This year’s rendition of SCOPE Miami Beach, coinciding with Miami Art Week festivities, features many galleries that will be familiar to Hi-Fructose readers as well as dozens of artists who have appeared in our print issues. An enormous installation by Swoon featuring a cut-out portrait of a majestic woman charging triumphantly forward greets viewers as they enter the fair, ushering them into the many collections of figurative, Pop Art-inspired, and streetwise art that lies ahead.
Thinkspace Gallery’s large booth features a diverse collection of small-scale works by artists such as Audrey Kawasaki and Marco Mazzoni, mini-solo shows by Glenn Barr and Andy Kehoe, as well as works by Margaret Keane (the subject of Tim Burton’s biopic Big Eyes, which details how Keane’s husband Walter took credit for her work for decades).
Hailing from Rome, Dorothy Circus Gallery presents a variety of dreamlike, Pop Surrealist work from artists like Joe Sorren and Kazuki Takamatsu, whose haunting, monochromatic gouache paintings are in our current issue, Hi-Fructose Vol. 33. At Mexico City-based gallery Fifty24MX’s booth, Victor Castillo’s paintings of diabolical, Pinocchio-like children hang beside Miss Van’s portraits of voluptuous ladies clad in masks and other ritualistic, folkloric attire.
Rome’s Wunderkammern features Aakash Nihalani’s neon, geometric paintings — which he frequently installs on the streets of New York to create optical illusions that play off the city environment. Jonathan LeVine Gallery’s booth is devoted to Dan Witz’s hyperrealist paintings of bodies thrashing in moshpits, paying homage to the original New York punk scene in which Witz came of age.
For lovers of figurative art that dabbles in surrealism, pop culture, and kitsch, SCOPE is the place to be during Miami Art Week. The fair is on view through December 7. Take a look at our photo highlights below.
Aakash Nihalani at Wunderkammern
Glenn Barr at Thinkspace
Andey Kehoe at Thinkspace
Szollosi Geza at NextArt Gallery
The London Police at StolenSpace Gallery
Evan B. Harris at Red Truck Gallery
Sean Norvet at Phone Booth Gallery
Victor Grasso at Parlor Gallery
Michael Page at Mirus Gallery
Ted Lincoln at Joseph Gross Gallery
Buff Monster at Joseph Gross Gallery
Erik Jones at Joseph Gross Gallery
Dan Witz at Jonathan Levine Gallery
Casey Weldon at Hashimoto Contemporary
Hiroki Siina at G-77 Gallery
Johnson Tsang at Galleri Oxholm
Francisco Esnayra at Labartino Gallery
Victor Castillo at Fifty24MX
Victor Castillo at Fifty24MX
Joe Sorren at Dorothy Circus Gallery
Kazuki Takamatsu at Dorothy Circus Gallery
Kazuhira Tsuji at Copro Gallery
Dan Quintana at Copro Gallery
One of the first fairs to open during Miami Art Week was UNTITLED. Now in its fourth year, the fair showcases big and small scale works from over 130 galleries in its white beachfront tent- a place where you could find some of the most experimental and surprising uses of media this week. Among the booths we bee-lined for was Eric Firestone Gallery's, which featured a large and psychedelic new piece from artist Jen Stark, now recognized by many for the wormhole and animated dripping entrance that she created for Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV VMAs. Take a look at more of our highlights from UNTITLED after the jump!
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Miami Art Week and all of its accompanying fairs come to a close on Sunday, including 
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