Art fairs can feel like a blur.
More importantly, we left with a few names that, after a close look and conversations with dealers, advisors, and collectors, we believe are poised to reach the next stage of their careers after a promising outing in Miami.
But some 20 years ago, Belgian dealer Hedwig Van Impe, concerned Charles was risking overexposure, convinced him to take a break from the art market.
Why You Should Pay Attention: Charles signed with Templon the week before the fair, making the two works offered at the convention center a last-minute addition to the booth.
Up Next: Van Impe and Templon are planning to slowly unveil Charles’s past two decades’ worth of work, beginning with a show at Templon Paris scheduled for March.
Imagine if Chris Ofili were raised on recent hip hop of the American South, social media, and an infinite library of streaming horror flicks, and you start to get the idea.
Up Next: Taburet will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Clearing New York in spring 2022, as well as a 2023 one-person show at the Parisian institution Lafayette Anticipations.
Stuck at home and eager to teach herself new skills on YouTube, she discovered needle felting, a process in which wool is sutured to a substrate .
Why You Should Pay Attention: For one thing, the works look different than everything else on view at the fair at a time when that distinction has become harder and harder to come by.
Notable Resume Lines: Joseph is currently participating in not one, but two, prestigious residencies, at the Fountainhead in Miami and Dieu Donne in New York.
Up Next: The artist is currently in a group show at BravinLee in New York as well as upcoming shows at Swivel Gallery and Turn Gallery, also in New York.
Who: Born in Houston in 1986, art dealer-turned-artist Jonathan Casella creates large abstractions of layered star shapes in bright, day-glo colors that practically popped off the equally colorful walls at Erickson’s Untitled presentation, where all of the works on offer, including eye-catching, non-functional clocks, sold within the fair’s first two days.
Why You Should Pay Attention: If your eyes have reached the saturation point after a week of taking in large scale, wry, figurative works, here’s the perfect antidote.
Olivia Walton, who recently took over as chairperson of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art from billionaire founder Alice Walton, acquired Mattai’s work at Art Basel Miami Beach last week.
Who: Haley Josephs’s flaming, energetic paintings and drawings present macabre and often sardonic depictions of the feminine experience.
Her only work of art to hit the auction block, My Dolphin Fantasy at Dallas’ Two x Two benefit in October, tripled its presale estimate to fetch $18,000.
Notable Resume Line: Josephs received her BFA in painting and drawing from Tyler School of Art at Philadelphia’s Temple University in 2011, and her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale University in 2014.