Art Basel Miami Beach | Booth B41 | 6 - 10 December 2023

KABINETT Sector: Kay WalkingStick

For the 2023 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Hales is pleased to present a selection of works by: Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA, Jordan Ann Craig, Martyn Cross, Anthony Cudahy, Sarah Faux, Chitra Ganesh, Sunil Gupta, John Hoyland RA, Anwar Jalal Shemza, Virginia Jaramillo, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Hew Locke RA and Kay WalkingStick.

Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA (b. Guyana, 1934) moved to London in 1953, where his artistic career began shortly after his arrival at the Royal College of Art (1959-62). Bowling is widely considered to be Britain's leading abstract painter. Over a career spanning six decades he has remained committed to expanding the possibilities of paint through constant experimentation. In every painting he discovers something new, exploring the pictorial space, searching for an essential truth. The Royal College of Art announced a new Frank Bowling Scholarship to support UK students of Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage. Most recently his work has been included in group shows at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA and the Barbican Centre, London, UK.

Jordan Ann Craig (b. 1992 San Jose, CA, USA) received her BA in Studio Art and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2015. She lives and works in Pojoaque Valley, New Mexico. Known for her large-scale paintings and prints, Craig's abstract compositions are characterized by a dynamic exploration and interpretation of Northern Cheyenne material culture. Incorporating vivid colors, recurring patterns, and interwoven forms situated in grids, Craig's work explores and celebrates her Native ancestry, posing questions about the languages of modern abstract painting and the relationship to both historic and contemporary indigenous culture. In 2020, Craig's first solo museum exhibition, Your Favorite Color is Yellow, was held at Roswell Museum of Art, NM, USA. In 2025 Craig will have a solo exhibition at The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), NM, USA.

Martyn Cross  (b. 1975, Yate, UK) lives and works in Bristol, UK. Cross is primarily a painter, creating works that speak to ancient and mythic lands. Applying thin layers of dry-brush pigment, the paintings are reminiscent of unearthed artefacts. Drawing on a myriad of concepts from mythology and the medieval, Cross' works personify the landscape. Figures, eyes and solitary limbs emerge from clouds and rivers, speaking to an alternate fiction. Ambiguous narratives are formed in reoccurring scenes and motifs, creating an immersive world. His first institutional solo show took place earlier this year at Flatland Projects, Bexhill on Sea, UK, the same year in which he was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize.

Anthony Cudahy (b. 1989 Ft. Myers, FL, USA) received a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY in 2011 and completed an MFA at Hunter College, NY in 2020. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Cudahy is a painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gesture. Personal and poetic, Cudahy's figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments in fluid brushstrokes. Cudahy's first solo museum exhibition was on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Dole, France earlier this year. His first museum show in the US is opening in April 2024 at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, ME.

Sarah Faux (b. 1986 Boston, MA, USA) received her MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2015. She gained a joint BA and BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Faux lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux is a painter whose somatic work lies at the threshold of figuration and abstraction. Her paintings embrace unabashed sensuality, autonomy and pleasure. Faux's fluid compositions teeter on the edge of reality, revealing how much of our emotional and sensory lives take place beneath the surface. Faux is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee for 2023-2024.

Chitra Ganesh  (b. 1975 Brooklyn, NY, USA) received a BA from Brown University, Providence, RI in 1996 and an MFA from Columbia University, NY in 2002. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Interweaving disparate visual idioms, mythic and speculative narratives, Ganesh's extensive explorations invite viewers to consider alternate narratives of sexuality and power. In detailed works, Ganesh combines a vast array of influences including South Asian iconography, science fiction and queer theory, with the visual languages of vintage comics, Bollywood posters, and video games. Ganesh's solo show at the Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, NY, USA opened in September 2023.

Sunil Gupta (b.1953 New Delhi, India) has, over a career spanning five decades, maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing a rich body of work that has pioneered a unique social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity. The work on view is from the 'Christopher Street' series, which reflects the openness of the gay liberation movement, as well as his own "coming out" as an artist. More than a nostalgic time capsule, the photographs from this series reveal a community that shaped Gupta as a person and cemented his lifelong dedication to portraying people who have been denied a space to be themselves. Gupta's most recent publication 'Come Out' was published by Stanley Barker in 2023.

John Hoyland RA  (b.1934 Sheffield, UK - d.2011 London, UK) was one of the most inventive and dynamic abstract painters of the post-war period. Over the span of more than a half-century his art and attitudes constantly evolved. A distinctive artistic personality emerged, concerned with colour, painterly drama, with both excess and control, with grandeur and above all, with the vehement communication of feeling. Hoyland's recent solo retrospective Doors of Perception: The Paintings of John Hoyland, was on view through at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia. Hoyland's work in included in many prestigious collections including the Royal Academy of Arts, UK; Tate, UK; Arts Council Collection, UK; Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA and Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT amongst many.

Anwar Jalal Shemza (b.1928 - d.1985) was born in Simla, India to Kashmiri and Punjabi parents. Shemza attended Mayo School of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, graduating in 1947. In 1956, already an established artist and writer in his homeland, he relocated to England to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. His diasporic perspective allowed him to explore modernism through the double prism of Islamic and Western aesthetics. Throughout his career, Shemza's visual vocabulary drew on an array of deeply studied and lived experience, from carpet patterns and calligraphic forms to the environments around him: Mughal architecture from Lahore and the rural landscapes of Stafford, England. His work was recently included in Tate Liverpool's Radical Landscapes as well as in Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965 at the Barbican Centre, London.

Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, Texas) studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, from 1958-61. Jaramillo lives and works in New York. Born in El Paso, Texas, Jaramillo spent her formative years in California before moving to Europe and settling in New York City in late 1960s. Central to a career spanning nearly six decades is Jaramillo's drive to express materially our sensory perceptions of space and time in what she describes as 'an aesthetic investigation which seeks to translate into visual terms the mental structural patterns we all superimpose on our world.' Whether creating bold abstract paintings, sculptural mixed media compositions or meticulously formed handmade paper works, Jaramillo has forged a unique voice, experimenting with material and process to pursue her ongoing explorations of human perception of reality. In 2023, Jaramillo's first museum retrospective Virginia Jaramillo: Principle of Equivalence was on view at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO, and in 2024, the exhibition will travel to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

Daniel LaRue Johnson (b. 1938, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2017, New York, USA) was a pioneering American artist known for his varied practice encompassing Hard Edge painting, Minimalist sculpture, and public works. Works from the 1970s mark a moment of transformation in Johnson's practice, moving away from hard-edged geometry and minimalist sculptures towards a purer exploration of colour. Johnson's work is in many prestigious public collections, including Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; California African American Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, NY.

Hew Locke RA OBE  (b. Edinburgh, UK, 1959) spent his formative years (1966-80) in Guyana before returning to the UK to complete an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1994) and was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 2022. Locke explores the languages of colonial and post-colonial power, how different cultures fashion their identities through visual symbols of authority, and how these representations are altered by the passage of time. These explorations have led Locke to a wide range of subject matters, imagery and media, assembling sources across time and space in his deeply layered artworks. In 2022/3, Locke's Duveen Galleries commission The Procession was on view at Tate Britain, London and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK. The artist's work Gilt, for the Met Museum Façade Commission was on view through May 2023 in NY, USA.

Kay WalkingStick  (b. 1935 Syracuse, NY) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, she has Cherokee/Anglo heritage. She received a BFA from Beaver College (now Arcadia University) Glenside, PA in 1959 and an MFA from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 1975. She lives and works in Pennsylvania. Over a career spanning six decades, WalkingStick's practice has focused on the American Landscape and its metaphorical significances to Native Americans and people across the world. WalkingStick draws on formal modernist painterly traditions as well as the Native American experience to create works that connect the immediacy of the physical world with the spiritual. Her solo show 'Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River' is currently on view at The New-York Historical Society, NY, USA. The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR and The New-York Historical Society, NY have recently acquired works by WalkingStick.