Untitled Art previewed its 13th edition, its largest art fair to date, on December 3rd to VIPs, showcasing 176 exhibitors, and a Houston fair on the horizon for this September. Loft Art Gallery (Marrakech), Les filles du calvaires (Paris), THEO (Seoul), ZieherSmith (Nashville), and Yossi Milo (New York) are among the galleries showing at the fair until December 8.
Located in South Beach at 1200 Ocean Drive, Untitled Art offers a chance to view contemporary art at a central location on the beach. Whitewall visited the fair Tuesday to select its top highlights of Untitled Art Fair Miami Beach 2024.
Vanessa Raw at Carl Freedman Gallery
Vanessa Raw at Carl Freedman.
British painter Vanessa Raw’s glorious paintings of women frolicking in pastoral settings provide a view of women who are truly free and safe through the female gaze without a man in sight. Part of the current cohort of artists at TKE, the studios founded by Tracey Emin in Margate, Rawe also just opened an exhibition at the Rubell Museum in Miami.
Katinka Huang at LatchKey Gallery
Katinka Huang at LatchKey Gallery.
The Chinese-born, New York-based painter Katinka Huang’s paintings depict nude women in monochromatic tones, reclaiming the female gaze for her carefree figures. The all-female booth also features work by Brianna Bass and Marika St Rose Yeo.
Rajab Ali Sayed at Bill Arning Exhibitions
Rajab Ali Sayed at Bill Arning Exhibitions.
“It’s four raves in one,” the Los Angeles-based Filipino Pakistani artist told me about his painting Back2Back. Sayed gravitated towards the Los Angeles raver scene around 2019, due to its inclusivity and freedom. Make sure to check out Trickle, one of Sayed’s favorite works of two male figures relaxing at a waterfall.
Christiane Peschek at Sanatorium
Christiane Peschek at Sanatorium.
According to her artist bio, Vienna-based Christiane Peschek “focuses on liminal spaces of the internet to research the bodies in transition.” For her paintings at Sanatorium, Peschek took a close look at the eccentric tricked-out talons stemming from nail art culture, blurring them into dreamy bedazzled renditions that voyage into the realm of abstraction.
Alex Hedison at Southern Guild
Alex Hedison at Southern Guild.
Alex Hedison brings abstraction to new heights, presenting photographic work made without a camera, using chemigrams that create effects on light-sensitive paper, and by hand painting the surfaces.
Bradley Wood at Jane Lombard
Bradley Wood at Jane Lombard.
Bradley Wood’s paintings at Jane Lombard take viewers back to the time before photography when painters captured boisterous social scenes through painting.
Adéla Janskà’ and Joe Reihsen at Adrian Sutton Gallery
Adéla Janskà’ at Adrian Sutton Gallery.
Czech painter Adéla Janskà‘’s female figures almost look like porcelain dolls, providing a nice juxtaposition to the vigorous brushstrokes in American artist Joe Reihsen’s abstract compositions.
