Wall Street Journal | The Best Work at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

Enrique Martínez Celaya & Leonora Carrington

By Brian P. Kelly

 

Carrington, long shunned by the mainstream, is having a moment, as is clear from her well-received exhibition in Milan and the small presentation of her output at Gallery Wendi Norris’s booth. The works on paper here offer another perspective on her creative process, revealing elements that crop up across her oeuvre, but are fully realized artworks in their own right. In the same booth, the paintings by Enrique Martínez Celaya offer a less otherworldly though no less captivating take on the uncanny: An ominous bird towers over a small boy; plants sprout from a crisply made bed.

December 4, 2025