Time to hit the Affordable Art Fair this weekend if you’re interested in sprucing up your home with art that doesn’t break the bank.
The Affordable Art Fair is a great place to fall in love with art, whether you are a seasoned art buff who lives in museums and galleries, or just beginning to explore owning your first piece of art. With everything from traditional ink painting, abstract canvases, stunning sculpture, editioned prints to eye-catching photography, you can find artworks to suit every space, taste and of course, budget.
Lindslee
Filipino artist Lindsey James Alvarez Lee, “Lindslee” is an artist who often finds himself questioning the norms and traditions of art. To him, art is an extension of his experiences, and his feelings. Lindslee works with different styles and mediums, and while the piece he is showcasing, Like Your Style is a simple acrylic, oil and enamel of canvas piece, he has worked with sculptures, and more before.
Check out at the Affordable Art Fair: Like Your Style (2016), S$7,000
Xu Cong
This Beijing avant-garde artist has slowly been gaining international recognition. Her art is a process of experimenting and correction, expressed through repeated layering of the paint. From the outside, her works appear to be innocent but if you look closely into the details, you can tell see a subtle rebellious movement that she created to express her convictions.
Check out at the Affordable Art Fair: Wave (2017), S$7,000
Yoo Sun Tai
Yoo Sun-Tai is one of Korea’s most widely recognized contemporary artists. While studying in Paris for many years, the artist developed his now well-known style of three-dimensional painting. Yoo is obsessed with objects, utilises as a means of metaphors of life elements which meanings depend on personal imagination or interpretation.
Check out at the Affordable Art Fair: The Words (2017), S$6,000
Bridget Davies
If you love fashion, check out Bridget Davies who works in ink to create the most characterful creatures you’ll come ever across. Based in the UK, Davies has loved fashion since she was a child and her years spent as a fashion designer and embroidery artist informs her work today. But just look at those eyes. Her works were being snapped up at the media preview night, so be quick: she’s very collectible.
Check out at the Affordable Art Fair: Golden Greta (2017), S$5,000
Sarawut Yasamut
Born in 1978 in Thailand, Sarawut Yasamut’s paintings show the transformation of his emotions and feelings as a result of his obsession with online media. He has expressed the feelings through a collection of oil paintings in a frenzy of swift and powerful brush strokes to depict the state of his emotions and feelings at different points in time.
Check out at the Affordable Art Fair: The Princess (2017), S$5,800
Affordable Art Fair, 17-19 Nov, F1 Pit Building, 1 Republic Boulevard, Singapore 038975, p. 6220 5682.
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