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Best of at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2021

Katy Donoghue

4 December 2021

Art Basel in Miami Beach makes a triumphant return to the Miami Beach Convention Center this week, open to the public December 2—4. Over 250 galleries brought their greatest hits, with a mix of some new names and new works alongside.

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Lucy Bull at High Art.

High Art presents several abstract works by Lucy Bull, swirling in yellows and greens, and textured in pinks and oranges. Casey Kaplan is showing a stunning group portrait by Jordan Casteel, depicting two seated figures with a young child, outside in the snow, dressed in winter puffers and holding each other close.

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Titus Kaphar at Gagosian.

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Loie Hollowell at Pace.

A new work by Titus Kaphar, Saints of De-Industry, is a highlight at Gagosian’s booth, its gold-leaf frame surrounding a bust nearly covered in black, punctuated by the shadow of a helicopter and full-length figure holding a bow.

Loie Hollowell’s Red Brain (2021) at Pace is an entrancing orange to black color field to get lost inside of, its bottom edge curved into a half cylinder in silver. At David Zwirner, don’t miss Noah Davis’s Congo #7 (2014), where three men stand in a door frame, awash in tones of grey, black, brown, and blue.

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Noah Davis at David Zwirner.

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Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins.

Sikkema Jenkins is showing a series of new works on paper from Kara WalkerThe Judge, Goya Group, Don’t Ask Me to Explain Everything, and Clean Coal (Dirty Mouth). The gallery is also showing a fiber work from Sheila Hicks, its rows of golden thread wrapped in reds, purples, greens, and blues; as well as a hanging fabric work from Jeffrey Gibson that reads “PEOPLE LIKE US.”

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Sheila Hicks at Sikkema Jenkins.

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Jeffrey Gibson at Sikkema Jenkins.

Bathing a corner of James Cohan’s booth in blue light is Spencer Finch’s Study for Reflections in Water (After Debussy), I (2021)a suite of hanging lights in pink, white, blue, and purple neon. It’s verticality not unlike the trees of Shara Hughes’s Deep Strong Roots (2020) at David Kordansky, making up a forest of warm tones and green brush.

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Spencer Finch at James Cohan.

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Shara Hughes at David Kordansky.

And at Massimo de Carlo, a fantastic painting by Jenna Gribbon sits in conversation with ceramics by Karin Gulbran, all overlooked by Maurizio Cattelan’s cheeky pigeons perching atop the booth’s walls.

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Jenna Gribbon and Karin Gulbran at Massimo de Carlo.

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