CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2024

Ken Kelleher is an American sculptor. He studied art at Alfred University under sculptors Glenn Zweygardt and William Parry. After college he worked at Hudson Studio, Fine Art Foundry in Niverville, NY where he did finishing work on cast bronze pieces by William Tucker and Anthony Caro, as well as other artists. Hudson Studio was in a shared space at the time with sculptor Jon Isherwood and is in close proximity to Triangle Workshop. Before becoming a Creative Director in Advertising he produced several series of large abstract sculptures, some of which were sold into private collections. Now twenty years later, Ken has returned to having a full time studio practice. He lives and works with his wife of 25 years at Rehoboth in NH.

Ken Kelleher has public works installed in Buffalo and Alfred NY, Doha, Qatar, China and one in production for Indonesia.

Throughout her career spanning over three decades, Caroline Dechamby has used art and history as a source of appropriation through which to develop her own niche, and place of resonance for her audience, within the largely male-dominated canon of painting. Dechamby’s paintings re-asses masterpieces by household names — among them Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Piet Mondrian, as her own, painting herself (either full-bodied or as silhouette) into the pieces in the act of creation.

In doing so, Dechamby symbolically and visually takes back the field from “the boys” reimagining art history in her own vision, and allowing for viewers, especially female viewers, to envision themselves too in the empowered position of creative genius in place of the artist’s painted avatar. 

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Chance Cooper, hailing from Los Angeles, is an emerging artist known for testing the morality of his observers with playful images and provocative plots. His work celebrates the sacred art of storytelling and each recurring visit to a piece suggests a new conversation, arousing endless narratives. Chance often guides his viewers to a fork in the road and allows them to discover their fate versus the painting. With the appearance of a fictional fantasy and personality inspired by real subjects, the skin of Chance's work is just a layer of what humans do so well of disguising - themselves.

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Cayla Birk emerges as a remarkable artist who blends together cultural influences into her unique style, characterized by blend of intellect and design, that invite viewers on a multi-layered journey with each creation.

Birk creates artworks that transcend boundaries, blending traditional acrylic paints with an array of distinctive materials. Her blend of unique mediums establish a style that is uniquely her own. A defining characteristic of Cayla's work is her signature approach of intricate designs, which pervade her entire portfolio. Her instantly recognizable gestures and marks are characterized by austere verbiage, shrouding works in a layer of complexity.

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BYĆ is a Swiss based artist with a reimagined vision of Street and Contemporary Art; moving from the street to the greatest museums, challenging social codes, challenging the world, sometimes mocking, often denouncing, and even admiring.

He aims to provoke; to make people think, mix, connect: people, times, styles, perceptions. For BYĆ, "to be" means to constantly seek, to say, to show, to share, as the painters he admires have done before him: whose works have described their worlds with tenderness, sometimes cruelty, and without complacency. 

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CONTEXT Art Miami is the sister fair to Art Miami and is dedicated to the development and reinforcement of emerging and mid-career artists.

Launched in 2012, CONTEXT Art Miami's open atmosphere creates a meaningful dialogue between artists, galleries and collectors while providing the ultimate platform for the presentation of mid-career, emergent and cutting-edge talent by emerging and established galleries.  

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