I am proud to participate at this years NADA Miami with Swivel Gallery @swivelgallery with a presentation featuring large scale paintings by (me) Ryan Cosbert, sculptures by Kiah Celeste, and mixed media works on paper by Vyczie Dorado. Each of these artist’s are pushing the boundaries of their mediums, innovation, and individualism; and doing so with force and intention. The three dynamic women share in commonality a demand for a future that is their own, while simultaneously acknowledging, ingesting, and reshaping a past that is permeated with conditioning. Ryan Cosbert’s two massive canvases, “Currency” and “Ocean” ignite the back walls of the booth, her blazing strokes and technique mirror the titles, as their energies push and pull us into a wave of emotions that wash over the viewer. This unteachable affect stems from Cosbert’s ability to channel her personal and collective histories and transcend them into a higher consciousness. While Cosbert’s paintings seem to charge at us, @kiah.celeste Kiah Celeste’s sculptures tediously hang in the balance. Her industrious practice, reliant on recycling and manipulating found objects and materials nods to concepts and concerns of environmental sustainability. Eerily flanking the booth are @vyczie_dorado_art Vyczie Dorado’s meticulous mixed media works on paper. Their at first playful sensibility, featuring entrancing androgynous creatures who live in a world that only a partial reality; slowly becomes skewed as the viewer notices in the painstaking renderings minute details which leave us discombobulated. The imaginary world of the artist, one which is never complete but rife with setbacks becomes clearer in the work, “A Bundle Of Sticks (aka a fag)”. The alien like figure resting in a field of green, its glum expression hinting at it’s loneliness comments on questions of identity, gender, and the navigation of a world which is still rarely accepting of entities outside of societies expectation. While all three women in the booth respectively command their own practices, their correspondence with each other strong handedly says, this is our world, and our time now, forevermore. #ryancosbert