Art Basel Miami 2023

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Art Basel announces additional show highlights for the 2023 edition of its Americas fair in Miami Beach, as well as a vibrant cultural program within the halls and across Miami Beach.

The leading fair in the Americas will welcome 277 premier international galleries this December, with 25 newcomers joining an outstanding line-up of veteran exhibitors, two-thirds of which hail from North and Latin America
Dedicated to monumental artworks, the Meridians sector will host 19 thoughtprovoking projects including new and site-specific works, with a focus on new perspectives on how we collectively inhabit our planet
The Kabinett sector will feature 30 galleries showcasing 28 carefully curated installations within their main booths
Free to the public, Art Basel’s Conversations program will return with a series of live debates among thought leaders on the key topics shaping the world of art and culture, with a focus on celebrating Latin America
Beyond the fair halls, Art Basel will collaborate with world-class institutions, private collections, and cultural partners for an expanded program of exhibitions and events across Miami Beach throughout the fair week
Art Basel, whose Global Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center (MBCC) from December 8 to 10, 2023, with Preview Days on December 6 and 7

‘We welcome the artworld back to Art Basel Miami Beach this year with curated sectors and programming as inspired and ambitious as ever,’ said Vincenzo de Bellis, Director, Fairs and Exhibition Platforms, Art Basel. ‘Meridians will host 19 exceptional projects that go beyond the traditional art fair format to explore how we engage with our shifting natural and cultural environments. Our Kabinett sector will return with several first-time exhibitors, and our Conversations program will celebrate Miami Beach as the geographic and creative nexus of North and Latin America. Outside the halls, a truly exceptional cultural program will unfold at Miami Beach’s institutions and private collections, from Hernan Bas, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, and Etel Adnan at The Bass, to Charles Gaines and Tau Lewis at ICA Miami, to Gary Simmons at PAMM.’ De Bellis is spearheading this year’s edition of the fair. Bridget Finn, newly appointed Director, Art Basel Miami Beach, will lead the show starting in 2024.

Meridians
Featuring 19 projects this year, including new and site-specific works for Art Basel Miami Beach, Meridians invites exhibitors to showcase monumental historical and contemporary works which transcend the traditional art fair booth. Curated for the fourth consecutive year by Magalí Arriola, Mexico City-based curator and Director of Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, this edition of the sector brings together works ‘that speak to nature, to the land, and to various cultural and spiritual geographies in a world of changing boundaries and shifting identities,’ said Arriola.

Highlights include:

A new installation by American artist Ja’Tovia Gary, featuring a 26-minute film composed of vintage Hollywood imagery, direct animation, original super8 footage, and documentary elements, as well as a recreated domestic environment, responding to Toni Morrison’s seminal 1970 novel The Bluest Eye, presented by Paula Cooper Gallery (New York)
Four sculptures in the form of trophies by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke reflecting on the exercise and representation of power, in a suite titled Gilt (2022) created for The Met’s historic façade niches and referencing works of art in the museum’s collection, presented by Almine Rech (Paris, Brussels, Shanghai, London, New York)
Private Collection (2023), a new sculptural installation by Bay Area-artist Saif Azzuz in the form of a painted fence yard, probing questions of access, the privatization of land, settler colonialism, and Indigenous resilience, presented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York)
1968: El fuego de las Ideas (‘1968: The Fire of Ideas’) (2014-2018) by Argentinean artist and human rights activist Marcelo Brodsky, a sprawling display of archival images depicting global public and political manifestations which took place in 1968, presented by Rolf Art (Buenos Aires)
The Cellist (2023), Miami-based artist Reginald O’Neal’s first sculptural installation, a new ten-foot-tall reproduction of a small jazz cellist figurine in an environment which replicates scenes from the artist’s ‘Entertainer’ painting series, presented by Spinello Projects (Miami)
Compatriots (2023), an installation comprised of several large-scale figurative paintings by Julie Buffalohead, Minnesota-based artist and member of the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, drawing from a symbolic lexicon inspired by the artist’s heritage, presented by Jessica Silverman (San Francisco)
89,911 – An. / 86,054 – Ob. (2021) from Mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora’s ‘Ígnea’ series, featuring monochromatic works comprised of hand-carved andesite and obsidian fragments on wood, manipulating materials appreciated by the Mesoamerican peoples for their symbolism and usefulness, presented by Proyectos Monclova (Mexico City)

For the full list of artists and galleries presenting in Meridians, visit artbasel.com/miamibeach/meridians.
Kabinett
A mainstay section of the Miami Beach show, featuring art-historical and solo showcases, Kabinett will return with 28 concisely curated installations presented within exhibitors’ main booths.

Highlights include:

The first-ever solo presentation in the U.S. of British painter and former punk band manager Caroline Coon, featuring a selection from the artist’s ongoing ‘beach series’ and coinciding with her inclusion in Tate Britain’s group show ‘Women in Revolt!’, presented by Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, New York)
Cafe Cleopatra (2023), a site-specific installation of new sculptures and drawings by
New York-based artist Elisabeth Kley, known for her black and white ceramic sculptures, vessels, drawings, and paintings inspired by modernist theater sets and costume designs, presented by Canada (New York, East Hampton)
New paintings by Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick, presented by Hales (New York), in which the artist overlays vistas of rural American landscapes with the designs of the Native American people who have inhabited the area
A new series of lenticular prints by American artist Kandis Williams, which, through theatrical and cinematic portrayals of Black female characters, test the limits of racial and gendered tropes, presented by Morán Morán (Los Angeles, Mexico City)
New works in ceramics and watercolors by Brazilian artist Sallisa Rosa, prepared especially for the fair and forming part of the Brazilian artist’s ongoing investigations into memory through materiality, presented by A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo)

For the full list of artists and galleries presenting in Kabinett, visit artbasel.com/miamibeach/kabinett. Furthermore, the fair will host exhibitors across its four additional sectors, announced earlier this year. Highlights from Galleries, where the world’s leading galleries present the full breadth of their program, include historic and never-before-seen works by ArgentinianItalian surrealist Leonor Fini from the artist’s personal collection, jointly presented by Galerie Minsky (Paris) and Weinstein Gallery (San Francisco), as well as an homage to Brockman Gallery, the first major contemporary gallery run by and for Black artists, coorganized by Parrasch Heijnen Gallery (Los Angeles) and Franklin Parrasch Gallery (San Francisco) in collaboration with Alonzo Davis, one of Brockman Gallery’s founders. In Nova, the sector for galleries presenting new works by up to three artists, The Ranch (New York) will showcase never-before-exhibited sculptures by Puerto Rican artist Daniel Lind-Ramos inspired by his hometown of Loíza, the largest Afro-Caribbean enclave in Puerto Rico, while Gypsum Gallery (Cairo) will present new paintings by Egyptian artist Basim Magdy, the first staging of the artist’s paintings in a U.S. context.
In Positions, the sector for young galleries showcasing ambitious solo presentations by emerging voices, Galatea (Rio de Janeiro) will exhibit a new photo series by Brazilian artist Allan Weber, known for his work on everyday life in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. Also in the sector, Dürst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague), the first Dutch gallery to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach, will present new work, hand-carved on native wood, by Mexican artist Alejandra Venegas. Highlights from Survey, dedicated to galleries showcasing artistic practices of historical relevance, include solo presentations of American artist and activist Karen Finley centered on her seminal 1977 interactive installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, during a protracted legal battle with the National Endowment for the Arts, presented by Freight+Volume (New York), as well as American artist Vivian Browne, whose ‘Africa Series’ paintings from the 1970s will be presented at the fair by Ryan Lee (New York).
To view exhibitors from these sectors, visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/the show.
Conversations Running from December 7 to 9 and free to the public, Conversations is a series of live
debates bringing together some of today’s most inspiring cultural figures. Curated by Emily Butler, the renowned series this year features 35 thought leaders across nine panels celebrating Latin America and providing insights into the evolving global art scene. The program draws inspiration from the city of Miami’s position as a gateway to Latin America and the Caribbean to honor Afro-Latino, Latino, and feminist histories, the artistic ecologies of Florida, and other topical issues in 2023.

Highlights include:

For ‘Premiere Artist Talk,’ a tribute to the practice of leading artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons, from her youth in Cuba to her acclaimed retrospective on tour in the U.S., presently on view at The Brooklyn Museum. Campos-Pons will be in discussion with Franklin Sirmans, Director of Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Crystal Williams, President of Rhode Island School of Design
Singer-songwriter, producer, and activist Chance the Rapper
Collector, curator, and philanthropist Estrellita Brodsky with artist Guadalupe Maravilla and Art Basel Executive Editor Coline Milliard
Directors of new and recently re-opened US institutions – Jillian Jones of The Albright-Knoxx Museum, Tonya M. Matthews of the International African American Museum, and Silvia Karman Cubiñá of The Bass Museum – exploring the question of how museums remain relevant with cultural strategy advisor András Szántó
Other panels include: ‘Collecting in Brazil,’ with a look at the current state of the art market in Latin America; ‘Artist-Led Residencies in Florida’; ‘From Supercontinents to Florida: Artists on Climate Change’; ‘Biohacking Creativity’; and ‘Found in Translation’

Additional participants in Conversations include: Pedro Barbosa, Oliver Basciano, Márcio Botner, James Bridle, Emily Butler, Tania Candiani, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Jeni Fulton, Noémie Goudal, Stefanie Hessler, Eduardo Kac, Cathy Leff, Lorie Mertes, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Esther Park-Clemetson, Lee Pivnik, Luisa Strina, Juana Valdés, and Sadie Woods.
All panels will be livestreamed on Art Basel’s Facebook page. Recordings will be available on Art Basel’s website following the event. See the full program at artbasel.com/miamibeach/conversations.
Museum Shows, Private Collections, and additional programming Visitors to the fair will have the opportunity to experience a range of outstanding events, exhibitions, and special projects beyond the halls throughout the fair week, hosted by Art Basel’s world-class cultural partners. Major shows coinciding with Art Basel include:

The Bass
‘Hernan Bas – The Conceptualists’
‘Anne Duk Hee Jordan – I will always weather with you’
‘Etel Adnan – Painting into Space’
‘Nam June Paik – The Miami Years’
‘Carola Bravo – Between Absence and Presence’
de la Cruz
‘House in Motion / New Perspective’
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)
‘Ahmed Morsi in New York: Elegy of the Sea’
‘Sasha Gordon’
‘Anne Collier’
‘Charles Gaines: 1992-2023’
‘Tau Lewis’
Locust Projects
‘Cornelius Tulloch: Poetics of Place’
‘Tania Candiani: Waterbirds: Migratory Sound Flow’
Marquez Art Projects (MAP)
‘Cristina de Miguel: Your Body Is Pieces’
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
‘Mimmo Paladino: Painting and Sculpture’
‘Motherwell, Segal, Stella’
‘Helen Levitt – New York Street Photographer 1930s-1990s’
‘Only Sculpture: Bladen, Fabro, Heizer, Noguchi, Perlman, Merz, Serra, Tony Smith,
Snelson, Tucker, Franz West, Wilmarth’ ‘New to the Collection: Jenny Brosinski, David Deutsch, Jürgen Drescher, Hadi Falapishi, Anna Fasshauer, Duane Linklater, Alessandro Piangiamore, Magnus Plessen, Sara Ramo, Rose B. Simpson, Giuseppe Spangulo, Lisa Williamson,
Marina Zurkow, and James Schmitz’ ‘Danny Lyon: 100 Photographs’
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
‘Gary Simmons: Public Enemy’
‘Joan Didion: What She Means’
‘Yayoi Kusama: Love is Calling’
‘Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Too Bright to See’
‘Marcela Cantuária: The South American Dream’
‘Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition’
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
‘Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle’
‘Glory of the World: Color Field Painting (1950s to 1983)’
‘Pablo Picasso: Dust You Are, To Dust You Return’
‘House of Glackens’
‘Cosmic Mirrors: Haitian Art Highlights from the Collection’
‘The Eye of CoBrA’
Rubell Museum ‘Collection Highlights’

UBS Art Studio: The Poetics of Dimensions
In partnership with Art Basel and ARTNOIR, UBS will present the video piece …encounter?flee (untitled) (2023) by Julianknxx on the façade of Soundscape Park WALLCAST. …encounter?flee (untitled) blurs the lines between poetry and film as its figures appear, disappear, and reappear in a constant loop. Located alongside the New World Symphony at 500 17th Street in Miami Beach, the work will be on view every evening from December 5 to 11, 2023, from 5:30PM to 11PM, and is free to the public.

The video projection is part of The Poetics of Dimensions, a group exhibition presented by UBS in collaboration with ARTNOIR. The presentation is curated by ARTNOIR co-founder Larry Ossei-Mensah and features, in addition to Julianknxx’s outdoor piece, works by Anthony Akinbola, Sonia Gomes, Melissa Joseph, and Nari Ward, who each engage in practices that utilize dynamic and accessible materials like durags, felt, shoelaces, and other textiles to instigate dialogues about history, memory, myth, ritual, and identity. Located near the Meridians sector at the MBCC, the exhibition will be open from December 6 to 10, 2023 to Art Basel Miami Beach ticket holders.

The Legacy Purchase Program
For its fourth edition, the City of Miami Beach will acquire through its Legacy Purchase Program a work from the Nova or Positions sectors to enter the City’s public art collection via a public vote. The new acquisitions will be on view at a dedicated, publicly accessible area of the MBCC.

The CPGA-Étant Donnés Prize
The Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art (French Professional Committee of Art Galleries, or CPGA) and Villa Albertine will join forces for the second edition of the CPGAEtant Donnés Prize, which rewards a French or France-based living artist participating at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 and their exhibiting gallery. The winner of the prize will be selected by an appointed jury of international curators and collectors and will receive a $15,000 cash prize, split equally between the artist and the gallery. In 2022, the prize was awarded to French artist Julien Creuzet and his galleries High Art (France) and Andrew Kreps (USA).

NOTES TO EDITORS
About Art Basel
Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary art, sited in Basel, Miami Beach, Hong Kong, and Paris. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique, which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. Art Basel’s engagement has expanded beyond art fairs through new digital platforms and initiatives such as the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report. Art Basel’s Global Media Partner is The Financial Times. For further information, please visit artbasel.com.

About Magalí Arriola
Magalí Arriola, Director of Museo Tamayo, lives and works in Mexico City. Arriola joined Art Basel with recent institutional experience at KADIST, where she was Lead Curator for Latin America, and Museo Jumex, where she was Curator between 2011 and 2014. She was the curator of Mexico’s participation in the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, showing artist Pablo Vargas Lugo with a project entitled ‘Acts of God.’ Her other recent, independent curatorial projects include ‘What do you dream of? The Mohole Flower and other Tales,’ Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, August-October 2018; ‘A Place out of History,’ a film screened at documenta14 and FIDMarseille (2018), produced by Destello Films; and Sunset Décor,
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, June to August, 2017.

About Emily Butler
Emily Butler is Conversations Curator, Art Basel, freelance curator and PHD candidate in Curatorial Practice, ZHdK / University of Reading. Previously she was Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London. Her projects have included the Artists’ Film International programme (2016-21); survey exhibitions such as The London Open 2018 and 2022; Electronic Superhighway (2016); major solos by Kai Althoff (2020), Hannah Höch (2014), John Stezaker, and Wilhelm Sasnal (2011); collection displays; commissions by Nalini Malani (2020), Carlos Bunga (2020), Katja Novitskova (2018), Benedict Drew (2016), Kader Attia (2013), and Rachel Whiteread (2012); as well as festivals including Nocturnal Creatures 2021, 2018 and Art Night 2019, 2017. She has held roles in the Visual Arts Department, British Council and at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. She contributes to international publications and independent projects.

Partners
UBS & Contemporary
Global Lead Partner of Art Basel, UBS has a long history of supporting contemporary art and artists. The firm has one of the world’s most important corporate art collections. UBS seeks to advance the international conversation about the art market through its global lead partnership with Art Basel, and as co-publisher of the ‘Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report’ and the ‘Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting’. UBS also supports some of the world’s most important arts institutions, events and fairs. UBS provides its clients with insight into the art market, collecting, and legacy planning through its UBS Collectors Circle and UBS Art Advisory. For more information about UBS’s commitment to contemporary art, visit ubs.com/art.
Art Basel’s Associate Partners are Audemars Piguet, whose contemporary art commissioning program, ‘Audemars Piguet Contemporary,’ works with artists to support and develop an unrealized artwork which explores a new direction in their practice. Coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach, Audemars Piguet Contemporary will premiere its new commission, a large-scale ceramic installation titled ‘Topography of Memory’ by artist Sallisa
Rosa. NetJets – the world leader in private aviation; and Louis Vuitton, which nurtures a longstanding commitment to the arts by collaborating with international artists. Art Basel is also supported globally by BMW, La Prairie, Ruinart, Sanlorenzo, On, GOAT, and Quintessentially.
Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach is also supported by Sotheby’s International Realty, Chubb, Solana, d’strict and Coinbase, as well as Casa Dragones, Saint Laurent, Château d’Esclans, Perrier, TOV, and Kannoa. Hotel Partners include Grand Beach Hotel Miami Beach; The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach; and W South Beach. Art Basel’s Global Media Partner is The
Financial Times. For further information about partnerships, please visit artbasel.com/about/partners.

Art Basel & UBS School Group Program
Art Basel greatly values the attendance of school groups. This year, UBS is partnering with Art Basel to offer complimentary tickets for Art Basel Miami Beach to registered Schools, an initiative that provides enriching educational experiences in the world of modern and contemporary art. For more information, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/at-the-show.

Important Dates for Media
Media Reception
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
Auditorium of the MBCC
9AM – 9:45AM
Please RSVP to [email protected] by Tuesday, November 28.
Preview (by invitation only)
Wednesday, December 6 and Thursday, December 7, 2023
Public opening
Friday, December 8 – Sunday, December 10, 2023
Press Accreditation
Online registration for press accreditation for our show in Miami Beach is now open. Please note that an online application for accreditation prior to the fair is mandatory to receive your press pass. Press passes will be available in digital format only and accessible in the official Art Basel mobile app. For further information, please visit artbasel.com/accreditation.
Upcoming Art Basel Shows
Miami Beach, December 8-10, 2023
Hong Kong, March 28-30, 2024
Basel, June 13-16, 2024
Paris+ par Art Basel, October 18-20, 2024
Media Information Online
Media information and images can be downloaded directly from artbasel.com/press.
Journalists can subscribe to our media mailings to receive information on Art Basel.
For the latest updates on Art Basel, visit artbasel.com, find us on Facebook, or follow
@artbasel on Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Weibo, and WeChat.

Press Contacts
Art Basel, May Mansour
Tel. +1 646 573 8722, [email protected]
PR Representatives for North and South America, the Middle East, and Africa
FITZ & CO, Yun Lee
Tel. +1 646 589 0920, [email protected]
PR Representatives for Europe
SUTTON, Joseph Lamb
Tel. +44 20 7183 3577, [email protected]
PR Representatives for France
CLAUDINE COLIN COMMUNICATION, Thomas Lozinski, Claire Jehl, and Aristide Pluvinage Tél. +33
(0)1 42 72 60 01, [email protected] & [email protected]
PR Representatives for Asia
SUTTON, Carol Lo
Tel. +852 2528 0792, [email protected]

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The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses its First Fundraising Goal

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The Center for Arts and Innovation Surpasses its First Fundraising Goal

The Center raises nearly $30 million in capital from donors across South Florida and the United States; calls on the community to join in history-making project

Boca Raton, FL – November 7, 2023 – The Center for Arts and Innovation announced today it has surpassed the City of Boca Raton’s year-one fundraising threshold. With nearly $30 million in capital commitments raised in recent months, and on the heels of the selection of world-renowned architect Renzo Piano as lead designer, The Center welcomes individuals and organizations looking to join other visionaries as the design process begins and be a part of the creation of a globally-renowned epicenter for creativity, education, innovation, and community.

“It’s thrilling to see our South Florida community support the creation of a 21st-century campus that celebrates and encourages creativity’s essential role in society while also providing a much-needed platform for innovation to flourish,” said Andrea Virgin, Chair & CEO of The Center. “We are grateful for our donors’ tremendous generosity and partnership in the creation of one of the country’s most exciting projects, led by one of the world’s greatest architects, Renzo Piano. For those looking for a front-row seat at how transformational infrastructure comes to be, and one of the first geared to the needs of the 21st century, the time is now to join us on this history-making journey. It is truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Projected to break ground in 2025, Boca Raton’s centennial year, The Center will drive a focus on creative, economic, and innovative progress to the region, and will prioritize innovation, sustainability in design, and economic growth at its core. Offering a compelling vision that collocates artistic and cultural creation and experiences alongside multidisciplinary tech innovation, The Center will redefine what a cultural hub can be, who it can serve, and the impact it can have. By establishing itself as a pivotal space for new ideas, experiences, businesses, and innovators of tomorrow to take shape, The Center will set the stage for campuses like it in the future.

First initiated in 2018, The Center was initially conceptualized to fill a 60-mile gap in cultural infrastructure along Florida’s Gold Coast. While The Center has made tremendous progress towards its mission, its landmark placement at the north end of Mizner Park, next to the Boca Raton Museum of Art, realizes the original vision of establishing a cultural hub in Boca Raton’s downtown core, where 40 percent of the land was earmarked for such a purpose. Once operational, The Center is estimated to create more than $1.3 billion in overall economic impact in the area within its first five years, both from retained direct, indirect and induced spending and more than half a million new annual visitors to the city.

Inclusive of a $10 million dollar lead anonymous gift, The Center extends its deepest gratitude to all of its capital donors who have brought the organization to this milestone. Donors who contributed $1 million and more include James & Marta Batmasian Family Foundation; Elizabeth H. Dudley; the Kent Jordan Family; the Schmidt Family Foundation; The Edith & Martin Stein Family Foundation; and Andrea Virgin (in remembrance of Thomas J. Virgin).

In addition, meaningful donations were also made by Peg Anderson, Dr. Robert & Margaret Blume, Heidi Boncher & Joel S. White, the Deyo Family, Steven & Gina Giacona, Stephen & Terri Geifman, Leslie Goldberg, Bonnie Halperin & Family, The Steven Halmos Family Foundation, Eric & Olga Jorgensen, Erica Kasel, Michael & Lisa Kaufman, Patricia & Paul Kilgallon, Nina and Camilo Miguel, Mandell Weiss Charitable Trust, Laura & Shaw McCutcheon, the Mere Foundation, The Perkaus Family, and the Weiner Family.

“The Schmidt Family Foundation is pleased to support The Center for Arts & Innovation. We believe it is an essential project uniting creativity and innovation for the advancement of education, business and the community,” said the Schmidt Family Foundation.

“Jim and I are proud to support The Center for Arts & Innovation and help fulfill a dream of bringing world-class arts & culture to Boca Raton – a dream that is finally materializing after 25 years,” said Marta Batmasian of the James and Marta Batmasian Family Foundation.

“The Steven Halmos Family Foundation is very happy to support such an exciting project like The Center. We look forward to seeing this wonderful creative arts campus come to life and empower learners of all ages within our region,” said Jeff Halmos of the Steven Halmos Family Foundation.

“As the leadership of the Center for Arts and Innovation continues to exceed numerous City requirements, confidence and excitement builds. I envision an iconic Center for Arts and Innovation that will be celebrated and treasured. There is no doubt that it will be fully utilized and quickly become world-renowned,” said Margaret Blume.

“As long-term residents of Boca Raton, Lisa and I are thrilled to support this project as it represents the exciting next era of our ‘best in class’ community,” said Michael Kaufman, Founder and CEO of Kaufman Lynn Construction.

“Nina and I wholeheartedly champion the arts and The Center’s mission, recognizing their profound influence beyond mere economic impact. Creativity sparks the imagination of students and businesses, fosters innovation, and unites communities to amplify their impact in profound ways,” said Camilo Miguel, CEO of Mast Capital. “As Chair of the Building Committee on The Center’s Board, it is with great pleasure to have our family support the capital campaign and guide Renzo Piano’s design for what is becoming one of the most thrilling cultural projects in our state.”

“The Weiner family is both honored and grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this most exciting addition to the Boca Raton cultural community,” said Bruce Weiner, Owner of PEBB Enterprises. “We look forward to giving our continuing support for this incredible endeavor.”

To learn more about The Center of Arts and Innovation and how to show support and get involved, please visit https://thecenterforartsandinnovation.org/.

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About The Center for Arts & Innovation

Conceptually announced in 2018, The Center for Arts and Innovation is a non-profit mission to create a comprehensive, economically vibrant, accessible, innovative and sustainable cultural destination in Boca Raton that will enhance the arts and cultural infrastructure in the city; benefit the residents, patrons, visitors, organizations and civic and business communities; and be a landmark along the Gold Coast for future generations of audiences, artists, students, businesses, technologies and institutions. In addition to infrastructure to support The Center’s education and innovation programming,The Center imagines six diverse & adaptive performance & event spaces — indoor and outdoor—ranging in seating capacity from 99 to 3,500 seats. These can be programmed as individual spaces or combined to host events for nearly 6,000 total attendees.

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Miami Art Week: Women Art Dealers in Miami Story Idea

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Miami Art Week: Women Art Dealers in Miami Story Idea

Miami Art Week is approaching, and it is time to celebrate the city’s vibrant art scene. As the art world gears up for the event, it is important to recognize women who have significantly contributed to the art business.
Four female entrepreneurs who run their art galleries in Miami are Alicia Restrepo, the owner of Etra Fine Art located in Little River; Payal Tak, the owner of Lucid Design District, which is situated across from ICA; Daisy Diaz, the owner of Frascione Arte in Florence; and Sylvie San Juan, the owner of Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit in Miami.
According to a recent report by Artsy, women dealers are 28% more likely to exhibit female artists, while male-run galleries tend to showcase more male artists. The report also found that younger galleries are likelier to have female leadership. This data suggests that women play an increasingly important role in art as artists and business leaders.

Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River) © Stefano Campanini

Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River Art District)

Alicia Restrepo (born in Medellín, Colombia) graduated first in Economics and then later in art history. She has been in the art business since 1983, first as co-owner of one of the most important galleries in Soho in the 80’s and 90’s. In 2003, she relocated to Miami following Art Basel Miami Beach’s debut in 2002 when Miami quickly became recognized as a global cultural destination.

Ms. Restrepo is an expert in Latin and South American art and has an impressive collection of contemporary art by mid-career to established artists from those regions, as well as Europe. Etra Fine Art has survived Miami’s gentrified neighborhood shifts. The gallery’s first location was in the Design District (before it became a luxury retail hub); followed by Wynwood (in the days when the area had Art Walks); and currently, in Little Haiti/Little River Art District (the new home of Oolite Arts).

In addition to promoting and exhibiting artists, Ms. Restrepo works with private collectors, corporations, and interior designers to build collections by researching, locating, acquiring, and installing an array of artwork.

Payal Tak , Owner of Lucid Design District

Payal Tak (born in India) is the former President and CEO of her self-made, Virginia-based IT services company. She opened Lucid Design District during Art Basel Miami Beach / Miami Art Week 2022. For over three decades, while focusing on executing a business in Information Technology, Ms. Tak relied heavily on creating art as her go-to activity to re-energize at the end of her day. She would often paint late into the night while listening to Sufi music.

The 3,700-sf gallery is located on Miami’s “art corner” (10-12 NE 41 St. at Miami Ave) next to Museum Garage and across the street from the de la Cruz Collection and ICA Miami. The idea of Lucid Design District was born from Ms. Tak’s desire to connect with the community through collaborative art exchanges. She hosts regular exhibitions, educational art talks, and artist networking events.

CHROMA 2023 – Art Week Exhibition Opens Tuesday, December 5th at 5 p.m. EPK link for images, artist bios, and exhibition description.
Payal Tak, Owner of Lucid Design District (Miami Design District) ©. Armando CollsDaisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida)

Daisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida)

Daisy Diaz was born in Miami to Cuban American parents. Her father’s passion for antiquities ignited Daisy’s lifelong commitment to the arts. After graduating from Boston College, she set out to complete a master’s degree in industrial design in Florence, which led to a career at Lungarno Alberghi (the Salvatore Ferragamo family’s hospitality and interior design group). Soon after, she formed her own distribution company. Ms. Diaz’s unwavering appreciation of the arts would lead her to meet Federico Gandolfi Vannini (4th generation art dealer and owner of Frascione Arte), and, for more than a decade, the couple has expanded their private collection.

Since 2020, Federico and Daisy have lived in Miami while continuing to run Frascione Arte. They hope to make a lasting impact on South Florida’s arts and culture scene.

Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

Ms. San Juan alongside Daisy Diaz and Federico Gandolfi Vannini curated the “Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings” exhibition that opened on September 14th. There will be special programs and Art Week hours, plus a significant Art Week announcement. The exhibition features thirty paintings by Italian and Flemish Masters, from the 13th – 17th centuries.

Faith, Beauty, and Devotion: Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Paintings
The Miami Art Week Hours are:

Saturday, December 2nd, “Italian Wine Event” from 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. (A ticketed event.)
Thursday, December 7th from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. (Public hours. Free admission.)
Saturday, December 9th from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (Public hours. Free admission.

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Art Palm Beach Returns to Palm Beach County

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Art Palm Beach Returns to Palm Beach County
Exciting Show This Year Includes New Celeb and Charity Partner

Building on the massive success of last year’s inaugural show, Art Palm Beach is coming back to Palm Beach County with an even bigger and even more highly curated show! This year, the owners of the LA Art Show, the most prestigious and innovative art show in America are proud to announce an entirely new experience this year. “Last year, we created a new and completely revamped Art Palm Beach,” said Kassandra Voyagis, the producer and director of the show. “Under our leadership, we took this show in a new and exciting direction marrying both fairs in a dynamic state-of-the-art bicoastal enterprise. This year we are upping the ante even more by adding new international galleries, a completely new theme, and a new charity partner.”

Art Palm Beach will be held from January 24th to 28th, 2024, at the Palm Beach County Convention Center where there will be more than 80 prestigious contemporary, emerging, and modern art galleries. A highlight of this year’s show is the debut of a dedicated platform for artificial intelligence within DIVERSEartPB, a rotating group of museums, art institutions and non-profits. Under the expert guidance of renowned art curator, Marisa Caichiolo, DIVERSEartPB will spotlight How AI is reshaping humanity. Through thought provoking installations, live, and interactive experiences, visitors will be challenged to look at how AI is recreating the way the human memory works and changing our perception of what it means to be human.

Among the notable components of this year’s show is the Acquisition Award, being presented by La Neomudéjar Museum to an attending gallery. The artwork piece selected by La Neomudéjar Museum curators will be added to the museum’s permanent collection in Spain.

Art Palm Beach is also pleased to announce a first of its kind local partnership with The American Heart Association. Art Palm Beach is proudly donating 15% of the entire show’s proceeds to American Heart including the night of the star-studded VIP opening night premier event. Ticket sales for opening night are $150. Tickets for every other day are $35 and can be purchased here. The exclusive VIP red-carpet opening night event will feature the who’s who of Palm Beach County along with trendsetters, influencers, and alpha consumers, plus a special celebrity host.
For more information about the show please visit ArtPalmBeach.com.

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Sasha Gordon paints to process the pains of prejudice

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Sasha Gordon, Pinky Promise, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson.

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Sasha Gordon paints to process the pains of prejudice

The figurative painter’s first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, showcases her hyperreal self-portraits

Two years after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American artist Sasha Gordon’s solo debuts at Jeffrey Deitch in New York and Matthew Brown in Los Angeles are followed by her first solo museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami). The ground-floor exhibition features seven existing and new oil paintings that venture into the imaginary of a young queer Asian American woman, and the 25-year-old’s observations and experiences of the world. Manifesting across the canvas in theatrically expressive yet pristinely detailed and hyperreal forms, Gordon’s fleshy self-portraits offer windows into worlds where pervasive archetypes are questioned, dismantled, and ridiculed. Presented through imagined personas depicted as in her body (often naked and exposed), as animals and as objects, Gordon empowers these self-characterizations with the criticality needed to challenge the status quo.

Sasha Gordon. Photographs by William Jess Laird.

‘Gordon’s new paintings demonstrate meticulous detail and extraordinary inventiveness as she navigates complex personal narratives through universal concepts of identity and objectification,’ shares Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition’s curator, and ICA Miami’s Irma and Norman Braman artistic director.

At a time when figurative painting and the exploration of identity politics is center stage, Gordon’s work and voice is poignantly positioned. Yet her early success can be contributed to the exquisite exactitude of her paintings combined with witty and candid compositions that augment contemporary sociopolitical subject matter. In Volcano (2023), a personified volcano explodes in brilliant yellow and orange light, as lava sprays and flows down the mountain to form tendrils of fiery long hair. The dark gray rock doubles as a face equally explosive with anger – eyes glaring, nose scrunched, and teeth clenched – hostile in monumental eruption. Recalling Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus (1480), Gordon’s painting Like Froth (2022) perches a female figure on a rock, naked and frontally exposed. Set amid stormy seas and blood-red skies, the character bluntly and perceptively stares back, creating an unnerving loop of looking. Contradicting painting traditions that positioned women as objects to be consumed, the female forms in these works are object and protagonist, subject and voyeur – unapologetic in their rage.

Left: Like Froth, 2022. Right: Almost A Very Rare Thing, 2022. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. Both works by Sasha Gordon. Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown.

Colorful and sweetly detailed imagery is curious and uncomfortable, turning humor into satire and titillation into confrontation. Like a carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, the artist’s multidimensional role-play as creator, character/subject, and audience/onlooker invites close observation, dominates the interaction, and ingests the viewer within the outcome.

Born and raised in New York, Gordon’s mastery stems from her fascination with archetypes and prejudices perpetuated throughout the history of portraiture. By assuming avatars, Gordon constructs interactions and exchanges that appear dreamlike and fantastical yet underpin ardent feelings and truths about homophobic, racist, and gendered interactions.

Sasha Gordon is represented by Matthew Brown (Los Angeles). ‘Sasha Gordon’ will be on view at ICA Miami from December 4, 2023 to April 28, 2024.

This article was originally published in the Art Basel Miami Beach magazine 2023.

Published on November 10, 2023.

Caption for full-bleed image: Sasha Gordon, Pluck, 2022 (detail). Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Brown. Photograph by Genevieve Hanson. A dark filter was applied over this image for readability.

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Art Basel, The Artist and the Collector

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Estrellita B. Brodsky, credit Hans Neumann

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Conversations | The Artist and the Collector

Guadalupe Maravilla and Estrellita B. Brodsky

Thu, Dec 7, 2023
5pm – 6pm (Miami Beach)
Art Basel
1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

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Estrellita B. Brodsky, collector, curator, and philanthropist, New York

Guadalupe Maravilla, artist, Brooklyn

Moderator: Coline Milliard, Executive Editor, Art Basel, Basel

The relationship that develops between an artist and a collector is at the heart of the art world. Artist Guadalupe Maravilla and the collector, curator and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky discuss their respective commitment to championing diverse perspectives from Latin America and the challenges they have had to overcome. This discussion offers insights into how connections between individuals are shaped by their shared vision of art.

Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is an internationally known art historian, collector, and philanthropist who has advanced the presence of art from Latin America and its diaspora on the global stage.

Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a Master’s from Hunter College. She has curated exhibitions and written extensively on post-WWII Latin American artists including Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc. A founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative, a trustee of the Hirshhorn Museum and Tate Americas Foundation, she has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2015, she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation, to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America.

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Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

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Conversations | Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

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Art Basel 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach

Thu, Dec 7, 2023

1pm – 2pm (Miami Beach)

Franklin Sirmans, Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami

Moderator: Crystal Williams, President, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

María Magdalena Campos-Pons discusses her influential career as an artist and teacher with Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Crystal Williams, President of the Rhode Island School of Design. Exploring her multimedia practice, which considers how history, memory, gender, and religion inform personal identity, they chart Campos-Pons’s trajectory over the last 4 decades, from her youth in Cuba to her acclaimed retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and US tour 2023- 2025.

BIOGRAPHY

The art of María Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959, Matanzas) addresses history, memory, gender, and religion, investigating the role of each in identity formation. Her practice intermixes photography, painting, sculpture, film, video, and performance.

Campos-Pons is a descendant of Hispanic and Chinese immigrants to Cuba and of Nigerians brought to the island and enslaved in the 19th century. She grew up with the legacy of slavery. As a child, Campos-Pons learned about Santería, a religious tradition that originated in the Yoruban nations of West Africa. Informed by the traditions, rituals, and practices of her ancestors, her work is deeply autobiographical. Using herself and her Afro-Cuban relatives as subjects, Campos-Pons creates historical narratives that illuminate the spirits of people and places, present and past. She makes personal history universally relevant. Invoking narratives of the transatlantic slave trade, her images and performances honor Black laborers on indigo and sugar plantations, renew Catholic and Santería practices, and celebrate revolutionary uprisings in the Americas. The sea as a repository of memory and site of identity formation is a frequent theme, allowing her to explore topics ranging from the Middle Passage to the contemporary migrant crisis. Campos-Pons writes that she collects and tells “stories of forgotten people in order to foster a dialogue to better understand and propose a poetic, compassionate reading of our time.”

From the beginning, Campos-Pons has combined traditional artmaking mediums with installation and time-based mediums including video, film, and performance. In the 1990s, she began making large-format Polaroid photographs that elaborate the complexities of the themes she addresses. Campos-Pons’s performances often unfold as ritualistic processionals that physically and spiritually fill the spaces in which they take place while asserting their relevance beyond the boundaries of those spaces.

Since 2020, Campos-Pons has witnessed a surge of excitement as demonstrated by recent acquisitions of her art by the Museum of Modern Art (New York); Princeton University Art Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC); Speed Art Museum (Louisville); Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; J. Paul Getty Museum; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston); Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston); and other public and private collections. In addition, her work has appeared in Thinking Historically in the Present at the Sharjah Biennial 15 (United Arab Emirates) and soft and weak like water at the 14th Gwangju Biennale.

Campos-Pons’s art is also in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York); Art Institute of Chicago; Victoria and Albert Museum (London); Pérez Art Museum (Miami); and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge). She has presented performances at venues including the Venice Biennale; documenta 14; Havana Biennial; Dakar Biennale; Johannesburg Biennale; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; and (in collaboration with composer and sound artist Neil Leonard) Guggenheim Museum and National Portrait Gallery (Washington, DC).

In the fall of 2023, the Brooklyn Museum and J. Paul Getty Museum will present María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold, a major traveling multimedia survey of her work, the first since 2007. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog published by the Getty.

Campos-Pons graduated in 1980 from the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba. She went on to study painting at Havana’s Universidad de las Artes (ISA). In 1988, she earned an MFA in Media Arts from Boston’s Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In the late 1980s, she taught at the Universidad de las Artes (ISA) in Havana. There she gained an international reputation as an exponent of the New Cuban Art movement, which arose in opposition to Communist repression on the island. In 1991, she immigrated to Canada and onto Boston in 1993, where she taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and received numerous prizes and honors for both her teaching and her artistic practice. In 2017, she became the Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair of Fine Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she now resides.

Campos-Pons has founded or cofounded several nonprofit arts organizations including the Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice, a collaboration between Fisk University, Frist Art Museum, Millions of Conversations, and Vanderbilt University. In addition, she has launched Intermittent Rivers, an artistic intervention in Matanzas, Cuba, as part of the Havana Biennial, and When We Gather, a multifaceted art project in Washington, DC, celebrating the vital role of women in the progress of the United States.

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The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil

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Luisa Strina, gallery owner, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo — Marcio Botner_Courtesy of A Gentil Carioca

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Conversations | The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil

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3pm – 4pm (Miami Beach)

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Pedro Barbosa, collector, São Paulo

Márcio Botner, co-founder, partner and director, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro

Luisa Strina, gallery owner, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo

Moderator: Oliver Basciano, writer, São Paulo and London

The Brazilian art market is the largest by size in Latin America. With president Lula’s government reinstating the ministry of culture and increasing funding to the arts, how is the market developing? This panel examines shifts in the Brazilian art scene since the beginning of 2023 through the voices of gallerists, collectors, and experts. Has a renewed prioritization of the arts already had a measurable impact?

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Art Basel, Miami Beach, How Do Museums Remain Relevant?

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Conversations | Renewing the Institution: How Do Museums Remain Relevant?

Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Bass, Miami Beach

Jillian Jones, Deputy Director, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo

Tonya M. Matthews, President and CEO, International African American Museum, Charleston

Moderator: András Szántó, author and cultural strategy advisor, Brooklyn

Many significant US art museums have just completed or are completing redesigns and extensions. These institutions are not only adding more welcoming facilities, they are also adapting to new times. From integrating new technologies to finding new ways of working and engaging audiences, museums are seeking to reassert their relevance today. Here, three leaders reveal how they are resetting their institutions.

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SCOPE THE NEW CONTEMPORARY

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THE NEW CONTEMPORARY

Courtesy of Saype | 2021 New Contemporary Installation

The New Contemporary returns to the SCOPE pavilion with an experiential multidisciplinary program located in our expanded Atrium. The New Contemporary will present daily programming featuring large-scale installations, music performances, and panel discussions during the day while continuing our long-standing commitment to wellness. Guests are encouraged to attend morning healing programming and guided meditation against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach. This multi-day destination will transform after-hours into a premium nightlife experience, offering a world-class music program.

TOMISLAV TOPIC | INSTALLATION | ENTRANCE

The German artist Tomislav Topić uses large-scale color and form to create site-specific art installations that derives from graffiti writing. Topić will install a large-scale immersive work at SCOPE’s front entrance, using shapes and patterns found in architecture to transform visitors’ perception of space.

BK ADAMS | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Courtesy of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

BK Adams’ The Messenger, Time, A Blue (Collar) Horse stands at 25 feet tall and 20 feet long. Conceived as a modern-day “Trojan Horse,” Adams’ large-scale sculpture employs the vernacular of welding and manufacturing to create a large-scale, three-dimensional artwork that inspires self-reliance and empowerment. Hand fabricated by the artist and his team, there are over 7,000 running feet of welds created entirely from steel; the work is painted with industrial blue car paint and draped with a blanket of 130 clocks, symbolic of the constant passing of time and our relationship with it. This handcrafted work echoes a history of manufacturing while posing the question, “Who is selling us the dream now?” The Messenger, Time, A Blue (Collar) Horse is intended as a mantra to encourage the next generation to self-improvement, self-love, and actualization.

CONNOR TINGLEY | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Courtesy of Connor Tingley Studio | Photographed by Quinn Matthews

Connor Tingley’s installation in collaboration with Curren Caples explored the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding. Bridging gaps between three disciplines, DIY is an art collaboration between the mediums of music, skateboarding, and painting. The conversation is rooted by the subject matter of Southern California Americana in a work that is ultimately about man’s effect on earth and the limits of our creations in light of nature. They want to inform the gravity and the day-to-night transition that we all experience which is described by the mark-making from the skateboard wheels. They connect the domain of painting (on the wall) and skateboarding (on the ground). Each discipline is not compromised in approach but affected in their outcomes as they participate together.

JEREMY POPE | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

Artist and two-time Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Jeremy Pope, will join SCOPE in a conversation with Oscar-winning screenwriter and playwright, Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight), around his photojournalism series, FLEX(bitch). Growing up with a preacher and professional bodybuilder father, this series opens a dialogue about Pope’s journey to manhood, masculinity, and self-love. What began as a self-funded creative project transformed into a therapeutic journey and a profound excavation of self. Pope and McCraney will discuss the confrontation of fears, unexplored thoughts, and the unraveling of internationalized homophobia. FLEX(bitch) challenges preconceived notions, urging us to bend what we believe about ourselves, our convictions, and how we show up in the world.

TEAROOM | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

The Way of Tea, or Chanoyu, is a Japanese-born experiential installation art. It units hosts and guests in a ritual of sharing a bowl of tea, symbolizing harmony among individuals, craftsmanship, and society. In this gathering, we’ll feature the works of artist “Takahiro Koga”, known for his philosophy of ‘NEO Wabi-Sabi’, celebrating the beauty found in both luxury and simplicity, which may seem contradictory at first glance.

DAÀPÒ RÉO | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

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daàPò réo is a Nigerian-born and naturalized U.S. citizen. His artistic practice draws on autobiographical material and his subject matter deals with shifts in perspective, reversible identities, and interactions as humans. He features the American flag as a recurring motif. It’s one of the most recognizable national banners worldwide, the U.S. flag epitomizes a sense of home and pride in one’s identity, but also the face of the Western world, of its imperialistic liberalism and recent drift to the political right. He uses it as a catalyst for conversations, a canvas to crystallize ideas and feelings.

MONOLITH | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

A monumental example of the future of public art, the Monolith, will illustrate the power of public digital art installations’ ability to bring connectedness and wellness to communities. The Monolith will feature emerging and blue-chip digital artists within this monumental sculpture piece.

SCOPE WALLS | INSTALLATION | BEACHFRONT

SCOPE continues to bring the world of art to unconventional settings. This year the SCOPE Walls, a series of murals, will be featured at SCOPE on the sands of Miami Beach. This project is a continuation of SCOPE’s mission to work globally while thinking locally, impacting the art industry as a whole with a profound respect for the surrounding community.
The works this year are a black and white monochrome highlighted with select, powerful, colors from a rainbow. This is a way of drawing a broad but simple ‘line in the sand’ as it were. This line though is not an ultimatum but rather an invitation. Through the righteous aid of all the participating artists. NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE, is our effort at a beach front venue that sparks dialogue and discourse. Our world is rapidly changing and evolving and through art and through conversations we move together.
This joint project between SCOPE Art Show and STRAAT Museum brings together two leading international art institutions with a shared commitment to promoting diversity, inclusion, and social justice. STRAAT Museum in Amsterdam is the world’s largest Street Art and Graffiti focused museum. The collaborations created a unique platform for artists to showcase their work, engage with a global audience, and participate in important conversations about contemporary social issues.

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THE LONDON POLICE
HOXXOH
PREF ID
BISCO SMITH
MANDO MARIE
ELLE
ANTHONY GARCIA SR.
VALFRE

JEFFREY HENSON SCALES | INSTALLATION

Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery

Jeffrey Henson Scales recently discovered lost negatives from his early days in the Black Panther Party; this series of photographs reveal to us, 56 years later, an intimate peek at an organization that has long been misunderstood and misrepresented. Henson Scales visited Huey Newton in jail frequently while he was on trial for murder in the killing of an Oakland police officer during a traffic stop. The Black Panther Party chairman, Bobby Seale, encouraged Jeffrey to be the official photographer for the party’s newspaper, The Black Panther, and this became the first place his photographs and illustrations were ever published at the age of 13.

LUCY SPARROW | INSTALLATION

Internationally acclaimed artist Lucy Sparrow returns to Scope Art Show, Miami this December to present Feltz Bagels, an artistic homage to New York’s legendary culinary delicacy. Feltz Bagels will be a fully immersive experience where visitors can buy their favorite bagel handmade in felt and served personally by Sparrow herself. Feltz Bagels will offer thirteen varieties of bagel – each hand-sewn and available filled or plain with a sewn selection of NY staples; choose from a poppyseed bagel with a schmear, a colorful rainbow salt-beef bagel or the everything bagel filled with pastrami and pickles.

AARON T. STEPHAN | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

Courtesy of Claire Oliver Gallery

Luminous Twist, in its simplest interpretation, is a light fixture. The sculpture comprises a cluster of streetlights in keeping with familiar public lighting features. Here, however, the lights come to life. Rising from a single foundation, the light poles gradually diverge into individual intertwining paths, abandoning a static vertical posture to join into a vibrant, life-like spiraling form. Representing a tree, a swarm, or a choreographed dance, Luminous Twist literally illuminates but also suggests that the ordinary can become extraordinary and, in fact, that the ordinary itself is extraordinary. Luminous Twist both illuminates and creates a visual anchor in the center of the SCOPE Miami 2023 tent.

LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

Lauren Fenserstock’s Manifest Lands Like This is a series of seven wall-hanging obsessively detailed mosaic sculptures inspired by the energy centers of the chakra system. The sculptures showcase two elements crashing together – with one merging together explosively and another tentatively testing the boundaries of difference – and the shapes bring together an esoteric cast of forms from Buddhist texts and contemporary science. Each sculpture’s title is a loose interpretation of the original Sanskrit, embodying each chakra’s emotional and energetic nature.

“Manifest Lands Like This” is a cosmos of collisions. A pair of stars merge explosively. Another duo tentatively tests the boundaries of difference. A glittering sun longingly rips a wound as it devours its partner. These sculptures bring together an esoteric cast of forms from Buddhist texts and contemporary science including supernovae, lotus blossoms, black holes, and root systems. Moving from the tiny to the incalculable, they pull from the farthest reaches of our universe and the ground below our feet, to reveal an equality in all things.

LILLIAN BLADES | INSTALLATION

Made possible by SCOPE

Lillian Blades’ works are predominately mixed media assemblages on wooden panels or wired together to form moving tapestries. Her childhood home of The Bahamas, her ancestral background of West Africa, and her late mother, who was a seamstress, influenced her art. These influences appear through the use of her color palette and objects that evoke memory and history. The assemblage format of collected and curated bits and pieces is like a quilt or family heirloom.

MAIN STAGE

The SCOPE Main Stage will host events throughout daily programming. In the morning, guests are encouraged to attend yoga and guided meditation. Afternoon activations include daily talk series and performance programming. At night guests have a chance to loosen up and blow off some steam with a-list talent that is respected worldwide. All of this is occurring alongside large-scale installations, music, and VIP tours, creating an unforgettable experience for those attending.

SCOPECIRCLE

SCOPE is proud to reintroduce the SCOPEcircle with a new initiative that invites top collectors to host an artwork presented by our flagship New Contemporary program. Large scale sculptures will be loaned to collectors in the spirit of building emerging artist patronage.

SECTORS

James Reyes, Untitled, 2023 | Courtesy of Ki Smith Gallery

We’re thrilled to present three sectors of outstanding galleries for the 22nd edition of our flagship Miami show: Futures, photo basel + SCOPE and CORE.

Futures
Stellar emerging galleries who are new to SCOPE featuring solo exhibitions.

CORE
A front-of-show selection of dynamic established galleries that are magnifying diverse voices.

photo basel + SCOPE
Top photography galleries presenting solo or thematic exhibitions: in partnership with photo basel.

CURATORIAL AWARD

Greg Allen-Müller, Hyper-Realistic Straight Lines, Sculpture | Courtesy of Bahnhof Gallery

Curatorial Awards are given to exhibitors featuring an extraordinary program through solo or focused thematic curation.

TRAVEL GRANT

Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Deploiement, Photography | Courtesy of Galerie Carole Kvasnevski

SCOPE International Art Show is proud to present galleries from over 25 countries in 2023. Our commitment to diversity in our program is exemplified by the generous Travel Grants that we offer to exhibitors who are traveling from overseas.

MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA

After the success of their partnership in 2022, Alo Yoga returns to SCOPE to present daily health and wellness programming. Guests will be encouraged to attend morning healings, yoga classes, guided meditations and more – all against the backdrop of beautiful South Beach.

AFTERNOON | TALK SERIES

SCOPE presents a dynamic series of talks and events in partnership with prestigious publications, institutions and strategic partners.

2021 Programming

SUNSETS | LATE AFTERNOON MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVATIONS

Sunsets transform experiential afternoons into exclusive live evening performances. SCOPE’s stage will ignite with top music performers who will add a new dimension to our pavilion.

EVENING | PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

SCOPE’s multi-day destination will transform after-hours to a premium nightlife experience and feature world-class music talent at night.

ASHLEY | CLARE CELESTE

Ashley partners with international collage artist, Clare Celeste, to create an immersive exhibit at SCOPE Art Show that highlights the delicate balance between nature and nurture while showcasing furniture from Ashley’s new leather collection launching December 2023.

FILM RESIDENCY | SCREENING

New York City underground art gallery ‘The Locker Room’ unleashes Winnie Cheung’s documentary-horror film, RESIDENCY, at SCOPE Art Show.

Is it a documentary about making a horror film? Or a horror film about making a documentary? Artist and Filmmaker Winnie Cheung crafts a haunting metafictional tale about women artists pushed beyond their limits.

Screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Art21’s Nick Ravich with director Winnie Cheung, producer Samara Bliss, and artist Manuela Viera-Gallo.

Following the screening, we will showcase a video of Connor Tingley’s installation. This installation in collaboration with pro skater Curren Caples explores the unstable relationships between culture and nature in a liberated union of shared messaging between painting and skateboarding.

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Alicia Restrepo, Owner of Etra Fine Art (Little River Art District)

Payal Tak , Owner of Lucid Design District

Daisy Beatriz Diaz, Cultural Director of Frascione Arte (Italy/South Florida)

Sylvie Daubar-San Juan, Humanities Department Chairperson and Director of the Olga M. & Carlos A. Saladrigas Art Gallery at Belen Jesuit Preparatory School

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Sasha Gordon paints to process the pains of prejudice

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Conversations | The Artist and the Collector

Guadalupe Maravilla and Estrellita B. Brodsky

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Conversations | Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

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Conversations | The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil

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Conversations | Renewing the Institution: How Do Museums Remain Relevant?

THE NEW CONTEMPORARY

TOMISLAV TOPIC | INSTALLATION | ENTRANCE

BK ADAMS | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

CONNOR TINGLEY | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

JEREMY POPE | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

TEAROOM | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

DAÀPÒ RÉO | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

MONOLITH | INSTALLATION | ATRIUM

SCOPE WALLS | INSTALLATION | BEACHFRONT

JEFFREY HENSON SCALES | INSTALLATION

LUCY SPARROW | INSTALLATION

AARON T. STEPHAN | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK | INSTALLATION | PATRON LOUNGE

LILLIAN BLADES | INSTALLATION

MAIN STAGE

SCOPECIRCLE

SECTORS

CURATORIAL AWARD

TRAVEL GRANT

MORNING WELLNESS | ALO YOGA

AFTERNOON | TALK SERIES

SUNSETS | LATE AFTERNOON MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND ACTIVATIONS

EVENING | PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

ASHLEY | CLARE CELESTE

FILM RESIDENCY | SCREENING

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