Independent returns to Spring Studios in Tribeca for its 16th edition this May, bringing together eighty-two international galleries and nonprofits to showcase work by more than 118 artists, balancing emerging names with established figures ripe for a second look. This year introduces Independent Debuts, a new curatorial initiative spotlighting over twenty-six artists who have had no more than one previous solo show in New York and have never exhibited at a fair, reinforcing the fair’s reputation as a place for discovery without sacrificing rigor. Highlights include Abattoir Gallery’s debut of a major new body of work by Michelle Grabner—artist, educator and former Whitney Biennial curator—whose process-driven paintings and embroideries continue to mine the aesthetics of domestic labor, Hannah Traore Gallery’s presentation of Turiya Adkins’s exploration of running and flight as ancestral narratives and Long Story Short’s showing of new works by Japanese painter Keita Morimoto.
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