"Collectors will have many options to experience in addition to Art Basel Miami Beach. Here are four standouts."
Days before Art Basel Miami Beach opens, satellite fairs during Miami Art Week are vying for collectors’ attention on the final stretch of a densely packed art market calendar. Four fairs stand out among the many options that feature a diverse offering of emerging art, gender-bending works, oversize installations, culinary experiences and abundant socializing.
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The 21st edition of the nonprofit New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) fair is back at Ice Palace Studios, an ice plant that was converted into a film production studio in the 1920s. This year’s Curated Spotlight section showcases eight artists selected for their “exciting multimodal creative practice,” according to the guest curator Jenée-Daria Strand of the Public Art Fund, formerly of the Brooklyn Museum’s Center for Feminist Art.
Among Ms. Strand’s picks are paintings by a Miami painter, Dustin Emory, that explore the effects of confinement, and abstract needlepoint landscapes by Azadeh Gholizadeh that draw inspiration from the weaving traditions of her native Iran.
“These landscapes represent my fragmented memory of places, which become pixelated images when I reconstruct them,” Ms. Gholizadeh said in a phone interview from Seattle, where she lives and works. “This is needlework reborn as a rebellious act.”
