NADA Miami 2023
The Macroscope
December 5th - December 9th, 2023
Ice Palace Studio, Booth C-104
1400 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136
After celebrating its first year, Storage joins NADA Miami 2023 to exhibit the works of Adam Lupton (b. 1987), Baxter Koziol (b. 1995), Michiko Itatani (b. 1948), and Jeff Way (b. 1942). The presentation of these four artists in Storage’s debut art fair commemorates a solo exhibition each at the gallery–Itatani’s being currently on view. Lupton, Way, and Koziol, who previously participated in Storage’s Press Release group exhibition series, will show in solo exhibitions at Storage in the spring of 2024 and 2025.
At NADA Miami 2023, we present “The Macroscope,” exploring the body through the corporal, the adornment, and the atmospheric in the context of our contemporary socio-political discourse. As evidenced by thinkers such as Elaine Scarry, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Donna Haraway, the awareness of self is inextricably supported by the physicality of sensation. “The Macroscope” posits pain and (dis)comfort as encounters of flesh and sensation, being and the world. We center on this mode of potential, where the external and the intimacy of the flesh might be taken apart and reformulated.
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Adam Lupton’s work grows out of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), where his every day existence is filled with rituals of reassurance, mantras and projections, creating internal “mental somersaults” that mediate his interaction with the external world. Lupton employs non-traditional methods including stamping, printmaking, and craft applications to express alternative portraits of himself, ‘fleshing out’ the emotions of his intrusive thought processes and eliding the interior and exterior of the body.
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Baxter Koziol explores the social construction of rupture and the body, working exclusively with a single needle to hand stitch his soft sculptures, blankets, and suits out of pieces of used clothing, found objects, and VCR tapes of classic films. These objects are flesh extensions, awaiting the body to clothe and armor its form.
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Michiko Itatani’s paintings focus on the relationship between architectural space and the body, her complex and mythical atmospheres acting as reflections of a space where people can gather. Through the sheer scale of Itatani's works, viewers are invited to enter new structural fields which philosophize the cosmic possibilities of the future.
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Jeff Way’s paintings consist of layered colors in terms of the grid in different intervals, forming a square configuration with the chalk line that was created by the action of snapping the line of pigments and forcing it into a shape, meditating on the exchange of his body and the medium on the grid.
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Founded in 2020 by Onyedika Chuke, Storage is a contemporary art gallery in TriBeCa, New York. Our program is rooted in our commitment to sustaining a culturally diverse roster of emerging, mid-career, and established artists. We aim to produce trailblazing dialogues through groundbreaking exhibitions to empower artists and communities. Located in the historic 52 Walker Street Building alongside leading Manhattan-based galleries, our doors are open to welcome you.