Untitled Art

For Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2025, Hollis Taggart Downtown’s booth presentation (Booth A54) brings together the work of five artists: Pablo Atchugarry, Chellis Baird, Shuling Guo, Hollis Heichemer, and Dana James. Though working across sculpture and painting with distinct visual vocabularies, the artists are united by a shared sensibility. Each draws from the natural world to generate abstraction that is sensual, contemplative, and materially rich. This presentation revisits the historically complex relationship between nature and abstraction. While many 20th century abstract artists sought to distance themselves from the natural world, these five artists return to it, not for representation, but as a source of gesture, rhythm, materiality, and spiritual resonance. 

Pablo Atchugarry (b. 1954, Uruguay) brings a distinctly sculptural engagement with nature to the presentation. Working primarily in marble, Atchugarry transforms this ancient material into ethereal, weightless forms that rise in elegant, undulating verticals. His sculptures are carved from single blacks of white Carrara marble, and are marked by their rhythmic folds, organic silhouettes, and spiritual energy. Inspired by natural growth, wind, and light, Atchugarry’s work bridges classical form with contemporary abstraction. Each piece captures a sense of upward movement and transcendence, echoing the verticality of trees or waves and invoking the timeless beauty of nature. 

Chellis Baird (b. 1983, Spartanburg, SC; lives and works in New York City) blurs the line between painting, sculpture, and textile. Working with hand-woven substrates, thick impasto, and stitched reliefs, she creates tactile compositions that evoke the pulse and structure of the natural world. Baird’s emphasis on touch, texture, and dimensionality calls forth a bodily relationship to abstraction, engaging the viewer’s sense beyond the purely visual. 

Shuling Guo (b. 1986, China; lives and works in Philadelphia) works with the delicate gestures and pared-down compositions that evoke both intimacy and vastness. Her paintings are characterized by layered washes, finely etched marks, and an openness that allows for stillness and reflection. Drawing inspiration from natural rhythms and the metaphysical qualities of landscapes, Guo’s abstraction carries a mediative clarity that suggests drifting clouds, distant horizons, or the passages of time without literal reference. Her work finds power in restraint. 

Hollis Heichemer (b. 1963, New York; lives and works in New Hampshire) paints contemplative and intuitive works that are rooted in her daily experience of the New Hampshire woods surrounding her home and studio. Through fluid brushwork and subtle color gradations such as verdant greens, milky blues, dusty grays, Heichemer captures the ineffable qualities of seasonal change and light. Her paintings are less depictions of nature than records of sensations. They are immediate, unfiltered, and imbued with what she calls “ a felt sense of mystery itself.”

Dana James (b. 1986, New York) constructs ethereal, immersive compositions that resemble pastel-hues landscapes, memory-scapes, or celestial topographies. She integrates unconventional materials such as tin foil, linen, iridescent encaustic to create textured surfaces where light plays unpredictably. Her paintings glimmer like bodies of water or moonlight skies, transmitting a sense of quiet transience. Through these poetic surfaces, James expresses memory, place and emotional atmosphere as suspended states.

For more information on the gallery's booth presentation please contact us at +1 212.628.4000 or info@hollistaggart.com