Get This! Gallery, out of Atlanta, showed work by Ben Venom, Austin Eddy and Benjamin Pierce at Agua Art Fair Miami Beach 2013.

Even if I didn't like the art of Venom I would be 100 percent behind someone named Ben Venom whose art is quilting. That has to be said up front.

The variety of the artists is, again, striking here. It seems almost to be a hallmark of galleries showing at Agua to HAVE a vibe to their galleries, an underlying thread to tie it all together--but not a bunch of artists that all look the same.

Nine pieces by Austin Eddy the names of which I am too lazy to type.

Mayer Fine Art (Norfolk, Virginia) showed a diverse group of artists at Agua Art Fair in Miami Beach in 2013. Two of these artists, Victoria F. Gaitán and Mark Chatterley are shown here.

The pieces by Gaitán are archival pigment prints on 100 percent rag paper. Both of the colorful pieces here were editions of three.

Chatterley's sculptures are high fired clay (cone 6) and crater. I confess that I do not know what that means. I tried to look it up but I didn't understand the ceramics websites I uncovered. I do, however, love Chatterley's dogs and crows despite my ignorance.

An interview with another of the gallery artists, Judith Peck, is coming soon.

Landau Fine Art (Montreal) cater to collectors of Modern Art masters and had many on display at Art Basel Miami 2013.  I decided that I would post paintings from their booth that the general public might not know.

I wasn't going to include Paul Klee until I told a couple people about this post (a rarity before posting). I was informed that Klee was no more well known by the general public than the others.

I confess that I am not familiar with Christoph Kiefhaber and that I have only a passing recollection of Heinrich Campendonk. A deficiency in knowledge on German-speaking painters that must be corrected.

Other artists here include Alexej von Jawlensky and Kees Van Dongen.

Click on the artist names (just in case you couldn't figure this out) to find out more on each artist. All the links are to a variety of sources that I thought were good ones on each artist.

This piece by Antonio Guerrero was shown at Brazil Art Show by Pablo Gris and Ben Abounassif (Venezuela).

Guerrero is a Cuban-American artist with a unique style you can hardly mistake after seeing a single piece.

This isn't hyperbole and you can see more of his work HERE.

I wish I had stopped to chat with the people in the booth!

 

Francisco Maringelli's pieces at Brazil Art Fair's inaugural editions are richly textured still life abstractions that positively MAKE you look over every inch. The subject matter (excluding the portrait of course) is of useful but not particularly glamorous items, old saws, palettes, brushes, paints, bottles and shoes.

These were all shown by Galeria Mezanino from Sao Paolo (more about the gallery and their artists shortly).

When you see any of his black and white pieces in the artist's catalog there is an almost classical quality to them. He is a remarkable artist.

Find out more about him at the gallery link above or HERE.

Art Basel is where I always tell myself "I am not taking photos of any Picassos or Mirós etc." I love Picasso but I have to assume pretty much everyone knows who Pablo Picasso is and the work he created.

Everyone knows how important he was to art in the 20th Century.

Of course I always take photos of Picassos and other widely known artists. Here are some of these from the booth of Helly Nahmad Gallery (New York City).

This is, indeed, actually AT Art Basel, for organzational purposes all posts from and about Art Week 2013 are in the "Art Basel 2013" section.

Alessandro Cannistra's Sssssssst (012) was shown by Officine dell 'Immagine (Milan) at Context Miami 2013.

The piece is more haunting in person and what is more it is made with smoke on canvas.

Cannistra lives and works in Rome and has been has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 2006.

Jessica Drenk's work (and information on Adah Rose Gallery) have appeared here before. But previously we didn't have the artist on-hand to talk about her work--how she does it, why she does it and what she hopes you, the "audience" gets out of it. In the first video I cut Drenk OFF before she stated "I LOVE books." Which I feel obligated to report.

Find out even more about Drenk and see more of her work HERE.

Apologies for the sort out of focus videos. There is some autofocus problem with the camera.

Amelie Gallery (Beijing) showed a diverse collection of artists at Pulse Miami 2013. Two of these were Li Xin and Huang Kai.

Xin's landscapes have an almost Andrew Wyeth feel. Note that I write "feel" here rather than style.  These paintings are as different from Wyeth as they are similar. But look that and tell me there is not something similar, some feeling. Xin's work is also beautiful--far more so than shows in these photographs.

Likewise Kai's work has some stylistic similarity with Pop Art. Again please notice the qualifier "some."

These sorts of first impressions are what makes looking at new artists so interesting. You look and think "Oh this artist looks like so and so" and the more you look? The more you realize they do not!

But that impression remains.

When I looked at the work of Bernard Ammerer at the Galerie Frey (Vienna) booth at Pulse Miami I thought they were showing work by two different artists.

This wasn't just because some pieces were colored and others were not. There were a variety of reasons; one being the static nature of some of the works and the motion used in the others. But yes, the paintings versus large-scale pencil drawing is what makes the first impression here--with the pieces shown in such close proximity.

I will endeavor to find out moe on Ammerer.