With November well underway and Art Basel Miami Beach just around the bend, you may be having a year-end 11th-hour art panic setting in. If your 2019 New Year’s resolution included checking out some under-the-radar talents, there’s still time yet. Here are five up-and-coming artists with exhibitions on view this month.

1. Ka+Ma in “Einsprung” at Rubrechtcontemporary 

Ka und Ma, 46 Ribbons (2016). Courtesy of Rubrechtcontemporary.

Artist duo KA+MA’s playful sculptures sometimes look like electrically hued pieces of ribbon candy, and other times like light trails captured in night photography. With an almost unctuous sheen, and arranged into forms full of latent energy, the plastic sculptures seem oddly life-like, similar to worms or sea anemones. 

“Einsprung” is on view through November 19, 2019, at Rubrechtcontemporary, Büdingenstrasse 4-6, Wiesbaden, Germany.

 2. Harry Skeggs in “Le Composé, Le Raffiné, Rencontre Le Sauvage” at the Directed Art Modern

Harry Skeggs, Limelight (2019). Courtesy of the Directed Art Modern.

“If your pictures aren’t good enough, you aren’t close enough,” the famed war photographer Robert Capa once said. But British nature photographer Harry Skeggs takes a different approach—one that says distance offers perspective. Rather than using tricks and gimmicks to create a good up-close shot of nature’s wildest creatures, Skeggs opts for patience, following herds and lone hunters for long periods of time, waiting for the perfect image to emerge. It’s a strategy that is indicative of the photographer’s respect for the animals and terrains he captures. 

“Le Composé, Le Raffiné, Rencontre Le Sauvage” is on view through November 27, 2019, at the Directed Art Modern, 350 NE 75th Street, Miami.

3. Flera Bermane in “Highlights ´19” at TVD Art Galerie

Flera Birmane, Last Call, 2012. Courtesy TVD Art Galerie.

In this engaging group show, Flera Birmane’s paintings have a staged, film-still quality that is both captivating and unsettling. In Last Call (2012), the scene of a woman asleep in bed next to a rotary phone off the hook will bring to mind a slew of imaginary narratives. The longer you look at the work, however, the less tethered to reality the scene seems. The phone starts to appear like it’s hovering weightlessly on the bed and the figure casts impossible shadows. 

“Highlights ´19” is on view through December 31, 2019, at TVD ART, Galerie Schlüterstraße 54 Eingang Niebuhrstraße, Berlin. 

4. Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar in “Extremis” at Setareh Gallery 

Sassan Behnam Bakhtiar, Rebirth (2018–2019). Courtesy of Setareh.

Franco-Iranian artist Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar creates his canvases through a laborious process of adding and scraping off layers of paint in small areas. The resulting paintings are chromatically rich and oscillate between figuration and abstraction, weaving together European and Persian artistic traditions.

“Extremis” is on view through November 22, 2019, at Setareh, Königsallee 27-31, Düsseldorf.

5. Lasso in “Conversations with a Stranger” at Avant Gallery

Lasso, Conversations With a Stranger (2019). Courtesy of Avant Gallery.

Though the Hudson Yards venue may not be exactly a gallery location you’re used to visiting, the paintings of the young Colombian painter known as Lasso possess a contemplative charm. The artist cites Willem de Kooning and Georg Baselitz as major influences, which is evident in his impassioned applications of paint.

“Conversations with a Stranger” is on view through December 22, 2019, at Avant Gallery, 30 Hudson Yards, RU 101, Main level, New York.