Visual Artist Franck de las Mercedes Joins The Directed Art Modern for Superfine! Art Fair 2016

"Superfine! The Fairest Fair" is back to challenge the establishment! An alternative to mainstream fairs, each edition of Superfine! creates a cutting-edge marketplace where buyers, sellers, and artists can operate transparently on an even plane. The fair provides exhibitors with an affordably priced, high-impact space, while creating a full and dynamic environment for attendees where collectors gain access to high quality original artwork and design by the most talented artists on the planet.

Making it's debut at the fair and adding Franck de las Mercedes to their roster of contemporary artists is "The Directed Art Modern (DAM)."

The DAM was conceived on the ideals of a team striving to change the business of art. Melanie Prapopoulos accredited founder of the DAM manages International Artists and their ever-developing portfolios, as well as collectors with art acquisitions. Valery Francisco, co-founder with an international curatorial history directing contemporary art fairs, exhibitions and site specific installations for over a decade. Vivian Sangsukwirasathien, formerly at Sotheby's specializing in secondary markets and in assisting artists lends her expertise to further enhance the DAM's initiatives.

Franck de las Mercedes' body of work includes painting, collage and drawing in which he combines abstract figuration, journal entry and hieroglyphic-like text, in energetic abstractions bursting with color. In Franck's paintings, childhood memories in war-torn Nicaragua and his upbringing as an immigrant in the US, are extracted and combined with fragments of current events and family dynamics in life and books. Exploring the contrast between memory and present-day cultural context, Franck creates scenes on canvas of an emotionally charged urban landscape. http://www.franckdelasmercedes.com/

Other DAM artists exhibiting include Carlos Alves, Nirma Siesenop, Mario Rossi Rikke Darling, Ryan Heuvel, Pablo Power, Jouanne Roberson and Preston Brooks.

For more info about DAM and Superfine!:
https://superfine.world/#superfine-1
http://www.thedirectedartmodern.com/

About FdlM
Named one of Complex magazine's "15 Artists About to Dominate 2015", Franck has participated in numerous national and international exhibits around the world including The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt New York, The NY Museum of Modern Art's "Abstract Currents", Sing for Hope Piano 2015, BKLYN Designs, Naples Museum of Art, Folklore Museum of Tripotamos Greece, and The French Institute Alliance Française. In 2012, his portrait of Francisco de Quevedo was acquired by Fundación Francisco de Quevedo for their Permanent Collection in Ciudad Real, Spain. In 2006, De Las Mercedes achieved international acclaim with his conceptual art project "The Priority Boxes." An ongoing public project conceived as a way to bring contemporary art to a broader audience. In the summer of 2012 an image of a "Peace Box" was exhibited on the iconic LED screens of Times Square and in 2014, the New Jersey Senate and General Assembly passed a joint legislative resolution honoring Franck and the Peace Boxes Project. Born in Masaya Nicaragua, Franck lives and works in New York City. On February 18, 2014 de las Mercedes lost over a decade of his body of work in a five-alarm fire that destroyed his home and studio in Weehawken, NJ. The artist relocated to Washington Heights, the upper Manhattan neighborhood where he grew up.