As Isa Farfan circled around the dozens of booths along the three wide lanes at Art on Paper, one stood out above the rest. On the bare white walls were Moleskine journals, much like the small ones she uses, except these were spread open to Nicolas V Sanchez’s ballpoint pen drawings of the many corners of his family members’ homes. “Because it’s pen, I can’t erase it, so I just have to keep going,” Sanchez said of his process drawing on the notebooks. “You just commit to it at a certain point, and then that’s kind of the beauty of it.” At the fair as a whole, it was to booths showcasing artists that ingeniously annotated everyday paper objects with their own sense of individuality — Sanchez’s Moleskins, Adam Greener’s giant clipboards, and Stacey Lee Webber’s embroidered cash — that visitors flocked during the first hours. In contrast to their idiosyncratic visions, the more conventional booths — standard drawings, paintings, and photographs — felt, well, two-dimensional. Read the...