Casa Dragones Art-Tender Sessions at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025
For a fifth consecutive year, Casa Dragones returned to Art Basel Miami Beach with our celebrated Art-Tender™ Sessions, an intimate program where internationally acclaimed artists step behind the bar to craft Casa Dragones cocktails inspired by their creative practice.
Each afternoon, a featured artist transformed the Casa Dragones bar into an extension of their practice, curating the music, the mood, and the moment. Guests watched their process unfold in real time as palettes became cocktails, concepts became flavors, and inspiration took liquid form.
Hosted at the Collectors Lounge inside the Miami Beach Convention Center, each session offers a rare opportunity to meet the artists, explore their creative worlds, and experience their work translated into mixology.
Discover the roster of this year’s Art-Tenders and watch the session behind our bar on our Instagram page.
Location
Casa Dragones Tasting Room in the Collectors Lounge
Miami Beach Convention Center
1901 Meridian Avenue #403
Artist Lineup & Schedule
Sarah Morris
Represented by White Cube Gallery
Presenting "Cardinala," a bright, bittersweet composition that echoes Morris's energetic palettes and architectural precision.
Since the mid-1990s, Sarah Morris has explored the psychological architecture of cities—how power moves, how systems behave, how urban life is shaped. Through abstract paintings and films rooted in cities like Beijing, Los Angeles, and Rio, Morris maps the tension between design and emotion, structure and complexity, revealing the coded patterns of contemporary life.
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José Dávila
Represented by Sean Kelly and OMR Galleries
Presenting "Gravity Flip," a balanced, stone-clear composition that echoes the delicate negotiations of gravity and form in Dávila's work.
José Dávila's sculptures, installations, and photographic works examine the delicate balance between stability and collapse. Trained as an architect, he reinterprets the language of modernism—drawing from Barragán, Albers, Judd—through industrial and everyday materials. His work questions how form occupies space, how gravity shapes perception, and how the built world can be disrupted, challenged, and reinvented.
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Gonzalo Lebrija
Represented by Travesía Cuatro Gallery
Presenting "Dirty Lebrija Ranch," a refreshing blend of 200 Copas by Casa Dragones with muddled berries, mint, and sparkling water, an airy composition that mirrors the conceptual lightness and poetic precision of his practice.
Gonzalo Lebrija is one of the leading contemporary artists in Mexico, celebrated for his multimedia approach spanning painting, photography, sculpture, and film. His Veladuras (Veils) and sculptural works distill complex ideas into elegant, minimalist forms that play with time, perception, and existential themes. His installations and films—such as Via Láctea—draw viewers into contemplations of movement, ephemerality, and the human experience.
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Lindsay Adams
Represented by Sean Kelly Gallery
Presenting "Studio Spritz," a refreshing blend of lemon, agave, and Casa Dragones Blanco that reflects the vibrancy and openness of Adams's studio process.
Writer and painter Lindsay Adams blends cultural anthropology, memory, and imagination in gestural, color-rich paintings. Moving between abstraction and representation, she creates imagined ecologies where rhythm, intuition, and form shape narratives of liberation, place, and possibility. Adams has exhibited widely and is currently Artist-in-Residence at the World Trade Center through Silver Art Projects.
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Tavares Strachan
Represented by Marian Goodman Gallery
Presenting "Henri Christophe," a guava-forward martini shaped by Strachan's investigations into origin, migration, and cultural memory.
Tavares Strachan's multidisciplinary practice spans art, science, and politics, reshaping how histories are told and who is remembered. Through large-scale, research-driven projects grounded in astronomy, exploration, and climatology, Strachan highlights narratives of invisibility and displacement. His work reframes cultural memory, power, and possibility—often on an epic scale.
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Marc Spiegler & Danny Báez
Presenting the "Medio Hermano," an Añejo-forward negroni blending Casa Dragones Añejo Barrel Blend with sweet vermouth, amaro, and Grand Classico, an elevated take on a classic, reflecting their shared commitment to creativity, collaboration, and cultural dialogue.
Marc Spiegler
Former Global Director of Art Basel
A longtime cultural leader whose work spans art, institutional strategy, and global creative innovation. Spiegler guided Art Basel's expansion into Hong Kong, Paris, and Buenos Aires, and today advises cultural institutions and leading brands worldwide.
Danny Báez
Founder of REGULARNORMAL; co-founder of ARTNOIR
Originally from the Dominican Republic and now a leading cultural organizer in New York, Danny Báez works across community building, curation, and advocacy, serving on the boards of NADA and ISCP while championing transparency and emerging talent across the contemporary art ecosystem.
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Pilar Zeta
ARTIST ROOMS collaborator; immersive installations worldwide
Presenting "The Observer," a charcoal-tinted coconut margarita inspired by Zeta's surreal, monochromatic portals and symbolic geometries.
Argentinian multimedia artist based in Mexico City whose work merges philosophy, symbolism, mysticism, and geometric form. Through portals, thresholds, and archetypal symbols, she explores transformation and expanded perception across immersive environments. Her installations have been featured at Art D'Egypt at the Giza pyramids, Faena Miami, Praz-Delavallade LA, and MACO Art Week. Zeta's collaborations include Grammy-nominated art direction for Coldplay and a Clio Award for her work with Camila Cabello.
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Tony Lewis
Represented by Olney Gleason Gallery
Presenting "Black Rock Chiller" and "Rosita," a duo of cocktails that balance sharp herbal notes with bold, vermouth-forward structure, a pairing that echoes the tension, clarity, and layered meaning that define Lewis's work.
Tony Lewis, based in Chicago, advances drawing as a critical practice through his use of graphite powder and language. His work interrogates race, authority, and social structures by transforming both material and text into sites of tension and inquiry. A participant in the Whitney Biennial with solo exhibitions at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and Museo Marino Marini, Lewis is represented in major institutional collections including MoMA, the Hirshhorn, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
SEE BLACK ROCK CHILLER RECIPE SEE ROSITA RECIPE
About Art-Tender Sessions
An ongoing Casa Dragones tradition, the Art-Tender™ Sessions invite artists and cultural visionaries to craft original cocktails behind the bar, each drink, a liquid expression of their practice.
Over the years, the program has featured immersive tasting rooms, collectible artist-designed glassware, and cocktails inspired by conceptual art, performance, architecture, and identity. From Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Silver Lips Dragoni to Miles Greenberg’s evolving black-ice cocktail, each Art-Tender session becomes a living artwork of its own.
2025 continues this legacy with a new roster of global artists bringing their creative lenses to Casa Dragones’ small-batch sipping tequilas.