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MIAMI, Florida, is an art mecca every December with an array of fine art events that attract collectors and dealers from all over the world. Two of the mainstay fairs are “Art Miami” and “Art Basel Miami Beach” that this year will take place November 29 through December 4 and December 1 to 3, respectively. Both focus on contemporary and modern art and will have thousands of works for collectors to explore.
“Art Miami”, which is being held alongside its sister fair “CONTEXT Art Miami”, will have booths from more than 155 leading dealers across 17 countries that will showcase paintings, drawings, design, sculpture, NFTs, video art, photograph and prints. Its two-tiered VIP preview on November 29 will benefit the Pérez Art Museum Miami for the 12th consecutive year with more than $300,000 cumulatively donated to further its collection and mission. The event will happen on the waterfront location of One Herald Plaza in the heart of the vibrant downtown Miami.
At the fair, Jerald Melberg Gallery of Charlotte, North Carolina, will feature works by prominent American artists Donald Sultan, Robert Motherwell, Lee Hall and Brian Rutenberg. Hall’s 2000 acrylic painting Connecticut River Valley is quintessential of her abstract style with simple color fields. Other artists that the gallery will exhibit include Wolf Kahn, Katherine Boxall, Christopher Clamp, Raul Diaz and Kim Keever.
New York staple Taylor | Graham will exhibit a group of cast and laminated color and light sculptures by West Coast artist Vasa Velizar Mihich. His works, including Sailboat, focus on reflecting and refracting light to highlight his astute understanding of color theory.
Other dealers include Rosenfeld Gallery, which will present art by Keith Haring and KAWS; Osborne Samuel, featuring sculptures such as Henry Moore’s Mother and Child on Ladderback Chair (1952) that was inspired by the artist’s experiences as a parent; and Cernuda Arte, exhibiting art like Amelia Peláez’s Woman With Fish (Mujer con Pez), a 1948 surrealist painting with a woman wrapped in a fish shawl.
“Art Basel Miami Beach” is considered by many to be the premier art fair of Miami Art Week. This year the event will include two invitation-only events. The VIP days November 29 and November 30, followed by a Vernissage on November 30 from 4 to 7 p.m. The fair, taking place at Miami Beach Convention Center, then opens to the public for the following three days with tickets.
D.C. Moore Gallery will be one of the exhibitors at “Art Basel” and will have a presentation anchored by bodies of work by 20-century Black artists Romare Bearden and Jacob Lawrence. As the gallery explains, “Bearden’s is a series of 21 collages that were created in 1979. Based on a 1938 series of paintings, the print series by Lawrence traces the life of L’Ouverture, a key figure in the fight for Haiti to become a democratic nation. In conversation with these two series of works, the booth will also feature new and recent works by contemporary artists in the gallery’s program, including Valerie Jaudon, Whitfield Lovell, and Carrie
