A great group of Chicago-based galleries
Document, Gray, moniquemeloche, Patron (Galleries)

Chicago arrives in Miami to remind why the Midwest remains one of America’s most quietly radical creative engines. In the main sector, the Chicago-based galleries Document, Gray, moniquemeloche, and Patron reveal a shared sensibility: artists from the US who experiment with material form, draw on lived experience, fusing image and object.

At Document, Julien Creuzet and Erin Jane Nelson create hybrid sculptural ecologies, while Paul Mpagi Sepuya expands photography into new spatial dimensions. At Gray, a focused Kabinett presentation of Roger Brown is shown alongside works by McArthur Binion and Torkwase Dyson, extending the surreal wit and formal experimentation rooted in Chicago’s artistic lineage. moniquemeloche will show Ebony G. Patterson, Candida Alvarez, and Cheryl Pope, whose practices challenge social and formal conventions. Patron highlights Harold Mendez, Charisse Pearlina Weston, and Bethany Collins, each approaching abstraction through research, memory, and material inquiry. Together, these galleries reflect a city where rigor and imagination converge. A.R.

Aleksandra Waliszewska
Galeria Dawid Radziszewski (Positions)

Dawid Radziszewski presents a new series by Aleksandra Waliszewska entirely centered on cats. These felines however are anything but cute and docile: they becomes strange presences, at times gentle, other times unsettling, or joyful, or anxious. In her paintings, these cats stand out against intensely saturated colors – acidic yellows, deep reds, vibrant greens – that give each scene an almost supernatural atmosphere. These fantastic creatures, inspired by Eastern European tales and folklore, observe, watch, protect, or threaten. Yet their eyes, both curious and mischievous, seem to reflect genuine human emotions. Unlike Western Surrealism, which draws on the fantastical world of dreams, Waliszewska constructs her paintings consciously, giving each detail a precise meaning. Y.S.

‘Myungmi Lee: A game to encounter the stars, even in the desert’
Wooson (Survey)

For over fifty years, ‘game’ has defined Myungmi Lee’s vibrant practice. Against bold primary-colour grounds, she playfully extracts shapes and hues from everyday joys – flowers, potted plants, puppies – turning observation into visual play.

In the Survey sector, she will be presenting ‘A game to encounter the stars, even in the desert’. Now in her 70s, having faced cancer and profound personal loss, her exuberant strokes remain, yet venture further – into the desert – with unyielding joy. In these works, ideas flow freely across the canvas, scatter, until no longer clinging, then alight and finish in the painting. A.S.

‘Etel Adnan: Lines of Sight’
Galerie Lelong (Kabinett)

In the Kabinett sector, Galerie Lelong highlights a rare suite of drawings by the legendary late Lebanon-born artist Etel Adnan. Made in the 1960s while Adnan was teaching philosophy in Northern California, these luminous works on paper represent a time in which she began developing her compelling visual language, and, as the artist once claimed, ’painting in Arabic.’ Often in soft, gradient hues and rendered in ink, watercolor, pastel, and gouache, the drawings are meditative, poetic early examples of the artist’s mark-making, incorporating notions of language and landscape, identity and the geopolitics of place. K.B.

Mary Bauermeister
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (Kabinett)

Mary Bauermeister (1934–2023) was a multidisciplinary Fluxus precursor whose artworks explored natural phenomena, cosmologies, and perception through a mixed media approach. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery's Kabinett 2025 presents a newly discovered series of 1950s works on paper - casein tempera and watercolor on paper, and pastel on laid paper. Created while she studied with artist, architect, and designer Max Bill at the Ulm School of Design, and with photographer Otto Steinert in Saarbrücken, Germany, these psychedelic abstractions feature swirling motifs and jewel-toned washes that suggest celestial bodies and organic structures. Completing the presentation, the gallery will also feature a vitrine with historical material, including sketches and private photographs of the artist, within the booth. P.S.

Conversations: Sports Day
Thursday, December 4

One of the things I love most about art, is that it's endlessly opened up new worlds to me, and this Conversations program is a case in point. For the first time ever, it will feature a special day examining the convergence of art and sports with speakers from both fields — including two-time Super Bowl champion Malcolm Jenkins and New Zealand women's national football team captain Ali Riley. Together with artists like Tavares Strachan and Suzanne Lacy, they’ll unpack why this phenomenon is happening now, and what’s at stake for culture writ large. This edition promises to be a true landmark for our flagship talks program — and, as always, tickets are free. Don’t miss out! C.M.