NADA Miami 2025

Scott Csoke, Debbie Lawson, Wendy Red Star

Booth C101

Ice Palace Studios, Miami, FL

December 2 - 6, 2025

Sargent’s Daughters is delighted to present work by Scott Csoke, Debbie Lawson and Wendy Red Star in Jardine at NADA Miami 2025.

In the works included, all three artists interpolate art historical depictions of animals, playfully recontextualizing them to interrogate the histories and identities they invoke. Referencing the lush aesthetics and ornamentation of both the 1980s Pattern and Decoration movement and the 19th century Arts and Crafts movement, Jardine places the artworks in conversation with a rich array of colors and patterns that recall the art historical sources that inspired them.

Scott Csoke’s ongoing series of gay animal paintings appropriate and reframe art historical depictions of animals as expressive avatars of queer experience. Their practice reveals that decoration carries profound meaning, as it has often been the area in which queer people are able to present themselves most authentically.

Debbie Lawson’s sculptures take the form of life-sized animals emerging from Persian-style rugs, which nod to many centuries of global trade and cultural exchange. The carpets signify domestic space, connoting whole histories of feminized labor and craft, while the animals suggest the untold stories woven into these textiles.

Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to investigate and reimagine historical tropes of Indigenous representation. Her “Bison” paintings depict wounded bison based on American painter George Catlin’s depictions of bison from the 19th century. In her ongoing series of horse paintings, Red Star recreates horses from historical ledger drawings made by Plains tribes, claiming each horse as her own in the tradition of “horse getting.” Both series exemplify a significant strand of Red Star’s practice, based in the activation of images and objects found in museum archives, fleshing out their context and allowing them to speak across time.

These artists' works span mediums and subjects, eras and cultures, masterfully using humor to highlight history.

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