Paul Anthony Smith: Standouts at Frieze London 2024

Jamaican artist Paul Anthony Smith references the line "What happens to a dream deferred?" from Langston Hughes's iconic 1951 "Harlem" for "Dreams Deferred," the title of the series in which he photographed the flora of several famous gardens from places like Central Park and Queen Mary's Gardens, covering them with oil paint and obscuring some with a chain link fence, using them as a metaphor for the professional trajectory of Black men. At the fair, Timothy Taylor's booth is also exhibiting some of the artist's signature picotage works, where he punctured dreamy sunset photos with patterns drawn from Caribbean architecture.