Untitled Art: Miami Beach

Richard Saltoun Gallery brings together four artists whose practices span distinct geographies, generations and systems of knowledge: Olga de Amaral (b. 1932, Colombian), Dannielle Tegeder (b. 1971, American), Sofía Bassi (1913–1998, Mexican) and Cossette Zeno (b. 1930, Puerto Rican). Drawing on architecture, iconography, materiality, popular culture and ancient symbolism, each artist re-imagines cultural histories, exploring how heritage shapes identity and belonging. 

Rooted in Colombian traditions, Olga de Amaral’s pioneering textile practice transforms conventional weaving techniques and materials such as wool and horsehair into monumental, luminous compositions. She was recently the subject of a major European retrospective at Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (2024–2025), which subsequently travelled to ICA Miami. Her work was also included in the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Dannielle Tegeder’s geometric abstractions examine urban systems, utopian thinking and the social structures shaping contemporary life. Her practice also engages with feminism, alternative pedagogies and spirituality through Hilma’s Ghost, the collective she co-founded in 2020 to revisit overlooked histories of women in abstraction and develop alternative approaches to art-making and education. Her work was recently featured in Ascendancy: The Self in Contemporary Art at the Mattuck Museum, Connecticut (2026).

Sofía Bassi’s imaginative paintings merged Mexican cultural traditions, mythology and Surrealism, developing a distinctive visual language shaped by personal experience and the psychological tensions between imprisonment and freedom. Her work is held in the collections of Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; the Selma Lagerlöf Museum, Sweden; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Drawing on her Puerto Rican heritage and her encounters with Surrealism across Europe and the Americas, Cossette Zeno shaped a distinctive visual language rooted in biomorphic abstraction. Her association with exiled Spanish Surrealist Eugenio Fernández Granell led her to join the Paris Surrealist group in 1953. Her work featured in Surrealism Beyond Borders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tate Modern (2021–22), and Surrealism and Us at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2024). Her first solo exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery New York, which closed in October, traced her journey from the Caribbean avant-garde to the international Surrealist movement.

Together, these artists demonstrate how cultural heritage and personal experience become starting points for radically different artistic visions. From de Amaral’s reinvention of traditional weaving to Bassi and Zeno’s explorations of the subconscious and Tegeder’s questioning of social structures, each challenges established ways of seeing and understanding. Bringing past and present into conversation, their practices reveal how inherited traditions can be reimagined to address the complexities of contemporary life.