A Very Young Rising-Star Painter Gets a Spotlight During Art Basel Miami Beach

You can go to Art Basel Miami to buy something expensive made by someone famous—or you can go to Miami to discover something new. Since the fair arrived in 2002, a number of artists have seen their stratospheric rise start in the Magic City, then have taken that momentum to New York, LA, or Europe. I’m thinking about how at the first Art Basel Miami Beach, a young Mark Bradford set up a pop-up of his mother’s hair salon in the Lombard Freid Fine Arts booth, and only charged for tips—in 2022, Hauser & Wirth sold a Bradford painting for $2.5 million. I’m thinking about how, in 2014, Alma Allen was showing works at the NADA fair at the Deauville—and now he’s representing the US at the Venice Biennale. I’m thinking about how, at NADA in 2015, Henry Taylor was selling works out of Fon