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.

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).

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.

Landscape painting is one of the oldest genres in the history of art and one of the most popular as well. The exhibition includes the paintings of three landscape artists Ernesto Estevez, Paul Manes and Diego Torres.

Ernesto Estevez and Diego Torres are both from Cuba and have devoted their careers to this genre. Inspired by the nature of their country, their work can be described as hyperrealist, loyally representing the Cuban countryside.

Until May 10
A tale of Two Cities. Gory / Gian Paolo Minelli

Different cities have been the muse for many photographers through the history of art. In this occasion we got together two photographers with two very different poetics and their vision of two cities: New York and Buenos Aires. These two photographers, Gory (Rogelio Lopez Marin) and Gian Paolo Minelli, are showing the tales of these two cities, geographically and socially on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Cristina Lei Rodriguez’s new work introduces a wider range of sources that center on the consumer and commercial object and move beyond the baroque, overtly ornamented gardens and vegetation for which she is known.

The works on view bear a noticeable relationship to the found objects, minimalist works and junk sculptures of the 1960s, particularly those by Donald Judd and John Chamberlain. Several sculptures consist of complex assemblages made of fashionable fabrics, artificial plants and everyday items; others consist of simple, solid structures that bring focus to the literal nature of the objects.

Rodriguez’s sculptures reflect a love of artifice that characterizes the artists of her generation. With this new body of work, the artist offers an unabashed celebration of the consumer object in all its forms.

From May 31 to  July 26
Cary Kwok
Martin Oppel. Life’s a Gas

On display will be recent works by over 15 Bakehouse Art Complex artists. Exploring urban development’s impact on art, this exhibition focuses on BAC artists’ portrayals of raw and visceral themes of city life. Combining found objects, iconic images, and underground comics, the show reveals an empty wasteland of turmoil and alienation.

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.

The Americas Collection and Rotsen Design are proud to present an alternative version of “Love is in the Air” in their Wynwood gallery, following its debut at The Americas Collection in Coral Gables last week during Gallery Night on May 2, 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.