The Dive, The Speakeasy and The Oasis

The work

InScope will present three projects in collaboration with Chris Darsow: The Dive and The Speakeasy, created with Alexis Hubshman, and The Oasis.

The artistic transformation of these functional spaces across the site will turn places where attendees gather into original artistic environments in their own right. Throughout the week InScope will host live programming, music, hospitality and conversations, so visitors can spend time with art while they meet, eat and unwind, not only while they walk the gallery floor. These spaces reflect a central idea behind InScope: art doesn’t need to be separated from the activities that bring people together.

About Chris Darsow

Chris Darsow is a fabrication specialist and artist who founded Art Force in 2016, specializing in luxury retail installations, brand and experiential activations, and production design for film. Operating globally, Chris has dedicated his career to mastering diverse fabrication techniques and navigating the art industry with expertise spanning marble carving, welding, finishing, and fine art restoration. His skills continue to play an instrumental role in shaping the local Miami art scene.

About Alexis Hubshman

Alexis Hubshman is a New York–based artist, inventor and entrepreneur, best known as the founder of SCOPE Art Show. He studied fine art at Bard College and spent a year studying architecture at the Glasgow School of Art before moving to New York to launch his career. His first venture was as an inventor. He holds U.S. Patent No. 5,833,270, issued in 1998, for a cover and walking attachment for in-line skate wheels, a business he built while living in a tent.

Seeing that emerging artists were often relegated to the back rooms of established galleries, Hubshman opened RARE Gallery in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to champion new voices. In 2002 he founded SCOPE, which began at New York’s Gershwin Hotel with 28 galleries, curators and art organizations. Widely regarded as the original satellite art fair, SCOPE has since produced more than 85 editions across Miami Beach, New York and Basel, drawing millions of visitors. Hubshman also established the SCOPE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and continues to lead the fair as its founder and CEO.

Today, Hubshman is also the cofounder and president of InScope.