We’re getting ready for the ninth edition of the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C), presented by Art Miami. The fair opens with a VIP Preview on Thursday, March 19 and will run through Sunday, March 22 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
We have put together a selection of works in a variety of styles and medium, including paintings, sculptures and fine art prints.
Here’s a look at just two of the artists whose works will be on exhibit at the Vertu Fine Art Booth at PBM+C:
At age 98, Alex Katz (b.1927) is still climbing ladders in his SoHo studio to reach the top of his ten-foot paintings.
Katz has been working with master printers for more than 60 years. “I like working with these great printers,” he said, “And I don’t think any painter has worked with as many great printers as I have. And a great printer is someone who will give you something better than you gave him.”
Timothy Curtis (b.1982) is an amazing artist with an incredible story. He was introduced to art through the graffiti he saw while growing up in Philadelphia. His street name was Agua, the word that graffiti artists would call out if they saw police in the area.
Curtis was incarcerated for more than seven years from 2008 to 2015. He was paroled on November 11, 2015. On November 12, 2015, he went to the Brooklyn Museum, where his friend, artist Steve Powers, had arranged for him to be part of a group show.
Since that show, Curtis has had solo shows in Tokyo, New York, Berlin and Paris. His works have been included in The Echo of Picasso at Museo Picasso Malaga, Spain in 2024 and The Painters’ Hands at The Current in Stowe, Vermont in January 2025.
Curtis was instrumental in creating a group of mural painting artists who were all facing life sentences. In 2019 his work was included at the Drawing Center in New York in an exhibit called The Pencil is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists.
His works are in the permanent collections of Art in Embassies, US State Department, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Burger Collection in Hong Kong, the
The Pizzuti Collection in Columbus, Ohio, the Lorenzo and Teresa Fertitta Collection in Las Vegas and the Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art in Gyeongju-si, South Korea.
Timothy Curtis lives and works in New York.
Works by Donald Sultan, Sam Gilliam, Roy Lichtensten, Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, Jean-Michel Basquait, Katherine Bernhardt, Deborah Kass, Derrick Adams, Jonas Wood and Tyler Hobbs will be available.
We look forward to seeing you at Booth C2 at the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Fair.
References:
Hearne Pardee. Alex Katz/Art Seen. The Brooklyn Rail. November 2025.
Joey Garfield. Timothy Curtis: Never One Day Not Having Fun. Juxtapoz. February 27, 2017.
Angela Oliver. Review: Timothy Curtis survives incarceration with inkblot paintings. ArtsATL. April 22, 2024.
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