Tony Gum Creates 'Mercurial Aesthetic' Free of Racial, Cultural Or Sexual Oppression
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Tony Gum Creates 'Mercurial Aesthetic' Free of Racial, Cultural Or Sexual Oppression
Women artists were more obvious in this year's Art Basel in Miami, and especially at PULSE Miami Beach.
At Christopher Moller Gallery, young Capetown artist Tony Gum, born Zipho Gum, was such a smash in New York March 2016 and then Art Basel Miami December 2016, that she was just named in ArtNet's 14 Emerging Women Artists to Watch in 2017.
Vogue called Tony Gum "the coolest girl in Cape Town", based on her tightly curated Instagram feed. Her Instagram becomes a gallery to communicate with corporate brands like Coca-Cola and Adidas about issues of race, women, pop culture and art through the lens of her own penetrating, clear-eyed, articulate and sophisticated vision.
