Miami Art Week 2015: Swizz Beatz’s No Commission Art Fair

Jerome Lagarrigue

Miami Art Week welcomed a new fair last week that went against the norm in support of its exhibiting artists. No Commission Art Fair, curated by Grammy Award-winning recording artist and producer Swizz Beatz, provided exhibition space in Wynwood to emerging artists at no cost and with artists keeping 100% of their sales. An avid contemporary collector, Swizz Beatz is no stranger to the art scene, whose namesake “The Dean Collection” drew crowds at SCOPE Miami Beach last year. No Commission was coupled by some of the week’s best parties, dubbed the “Untameable House Party”, from musical artists Swizz Beatz, his wife Alicia Keys, DMX, Wiz Khalifa, and Pusha T. As for the art, there were several new and impressive sized works on display by artists like Dustin Yellin, Hebru Brantley, Kehinde Wiley, Miss Van, Gregory Siff, Gabriel Dawe, Hyon Gyon, and Tomokazu Matsuyama, among many others featured in the pages of Hi-Fructose.

Brooklyn based sculptor Dustin Yellin has earned critical acclaim for his monumental collages inside of glass panels, and had fair attendees “ooh-ing” and “aah-ing” over his impeccably layered piece inside of a fish tank. In the same room, Texas based Gabriel Dawe used different colored threads to create a fantastical V-shaped installation that looked like a rainbow mist appearing out of thin air. His installations explore the connection between fashion and architecture, and how those relate to our need for shelter in all its shapes and forms. Take a look at more of our favorites from No Commission Art Fair below.