Fresh Air Fine Art Festival

This exhibition is held at the Luxe Art Museum from the 15th to the 21st.

It's a festival of Music and Visual art. You can check out the details at their website.

It features various artists.

Summary of the artists/works that interested me:

Valerie Ng: she showed her usual abstract paintings, some recent, some older. But she really had this excellent new body of work where she painted old linen and canvas (of various sizes and shapes) and sewed them together, so from far it looks like a geometric assembly of visual field works. But up close it's obviously patch work. But it melded very well together. An excellent piece.

Raymond Yap: He did more of his signature texture gloss paint. There were two older pieces (2009) which I consider misses. However he has shown progession with the two newer large circular pieces called Unexplored Galaxies. The new work has the typical textured ridges, spots of paint and covered with a resin (macam Alan Oei) to give a glossy appearance. Very good piece of work.

Danya Yu: some paintings of Singapore. Some pieces of her riparian series. Think her back alley series is better. With this series the paintings are of a darker hue and reminds me of modernist paintings. A step backward? But she used this to good effect with one of the European Architecture paintings (displayed with Art Fellas). The modernist style works well with that obviously. But Danya is a great artist, and just needs to meet a good curator/collector or gallerist to give her a nudge in the correct direction.

Stefanie Hauger:
She showed a couple of her mandala pieces, i.e. the same style that won her UOB painting of the year last year. Nice looking pieces. But the other two, one a ' textured' visual field piece and the other one a swirly, 'rain drops on water' type of  painting. Both are misses I feel.

Valerie Ng

Danya Yu

Stefanie Hauger

Points for collectors: Val Ng is a buy and her pieces are ok. Raymond Yap's Galaxy piece was very good but overpriced, even more expensive than an Ian Woo piece if you go by square feet. That's the unique thing about the art market in Singapore. There are very few full time artists, most have other jobs in the art eco-system in Singapore,s o they don't need to sell art to survive and can price things according to their whims and fancy. This is an interesting topic that an academic should write about to understand art in Singapore. Stefanie Hauger's Mandala pieces are reasonably priced. Danya Yu is an artist to watch, but would give these pieces a miss for now.