Artillery Magazine: Miami Art Week Report

Thank you Annabel Keenan for including us in Artillery’s Miami Art Week Report. Link to full article.

UNTITLED ART

Energized by this vital display of activism and resistance, I embarked on my first fair visit of the week with Untitled Art, which opened Tuesday to VIPs and runs through Sunday. With over 160 exhibitors, Untitled returned to a sprawling tent on the sands of Miami Beach in its biggest, most diverse and international presentation to date. Showcasing the sun and sea that so many visitors long for, the fair offers a unique experience with outdoor lounges and glimpses out onto the ocean. The fair is known to feature some of the industry’s most coveted emerging artists, as well as mid- and late-career figures. As always, Untitled brings a strong curatorial vision to Art Week, with this year’s themes centering on “Curating in the Digital Age” and “Gender Equality in the Arts,” which are reflected both in the content of the art and in the makeup of the participants with 60% of artists on view and 35% of exhibitors identifying as female or nonbinary.

Rivalry Projects: Peter Stephens, Booth C71

Also presenting an impressive colorful, abstract solo booth is Buffalo-based Rivalry Projects, which is showing new paintings and works on paper by Peter Stephens. Using acrylic on custom wood panels, Stephens overlays colorful, meticulous lines that explore physics, cosmology, and patterns of the natural world. With precise, rhythmic designs, each piece seems at once bound by a set of rules and simultaneously embracing chance as straight lines intersect with undulating stripes. Resembling a quilt or plaid pattern from afar, the tight lines pull the eye in different directions the closer and longer one looks, as if seeking order in patches of color and hints of repetition across the surface.