Untitled, Art Miami Beach

29 November - 3 December 2022

Untitled, Art Miami Beach

Afifa Aleiby, Amy Beager, Lulu Bennett, Sara Berman, Jonny Briggs, Rebecca Brodskis, Tewodros Hagos, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, Tae Kim, Zemba Luzamba, Iryna Maksymova, Wawi Navarroza, Kelechi Nwaneri, Richard Stone, Rufai Zakari
Afifa Aleiby

Afifa Aleiby (b.1953) is an Iraqi artist who was born in the city of Basra, in the utmost southern part of Iraq. She took up her studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad while working as an illustrator for the Iraqi press, before leaving Iraq for the Soviet Union in 1974 to study and specialize in monumental art at the renowned Suikuv Institute in Moscow. Due to the political situation in Iraq, she was unable to return to her native country after the completion of her studies and decided to move to Italy and later back to Moscow, before settling in Yemen to work as a teacher at the Institute of Fine Arts in Aden, where she also illustrated children’s books and magazines. Aleiby has since been living and working in the Netherlands and continues to contribute to a great deal of cultural activities in support of the Iraqi and international democratic movement, in the struggle against terrorism, racism, war and dictatorship. Having not returned to her native country for 35 years, she has built a strong connection to every country she has lived in since leaving Iraq, both in a cultural and personal sense. Her connection to humanity and different cultures has led to solidarity transcending geographical and cultural borders becoming an important theme in her work. Bringing together different influences from Renaissance painting to religious icons and social realism, she uses the female figure as a recurring motif to reflect beauty, taste, politics and society.
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- Afifa Aleiby, The Messengers, 2022
- Afifa Aleiby, Orpheus Tragedy, 2022
Amy Beager

Amy Beager (b. 1988) lives and works from her studio in Chelmsford, UK. She obtained a National Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction) in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Nottingham Trent University in 2010. Amy’s painterly language has re-imagined figurative painting with her bold colour juxtapositions; figures rendered in a simultaneously classical yet modern style; and compositions, which are exquisitely romantic and poetic. Parallel to the joyous vivid colour palette and swathes of rich paint and brushwork, the figures often appear restless, fervent, and in a complex tension of ecstasy and anguish. Reminiscent of the dramatic poses of the divine saints from the Renaissance period, these figures hover between the classical and the contemporary. Amy's paintings both celebrate and explore the emotional intensity and intimacy of love.
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- Amy Beager, Moon, 2022
Lulu Bennett

Lulu Bennett (b. 1995) graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2017 and Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. Her painting practice draws together fragments and figures from across history to explore the intersection of personal and broader cultural histories. Through the exploration of the politics of the personal, Bennett’s project thus far is a reaction against a post-Brexit neo-colonial British government. Having grown up in Lancaster, Bennett also seeks to redress the lack of rich representation of the north in a London-centric artworld and situates her work as part of a contemporary revival of the northern Gothic.
Sara Berman

Sara Berman (b. 1975, UK) received a BA in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins in 1999 after which she founded and ran her eponymous fashion brand for 15 years. In 2016 Sara Berman graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art with a MFA in Painting. Berman’s background in fashion influenced her visual arts practice through the use of various textures, layers, mathematical geometry, pattern and materiality. In her work Berman examines how people see and define themselves through the relationships with their clothes, belongings and the spaces they occupy. The character in Sara Berman’s work is inspired by the trope of the female Harlequin in her ascribed role of the Trickster Whore. Through this character Berman explores space and the role of the feminine within it.
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- Sara Berman, Hidden, 2022
Jonny Briggs

Jonny Briggs (b. 1985, London) lives and works in London. In search of lost parts of his childhood, Briggs explores a reality outside of the one he was socialised into by creating new ones using himself and his parents as the main subjects. Briggs uses photography to explore his relationship with deception, the constructed reality of the family, and to question the boundaries between child/adult, self/other, nature/culture, real/fake in attempt to revive the unconditioned self, beyond the family bubble. Although easily assumed to be photoshopped or counterfeit, upon closer inspection the images are often seen to be more real than first expected. Involving staged installations, the cartoonesque and the performative, Briggs looks back to his younger self and attempts to recapture childhood nature through assuming adult eyes.
Rebecca Brodskis

Rebecca Brodskis (b. 1988 in France) lives and works in Paris. She spent most of her childhood travelling and living between France and Morocco. Brodskis studied painting at the Ateliers des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris and at Central St. Martins in London, graduating in 2010. In 2015, she also completed a Master’s degree in Sociology, focusing her research on the themes of vulnerabilities and social crisis. Exploring the borders of the sensible world, Brodskis’ work evolves between conscious and unconscious spaces, leading to a reflection on existence, the self and the otherness. A prominent idea throughout Brodski’s work is that of being in an in-between: intermediate space at the cross-roads of empirical reality and imagination, order and disorder, materialism and spirituality, determinism and freedom.
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- Rebecca Brodskis, Sahsin, 2022
Tewodros Hagos

Tewodros Hagos (b. 1974, Addis Ababa) graduated from Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design in 1995. Today, Hagos is considered to be one of the most promising artists of his generation. His works have been exhibited in Ethiopia, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the US. Hagos’ work is often inspired by contemporary journalistic imagery wherein he explores the many layers of social injustice experienced by migrants. At home in Ethopia, his paintings are witness to the profound transformation and evolution of Ethopia.
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Ruprecht von Kaufmann

Ruprecht von Kaufmann (b.1974, Munich, Germany) was educated at the Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA., As Dr Brigitte Hausmann, curator for the Art Program of the City of Berlin has written in her introduction to Leben zwischen den Stuhlen (Distanz, 2021), Von Kaufmann ‘ranks among the important contemporary positions in figurative painting’ . His forceful and emotional paintings are unsettling and purposefully so, since Von Kaufmann places great emphasis on storytelling, resulting in his figurative work being full of dark humour as well as dense melancholy. In his artworks, he captures moments that are deeply personal while also hinting at a universal experience.
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Tae Kim

Tae Kim (b. 1986) lives and works in Seoul, Korea. In 2010, Kim received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Oriental Painting from the Seoul National University where she later studied for her Master’s in the same discipline, graduating in 2013. In addition, in 2016 Kim graduated with a Master’s in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Kim explores online human connection as a deeper relationship than that of the flesh to flesh. Her art is inspired by the imaginations of players met in online battle games and their short mythic episodes. In this way, the resulting artworks investigate emotional experiences as well as mixed culture and history.
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- Tae Kim, crown, 2022
Zemba Luzamba

Zemba Luzamba (b. 1973) is an artist born and raised in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He moved to South Africa to pursue his career as an artist and this experience of migration has allowed him an intimate and sympathetic view of migrant communities which has informed many of his works over the past 15 years. A contemporary realist, Luzamba's paintings hover on the border of satire, at once appearing to mimic the colonial lifestyle of the post-colonial elites while simultaneously bringing it into question. Is this pure observation, aspiration or critique?
- Zemba Luzamba, Untitled, 2022
- Zemba Luzamba, Untitled, 2022
Iryna Maksymova

Iryna Maksymova, born in 1991 in Kolomyia, is a Ukrainian artist who explores subjects that touch her personally. The story line, colour contrasts and characters are so simple at first sight, but they reflect the deepest part of her inner feelings. Every work has a voice, a manifesto, it’s a call to action. Such as women silhouettes which are present in a lot of her works and are so powerful that they can convey both feminine and masculine characteristics. In the animals that she paints she wants to give them a voice which they don’t usually have. She wants to give voice to feminism, sexism, ecology, any cruelty towards people or animals. She questions why be silent if you’ve got something to say! Through her practice she seeks to influence people and to make them reflect not only on the visual part but also on the idea and concept that might motivate a change and to be changed.
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Wawi Navarroza

Wawi Navarroza (b.1979) is an Istanbul-based Filipina multidisciplinary artist known for her works in photography. Her images navigate self and surrounding in constructed tableaus and self-portraits, as well as landscape and installation. She is informed by tropicality within the dynamics of post-colonial dialogue, globalization, and the artist as a transnational agent. As a female artist, Southeast Asian and Filipino, her works transmute lived experience to the symbolic while probing materials and studio practice; exploring the hybridity of identity, photography and place. Navarroza is a graduate of Communications Arts at De La Salle University, Manila. Shortly after, she received continuing education at the International Center of Photography in New York City with a Fellowship Grant from the Asian Cultural Council. For a few years she has been based in Spain where she finished her Masters in Contemporary Photography (Master Europeo de Fotografía de Autor), a scholarship awarded by Instituto Europeo di Design in Madrid.
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- Wawi Navarroza, Mouth of Pearls: Oryental & Overseas (Self-Portrait), 2022
- Wawi Navarroza, The Weightlifter Orans: Auit at Gaua (Self-Portrait with Blue Ribbon), 2022
Kelechi Nwaneri

Kelechi Charles Nwaneri (b.1994, Nigeria) is a self-taught, mixed-media artist. He currently lives and works in Lagos state, Nigeria. Nwaneri obtained his Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Extension from the University of Nigeria in 2015. Nwaneri focuses on discussing issues around mental health, psychology and social values with his work. Inspired by the events occuring in his environment, he creates art with surrealistic imagery that is often allegorical, but also is based on real experiences. The use of indigenous symbols (including mainly Adinkra, Uli, Nsibidi) and sometimes foreign symbols, mystical, metaphysical and allegorical imagery are major characteristics of his style of work.
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- Kelechi Nwaneri, Portrait of Tony, 2022
Richard Stone

Richard Stone (b. 1974) is a London-based artist who received his MA from Central Saint Martins, London. Each of Stone’s works are an arrested moment between stillness and movement; together they form an idiosyncratic viewpoint on the history of art and human experience. Themes Stone returns to include the exploration of masculinity in historic sculpture from a contemporary perspective, through to a universal sensuality of form and colour in painting and an exposition of the tensions in dichotomies such as presence/absence and historic/contemporary. Recent sculptural works have included a series of marble flags that articulate the continued relevance of beauty in classical materials alongside works that draw on the symbolism of the horse. His recent sculptural paintings similarly oscillate between classical and contemporary concerns for form and colour, where each work possesses a specific sense of movement and is accented with a monochrome or intense colour hue that reflects a mood or suggests a sensation.
Rufai Zakari

Rufai Zakari (b.1990) is based between Accra and Bawku, Ghana. He completed his apprenticeship under Mozzay, a senior artist in Nima, Accra. In 2011, Rufai Zakari graduated from the Ghanatta College of Art and Design. In his work, Zakari examines consumerism, environmental pollution, labour, trade, and the perils of industrialization in contemporary Ghanian Society. The founder of Rujab Eco-Art Foundation in his hometown of Bawku, Zakari bases his practise on the recycling of waste in the streets of Ghana. After decades of tribal conflict which took countless lives and left the city in ruins, Zakari is now looking to the future with optimism and a strong ambition to rebuild what has been lost, while inspiring hope in his community.
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Untitled, Art Miami Beach

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Afifa Aleiby

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Amy Beager

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Lulu Bennett

Sara Berman

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Jonny Briggs

Rebecca Brodskis

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Tewodros Hagos

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Ruprecht von Kaufmann

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Tae Kim

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Zemba Luzamba

Iryna Maksymova

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Wawi Navarroza

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Kelechi Nwaneri

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Richard Stone

Rufai Zakari

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