The Other Art Fair
Spring sessions at The Other Art Fair were, as ever, overwhelming in the best way—hundreds of artists across Brooklyn, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, and Dallas (and beyond), each bringing something distinct to the floor. Every edition, Saatchi Art’s curatorial team walks away with a longer list of highlights than we can fit into a single post. Here are five artists that have stuck with us—practices that keep surfacing in conversation, in our collections, and in our recommendations to collectors.
Spotted at The Other Art Fair London: Kimberley Day
Kimberley Day lives on the Isle of Purbeck on the south coast of England. Her landscapes read as the work of someone who observes and moves through her environment, until the land becomes felt as much as seen. Working with paint and pastels, she builds up surfaces with a luxuriant, layered texture that carries the physical reality of place: the soundlessness of a forest or the tonal harmony of a coastline at dusk.
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Spotted at The Other Art Fair Brooklyn: Yoojin Shin
Yoojin Shin’s paintings are immediately, irresistibly fun. Born in Seoul and now based in New York City, Yoojin makes natural still lifes that carry a playfulness of subject and a color sensibility that is deeply satisfying. Her work has been privately collected across Europe and the United States, and it’s easy to understand why—it has the quality of brightening whatever room it’s in.
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Spotted at The Other Art Fair Chicago: Jiro Ishihara
Working across photography, video, and new media, Jiro Ishihara has built his practice around an open question: how do we describe the relationship between objects and ourselves? His series The Name of the Sky—inkjet prints face-mounted to acrylic—places the viewer peering through the window of a plane, suspended in the air, with nothing below and nothing above. Completely still. Entirely serene.
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Spotted at The Other Art Fair Los Angeles: Kiara Aileen Machado
Portrait painting lives or dies on whether the sitter feels like a real person on the other side of the easel, and Kiara Aileen Machado’s work passes that test with authority. Born in Lynwood, California, Kiara depicts and explores interior lives with soulfulness. There’s an intimacy to the exchange she creates between viewer and sitter, a feeling that you’ve been let into something private and true.
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Spotted at The Other Art Fair Dallas: Chelsea Bernardo
Chelsea Bernardo works with paint and water on raw canvas, building stain-dye textures that develop organically through gesture and material movement. Her abstracts are warm and cloudy, suffused with a softness that doesn’t tip into sentimentality. There’s weight beneath the lightness. Coming back to painting after a period of burnout, her series Radiant Within carries her reckoning with vulnerability and strength that finds its way into color and texture.