SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Saatchi Art’s The Other Art Fair, a leading international fair championing independent artists, returns to Brooklyn on May 2-5. Building momentum from its previous Brooklyn fairs over the last two years, The Other Art Fair will showcase over 130 emerging artists at the Brooklyn Expo Center. Cristina Mittermeier, photographer and co-founder of SeaLegacy, will serve as this edition’s Guest Artist. Additionally, The Other Art Fair will incorporate its Greener Future program for 2019 with special initiatives geared toward supporting sustainability and protecting the environment.
“I founded The Other Art Fair to support unrepresented artists. Since then we have sold over 20,000 artworks, welcomed over 200,000 visitors and worked with more than 3,000 artists from over 20 countries,” said founder of The Other Art Fair Ryan Stanier. “As we continue to expand our presence and add more cities to our roster, we are taking steps toward being wholly sustainable across all our fairs. In 2019, we will incorporate an upcycle art program and reusable options for the fair’s bar, because in order to create art we need a healthy world to be both inspired by and to live in.”
The artists showcased at the fair are selected by a panel of influential art world experts and tastemakers ensuring that fair visitors are presented with Saatchi Art’s most talented emerging artists. The selection committee for the Brooklyn 2019 Spring edition of the fair includes: Rebecca Wilson (Chief Curator, Saatchi Art), Lucien Zayan (Founder, The Invisible Dog Art Center), Billy Gerard Frank (Founder, Nova Frontier Film Festival), Deva Pardue (Creative Director, The Wing), Rolf Arne Leer (Founder, Quoted Magazine), and Zoe Christensen (Fine Art Agent and Curator, SeaLegacy.org).
“As the fair’s reputation and visibility increases, we are thrilled to be welcoming so many artists to the fair for the first time. In Brooklyn our audiences will be able to discover the works of outstanding emerging artists from 16 countries from Chile to the Netherlands, in addition to some of the most popular artists regularly exhibiting at the fair,” said Saatchi Art Chief Curator Rebecca Wilson. “We are also very excited that 60% of the artists showing their work are women.”
Guest Artist, Cristina Mittermeier, is a photographer and marine biologist, born and raised in Mexico. Her work as a photographer, speaker and explorer has been featured in hundreds of publications, most recently in National Geographic. Mittermeier is also a founder of SeaLegacy, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the ocean. SeaLegacy will be the official charity partner for The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, helping to promote the fair’s Greener Future initiative with special features and promotions onsite.
To learn more about The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, visit: http://nyc.theotherartfair.com/.
Purchase Tickets for The Other Art Fair Brooklyn here
Private View
Thursday, May 2th: 6pm-10pm
Tickets: $30
General Entry:
Friday, May 3rd: 3pm-10pm
Friday, May 3rd Late Evening: 6pm-10pm
Saturday, May 4th: 12pm-9pm
Sunday, May 5th: 11am-6pm
General Tickets Prices:
Adult $15 | Student/Senior $13.50 | Children (Under 16) Free
For fair-related inquiries, please contact: Sophie Lucas, Fair Director - sophie@theotherartfair.com
For press inquiries, please contact: Mia Mendez, Director of PR – mia.mendez@saatchiart.com
About The Other Art Fair
The Other Art Fair, a leading artist fair for discovering emerging artists, provides a platform for artists to present and sell their work directly to art buyers. Each fair presents more than 90 artists chosen by a selection committee of art experts, enabling both collectors and first-time buyers to buy directly from emerging artists. Since 2011, The Other Art Fair has worked with over 3,000 artists from more than 20 countries, with fairs based in the UK, US and Australia. Unlike “other” fairs, The Other Art Fair creates an accessible and open fair designed for visitors to enjoy an interactive and immersive experience. www.theotherartfair.com
About Saatchi Art
Leading online art gallery Saatchi Art features one of the world’s largest selections of original art and helps people all over the world find art and artists they love. The online art gallery offers original paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs by over 110,000 emerging artists from over 100 countries. Saatchi Art is redefining the experience of buying and selling art by providing art lovers with free art advisory services and an expertly curated selection of art, while giving artists a convenient and welcoming environment in which to exhibit and sell their work. To discover the world of Saatchi Art, please visit www.saatchiart.com. Saatchi Online, Inc., which operates Saatchi Art, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Leaf Group Ltd. (NYSE:LEAF).