12/02/2024
**NADA Miami**
VIP Preview | December 3, 2024
General Admission | December 3 - 7, 2024
Ice Palace Film Studios 1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
David B. Smith Gallery is proud to announce its participation in NADA Miami with a solo booth featuring Denver-based artist Susan Wick. Tapping into Wick’s artistic legacy spanning over 50 years, the gallery will present an immersive booth installed as a transposed version of the artist’s home studio, with the 87-year-old artist present and active during the fair. The NADA Miami recreation of Wick’s home studio will be a vibrant wall-to-wall experience, ambitiously rendered to bring Wick’s unique domestic sensibility to an international audience.
The symbols Wick employs in her oeuvre are a rich blend of the mundane and the extraordinary, with recurring motifs such as travel, domesticity, nature, and mortality and loss. Among characters and objects such as divers, creatures, philosopher stones, floral still lifes, imaginative furnishings, mountains, and various means of transport, figures populate unrealities as either humans or birds. Wick’s fluid vocabulary of forms allows for a dynamic interplay of allegory and abstraction, with the ability to slide along the spectrum of becoming between the immaterial and recognizable.
Susan Wick (b. 1938, Madison, Wisconsin) is an artist living and working in Denver, CO. As part of the 1970’s San Francisco based performance collective Baker/Rapoport/Wick, she exhibited at the California State University, Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, Museé Des Beaux Arts, Laussane, Switzerland and the Bologna Biennial among others.
As a solo artist she had a one-person exhibition at the DeSaisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, California (1981), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2006), and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2015).
