Although it was mostly rainy for Art Basel Miami Beach week, the outdoor sculptures around the main fair and on the beach were a highlight. Fun, interactive, and often using a giant scale to shift perceptions, these pieces were free to experience and a pleasure to explore, no matter what your income bracket.
Photos by Lawrence Doane
Student Designers: Anaitza Brown, Austin Chia, Quinn Spence, Olivia Zheng, Nikki Zhao, Sasha Kramer, Kai Nunnally, Solli Kim, Cedar Clark, Rachel Glen, and Mahnoor Chaudry.
Here, before us at the school, are stripped-down, geometricized versions of four individual caterpillars, poised at different moments in their movements—stretching upward toward the sky, looking ahead, or reaching toward the ground, as if scouting for fallen leaves on the brick foundation...
Exhibits at C. Grimaldis, Creative Alliance, Eubie Blake, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Current, New Door, Goya Contemporary, MONO Practice, and Waller Gallery
At Arting Gallery, David Barnett instills seriousness with a profound dose of wackiness. Or another way of describing A Carnival of Characters is that this intense, inventive show explores the childlike in the adult, and the other way around.
