Tanya Bonakdar Gallery is very pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Frieze New York. Located at booth C6, the gallery will showcase important new painting, sculpture, installation, photography and works on paper by gallery artists including Uta Barth, Martin Boyce, Olafur Eliasson, Phil Collins, Mark Dion, Charles Long, Ernesto Neto, Analia Saban, Tomas Saraceno, Thomas Scheibitz, Haim Steinbach, Sarah Sze, and Gillian Wearing, among others. In addition to our booth presentation, the gallery will feature three major outdoor works by Ernesto Neto, Tomas Saraceno and Susan Philipsz as part of the fair's outdoor sculpture park.

Building off of his most recent show at the gallery, Charles Long will present a new freestanding sculpture from his latest body of work inspired by the mathematical principal known as "minimal surfaces." Beginning from a series of rough studio sketches, Long uses soy-peanut epoxy resin to freeze flowing forms within the various perimeters of the steel framework. Here, the artist pushes the limits of his materials and looks for new possibilities within his own creative process.

Familiar objects such a clock, utility clips, strings, a rolodex and rolls of tape come together in a delicate balance in Sarah Sze's sculpture, Random Walk Drawing (Air). This self-contained work can be appreciated on both micro and macrocosmic levels, as the work simultaneously contracts and expands with the viewer's every step. Landscape, a theme found throughout Sarah's work, plays a particularly important role in this piece through references to Japanese rock gardens, aerial perspectives, waterfalls and air.

Within one of the corners of our booth, Olafur Eliasson will present an outstanding glass and light sculpture, entitled Black and yellow double polyhedron lamp. An excellent example of the light–based sculptures and installations, this new glass sphere combines geometric patterns in an architecture that creates immersive projections. But even more, the internal reflections of color and form present a kaleidoscopic effect that investigates our perception of space.

For more than three decades, Haim Steinbach has explored the common social ritual of collecting, arranging and presenting objects, examining how context changes their psychological and cultural significance. In his newest shelf installation, Steinbach again draws on mass-produced items – an Asian sun hat, a cartoon figurine, a wooden toy and a cookie cutter – to create his careful and unexpectedly poetic arrangement.

The gallery is also delighted to debut Gillian Wearing's latest photograph from her ongoing self-portrait series, currently on view in her survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London. This body of work, developed over the past three and half years, features the artist dressed as selected art historical figures who have been particularly influential to the artist's own practice. In this new photograph, entitled Me as Sander, Wearing poses as August Sander, the renown German photographer, who in the early 20th century attempted to document what he considered each class of German society through photographic portraiture. By dressing up as Sander and mimicking a famous self-portrait of the artist, Wearing challenges his project, showing how easily the boundaries of identity are blurred.

Other highlights of the gallery's booth presentation include a new wall-mounted text work by 2012 Turner Prize Winner Martin Boyce, that reads "A Blizzard of Pages." Analia Saban, the most recent addition to the gallery's roster of artists, will also contribute a new work that features paint molded into the cast of a bed sheet stretched across the canvas. As part of her unorthodox method of "painting," Saban continues to activate the canvas by highlighting its role as more than just a platform for the paint.

We are also very pleased to show free fotolab (berlin), a photographic installation by Phil Collins. For this project, Collins invited anyone living in Berlin to submit undeveloped rolls of 35mm film, which he then had processed and developed for free. Upon submitting the film, the photographer relinquished the universal rights to the images to Collins, so that he could select and present any of the photos as his own work. Enlarged to a monumental scale, which accentuates their unexpected visual and formal eloquence, these anonymous images become a captivating tribute to ordinary lives and their fleeting moments of beauty and wonder.

The gallery is also thrilled to contribute three major pieces to the Frieze New York Sculpture Park. Located immediately along the shoreline of the East River at plot S2, Ernesto Neto will debut a large-scale Corten steel sculpture, his first from this series to appear in New York City. Since 2008, Neto has developed this impressive group of steel sculptures composed of interlocking plates arranged in a precisely engineered balance. Weighing as much as four tons and standing over twenty feet tall, these works contrast notions of the organic with the inorganic by counteracting the weight and volume of the material with lively compositions. In addition to this sculpture, the gallery will also present a new crocheted wall piece by the artist as part of our booth presentation.

Near the south entrance of the fairground at plot S13, Tomas Saraceno will present a single modular structure as part of his ongoing project, Cloud Cities, which will open on roof terrace at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 15, 2012. Exploring questions of self-sustainability, mobility and coexistence, this work encourages viewers to interact with the structure's architecture, as well as with each other. In dialogue with this outdoor project, one of the artist's hanging modular aluminum sculptures will also be featured within the gallery's booth.

The Sculpture Park will also include an installation by Susan Philipsz (plot S15). Using sound and song, Philipsz transforms a public space into a site for a private, introspective experience.