Joanne Mattera photo blogs a selection of paintings from the Miami Art Fairs.

Mattera notes: "There was a lot of painting at the fairs. A lot. Figuration and abstraction, gestural and geometric, contemporary and modern, young artists and veteran painters, from blue-chip galleries and emerging dealers… [this selection is] fairly representative of some trends, including a lot of shiny, a fair amount of black, a surprising amount of pink, and some strongly material elements."