Art on Paper March 8-11 2018

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Art on Paper returns to Pier 36 this March 8-11 for the fair's anticipated fourth edition. Featuring eighty-five top galleries presenting paper-based art, Art on Paper will include a program of special projectsthat highlight the diversity of paper, pushing the boundaries of the medium out into the fair's public spaces.

At the Art on Paper entrance, Walter Maciel Gallery will present Understory by Timothy Paul Myers and Andrew Barnes. The life-size installation replicates a suburban basement, complete with the furnishings and objects typically found therein. The laundry machine, old bed frame, ping pong paddle and coffee maker all have their place amongst the piles and crowded shelves that make up this catch-all space. Myers and Barnes transform this familiar room by meticulously wrapping these every day objects in a layer of flesh colored, paper-based felt. The uniformity created from this tonal wash further obscures the boundaries and individuality of these every day items for the viewer.

Julio Valdez Project Space will present Michele Brody's Reflections in Tea, an interactive, long-term project inspired by the worldwide tradition of drinking and sharing tea. Initially envisioned as a mobile tea house, Reflections in Tea emphasizes the invitation to enter and share tea within a semi-private space. Each ceremony focuses on the sharing of stories within the context and history of one’s community, after which participants are asked to inscribe their impressions onto the stained paper filters used to brew the tea. These tea notes are then hung together with past tea stories, culminating in the creation of an ever-growing installation of fluttering paper quilts.

Garvey | Simon will present several life-size sculptures by Will Kurtz. Created out of newspaper with an internal structure of wood and wire, Kurtz's subjects are real, everyday people who are often undistinguished and living on the margins of society. They have a familiarity of someone you might know or have passed on the street. Kurtz captures their resilience and vulnerability to embody a true empathy for the hardships we all share.

Forum Gallery will present two large-scale charcoal on paper works by William Beckman, The Bull Series #10 and Bathers. Throughout his career, Beckman has used media in unconventional ways. His drawings were honored with a retrospective exhibition organized by the Columbus Museum, GA, and then traveled to the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. His work is included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, the Columbus Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Frye Art Museum, among others.

Heather Gaudio Fine Art will present Jae Ko's FLOW from the Force of Nature Series. Dating back to 1996, the Force of Nature series looks to kraft paper rolls and other industrial paper commonly used for wrapping and packing. By shifting from the medium’s flatness to its spatial configuration, Ko amasses and transforms large quantities of paper into installations either by bundling them tightly, stacking them up, or pilling them against the wall, which in turn produces folds, pleats, and gaps. With such an interplay of line and volume, movement and solidity, the Force of Nature series evokes forces of nature: arctic glacier, rolling hills, ocean tides, or blowing wind. To learn more about Art on Paper, visit thepaperfair.com

Art on Paper Exhibitor List

AHA Fine Art New York ANALIX FOREVER Geneva Aperture Foundation New York AroundSpace Gallery Shanghai Artemisa Gallery New York Aspinwall Editions New York AUREUS CONTEMPORARY Providence Back Gallery Project Vancouver Burnet Editions New York C. G. Boerner New York C24 Gallery New York Center Street Studio Milton Village Cheryl Hazan Gallery New York Childs Gallery Boston Cinders Gallery Brooklyn CK Contemporary San Francisco Dolan/Maxwell Philadelphia Durham Press Durham Electric Works San Francisco Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery San Francisco ELLEN MILLER GALLERY Boston ex-chamber museum Tokyo F. L. Braswell Fine Art Chicago Fahey.Bodell.Umbrella Arts Gallery New York Feheley Fine Arts Toronto Forum Gallery New York frosch&portmann New York galerie 103 Kaua'i Gallery Victor Armendariz Chicago Garvey | Simon New York Gates of the West Gilbertsville George Billis Gallery NY/LA Gibbons & Nicholas Dublin Hal Katzen Gallery New York Hashimoto Contemporary San Francisco HATHAWAY Atlanta Heather Gaudio Fine Art New Canaan hpgrp GALLERY New York/Toyko Imaginario Galería de Arte Buenos Aires Imlay Gallery Montclair Jennifer Melby Editions Brooklyn John Szoke Gallery New York JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY New Orleans Julio Valdez Project Space New York Katharina Rich Perlow Fine Arts New York Kathryn Markel Fine Arts New York Manifold Editions London Masterworks Fine Art Oakland Michele Mariaud Gallery New York Mixografia Los Angeles Muriel Guépin Gallery New York Nancy Hoffman Gallery New York Nil Gallery Paris Ohshima Fine Art Tokyo Paradigm Gallery + Studio Philadelphia Paulson Fontaine Press Berkeley PIGMENT GALLERY Barcelona Quogue Gallery Quogue Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery London/New York Richard Levy Gallery Albuquerque Ronin Gallery New York Rosenbaum Contemporary Miami SAMUEL FREEMAN Los Angeles Spanierman Modern New York Spoke Art San Francisco/New York SPONDER GALLERY Boca Raton STOA Gallery Estepona Stoney Road Press Dublin Sugarlift New York Sugarlift Presents: Nicolas V. Sanchez New York SUSAN TELLER GALLERY New York Tamarind Institute Albuquerque Tandem Press Madison TODAY IS THE DAY FOUNDATION New York The Lower Eastside Girls Club New York The Tolman Collection Tokyo/New York Uprise Art New York Upsilon Gallery NY/London/Miami Beach Vertu Fine Art Boca Raton Vietnamese Contemporary Fine Art New York Walter Maciel Gallery Los Angeles Walter Wickiser Gallery New York Watanuki Ltd. | Gallery Toki-no-Wasuremono Tokyo 3walls Brooklyn 55 Bellechasse Gallery Paris/Miami

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