SHEER EXHIBITS ALL WOMEN OF COLOR ARTISTS AT THE SPRING 2024 AFFORDABLE ART FAIR IN NYC

SHEER exhibited all women of color artists at the Spring 2024 Affordable Art Fair in NYC from March 20-24 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea!

For decades, the Affordable Art Fair has been dedicated to its mission of democratizing the art world and making art buying feel more accessible. SHEER was honored to join the fair this Spring as a black woman-owned media platform that has connected and championed the work and stories of multicultural women and non-binary creatives from all over the world for the past five years.

SHEER’s booth featured works by artists Audrey Lyall, Nada Esmaeel, and Kaarina Chu Mackenzie. Check out photos from the opening night below and we’ll see you at the next Affordable Art Fair in the Fall!

Photography by Niaja Smith

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ARTISTS TO KNOW: NADA ESMAEEL

Photography by Dana White

Nada Esmaeel’s work is alive and vibrant, rich in detail and color. In addition to paintings, illustrations and animations, she has also designed 3D gaming environments where woven rugs hang from the walls and colored lanterns are strung across an intimate courtyard. But in each of these varied mediums, the subject is almost always Palestinian people and their culture.

ARTISTS TO KNOW: KAARINA CHU MACKENZIE

Photography & Intro by Nabila Wirakusumah

When I first came across Kaarina Chu Mackenzie’s Night Market series, I could hear the chatter of crowds, the slapping of fish on butcher blocks and the thin but pervasive buzz of fluorescent bulbs illuminating each stand. I could smell the smoke wafting from the open grills and the sweet scent of batter cooking in cast iron. The paintings were depicting markets in Taiwan and China, but I’ve walked through similar scenes in Thailand and Indonesia.

ARTISTS TO KNOW: AUDREY LYALL

Photography by Nabila Wirakusumah

As soon as we arrived at Audrey Lyall’s studio in Brooklyn and she greeted us, her one-of-a kind creative eye could already be captured with her style. She embodies the confidence and vibrant energy of the maximalist subjects found in her artwork. Audrey uses a variety of materials such as acrylic paint, watercolor, clay, fabric, collaged paper, and more to create maximalist Afro-futurist works. To Audrey, “everything in the world is an art material”

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