Small booths encourage dealers to limit their wares to small - scale solo presentations of works either freshly minted — by a Sherry Levine, Gillian Wearing, or María Elena González — or historic (read: male)-- by the likes of Barry Le Va, Bob Thompson, or Sigmar Polke.
But fairs can also lead to hurried purchases and are
encouraging a certain expediency; in some cases, artists are being pressured to create
smaller works that fit into the
booths and are cheaper to ship, «one - off works that look «turned out,»» according to Ms. Westreich Wagner and Mr. Wagner.