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Brooklyn Magazine - Three Brooklyn Arts Organizations You Need to Know at The Affordable Art Fair

“Victoria Fry has been in the New York art world long enough to know it can work against the artists who need it most. She opened Warnes Contemporary in Gowanus in 2023 to show work by emerging, early-career, and underrepresented artists, many of whom have never shown in a gallery before, she says. She also wants it to function as a community space, so artists now drop in for workshops, artists talks, and fundraisers. “We’re still a very small and up-and-coming gallery,” Fry says.

This spring marks the gallery’s third time exhibiting through the fair’s fellowship program, with a curated collection from six contemporary artists across New York, New Jersey, and Texas. “It’s been instrumental for us in terms of growing our collector base,” Fry says. “We significantly grew our sales and our collectors last year. A lot of the collectors we’ve sold to so far are just starting their art collection. It’s been life-changing for me and for the artists that I work with.”

Art Spiel - Those Who Fulfill the Infinite Labor of Love

“The group exhibition titled Those Who Tend at the Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn is an occasion in which 22 artists come together to celebrate their shared philosophy towards work and life. The title refers to the fact that all the artists here care for others in one form or another, whether they are parents of young children, grownups caring for their elderly parents, or supporting staff for people with disabilities.”

“Love generates infinite affection, dedication, and labor. Here we are reminded that love is much, much more powerful than money or any kind of economic or political power. Love provides consensual access to another being’s powers and brings people together, turning competition into its greater form of cooperation. Those Who Tend makes a powerful statement about human nature and our capacity for love.”

Hyperallergic - How I’d Spend My Gen-Z Savings at New York’s Affordable Art Fair

“I instantly surpassed my budget by about 200% when I met Mayowa Nwadike at the second-floor booth of the Brooklyn gallery Warnes Contemporary, underwritten by the fair as part of its fellowship program. Schuppert said she founded the program in 2022 as a way for emerging galleries to participate when costs might otherwise have been prohibitive.”

“Nwadike’s 48-inch tondo painting “While I Was Waiting II” (2025), a portrait of a woman against a muted green background, stood out in Warnes Contemporary’s quaint booth. The gallery was founded just a couple of years ago by Victoria J. Fry in Gowanus. Although the $6,000 painting was way out of my budget, I chose to mentally purchase it anyway.”