Eight Works Under $10k at Frieze New York 2024
Among the big-ticket pieces at Frieze New York, there is a wealth of outstanding art with smaller price-tags. Here are some of the best
Among the big-ticket pieces at Frieze New York, there is a wealth of outstanding art with smaller price-tags. Here are some of the best
Including Hiroshi Sugito’s meditative works, Amalia Pica's humorous collages and Siqi Tao’s erotically charged paintings, discover work for all tastes at Frieze New York and on Frieze Viewing Room this year.
Reverend Joyce McDonald, Beauty in the Midst (In Memory of Ngone), 2024
Glazed ceramic, oil, epoxy and found object, 27.94 cm × 17.78 cm × 4.45 cm. Presented by Gordon Robichaux. $9,000.
Born and raised in New York, Reverend Joyce McDonald battled addiction and a 1985 HIV diagnosis to be ordained as a minister. Using her own struggles as inspiration, McDonald creates intense, personal works, often incorporating found objects and materials to emphasize her pieces’ authenticity.
Amalia Pica, Catachresis on paper #70 (the teeth of the fork, the arm of the chair, the teeth of the rake, the heel of the shoe), 2023
Collage, 36.2 × 29.2 × 3.2 cm. Presented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. Under $10k
In her ongoing “Catachresis on paper” series, Amalia Pica focuses on the rhetorical device known as catachresis – the application of terms that apply to things that do not have their own word, such as the teeth of a comb, leg of a chair, tongue of a shoe or elbow of a pipe. Encompassing sculpture, performance, installation, video and drawing, Pica’s work examines systems of communication and what brings people together.
Beatriz Cortez, Five Point Feather Shield III, 2023
Feathers, cotton thread, steel, 47 x 50 x 3 cm. Presented by Commonwealth and Council. $9,000.
Cortez immigrated to the United States from El Salvador aged 18. Her work reflects this duality, as well as referencing both disputable pasts and imagined futures. She constructs sculptural machines that smack of an outmoded industrial world, along with wall works such as this one, using materials suggestive of arcane and/or ancient ritual.
Hiroshi Sugito, untitled, 2014
Oil and acrylic on canvas, 24.2 × 33.3 cm. Presented by Tomio Koyama. Under $10k
Born in 1970, Hiroshi Sugito has been assiociated with the Toyko Pop art movement, though his meditative works, which incorprate both abstract and figurative elements, are also deeply indebted to Japanese painterly traditions and often use layers of paper bonded with glue.
Siqi Tao, Wash, 2024
Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm. Presented by Capsule Shanghai. Under $10k
Tao’s recent paintings survey human emotions and desires via lust, intimacy, dependency, violence and destruction, partly inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s poetry collection Les Fleurs du mal. Born in Wuhan, China, Tao addresses notions of sin and decadence, vice and virtue, and taboos associated with erotica.
Frank Heath, Minimalism, 2024
4KUHD Video, 00:02:27, Edition of 3 plus II AP. Presented by Simone Subal. Under $10k
Minimalism is a montage of archival, film and TV footage of telephone and digital communication, including 1980s adverts for the first mobile phones and contemporary science fiction clips. The work was originally commissioned to accompany the track of the same name from the album Laugh Ash by New York composer and percussionist Ches Smith.
Edgar Calel, Each One of My Steps Are Like Fireflies XX, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 52 x 2.4 cm. Presented by Proyectos Ultravioleta. $8,000
Edgar Calel, born in 1987 in Guatemala, has a multidisciplinary practice that explores the intricate world of the indigenous experience, particularly the Mayan Kaqchikel cosmovision, spirituality, rituals, and community practices, juxtaposed with his country’s systemic racism and exclusion.
Tolia Astakhishvili, House of mending, 2024
Pipes, acryl, found objects, artificial snow, coffee, papier-maché, paper, pencil, 340 x 40 cm. Presented by LC Quessier. Under $10k
Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili started in drawing and painting, before expanding into sculpture and large-scale architectural interventions that combine video, sound, archival footage and found material, sometimes involving other artists’ work as an oblique commentary on authorship and shared narrative.
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Main image: Siqi Tao, Wash, 2024. Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm. Presented by Capsule Shanghai. Under $10k
