Fine Art – UP MAGAZINE

Activism through Art: Ai Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds”

Sunflower seeds: small, unique, and fragile; we consider them cheap edibles. Sunflower Seeds was a 2010 Tate Modern Installation by the Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei, an exhibit for which he was arrested.

Street Aesthetics and Fine Art: UP Magazine’s Selection of Highlights from 2023 Armory Week

Earlier this month were the fantastical SPRING/BREAK Art Show and The Armory Show in New York City. UP Magazine contributing writer Alexandria Deters couldn’t help but reflect how the newest generation of art collectors taste and life experience has influenced the fine art world for the better. For your reading and viewing pleasure, she selected some works that highlight this realization.

A Tale of Two Art Fairs: Frieze & NADA

In May, two art fairs – Frieze and NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) showed up in Chelsea. Emma Riva examines the similarities and differences between them and what they might say about the high-end art market – from the perspective of an art critic who both gets up in the streets with graffiti writers and frequents fancy art fair.

Gallery Particulier Makes a New Art World Possible

The one-year-old Gallery Particulier in Flatbush allows people to borrow art — a DIY alternative to the typical gallery scene in New York.

Melissa Schainker: Hands as the Window to the Soul

Fine artist and street artists Melissa Schainker uses unconventional gestures and dreamlike colors to create a landscape for the darker sides of life that we as a society “suck at talking about.”

Doodles & Emotions: Daphney Estrada

T.K. interviews up-and-coming artist Daphney Estrada about finding her style, the anxieties of painting in front an audience, and developing your passion organically.

The Magnetic Artistry of Megan Watters

Megan Watters, a multi-hyphenated artist, can recall initially taking to art through “finding ways to entertain herself” at a young age. But this was no mere preoccupation for Watters. “Art was magnetic for me,” she says, as she expressed how she continuously found herself creating.