Independent Art Fair 2025

For its seventh participation in Independent, Off Paradise is pleased to debut Rising, a three-person presentation of new or rarely seen works by Sylvia Fragoso (b. 1962), Mitchell Charbonneau (b. 1994), and Maximilian Schubert (b. 1983).

Since 1984, Fragoso has worked at NIAD Art Center in Richmond, California, a vital and progressive studio for artists with developmental disabilities. Over the past forty years, as their longest tenured artist, she has produced hundreds of delicate clay sculptures. Often tributes to the memories of her childhood home and spiritual spaces, Fragoso’s mysterious towers topped with crucifixes reflect her devout Catholicism. Rising marks Fragoso’s East Coast debut and her first time showing with the gallery.