121.9 x 101.6 cm (48 x 40 in)
Price: $18,000
Davide Balliano s luscious paintings defy simple categorisation. Layers of plaster, gesso and varnish build up to create an illusion of three dimensions that suggest never ending space. There is something animated about his work the repetitive loops and optical play of black and white are dizzying and make for truly happy yet sophisticated paintings.
Courtesy of the artist and Cardi Gallery
UNTITLED 0174, 2020
60 x 60 inches (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Price: $24,000
In his use of a carefully constructed visual language of minimalist forms and repeating patterns, Davide Balliano’s paintings are at once both visually dynamic and unexpectedly vulnerable. What at first glance appears to be a restricted precise rendering of bold black and white forms, on closer look reveals subtle surfaces on which the artist scrapes back the apparent perfection. The combination of gently worked surfaces and weighty
Friday at Frieze New York
Digital talks, screenings and highlights from Frieze New York s programming
Begin the day by browsing Frieze Viewing Room. Accessible from anywhere in the world and connecting you to the best of contemporary art.
Explore virtual booths by galleries from all around the world, including a solo presentation of
Esther Pearl Watson (Vielmetter Los Angeles), works by Chinese artist
Ding Yi (Timothy Taylor) and Helina Metaferia (Addis Fine Art); murals by
Victoria Lomasko (Edel Assanti), ceramics by
Erin Jane Nelson (Chapter NY), alongside many others.
Esther Pearl Watson,
November 1, La Fiesta Party Supply, 2020. Acrylic on panel. Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
MacDevitt created this exhibition almost as an act of desperation. His institution, Cerritos College, has been particularly strict about following COVID-19 safety protocols, banning all in-person activities on campus. While construction proceeds nicely on their new performing arts center, MacDevitt has had his hands tied in terms of being able to organize any shows or events. He finally came up with the idea of a boxed exhibition as a means of offering “a physical alternative to the online exhibitions that have become the new normal.” Two hundred boxes were produced and offered for free to the gallery’s mailing list; whoever wanted one was instructed to come to the college during certain designated safe pickup days. I picked up my box the week before Thanksgiving.