The first art fairs to open in Greater Miami this year were Untitled Art Miami Beach and NADA Miami. Untitled Art returned to its massive tent on the beach with 171 exhibitors offering work by emerging and established artists, with a special curatorial focus on “East Meets West.” In comparison, NADA returned to the legendary Ice Palace Studios with nearly 150 exhibitors from 37 countries and 66 cities presenting new voices in contemporary art.
After surveying hundreds of artworks in various media, Galerie has selected eight buzzworthy artists who should be on every alert art collector’s acquisition list.
Ginny Casey at Megan Mulrooney Gallery, NADA Miami
Ginny Casey, a painter of surreal worlds that juxtapose household objects, animals, plants, insects, and body parts in strange settings, earned an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, but interest in her work and shows of it began years earlier. Beginning with drawings of items such as axes, limbs, books, knives, tables, and chairs, the New Jersey-based artist reimagines these objects in new combinations, fostering conversations and narratives among the elements and painting her compositions on canvas within dreamlike domestic spaces reminiscent of Disney films. Her painting Drink depicts a seedpod with a stem that transforms into an arm and a hand holding a watering can to nurture itself. Composed of thinly applied layers of paint, it resembles an ancient fresco, yet it features a subject more relevant to today’s troubled times.
