New York's Art on Paper fair draws a fuzzy line between its titular medium and everything else

"The fair is back at Pier 36 in Lower Manhattan for its 11th edition, which kicked off with a VIP preview on Thursday evening (4 September). The medium-specific fair features 81 exhibitors from around the world this year; its organisers, Art Market Productions, have also programmed a full calendar of interactive events and workshops, including the return of . This fair-within-the-fair organised in partnership with the champions the handmade artist's book and a wide range of printed materials created by artists, institutions and independent presses."

"This year's Art on Paper features a lively mélange of offerings in the titular medium. Standouts include tenderly crafted tabletop, plant-like sculptures by , which are presented by , and Mary Beth Edelson's Story Gathering Boxes, on 's stand, a social practice project from the early 1970s that asks visitors to contribute handwritten responses to prompts about identity, gender and immigration."

""I went to the New York Academy of Art, and my commute from my apartment to school was 40 minutes, so I sketched to pass the time," he tells The Art Newspaper. "I started using that technique for commission work, and I would always do them in my sketchbooks and post my pages online, and then it just turned into people saying, 'Hey, how do I have that though?' People wanted to buy the whole sketchbook, but there's notes and phone numbers and d"

Art on Paper returned to Pier 36 in Lower Manhattan for its 11th edition with a VIP preview. The medium-specific fair features 81 exhibitors from around the world and a full calendar of interactive events and workshops. A fair-within-the-fair champions handmade artist books and printed materials from artists, institutions and independent presses. Standout works include tender tabletop plant-like sculptures and Mary Beth Edelson's Story Gathering Boxes, a social practice project from the early 1970s inviting handwritten responses about identity, gender and immigration. Some exhibitors show non-paper items, yet the fair emphasizes inventive manipulations of paper. An Instagram-known artist has adapted hyperrealistic ballpoint sketchbook work for buyers.

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