The Other Art Fair, presented by Saatchi Art, returns to Dallas Market Hall this May 15 to 18. The event will showcase a carefully selected lineup of 120 independent artists from around the world.

Highlights include Everybody Draw Everybody, a group portrait swap hosted by Brian Butler; an interactive color-in mural created by John Paine; painted aura portraits by Mad Watson; and Blind Date with an Artwork, which dares visitors to buy artwork based solely on a text description.

At The Other Art Fair, visitors should expect the unexpected—especially when it comes to the artwork on offer, which ranges in price from under $100 to upwards of $5,000.

Here are just 10 of the many exciting artists to meet at the fair, whose work we think you’ll find particularly out-of-this-world:

1. Brighton artist Lexi Laine’s training as a freediver allows her to craft ethereal photographs of breathtaking underwater worlds.

2. Meticulously collaging fragments of distant locales she captures with her camera, London-based artist Nadia Attura creates uncanny beauty in her imagined landscapes.

3. After designing tour artwork and album covers, Los Angeles artist Briana Carman was inspired to create worlds using images from everyday life and travels abroad.

4. Natasha Kanevski, based near Austin, makes canvas-mounted ceramic sculptures that are evocative of organic forms, yet wholly unlike any found on Earth.

5. Dallas artist Kristin Ruscher aims to spark inspiration and a sense of interpersonal connection with her highly textured mixed-media paintings.

6. Christopher Brown is a Dallas-based artist whose Abstract Butterfly series showcases how he manipulates photography with the latest tech advances.

7. The dreamy, unpopulated vistas of Knoxville artist Karina Guerrero’s paintings exist somewhere between reality and the abstraction that ties her to her roots.

8. The paintings of Austin-based artist Malti B Lee are filled with otherworldly light and color-saturated flowers, juxtaposing their fragility with historic architecture.

9. If you took the drama, lighting, and opulence of the Baroque, and set it in outer space, you’d have something akin to Dallas artist Madison Gowin’s fantastical collages. 

10. Abigail Henthorne is a Little Rock-based artist whose fiber “drawings” explore floral bouquets while creating new, distorted forms by modulating pile height.

Grab your ticket at theotherartfair.com!

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