As always, Untitled Art helped kick off Miami Art Week this year, bringing work from roughly 175 exhibitors to a light-filled tent on the sands of Miami Beach.
Art lovers of all ages—seriously, I saw a three-week-old baby—seemed in good spirits at the VIP opening, especially if they could snag a seat at the fair’s Resy Lounge, with its complimentary food and drink served up by Los Angeles Italian restaurant Jon & Vinny’s.
Properly fueled—for once—for a busy week of art viewing, I am happy to share a few standout Untitled artists that caught my eye.
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It was a breakout moment at the fair for Ulla-Stina Wikander (b. 1957), a Swedish artist who has had minimal exposure in the U.S. apart from a single solo show, in 2018 at Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jane Lombard Gallery had sold out of 12 of her sculptures, consisting of found objects that she painstakingly encloses in traditional needlework.
The charmingly nostalgic works, which transformed binoculars, ballet slippers, a stovetop espresso pot, and other vintage household objects into surprisingly cozy objets d’art, were priced attractively at $1,000 to $6,000. (Don’t miss the cowboy boots decorated with Wikander’s take on the Last Supper.)
“They’ve been very popular. One went to a collector affiliated with an institution,” senior director Lisa Carlson told me, adding that the gallery is hoping to host a project from Wikander in the new year. “She studied sculpture but was interested in craft and wanted to combine the two, elevating needlepoint into something different, a sculptural art form.”
