Revisiting Art Basel Miami 2022

Art Basel Miami is one of the more important art fairs around and this year it proved itself to be one to remember. It was full of diversity with artist displayed all the way from Cameroon to Cuba. It was difficult to choose a select few but somehow I managed. It featured emerging as well as developed artists with household names such as Julian Schnabel and Susan Rothenberg. An artist that I interviewed years ago, Jeffrey Gibson was on display and you can view our interview here. I'm glad to see him doing well and selling well too. Alas, Raelis Vasquez's Amidst is a beautiful portrayal of a youth standing in the water almost waiting for his portrait to be made. It is rich in colour and shows an innocence captured with every brushstroke. Patrick Martinez, LA Tile and Stone's is a bold painting showing a rich colour field reminiscent of Mark Rothko. It would look good in any home. The show also included one of my favourite artists Elliott Puckette whose Untitled work is full of sinuous lines, the type she is well known for. Davide Balliano is another artist I am quite fond of with his tubular shapes he reminds one why abstract art is so highly prized. Kehinde Wiley's Morpheus 2022, is a wonderfully rendered work of a young black woman set reclining against a backdrop of flowers. We wonder what she is thinking about and the answer remains a mystery. Another great work is Ruth Ige's At the gathering, 2022, whose display of a faceless woman piques our interest. With her delightful dress we can't help but wonder who it is. Dread Scott's B Ball Youth on Rim, 1994 is hopeful take on a group of youth enjoying their daily game in dire surroundings. It's a reminder of social stratification in America which can be curtailed with the right energy and belief in oneself. Please enjoy these and the rest as they all share a high degree of skill and talent. Not all of them can be written about but you get the idea of why they're here. 

1. Raelis Vasquez, Amidst, 2022, Dominican

2 Patrick Martinez, LA Tile and Stone, 2022, American

3 Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Pregnant Magnolia, 2022, Cuban

4 David Hockney, 10th to 22nd June 2021, Water lilies in the pond with pots of flowers, 2021, English

5 Alice Attie, C19, 2021, American

6 Jeffrey Gibson, Don't you know you're life itself, 2022, Native American

7 Jackie Saccoccio, Untitled 2010 to 2020, American

8 Jessie Henson, The sky catches fire when the sun goes, 2022, American

9 Ian Mwesiga, Singing in the flowers, 2022, Ugandan

10 Joao Pedro Vale Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Hanky Code VI, 2018, Portuguese

11 Amoako Boafo, Blue on blue, 2018, Ghanaian

12 Ruth Ige At the gathering, 2022, Nigerian

13 Arvie Smith, Hymn to Black Venus, 2022, American

 

14 Eduardo Sarabia, Feel the love 2020 to 2021, American

15 General Idea, Untitled, 1986, Canadian

16 Davide Balliano, Untitled 0248, 2022, Italian

17 Elliott Puckette, Untitled, 1995, American

18 Dread Scott, B Ball Youth on Rim, 1994, American

19 Giuseppe Penone, Pelle di marmo e spine d acacia Vanna, 2028, Italian

20 Henry Taylor, Untitled, 2020, American

21 Nikita Kadan, People I, 2022, Ukrainian

22 Julian Schnabel, The Moon and Sixpence, 2022, American

23 Robert Mapplethorpe, Shedric, 1980, American

24 Susan Rothenberg, Diagonal, 1975, American

25 Endre Tot, I am glad if I can read a burning newspaper, 1971 to 1976, Hungarian

26 Ed Clark, Untitled, 1984, American

27 Jose Yaque, Bismutita con impurezas I, 2022, Cuban

28 Tonia Nneji, Time flies in the shadowed cloister, 2022, Nigerian

29 Oliver Lee Jackson, Painting, 7.6..96, 1996, American

30 Kehinde Wiley, Morpheus, 2022, American

31 Kwame Brathwaite, Hands in the Shape of a Unity Symbol, 1971, American

32 Mona Taha, They creep at night, 2, 2022, Ugandan

33 Herbert Brandl, Untitled, 2022, Austrian

34 Robert Longo, Study of New Lips, 2017, American

35 WAngari Mathenge, After Eight, 2022, Kenyan

36 Kamrooz Aram, Tranquil Arabesque, 2022, Iranian

37 Pat Passlof, What is Rome, 1960, American

38 No Martins, Holiday, 2022, Brazilian

39 Masato Mori, Katchan, My mammoth man, 2022, Japanese

40 Patrick Eugene, Woman with Veil, 2022, American

41 Ludovic Nkoth, TBT, 2022, Cameroonian

Yashua Klos, The Flowers Found Her Once she stood still, 2022, American

Markus Oehlen, Untitled, 2021, German

Zilla Leutenegger, Schwarze Kuche, 2019, Swiss