Dallas Art Fair

Is Dallas Big Enough for Two Art Fairs?

The Dallas collecting circuit is also unique in the level of value it places on participation “within its ecosystem,” Stefano di Paola, senior director of New York– and Los Angeles–based gallery Anat Ebgi, told ARTnews. “They really like people that are spending the time and actually participating in the Dallas and Texas [art] scene itself. For them it’s really all about the primary experience and the physical connection.” —Daniel Cassady

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Krzysztof Strzelecki’s Muscle Worship – Big Pecs (2023) and Tammi Campbell’s Homage to the Square with Bubble Wrap and Packing Tape (2023) couldn’t be more different but have so much in common it’s a treat to see them in dialogue. The former, a gleaming pair of boxing gloves made from glazed ceramic and gold lustre, screams with the intensity of a title bout. In Campbell’s work, colorful squares are overlaid on a canvas surrounded in protective “bubble wrap,” which isn’t bubble wrap at all, but rather hard acrylic the artist made with molds. Despite the radically different subjects the two works both play with tactility, of hard versus soft material, and share the ability to draw in a viewer then confound their sense of tactile reality. —Daniel Cassady