Art Basel Miami Beach: Booth E8

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 | Booth E8
Preview (invitation-only): December 3–4, 2025
Public Days: December 5–7, 2025
Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Florida 33139

Alexander Gray Associates presents works by Kamrooz Aram, Ricardo Brey, Bethany Collins, Luis Camnitzer, Steve Locke, Donald Moffett, Carrie Moyer, Ronny Quevedo, Joan Semmel, Ruby Sky Stiler, Hugh Steers, and Jack Whitten. These twelve artists reconsider how images and forms shape experience and memory. Across figuration and abstraction, they explore how meaning is built, inherited, and reimagined.

Joan Semmel anchors the presentation ahead of her major exhibition, Joan Semmel: In the Flesh, which opens at the Jewish Museum this December. In Statuesque (2025) and Double Exposure (1988), Semmel advances a feminist understanding of the body rooted in lived experience rather than idealization. Statuesque uses vivid color and decisive brushwork to affirm presence and vitality, while Double Exposure layers vantage points to challenge conventional ideals of beauty and representation. For more than five decades, Semmel has centered the female body as a site of self-determination, sustaining a practice that reclaims looking as an act of agency.

Kamrooz Aram and Carrie Moyer approach abstraction as a space of cultural exchange and invention. Aram’s paintings bring non-Western ornamental traditions into direct dialogue with Western abstraction, making visible the conceptual sophistication and cultural depth they hold. In Moyer’s Planetary Junket, poured glazes, crisp silhouettes, and sweeping curves balance intention and ease; saturated color and transparency gather into a composition that is playful, precise, and alive to the pleasure of looking.

Bethany Collins and Ronny Quevedo consider how the past persists in the present. Collins works with language as a repository of memory, showing how inherited words shape what we know and how we live. Through erasure and repetition, she collapses the distance between past and now, revealing the endurance of American history—its ideals and its wounds—in the conditions of our current moment. Quevedo brings biography into abstraction, drawing from Andean textiles, sporting diagrams, and sewing patterns. His compositions map paths shaped by migration and collective experience, suggesting identity as layered, mobile, and continually coalescing.

Together, these artists reveal how form can carry memory, how gesture can speak to lineage, and how material can hold the traces of lived experience. Their works open space for reflection and possibility, demonstrating art’s power to reimagine how we see, remember, and belong.