Superfine! The Fairest Fair Brings Fresh Art + Conversation to Miami Art Week

 

On December 1, Superfine! The Fairest Fair will launch the second edition of its locally rooted, globally influenced affordable art fair with a new home in Midtown Miami. Superfine! brings together over forty international exhibitors, making its home in the CrossFit Wynwood gym directly across from the highly trafficked Art Miami tent complex. Providing affordably-priced exhibition space allows the Superfine! exhibitor base to span both artists and galleries/curatorial collectives from Miami and locales around the world. The fair’s organizers, Alex Mitow and James Miille, maintain a high curatorial standard focused on artwork at the intersection of thematically challenging and accessible to a collector base that may or may not be well-versed in contemporary art. The fair enforces a mandate that all artwork submitted to the fair must be priced below $10,000, with over 70% of the available work priced below $4,000 in an effort to create a more inclusive art market.

Aside from its commitment to providing a more affordable alternative for both exhibitors and collectors, what sets Superfine! apart is the strength and depth of its programming and partnerships. Family owned Little Haiti-based Naomi’s Garden Restaurant and Lounge will set up shop and serve its signature jerk chicken and classic Kreyol cuisine out of a pop-up kitchen in a rear garden dominated by a technicolor picnic installation by local duo Nice’N Easy. The Vagabond Hotel’s pool bar will also provide a concise sampling of their MiMo cocktail menu out of a customized bar adjacent to an installation by audio visual artist Jen Clay inside of a ’74 Shasta trailer named Squatter Mobile Art Gallery. The retro + astro-turfed rear garden along with its nightly music series will be presented by Beck’s Brewery through its Urban Canvas initiative. Beck’s central on-site activation space will feature a raised glowing platform where Pennsylvania-based pyrography artist Alex Kuhn will create work live throughout the nightly events, etching animalistic figures into hardwood planks with his signature blowtorch.

The rear garden will also play host to programming designed to drill home the fair’s primary message of bringing high-quality affordably-priced artwork to the community at large, with a discussion panel entitled “Sorry, I’m Not a Collector” (Saturday 12.3) and a Young Collectors’ Ice Cream Social (Friday 12.2), both aimed at breaking down distinctions between art collectors and non-collectors. The fair also maintains a strong LGBTQ focus and will host a Saturday evening reception for Miami’s queer community. Dubbed arTEA @ Superfine! the evening event will feature a DJ set by Lady Miss Kier of the band Deee-Lite along with a live performance art piece by NYC-based queer artist Gio Black Peter. Black Peter will also weigh in on a discussion panel, along with local artist Jean-Paul Mallozzi, entitled “An Artist Who Happens to Be (Queer)”, addressing challenges faced by queer artists in today’s world.

Superfine! The Fairest Fair takes place from Thursday, December 1 through Sunday December 4 at 56 NE 29th Street in Midtown Miami.