VIRTUAL INTERVIEW FOR THE AFFORDABLE ONLINE ART FAIR
Nov 10, 2020
Watch our interview with the Affordable Art Fair’s US Regional Managing Director, Cristina Salmastrelli.
In this video we discuss how we assess abstract art: through Method, Material, and Magic.
Gallery artist Kal Mansur discusses his process, his epoxy sculptures, and his new text-based works, the Kalkus.
THE AFFORDABLE ONLINE ART FAIR IS OPEN!
November 6, 2020
The Affordable Online Art Fair just opened and runs till November 30th. View our gallery page and use the fair's innovative browsing feature to hone in on artworks that pique your interest.
We'll be featuring new work, curated in our showroom. We're also posting video features on our Instagram.
We're offering free shipping within North America and competitive rates worldwide.
AFFORDABLE ONLINE ART FAIR OPENS SOON
November 2, 2020
We’re elated to be one of fifty hand-picked international galleries participating in the first Affordable Online Art Fair. The fair will take place from November 6th-30th. Make sure to register for Early Access from November 4th-5th and be among the first to browse the fair.
ART FAIR PREVIEW
October 11, 2020
Affordable Online Art Fair, Nov 6-30, 2020
We’re elated to be one of 50 hand-picked galleries to be promoted in the fair's 10 key markets around the world: London, New York City, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Brussels, Stockholm, Milan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne.
We’ll be exhibiting new work by Natale Adgnot, Jasmine Cardenas, Kate Casanova, Margie Kelk, Matt Neuman, Kal Mansur, Robert Rustermier, P Elaine Sharpe, and Court Swartz.
KNAPPED SERIES BY KAL MANSUR
July 24, 2020
These artworks are pigmented and carved epoxy slabs. Their solidity is borne out of a process combining temperature, time, and viscosity. These physical forces result in translucent and topographical objects. With this new work Mansur continues his exploration of the processes that shape materiality and abstraction.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: COURT SWARTZ AND JASMINE CARDENAS
May 28, 2020
Jasmine Cardenas (b. 1995) is a Toronto based Ecuadorian-Canadian artist working with sculptural paintings, collage and installation. She received her BFA from OCAD University in 2017. Through collecting personal images and objects, her work explores themes of cultural hybridity, childhood, and storytelling. Cardenas’ practice uses a playful tactile approach, materializing lived experiences.
Court Swartz (b. 1993) aspires to create work that involves the viewer without the use of any subject matter or objective message. In 2013 he began to suspend sculptural forms of paint within geometric prisms of hand-cast acrylic glass. Selectively affecting the surface clarity creates windows and apertures, offering insight to the internal elements as they are concealed and revealed. Swartz simultaneously creates large-scale oil paintings, using the phenomenon generated within the sculptural works as inspiration.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: MATT NEUMAN AND VERA BOBSON
May 21, 2020
Matt Neuman is a painter and printmaker based in Brooklyn. During his MFA at Boston University, Neuman began to focus his attention on basic geometric interactions. In his work, geometry provides a structural logic that resonates with the human need to organize and iterate information. While his compositions are largely pre-determined, his color handling is fluid and often relies on chance. This is apparent in his new body of work, Coils, consisting of gradient fields underpinning what he calls impossible geometries.
Vera Bobson paints expressive, non-objective forms in watercolor. Her saturated geometric forms are built through a durational painting process. As an unforgiving medium, watercolor enables her to foment abstraction in and through material limitations.
ARTIST FEATURE: KAL MANSUR AND ROBERT RUSTERMIER
May 14, 2020
Kal Mansur is best known for his translucent acrylic sculptures that visually change as light strikes their internal elements. As natural light casts internal shadows it illuminates other segments, enabling the viewer to visually travel through the composition.
This piece was commissioned by the School of Design at George Brown College in Toronto in 2019. This 5’ diameter acrylic sculpture combines graphic elements with ethereal, translucent color fields. A collector describes Kal’s work as containing mini-events that bloom throughout the day.
Robert Rustermier creates translucent and ethereal paintings in paraffin wax. His work explores the visual effect that semi-translucent material has on a simple field of color. Identifying with neo-geometric abstraction, Rustermier uses fundamental shapes – circles and lines – and arranges them in multiple ways to create a sense of spatial depth. His work explores the use of these shapes and their formed relationships in ambiguous space.
Cecilia Charlton's textile-based works incorporate elements of needlepoint, embroidery, and knitting. Her idiosyncratic blending of these traditional modes results in distinctive works that have an optically challenging and playful approach to formalism.
Natale Adgnot's works appear to be sketches when viewed frontally and come into relief when viewed from other angles. Her artworks can be viewed as systems that investigate human vulnerability to dogma and the promise of an explanation.
ART KEEPS GOING II
May 3, 2020
The past month has given us a lot of time to think about why we do what we do. We believe in supporting the work of visual artists, especially those that focus on abstraction. We draw inspiration from how our artists explore color, form, geometry, stroke, and gesture in their work. These deceptively simple themes tune our vision.
To help keep art going, we’re offering free shipping within Canada and the United States for the month of May. We are also offering payment plans upon request.
Our website lists all our inventory and will be regularly updated with new work. A good place to start: artworks $1200 and under.
Matt Neuman has been working hard at his studio in the Bronx, producing new woodblock prints. These ornate works resonate in their process-driven simplicity.
Natale Adgnot’s work was very well-received at Pulse Miami, where the gallery sold out her work. Her wall reliefs often seem like sketches when viewed frontally, but reveal dimensionality from multiple angles.
Kal Mansur has produced a new series of epoxy sculptures called Terraces. The artworks are solid, carved epoxy sculptures which began in liquid form. Their solidity is borne out of a fluid process combining temperature, time, and viscosity. These geological forces result in translucent and topographical objects, continuing Mansur’s exploration of the space between the abstract and the recognizable.
ART KEEPS GOING
April 16, 2020
In these difficult times, our artists continue to produce work, and we will continue to promote them, because art must keep going.
In the coming weeks we’ll be offering incentives towards purchasing artwork, including payment plans and free shipping. Our primary goal is to ensure that our artists continue their studio practices as we work through the challenges posed by COVID-19.
Send us an email if you’re interested in learning more about our artists or in starting a conversation about collecting artwork.
ART BASEL WEEK IN MIAMI BEACH | December 5-8, 2019
October 8, 2019
We’ll be exhibiting new work by Kal Mansur, Natale Adgnot, Margie Kelk, Jodie Fletcher, and Evan Ishmael.
Along with the work of P Elaine Sharpe, Cecilia Charlton, and Courtlandt Swartz.
CANDY BY KATHRYN KNUDSEN
September 23, 2019
Kathryn Knudsen’s work, Candy, was featured in “NYC Fair Director’s Top Picks” for the Affordable Art Fair in New York, September 25-29, 2019.
AFFORDABLE ART FAIR NEW YORK
September 25-29, 2019
Debuting work by new gallery artists Natale Adgnot, Evan Ishmael, Kathryn Knudsen, and Jodie Fletcher. Launching new work by Kal Mansur.
Find us at Stand #E11 (first floor) at the Metropolitan Pavilion.
KAL MANSUR: NEW VALKYRIES
Industry City, Brooklyn
April 26, 2019
JOHN-PAUL RAUTIO: ISOMORPHISMS
May 1, 2019
KAL MANSUR: PULSE PRIZE NOMINATION FOR NON-SPECIFIC OBJECTS
November 21, 2018
reference: contemporary is pleased to present Kal Mansur's Non-Specific Objects, an entirely new body of work that will be launched at Pulse Miami Beach. The fair opens on Thursday, December 6 and runs through December 9, 2018, at Indian Beach Park.
What is a line? The question is naive. A line, real or imaginary, signifies a path, a continuous point, a moving mark. It designates both a reality and its figure: the line of a mountain, for contour; the line of a body, for its shape; the line of water, for a demarcation. The line operates in everyday life with such efficiency that we forget that this simple word not only organizes our perception, but determines our basic rapports between front and back, deep and shallow, in and out, near and far, on and off, up and down, past and present, today and tomorrow. Our physical geography, our relations to nature, and even the whole domain of our culture, are topographies structured by lines. Kal Mansur's work figures an artist's apprehension.
—V.Y. Mudimbe, On African Fault Lines (2013)
For Pulse Miami, Kal Mansur has created sculptures—non-specific objects—which are a simultaneous homage to and departure from minimalist traditions. The series combines gestural drawing with multiple machining processes. Mansur composes first with tape, creating a drawing built upon strokes that, unlike pencil drawings, do not bear the memory of an erased line. The composition is then carved into a solid acrylic slab. The incisions are filled with pigmented epoxy, layers of color built up millimeters at a time. Using a carving machine, Mansur exposes deeper layers by excavating into the slab, creating steppes that are only visible upon closer inspection. Shadows of invisible lines are cast on the wall, as the artwork's incline creates optical effects. The conceptual underpinnings are vast, as Mansur moves past diffusion as a compositional element, and explores how transparency can carry unexpected consequences.
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THE GALLERY RETURNS TO AQUA ART MIAMI DURING ART BASEL WEEK
November 21, 2018
At AQUA, the gallery will be presenting work by Margie Kelk, JP Rautio, Kal Mansur, Matt Neuman, and Court Swartz, all abstract artists. AQUA’s unique environment – in a classic South Beach hotel with spacious exhibition rooms that open onto a breezy, intimate courtyard – has become a favorite gathering spot for collectors, curators and art lovers to discover fresh talent and acquire new works while exchanging cultural ideas and forming meaningful connections.
MARGIE KELK’S UNDERSEE HAS BEEN FEATURED ON BLOUIN ARTINFO
August 8, 2018
