PALM BEACH COUNTY CONVENTION CENTER
650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
5pm – 9pm
Opening Night Ticket, $150
General Admission, One Day Ticket $35
Thursday, January 23, 2025
11am – 6pm
Friday, January 24, 2025
11am – 6pm
Saturday, January 25, 2025
11am – 6pm
Sunday, January 26, 2025
11am – 6pm
THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY AND MODERN ART FAIR OF THE AMERICAS
Art Palm Beach takes center stage for its highly anticipated return at the Palm Beach County Convention Center for its third edition. As the premiere destination for conventions, trade shows, meetings and social events, the Convention Center is the perfect venue for our show.
Palm Beach has been the winter home of America’s elite industrialists and Wall Street icons since the early 20th century. Now home to many of New York’s leading top blue-chip galleries and international auction houses, Palm Beach has become Florida’s collector “must-see” gallery district during the winter season.
As the internationally renowned premiere mid-winter contemporary art fair in The Palm Beaches along Florida’s coastline, the show will provide an opportunity for collectors to explore and acquire the best of a broad selection of global contemporary and modern art in the vibrant cultural hub of South Florida.
With over 100,000 square feet of exhibition space dedicated to some of the most prestigious contemporary, established and emerging art galleries from the U.S. and around the world, Art Palm Beach will provide an exceptional platform for gallery representation, and a dynamic cultural art event, in The Palm Beaches.
January 22, 2025
Dear Guests,
On behalf of the City of West Palm Beach, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Art Palm Beach, the international contemporary and modern art fair of the Americas.
Art Palm Beach is internationally renown as the premiere mid-winter contemporary art fair in The Palm Beaches along Florida’s coastline by both art critics and enthusiasts. The fair taps into the booming market of Palm Beach, one of the world’s most culturally sophisticated and affluent cities, during the peak winter season.
Featuring some of the most prestigious contemporary, emerging, and modern art galleries, the show will provide a new entree for collectors to explore and acquire the best of a broad selection of global contemporary and modern art in the vibrant cultural hub of South Florida. Geared to benefit from the current real estate boom, proximity to Miami and wealth of the TriCounty Area, Art Palm Beach 2025 will focus on presenting international modern and contemporary galleries featuring work by notable emerging artists as well as top names from the contemporary, modern, classical modern, post-war, and pop eras.
In addition to enjoying the amazing collection of art, I invite you to explore the many other treasures our City has to offer, including our spectacular downtown waterfront, our shopping districts, cultural amenities and historic neighborhoods. Visitors to this show will find that West Palm Beach is well known for its natural beauty, its rich diversity and cultural heritage, and its art.
Last but not least, be sure to visit our website at www.wpb.org to find out more about our City and our free events.
Enjoy your stay in our city and enjoy the show.
Dear Friends,
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you to the third edition of Art Palm Beach, the first and most important art event of the season.
As organizers, each year now and into the future we will strive to exceed the prior year’s offering of wonderful modern and contemporary art offerings. We travel the globe to the finest art shows worldwide, in addition to frequenting the most important shows in our nation. As a result, it is our pleasure to present an international array of unique and highly esteemed exhibitors, brought together in one spectacular event.
A show of this enormous breadth and depth presents challenges from inception through presentation and requires the coordinated efforts of a vast number of people. It is a true team effort that requires seamless production from our hard working office team to our technical and creative personnel, in order to bring this event to life. We would like to express our gratitude by congratulating everyone involved in making Art Palm Beach a success.
Of equal importance, we would like to give a special thanks to the exhibitors who travel here so that we may enjoy spectacular works of art, sculptures and timeless treasures. To each participant, we offer our appreciation and gratitude.
To our visitors and collectors, we extend our warmest welcome and invite you to take advantage of this cultural experience and the opportunity to meet many of the world’s most renowned and respected dealers today.
We are pleased to welcome you to Art Palm Beach in 2025 and beyond.
Sincerely,
Scott Diament President/CEO Palm Beach Show Group
Welcome to Art Palm Beach 2025!
I am delighted to present the third edition of Art Palm Beach to kick off the winter art season this year in West Palm Beach.
Following the success of last year’s show, Art Palm Beach is returning to Palm Beach County with an even more highly curated show. As the internationally renowned premiere mid-winter contemporary art fair in The Palm Beaches along Florida’s coastline, the show will provide an opportunity for collectors to explore and acquire the best of a broad selection of global contemporary and modern art in the vibrant cultural hub of South Florida.
This year, we are adding new international galleries, focusing on greater community engagement on multiple fronts, and partnering with the Boca Raton Museum of Art as it celebrates its 75th anniversary, marking a momentous milestone for one of Palm Beach County’s oldest cultural institutions.
DIVERSEartPB, Art Palm Beach’s signature curated platform, returns with a focus on art’s transformative power to unite humanity across cultural boundaries. Curated by Marisa Caichiolo, the platform continues its mission to engage communities both locally and globally by connecting thought leaders and key figures within the art world to generate innovative ideas and drive social change through art.
Last but not least, I would like to thank everyone who has helped make this show possible. Words cannot express my heartfelt appreciation for the support of all the exhibitors who are taking this amazing journey with us. I am also equally grateful to every member of our Art Palm Beach team, especially Marisa Caichiolo, Katrina Fernandez, Jinn Ong, Naso Kavourinos, and Wuang-Ee Blum, for the unwavering dedication, passion and hard work they bring to ensure our continued success.
Enjoy the show!
Kassandra Voyagis Director/Producer
Art Palm
Beach
& LA Art Show
Modern + Contemporary exhibits the vast spectrum of contemporary painting, illustration, sculpture and more from galleries in Palm Beach, across the U.S., and from countries all around the world.
ABBY MODELL, 2024
Mirror, hand-blown glass assemblage, fire-polished glass, Swarovski crystals, framed 6’H x 4’W x 4’’D
ABBY MODELL CONTEMPORARY
GLASS 1397 Second Avenue, Suite 115, New York, NY 10021
646 330 0022 | abbymodelldesign@gmail.com www.abbymodell.com STAR ICE BLUE
ABBY MODELL, 2024
Hand-blown glass assemblage, fire-polished glass, faceted RockGems, Swarovski crystals, LED 3’9’’H x 10’’W x 10’’D each
ABBY MODELL CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS 1397 Second Avenue, Suite 115, New York, NY 10021
646 330 0022 | abbymodelldesign@gmail.com www.abbymodell.com
Hand pulled four color screen print with acrylic on stitched archival material, signed by the artist 56’’ x 78’’
ANGELS
9020 Beverly Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90048
310 693 5500 | info@artangels.net
www.artangels.net
Mixed media sculpted boards, acrylic, sculpted rings and resin on varnished wood panel
40’’ x 30’’ x 2’’
474 Third Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 917 603 2154 | info@artmixgallery.com www.artmixgallery.com | www.artmixgallery-ny.com
NOMA LISA
LEROI JOHNSON, 2018
Acrylic and oil on canvas. Argentina Biennale Arte honorable mention 3rd place in painting category
30’’ x 24’’
ATHLETES FOR LIFE™ FOUNDATION
5662 Calle Real #170, Goleta, CA 93117 888 675 8884 | glbell28@gmail.com www.athletesforlife.org
THE LIDO FROM ST. GIORGIO MAGGIORE ALAN HALLIDAY
Oil on canvas, signed 39’’ x 39’’
CALLAGHANS OF SHREWSBURY
22-23 St Marys Street, Shrewsbury, UK, SY1 1ED +44(0)7810 714545 | art@callaghan-finepaintings.com www.callaghan-finepaintings.com
PIET WARFFEMIUS, 2024
Stainless steel mirror, polished
63.93’’ x 35’’ x 7.87’’
CHIEFS & SPIRITS
Prisestraat 49, 2513CB The Hague, The Netherlands +31 6477 68556 | info@chiefs@spirits.nl www.chiefsandspirits.nl
ST. BARTH - COLOMBIER BEACH DENIS LEON, 2018/2024
Aerial photograph on canvas, painted resin, crushed glass, umbrella figurines 48’’ x 76’’ DENIS LEON GALLERY
Royal Palm Place, 101 Plaza Real S, Boca Raton, FL 33432 917 208 1777 | dleongallery@gmail.com www.dleonstudio.com
GALERIA CORTINA
Calle Valencia, 248. Barcelona, Spain +34 692 467 105 | info@galeriacortina.com www.galeriacortina.com
7bis rue des Saints-Peres, Paris, France 75006
33 6 20 04 55 46 | mickael@galerieduret.com
www.galerieduret.com
THALIA
ALESSANDRA MARIA, 2024
Graphite, india ink, gold leaf on walnut-stained paper 13’’ x 13’’
GALERIE FLEDERMAUS
2753 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago, IL 60622 312 617 8711 | jerry@galeriefledermaus.com www.galeriefledermaus.com
5 Beauchamp Place, London, United Kingdom, SW3 1NG +44 (0) 7767 824245 | admin@gladwellpatterson.com www.gladwellpatterson.com
‘CalculativeFlight’
ILHWAKIM,2024
Hand-dyedHanjiPaper 132x164x13cm
52x645/8x51/8in
CALCULATIVE FLIGHT
ILHWA KIM, 2024
Hand-dyed Hanji paper
HOFA
52’’ x 64.625’’ x 5.125’’
11BrutonStreet,Mayfair,London,W1J6PY,UK
+44(0)2076295573 |info@thehouseoffineart.com thehouseoffineart.com
HOFA
11 Bruton Street, Mayfair, London, W1J 6PY, United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7629 5573 | info@thehouseoffineart.com www.thehouseoffineart.com
521 W 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
212 628 4000 | info@hollistaggart.com www.hollistaggart.com
Photograph, plexy glass, film 34.45’’ x 40.75’’ x 3.35’’
LEE & BAE
127 Jwasuyeong-ro, Suyeong-gu, Busan, Korea 48214 +82 51 756 2111 | official@leeandbae.com www.leeandbae.com
RENCONTRE NO. 19
PHIL LUANGRATH & FAVIO LANDEIRA, 2024
Hand forged and stamped metal on board 63’’H x 53’’W x 4’’D
MARKOWICZ FINE ART 241 NE 59 Terrace, Miami, FL 33137 949 357 3555 | paul@markowiczfineart.com www.markowiczfineart.com
TEA AND CARROTS
NICK MELE, 2024
Archival inkjet photograph on Baryta fibre rag paper
36’’ x 54’’
NICK MELE FINE ART
150 Brazilian Ave. Palm Beach, FL 33480 917 548 4311 | info@nickmelefineart.com www.nickmelefineart.com
1260 Carillon Point, Kirkland, WA 98033 425 466 1776 | nyb@nybgallery.com www.nybgallery.com THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY
STILL LIFE
PRAJAKTA POTNIS, 2009
Digital print on archival paper
28.5’’ x 48’’
60LB OF DUST, 2KG OF SAND, 32G OF ASH
SUN K KWAK, 2015
Paper dust, sand, ash, acrylic paint & mixed medium on canvas
36’’ x 240’’ (4 pieces)
NYB GALLERY
1260 Carillon Point, Kirkland, WA 98033
425 466 1776 | nyb@nybgallery.com www.nybgallery.com
SAGUENAY
MATTHEW FINE, 2023
Cast glass and granite
34’’ x 15’’ x 4’’
OKAY SPARK
1825 Lindsay Ave, Norfolk, VA 23504
757 407 1368 | okayspark@gmail.com
www.okayspark.com
MUSIC COLORS
NAFTALI TOVIA, 2024
Aluminum
55’’ x 52’’ x 12’’
MOTHER OF ROYALTY, TREE OF LIFE
NAFTALI TOVIA, 2024
Fiberglass + Aluminum
47’’ x 24’’ x 19’’
EL MATADOR
ALBERTO CARRATALA GODOY, 2024
Oil on canvas
70’’ x 64’’
LIST OF ARTISTS: ROD
NAFTALI TOVIA
ALBERTO CARRATALA GODOY
3858 SW 30th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312
info@origallery.com
www.origallery.com
Via Parizzi 258, 29010 Alseno (PC) Italy +39 3459056581 | info@galleriapalmaarte.it www.galleriapalmaarte.it
74 Newman Street, London, W1T 3DB, UK 917 862 4057 | domenic@pontonegallery.com www.pontonegallery.com
STILL LIFE WITH SILVER JUG, PEACH AND LIMES
JESSICA BROWN, 2024
Oil on limewood panel
8’’ x 10’’
QUANTUM CONTEMPORARY ART
The Imperial Laundry, 87 Warriner Gardens, London SW11 4XW, UK +44 7765 255800 | info@quantumart.co.uk www.quantumart.co.uk
VERRE D’ABSINTHE PABLO PICASSO, 1972
Aquatint etching after painting, edition of 300, numbered and hand signed by the artist. Printed and published by Atelier Crommelynck, Paris 25.125’’ x 33’’
RAPHAEL
Domstr 6, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany +49 172 6189640 | contact@galerieraphael.com www.galerieraphael.com
Fabrics, handmade paper, pigments, and oil on canvas
86.5’’ x 84.5’’
REBECCA HOSSACK ART GALLERY 2a Conway Street, London, W1T 6BA, UK +44 (0)20 7436 4899 | ashley@rebeccahossack.com www.rebeccahossack.com
STRAW HAT 3
ALEX KATZ, 2022
Archival pigment ink on Innova Etching Cotton Rag 315 gsm fine art paper, edition of 100 75.5’’ x 42’’
ROSENBAUM CONTEMPORARY
150 Yamato Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431 & 2 Via Parigi - Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, FL 33480 561 994 9180 & 561 508 6174 | info@rosenbaumcontemporary.com www.rosenbaumcontemporary.com
500 N Dixie Hwy, Lake Worth, FL 33460 561 283 2446 | info@scontemporary.com www.scontemporary.com
542 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001
212 677 4520 | gallery@sundaramtagore.com
Encaustic wax, acrylic, ink on canvas 48’’ x 48’’ x 1.75’’
TALI ALMOG GALLERY
19505 Biscayne Blvd #2350 Aventura, FL 33180 954 829 2510 | info@talialmoggallery.com www.talialmoggallery.com
Acrylic, LEDs, custom software 48’’ x 48’’ x 2.5’’ TIMOTHY YARGER FINE ART
3645 Tenth Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90018
310 278 4400 | timyarger@yargerfineart.com www.yargerfineart.com
VICTORIA KOVALENCHIKOVA, 2020
Mixed mesiaoil on canvas, epoxy
Diameter 55’’
VK GALLERY
Kapoeasweg 17, Amsterdam, 1043AD, The Netherlands 31 6 25 55 25 38 | info@vkgallery.nl
www.vkgallery.nl
GREEN HARMONY ISAAC LEVY, 2024
Embrace nature’s beauty with the Green Harmony Necklace, featuring 525.69 ct. of multi-color rough green and blue Brazilian Paraiba gems, wrapped in organic satin-finish yellow gold.
DIVERSEartPB is a special programming section devoted to nurturing the creative energy of international collectors, artists, curators, museums and non-profits by connecting them directly with audiences in West Palm Beach. Art Palm Beach donates exhibition space to participating organizations each year as our civic engagement, and the featured work is not for sale. DIVERSEartPB is curated by Marisa Caichiolo with individual curators from institutions around the world.
The evolving role of museums: fostering relevance in a changing world
Art possesses a transformative power that serves as a catalyst for global change and unity. It resonates on a profound level, connecting individuals and inspiring collaborative efforts toward a brighter and better future. Through diverse forms of artistic expression, we transcend boundaries of nationality, culture, and language, forging deeper connections that enrich our shared humanity. Art uniquely expands our consciousness, shifting our focus from individual perspectives to a collective mindset. It bridges the gap between the local and the global, promoting understanding, empathy, and solidarity among diverse communities worldwide.
Engaging with art not only allows us to appreciate its beauty but also empowers us to challenge societal norms, reshape perceptions, and ignite positive social change. Art stands as a formidable force for transformation, uniting people and paving the way for a more harmonious and interconnected world.
The DIVERSEartPB 2025 edition, featuring contributions from esteemed institutions such as the Boca Raton Museum in Florida, the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas (MOCAA), the Danubiana Museum in Bratislava, Culture Nomad in Seoul, and ReflectSpace & Library Arts and Culture in Glendale, California, underscores art’s extraordinary ability to connect humanity and inspire a more unified future. This edition opens a vital conversation about the transformative potential of museums and art institutions as they redefine their roles in an everevolving landscape. Together, we can explore how these spaces can become dynamic catalysts for community engagement, social dialogue, and cultural exchange, ensuring that they remain relevant and impactful in a rapidly changing world. This version aims to create a more compelling narrative while emphasizing the importance of art and museums in fostering connection and change.
DIVERSEartPB is curated by Marisa Caichiolo.
DIVERSEartPB Museum Acquisition Award
DIVERSEartPB 2025 is proud to announce the second edition of the Museum Acquisition Award for Emerging Artists in Palm Beach.
Inspired by Spain’s La Neomudéjar Museum to mark its 10th anniversary, this year we are doing the Acquisition Award as a celebration of the 75th Anniversary of a local Museum, BOCA RATON MUSEUM. The winner of the award will be chosen by Museum Curator Katheleen Goncharov and Director Martin Hanahan, as well as Marisa Caichiolo, Curator of DIVERSEartPB. The award will be presented by Art Palm Beach Fair Director Kassandra Voyagis and all the parties involved at the Opening Ceremony of the Fair.
PRESENTED
BY
MOCAA MUSEUM
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas, located in The Crossings, Kendall, is home to one of the most fascinating collections of ceramic art in South Florida. Through its Fine Arts Ceramic Center, adjacent to the museum itself, dozens of artists have produced remarkable works that have been exhibited in numerous cultural institutions across the United States.
This collection is organized into three primary groups. The first consists of original ceramic plates, all unique and quite possibly among the largest collections of its kind in the country. The second group features murals composed of individually painted tiles. The third includes standalone sculptures and installations.
The plates have been created primarily by Cuban artists, and more recently (2023–2024) by artists from across the continent. This particular collection has garnered the greatest interest and recognition among specialists and enthusiasts, with nearly a thousand plates created by just over a hundred artists. Each piece is unique, hand-painted, and fired at the Fine Art Ceramic Center workshop.
The plate collection includes works by renowned artists, both nationally and internationally, including Gustavo Acosta, José Bedia, Carlos Cárdenas, Humberto Castro, Carlos Estévez, Ivonne Ferrer, José Franco, Lia Galletti, Aimée García, Carlos Luna, Milena Martínez Pedrosa, Rigoberto Mena, Amelia Peláez, Esterio Segura, Alfredo Sosabravo, Rubén Torres Llorca, among many others. To date, a total of 97 artists have contributed to this collection, with most creating between four and twelve unique, original pieces.
The center was established in 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the dual aim of promoting the use of ancestral ceramic techniques among Cuban artists associated with the Rodríguez Collection, and providing them with the opportunity to create small-scale pieces that could be easily sold amid the difficult circumstances of isolation and economic stagnation caused by the COVID crisis. In May of that year, collector Leonardo Rodríguez, founder of the Kendall Art Center—now the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas—invited fifty artists who were regularly collaborating with the center to produce these ceramic works, primarily plates. This initiative also sought to explore the creative potential of ceramics, pushing beyond its traditional utilitarian and decorative roles.
This initial call resulted in the production of dozens of valuable works. Despite the great heterogeneity among the first group of creators, they all shared one common trait: they were primarily painters working on canvas. They faced both the opportunity and the challenge of transferring their art to a new medium, using materials and pigments that were largely unfamiliar to them, and which behaved very differently on raw clay.
The mere production of nearly half a thousand artistic ceramic plates at that time drew the attention of artists and specialists alike to the need to preserve a tradition that, while not critically endangered, is increasingly neglected by new generations of artists.
This collection of works was first exhibited at the Kendall Art Center in November 2020. The exhibition, titled Fine Arts on the Plate, opened on Friday, November 27, and was attended by nearly 200 people, including artists, family members, and art enthusiasts from across MiamiDade County. This event can be considered the founding act of the Fine Arts Ceramic Center.
This collection, which continues to grow year after year, is regularly exhibited in various spaces beyond our institution. For instance, the exhibition Artists Set the Table opened to the public on Sunday, February 19, 2023, at Pinecrest Garden Art and Recreation Park, showcasing a selection of one hundred plates. Beyond the Plate was presented for the second time at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona on May 7, 2022, following its debut on November 5, 2021, at the Sidney Berne & Davis Art Center under the title Fine Arts on the Plate.
PRESENTED BY BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF
The Boca Raton Museum of Art will present a video and glass sculptures that will be included in its upcoming Glasstress exhibition (April 23-October 26, 2025). Glasstress, based in Venice, brings international contemporary artists to its furnace in Murano to collaborate with its glass masters. The video by the artist duo, titled Howling at the Moon, is a stop-motion animation that is a fantastical and surreal fairy tale in which a wolf tries to convince the Moon to take a sow he possesses. Glass versions of the sow and the wolf are presented along with the video.
GLASSTRESS 2025
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
APRIL 23 – OCTOBER 26, 2025
The upcoming exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art features work by renowned international contemporary artists in collaboration with glass maestros at the Berengo Studio on the Lagoon Island of Murano.
The Studio was founded by Adriano Berengo in 1989 to support artists who wish to experiment with glass as a medium. Another purpose is to revive a Venetian glass industry that dates from 450 AD but is now challenged by faux Murano glass made in China and sold to unsuspecting tourists. The project also fosters innovation in that its artisans are spurred to develop new techniques when challenged by artists. Berengo was inspired in part by the efforts of Peggy Guggenheim, who invited artists such as Picasso and Chagall to work with skilled artisans on Murano in the 1960s.
Some of the works visitors will see when they visit the Boca Raton Museum of Art next Spring are an enormous chandelier by Ai Wei Wei, a monumental multicolored stack of cast glass by Sean Scully, installations by Laure Provoust, Monica Bonvincini, Thomas Schutte, and new works by Magdalena Campos Pons and Tony Cragg.
Howling at the Moon by the Swedish duo Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg presented here at Art Palm Beach will be included in the upcoming Glasstress 2025. The work includes a stop-motion animation paired with two of the film’s protagonists recreated in glass at the Berengo Studio. The film is a surreal fantasy fairy tale featuring an untrustworthy wolf, a mischievous Moon, and a sow. It is a psychological work of darkness and light, satire, and double meanings, set in a world that is both unsettling and oddly familiar. Its enigmatic score is by electronic composer Hans Berg.
The artists live in Berlin and their work has been widely exhibited and collected, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Modern Museet, Stockholm; Baltimore Museum of Art; Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; and the Prada Foundation, Milan.
CURATED BY KATHLEEN
GONCHAROV
Ominka by Viktor Frešo is a memory embodied in a family artifact transformed into monumental art. This sculpture is based on the story of the artist’s grandmother, a former singer who sacrificed her promising career to support her family. In 1964, she brought a Fool’s Gold brooch from the USA to Slovakia, a memento of her travels and a symbol of her unfulfilled dreams. Decades later, Frešo reinterprets this sentimental object, creating a monumental sculpture that serves as a metaphor for the illusions and fleeting nature of material aspirations – much like the deceptive glimmer of Fool’s Gold.
In this work, Frešo revisits central themes of his practice: the personal archive and the vanity of life. By enlarging this modest piece of costume jewelry into a monumental sculpture, he questions the significance we attach to material objects. The sculpture is both a tribute and a critique, reminding us that what remains after people are not the objects themselves but the stories they carry.
Bringing the sculpture back to the United States, the brooch’s original country of origin, completes a poetic cycle. It symbolizes a return to the roots of a family narrative and concludes a journey that spans generations and geographies. In essence, Frešo’s artwork becomes a reconstructed family portrait, piecing together fragments of his ancestors through artifacts, memories, and their reinterpretation as contemporary art. Since the medium of the work is an inflatable balloon sculpture, the air inside also symbolizes the memories that can never be permanently retained. When the balloon is finally deflated, it reflects the gradual fading of memories over time, carried by the breath that once gave it its shape.
BY
Inspired by Michelangelo’s masterpiece, The Last Judgment, artist HanHo’s Eternal light – 21c The Last Judgment addresses epic human and metaphysical issues. The nine-part massive multi-media panel work re-imagines an apocalyptic end of the world scenario to humanity in the 21rst century – constructing an afterimage of humankind facing wars, colonization, mass displacement, environmental disaster and nuclear annihilation.
Technology is an integral part of HanHo’s work which he combines with traditional art techniques to create multi-colored light-infused immersive worlds that shift and ebb in front of your eye. They challenge perception and teeter on the edge of the metaphysical. Nearly all the figures depicted in the work are the artist himself: identity, memory, performance, history, war, future and fantasy all blend together in this massive panorama of a transcendent humanity.
Synthesizing with the work’s apocalyptic overtones, a mystical “Eternal Light” (as the artist calls it) bathes HanHo’s canvases and elevates his worlds to glimmering and mythical proportions. Will this eternal light uplift humanity from the current slate of wars and genocides plaguing us? Will humanity be able to avoid its own destruction? Who will judge us, finally? These questions under-gird HanHo’s “Last Judgment” and create a space for us to contemplate them and our future.
CURATED BY MARISA CAICHIOLO
Expanding beyond the confines of booth spaces, Featured Exhibitions create immersive experiences to engage audiences through thoughtprovoking artworks, performances and other exhibitions offered by participating galleries, highlighting works that will be talked about for years to come.
Highlights this year include works from Rosenbaum Contemporary, Modern Fine Art, Hollis Taggart, Pontone Gallery, Denis Leon Gallery
Rosenbaum Contemporary presents seven new oil on canvas paintings by popular Cuban artist Maikel Martinez. While at first glance Martinez’s works appear to be photographs or photorealistic paintings, upon closer inspection they are revealed to be places that don’t actually exist. In each, Martinez’s memories of places from his past combine with his dreams and internal dialogues to create landscapes that have been reinvented in his mind. The resulting scenes capture and express human feelings such as loneliness, silence, tranquility, fear and desire.
“The images that appear on the canvas represent a kind of magical dictation from my unconscious,” Martinez said. “Throughout the creative process some of these images are transformed while others remain true to the image as originally dreamed.”
Martinez was born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He received the Landscape Award at the 2000 Salon Nacional, sponsored by the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) and held in homage to Tiburcio Lorenzo, the Cuban painter recognized as the Cuban “Lord of the Landscape.” His work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries in Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean including the Royal Bank of Canada and the Museo Provincial de Historia in Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
PRESENTED BY ROSENBAUM
CONTEMPORARY
THE LOST LANDSCAPE SERIES MAIKEL MARTINEZ
Modern Fine Art debuts the extraordinary wall sculptures of artist Mark Eisen (1958 – 2023) at the show this year. Six mirror-polished stainless-steel sculptures are presented. These wall sculptures have never previously been exhibited and embody the artist’s unique principles, emphasizing pure shapes and silhouettes. They explore the potential of material transformation, the emotional impact of color, and the interplay of reflectivity, concavity, and convexity.
Eisen had a highly successful career in fashion, then spent the last ten years of his life realizing this sculpture collection, collaborating with the world’s best fabrication partners in California, New York and Europe to oversee the production. Throughout his career Eisen cultivated a cross-cultural, global perspective by creating fashion and objects that enhance life through beauty. An inherent minimalist, he was inspired by the basics of form, material and color. This grew out of early studies in Bauhaus thinking, which inspired him to converge the interdisciplinary fields of art, craft and design.
His sculptures were his final creations of pure passion, conceived to evoke hope and happiness in everyone who experiences them.
PRESENTED BY MODERN FINE ART
Hollis Taggart is pleased to present works by Norman Carton and Albert Kotin, two New York School painters who actively shaped the Abstract Expressionism movement. Both artists hailed from what was then part of the Russian Empire: Kotin was born in Minsk, and Carton was born in the Dnieper Ukraine territory, one year after Kotin. After years as a refugee, Carton finally settled in Philadelphia at age fourteen in 1922, while Kotin immigrated to the United States a year after he was born. Perhaps owing to their shared backgrounds as immigrants, they quickly adapted to the avant-garde circles of artists in New York, who were also themselves refugees.
In the 1950s, Carton became known for his virtuosity as an intuitive colorist, exhibiting alongside Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, and Joan Mitchell in the 1955 Whitney Biennial. With the support of noted gallerists like Martha Jackson, Carton created vibrant and expressive paintings with impasto brushstrokes. The seemingly spontaneous nature of his paintings’ colors belies the artist’s exacting process of grinding his own pigments to produce controlled colors, fine-tuned to his specific requirements. Carton was influenced by the great colorist Arthur B. Carles, whose paintings were also guided by both feeling and chromatic accuracy. In 1962, with two other artists, Carton formed the Dewey Gallery, one of the first New York City galleries owned and operated by artists. Well into the 1970s, he was intimately involved with the Abstract Expressionism movement in New York and exhibited widely. His work is held in more than 20 museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; Chrysler Museum of Art; and the National Gallery of Art, among others.
If Carton’s works speak to his exemplary sense of color, Kotin seems to have been deeply interested in the spatial elements of a painting. In the 1950s, as he enjoyed a prolific output as part of the “Downtown Group,” a circle of artists in lower Manhattan that included Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jack Tworkov, Kotin created paintings with all-over, heavily textured surfaces. Often experimenting with dense tangles of marks that seem to move in an eolic fashion, Kotin conceptualized space as “interwoven within itself” and as “a curtailed infinity moving with a force that creates an element of time and emotion.” His practice connected with the predominant dialogues and arguments of the time and captured his own grappling with questions of abstraction and expressionism. As the artist Alexander Calder wrote in 1968, “As long as there are people such as Al Kotin, there is no danger to art.” Kotin’s work has been exhibited at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (1947); The New School for Social Research, New York (1948); Stable Gallery in New York (1951, 1953-1957); Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston (1959); the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1963-64); and Long Island University, New York (1968), among others.
Pontone Gallery is proud to present two Korean sculptors, Choi Soowhan and Hwang Seontae, whose practices overlap in means of execution but contrast in nature of content. Both specialize in the lightbox, a form which lends itself to careful and meticulous manufacture, blending the manipulation of light with the illusion of subtle image making. Seontae deals in serene and calm architectural interiors, whereas Soowhan investigates brooding scenes of atmospheric landscape.
Each artist takes a different approach to making the box. Seontae builds layers of graphic and photographic information underneath a panel of sand-blasted glass to make his smoothly delineated scenes. Soowhan’s technique is radically different: he drills a multitude of tiny holes in black plexiglass, their varied spacing and diameter defining a pictorial illusion. Common to both, however, is the subtle installation and manipulation of LED lighting within the structure to animate each artists’ visual invention. The consummate skill of such constructions fits neatly into a Korean tradition of painstaking craftsmanship.
Seontae presents us with an idealised vision of domestic harmony, where order and calm prevail. Light filters across monochromatic and unoccupied architectural spaces that speak of immanent arrival and the anticipation of comfort. There is, nevertheless, another possible interpretation that hints at a possible dystopian drama which may unfold in response to the questions “where is everyone?” and “what happens here?”.
Soowhan describes darkly lit woodland, unpopulated and sinister in its evocation of the folk tale and suspenseful horror film. Paths meander through dense stands of trees and undergrowth, light filters through the canopy to modulate the way. We are implicitly alone in these places, where nature holds sway and outcomes are unforeseen. Soowhan invites us to contemplate this complex ‘Emptiness’.
Both these sculptors address a notion of the solitary and ideas of a safe space. The fundamental difference between them being that Soowhan depicts the journey and Seontae the anticipated arrival.
PRESENTED BY PONTONE GALLERY
EMPTINESS - FOREST PATH 04
CHOI SOOWHAN, 2024
LED laminate
41.625’’ x 61.5’’ x 3.125’’
THE SPACE WITH SUNSHINE III
HWANG SEONTAE, 2022
Tempered Glass, Sandblast & LED Backlit 44.125’’ x 59.875’’ x 1.625’’
Denis Leon Gallery presents the world’s largest Hermès Birkin Bag, “BIG BIRK.” It is an awe-inspiring work by GEO, a renowned event architect and designer celebrated for his ability to transform everyday objects into monumental, hyper-realistic sculptures. Standing as a testament to GEO’s mastery of scale and precision, this larger-than-life, sixteen foot tall Birkin is painstakingly hand-carved and constructed from a dynamic combination of materials: wood, condensed styrofoam, mirror acrylic, and aluminum. Each element has been meticulously painted to replicate the fine details of its real-world counterpart, making the sculpture an uncanny and striking reflection of reality.
GEO’s use of scale not only magnifies the physical dimensions but also amplifies the emotional and conceptual resonance of his work, encouraging viewers to confront the familiar in a new, thought-provoking way. This piece captures both the beauty and the drama of an iconic handbag transformed, encouraging viewers to see the familiar in a new and exciting way.
PRESENTED BY DENIS LEON GALLERY
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