Emily Davidow

Solo Impression stood out with all digitally embroidered editions (and the lovely Judith Solodkin in a jaunty hat). Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhnodeh’s Dalliances and The Perfumed Garden enchanted, Elaine Reichek’s art history series and Liliana Porter’s Garden intrigued and Kent Henricks’ The Children’s Fables creeped us out.

Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh, Dalliances, 2005, Lithography with digitized sewing, 20 x 24 inches, Edition of 25

Nicola Lopez at Tamarind Institute

We fell in love with Nicola’s room-size installation “A Promising Tomorrow” at MoMA’s recent Since 2000: Printmaking Now exhibit. She prints on mylar and assembles in 3D collage, not tamed by frame but jumping off the wall and exploding into space. Vertigo, dystopia, architecture, landscape, navigation, cartography, politics, where are we going??? Good stuff!

Nicola Lopez at Caren Golden Fine Art
Nicola Lopez at Artists Space

Nicola Lopez Excerpts from the Flood II, 2005, sixteen-color lithograph, 30 by 22 1/4 inches

Santiago Cucullu‘s “Architectonic vs. HR,” at High Point Editions a colorful installation of 12 prints that make up a 9′x10′ piece. Cleverly installed at the fair so the top and bottom rows were angled out from the wall.

Lower East Side Printshop drew me in with Sebastian Bremer’s photo webs, Paul Chan’s prints from the Alternumerics series, his brilliant experiments with font sets, rendered as truetype fonts and screensets. (Check him out speaking with Kathy Kelly on “The Art of Disarmament” 11.18 at the NYPL), and Edward del Rosario’s Counter Reformations etching with hand coloring (reminded me of Amy Cutler).

Zachary Wollard “The Ironies of Human Longing II, 2006″ at the Larissa Goldston Gallery. Love this painting by him too. Clearly, he understands the elephants. Ooh, and this one. And these! And here he is with “The Ironies of Human Longing”” that looks a lot like “The Ironies of Human Longing II”.

Last but not least, Christian Boltanski and Agnes B’s wonderful le point d’ironie series of free, unlimited editions based on the idea of “dispersion”. Each issue gives carte blanche to an artist to appropriate the entire paper. Damien Hirst’s colorful patterns will make the perfect holiday wrap. Thank you! (If you miss the fair, you can pick some up at an Agnes B. store.)

Looking forward to checking out the NY Art Book Fair 17-19 November!