Preview Art Basel Miami Beach, Part 1

Nov 16, 2023

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

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.