Palm Beach Modern and Contemporary art fair
BOOTH A – 3
Thursday, March 24, 2022
VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Access for PBM+C VIP Cardholders & Press, benefiting the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens
GENERAL ADMISSION
Friday, March 25 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 26 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 27 11am – 6pm
FAIR INFORMATION
+1.800.376.5850 or info@artpbfair.com
Tania Marmolejo Andersson was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (1975). Influenced by her Scandinavian and Caribbean heritage, she studies Graphic Design and Illustration in Norway and returns to the Dominican Republic to study Fine Arts at the Altos de Chavón School of Design. In 1998 she receives the Bluhdorn Scholarship, and continues her studies at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, graduating from Fine Arts and Illustration in 2000.She begins her artistic career as an illustrator for the fashion and lifestyle sections of Obsidiana magazine (New York). During these years, she also designs characters and backgrounds for MTV, PBS, Hyperion/Disney, and Scholastic Books among others, as part of the Data Motion Arts studios animation team, receiving various ASIFA and CINE awards. In 2005 she joins the group of artists at MadArts Studios in Brooklyn, NY, and District and Co. Gallery in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she participates in several group exhibitions, focuses entirely on the development of her artistic career along with the design. Since then, her work has been exhibited in numerous collective national and international exhibitions and Art Fairs all around the world.
Born in 1995, David Babatunde Olatoye is a Nigerian visual artist whose skill lies in the art of penmanship. David’sart is created with both traditional black pen and colour. Also known as Orisa to n mu ink, meaning, the god that sucks ink; his portraits, which are created with ink, are mostly made lifelike with the aim of portraying black excellence. David describes his background as a place of no consciousness and a sense of responsibility. Regardless, he began practicing art in his home by using any medium he could lay his hand on. After his secondary school education in 2011, David trained at Topfat art gallery in shop 156, Adamasingba, Ibadan where he sharpenedhis knowledge and acquired more skills. Inspired by music when working, David’s artworks largely addresseshumanity, with a focus on common daily activities in order to educate and encourage people emotionally, financially, and in other areas. David was one of the six artists selected for the Rele Young Contemporary Residency in 2020.
Maiko Kobayashi was born on 19 January 1977 in Yokohama-City, and grew up for 10 years in Sagamihara-City, Kanagawa Prefecture, then moved to Machida-City, Tokyo where she spent a lot of time. She lives and works in Tokyo. She studied in Scenography and Display, in Tokyo Japan, then did in Life drawing and sketching at Setsu Mode Seminar in Tokyo and studied in Art Practice, School of Arts and Social sciences, at the Northumbria University, Newcastle England. She exhibited extensively for the past 20 years in galleries, museums and art fairsaroundtheworld.”ThemoreIgettoknowthingsintheworld,themoreoftenIfeelhelpless. But,whenIdiscover that human beings have that essential vitality that will never be lost under any circumstances, my heart fills with courage and hope. The « friction » caused by this contradictory sensation is my motivation to draw.
Tokyo-based contemporary artist Shun Sudo is known for his unique style combining traditional Japanese ink painting (sumi-e) with graffiti reminiscent of New York street art. His works are vibrant and colourful, imbued with lots of joy and optimism. Sudo has been deeply influenced by American pop culture throughout his career. After travels across the United States in his 20s, he returned to Japan in his 30s to begin work on paintings that allude to both his creative roots in traditional Japanese culture and contemporary street cultures of Western societies. Integrating both of these influences into his aesthetic sensibilities. In his current series “Innocent Forest,” which contains Sudo’s creations of imaginary animals, which look similar to rabbits, elephants or deer, which wanderaround the mysterious forest – he projects those animals as himself and the forest as the United States when he traveled in younger years.
Born in 1964 in Okayama, Japan, Mayuka Yamamoto received her master’s degree at Tokyo’s Masashino ArtUniversity in 1990 and joined the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artist to continue her studiesin London until 1999. Her works have been shown in several solo shows held by Japan’s Gallery Tsubaki and her2007 solo show, titled Deer Boy and Other infants, was hosted by Canvas International Arts gallery in Amsterdam. She also participated in group shows at the Korean International Art Fair (2004–2007) and Young Japanese Painting (2007, Amsterdam). Yamamoto is known for her oil paintings portraying children in animal suits or possessing animal features, to reveal their inner world. Like a protective armor in response to their emotions and psychological state, they seem to instinctively hide behind a second skin in the form of animal costumes or some other defensive physical animalistic features. In some of the pieces, Yamamoto paints settings inspired by nature, further enhancing the contemplative space into which the subject seems to find solace in the dreamlike natural habitat.
Wei Ting Chen was born in Tainan, Taiwan in 1991. He spent his childhood on cartooning, and he liked to draw characters. In Fu Jen University, he majored in Chinese Literature and started to write poems. He read Roland L. Bachmann’s concept of fragment. Roland’s work is composed of fragments. When readers read his works, they need to put together his thoughts. For Chen, he thinks that the writing is a slice of life, and writing poems has become another way of making a drawing.His works are mostly paintings with acrylic paints, often accompanied by poems that correspond to the visual parts and provide a complete sense of a story. He also works with different media, such as video art, action art, and sculpture. He attended Nuit Blanche Taipei in 2017, an art event with lots of performance. Some works he created is now in the collection of Lih-pao Cultural Arts Foundation. He always thinks that his works are showing the differences between children and adults.
