FAD Magazine: Top 5 Booths at NADA Art Fair 2023

Clare Gemima, FAD Magazine, May 20, 2023
When the swarms of faces you can’t remember the names of become too much to handle throughout your art fair crawl, I highly recommend seeking refuge within NADA’s following selection of incredible booths, and artworks: 

 

SHALUMIT NAZARIAN, LOS ANGELES. BOOTH 1.10

Wendy White, Annie Lapin, Dickon Drury, Daniel Gordon, Charles Snowden. 

 

Shulamit Nazarian at NADA NY 2023, May 18–21. Artists L-r: Daniel Gordon, Annie Lapin, Dickon Drury, Charles Snowden. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTISTs AND SHULAMIT NAZARIAN, LOS ANGELES.

 

All of the work in Shulamit Nazarian’s booth feels like a tease, but it really serves more as a reminder of why we must visit art fairs – every artefact looks so much better when there’s no screen in-between. Fine spray dust and delicate shadows in Wendy White’s sculptural paintings have intensified thanks to their lilac adorned install, whereas Dickon Drury’s paintings ask for acknowledgement of their flax substrates, a dynamic only physically able to be accepted. Annie Lapin’s Telescopic Simultaneous, and See A Sol, (both 2023) completely overpower viewers as ethereal trompe-l’œils, again, a relational situation entirely inaccessible online. Difficult to document, and overwhelmingly gorgeous paintings, sculptures and multimedia installations have been refreshingly celebrated by Shalumit Nazarian this year, and artwork justice has been signed, sealed, and delivered, but best received in person. 

 

SHULAMIT NAZARIAN AT NADA NY 2023, MAY 18–21.
LEFT: WENDY WHITE, SUNRISE MOMENT (AFTER CALDER), 2023. RIGHT: WENDY WHITEEND OF RAINBOWS (AFTER CALDER), 2023. IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND SHULAMIT NAZARIAN, LOS ANGELES.
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