The New Art Dealers Alliance (Nada) has returned to Chelsea with no shortage of sibilation for the 2024 edition during New York’s Frieze week. To mark its tenth anniversary, the member-driven fair is featuring 92 galleries on four jam-packed floors at 548 West 22nd Street. Weird, wonderful moments abound throughout: buoyant abstraction, moody realism and a wide array of works by known quantities and up-and-comers alike. Of special note is the preponderance of wall-hanging sculptural works that bring the immediacy of painting into three dimensions, using a variety of unexpected materials to create a new, fresh kind of spatial presence.
On the first floor, the Chelsea-based Dinner Gallery is showing serpentine, wrought-iron-reminiscent clay works ($4,000-$9,500) by the Brooklyn-based Chinese artist Wen Liu. Liu uses moulds fashioned from found furniture combined with resin-encased prescribed herbs to comment on the simultaneous precarity and ingenuity of the immigrant experience. “The work is about loss and abandonment, but also about renewal,” says Celine Mo, the gallery’s owner.