Ortuzar is pleased to return to Art Basel Miami Beach with a focused selection of historic and contemporary works presented in dialogue. Reflecting the gallery’s evolving program, the presentation at Booth B3 features important works by Ernie Barnes, Lynda Benglis, Ed Clark, Claire Falkenstein, Mary Grigoriadis, Yoko Ono, Sean Scully, Sylvia Sleigh, Joey Terrill, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Andy Warhol, and Megumi Yuasa. Complementing these pieces are new and recent works by Matt Connors, Brenda Draney, Donna Huddleston, Suzanne Jackson, Akinsanya Kambon, Kurt Kauper, Jennifer Packer, and Takako Yamaguchi.

Anchoring the booth is a focused selection of works by Claire Falkenstein, celebrating the gallery’s recently announced partnership with the Claire Falkenstein Foundation. This presentation highlights her open structures of copper, brass, and wire––including Sun XIV (c. 1958)––which materialize the artist’s longstanding investigations into theories of space-time, energy, and the behavior of material. Whether drawn from her Point as a Set series, her Fusions, or her Moving Point paintings, these interlaced works reimagine form as a dynamic network of forces, foregrounding permeability, movement, and the invisible patterns that structure the physical world.

The presentation further features artists currently the subject of major museum surveys. Suzanne Jackson is represented by intimate acrylic paintings from her Idyllwild series, as well as cosi fan tutti, –so do we y'all (2025), a recent example of her radical free-hanging acrylic works. Their inclusion coincides with Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love, the artist’s major retrospective at SFMOMA, which will travel to the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Takako Yamaguchi’s Reunion with Reality (2008), a large-scale work in oil and bronze-leaf, stages a rhythmic vision of wave-like forms and hovering metallic ellipses that synthesize her interests in landscape painting, abstraction, and Japanese decorative traditions. Its presentation coincides with MOCA Focus: Takako Yamaguchi, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles.

A selection of works by Mary Grigoriadis reimagines ornamentation as a site of feminist and cultural resistance. A founding member of A.I.R. Gallery and an early figure in the Pattern and Decoration movement, Grigoriadis challenged the minimalist and conceptual orthodoxies of the 1970s by embracing motifs historically dismissed as feminine or decorative. Her paintings appear here alongside works by artists who have recently exhibited at Ortuzar—including Ernie Barnes, Lynda Benglis, Yoko Ono, Sylvia Sleigh, and Joey Terrill—whose presentations at the gallery underscored their commitments to intimacy, political charge, and experimental form. Following her recent exhibition at the gallery, Brenda Draney presents new works that distill memory, intimacy, and survival into quiet yet charged scenes from everyday life. 

The booth also previews forthcoming solo exhibitions by Donna Huddleston, Akinsanya Kambon, Kurt Kauper, and Megumi Yuasa. Kauper’s Watching Men #10 (2024) captures a private moment of masculine vanity and self-regard—an intimate subject that will anchor his solo exhibition at the gallery in January 2026. 

In dialogue with these works are paintings by Ed Clark, Jennifer Packer, Sean Scully, Alma Woodsey Thomas, and Andy Warhol, offering a wider context for the themes and materials explored in the presentation. In New Orleans Series #5 (2012), Ed Clark pays homage to his birthplace, channeling the city’s enduring energy with billowing skeins of paint. Andy Warhol’s Ambulance Disaster (c. 1963) is a rare and early silkscreen work that employs an image central to his Death and Disaster Series, transforming a scene of catastrophe into a stark meditation on spectacle and attention. Taken together, the works on view reflect the gallery’s commitment to illuminating overlooked histories, expanding established narratives, and championing artists whose contributions continue to shape the evolving landscape of modern and contemporary art.