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Miami, FL – November 25, 2024 – For the 2024 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present recent works by Karla Knight and Esther Pearl Watson, as well as two hallmark paintings by Joe Coleman, selections from the estates of Beverly Buchanan, Paulina Peavy, and Abraham Lincoln Walker, and an assemblage by Thornton Dial. The gallery will also debut new ceramics by Venezuelan artist Samuel Sarmiento.
For the first time, the gallery will participate in the fair’s Kabinett sector with a presentation of elaborate miniature embroideries by Ray Materson. While incarcerated for drug-related offenses from 1987 to 1995, Materson began using unraveled sock threads to create intricate, index card–sized narratives that range from family mementos to dark scenes loaded with political overtones.
The centerpiece of the gallery’s booth in the main fair will be Joe Coleman’s towering 2015 painting Doorway to Whitney, an intricate, larger-than-life-size ode to his wife and muse, Whitney Ward. It took Coleman more than seven years to execute the work using his trademark one-bristle paintbrush. More modest in scale—but no less powerful—is Coleman’s 2021 portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, which incorporates materials sourced from the late author’s estate.
Also on view will be Paulina Peavy’s haunting, untitled 6 by 4 foot oil abstraction, layered with translucent bands of color that was previously exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939; a late untitled work, circa 1960, by Henry Darger that features images of the artist’s Vivian girls collaged with newspaper clippings of comedian Red Skelton and the Beatles; and Karla Knight’s geometric works on linen, communiqués to unknown forces replete with messages in her own language of invented characters and symbols.
The booth will feature a large scale abstract painting from 1979 by Beverly Buchanan as well as several of her signature “shacks.” While Buchanan’s shacks are usually small in scale, Bailey Lyles’ House (1991) is 5 feet high, one of her largest ever. Thornton Dial’s mixed-media assemblage Jim Walter Number Four (2011) references the Brookwood Mine Disaster, a cave-in at the Jim Walter Resources No. 5 coal mine in Brookwood, Alabama.
The gallery will present a 2015 nighttime landscape by Esther Pearl Watson; her UFO-occupied paintings are currently featured in a solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York space. Several jewel-toned oil works by Abraham Lincoln Walker, a self-taught Black artist from East St. Louis whose visionary abstract paintings from the 1970s and early 1980s debuted this October in the gallery’s sold-out booth at ADAA: The Art Show will also be on view.
Last, the gallery is pleased to debut two works by Venezuelan artist Samuel Sarmiento, whose intricate ceramics evoke Caribbean and South American oral traditions.
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About Andrew Edlin Gallery
Established in 2001, Andrew Edlin Gallery gained early recognition exhibiting the works of both emerging and seminal self-taught American artists, and European art brut masters. In 2006, the gallery was awarded exclusive representation of the Henry Darger Estate.
In subsequent years, AEG has championed significant yet under-recognized artists from the 20th and 21st centuries and has steadily produced critically acclaimed exhibitions featuring the works of both trained and untrained artists, including Thornton Dial, Ralph Fasanella (estate), Eugene Von Bruenchenhein (estate), Marcel Storr (estate), Beverly Buchanan (estate), Paulina Peavy (estate), Spain Rodriguez (estate), Joe Coleman, Tom Duncan, Karla Knight, Terence Koh, Dan Miller, Esther Pearl Watson, Melvin Way, George Widener and Domenico Zindato. Committed to documentation and research, AEG has produced publications for Darger, Dial, Duncan, Fasanella, Von Bruenchenhein, Storr, Knight, Peavy, and Zindato, and is in the midst of a major monograph project for Buchanan.
AEG has participated in Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Basel Paris, the Armory Show, Frieze (NY and LA), FIAC, Art Brussels, The Art Show (ADAA), Independent and the Outsider Art Fair, among other art fairs. The gallery is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America.
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