If you’ve been to the Art Basel in Miami satellite fair Miami Projects—owned by the same company that produces popular fairs like Art on Paper, Seattle Art Fair, and Market Art + Design—it’s likely you’ve noticed Lavar Munroe’s striking multimedia assemblages on view at the Nomad Gallery booth.
Though hung on whitewashed walls, the Bahamian-born, Washington, DC-based artist’s large-scale works manage to toe the line between painting and sculpture, thanks to a variety of textures and materials. Munroe’s new work for the fair continues his ongoing exploration of the 19th and 20th century phenomenon of “Human Zoos”—public exhibitions of humans thought to be “primitive,” produced as a means of showcasing the superiority of the European world.
