Art fairs, petite and tall, accompany Art Basel and Art Miami like a very long train of bridesmaids and ushers. Whether they’re at grand hotels, or displayed in rooms emptied of beds in small ones, the galleries work their hearts out to showcase the works and the profusion of art is pleasantly unpredictable and often thrilling. Here prices range from the possibly affordable to the not so, and the collectors seem hipper but just as knowledgeable as the posh crowd at Art Basel.

Here are a few of the unexpected pieces that stopped me in my tracks at Scope.

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Kirsten Stingle The Air We Breath Porcelain Stoneware

 

David Hollier America (detail) 2016

David Hollier
America (detail)
2016

 

And here are some exuberant paintings that gave me a joyful lift of color.

Andrea Goldsmith Had I Said (detail), 2016 Satellite

Andrea Goldsmith
Had I Said (detail), 2016
Satellite

Joan Synder Prelude/Yellow Field (detail) 2015 NADA

Joan Synder
Prelude/Yellow Field (detail)
2015 NADA

Robert Barber Untitled (detail) 1964 NADA

Robert Barber
Untitled (detail)
1964 NADA

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Award-winning writer and editor Ronni Sandroff is a contributing editor to L’Etage Magazine.

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