Discover Mexico City’s Thriving Art Scene
Mariane Ibrahim, with galleries in Chicago and Paris, is presenting expressive finger-painted portraits, mosaics and stained-glass works by the popular Ghanian artist Amoako Boafo in its CDMX space, which it opened in 2023 in a strikingly renovated old building. In the same year, New York’s Deli Gallery, which has participated in Feria Material for the past five years, opened a chic space in the city, where its exhibiting figurative paintings of Futanari (mixed sex) anime characters by London-based Japanese artist Motoko Ishibashi and collaborative ceramics with Robin von Einsiedel, and Naranjo 141, opened by former Sotheby’s specialists Ashleigh Noyes and Bryce Smith, secured an artist’s home and studio to create a stylish gallery and art residency, where it’s offering new figurative paintings by Anna Kenneally and Lizzy Lunday and ceramics by Dani Moreno, while Justin Chance is making new work in the studio.