Graciela Sacco is a visual artist, photographer, video and installation artist.  In Historias del m² Sacco reexamines the square metre, the minimum vital space needed for an individual. 

She states, “It is a reflection on social space and on individual space; a reflection on the everyday battle for that desired place. It alludes to our permanent movement towards a place of belonging; the inside and the outside.” The gallery will be modified with an installation of panels placed at 90° angles which portray signs and metaphors of mankind in transit. 
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These displacements are captured as footsteps left on stairs as seen from below.  This is her second solo show with the gallery.

Clifton Childree. It Gets Worse
A nightmarish slapstick short film. This 1920s style silent horror film is about an old sea captain troubled by a cursed coffin shaped nickel arcade game which changes his appearance and personality, transforming him into the Mr. Hyde alter ego of his character.

The Boys Collection is a body of work that challenges society’s viewpoint on what is perceived as “sexy.”  Melissa Rodwell’s photographs celebrate the youthful male body in striking poses that emanate energy, sexuality and vulnerability with a distinct ‘70s glam-rock, androgynous edge.  

Photographed over a three-year period, Rodwell envisioned a body of images that would bring back the erotic sexuality of the young male at a time when the current Zeitgeist is oversaturated with female body-consciousness.  Weary of shooting female models, she turned her lens to male subjects with breathtaking and thought-provoking results. “The Boys Collection” is Rodwell’s fourth solo show.  The Miami installation follows her critically and publicly acclaimed exhibition in Los Angeles.

Photographer Melissa Rodwell and her husband/muse David Skyler will meet guests at the opening reception.

A distinctive and chronological perspective of Lam’s work showcasing definite states of his visual development, starting from the beginning of his career in the early 20’s and 30’s, and emphasizing the moment when his painting turned iconic exceeding the boundaries of his natal Sagua la Grande (Cuba) during the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. The show  features a strong selection of over 40 paintings and sculpture that best represent the different periods of Lam’s prolific career.

An extremely important collection of masterpieces purchased in Paris, New York, Madrid, Maastricht, Rome, Milano, Mexico DF, Bogota and Washington over the past 3 years. This exhibition celebrates the magnificent Wifredo Lam show at Miami Art Museum

On View until April  30
Fernando Botero – New Sculpture
Frank Stella - Five Decades of Paintings and Sculpture
Guillermo Muñoz Vera – Eight days in Havana

From the collection acquired by the Museo del Barrio, NY, Signature Art Gallery presents, Stillness by Gladys Triana. This photographic exhibit portrays the ambiguous nature of the object after being placed in an unusual context with the element of manipulated light as an important factor. Also featured Triana’s highly meticulous and detailed installations:  Pyramidal Format, The Paragraph, Spiral Format and The Tension of Silence dealing with everyday objects as well.

From March 22
Anita Reyna. Under the Skin
Felipe Herrera. Bodies & Boxes

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Carolina Cordon, emerging artist from Argentina, presents abstract series. Acrylic on canvas.

Chenco. Inner feelings. Mix media  & wood. Artist from Cartagena, Colombia.

Enrique Lobo.From Venezuela, Metamorphosis.Mix media on canvas.

Sculptural installation, drawing and animation by Miami luminary Jen Stark. This will be Stark’s first solo show with the gallery for which the works will be specifically realized.

A testament to process and patience, her sculptures are remarkably simple and ultimately irresistible. Using only paper, an X-acto knife, and glue, Stark succeeds in creating intricate and intelligent sculptures that reveal to us how remarkable a material like paper can become. They exemplify the contrast between exterior and interior and in-between the voids of white and intoxicating myriads of vivid color, often arranged in geometrically mesmerizing configurations, we find a little magic about the world.

This series of work is inspired by the unseen potential of common things. Here Stark deals with the transformation of simple objects, imbuing them with a dimension and meaning hither-to unattained.

He uses water based markers to create the designs on human bodies which appear almost like tattoos. Joon remains fascinated with the tensions between the mind and body. He is intrigued by the concept of the permanence of tattoos as a vehicle for marking one’s soul.

Joon said, "I am interested in tattoo as a metaphor for hidden desire or a kind of compulsion engraved into human consciousness. I see the skin, or in some cases the monitor, as an extension of a canvas…Tattoos can reflect individual and collective reality or displaced desire." He’s known for using brands like Puma, Heineken and Louis Vuitton as conceptual inspiration for each body he paints.

 The mind’s eye is a human being’s ability for visual perception, imagination, visualization and memory. In painting, the degree to which a representation causes this important function to be stressed or challenged is in direct correlation with its level of abstraction. Along the blurred line between the two art forms, where representation ends and abstraction begins (or vice versa), is where Ruggeri’s work lies.    

Painted on translucent Mylar and wood (both cut out to form a silhouette of the object) as well as canvas, Ruggeri’s pieces constitute a meditation on the natural world. Her subjects are quite organic and quotidian, as compositions display piles of rock, canopies of leaves, dirt holes or tree stumps. What becomes immediately apparent is how these familiar forms are used to tinker with the viewer’s sense of the real.