3 min read · 08 Feb 2024
Daniela Garcia Hamilton presented by Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, at Material 2024
Michelle Grabner, artist, critic, curator and Guggenheim fellow, presents her high-concept, homespun sculpture in a two-artist booth with conceptual rag rugs by Eleanor Anderson. The combination makes for a strong debut by Abattoir of Cleveland at Material art fair in Mexico City.
Daniela García Hamilton, a LA young painter who teaches art in a high school as her day job, is showing vibrant, embroidered paintings based on her Mexican-American family's snapshots at Residency Art Gallery's booth. The solo show on the booth of the artist-run space in Inglewood, Los Angeles, was creating a buzz among collectors seeking out new talent in Mexico City.
Aurora Pellizzi, a Mexican artist who dives deep into history and anthropology, is showing a totem-like figure fashioned from traditional-style fabric, a plastic bucket and broom heads on the booth of Instituto de Vision of Bogota and New York's Lower East Side. The artist is currently showing a monumental textile work at MARCO, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in Monterrey.
Sophie Barber's intimate tribute to Mexico's greatest female artist, Frida Kahlo, in the form a painted slice of birthday cake, is a talking points at Chris Sharp Gallery at Material. The British artist's LA-based gallery plans to follow up with another solo show at Felix LA fair, promising supersized works that riff of artists as celebrities.