Lehmann Maupin returns to Art Basel Miami Beach with a selection of new work by a variety of gallery artists including Teresita Fernández, whose permanent installation Paradise Parados opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on November 30; Dominic Chambers, who recently joined the gallery’s roster; alongside a curated showcase dedicated to Helen Pashgian whose solo exhibition Spheres and Lenses is currently on view in New York; and an important large-scale copper work from Nari Ward’s Breathing Panel series. Other highlights include brand new works by Do Ho Suh, Erwin Wurm, OSGEMEOS, and Mandy El-Sayegh, who will each be the subject of solo exhibitions at the gallery’s seasonal space in Palm Beach. Also on view is a selection of signature and historic works by McArthur Binion, Gilbert & George, Nicholas Hlobo, Liza Lou, Catherine Opie, Angel Otero, Alex Prager, Robin Rhode, and David Salle.
Central to the gallery’s presentation is a grouping of sculptural works by Teresita Fernández made from meticulously-assembled raw charcoal. These works suggest a geological and expansive sense of time and landscape–from the ancient, historical, and subterranean to the otherworldly and cosmic. Debuting at the fair are new, relief panels from the artist’s celebrated Dark Earth series made of assembled charcoal on golden, reflective surfaces that render luminous and poetic representations of earthly places and heavenly bodies. Here, Fernández creates imagined scenes that allude to the loaded implications that materials carry–gold (extraction, greed)–as well as its counterpoint–charcoal (agriculture, sustainability). In addition, Fernández’s new wall sculpture Archipelago(Garland) depicts an organic, suspended trellis-like form created by fusing the multitude of large and small islands that collectively make up the region we call The Caribbean. Here, the Caribbean is reimagined as a new shape. Fernández’s work prompts viewers to consider their own roles in the eroded physical and psychological landscapes produced by centuries of extractive colonization. Her work is also on view in a solo exhibition at Georgetown University, Washington DC; a long-term installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the group exhibition Contemporary Optics: Olafur Eliasson, Teresita Fernández, and Anish Kapoor at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
Debuting at Art Basel Miami Beach is a new self-portrait by Dominic Chambers, who recently joined Lehmann Maupin’s roster of artists. The work presented at the booth, which belongs to his new Shadow portraits series, extends from Chambers' interest in the history of painting. Here, he directly engages Johannes Vermeer's iconic Girl with the Pearl Earring (c. 1665). Reinvigorating Vermeer’s composition with his own perspective and subject, Chambers' new series will next be featured in a solo In Focus presentation opening at Lehmann Maupin New York in February 2022. Coinciding with the fair, Chambers’ work will also be on view in the group exhibition Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility, curated by Aindrea Emelife at newly-opened Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX.
Also on view at the fair is Angel Otero’s La Victoria (2013), a monumental painting previously on view at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, as part of the artist’s solo exhibition Angel Otero: Everything and Nothing (December 10, 2016 – March 26, 2017). The work draws upon traditional painting techniques as well as the artist’s characteristic “oil skins,” produced by layering oil paint on glass and then peeling it off in “sheets” before transferring it to canvas. In all of his work, including La Victoria, Otero challenges conceptions of the painted medium by treating paint as a three-dimensional material worthy of investigation, with distinct physical properties and textures.
Mirroring the gallery’s Palm Beach program, the booth will showcase Do Ho Suh’s new sculptural fabric works, which continue his exploration of the often precarious idea of home in a global society; a selection of signature works by Erwin Wurm, including new two-dimensional sculptures; a new painting by Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS, whose solo exhibition is currently on view at Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba, Brazil; plus one of Mandy El-Sayegh’s celebrated Net-Grid paintings.