Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

Booth F15, 29 November – 3 December 2022
​hauserwirth.com from 30 November 2022

As its 30th anniversary comes to a close, Hauser & Wirth returns to Art Basel Miami Beach this year with an exceptional presentation of modern and contemporary artworks––a celebration of the gallery’s history and harbinger of its future––and the debut of the latest and largest print edition of its award-winning Ursula magazine with a beautiful portrait by Henry Taylor of fellow artist Sheree Hovsepian on the cover. The booth (F15) will feature new and recent works by great American artists, including Rita Ackermann, Mark Bradford, George Condo, Nicole Eisenman, Glenn Ligon and Henry Taylor, juxtaposed with historical masterworks by Louise Bourgeois, Luchita Hurtado and Jack Whitten, among others.

Visitors to the stand will also have a first look at a new work donated by Rita Ackermann, to be offered among masterworks in the gallery’s upcoming Art for Better Auction, launching 6 December at hauserwirth.com, with 100% of proceeds benefitting the humanitarian aid programs of UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Booth Highlights
​Among the outstanding contemporary works are ‘conflagration’ (2022), a major new painting by Los Angeles-based Mark Bradford; ‘Untitled’ (2022), a portrait of Michelle Obama by Henry Taylor, whose first West Coast museum retrospective, ‘B Side,’ is now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; ‘Sailor with Cig #3’ (2022) by Nicole Eisenman, whose first major survey exhibition opens at the Brandhorst Museum, in Munich, on 24 March 2023; ‘Dry Goods’ (2022) by Allison Katz, who joined the gallery in fall 2022; and ‘Mama, This Instant in Action’ (2022), the latest work from Rita Ackermann’s ongoing ‘Mama’ series. A centrepiece of the presentation will be Glenn Ligon’s ‘Untitled (America/Me)’ (2022), the most recent example of the artist’s signature merging of text and light in the service of his incisive, ongoing exploration America’s deepest dichotomies.

Historical masterpieces in the gallery’s booth include Louise Bourgeois’s ‘The Family,’ a suite of sixteen works on paper that mine themes central to the artist’s oeuvre, including familial relationships, sexuality, bodily experience, the unconscious and mortality; ‘Untitled’ (1974), a vibrant abstract oil painting by Luchita Hurtado, from the artist’s ‘Linear Language’ or ‘Word Puzzles’ series; and ‘Psychic Intersection III’ (1980) by Jack Whitten, an extraordinary example from an important, small series that further advanced the innovations Whitten achieved in his renowned ‘Greek Alphabet’ paintings (1975 – 1978). This remarkable work provides fairgoers a foretaste of the forthcoming exhibition ‘Jack Whitten: The Greek Alphabet Paintings,’ the first major show devoted to this series, opening at DIA: Beacon in New York on 18 November 2022, and on view through 10 July 2023.

For additional information, please contact:

Andrea Schwan, Andrea Schwan Inc., info@andreaschwan.com, +1 917 371 5023
​Christine McMonagle, Hauser & Wirth, christinemcmonagle@hauserwirth.com, +1 347 320 8596

Caption and courtesy information:

Glenn Ligon
​Untitled (America/Me)
​2022
​Neon and paint
​61 x 426.7 cm / 24 x 168 inches
​© Glenn Ligon
​Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London and Chantal Crousel, Paris
​Photo: Thomas Barratt

Mark Bradford
​conflagration
​2022
​Mixed media on canvas
​121.92 x 152.4 cm / 48 x 60 inches
​© Mark Bradford, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
​Photo: Joshua White / JWP Photos

Allison Katz
​Dry Goods
​2022
​Oil on canvas
​160 x 145 x 3.7 cm / 63 x 57 1/8 x 1 1/2 in
​© Allison Katz, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
​Photo: Damian Griffiths

Henry Taylor
​Untitled
​2020
​Acrylic on canvas, 2 parts
​Overall: 213.4 x 304.8 x 5.1 cm / 84 x 120 x 2 in
​Each: 213.4 x 152.4 x 5.1 cm / 84 x 60 x 2 in
​© Henry Taylor, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
​Photo: Fredrik Nilsen

Rita Ackermann
​Mama, This Instant in Action
​2022
​Oil and acrylic on canvas
​195.6 x 188 cm / 77 x 74 in
​© Rita Ackermann, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth ​
​Photo: Thomas Barratt

Luchita Hurtado
​Untitled
​1974
​Oil on canvas
​121.9 x 101.6 x 2.5 cm / 48 x 40 x 1 in
​© The Estate of Luchita Hurtado, Courtesy The Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Hauser & Wirth
​Photo: Jeff McLane

Jack Whitten
​Psychic Intersection III
​1980
​Acrylic on canvas with string
​106 x 107 x 5.1 cm / 41 3/4 x 42 1/8 x 2 in
​© Jack Whitten Estate, Courtesy the Estate and Hauser & Wirth Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer

Louise Bourgeois
​The Family
​2008
​Gouache on paper; suite of 16
​59.4 x 45.7 cm / 23 3/8 x 18 in
​© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY
​Photo: Christopher Burke