TEFAF | New York
Works by:
CARLA ACCARDI
SANFORD BIGGERS
MCARTHUR BINION
LILY STOCKMAN
YEESOOKYOUNG
Booth 336
Dates:
May 8-13, 2025
Address:
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065, United States
Carla Accardi
Carla Accardi
Carla Accardi (1924-2014) was a central figure in post-war Italian abstraction, renowned for her pioneering role in the development of gestural and sign-based painting. In the 1970s, Accardi embarked on a transformative phase in her practice marked by the innovative use of sicofoil, a transparent industrial plastic that became a defining element of her work.
Moving away from traditional canvas, Accardi embraced this unconventional material to explore ideas of lightness, transparency, and spatial permeability. Her choice of material was both radical and poetic, aligning with feminist and avant-garde currents of the time, and underscored her commitment to expanding the vocabulary of abstraction beyond the constraints of the pictorial frame.
Lily Stockman
Lily Stockman
Lily Stockman (b. 1982) is an American painter whose luminous compositions draw on the natural world, devotional art, and Eastern philosophy to construct radiant, meditative spaces. For the upcoming edition of TEFAF New York, Stockman has realized three new paintings, each inspired differently. Rhubarb Music is described as a sonic portrait, inspired by the recordings of forced rhubarb growing in dark houses in Yorkshire. The idea of plants producing sound as they reach for light mirrors the painting’s layered glazes that glow in low light, suggesting a richness born from shadow.
In another painting, Moon on a Pond, Stockman recalls a moonlit swim in a spring-fed pond in Maine, where stillness transformed the water into a perfect mirror. Her inspiration on this painting was also driven by the ancient Cycladic “frying pans” of the Aegean, objects thought to have held water to reflect the sky.
Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers (b. 1970) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work weaves together African American history, spiritual traditions, and contemporary critique through a rich symbolic language.
Untitled (2024) exemplifies Biggers’s nuanced approach to form and material, blending classical sculptural techniques with conceptual rigor. Carved from contrasting stones—earthy beige and dark green veined marble—the mask-like work evokes both African ritual objects and modernist abstraction. Its divided surface suggests duality, transformation, and the fragmented narratives of diasporic identity.
McArthur Binion
McArthur Binion
McArthur Binion (b. 1946) is an American artist whose work bridges abstraction and personal narrative through a rigorous, minimalist vocabulary. In Chicago:2024, Binion continues his signature use of gridded surfaces layered over autobiographical documents, such as pages from address books, photographs, and handwritten notes.
His works reveal a deep engagement with color, rhythm, and repetition, using the grid as a structure through which personal and collective histories are encoded. Across Binion’s paintings, the grid becomes a vessel for lived experience, repetition transformed into meditation.
Yeesookyung
Yeesookyung
Yeesookyung (b. 1963) is a South Korean artist whose practice centers on transformation, healing, and the spiritual dimensions of materiality. The ceramic pieces being shown at TEFAF New York are part of her ongoing Translated Vase series in which broken ceramic fragments—discarded by master potters—are meticulously reassembled using a gold-infused adhesive, inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi.
The resulting sculpture defies traditional notions of perfection, embracing imperfection as a site of beauty and resilience. Rounded, organic forms cluster together in a precarious yet harmonious whole, as delicate porcelain elements and gilded seams lend a sense of reverence and renewal.
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