Art Fair Spectacular

Art Basel Miami Beach celebrates 20 years by presenting a robust lineup of prominent exhibitors from around the world.

For three days, the highly anticipated Art Basel Miami Beach returns for their largest event to date in celebration of the art fair’s 20th anniversary. The Miami Beach Convention Center will host 283 premier galleries from across the globe, with 26 galleries joining for the first time to feature modern and contemporary masterpieces by emerging and seasoned artists. Patrons can expect to see a diverse range of styles, subject matter and mediums, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, prints, works on paper and more.2021 fair attendees browse an array of contemporary and modern works. Courtesy Art Basel.

“It is truly exciting to celebrate our 20-year presence in Miami Beach,” says Marc Spiegler, Art Basel’s global director. “Over the last two decades, our show has not only reinforced its pivotal position in the region—uniquely bridging the art scenes of North and South Americas, Europe and beyond—but also played a galvanizing role in the city’s profound cultural transformation. The increasingly diverse range of galleries and artistic voices represented will make our show richer in discoveries than ever before.”Charles Houghton Howard (1899-1978), Bouquet, oil on canvas, 31 x 41." Signed and dated (lower right): ‘HOWARD 32’; (on back): ‘C. H. Howard. Courtesy Hirschl & Adler Gallery.Galleries like Schoelkopf Gallery will present a special exhibition which “spans a variety of artistic movements across the 20th century from 1906 to 1978, including cubism, abstract expressionism and color field painting—highlighting artists who experimented with new materials and methods as they responded to rapidly evolving events and experiences,” explains Alana Ricca, managing director for the gallery.

Schoelkopf Gallery presents an impressive lineup of iconic masters like Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, Arthur B. Carles and Milton Avery, among others.Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), Autumn Cascade, ca. 1910, oil on board, 12 x 12". Courtesy Hirschl & Adler Gallery.

Another outstanding gallery, Hirschl & Adler, says of the art fair, “What has become deeply meaningful to us over the eleven years we have exhibited at the fair is the sustained support Art Basel Miami Beach gives us in our efforts to exhibit and promote equally aesthetically and academically strong but under-recognized artists,” says gallery representatives. “Our unique approach to illuminating the narrative of modern American art is grounded in highlighting these nuanced relationships between artists, both blue-chip and new discoveries.”

Hirschl & Adler will feature astounding modern works like that of Charles Houghton Howard’s (1899-1978), surrealist painting Bouquet, pictured here. The piece was displayed at Howard’s first one-man exhibition in 1932 to 1933, at the esteemed Julien Levy Gallery based in New York.

“Howard’s show at Levy puzzled reviewers,” the gallery explains. “His style was, at that time, unusually analytic and inscrutable, even within the confines of surrealism, as it was preoccupied almost entirely with form and color, to the near exclusion of content. It wasn’t until the 1940s that critics began to understand Howard’s stalwart devotion to hard-edged abstraction.”Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), Dead Tree Bear Lake Taos, 1929, oil on canvas, 32 x 17." Signed and titled on backing: OK inside artist’s five-pointed star / . . . Taos - 30; inscribed on label affixed to backing: ‘Dead Tree, Bear Lake / Taos, New Mexico / 1930 / by Georgia O’Keeffe’. Courtesy of Schoelkopf Gallery.Alongside the displays, additional presentations, museum shows, private collections and attractions will be featured in the fair’s special categories like the Edition sector, that will “exemplify the field of prints and editioned works,” reads the press release.

Art Basel Miami Beach will be in full swing from December 1 to 3, and will include many additional masterpieces of this caliber from galleries like New York based Andrew Edlin Gallery and Peter Blum Gallery, Hannah Hoffman and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery from Los Angeles, and Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago. International galleries to watch for include Paris galleries Galerie Christophe Gaillard and Galerie Crèvecœur; Stephen Friedman Gallery and Pilar Corrias from London; and Nanzuka all the way from Tokyo. —

Art Basel Miami Beach
When: December 1-3, 2022
Where: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139
Information: www.artbasel.com/miami-beach