"Also captivating are...the innovative reliefs of Ynez Johnston at Louis Stern Fine Arts, richly symbolic atlases that seemed to draw simultaneously from Paul Klee and Sufi mysticism."

"Alfredo Ramos Martínez, considered by many to be the founding father of modern Mexican art, created works that celebrated the rich connections and conversations between his native Mexico and his adopted home in the United States. I feel this spirit of cultural and artistic exchange is in perfect keeping with Art Basel Miami Beach’s diverse international audience."

As a student, Helen Lundeberg (1908–1999) thought she might become a “minor poet,” as she put it. Fortunately, fate had other plans. By the time she graduated with a major in English from California’s Pasadena Junior College in 1930, the Great Depression had set in, leaving no extant funds for young Lundeberg to continue her education at a four-year university. Instead, a sympathetic family friend, noting her talent for drawing, offered to send her to art school. Yet the surreal paintings in Lundeberg’s exhibition “Enigma of Reality” made clear that her literary inclinations never went away, as she sublimated them into her art with an emotional poetic force.