It is with great excitement that Kavi Gupta celebrates the return of EXPO Chicago. After almost three years, we are once again able to spotlight our home city as the essential global locus for international contemporary art that it has always been. Our presentation at this year's fair is a definitive representation of the enduring importance of Kavi Gupta's ongoing mission to amplify voices of diverse and underrepresented artists to expand the canon of art history.
At this crucial moment, we are grateful for the chance EXPO Chicago gives us to centre important works by some of the most influential, dynamic artists working today—including 2022 Whitney Biennial artist James Little. With more than half a floor of this year's biennial devoted to his masterful paintings, Little is poised to finally achieve the recognition he has long deserved as an American master in the field of abstraction. 'Coming from my background, which was a very segregated upbringing in Tennessee, I felt that abstraction reflected the best expression of self-determination and free will,' Little recently told the New York Times.
We will spotlight work from Little's renowned Black series. This series represents the culmination of Little's lifetime of mastery in the realm of colour relationships. Little takes his knowledge of colour to new experiential heights in his Black paintings, inviting the eye into a nuanced and delicate aesthetic exploration of the emotive properties of tone, pattern, and light. In these powerful works, Little turns the ability of the human mind to perceive subtle differences in a single hue into a sumptuous journey into the meaning of perception.
Kavi Gupta represents these artists: