Catalyst Contemporary

Last day !!! So grateful for the opportunity to attend on a Curatorial Award. Featuring two very deserving artists, and . Eternally grateful too for and her conversations with visitors and collectors. Here she and I are with our current favorites in booth C07. Me with Knots by Richard and she with Offering at Oapan by Inocencio. Sunshine and sand, tropical decadence and selfish indulgence… Oh Miami… when will we meet again. painting art

Richard Givens was inspired by the Op Art, Pop Art, and psychedelic movements at the end of the 1960s. An untrained artist, he worked as a mechanical draftsman in Baltimore. In his lunch breaks he made small format optical and geometric pencil drawings- hundreds of them for years. Color explosive work like that of inspired Givens to add color to his drawings. So starting in the mid 1970s, he painted almost 200 different works. An underserved artist, he couldn’t find representation in Baltimore and so by the turn of the following decade, stopped painting. Here we are over 40 years later with an explosion of interest in his work and validation

Here we go with and Booth C07 Opening VIP today and then all week through Sunday, 11am-8pm. On the sand at with and

Happy to announce our return to this December to attend Honored to be selected for a curatorial award featuring the paintings of and The stated theme this year is interdependence and the power of collaboration. Givens was an unrecognized artist of color from Baltimore who painted hundreds of geometric abstraction based works on paper in the mid and late 1970s. Chino is a corn farmer and self taught artist of Nahuatl decent, detailing the folklore and traditional rituals and ceremonies disappearing from contemporary life in southwest Mexico. Both painters engage viewers through rich pallets and unique ex*****on. Contact the gallery for inquiries. For tickets to Scope, see link in bio.

We are very excited to announce our participation in this year’s during week! Catalyst was selected for a Curatorial Award and will feature work by and This will be our third appearance in Miami during art week but will be our debut at The theme at this years fair is and is a perfect ideation to wrap together the fantastic portfolio of paintings from the late 1979s by Givens and the more recent depictions by Chino of the changing political and social structures of his home in Guerrero Mexico. paintings painter