Art Basel Miami Beach: Naama Tsabar: Nova Sector, Booth N21; Miami Beach Convention Center

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In Tsabar's Transition series, the artist exposes the wires, knobs, and connectors from pre-existing guitar amplifiers to function as the palette for what she refers to as “sculptural paintings that have the ability to output sound”. These Transition works can be connected to an instrument or other sound-emitting device, which expands the visual experience of the piece into a sonic one.

For this body of work, Naama Tsabar covers panels with countless thin strips of gaffer tape, the same tape used to mask and stabilize cables in performance spaces. The subtle compositions formed from the artist's arrangement of this utilitarian material—often associated with unseen backstage labor—allude to the legacy of Minimalism. Tsabar’s Gaffer series moves the tape from its functionally hidden location on the floor to its scrutable position on the wall, recasting the material simultaneously as mark, canvas, and color field.

These works correspond to a new monumental site-specific installation that will be on view in Perimeters, Tsabar’s solo musuem exhibition at The Bass in Miami. This exhibition will be open to visitors during the week of Art Basel Miami Beach.

Tsabar’s work has been featured in publications including ArtForum, Art In America, ArtReview, ARTnews, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Frieze, Bomb Magazine, Art Asia Pacific, Wire, and Whitewall, among others. Tsabar is a two-time recipient of an Artis Grant, 2014 and 2010; a two-time recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Grant, 2009 and 2005; the 2009-2010 recipient of the Joan Sovern Award from Columbia University, 2012 Grantee of The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, and held residency in 2012 at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Seattle Art Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Bass Museum, Kadist Collection, Jimenez-Colón Collection, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum, and Coleccion Dieresis. Tsabar lives and works in New York.