Art Basel OVR: Miami Beach 2020

Christina Forrer

Animated by an interest in fables and folklore, Christina Forrer’s vibrant weavings explore the depths of human emotion. While many of her works showcase dramatic moments of explosive conflict, the grouping presented here focuses on more private anxieties and internal tensions. These weavings and watercolors showcase Forrer’s signature representational style, featuring fantastical characters with cartoonish features rendered with a keen attention to boldness of color and richness of pattern.

Photo by Scott Rodd

Allison Katz

Allison Katz’s work engages with the complex and at times contradictory nature of contemporary artistic production, embracing the ambiguity of communication with a playful and inquiring touch that expands the conventional notion of an artist’s “signature style.” Katz’s work operates in a poetic space between mirror and mask, between revealing and concealing what is presented, calling attention to the multiple layers of consciousness that reside in a painting’s surface and subject.

Rachel Whiteread

Rachel Whiteread’s practice is defined by an ongoing investigation of domestic architecture and the traces of humanity impressed upon such sites. She casts the spaces inside and around objects and uses materials such as resin, rubber, concrete, and plaster to preserve each surface detail, creating sculptures that are faithful to their source molds, but also uncannily foreign in their inverse of the original object. In these two resin works windows become ephemeral ghosts of their former selves, animated by changes in light and the viewer’s position.

Photo by Anita Corbin