Art Basel Miami Beach 2023
David Nolan Gallery
Booth A51
For David Nolan Gallery’s 25th year exhibiting at Art Basel internationally, the gallery's ABMB presentation will reflect the spectrum of its global program, with artists’ origins spanning the Plains Indian tribal regions to Baghdad, Iraq. A full list of included artists is as follows (asterisk indicates representation), and below are several highlights.
Richard Artschwager* • Mel Bochner • Chakaia Booker* • Steve DiBenedetto* • Deborah Druick • Carroll Dunham • David Hartt* • Roni Horn • Mel Kendrick* • Martin Kippenberger • Barry Le Va* • Markus Lüpertz • Brice Marden • Jonathan Meese* • Wardell Milan* • Rodrigo Moynihan* • Jim Nutt* • Nokkoist (Bear’s Heart) & Ohettoint • Albert Oehlen • Paulo Pasta* • Christina Ramberg* • Dorothea Rockburne * • Sean Scully • Vian Sora* • Jorinde Voigt*
HIGHLIGHTS
New work by Vian Sora (b. 1976 in Baghdad, Iraq; based in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009): Following acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art and others, and coinciding with her newly announced representation by David Nolan Gallery, Sora's four paintings on view in the booth further her abstract, gestural distillation of her experience coming of age in Baghdad under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, as well as her lifelong fascination with Ancient Mesopotamia. Central to the work are themes of war, political upheaval, migration, and subsequent geographic and cultural displacement.
New work by Chakaia Booker (b. 1953): A staple of the 1980s East Village art scene perhaps best known for her pioneering use of recycled rubber tires as a raw material for making often-monumental abstract sculpture, Booker’s rubber-tire sculptures evoke political and social aspects, including the patterns of the tires alluding to African scarification; the exploitation tied to the collection of rubber; and the history of low wages African American workers received in the automobile industry. Booker’s work looks back to the social upheaval of the 1960s and the awakening of American society to the continuing plight of Black Americans. Booker will also exhibit a 2023 textile work that marks a new medium in her practice.
Rare collaborative drawings created between 1875 and 1878 by Cheyenne and Kiowa warrior artists Nokkoist (Bear’s Heart) and Ohettoint during their incarceration at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These graphic masterworks hold immense historical significance, employing a visual vocabulary that encompasses Indigenous ways of understanding the world at the height of military and political pressure for the communities’ erasure. The works on view precede a dedicated exhibition at the gallery’s New York space in early 2024.
New work by David Hartt (b. 1967, Montreal): A woven tapestry responds to the white Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church’s paintings of the flora and fauna of Jamaica in 1865, a time when the United States had begun to encroach onto Caribbean territories. The 90 x 60" tapestry comments on the history of American imperialism and slavery. It is entitled The Histories (after Church), version with xenoformed atmosphere / Rayleigh scattering spectrum shift (2022).
A Kabinett (Art Basel’s sector of curated mini-exhibitions) staging of new 'pocket-sized oil paintings' by Brazilian artist Paulo Pasta (b. 1959), whose abstract paintings dialogue with the tradition of constructive art in Brazil. The exhibition will include miniature oil paintings, a new format for the artist. Since the 1980s, Pasta has created layer by layer an oeuvre of minimalist paintings where color reigns supreme, geometrical boundaries are subtle, and light is radiant and serene. A reference for generations of artists, historians, critics and collectors, Pasta’s work is featured in major Brazilian museums including Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP).
More information is in the above-linked press release, and a preview of works on view is below. Copyright information varies between artworks; image files with credit lines are in the above-linked Dropbox folder.
