[...] An absolute must-see in the Galleries section, as ever, is Andrew Edlin‘s booth, which offers some of the most refreshing outsider perspectives at the fair. Standing out are the mysterious astronomical diagrams and cosmological codes by Karla Knight, whose invented languages and satellite-like forms imagine systems of knowledge from elsewhere. Building her own linguistic system of glyphs, diagrams, orbs, satellites and cosmic structures, she creates a visual language hovering between an occult manuscript, a scientific chart, a children’s code and an extraterrestrial transmission. Her paintings and tapestry-like works are priced at $30,000-50,000, including one recently shown at SITE Santa Fe International in a presentation curated by Cecilia Alemani. Resonating with them is the delightfully mysterious storytelling of human-alien encounters in paintings by cartoonist and author Esther Pearl Watson, capturing both the neo-mythologies and vernacular melodrama of American life.
- Elisa Carollo