Art Basel Miami Beach

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Art Basel Miami Beach 

December 4 – 8, 2023

Rachel Uffner Gallery, Booth H-32

Miami Beach Convention Center

1901 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Marking the gallery’s inaugural presentation in the Galleries sector of Art Basel Miami Beach, Rachel Uffner Gallery is pleased to present works bykey artists from its program. Featured artists include Strauss Bourque La-France, Anne Buckwalter, Bernadette Despujols, Hilary Harnischfeger, Sheree Hovsepian, Sacha Ingber, Arghavan Khosravi, Anya Kielar, Talia Levitt, Pam Lins, Reginald Madison, Sofía del Mar Collins, Elbert Joseph Perez, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Anna Jung Seo, and Roger White.

Highlights include a new large painting by Bernadette Despujols (b. 1986, Barquisimeto, Venezuela), whose tactile, intimate portraiture draws from her Latin American roots. Working from candid photographs she informally takes of her Venezuelan-American family, she builds upon memories and art historical references to create rich and complex compositions that investigate her fractured, bi-continental personal history. 

Also on view is The Flight by Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984, Shahr-e-kord, Iran), which was  exhibited at the National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia earlier this year. Khosravi’s elaborate, intricate sculptures draw from a variety of rich cultural sources, including Persian miniatures and Bernini marbles, to represent how women exert their strength and agency in unsettling conditions.

The gallery also exhibits a new painting by Talia Levitt (b. 1989, Brooklyn, NY), who creates meticulous canvases using trompe-l'oeil techniques and drawing from her Jewish Eastern European heritage. Painted embroidery of self portraits and studio scenes atop patterned designs and Dutch still lifes simultaneously create a meta narrative about painting and complicate the reality of what the viewer is seeing and observing.

Other highlights include a new shadowbox by Sheree Hovsepian (b. 1974, Isfahan, Iran). The artist takes photographs of her sister – a stand-in for Hovsepian herself – and uses string, ceramic, wood, and other found objects to create quasi-cartographic compositions. Hovsepian’s monograph with JRP Editions will be released in early 2025.

Elsewhere, Curtis Talwst Santiago (b. 1979, Edmonton, Alberta) exhibits three dioramas from his Infinity Series. These scrupulously constructed scenes explore themes of identity and migration and are housed inside tiny, repurposed jewelry boxes. His solo exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art will open in early 2026. 

Finally, also on display is a new painting by Anne Buckwalter (b. 1987, Lancaster, PA), who draws upon the enduring influence of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art to depict femininity and sexuality in interiors spaces. In her new works, Buckwalter’s interest in quilting inspired geometric, doll-house like compositions, finding more hiding places for erotica in a tongue-in-cheek conversation of desire and domesticity. Buckwalter’s solo exhibition at the Farnsworth Museum of Art opens in winter 2025.