At NADA, a Glorious Collision of Paintings and Ceramics
Two things can be found everywhere at NADA New York in lower Manhattan: painting and ceramics. This makes sense, since the younger generation of digital natives (people who grew up with the internet and social media) that NADA generally features tend to favor art that is pointedly nondigital and handcrafted. But I’m getting ahead of myself. First, NADA.
The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is a group of new and mostly young art dealers. This is the eighth edition of NADA New York (the last New York fair was in 2018, although they appeared in Miami last December). Eighty-one members are represented in this fair, with a total of 120 galleries and nonprofits from the U.S. and around the world.
Younger dealers presumably take greater risks, and you see plenty of that here — in tone and attitude, mostly. The work ranges from scruffy, comic and irreverent to smartly polished — albeit with an edge. The last thing anyone wants to do is look old or irrelevant before their time. And yet, artists and dealers need to make a living, hence the prevalence of painting and sellable crafts that knowingly copy the normcore aesthetic of thrift shops and folk art.Other notable galleries showing paintings include Stephen Thorpe at Denny Dimin (Booth 6.14)
