CONTEXT: Art Miami

 MIAMI- Harman Projects is pleased to announce our participation in CONTEXT Art Miami. This will be the fourth year in a row the gallery exhibits in the Miami fair. Our booth will feature new and recent works by Mark Drew, Shepard Fairey, Alison Friend, Jeff Gillette, Miles Johnston, Travis Louie, Marie-Claude Marquis, Greg 'Craola' Simkins, Chuck Sperry and Ravi Zupa. 

Mark Drew is an Australian artist based in Tokyo since 2009. His narrative-based work takes on the format of a newspaper comic panel, replacing quotable rap lyrics as dialogue for his iconic pop culture subjects. A major figure of the contemporary street art movement, Shepard Fairey rose to prominence in the early 1990s with his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" campaign, which distributed posters, stickers, and murals featuring the eponymous wrestler. Fairey's iconic 2008 "Hope" campaign poster for President Barack Obama encapsulates a number of the artist's interests, including propaganda, portraiture, and politics. Also known for his activist and humanitarian concerns, he often creates artwork in order to promote awareness.  Alison Friend graduated from Nottingham Trent University in 1996 with a degree in Fine Art specialising in Printmaking. Her transition to oil painting, marked by her unique anthropomorphic portrayal of animals, has brought her widespread acclaim. Much of Jeff Gillette's art is a juxtaposition of the unreality of the so-called 'Happiest Place on Earth' and the gut-wrenching reality of the 'Heaviest Places on Earth': Third-World Slums, Mega-Landfills and Wastelands experienced in his world travels. Miles Johnston is known for surreal pencil drawing and paintings in which psychologically charged, dreamlike illustrations show faces and bodies that have been sliced, melted, and otherwise distorted to visually express the thoughts, fears, and emotions hidden inside the minds of their subjects. 

Travis Louie's paintings come from the drawings and writings in his journals. He creates an imaginary world that is grounded in Victorian and Edwardian times, and is inhabited by human oddities, mythical beings, and otherworldly characters. Marie-Claude Marquis is a  multidisciplinary artist whose practice touches upon visual arts, graphic design and installation. She finds inspiration in vintage objects, pop culture, nostalgia, contemporary feminist perspectives and her own emotions. With whip-smart typographical interventions, the result of her work is both humorous and irreverent. Greg 'Craola' Simkins' love for the animal world brings together unlikely camaraderies and conflicts from the landscape of his mind to the canvas. Deer with killer whales, puppies with crustacean pals, and birds sharing the air with rodents in his playfully ominous compositions informed by smooth, graffiti gradients and balanced layouts that draw the eye through story lines and vignettes. Chuck Sperry is a master printer and artist currently working and living between the San Francisco Bay Area and the South of France. For the past two decades, the artist has created hundreds of notable illustrations in his signature psychedelic style, during this time he has developed a cult following of art and music lovers alike and is one of the most preeminent gig poster artists working today. Self-taught, multidisciplinary artist Ravi Zupa looks to works by German Renaissance printmakers, Flemish primitives, abstract expressionists, Japanese woodblock artists, and Mughal painters for inspiration in his wildly inventive practice.

Please join us at Booth A11 at CONTEXT Art Miami, opening to the public on Tuesday December 02 and running through the weekend until Sunday, December 07. For more information, additional images, or exclusive content, email us at info@harmanprojects.com.