Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Galleries Section Booth C13 

PATRON is proud to announce our participation in Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 with a group presentation of program artists, featuring a mural installation commission by Chicago-based artist Caroline Kent. Kent’s intervention into the standard art fair architecture adapts her ongoing practice of painted “shadow shapes” and wooden relief elements into a dynamic engagement of new artworks by Kent and other artists. Alice Tippit, Greg Breda, Mika Horibuchi, Lucas Simões, all contributing new works to Kent’s installation, offer unique, and critical perspectives on color, painting, and form. The project illuminates Kent’s ongoing practice of engagement with architectural histories, specifically Mexican modernism, and the creation of imagined interiors. The mural here expands recent institutional presentations at El Museo del Barrio, the Queens Museum, and a public art commission at Chicago Union Station. 

PATRON’s curatorially-driven presentation enacts Kent’s concept of “practicing in public”— calling attention to how artists try on new ideas, forms, and material approaches in view of their peers, gallery, museums, and art fair audiences. Here, the delicate balance of creating through the process of risk, removal, and erasure (often only kept to the privacy of the studio) unfolds outward, including a chorus of practices, and holding space for unfixedness and creative play. Concurrently, the second half of the booth will be dedicated to a formal presentation of artists whose work develops from these elemental building blocks of creative practice. These concepts play out in a more extensive, interdisciplinary presentation of PATRON’s program, highlighting new works by Lindsay Adams, Bethany Collins, Jamal Cyrus, Dianna Frid, Samuel Levi Jones, Noé Martínez, Harold Mendez, Brittany Nelson, Kaveri Raina, Melanie Schiff, Soo Shin, Miao Wang, Carmen Winant, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Liat Yossifor.