Let's put a smile on that faceAs a recent participant of the Adonit Jot Showcase contest (Adonit is the company that created the Jot stylus) Mel Rosado entered his piece titled “Put a Smile on that Face”. The theme of the contest was to pick a scene from a movie and interpret it. Rosado chose the Dark Knight’s Joker. Calling the stylus his “weapon of choice” when he creates anything on the iPad, his dedication paid off – the piece took first prize.

Here Rosado shared with MAZ some of the significant parts of his life as an artist, where he gets inspiration and the...

New Negro Emmett        The first major solo exhibition for Johnson, is a collage of materials, metaphors and metaphysics. In works spanning more than a decade Johnson explores the idea of creation, identity, self and art through the lens of African-American culture.

Born in Chicago in 1977 Rashid Johnson now lives and works in New York. His conceptual work, albeit heavily influenced by his own experiences growing up as an African-American in the late 70s and 80s, leaves room for interpretation. Contrary to any intentional fallacy the...

Adriana Carvalho in her studio with drain pipe work overhead - photo Irene Sperber

        Metal artist Adriana Carvalho looks back on experiences as an artist-in-residence  at Art Center South Florida with a retrospective of her work called 101 Dresses.

Opening September 29, her personal oeuvre will be familiar to many who have frequented the Art Center on Lincoln Road over the eight years she has inhabited the Center. Her work is memorable in its delicate feminine simplicity...

Luis Pinto        Miami artist Luis Pinto creates artistic mythologies without limitations to the imagination.

With recent works in the last Primary Project's exhibition “Salon Du Notre Societe”, the show “Before the Legends of Man” at Kidrobot and various other upcoming projects Pinto is keeping himself quite busy, establishing himself as artist, curator and editor with his Strangeways zine.

“Before the Legends of Man” ran from June 7...

JeanPaul Mallozzi and his parents        “kn0b0dy,” the first solo show by Miami based artist JeanPaul Mallozzi opened recently with a large gathering of collectors, fellow artists, friends and family. 

Mallozzi had been working steadily for eight months to create his solo show at 101/Exhibit in the Design District. The opening was packed with well wishers as the artist’s...

Ana Bolt        How many dance artists have to single handedly raise three girls, teach dance, theatre, track and field, run a summer camp, perform, choreograph and train all at the same time? Meet Ana Bolt from North Miami Beach, a 5’8”, brown eyed one-woman powerhouse. Born in Nicaragua, with a side trip to Spain for eight years, she returned with her family to Nicaragua and then moved on to Honduras because of the political turmoil in Nicaragua. She came to the States at age 17. 

If you were among the art-walkers adventurous enough to wander off the beaten path on Saturday July 14 (a block and a half West of 2nd Avenue on NW 24th Street), you would have found yourself in for quite a treat as the MAPS Backlot played host to the fifth installment of the OhReally?! Concert Series featuring the art of Miami New Times' Street Artist of the Year Ruben Ubiera and Miami's up and coming R&B singing sensation Stephen A Clark. 

That Oh Really?!'s Jason Odio and David Sinopoli know a thing or two about throwing a party should come as no shock to anyone familiar with their resumes. Jason's position...

Andrew NigonUpon entering Primary Projects your glance might wander right away to an approximately 12 feet high sculpture of brightly dressed rag dolls sitting atop one another, before your eyes start to take in the other over 400 other works of art on display from paintings to installations to mixed media pieces. Your eyes pass over a swing before they move to a painting resembling a waterfall of flowers next to pink cotton candy, beauty queen photographs and “Tom Water” (bottled, comes with a photo of Tom Cruise in a pool).

Salon de Notre Société is Primary Projects’ latest group show...

Opening night for four local artists at the Coral Springs Museum of Art was a well-attended event and included an appearance by Coral Springs Mayor Roy Gold, a long-time supporter of the arts. Director Barbara O’Keefe, once again brought to exhibit some of the area’s best local artists. Isabel Salazar, Deborah Gregg, Jack Newman, Anne Deon, Barbara O'Keefe

The new artists, showing until August 19, are Anne Deon, Jack Newman, Deborah Gregg and Isabel Perez Salazar.