We asked seven talented artists featured in this year’s fair to tell us about their artistic process; here’s what they told us.

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KATHERINE SANDOZ Presented BY LANEY CONTEMPORARY

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“I tend to begin all works with a site location and, at the same time, conduct extended research around the site's ecology, geology, history, associated language and literature. My first careers in advertising and education spurred an ardent affair with research, reexamination and multi-disciplinary study -- all of which inform the series-driven works. Drawings and small painted studies follow the reading, listening, watching. Typically, a year passes between first "meeting" the subject and executing the final works on canvas which gives time to build the layers of paint as well as layers of understanding the subjects.”

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Gracelee lawrence Presented by patrick mikhail gallery

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“I work between digital and physical reality, using 3D scanning, 3D printing, virtual reality sculpting, and various other digital tools to manipulate data that turns into my sculptures. The files I use come from a breadth of sources, ranging from scans to digitally created to purchased files. These disparate components collide in my sculptures, taking on new meaning in their proximity to one another. My objects are most often quite large, so they are printed in components that create a checkerboard-like pattern on the final forms, linking them to histories of quilting or tiling.”

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Laura Arteaga Charlton presented by ARDEN+WHITE Gallery

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“I'm a printmaker who works almost exclusively with trash and recycled/found objects. My favorite material is used cardboard packaging, and recently I've been focusing on McDonald's packaging (happy meal, nuggets, and fries boxes) as well as the fragments of a frozen pizza box I found. I apply ink directly to the surface of the cardboard using traditional intaglio and relief printing techniques to create multi-layered monoprints on various materials, including my own papers that I make by hand from junk mail, recycled cardboard, and invasive plants that grow around my studio. I first started printing cardboard boxes in 2009, and my fascination with this material has only grown over the years. I'm interested in these materials for their formal qualities, their textures, and mark-making potential, as well as for their significance as cultural artifacts. I work with them in an intuitive and non-linear way, sampling, layering, composing, and rearranging into various provisional structures. I tend to work with the same pieces of packaging over many months and years, printing them hundreds of times as they slowly change form and eventually disintegrate.”

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