When Smooth Stops Selling: The Decline of ‘Non-Frictional Art’
What once appeared to be the perfect alignment of aesthetics and market logic—smooth, neutral, digestible, collector-friendly—is now struggling to move.
Christine Ay Tjoe
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Suppressed Intergenerational Traumas Surface in Christine Ay Tjoe’s Abstract Canvases
Here, the artist's grief surfaces in symbolically filtered ways, as the irrepressible tides of the unconscious inevitably seek their expurgatory release through paint.
Frieze and NADA New York’s Early Sales Signal Buyer Confidence
Several collectors told us they were waiting to see what Independent had to offer before locking in buys, but an encouraging dynamism pervaded both fairs.
