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Selected paintings from Scope, Aqua, Pierogi, and Pulse

As I walked through the fairs in Miami, I concentrated on the quieter paintings that didn’t attract as much attention as, say, the installation that included a woman standing on a raised platform with a noose around her neck or William Powhida’s new drawing depicting Art Basel as a Hooverville. These images were taken with my little flashless camera phone, so make sure to click on the links for better images of each artist’s work.
Sarah McKenzie
Jeff Olsson
Eric Heist
 Joshua Marsh
Adam Ross
 
Andrew Sander
 
Cordy Ryman
 
Corinne von Lebusa
 
Nell Warren
 
Prof. Joy Garnett
 
Driss Ouadahi
 
Danica Phelps at Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid.
 
 
There’s a big gravel pit in the middle of the arts district.
 
This painting at Mike Weiss seems about right. Painting by Stefanie Gutheil.
 
Justin Quinn
 
Trevor Young
 
Pierogi and Hales (UK) rented that huge warehouse space again. They hung the big front room salon style with work by all the Pierogi artists, then in the smaller back rooms they installed multiple works by individual artists. Pierogi founder Joe Amrhein said the building owners have decided to demolish it, but he seemed skeptical that they actually will.
 
Bob and Roberta Smith (detail from back room installation)
Andrew Bick
Jane Fine
 
David Scher (detail)
Lynn Talbot
 Gallery space for rent in Wynwood arts district.
At the entrance to Aqua
 
Robert Yoder in front of his work
 
Name to come.
 
Julia Kuhl
 
Austin Thomas
Karel Appel, c. 1967
Tracy Nakayama
 
Marie Thibeault
 
B’More Art blogger Cara Ober
 
 
Barbara Takenaga (detail)
 
John Bankston
 Megan Whitmarsh says:

“When I make art I am lost in the fun of making, and feel like a kid building a fort.  In the end I must resign myself to the fact that I have just added more crap to the world, but this seems an inevitable part of being an artist and a human. I try to remain optimistic. I like art that is generous in spirit and amateurish, art that inspires rather than intimidates. I consider art a practice of transformation. We cannot expect to make new energy; instead we must reinvent, recycle, and transform what exists already. Making art is my attempt to synthesize my optimistic vision of the future with my pragmatic appraisal of the world I inhabit.”

Free stuff! If you want a copy of Megan’s diminutive catalog, send a note explaining why you want it. The writer of the best response wins the book, which was generously donated by Michael Rosenthal Gallery.

5 Comments

  1. Looks kind of gloomy down there, or were you denied a flash for the camera?

  2. No, I took snaps with my phone camera. Follow links (just added) to see decent images of the artists' work.

    –Sharon

  3. Thanks for these Sharon. Nice selection of work.

  4. I'm glad to see these….wasn't able to get to Miami for this year's fairs, so I'm taking it all in via the magic of the internet!
    Wonderful selection here, good diversity of works.
    I like what Megan Whitmarsh says here; interesting food for thought.

  5. You missed this classic moment @ Miami � Sly Stallone posing with his works!

    Why was this man never in The Sopranos?

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