The Internet may have met its match in Jeanette Hayes . An artist known for paintings that cheekily deposit meme-friendly Anime characters into venerable artworks from the Northern Renaissance to de Kooning —or treat the iPhone screen as a canvas for devotional paintings—Hayes also marshals her considerable wit and remarkable store of web goodies to populate her unmissable social-media pages. Here, the artist and frequent Opening Ceremony and DIS collaborator weighs in on this year’s NADA New York art fair in the most persuasive form of language yet invented by man: gifs.
Hi art collectors :)
and artists,
I just looked at the NADA New York preview on Artspace
some things made me
and other had me like
Artspace asked me to pick my favorites
and so I'm only picking from painting and mixed media because
Ok so
My favorite is Genieve Figgis .
Genieve Figgis's
Lady With a Harp
, 2015
I love these paintings. I love Half Gallery. Every time I see this work I just
Another favorite is Jansson Stegner .
Jansson Stenger's
Lockerroom
, 2015
I haven't seen these paintings in real life but from the photos, they look lovely. I'm a painter and sometimes when it comes to figurative painting in art fairs I just feel like
Another work I like is by Adrian Wong .
Adrian Wong's
Lenticular Composition III (Tropical Paradise / Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Furman)
, 2015
because
Also I like this
Anthony Miller's
Untitled
, 2015
because
But congratulations to all of the artists in the fair.
Keep up the good work.
But