CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2024

  • YOUR VIRTUAL PREVIEW

    Visit Us on Dec 2nd at Booth # B3
  • Ahead of CONTEXT Art Miami 2024, we invite guests to preview a curated selection from our fair booth.

     

    Carousel Fine Art presents the raw talent of six emerging contemporary stars: Ken Kelleher, Onemizer, Chance Cooper, Caroline Dechamby, and BYC. Through a curation of different mediums, including life size sculptures and oil on canvas, our 2024 art booth re-defines the sphere of contemporary art. 

     

    Expect a colorful curation that highlights the new direction of contemporary art: the importance of street art, continuing evolution of pop art, phenomenon of shock art, and a democratization of classic art. 

  • KEN KELLEHER

  • LIFE-SIZE "GHOST MAWSE" sculptures unveiled AT CONTEXT 2024

  • Ken Kelleher’s "Ghost Mawse" Collection

    About "Ghost Mawse"

    With the "Ghost Mawse" sculptural series, Kelleher presents a narrative of undead ghost heroes. Through the form of spectral beings, Kelleher ensures each haunting detail, emphasizing the ethereal, yet slightly worn aspects of their ghostly forms.

     

    The "Ghost Mawse" Collection has been isntalled in various landscapes, symbolizing their timeless journey between worlds. This December, they arrive in Miami, Florida at CONTEXT Art Miami 2024. These massive, life-size, installations will ‘drift’ through the art fair’s booth presented by Carousel Fine Art. 

  • MEET THE ARTIST

    Who is Ken Kelleher?

    Who is Ken Kelleher?

    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.

  • Join the Process

  • CAROLINE DECHAMBY

  • Artwork Preview

  • MEET THE ARTIST

    Who is Caroline Dechamby?

    Who is Caroline Dechamby?

    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

  • Artwork Preview

    • Chance Cooper, Chris, 2024

      Chance Cooper

      Chris, 2024
      Acrylic on canvas
      30 x 30 in
      76.2 x 76.2 cm
    • Chance Cooper, Lisa, 2024

      Chance Cooper

      Lisa, 2024
      Acrylic on canvas
      30 x 30 in
      76.2 x 76.2 cm
    • Chance Cooper, Mike, 2024

      Chance Cooper

      Mike, 2024
      Acrylic on canvas
      30 x 30 in
      76.2 x 76.2 cm
    • Chance Cooper, Tony, 2024

      Chance Cooper

      Tony, 2024
      Acrylic on canvas
      30 x 30 in
      76.2 x 76.2 cm
  • MEET THE ARTIST

    Who is Chance Cooper?

    Who is Chance Cooper?

    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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  • Chance Cooper Expands on his "Crowd" Concept

    For CONTEXT 2024, Chance Cooper expands on his "Crowd" concept. Exploring different scenes of togetherness, Chance Cooper's "Crowd" concept forges connections between the individual and the collective. Through a unique artistic style in which Cooper minimizes figural forms to simple black outlines, Chance Cooper singles out a main cast by coloring them in a vibrant color palate.

     

    Each thematic painting yields relatability that viewers may attach themselves to. From sporting events to carnivals, fashion shows to movie sets, first days at the office to heated chaos of a restaurant kitchen— there is a commentary waiting to unfold.

  • CAYLA BIRK

  • Take the Lot, By Cayla Birk

    Take the Lot

    By Cayla Birk

    This series depicts Lotería cards, a Mexican bingo-like game, stemming from the popular Tarot game that has pervaded most parts of the world since the early 15th century.

     

    Through historical diaspora, the people of Mexico also adopted their own version of the gambling game: with the cards being used as the “call numbers” found on differing “tablas” held by each player - quite similar to bingo. Lotería in Spanish translates to lottery meaning it is a game of chance/luck.

     

    With this context in mind, the body of work boasts objects that are not so easily earned. The juxtaposition of a lottery versus the monetary success needed to acquire such high-end assets is prevalent throughout the series.

    In essence, you don’t accept the fate of luck, but instead make your own - you take the lot.

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  • Cayla Birk Preview

  • MEET THE ARTIST

    Who is Cayla Birk?

    Who is Cayla Birk?

    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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  • BYC

  • MEET THE ARTIST

    Who is BYC?

    Who is BYC?

    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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  • PRACTICAL INFORMATION FOR CONTEXT ART MIAMI 2024

  • Learn About Context Art Miami

    CFA Art Miami Booth # B3
    Outside of Context Art Miami, art fair in Miami.

    What is Context Art Miami?

    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.  

     

    visit context art miami website

     

    CFA CONTEXT ART MIAMI BOOTH #B3

  • Location The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion One Herald Plaza @ NE 14th Street | Downtown Miami On Biscayne Bay between...

    Location

    The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion

    One Herald Plaza @ NE 14th Street | Downtown Miami
    On Biscayne Bay between the Venetian & MacArthur Causeways

     

    FAIR HOURS

    Platinum VIP

    Tuesday, December 3 | 11am - 1pm

    By Invitation Only - Access for CONTEXT and Art Miami Platinum VIP Passholders & Press

     

    VIP Preview

    Tuesday, December 3 | 1pm - 4pm

     

    General Admission

    Tuesday, December 3
    4pm - 9pm
    Wednesday, December 4
    11am - 7pm
    Thursday, December 5
    11am - 7pm
    Friday, December 6
    11am - 7pm
    Saturday, December 7
    11am - 7pm
    Sunday, December 8
    11am - 6pm