Hall 2.1 Booth C15
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of Art Basel in both the galleries and Unlimited sections. This presentation will mark the debut of Interference #8, a work by the groundbreaking conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas, who is now represented by the gallery, together with recent works from artists in the program including Ghada Amer, Sanford Biggers, Svenja Deininger, Suzanne McClelland, and others. In the Unlimited section, Marianne Boesky Gallery will present a monumental historic work by Pier Paolo Calzolari.
On view in the Galleries sector are works by Sanford Biggers, Ghada Amer, and Suzanne McClelland. Biggers's marble bust, The Cantor (2021), reflects the artist's engagement with hybridized forms that transpose, combine, and juxtapose classical and historical subjects to build alternative meanings, while Ghada Amer's large-scale painting Black Nympheas-RFGA (2021) exemplifies her distinctive use of embroidery on canvas. Suzanne McClelland's 2016 installation Runners Up, conceived around the time "stop and frisk laws" were deemed unconstitutional in New York, examines the ways in which body language is socially interpreted –– and ultimately misconstrued. This attention to the obfuscation of images pervades much of McClelland's work, including her abstract paintings, also on view.