Photos from NADA Art Fair at the Deauville

By Jordan Melnick | December 3rd, 2010 | 5 Comments

The NADA Art Fair opened yesterday at the Deauville Beach Resort with emerging galleries from 28 cities exhibiting in the hotel’s Napoleon and Richelieu ballrooms. The fair is free and short on the kind of pretentious art that makes you want to punch the artist below the belt. Prepare to have your probable wealth and stature visually appraised by everyone you come across, but that’s par for the Art Basel course. Besides that, NADA is well worth a visit for the artworks and the nonpareil people-watching. Here are a few pics of our favorite artworks at the fair, human and otherwise.

The Art

Chiharu Shiota’s beautifully gothic staircase entangled in wool thread.

Miami-based Twenty Twenty Projects spoofed its own name (perhaps) with these eye-blurring superimpositions.

The LA-based Francois Ghebaly Gallery won best booth prize for its Joel Kyack solo show.

A tale of two Japans: Each of these works was in the booth of a Tokyo-based gallery (Take Ninagawa and ARATANIURANO, respectively).

Bill Adams ballpoint pen drawings at the KS Gallery booth are a NADA highlight.

George Young’s untitled oil paintings in the Hilary Crisp booth seem perfectly incomplete.

Watercolor octopus (one of a series) at the Laurel Gitlen booth.

A confrontational piece from the Miami-based Bas Fisher Invitational mini-booth in the Napoleon Ballroom.

The People

Some people are a work of art in themselves.

All photos by Robby Campbell. Click HERE to view all of our Art Basel coverage.

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