COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SFEIR-SEMLER GALLERY, BEIRUT AND HAMBURG
The 17th edition of Art Basel Miami Beach opens to the public on Thursday, December 6, with a preview day for invited guests on Wednesday. The fair brings together 268 galleries from 35 countries, including 29 first-time exhibitors, to the beach town’s convention center. Part 1 of ARTnews’s two-part preview looks at the exhibitors in the main Galleries section of the fair.
Among the highlights are a 1936 portrait of Dora Maar by Man Ray at New York’s Edwynn Houk Gallery; Gillian Wearing posing as Georgia O’Keeffe at Tanya Bonakdar of New York and Los Angeles; Trevor Paglen at San Franicsco’s Altman Siegel; Norman Lewis at New York’s Michael Rosenfeld Gallery; David Wojnarowicz at New York’s P.P.O.W.; and Odires Mlászho at São Paulo’s Vermelho.
Click the photos below to see works on offer at the fair.
ALL IMAGES: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND THEIR GALLERY; ADDITIONAL CREDITS WHERE NOTED
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Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Trevor Paglen, Agathla Peak Hough Transform; Haar, 2018, silver gelatin LE print.
Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo
Tunga, Love Me Knot (Hyena), 2007, cast aluminum, braided iron wires covered with nylon, epoxy resin.
DING MUSA
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut and Hamburg
Yto Barrada, Rainbow, 2018, wood and paint.
P.P.O.W., New York
David Wojnarowicz, Untitled, 1985–87, mixed media painting.
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Man Ray, Dora Maar, 1936.
Hammer Galleries, New York
René Magritte, Le discours de la méthode, ca. 1965–66, oil on canvas.
©2018 C. HERSCOVICI, BRUSSELS AND ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
Kasmin, New York
William N. Copley, Why Are You Staring, 1986, acrylic on canvas.
©THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM N. COPLEY, LLC
Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Zanele Muholi, Muzi Khumalo III, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2010, C-print.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Sarah Charlesworth, Golden Boy, 1983–84, cibachrome with lacquered wood frame.
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Los Angeles
Gillian Wearing, Me as O'Keefe, 2018, bromide print, framed.
COURTESY THE ARTIST; MAUREEN PALEY, LONDON; AND TANYA BONAKDAR GALLERY, NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES
Vermelho, São Paulo
Odires Mlászho, from the series "Retratos possuídos" (Possessed Portraits), 1999, mineral pigment print on paper.
Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Jonathan Lyndon Chase, butt naked dressed in nothing but pearls, 2018, marker, acrylic, oil, and spray paint on canvas, styrofoam heads.
COKE O’NEAL
David Zwirner, New York, London, and Hong Kong
Chris Ofili, Innervisions...Too High, 1998.
©CHRIS OFILI
David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Pepe Mar, Checkerboard, 2018, acrylic on printed fabric.
ZACH BALBER
Stephen Friedman, London
Luiz Zerbini, Xingú, 2018, acrylic on canvas.
PAT KILGORE/©LUIZ ZERBINI
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Norman Lewis, Street Musicians, 1948, oil on canvas.
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, London, and Paris
John Baldessari, Clouds (Incomplete): Two Sailboats/Chaotic Situation, 1992, color photographs and acrylic.
Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Manish Nai, Untitled, 2018, used clothes and wood.
Galerie Chantal Corusel, Paris
Haegue Yang, Roll Cosies - Toilet Tissue Jumbo Rolls, 2011, wrapped objects with knittings, six elements.
FLORIAN KLEINEFENN
kurimanzutto, Mexico City and New York
Sarah Lucas, EXACTO, 2018, vinyl chair and LED lights.
Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte, Buenos Aires
Liliana Porter, Untitled (Circle, version IIB), 1973–74, gelatin silver print and pencil.
IGNACIO IASPARRA
Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
Mary Obering, Firefall, 1975, acrylic on canvas.
ProyectosMonclova, Mexico City
Eduardo Terrazas, 0.2, from the series "Zero," 1969, oil on canvas.
Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and New York
Carlito Carvalhosa, Untitled (P58/18), 2018, oil and wax on wood.
Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
Howardena Pindell, Autobiography: Japan (Tombo No Hane), 1982–83, mixed media on canvas.
Jorge Mara - La Ruche, Buenos Aires
Horacio Coppola, London, 1935, gelatin silver print.
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami
Zeke Berman, Drawing Board Diptych, 1987, vintage gelatin silver print.
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg and Cape Town
Shirin Neshat, Soliloquy Series1999, gelatin silver print.
Gagosian
Roy Lichtenstein, Expressionist Head, 1980, painted and patinated bronze with painted wooden base.
ROB MCKEEVER/©ESTATE OF ROY LICHTENSTEIN/COURTESY GAGOSIAN
Di Donna Galleries, New York
Alexander Calder, Crag with Yellow Boomerang and Red Eggplant, 1974.
©2018 CALDER FOUNDATION, NEW YORK AND ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK
Dan Galeria, São Paulo
Ferreira Gullar, A Revelação do Avesso N. 57, 2014, paper collage.
Cardi Gallery, Milan and London
Salvatore Scarpitta, Scribe, 1962, bandages, belt, wood, and mixed media on wooden armature.
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Kathryn Andrews, Licorice, 2018, stainless steel, aluminum, ink, and paint.
FREDRIK NILSEN
303 Gallery, New York
Collier Schorr, Kool-Aid Nude, 2018, dye-sublimation print on Chromaluxe aluminum mounted on Dibond.
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
Nuno Ramos, Luz Negra (still), 2002, 16mm film.
©NUNO RAMO
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago and New York
Theaster Gates, Summer Tones for a Fall Situation, 2018, digital and screen print on Somerset 330 gsm paper.
Van Doren Waxter, New York
Robert Mangold, Four Triangles Within a Square, 1976, pencil on paper.
Sean Kelly, New York
Alec Soth, Ute's Books, Odessa, 2018, archival pigment print.
©ALEC SOTH
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, and Tokyo
Julian Hoeber, Execution Changes #96 (CS, Q1, LRJ, DC, Q2, LMJ, DC, Q3, CJ, DC, Q4, RMJ, DC), 2018, acrylic, molding paste, colored pencil, and string on linen over panel.
©JULIAN HOEBER
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
Mel Bochner, It’s Always Something / It Goes Without Saying, 2018, oil on velvet, in two parts.