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"Pulse was definitely \u201Cpulsing\u201D yesterday morning, from the scantily-clad performers in Pulse Projects upstairs to the early morning crowds surfing the gallery booths on the ground floor. The fair, which historically has run at Chelsea\u2019s Metropolitan Pavilion during Armory Week, was an early ally with Frieze, switching over its dates to run alongside the British import. \u201CIt was great for us logistically to have more time between Miami and New York,\u201D Pulse\u2019s director Cornell DeWitt&amp;nbsp;told ARTINFO. \u201CI think galleries were nervous that everyone would get the message and come, but they all felt it was the best thing to do.\u201D &amp;nbsp;The change of date didn\u2019t seem to deter collectors. VIPs sipped mimosas as early as 9 a.m., inured to the profusion of the oft-extreme artwork on view, which included slaughterhouse-sourced animal blood paintings and roboticized dogs. By mid-afternoon, red dots began to pop up alongside artworks. Peter Brock\u2019s solo booth from the \u201CImpulse\u201D section of the fair reported sales by the end of the day.Clocking in at 60 exhibitors, this year\u2019s edition of Pulse is four galleries smaller than last year, though DeWitt says the slimming was merely a consequence of certain galleries wanting more space. This year, Pulse\u2019s roster included work by certified (if eclectic) mix of big names like Ed Ruscha, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Andres Serrano, David LaChappelle, and William Eggleston. That said, a lot of the most striking and strange works were by lessers-knowns. See ARTINFO\u2019s picks from Pulse below, complete with price tags (or click here to see our picks in illustrated slide show form).1) Fred Wilson at Rena Bransten Gallery, San FranciscoTwo works by the seminal institutional critique artist Fred Wilson adorn the entrance to Pulse, signaling that this will be a classy affair. \u201CSneaky Leaky\u201D (2009), an austere installation of raindrops made out of opaque black glass, harks back to Wilson\u2019s 2003 Venice Biennale installation. A smaller work from this series, featuring a single tear, is available in the gallery\u2019s booth, a bargain for $38,000. In \u201CReign\u201D (2011), iridescent black beads are suspended from a globe, conjuring complex issues of race and geo-politics. &amp;nbsp;Price Tag: $38,000 \u2013 $65,0002) Jordan Eagles at Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NYNot the creepiest work seen at Pulse (for that, see Tinkebell's taxidermied horse, below), but it takes the silver medal while remaining far more aesthetically appealing and inventive in the process. Eagles\u2019s slaughterhouse-sourced animal blood and cast UV resin paintings and sculptures glowed with almost inorganically intense hues from Causey Contemporary\u2019s solo booth. If Showtime\u2019s Dexter Morgan were a collector, he may gravitate to this booth.Price Tag: $2,000 \u2013&amp;nbsp;$25,0003) Sam Messenger at Davidson Contemporary, New York Sam Messenger debuted at Pulse\u2019s younger upstairs annex, \u201CImpulse,\u201D in 2007. Since then, prices have almost tripled for the artist\u2019s meticulous networks of grids and webs on weathered paper. His intricate lattice-like netting (rendered in white ink) unfold according to the Fibonacci sequence. &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Price Tag: $4,000 \u2013 $25,0004) David Kramer at Freight + Volume, New YorkKramer\u2019s kitschy studio drawings brightened up the booth for this eclectic New York gallery. Only one of his large-scale paintings, illuminated by a single yellow fluorescent-light, made it to the fair, but it was strikingly different from the smaller studies for sale, which incorporate a sloshy rainbow of messy ink and slogans, touting tongue-and-cheek jokes about the American dream. His haphazardly sketchy style is in line with a trend towards gallery shows that feature work torn straight from the sketchbook, but Kramer\u2019s pieces show a unique sensitivity to humorous plays on words and pictures.Price Tag: Large-scale painting \u201C70s Porn\u201D 2012 $15,000; \u201CSimple Life\u201D 2012 $3,500; \u201CMore Is More\u201D 2011 $3,500; \u201CFacebook Drawing\u201D 2011 $3,3005) Paul Paddock at Frosh &amp;amp; Portmann, New York The New York-based artist stood out with technically refined, subtly disturbing, and playful watercolors. These included \u201CGrand Standing\u201D (2012), a complex image picturing ghostly skeletons in the bark of birch trees amidst an owl-headed man lifted by children. \u201CHorse\u201D (2012) features a flying thestral and a young girl in a red dress wielding a machete.Price Tag: Small size $2,200, medium size $3,800, large $7,5006) Alan Rath at Hosfelt Gallery, New York\u201CCreature II\u201D (2012) will both wag his tail hello to you and cost you a pretty penny. Tech-savvy Rath picked up training in robotics at MIT and has combined his interest in digital video and image-making into a series of robotic sculptures that respond to human interaction. Very cool.Price Tag: \u201CCreature II\u201D 2012 $45,000; \u201CHandful\u201D 2010 $70,0007) Anne Lindberg at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, ILThe artist splits her time between Kansas City and New York, creating vibrant experiential drawings and installations. The one installed at the gallery\u2019s booth was site-specific and completed over the course of 12 hours. It's hard to explain, but the relatively new series began with graphite drawings produced with the aid of  an architect\u2019s parallel bar  and, due to the inspiration from a peach the artist ate over lunch one day, slowly became infused with bright yellows, oranges, and greens. Brace yourself, this booth will distort your visual field, so keep &amp;nbsp;your eyes locked on something stable.Price Tag: Installation \u201CCall and Response\u201D 2012 $25,000; simple graphite $3,500; color graphite $8,500; thread drawings $15,0008) Tinkebell and Terry Rogers at Torch Gallery, The NetherlandsIf there were an award for most awesomely flashy booth at Pulse, the Netherlands\u2019s Torch Gallery would take the cake. Cat-slaughtering provocatrice Tinkebell (nee Katinka Simonse) has never been one for subtlety, but she really ups the ante with her equine tour de force, a life-size taxidermy entitled \u201CCupcake, My Little Pony.\u201D As a comment on how we cutsily anthropomorphize animals for own narcissistic ends, Tinkebell has transformed the noble beast into a kitschy Disnified monstrosity, complete with roller skates and twinkling cartoon eyes. Meanwhile, Terry Rogers\u2019s monumental rendition of a porntastic orgy scene holds court on the back wall, a meditation on the alienation and emptiness of partying and casual sex.Price Tag: Tinkebelle \u201CCupcake, My Little Pony\u201D $23,000; Rogers \u201CThe Calculus of Existence\u201D 2012 $150,000 9) Loren Munk at Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CAIf fair-teague is setting in after the Frieze Week blitz, be sure to check out Loren Munk\u2019s \u201CGraphic Representation of the Dialectical Aesthetics of Modernism 1900-2000\u201D at Daniel Weinberg\u2019s booth. Munk\u2019s obsessive diagrammatic maps of art historical movements and trends might be the shot in the arm to get you excited about art again.Price Tag: $16,000 10) Will Kurtz at Mike Weiss Gallery, New YorkIf you see Will Kurtz on the street, run the other way! He might create an unflinching effigy of you from cardboard and newspaper. The Brooklyn-based artist and urban voyeur regularly combs the outer boroughs for his subjects, and his life-size portrait of three Brighton Beach oldtimers (and their little dog, too) is equal parts picturesque and terrifying.Price Tag: $28,000[content:advertisement-center]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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