SCOPE ART FAIR MIAMI 2025

Booth A019

We will be presenting artwork by:

STEWART FRANCIS EASTON

RICHARD GLICK

DEIRDRE SULLIVAN-BEEMAN

FRANCES MELHOP

Preview the catalog here…

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Artists Richard Glick, Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman, Frances Melhop, and Stewart Francis Easton, create artworks to focus and dream on, exploring the cyclical nature of existence, time, and being human, through obsessive mark-making. While Sullivan-Beeman evokes magical realism to guide our minds into other-worldly spaces, Glick focuses on finding ways to gently float above a troubled world. Melhop reflects on energy produced by spirals and the effects on the psyche of gardens of color, and Easton injects humor and folkloric narrative into his work, while investigating balance, harmony and the paradoxes of human nature. These artists allow each brushstroke, gesture, line, or stitch to emerge from a space of awareness, to unfold through slow tactile processes, ultimately revealing unexpected sensory relationships between the artist, the viewer, and the universe.

These four artists challenge traditional forms of drawing, while rejecting the slickness, lack of physicality, and false perfection found in the digital world, each embraces raw human experience, steps and miss-steps, and a sense of being Here, Now. All have implicit faith in the communicative power of art providing portals and pathways leading to thought, action, and transformation in both the artist and the viewer.

"SHRINES & PORTALS" EXHIBITION CATALOG

We are super excited to show a brand new piece by Stewart Francis Easton, titled Evening Puja.

DETAIL: Evening Puja, 2025. Stewart Francis Easton. Quilt: hand embroidery on linen with machine embroidery on cotton, 32.5” x 50”

Special guest artist Richard Glick has 3 new abstracts that will be part of the line up!

From Studio 54, to finding love in the village, to building a studio in Chicago, Glick’s paintings reflect his experience—the changes he has gone through—the new things, the old things, the past, and the present. Each painting is an experience that takes time and is created in many laborious stages. His current work focuses on optimism and renewal in the face of troubled times.

Jelly Fish Skies, Richard Glick. 2025. Acrylic and spray paints, inks and stencils on canvas 48” x 48”

Special guest #2 is the well known artist Deirdre Sullian-Beeman from LA

Sullivan-Beeman is a self-taught artist with a B.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California.

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman is a contemporary surrealist painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and Vancouver, British Columbia. She is recognized internationally for her unique storytelling through art. She came into her own in Los Angeles in the 1990s alongside cultural movements like riot grrrl, Queercore, and DIY. She paints in a modified Renaissance-era, labor-intensive style of egg tempera and oil called the Mische Technique.

Follow the White Rabbit, 2022. Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman. Egg tempera & oil on Aluminum panel 42 x 66 in (107 x 168 cm)

Also showing this year is artist Frances Melhop with pieces from the 2025 Timekeeper series

The Timekeeper series exists between embroidery, painting, drawing, and soft sculpture—each one a spiral quietly tracing time and memory. The spiral becomes a visual mantra, embodying the existential dilemma and delight of living within unstoppable time: its relentless forward motion, its circling returns, and our deeply human impulse to mark its passage.

It’s About Time, Frances Melhop, 2025. Oil paint on linen, hand embroidered with cotton thread, 24” x 24” x 2” on stretcher bars.

(IMAGE: work in progress)

PREVIEW THE CATALOG HERE