Certain works signal a moment. Others signal a legacy. Lita Albuquerque’s Untitled does both.
Debuting at Carousel Fine Art during Miami Art Week, the work anchors the gallery’s final Miami curation of 2025: a closing chapter defined not by spectacle, but by significance. To end the year with Albuquerque is a statement, a reflection of the gallery’s growth and vision.
For more than five decades, Albuquerque has shaped contemporary art through a practice that binds earth and sky, ancient memory, and future possibility. A central figure in both the Light & Space and Land Art movements, her work exists at the intersection of perception, science, and philosophy. The art world recognizes her not only for aesthetic power, but for cultural gravity. Few artists have altered how we understand space, both physical and metaphysical, as profoundly as she has.
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Untitled belongs to Albuquerque’s acclaimed Embodiment series, a body of work shown multiple times during Art Basel 2025 and currently on view at the Margulies Collection in Miami. Positioned within this broader institutional context, its presence at Carousel reflects both the relevance and continuity of her practice.
The artwork depicts an almost monochromatic black background interrupted by an organic swash of blue, surrounding a gold-leaf circle that, upon closer inspection, reveals itself to be concave. Standing before it, awareness shifts, not toward abstraction, but toward position. The gold leaf reflects light unevenly, offering no fixed image, only an evolving response to movement and proximity.
While Albuquerque is widely known for monumental installations across deserts, ice shelves, and ancient sites, Untitled distills that same cosmic sensibility into an intimate scale. Gold, in her hands, is never decorative; it is elemental, reflecting and absorbing light, creating a subtle tension between material presence and immaterial suggestion.
Experiencing Untitled at Carousel is intentionally intimate. What does it mean to encounter a piece in a quiet gallery setting, knowing it simultaneously exists within museum walls and major art-world contexts?
No crowds. No lines. No urgency. Just time. The kind of time that allows perception to unfold slowly, without instruction.
This final Miami curation also includes works by Hunt Slonem, Patrick Hughes, Randall Harrington, Eric Alfaro, Chance Cooper, and Beau Simmons; artists whose practices explore illusion, repetition, materiality, and perception through distinct approaches. Together, the presentation is a meditation on seeing and on slowing down, offering visitors a space to encounter works that demand attention without spectacle.
As Carousel Fine Art closes its Miami chapter for 2025, Untitled stands as both culmination and aspiration. Its presence is a reminder of the gallery’s growth, the vision we uphold, and the level of artistic legacy we aim to bring to our collectors.
Visitors are invited to experience Lita Albuquerque’s Untitled at Carousel Fine Art Miami, 151 NE 41st Street, or to arrange a private appointment for a focused viewing.