Alejandra von Hartz Gallery presents for the first time in the United States the works of Artur Lescher (Brasil 1962). Although not totally unknown, thanks to the efforts of Nara Roesler Gallery of San Paulo, in numerous Art Shows such Art Basel Miami Beach,  Art Chicago, and Pinta, NYC, this is the artist's first individual show and as such offers the rare opportunity of appreciating a general overview of his work.

In this first appearance, Lescher presents part of his latest sculptoric production: "Minimum Landscape", which attests to the Brazilian artist search for the perfect form. Each sculpture is the product of an idea constructed in the imagination, which is subsequently examined, distilled, and enriched until it finds its final form.* A form, that in its apparent economy of resources, hides a certain voluptuousness, product of the tensions generated between the different materials that are used in each piece.

Sammer Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of Constructivism with emphasis in Joaquin Torres Garcia & the School of the South and lately to The Non- Figurative Group (geometric abstraction) created in the 50's, and to the Grupo 8 from the 60's.

It showcases works by majors Uruguayan masters such as Torres Garcia, Gonzalo Fonseca, Francisco Matto, José Gurvich, Julio Alpuy, Manuel Pailos, Rafael Barradas, Pedro Figari, Petrona Viera, José Pedro Costigliolo, Maria Freire, Miguel Angel Pareja, Raul Pavlotzky, Lincoln Presno, Hilda López, Antonio Llorens, Juan Ventayol and also represents contemporary artists Ricardo Pascale and Daniel Escardó.

The gallery will remain open during the summer

First ever solo show in United States of one of the must important emerging Dominican artists, based in New York. Eleven mixed media works.

The Curator, Omar Pascual Castillo, who lives in Granada, Spain, remarks of Ellis: “In his more recent work, Ellis juxtaposes in direct relation of the animal, not quite servant (such as an owl, a serpent, a cybor-dog, among others,) with the man. Endowed with a dramatic quality that well might be read as being of "epic proportion", and loaded with mythology of the scenes that occur in the frame of each work, each one speaks of speed and statism, paralysis and aggression, which represent the diachronic dichotomy of the mental movement of the spectator who dictates the laws of this new production of the artist.”

His works is included in important collections, such as: Museum of Latin American Art, LB, California, Museo Arte Moderno, D.R., Personal Collection Arc. Marcelo Narbona, Panama.

Gene Pearson, Hernan Dompe, Dora Isdatne, Nora Correas, Jose Benito, Colin Garland, Kapo, William Cannings, Leon Ferrari
Project Room: Carlos Enriquez

Off the walls is an exhibition featuring the works of nine artists from Argentina, Jamaica and the United States. From Argentina we are exhibiting the work of Hernan Dompe, Dora Isdatne, Nora Correas, Jose Benito and Leon Ferrari; from Jamaica Gene Pearson, Colin Garland and Kapo; and from the United States William Cannings.

The range of materials varies from the traditional wood sculpture, clay, bronze, inflated steel to innovative mixed media. The variety of the pieces is an attempt to show the different aspects addressed by the contemporary sculptors.

Project room: We will be featuring the work of Cuban sculptor Carlso Enriquez.

PanAmerican Artprojects will be closed in August.

Due to the great response obtained from our May exhibition by the artist Pedro Ruiz, The Americas Collection and Rotsen Design have decided to extend “Love is in the Air” one more month until Tuesday, July 8, 2008.

Pedro Ruiz has mindfully integrated Rotsen Design’s sculptural wooden furniture in his impressive installation by making their one of a kind pieces a very important part of his conceptual overall vision. Rotsen’s relentless efforts to preserve nature beautifully blends with Pedro Ruiz’s poetic philosophy in this whimsical presentation where the ongoing human attacks on the environment are present.

His work intends to confront the splendorous Colombian landscape with the horror of its illicit exploitation and its devastating social and ecological effects. The word LOVE is recurrently present in the titles of all his paintings, which are named after popular love songs. Pedro Ruiz successfully delivers his strong conviction that LOVE is the only unstoppable force, powerful enough to obliterate any personal and collective calamity.

The Americas Collection and Rotsen Design will present an elegant group exhibition from July 12 through August.

The gallery will stay open during the month of August during regular hours, from 9 am to 5 pm, but will not participate in the gallery walk of August 9, 2008.

Internationally acclaimed Southern African American Vernacular artist Purvis Young creates his canvases from recycled products including found wood, discarded library books, old political posters, used furniture and various surplus items from construction sites. 

His complex language expresses what he sees and experiences in the world around him in all its unpretentious stark reality.  His symbols convey the on-going economic and cultural divides so prevalent in Miami and beyond through recurring images of black and white horses, pregnant women, highways and overpasses, convoys of trucks and trains, railroad tracks, airplanes, angels and Zulu warriors (whom he considers his tribe).

Until June 16
Against the Grain
15 Bakehouse Art Complex artists.

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space presents 4 artists: interdisciplinary artist, Grimanesa Amorós presents “You Cannot Feel it…I Wish You Could”.  Amorós explores the interplay between human biology and society. Central to this work is the image/concept of male pregnancy as the future could hold. 

Ena Marrero, a Cuban born contemporary artist, puts on view an installation which “reflects on that very intimate moment when we hold our breath, slip into sheer stockings and face the world”, in her own words, referencing the materials used.

Argentinean, Carlos Trilnick, presents a video installation that reiterates a reflection applied to analysis and writing on his complex artistic work with audio-visual media, from a critical, deep and meaningful point of view.

Young Venezuelan Pepe Lopez enchants us with his site-specific, ongoing project on consumerism and globalization issues.