Antonio Obá, Uma alegoria / morte-vida: coragem (An Allegory / Life-Dying: Braveness), 2024
Oil on canvas, 200 × 160 cm, offered by Mendes Wooden DM. $100k – $250k
I’m a longtime admirer of Obá’s work and am deeply drawn to his singular mystical visions. The expressive use of color and sample in his richly hued haunting pastorals evoke goals and narratives simply past the attain of our reminiscences. This portray, with its poetic panorama and arresting figures, is especially highly effective in its dialogue with the civil rights and girls’s emancipation actions.
Manoucher Yektai, Blue Desk, 1960
Oil on canvas, 27 × 33 cm. Presented by Karma. $100k – $250k
I really like nonetheless life works in all their myriad types and am particularly drawn to the plush impasto brushstrokes and funky color subject punctuated with pops of warmth on this work. Taking a look at it, I really feel the warmth of summer season, the style and odor of ripe fruit, maybe the ocean shut at hand. It might be very simple to dwell with this portray.
Jeremy Frey, Enchanted, 2025
Ash, candy grass and artificial dye, 3 × 2 × 2 cm. Presented by Karma. $20k – $50k
As a collector of baskets and textile arts from all over the world, I discover Jeremy Frey’s reinvigoration of his cultural heritage profoundly resonant. I’m obsessive about craft and the style through which weaving traditions and experience are taught, held and remodeled between generations. Frey is a real grasp of his craft: the intricacy of this braiding is a part of the continuum of Wabanaki baskets, however in color and kind it turns into one thing fully new.
Olafur Eliasson, Chilly mild heating flare, 2025
Silvered colored glass (shades of blue, turquoise, inexperienced, yellow, orange, purple, pink, purple), composite board, aluminium, 155 × 203 × 3.5 cm. Introduced by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. $250k – $500k
I really like the best way that Olafur Eliasson explodes the optics of seeing color. His continuous explorations of sunshine, reflection and refraction are as charming as they’re transcendent. I’m a lover of color, and of each harmonious and surprising juxtapositions. I’m additionally ceaselessly drawn to the phenomenon of the lens flare that this work depicts, and play with it usually in our personal nonetheless and transferring photographs. I may get misplaced on this work, a baby once more amid a kaleidoscopic fantasy.
Jim Lambie, Infinity Mirror, 2024
Sun shades lenses, lead got here, 62 × 72 × 4.5 cm. Introduced by Anton Kern. $58k
Jim Lambie is an outstanding colourist, working between the area of sound and sight. I’m drawn to the best way he makes use of and transforms probably the most humble of supplies, amongst them colored gaffer tape and, right here, low cost plastic sun shades to create a piece that’s each exuberant and optimistic. The mix of clear and mirrored surfaces is charming, reverberating with psychedelic prismatic vitality. In viewing it we see ourselves anew.
About Ulla Johnson
Ulla Johnson based her eponymous trend line in 1999 in her native New York Metropolis, which has since grown to a worldwide model. A passionate advocate of design, arts and craft preservation, Johnson continuously companions with artists to form the model’s distinctive collections and runway reveals – previous collaborators embody Shara Hughes, Nacho Carbonell, the Lee Krasner property, and the sculptor Julie Hamisky. Johnson can be identified for her artwork assortment of fibre-art and sculpture, which incorporates works by Kathleen Ryan, Sheila Hicks, Ugo Rondinone and Alma Allen.
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Major picture: Olafur Eliasson, Chilly mild heating flare, 2025. Silvered colored glass (shades of blue, turquoise, inexperienced, yellow, orange, purple, pink, purple), composite board, aluminium, 155 × 203 × 3.5 cm. Courtesy: Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
