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The solo exhibition “Hox” by
Douglas Hoekzema at Gallery Butter presents transitional works by
the artist, created between 2012 and 2013.
Gallery Butter, recently relocated to a new space west of Wynwood, has expanded into a multi-room exhibition space at the self proclaimed Gesamtkunstwerk building. The industrial feel of the space proved a great fit for Hoekzema’s...
Zura in front of Marry
Me I'm A Hard Worker
Zura’s abstract characters took over the walls of Fort
Lauderdale’s Nac Gallery for the Brooklyn-based artist’s first ever
solo show in Florida.
Entitled “Zurism!“ the exhibition focuses on Zura’s unique, whimsical and light hearted style of painting which stands in contrast to...
Fashion
Shows Gallery
Diet and artist Nicolas Lobo invited guests to a unique one night
only exhibition and experimental version of a listening party for
Justin Timberlake’s album "The 20/20
Experience"
The exhibition, entitled “Timber, lakes” featured...
Artist GG at the
opening receptionNAC Gallery in Fort Lauderdale was
turned into GG’s world as the artist gray-washed its walls to
create a raw and street inspired environment for his latest series
“Popular Demand.”
The group exhibition “Collinear Points” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art unites three unique voices and distinct vocabularies.
Kathryn Zazenski, Nyeema Morgan and the duo of Rosemarie Chiarlone and Susan Weiner all work with text as pictorial expression as they explore language, culture and the aesthetic aspect of the written word in shape and lines.
Kiki Valdes - For
Their Feet Rush Into Evil
Miami has become part of the international art
conversation with a striving art scene and young artists making
names for themselves. The group show “Futurespective,” presented by
the Rozenblum Foundation and the Michael Margulies Artist Agency,
highlights significant developments in the city with a focus on new
discoveries. Explains...
Keith Haring and
Basquiat by GG
NAC
Gallery in Fort Lauderdale is exploring new routes and a new
approach to art by merging and mixing existing ideas and proven
sales techniques.
Owners Vincent Harrison and Karla Livingston know the business...
Jesse Geller's VIP
booth mural
Art Miami closed two two months ago, but left it’s “coat”
behind, hanging out in Wynwood’s Mid Town just waiting for the 2013
Wynwood Art Fair to fill it’s 100,00 square foot tented pavilion. I
attended the Thursday night opening, which proved to be a pleasant
experience. You just never know when you head out if you are going
to be glad you made the effort or wish with all your heart you
still were wearing your fuzzy slippers with your alarming at-home
wear...
The
exhibition features paintings from 2009 to 2013 that range from
abstraction to figurative realism. Westfall’s use of diamond shape
grids and geometric patterns imposes a harmony onto the canvas
while offering glimpses of chaos and, at times, disturbing imagery
ranging from medical procedures to slaughtered cows and
Judeo-Christian traditions. The diamonds symbolize value and
richness and provide a calm surface beauty, giving the viewer a
sense of organized refinement.
Diego
Jacobson’s retrospective “Everything is Perfect” opened at LMNT
Gallery in Miami on January 12th
2013.
The exhibit’s title is derived from one of Jacobson’s text based paintings. “Everything is Perfect” sums up the artist’s ideology, spirituality and his “no judgment” approach to his life and his art. With a masters in Practical Spirituality...
Fred
Tomaselli
Okay, so maybe that New Year’s resolution didn’t work out so
well; days merrily scoot by without so much as a nod to myriad
changes you swore you’d initiate by now, for sure. I have a few
thoughts for inner home improvement that may kickstart us all, and
does not involve gym memberships or slash your snack drawer to a
mere crumb of memory.
Learn something.
Jorge
Pantoja
“Endpapers” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
shows the latest works by Cuban born and Miami based artist Jorge
Pantoja.
“
“You
have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can
steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and
you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to
go.” Dr. Seuss
Naturally I assumed that the huge dark resin art piece named Bigfoot I stumbled over plopped in the Botanical Garden pond was named after Sasquatch, that lovable folkloric lug alarming inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest. I was so wrong.
This Bigfoot arose from artist Idan Zareski’s thoughts after ruminating on assorted countries Idan has called home. The French National was born in Israel...
Every
year during Miami Art Week while Art Basel Miami Beach and various
satellite fairs turn Miami into the center of the international art
world, Miami galleries present some outstanding
exhibitions.
Primary Projects is one of Miami’s prime contemporary art galleries. Known for being a leader, the gallery remains at the forefront of what is happening in the Miami art scene, and for Art Week 2012 Chris Oh, Books Bischoff III and Typoe put together four shows and projects including Rebeca Raney’s solo show “Raneytown” at their Design District gallery.
Miami born and New York based artist Rebeca Raney turned the gallery space into a...
Cricket
Taplin in Sagamore lobby
The post-modern Sagamore does not come by its
designation as the South Beach Art Hotel by luck and
whimsy. Avid art collectors Marty and Cricket Taplin
bought the classic 1948 Sagamore Hotel (by architect Albert Anis)
in 1997. When Cricket opted to curate the beautifully renovated
premises with their extensive contemporary art collection, the
hotel became an instant hot spot from the inception. Cricket Taplin
began the coveted once a year Sagamore Brunch during Art Basel’s
very first planned exhibition in 2001 that, if you recall, was
postponed...
Paddleboarding
is a wildly popular, amazingly fun water sport that will offer you
a new and invigorating experience for being on and in the
water.
Precision Paddleboards is south Florida’s stand up paddleboard specialty shop. The store opened in Fort Lauderdale in 2010 as the area’s first SUP-specific store and continues to lead the way in connecting the community’s paddlers through lessons, rentals, and board sales. They have rental locations at Green Fish Grill and the Pelican Grand Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, in addition to their store. They’re the only organization that offers NightSUP tours, where riders get chance to paddle NightSUPs, stand up paddleboards with permanently installed LED systems that illuminate up to 20’ of water around the...
Robert
Huff in front of his painting Harlan
Robert Huff’s works relate to each other.
Every point of departure is also an arrival and as he moves forward
in his art there are always connections to previous works. Huff’s
latest solo exhibition “Byways” at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art
features a sculpture from 1999 as well as three new paintings and
various drawings from 2012.
“Byways is a way of moving from one place to another and my work does...
The
artists and organizers of the Art Live Fair
The Coconut Grove Expo Center was
transformed into an interactive art space last weekend for the Art
Live Fair 2012.
The Art Live Fair, formerly known as the Wynwood Art Fair, moved indoors this year and brought together artists from around the country to create a performance-based, educational and engaging program for young and old to benefit the Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Overtown.
Manny
Prieres Manny Prieres’
solo exhibition “Lock Them Out And Bar The Door. Lock Them Out
Forevermore” at Spinello Projects is a library of reinvented banned
and censored publications.
Miami-based artist Manny Prieres considers himself part artist, part anthropologist, part graphic designer and he combines those parts as he explores and translates literature that has been banned or censored to create dark reexaminations by adding additional layers of meaning to the already context heavy texts.
Wynwood has
been a mecca for Miami graffiti artists and muralists for many
years and the galleries have taken note. The latest show featuring
street art in the gallery space is “Rigid” at NOW Contemporary Art
in Wynwood, which was curated by Brandon Opalka.
NOW, a gallery known for sculpture, installations and conceptual work, has chosen to exhibit paintings for the first time, but in an unconventional way. “Rigid” pushes boundaries and blurs the lines between fine art and street art.
Director Pablo Dona explains “I was always fascinated with the art in the streets. When I moved to Wynwood with the gallery I saw the whole process and the writers getting involved. I think it is undervalued and...