APAA’s Top Picks from Frieze New York 2024
Thomas Lerooy, Underneath (detail), 2024. Simone Subal Gallery.
On the occasion of Frieze New York 2024, eight APAA advisors highlighted works on view (whether in-person at the fair or on the Frieze Viewing Room online). Frieze New York opens with a VIP Preview Day today (May 1) with opening hours through Sunday May 5. Learn more here.
Emma McIntyre, This fleeting, 2024
"My top pick for Frieze is the New Zealand-born, LA-based artist Emma McIntyre whose work is steeped in a pictorial abstract language that is both spontaneous and measured. In the painting This fleeting, McIntyre orchestrates a material metamorphosis by employing a reactive mixture that oxidizes when combined with iron-based pigment. This chemical process yields an organic landscape of warm rusts and lush maroons, starkly contrasting with a more controlled area depicted as a small flower-life form with trails painted using unmixed Titanium White and Egyptian Violet. These juxtapositions of color and process, combined with McIntyre’s mark making, allow viewers to witness both the cycle of beauty and decay inherent in the cyclical nature of existence and our own presence within it.”
Oil and iron oxide on linen
70 x 98 inches
Presented by Château Shatto
Thomas Lerooy, Underneath, 2024
“Thomas Lerooy’s magic-surreal portraits wink at Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers, just as they frame something more urgent, namely: instability — instability of history, memory and imagery itself. In a still crowded field of figure painting today, the bar continues to rise.”
Oil on canvas
28 × 22 inches (71.12 × 55.88 cm)
29 × 23 inches (73.66 × 58.42 cm) (framed)
Presented by Simone Subal Gallery
Kaveri Raina, the kingdom, the cave, the beginning, and the sun shining through the haystacks, 2024
“Raina’s work is characterized by the mixture of deeply saturated colors laid on top of rougher underlying textiles such as burlap and muslin. The contrast between these more humble materials and the intense colors are beautifully intertwined, both connected to childhood memories of her native India. The paintings have subtle glimpses of figures and landscape within generally abstract compositions, their mythologies and mysteries presented to glorious and stunning effect.”
Acrylic, graphite, oil pastel, burlap
75 x 120”
Presented by Casey Kaplan
Nate Lowman, Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory, 2022
“I find David Zwirner’s fantastic combination of Nate Lowman and Franz West particularly fresh and exciting. A beautiful marriage between two artists who create an interesting dialogue between viewer and object, while demonstrating, challenging and appropriating the historical aesthetic relationship between sculpture and painting. And this Nate Lowman shaped canvas is a total winner for me. Based on the advanced previews I’ve seen, I think the Zwirner booth might win best in show!”
Oil, acrylic, and silkscreen ink on canvas with nylon thread on wood panel
59 1/2 x 48 inches
Presented by David Zwirner
Florian Krewer, Stronger Lover, 2024
“This is a magnificent monumental example of Krewer’s work. It feels historic and new. Totally transporting. The palette is striking in contrasts with the rich royal blue and the gold, orange patterning of the animal prints. Sensational painting on a grand scale”
118 1/4 x 108 1/4 inches
Presented by Michael Werner
Hiroshi Sugito, color tree 2, 1994/2024
“I first discovered Hiroshi Sugito at Tomio Koyama Gallery at FIAC in Paris in the Fall of 2021 and I have been following his work ever since. Sugito is a highly influential painter and teacher in Japan and has gained international recognition in the context of the Tokyo-Pop movement. His style of painting is imbued with a sense of freshness and immediacy, a way of mark-making that is uniquely his own. Throughout his oeuvre, Sugito presents imaginary, dreamy scenes that seem to originate from memory and childlike fantasy with recurring motifs of mountaintops, waves, blossoms, and houses. His work oscillates between complete abstraction and subtle referentiality. Color tree 2 employs a bolder palette in lieu of Sugito’s typical pastels. The work is evocative of a landscape - the image of a tree is clear, but has been playfully obscured. I’m excited to see the group of works that Tomio Koyama will be bringing to Frieze New York."
Acrylic, pigment on paper
184 x 267 centimeters
Presented by Tomio Koyama Gallery
Abel Rodríguez, El árbol de la vida y la abundancia, 2023
“I had the opportunity of seeing Abel Rodríguez's fantastic installation at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, and his work continues to be a memorable stand out for me. A sage of the Nonuya people, Rodríguez possesses profound ancestral wisdom about the lands of his native territory, La Chorrera, in the Colombian Amazon. His artistic practice serves as a means of documenting and transmitting information about the ecological systems of the Amazon basin, ensuring the preservation of this knowledge for future generations. In a delightfully naïve drawing style, Rodríguez shares glimpses of jungle life that are captivating representations of daily existence in the Amazon, as well as accurate records of the region’s biodiversity. Each composition sits at the intersection of art and science, offering a valuable contribution to our ongoing exploration and comprehension of the unique Amazonian habitat.”
Ink on paper
55.12" x 54.92" (140 cm x 139.5 cm)
Presented by Instituto de Vision
Camille Blatrix, Roleplay, 2022
"Camille Blatrix’s mysterious, attention-catching, Roleplay, is one of my top picks for this year’s Frieze New York. The artist works out of his father’s former painting studio in Paris, tailoring his handmade, wooden sculptures to the allowances of his working environment. Blatrix’s pieces exist as imagined, futuristic artifacts; bearing similarities to commonplace objects and machinery, but, on further inspection, lack identifiable purpose. His sterile machines are contrasted by the implication of the artist’s touch in his use of traditional wood marquette to form the pictorial elements of his sculptures as well as the occasional evidence of natural imagery interwoven within. Framed in purple, in Roleplay, we see a honey bee emerge from the nested peel of a red apple upon an apparatus reminiscent of a microscope or sewing machine. Surreal, intriguing and playful, Blatrix leaves the viewer with a multitude of questions."
Wooden marquetry
36 1/2 x 29 inches
Presented by Andrew Kreps Gallery
