If, like me, you find the full-tilt art fairs a little overwhelming, the formally ambitious but modestly scaled Independent is a godsend. A London dealer, The Sunday Painter, is making its fair debut with Cynthia Daignault’s attempt to capture the American century in a series of small, gray-tone oils (first floor, 5). And outsider art is well represented, with highlights including Leopold Strobl’s colored-pencil drawings of pretty landscapes interrupted by ominous mountains of shadow, at Ricco/Maresca, and Kerry Schuss’s show of wild sunlit scenes by Aaron Birnbaum (fifth floor, 8). PhotoDELMES & ZANDER Continue next door to Alexandru Chira (1947-2011) in his first solo show outside Romania. A series of hazy but elaborate diagrams and drawings, some on a truncated hexagon shape that he thought would promote the land’s fertility, are dreamily enrapturing.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2018 18:45 UTC