Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 Highlights Curated Sections Featuring Historical and Emerging Artists

Art Basel Miami Beach 2018 featured three curated sections that unveiled new discoveries and addressed historical oversights. Survey presented 16 historical projects by artists from diverse cultures, generations, and approaches, including late paintings by David Park from Hackett Mill gallery, created before his death in 1960. Park, a founder of Bay Area Figuration, blended abstraction and figuration in works marked by innocence, simplified chromatic structures, and economical yet expressive brushstrokes. Positions focused on emerging artists with 14 ambitious projects, such as Tschabalala Self's dynamic installation at Thierry Goldberg, which recreated a bodega interior with a checkered floor and hand-drawn wallpaper to showcase her signature paintings. Self, previously in the New Museum's "Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" group show in 2017, explores race, gender, and sexuality through large canvases with fabric collages depicting black bodies in action. Nova highlighted solo or small group shows, including Tiffany Chung's work with Tyler Rollins gallery, where her woven maps and line drawings poetically and politically translate research on war, natural disasters, and migration. The event took place in Miami Beach, Florida, in December 2018, emphasizing artistic diversity and innovation.