan Pavilion, the Affordable Art Fair wants to help individuals “discover the joy of collecting art” and helps enrich the cultural fabric of New York City.

This year, we are presenting a multi artist booth featuring works from four Latin American Women Artists and one Male Artist. Despite working with different styles, media, and objectives, all of these artists demonstrate how Art can be a vehicle for expressing emotion and telling stories.

We hope our booth at the Affordable Art Fair helps individuals discover the joy of collecting Latin American Art.

Find out more about the artists represented below:

Maria Otero (Colombia, b. 1982) A publicist by training, Maria Otero focuses her work on the relationship between language and reality. In selecting which words to highlight (and which ones to not highlight) in otherwise seemingly common word scrabbles, Maria invites the viewer to build with her a new imagined reality. Furthermore, she explores the use of patterns and the circular concept as a path for new ideas, reimagining the relationship the reality and that which is imagined. Her works have been shown in solo and group shows across the United States, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Japan, and Colombia. She is currently represented by Otros360 and Catalysta,

Michelle Gleiser (Peru, b. 1983) Michelle is primarily a sculptor who uses organic shapes to build works that represent one of the few certainties in life: “each of the events in our lives, whether planned or not, make up our existence and make us who we are today”. While for the most part we cannot control what happens in our lives, we can understand how and why we got where we are. In a way, then, her work is a reflection of her personal concerns: it externalizes, makes tangible, and re-contextualizes that which we experienced. Her organic sculptures often have empty spaces, that are necessary for her compositions insofar they ground that which exists - similar to our experiences in our lives. She has participated in individual, collective and charity exhibitions, as well as in various projects and Contemporary Art Fairs such as Pinta Parc, Art Lima, ArtMotiv, CasaCor, Artbox Projects Basel and NY. Her work is in several private collections in Lima - Peru, Santiago - Chile, and Los Angeles and Miami - USA.

Gabriela Farias Hansen (Dominican Republic, b. 1995) A graduate of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gabriela has recently returned to the Dominican Republic after residing in the United States for the past 5 years. Her work is colorful and bright, a play on different textures, shapes, and scales that help bring out emotions decoded from her memory archive. The bold patterns and colors act as a bridge between who she was and who she is, confronting the “inevitable evolution of the modern me bombarded by a fast world.” Further, her choice of wood as medium gives the work a familiar feeling - inviting the viewer to observe and reflect without feeling challenged or intimidated. The works displayed at the Affordable Art Fair are part of Gabriela’s first series and were highlighted on the “Globetrotter” article from the show’s director: https://affordableartfair.com/inspiration/globetrotter-exhibiting-artists-and-galleries-from-around-the-world/

Mau Samayoa (El Salvador, b. 1989) Mau primarily deals with paper, leveraging the medium to create abstract structures that seemingly repeat themselves for the entirety of the work. Fascinated by the interplay between repetition and memory, he creates subtle variations and nuances across repeating patterns, inviting the viewer to bring memories into focus by observing and exploring where textures interact with color, light and shadows to (re)create new patterns. Based in the United Kingdom.

Alexa Torre (Mexico, b. 1987) Photographer and visual artist. Currently resides in Mérida Yucatán. Studied Communication Sciences Anahuac University and Photography at New England School of Photography. She recently exhibited at Scope Miami,The Other Art Fair NYC, Gericke / Paffrath Gallery Germany and Olimpo Cultural Center of Mérida and others. And has collaborated with several magazines such as Cuartoscuro, National Geographic, Huffpost among others. Her recent work has focused on women as a physical or symbolic protagonist in several series of photographs.

Torre uses irony, social, regional and international stereotypes, to show everyday life as a series of details in which the viewer can relate through memory or from day to day. Her investigation of color has a particular interest in color as a sign and symbol. How the viewer can categorize an object depending on the ‘filter with which he looked. Her work also experiments with light and the ability to transform objects at the two dimensional and three dimensional level.