The full title of this article by the Artnet Gallery Network is “7 Questions for Gallerist David Nolan on Curating a Dynamic, Seductive Booth at Art Basel Miami Beach.” The New York-based gallery returns to the international fair “with a diverse range of art and artists.” Included in this group of artists is David Hartt, whose research-based work includes a series of interventions (following Hurricane María) on Habitat Puerto Rico, a housing development initially designed by Moshe Safdie, exploring the site “not as the development it was intended to be but as what it became;” as well as his present work at Art Basel, a study of painter Frederic Edwin Church and his explorations of the flora and fauna of Jamaica in the mid-19th century.
Here are excerpts from the interview with Davin Nolan:
Founded in 1987, New York-based David Nolan Gallery has garnered an international reputation for featuring a diverse roster of artists and maintaining a rigorous, thought-provoking exhibition program. Right now, the gallery is showing two dynamic solo exhibitions: “Vian Sora: End of Hostilities” and “Steve Dibenedetto: Uncertainty Takes A Holiday,” both on view through December 9. Later next month, the gallery will present “David Artschwager: Boxed In,” a historic occasion to mark the artist’s centennial—an apropos venue for the commemoration, as the gallery first showed Artschwager’s work in 1993.
A perennial favorite exhibitor at international art fairs, David Nolan Gallery will once again be participating in Art Basel Miami Beach this year, showing a diverse range of art and artists. Ahead of the fair, we reached out to the veteran art dealer to get insight on what will be on view, and how he approaches each individual presentation.
Can you tell us about what the gallery is planning to show at Art Basel Miami this year?
This year, David Nolan Gallery celebrates a large group of artists with widely varying global perspectives.
A new woven tapestry by Canadian David Hartt is dedicated to Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church and his explorations of the flora and fauna of Jamaica in the mid-19th century, a period when America and other world powers encroached upon and radically altered that foreign territory. Hartt’s lush and beautiful imagery belies his sharp political, social, and economic critique of the lasting effects of imperialism and slavery.
Two explosive paintings by Vian Sora, a recent immigrant from war-torn Iraq, demonstrate the artist’s unique vocabulary of gestural abstraction through her deft handling of form and singular application of color.
New sculptures by American Chakaia Booker testify to the artist’s groundbreaking use of recycled rubber tires as a raw material for making abstract sculpture. A delicate grace balances the power of Booker’s sculptures, which also evoke political and social aspects, from the patterns of the tires alluding to African scarification, to the exploitation tied to the collection of rubber, and the history of African American workers’ low wages in the automobile industry.
In anticipation of our gallery exhibition, “Fort Marion and Beyond: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings, 1870–1910” (January 27–March 2, 2024), we’ll show two drawings by Cheyenne and Kiowa warrior artists Nokkoistand (Bear’s Heart) and Ohettoint. Made during their 1875–1878 incarceration at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, at the very beginning of the cultural assimilation efforts that shaped U.S. policies for almost one and a half centuries, these masterworks have enormous historical significance. [. . .]
For full interview, see https://news.artnet.com/art-world/7-questions-david-nolan-2401151
For more on David Hartt, see https://davidhartt.net/David-Hartt-Studio, https://archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/interview-david-hartt-black-space-reconstructions-moma, and https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/moshe-safdie-habitat-puerto-rico/
[Image above: David Hartt, The Histories (after Church), version with xenoformed atmosphere / Rayleigh scattering spectrum shift (2022). © David Hartt. Courtesy of David Nolan Gallery, New York.]
The full title of this article by the Artnet Gallery Network is “7 Questions for Gallerist David Nolan on Curating a Dynamic, Seductive Booth at Art Basel Miami Beach.” The New York-based gallery returns to the international fair “with a diverse range of art and artists.” Included in this group of artists is David Hartt,
