For the 2022 edition of NADA Miami, Primary is proud to present a solo presentation of new paintings by Hunter Potter, alongside a sculpture by Wade Tullier in the fair’s sculpture garden.
Potter, who works out of Brooklyn, New York, draws from American folklore to create bold, geometric figures that transform the everyday into monumental scenes. His paintings honor society’s underdogs—the fighters, runaways, and misfits—rendered with a reverence reminiscent of Steinbeck and Hemingway.
Tullier, based in Detroit, Michigan, explores memory and myth through ceramics and sculpture. His assemblages of archetypal objects and fragments dislocate function to reveal their symbolic charge, where clay itself becomes a vessel for retelling histories both personal and collective.
Primary. | Booth 2.18 & Sculpture Garden
NADA Miami
Ice Palace Studios
1400 North Miami Avenue
Public Hours
Wed, Nov 30, 4–7pm
Thurs, Dec 1, 11am–7pm
Fri, Dec 2, 11am–7pm
Sat, Dec 3, 11am–6pm
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Hunter Potter (b. 1990, Syracuse, New York) Hunter Potter studied studio art at the University of Vermont where he graduated in 2013. He moved to New York City in 2015 and spent time sign painting, studio assisting, and art handling while finding his way to becoming a full-time artist. Now focused solely on his own practice, Potter maintains a studio in Brooklyn, New York. Hunter Potter uses a bold color palette and whimsical, geometric figures inspired by American folklore to create poppy paintings that celebrate the minutiae of daily life on a monumental scale.
Potter’s figures often feature society’s underdogs; the criminals, fighters, and runaways he associates his work with are similar to characters in novels by John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and Larry McMurtry, whose writing influences Potter’s work. Although he continues to create more intimate work, the artist’s enthusiasm for large scale works began when he was apprenticed to paint billboards in New York. Potter was the recipient of the Roger Smith Artist Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center in 2018 and was awarded residencies in London at the Plop Residency and The Fores Project.
Wade Tullier (b.1988, Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a visual artist working primarily in ceramics and sculpture. His work and process explore how form, memory, and identity become embedded in objects, often through a logic of transformation, chance encounters, and dreamlike juxtaposition. Drawing on archetypal objects, trinkets, and fragments of architecture or nature, Tullier reconfigures objects through stacking and assemblage, dislocating them from function to uncover their mythic potential. His sculptures feel both ancient and contemporary, staging encounters where meaning emerges from juxtaposition, chance, and symbolic repetition. Influenced by oral traditions, the uncanny logic of Surrealist objects, and the quiet power of relics, he considers how clay itself participates in the telling—and retelling—of history and personal myth.
Tullier holds a BFA from Louisiana State University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent shows in Miami, Chicago, and Detroit. His work is included in ‘With Eyes Opened: Cranbrook Academy of Art Since 1932’ at the Cranbrook Art Museum and is included in ‘Clay Pop’ at Jeffrey Deitch New York. Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, MI, The Progressive Art Collection, Jorge M. Pérez Collection, John Marques Art Collection, Miami, The Bunker Art Space, Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, West Palm Beach, FL.
Primary (Est. 2007) is a context and research-driven curatorial collective with an emphasis on public art. We thrive amongst the self-taught, working-class misfits, who explore the margins of a new Americana through pungent, human-focused narratives. Our program engages with the raw and uncanny, celebrating border voices, bootleg culture, and intergenerational commentary, connecting the new and unseen with broader audiences and evolving collections.
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