NADA Miami | Booth C206
December 2–6, 2025

‍Chozick Family Art Gallery is thrilled to present a solo booth by New York based artist Andrea Bergart. This marks both the artist’s first solo art fair presentation and the gallery’s debut at NADA Miami. Featuring new paintings, drawings, and sculpture, the installation highlights one of Bergart’s most overt recurring references—basketball—a subject rooted in everyday life and shared cultural experience.

Over the past decade, Bergart has developed a practice that invites broad engagement, whether or not viewers come from an art background. Her work extends beyond the studio into large-scale murals, public projects, and a fashion line rooted in athletic materials. Across these forms, she creates accessible points of entry that feel joyful and community-driven. Her aim is simple yet ambitious: to widen the field of contemporary art and show that creativity exists in movement, competition, personal style, and collective experience—not only within gallery walls.

Bergart’s visual language is informed by popular culture, art history, feminist theory, textile traditions—researched during her Fulbright Scholarship in Ghana—as well as her own experience as an athlete. Her paintings and drawings are defined by saturated color and layered, speckled surfaces developed through a controlled yet intuitive process. Works on view articulate two primary modes: geometric abstractions that echo the lines and spatial logic of courts and athletic fields, and patterned grounds animated by silhouettes of women athletes. Rejecting hierarchy and illusionistic depth, Bergart composes open, charged images that reflect the agency, rhythm, and exuberance of play.

For NADA Miami, Bergart expands her spatial approach in several paintings. Influenced by Unrivaled, the new Miami-based women’s 3x3 basketball league, she incorporates a shallow perspective that mirrors the amplified pace and choreography of the 3x3 game, where space widens and each movement becomes heightened. A sun motif threads through the booth, nodding to Miami’s light, outdoor culture, and spirit of play.

A new sculptural work anchors the booth: a reimagined basketball rack fabricated from polished stainless-steel tubing. Holding six balls and culminating in a stylized flower—a form seen across Bergart’s work—the piece operates both as display and sculptural intervention, reframing athletic equipment as an object of aesthetic consideration. Resting atop the rack, a rotating selection of Bergart’s signature basketball bags, crafted from vintage balls marked by real use, extend the work into the realms of design and social performance. The bags offer an immediate entry point for viewers who may connect first through a wearable object, and act as carriers of narrative, circulation, and memory.

Basketball has long shaped Bergart’s worldview. Growing up a competitive athlete, she approaches the court as a site of self-fashioning, community formation, and embodied knowledge. Pre-game rituals, team dynamics, sneakers and uniforms, the delicate balance between confidence and vulnerability—these elements inform her work from the inside out. Through this lens, basketball becomes cultural vocabulary that moves across age, identity, and levels of art fluency, widening who can see themselves reflected within contemporary painting.

This presentation arrives at a pivotal moment for women’s sports in the United States. The WNBA continues to experience record-breaking growth and visibility, yet the players still face significant disparities in pay and resources compared to their male counterparts. Meanwhile,  young women and trans athletes face increasing and alarming barriers and setbacks in opportunity, despite decades of progress following Title IX. While Bergart’s work is not didactic, it resonates within this cultural moment, one in which representation, joy, and self-determination in athletics carry profound meaning. Her practice imagines a more expansive and inclusive cultural field—on the court and within contemporary art.

Andrea Bergart (b. Newton, MA) works across painting, public installations, sculpture, and fashion. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ghana, where she researched bead and textile production, and has participated in residencies including the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal; Tilleard Projects in Lamu, Kenya; and a U.S. Embassy grant to the United Arab Emirates. Her public basketball-court murals can be found in New York, Providence, and abroad. In Spring 2026, she will complete a new public court project at Inez Nash Park in Toledo, Ohio, including hand-painted court surfaces and sculptural hoops inspired by the park’s plant life. Bergart’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and U.K., including at the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in the Art in Embassies program. Andrea Bergart lives and works in Queens, NY.

For more information contact rebekah@chozickfamilyartgallery.com