Affordable Art Fair

Ben Skinner (b.1977) is a Canadian artist who explores the nature of language through the use of text and materiality. His works often combine mechanical production methods common in sign making with traditional materials and techniques, such as hand-applied gold leaf and silk marbling. The phrases within the works seamlessly weave together humor and pain to explore the incongruities of daily life. He graduated with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Art from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax in 2000, and with an MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003.

Britt Bass (b.1989) is an abstract painter living and working in Roswell, Georgia. Britt’s paintings value an economy of line with succinct and graphic marks interlaced among expressive washes. Her paintings nod to the natural world with enclosed shapes resembling both the botanical and the cosmic. She combines areas of small dense marks with large swaths of gestural color, creating a sense of movement and atmosphere. A mother to four young children, Britt creates paintings that nod to the playful forms of their world, as well as the landscapes and gardens she inhabits. Her work is driven by intuition and is a meditation on beauty and wonder found within our ordinary lives.

Jessica Simorte (b. 1988) is a Houston, Texas-based painter whose work serves as an ongoing examination of how creating art can function as a mode of place making. Utilizing shape and color, Jessica creates energetic abstractions that interpret the psychological bond to physical and invented space. Working at a small scale affords an intimacy to Jessica’s work, allowing the nuances of subtle color variations and delicate mark making to take center stage.

Katrine Hildebrandt-Hussey (b. 1982) is a Boston-based visual artist whose work is inspired by sacred geometry and the metaphysical mapping of space and time. Katrine achieves the geometric patterns in her work by burning her paper surface, allowing for chance to influence her ordered forms. Marked with intentionality and meticulous detail, Katrine’s work investigates the correlation between chaos and order, permanence and transience, and the interconnectivity of the universe.