NADA Miami | Booth 7.10
Scott Alario
Florencia Escudero
Nadia Haji Omar
Bayne Peterson
Ice Palace Studios | Nov 30 - Dec 3
SCOTT ALARIO
Scott Alario, Flowers (Elska, Puff & Scott), 2022
Starting with digital photographs (and/or layers of multiple exposures), Alario has converted them to black-and-white, inverted their tonalities to become negative images, and then used a tablet to hand-color the photographs with digital “paint”. His chosen palette is decidedly bright and summery, full of pastels and crisp energy, and when laid atop the reversed images, the colors deliver a heightened sense of ethereal magic, like a dream taking place in an extra vivid fantasy world. -Loring Knoblauch, Collector Daily
Scott Alario received a MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2006. His work has been discussed in The New Yorker, American Photo, Collector Daily, Time Lightbox, and Vice.com, and is included in the collection of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, the Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, and the Soho House Art Collection, among others.
FLORENCIA ESCUDERO
Florencia Escudero, History of the Polka Dot, 2022
Her labors—some of which are traditionally associated with female domesticity—evoke personal gusto rather than solemn obligation. While stuffed and sewn fabric serves as the basis for these works, Escudero has also incorporated new technologies such as digital imaging, 3-D printing, and 3-D drawing. These mediums imbue her sculptures with a futuristic feel and enhance the impression of their having recently descended from another realm. -Susan Breyer, The Brooklyn Rail
Florencia Escudero's sculptures include soft and handmade components printed with digitally-rendered imagery. Feminist theory, cyber culture, and an embrace of various techniques such as digital photo collage, hand sewing, and silk-screening place each sculpture in the realm of both the machine-made and the handmade. As the artist notes, "When making these pieces I am thinking about the history of feminist art that looks at the objectification of women's bodies. I want to flip the expectation and look at how objects become human." Escudero received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale University School of Art in 2012 and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail and Cultured Magazine. Her work is currently on view in ‘52 Artists: A Feminist Milestone’ at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
NADIA HAJI OMAR
Nadia Haji Omar, B, 2022
The tension between the fields of dots and the different configurations constantly tugged at my attention, pulling it in different directions — from the single marks to the larger groupings. I kept staring at the paintings and getting lost in them. -John Yau, Hyperallergic
Nadia Haji Omar’s intricate paintings are included in the collections of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, the Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO, Art in Embassies, US Department of State, Permanent Collection, US Embassy, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and the Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA among others. She received a MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 and a BA from Bard College. Her exhibitions have been reviewed by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine/Vulture, and by John Yau in Hyperallergic.
BAYNE PETERSON
Bayne Peterson, Mirage, 2022
Peterson’s sculptures are mesmerizing. Carving them from dyed plywood, and hewing them into soft, sinuous forms, the artist reveals psychedelic grains in the wood that, when joined seamlessly with other colors and patterning, develop deliciously trippy environments. -Amanda Gluibizzi, The Brooklyn Rail
Bayne Peterson's sculptures feature fluid forms and complex optical patterning. Historical precedents such as biomorphic abstraction, Modernism, and various craft traditions inform his works. His works have been exhibited at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Arts and Design, Toyama, Japan, and the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, among other venues. Collections include the Museum of Arts and Design, NY, the RISD Museum, Providence, RI, and the Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO, among others. His recent solo exhibition, ‘Mirage,’ at Kristen Lorello, was reviewed by Amanda Gluibizzi in the November 2022 issue of The Brooklyn Rail.