Vertu at Art Miami 2025

We’re getting ready for an exciting exhibit at this year’s Art Miami - the original and longest running contemporary art fair and second most attended fair globally,

 

Works from a wide range of Modern and Contemporary artists, including Rashid Johnson, A.C.K., Alex Katz, Andy Warhol and more will be available at the VFA gallery.

 

Here’s a look at just a few of the artists and their work:

 

Rashid Johnson, Untitled (Surrender), 2024

 

Rashid Johnson’s works are currently on view at the Guggenheim. Paintings, sculptures and films, that span a nearly 30-year career…nearly 90 works…fill the entire museum.

 

 

Johnson was born in Chicago in 1977, earned a BA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, followed by graduate studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers will be on view at the Guggenheim through January 19, 2026 and then will travel to the The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for viewing from March 8 through September 27, 2026.

 

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Andy Warhol: Electric Chair (FS11.81), 1971

 

Andy Warhol began working on his Death and Disaster paintings in 1963. It was a time when he said that he realized that the daily viewing of newspaper photographs of deaths and disasters actually diminished the tragic aspect of each event. “When you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it really doesn’t have any effect,” he said.

 

Death by electric chair was a controversial topic in 1963. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had been convicted, sentenced to death for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and executed in 1953. Many newspapers published photographs of the chair in which they had died.

 

 

Warhol appropriated the photos and did a series of Electric Chair paintings in 1963 and again in 1971. Shortly before Warhol made his first Electric Chair print, the last execution by electric chair was performed in New York. Warhol’s work holds a mirror up to both the method of execution and the media’s role in representing tragic events.

 

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Alex Katz: White Lillies 6, 2025

 

Alex Katz paints the people and landscapes that surround him. At age 98, he is still working hard…and working large. Water Lillies 6 is a 42.5 x 96 inch silkscreen.

 

 

Katz was awarded a National Medal of Arts on October 21, 2024 and was honored by the Paul Taylor Dance Company at a Gala at Lincoln Center last week for his 25-year-collaboration with the company.

 

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A.C.K  (Alpha Centauri Kid): Heavy Mettle, 2025

 

A.C.K. (Alpha Centauri Kid) works in a painterly, unpredictable style, using UV-reactive pigments layered into sculptural, raised surfaces that move and shift.

 

 

He creates both digital and physical works, including The Muse, a four-panel silkscreen that sold for $107,100 at Christie’s.

 

Several of ACK’s works will be on view at the VFA gallery at Art Miami.

 

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Also on view at our Art Miami booth will be works by Julian Opie, Ed Ruscha, Damien Hirst, Chuck Close, Keith Haring, Timothy Curtis, Marilyn Minter…and more.

 

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 Art Miami begins with a VIP Preview on Tuesday, December 2nd and runs through Sunday, December 7th at One Herald Plaza in the heart of downtown Miami.

 

Please contact us if you would like more information about the works available at VFA and Art Miami 2025.

 

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November 19, 2025