Art for Portals to Gaze into the Future
Artwork selections that resonate with the spirit of Mystic Caviar
Good morning!
As a writer, collector, advisor, and curator of contemporary art, I spend a colossal amount of time thinking about physical spaces. There is something special that happens when you stand in a room full of art, especially if that room is also full of people who are also there to appreciate the art.
When you connect with an artwork, the hairs on the back of your neck prickle and your awareness shifts. Honestly, you just start to absorb information so differently than scrolling on a screen.
Tonight is an event that creates an opportunity to stop scrolling and start socializing in rooms full of art: Mystic Caviar. If you have never attended one of these mystical monthly gatherings, know that it is hands down one of my favorite rooms to be in.
Everyone who shows up is new to everyone else: from different corners of the city, different sides of inside and outside the art world. But all the guests who attend share a curiosity for connection and meaning. Plus who isn’t curious to hear what the tarot readings will reveal?
This month’s edition of Mystic Caviar features three gallerists I have selected to share their artist booth presentations ahead of next week’s art fair madness.
So if you love first access to art, elevated canapés, and faith in finding larger-than-life meaning, this is your room.
Buy Mystic Caviar tickets here.
If you can’t attend, I am so excited to share the works below, which I selected around these themes embodied by Mystic Caviar evenings:
Karla Knight, whose work weaves astronomy, the occult, and invented languages into a single practice
Josi, whose work brings together river water, botanical pigments, and soil from Quilombo dos Ausentes to hold land, ritual, memory, and embodied knowledge in a single object
Gozié Ojini, whose altered brass instruments are about breath, sound, conversations and listening
Robell Awake, whose featured work below is a literal chair: a sculptural seat signifying gathering, craft, and the creation of cultural memory
Maryam Yousif, whose practice is rooted in myth, intimacy, and Mesopotamian mythologies blended with modernism
I hope you enjoy all twelve of the artists below as much as I have enjoyed discovering their practices. As always, please reach out with any questions or if you would like to see additional examples of the work!
