Although the art market is often unpredictable, the art world is steadier, with definite certainties. One of those certainties is that around this time each year galleries from around the world fly to southern Florida with their artists and/or their artwork to participate in one of the many fairs that make up Miami Art Week.
The South Fork is no exception, and those who are planning a visit should keep a lookout for some familiar names and faces. At the big fair, Art Basel Miami Beach, the Eric Firestone Gallery is in booth F2 and showing the work of Ellsworth Ausby, Judy Bowman, Sally Cook, Abigail DeVille, Martha Edelheit, FUTURA2000, Sana Musasama, Joe Overstreet, Pat Passlof, Jeanne Reynal, Thomas Sills, Paul Waters, Peter Williams, and Nina Yankowitz.
The gallery describes these artists as a cross-generational group of postwar and contemporary figures who use "radical color, intuitive poetics, and inventive techniques to highlight Black American history, women's perspectives, and their personal experiences." Some of the artists will be introduced to this audience for the first time, even if they had success or were part of the artistic elite at earlier points in their careers. Mr. Waters is also represented in the Meridians section of the same fair.
Pace Gallery, which recently closed its East Hampton location, is showing the South Fork artists Lynda Benglis, Julian Schnabel, and Andy Warhol among their headliners. The Montauk part-timer Lisa Spellman's 303 Gallery has Mary Heilmann, who has a house and studio in Bridgehampton, on its roster of artists at the fair. Hauser & Wirth, which has two galleries in Southampton, is also at the big fair, held at Miami Beach's convention center. It is showing, among several artists, work by Gary Simmons. DC Moore has Valerie Jaudon, with others, on view.
The New Art Dealers Association, or NADA, is back at the Ice Palace Studios, not far from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts at North Miami Avenue and NE 15th Street. There, Halsey McKay Gallery can be found in booth 1.12. The gallery is showing artists such as Glen Baldridge, Patrick Brennan, Elias Hansen, Joseph Hart, Raymie Iadevaia, Matthew Kirk, Annabeth Marks, Jagdeep Raina, and Andrew Schoultz. Harper's gallery is there too, with Marcus Brutus, Jonathan Casella, Hyegyeong Choi, Eliot Greenwald, Elizabeth Huey, Carlos Jacanamijoy, Max Jansons, Ho Jae Kim, Jeremy Lawson, Kurt Lightner, Tanya Ling, Ish Lipman, Nick Lowe, Caleb Lyons, JJ Manford, Allie McGhee, Lizbeth Mitty, Matt Nichols, Anisa Rakaj, Chloe West, and Guy Yanai in the mix at booth 4.05.
Nearby, at the fair that started it all -- Art Miami -- the Mark Borghi gallery is showing an eclectic selection of art ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Pop, Minimalism, Neo-Dada, and more contemporary styles. Some of the artists associated with the East End with work on view are John Chamberlain, Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, John Graham, Ellsworth Kelly, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Mercedes Matter, Joan Mitchell, Joel Perlman, Richard Prince, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Frank Stella, Hedda Sterne, Andy Warhol, and Michael West.
Keyes Art is at booth AM308 in Art Miami with an eclectic group of artists including Peter Beard, Jamie DePasquale, Virva Hinnemo, Alex Katz, Claude Lawrence, John Little, Alfonso Ossorio, Larry Rivers, Ed Ruscha and several more local and international legends.
The fair was held in the Design District for many years, but has since moved to just north of the Perez Art Museum on the other side of Route 395 on the bay.
The fairs are open through the weekend with differing hours and pricing. Tickets can be purchased at the door or through each fair's website.
