Drawers, painters, sculptors, photographers, and visual artists alike gathered in Miami Beach on December 1, 2015
for the highly anticipated Art Basel to take place.
In 1970, visionaries, Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner, and Balz Hilt, created an international art fair, which
debuted in Miami in 2002. Since then, categories such as, Neue Tendenzen or “New Trends,” Young Galleries,
Art Video, photography, Unlimited, Nova, Kabinett, Ball of Artists, and Parcours have given a platform for varying
artists to showcase their work.
This past Art Basel included five noticeable trends that artists can expect to see carrying over into 2016. The
trends, according to ArtNet News, are as follows:
1. Pioneering Female Artists:
Female artists had a heavy presence at this years’ Art Basel. The Pace Gallery featured 18 monochromatic
sculptures from Louise Nevelson and artwork from the likes of Sarah Charlesworth, Barbara Kruger, Shirin
Neshat, Rosemarie Trockel, and Spruth Magers boasts impressive new work by Cindy Sherman.
2. Big Eyes:
Several large eye portraits were spotted at 2015’s Art Basel. The Warsaw-based Foksal gallery included work
from Piotr Uklanski and Tony Oursler, who displayed a video portrait with moving eyes and lips.
3. Shoes:
Walls of shoes and shoe sculptures were seen frequently this year. A small gold hued ceramic sculpture by Yayoi
Kusma at Victoria Miro and a mixed-media work containing hundreds of shoes by Hasaan Sharif at Alexander
Grey are among the most talked about.
4. Karl Lagerfield (Image Below):
The fashion designer’s major influence on the gallerists was prevalent at
the Los-Angeles booth with new screenprints by John Baldessari which
show respects to the German icon by utilizing bright colors.
5. Witty Words:
The final trend witnessed was word art. Word art was every where viewers
turned including word art from John Giorno, who created rainbow colored
words at Elizabeth Dee which read, “ I resigned myself to being here,”
Richard Prince, Mel Bochner, and Andrew Brischler, who utilized
purples, reds, and greens to display in all white letters, “Dreams.”
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