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Thomas Erben Gallery is excited to announce its participation in the Positions section of Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation of Brooklyn-based painter Mike Cloud. The booth features new painted constructions and works on paper that address painting's entangled relationship with death, particularly with death by hanging. Cloud's paintings are each balanced on one corner, partly suspended from the wall by a leather belt, evoking individuals who have died by hanging, whether by committing suicide, as murder staged as suicide, or by auto-erotic asphyxiation.

In Mike Cloud's …