artformz Alternative 171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.572.0040 EMAIL WEB Tue – Fri : 11 - 6
Sat: 12 - 5
by appt anytime
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov. 14, 7 – 10
Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Composition 3, (Detail), mixed media on voile, 2009,
36 x 24 in.
Nov. 14th at 7
Special Opening Night Event:
Money/Art/Opinion
Award-winning journalist and art critic Elisa Turner will conduct live interviews with exhibiting artists.
Nov. 14, 2009 – Jan. 5, 2010
Money Makes Art Natasha Duwin, Donna Haynes, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Sibel Kocabasi, PJ Mills, Rai Escale, Ray Paul, Gisela Savdie, Ray Paul, Rosario Rivera-Bond, Henning Haupt, Guillermo Portieles Artformz winter group show addresses the current global concern for “money”. How money, the abundance of it, or the utter lack of it, affects everyone’s lives is the topic of conversation everywhere. The outcome has been decidedly personal with each artist coming up with decidedly different work in each of their own styles, yet all reflect the current focus on currency. Everywhere there seems a conversation of sales, consumption, need, the economy, the paycheck, the job, retirement, bills, mortgages, college funds, layoffs, and studio rent. The dilemma is more relevant now as artists tiptoe through this recession. While we listen to the hype and propaganda on how everything is getting better, the work struggles to get made and each artist finds there own creative way to survive. Money certainly does facilitate making art, but at the same time, the lack of an abundance of money in the wrong hands, may just possibly make better art.
For Art Basel week Join artformz also @ aqua art Miami Booth # 26 Dec 3 – 6
Jose Antonio Hernández-Diez, Hegel, 2001, C-Print, 250 x 160 cm. Edición 1/3. Cortesia Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Grand Opening Reception Tuesday December 1st, 7
December 1, 2009 – January 15, 2010 José Antonio Hernández Diez. Recent Work
This exhibition presents new work in progress from José Antonio Hernández Diez and will evolve as it travels to new venues. After its presentation at KaBe Contemporary this exhibition will travel to Periférico Caracas among other venues in 2010.
This show, which opens to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach (December 3-6 2009), features the Venezuela artist’s first solo exhibition in Miami, his most recent work, an installation consisting of video and photography, reflecting the sentimental side of human beings. People who were touched by a personal tragedy, perhaps the loss of a loved one due to everyday crime, seek some sort of consolation or closure. His work explores time travel and the possibility to say one last goodbye or undo facts, such as death, thus contributing to a more humane and happy society.
Yeelen Art Gallery 250 N.W. 23rd St. Unit 306
Miami, Fl 33127
954 235 4758 EMAIL WEB
Gallery Hours:
by appt. only.
Jerome Soimaud, Lacou, pigment on glossy photo paper, 2009
Until November 22 Jerome Soimaud’s “Kanzo.”
Kanzo is a photographic exploration of Miami's Haitian Vodou culture. Alongside the musicians of Vaudou Lakay, artist Jerome Soimaud immerses us in the aestheticism and energy of this misunderstood religion.The Kanzo is the holiest sacrament of Vodou and the most intimate event within a Vodouisant's life.
The slave ships not only transported human cargo, but a culture rich in music, spirituality, and mysticism. Rooted in Africa, today Vodou is a living religion, which responds to the trials and tribulations of its followers and society in general.
Jerome Soimaud's work sets a stage of themes dedicated to the poetry and beauty of the unheard voices. Born in Paris 1964, the artist now lives and works in Miami.
29th Street the corridor
Calix Gustav Gallery 98 NW 29th St
Miami, FL 33127
305 576 8116 EMAIL WEB
Gallery Night Reception Saturday Nov. 14, 7 - 10
Klaus Guingand, MAFIART, Wooden letters, painted with black and aluminum colored solution, red and yellow light bulbs, 2009, 24' X 24" X 6'4"
(L X W X H).
Until November 21 "MAFIART", Klaus Guingand. Mafiart is a light installation by French artist Klaus Guingand, which will be featured at the gallery opening . Also on view will be works by up and coming artists Judith Gilmer, Chris Chavers, Janet M. Mueller, Michael Lindabury and Lazaro Amaral. In addition to the large light installation, this exhibition presents a full range of mediums, including oil on resin, prints, silkscreens and sculpture.
The exhibition revolves around the theme of the elitist nature of the art world, fame, and the emotional implications of these concepts.
For Art Basel Week Grit Yanelis López, Charles Chace, Jonathan Stein, Carl Pazcuzzi, Klaus Guingang, Spunk and The Orange Kittens.
Luis Perez Galería at the Awarehouse 550 NW 29th St.
Miami, Fl 33127
305 379 3763 EMAIL WEB
Gallery Night Reception Saturday Nov 14, 7 -11
Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Video Art Exhibition in the garden.
Curated by Annie Wharton Seven Sisters, video by Ingibjörg BirgisdóttirSculptures by Edgar Negret
First international video art exhibition on the grounds of Miami’s most exclusive outdoor video and sculpture garden. Los Angeles-based artist/curator/writer/gallerist/video scholar, Annie Wharton, has been enlisted to curate a video program featuring collections by some of today’s most progressive and celebrated names in the genre.
A series of contemporary art videos will be projected on a 20 by 20 foot wall among the gallery’s permanently installed sculptures by popular Colombian artist Edgar Negret. The first iteration of this program will introduce the work of Icelandic artist Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir. The video, entitled “Seven Sisters,” is a stop-motion animation of hand-drawn works, collages and found videos compiled to create a lush and compelling piece. Wharton secured a place for the work in the collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as The Sagamore Art Hotel’s collection and several other prestigious private collections. The video will be screened for the first time in Florida at The Awarehouse. Using hundreds of drawings, Victorian imagery and scenes of waterfalls and oceans, the stunning work evokes memories, fears and dreams, using a distinctively Scandinavian approach.
Kelley roy Gallery 50 NE 29 St. N Miami Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
305 444 0004 EMAIL WEB Gallery Hours
Tue - Fri 10- 5
and by appointment
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov.14, 7 – 10
Fran Bobadilla, My arrival in the city, very domesticated animal; oil on enamel on canvas;
91.3 X 64 in.
Until December 1st
Fran Bobadilla. Summer in the City The show is a collection of 34 works by Spanish artist Fran Bobadilla on wood, paper and canvas. This is a Miami-specific body of work, influenced by the artist’s visit to the city, expressed with mixed techniques in oil, pencil, water color, pastels and washy enamel ink. All the central themes of his work, in relation to being and being around nature and man, metamorphoses and symbolism have been, in the artist’s words, tainted with the colors and light of Miami.
“The landscape has entered arrogantly into my paintings becoming the absolute protagonist.” Bobadilla lives and works in Florence, Italy.
Ongoing exhibit include works by Patricia Claro, John Henry, Henry Lautz, Kevin Paulsen, Sebastian Spreng, Robert Swedroe, Mike Tesch, Antonio Ugarte and Soile Yli-Mäyry.
36th street
art rouge Gallery 46 NW 36th St.
Miami FL,33127 P: 305 448 2060
EMAIL
WEB Mon - Fri 11 - 6 Sat. by appt.
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov. 14, 7 – 10
Alonso Mateo, Untitled, 2009.
acrilyc on canvas,14x14in,
Until January 10, 2010 Alonso Mateo. Apothecary Luxe. Art Rouge Gallery is a contemporary art gallery featuring original oil, acrylic, encaustic wax paintings, engraving, intaglio, drawing on paper; and bronze, fiber glass sculptures, ceramics, photos, by nationally and internationally renowned artists whose art styles range from post impressionism to abstract.
Whatever the medium represented, the art works are always visually accessible, technically proficient and of important artistic merit and accomplishment.
For Art Basel Week
From Dec. 2 to Dec. 6 Art Rouge Gallery / Kavachnina-Brillembourg Group will host Sculpt Miami art fair.
Dot Fiftyone Gallery 51NW 36th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 9994 EMAIL WEB
Gallery Hours
Mon - Fri 11:00 - 7:30
Sat 1- 6
Private viewing by appt.
Opening Reception
Sat. Nov 14, 7:30 - 11
Andres Ferrrandis, Wall, Mixed Media Installation / Dimension Variable.
Until January 10 Andres Ferrandis. THAW Andrea Chehebar. Purusha (Project Room) About THAW: Using color, non-conventional media and materials, and strategic placement, Andres Ferrandis accomplishes pieces that capture the spectator’s curiosity for truth and thought. Andres’ work depicts an evident influence from constructivist and architectural trends. The appeal lies in the fact that there is no abstraction in the creative process of his pieces. Born in Spain and a resident of Miami since 2002, Ferrandis’ concept of footprints left behind is portrayed in his work through his tactical minimal brushstroke and linear panels; just as time has passed by in our dimension, his brush has passed leaving reminiscent color behind.
Purusha (Project Room)
About Andrea Chehebar: As a Miami Resident, this Colombian artist will be presenting Photography, Video Installation, and mixed media pieces
“We are all different on the outside; no one human being is or thinks exactly the same as another. So, what is it that unites us all? What is that imperishable, unchanging essence we all seem to share?
Purusha, pure consciousness, is the divine self that abides in all beings and guides us. What is due to us will eventually reach us naturally and with no need to worry. Art Fairs: Art Miami (Dec) and MIA (Jan 2010)
Bottero STUDIO 17 NW 36th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 6303 EMAIL WEB1 WEB2
Gallery Hours
by appt.
Meet the Artist in his working studio Saturday Nov. 14, 7 - 9
Daniel Bottero, Reaching To Love, mixed media on canvas, 2006, 86 x 82 in.
Daniel Bottero. The Love of the Poet “In my search, through the art of painting I have found the best way of externalizing the feelings that each of us desires to keep hidden deep within our beings..” Daniel Bottero
Art critic Donald Kuspit ...“Bottero is a poet painter who uses the medium to convey the poetry of his emotions ...he is a poet in that he makes the medium resonate with feeling." Bottero is home in his studios in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami and in Buenos Aires. He has a strong commitment to community, education and to the development of young people. He is the first founding artist for the Artist in Residence Program created by Miami School Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho and the Bottero Art initiative for young talented contemporary artists.
2nd Avenue
Abro Gallery by ada Balcacer
2137 NW 2nd. Ave
Miami, FL 33127
786 348 2100 EMAIL
Gallery Hours:
Tues - Sat 10 – 7
Gallery Night Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 11
Marian Balcacer
Marian Balcacer. Italian Veggies and Artifacts. Series The art-photographer gives the star role to familiar herbs , veggies and artifacts ; forcing the viewer to question the traditional hand pencil drawing of the Italian “ chiaroscuro “ and the contemporary photo-technique over fine art paper . The subtle color application masters the image to impressive beauty . The artist works in Milan ,Italy .Her photographs are in the permanent collection of Abro Gallery .
Jesus Soto, Penetrable BBL Blue, 365 x 400 x 1400 cm., 1999, Edition 2/8
Jesus Soto
Penetrable BBL Blue, 1999
Enjoy this spectacular Soto at Durban Segnini new open space in Wynwood. Soto was a Venezuelan artist (1923 – 2005). He was a sculptor and painter and is most famous for his op art and kinetic art works. Soto is particularly well known for his penetrables, interactive sculptures which consist of square arrays of thin, dangling tubes through which observers can walk. It has been said of Soto's art that it is inseparable from the viewer; it can only stand completed in the illusion perceived by the mind as a result of observing the piece.
Durban-Segnini Gallery was founded in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1970 and in Miami, USA in 1992, by its present director and owner Mr. Cesar Segnini.
Durban-Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting and sculpture, emphasizing in artists who have worked with abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction and kinetic art.Simultaneously, the Gallery strives to promote and diffuse new artistic values as well as the historical vanguards that have influenced those.
Wynwood Central
Gallery
2242 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33137
P: 305 433 3441 EMAIL WEB
Mon - Fri 10 - 5 Sat & Sun
by appt. only
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 10.
Kito Mbiango. 'L'Orange Elegans',2008
Mixed Media on Canvas
Kito Mbiango. Solo Show Mbiango draws from his wide-ranging travels and photographic experience in producing works that excite the imagination by crossing and blurring cultural borders between Eastern and Western spheres of influence. Elements of post-colonial commentary (initiated via found 18th and 19th Century engravings in the style of John James Audubon, J. Barralet, and James Fittler) and modern cultural references (through the use of turn-of-the-century photography and silkscreens) converge in a rich, complex layering of color and graphic embellishment.
Above all, however, emerging artist Mbiango’s more pressing concern is the unity of both artistic and human ingredients: the integration of Eastern and Western influences seeks to peacefully reconcile the inherent cultural differences so ubiquitous in postmodern society. Overall, the goal for Mbiango is to gather both art and its viewer into one stunning, deeply spiritual achievement.
Kito Mbiango was born in Brussels in 1966. He is completely self-taught in his technique and utilizes multiple production methods including image transfer and mixed media assemblage all applied meticulously by hand.
A. Dale Nally
Studio
2315 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami , FL 33127
P:305 724 6021
EMAIL
WEB
Open Second Saturdays
& by appt.
Meet the Artist in his working studio Saturday Nov. 14, 7 - 9
A. Dale Nally, Safe Passage Series # 14, Oil on Canvas, 2009,
56 x 54 x 4 in.
A. Dale Nally . Ongoing Work Nally is a nationally recognized artist living and working in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District of Miami. For the past 10 years he has been developing a unique and definitive way of expressing his art through his creative use of material, a sense of respect for art history, and the many artist that have paved the way before him.
Dale paints quiet, contemplative works which are a result of a deep rooted connection to the earth and the world around him. Each painting is an attempt to discover a sense of quiet, to create the ability to reflect and connect not only to our own world, but the deeper meaning that lies within.
Harold Golen Gallery 2294 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
305 989 3359 EMAIL WEB
Only by appt.
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov.14, 7 – 11
Luis Diaz. Mass A-peel
Luis Diaz. Solo Show Luis Diaz has worked successfully as an illustrator. Working with publishers that include The Topps Company, IDW, Devil's Due, Bang Productions, Miami New Times, New York City's The Village Voice and WWE, Diaz has carved a niche in the commercial art world.
This year his work has been featured in magazines like Corel Painter, Dangerous Ink and WeMerge. He's also been a part of ADAPT 2007-08, Ballistics Publishing and Spectrum Fantastic Art Annuals.
Diaz also created over 40 paintings for the new Garbage Pail Kids and Wacky Packages. Last year he was named one of "Six Artist You Need To Know" by metromix.com and CITY LINK.
He is currently working on paintings in his Miami studio.
Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery Miami 2441 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
786 693 8155
305 573 1333 WEB EMAIL
Gallery Hours:
Wed to Sat 12- 5 or by appointment
Opening Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7-11
Segundo Planes, Cero
(Ten Years After)
Segundo Planes. Solo Show
Lyle O. Reitzel gallery is pleased to announce the first solo show in over ten years within the United States for Cuban painter Segundo Planes. This innovative painter grew to fame in the 1990’s for his neo-expressionist and surreal works
Roberto Cobas Amate writes “Segundo Planes belongs to a generation of young innovative Cuban artists that towards the beginning of the 1980s brought forth an authentic transformation in Cuban painting, creating an open and airy atmosphere, unseen before this time. Left behind were the dominant themes of the 1970’s, realism, hyperrealism and overreaching naïve productions with which the cultural bureaucracy of the time wanted to involve in the artistic process and extend to all sectors of society. Within this context the doors of the conceptual and post-conceptual were opened on the island, explored by each artist in their own right and constituting the essential base of all new Cuban artistic production of the time.”
With this new exhibition, Cero, Planes begins a new chapter in his artistic career as he is exhibited amongst some of the most well recognized Caribbean artists at Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery in the Wynwood Arts District in Miami.
Manuela Ribadeneira, Change is around the corner, aluminio pulido, caucho, 2009, 8 paneles, 11,5 x 11,5 cms por panel
Manuela Ribadeneira. If you are sinister… Ribadeneira's practice can be understood as an interrogation around the phenomena of the territories. Territories interpreted not only as physical entities but also in relation to the processes that contrast ideological, political and identity wise horizons. The poetry contained in her works have the virtue of relativizing the individual gaze towards the sensible themes that she depicts, making the perceptive experience complex by not using obstinate rhetoric that wants to teach a lesson or denounce.
Chelsea Gallery
2441 NW 2nd. Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
305 576 2950 EMAIL WEB Gallery Hours:
Tue – Fri, 10 – 5; Sat 12 – 5 Gallery Night Reception Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 11
Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez, ON VIEW, Yucatan, Mexico 2001-2006
Until December 7th
On View.
Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez
On View, a new exhibition by the husband and wife team of photographers takes us on a rare and astonishing journey into the transformation of the human form after death. In the rural cemeteries of Yucatan, Mexico the dead are not normally embalmed before burial. Typically the remains are unearthed after three years in the ground and transferred to an ossuary of makeshift container for all eternity and for all to view.
On View offers a strikingly beautiful and memorable selection of 24 chromogenic photographs printed by the artists from original negatives. The exhibition opens with an insightful excerpt from The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz.
A companion exhibition featuring 17 additional images from this portfolio can be seen through December 6, 2009 at the Frost Art Museum, located on the campus of Florida International University.
Jorge Perianes, Casa,
Mixed media installation,
13 x 17 x 48 in.
Until January 12, 2010
Denarrations. Curated by Gerardo Mosquera Collective exhibition: Rodrigo Facundo (Colombia); Cristina Lucas (Spain); Aernout Mik (Holland); Jorge Perianes (Spain); Tracey Snelling (US); Vibeke Tandberg (Norway) and Nina Yuen (US) This exhibition presents works that use a narrative structure and simultaneously discuss, deconstruct or even subvert narrative conventions. While the artists included have very different poetics, and their works range from installations to video-performances to paintings, all of them share a will to narrate and to denarrate.
These denarrations tell diverse stories by re-inventing narration in unexpected ways and questioning the internal mechanisms of narrative. The works relate distinct tales –some humorous, some disturbing–, but their main story is story-telling. This is not a conscious, programmatic or conceptualized process by the artists, but just a natural way to deal with complex meaning in their works.
Denarration tries to articulate sharp examples of this somewhat against-the-grain orientation in contemporary art. The works in exhibition go from Tandberg’s uncanny fable to Lucas’ controversial denarration of the ultimate narrative, that of Genesis. Their interaction in a provocative dialogue at the exhibition suggests more stories than the ones that they un-tell.
Dina Mitrani Gallery
2620 NW 2nd. Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
786 486 7248 EMAIL
WEB Tues - Fri, 1- 5 and by appt.
Gallery Night Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 11
Carlos Irijalba, Twilight, 1
20 x 120 cm
Until December 26th
Carlos Irijalba. Twilight. Irijalba, (Spain, 1979) presents us with an exhibition about the way in which Western culture perceives reality through the use of artificial light. The placement of a light fixture, like those used in football stadiums with expectant audiences, within a natural, untouched forest creates a surreal atmosphere. The focus shifts away from the habitually illuminated scene, to the artifact that emanates light.
The artist generates an amalgam of contrasts: western culture, which reconstructs reality with lighting effects with the eastern concept, which focuses more on shadows. We are faced with a critique of the society of the spectacle, the insignificance, the noise and the general conformity that dominates contemporary culture.
Dina Mitrani Gallery opened in November 2008 and specializes in international contemporary photography. The gallery currently represents eight emerging and mid-career artists and will be offering a lecture series and photo-based books. The gallery is committed to promoting its artists, as well as working with independent curators to produce unique group exhibitions.
For Art Basel Week
On view through Art Basel Week until December 26, 2009.
alejandra von hartz gallery
2630 NW 2nd. avenue
Miami, Fl 33127
305 438 0220 EMAIL
Gallery hours:
Tues - Fri 11- 6
Sat 12 - 5
August by appt. only
Opening Reception
Sat. November 14, 7 – 10
Karina Peisajovich, Todo debe ser gris salvo el círculo cromático, Light projection, 2009.
Until February 6, 2010
Beloved Structure: The Argentine Legacy. Curated by Eva Grinstein Fabián Burgos, Martín Di Paola, Marcolina Dipierro, Verónica Di Toro, Lucio Dorr, Silvia Gurfein, Silvana Lacarra, Adriana Minoliti, Karina Peisajovich, Pablo Siquier and Andrés Sobrino.
Latin American Abstract Geometric painting, with its strong ties to Europe yet with its undeniably great, regional protagonists, has left an enormous legacy to the contemporary art scene of the continent.
In this opportunity, Alejandra von Hartz Gallery has invited the curator, Eva Grinstein, to present a carefully selected group of artists, who inherited and continued this rich tradition in Argentine art. They “reinterpret and---in a way--- render homage to the masters of the vanguard, who changed the direction of Latin American art in the mid 20th century.”
Grinstein notes: “This selection presents the work of eleven accomplished Argentine artists of the new generation, who through the use of very diverse materials and techniques---painting, reliefs, light pieces, and drawings---reignites and updates the passion for structure that characterized the artists that challenged the paradigms of representation. …”
MacArt Group
2727 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
305 572 9860 EMAIL
WEB Hours: Mon - Fri 10 - 6
Saturday by appt.
Opening Reception
Sat. November 14, 7 – 10
Tico Torres, Infinity +2 , Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60 in.
Tico Torres. Preview Tico Torres' wide-ranging talent takes on Miami with an unprecedented retrospective of his fine art.Tico is a world class musician who is internationally recognized as the drummer for the rock band, Bon Jovi.
As a world class musician, internationally recognized for his gift and talent, he has over the past years expanded his artistic endeavors to the world of fine arts.
His aspirations as a painter are as ambitious as those as Tico the musician. His growing body of work continues to receive notice of collectors and the art press. Whether sketching while on tour with his band, Bon Jovi, or painting in his New Jersey studio or home in Florida, Tico's inspiration comes from life experiences.
His one night show at the MAC Art Group gallery on
December 5th will benefit the Tico Torres Children foundation.
For Art Basel Week one night show at the MAC Art Group gallery on December 5th will benefit the Tico Torres Children foundation.
CLAUDIA CALLE STUDIO
2722NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, FL 33127
P:
305 546 9626 EMAIL WEB
Hours: Gallery Walk & by appt.
Claudia Calle. Mao's Eye. Mix media on wood.
Grand Opening Reception Wednesday Dec. 2nd, 7 - 12
Claudia Calle.Republic of China. Photography Miami based Colombian photographer and mix media artist Claudia Calle will exhibit her latest collection “Republic of China”, where she portraits Chinese fascinating culture as well as its special socioeconomic reality.
Claudia Calle enjoys experimenting with photography; painting and mixing elements over different and non – conventional materials and this technique is applied with perfection in this magnificent collection.
The public will also be able to enjoy the series “Living in Silence” and “Between Frontier: The Longneck Story” which granted Claudia two honorable mentions in the 2009 International Photography Awards.The pieces were chosen over 20,000 photography’s sent from all over the world.
Diana Lowenstein
Fine Arts 2043 N Miami Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
305 576 1804 EMAIL WEB Gallery hours:
Tues– Fri 10- 5
Sat 10 - 3
Gallery Night Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 11
Clemencia Labin, MegaPulpa Lucrecia, 2009, bikini lycra and polyester cotton,
118 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 11 3/8 in.
Clemencia Labin. Doping Pulpa The art that Clemencia Labin has been working on for the past few years is brimming with moisture, fragrance and color. It oozes tropical splendor and also winks playfully at creatures of the far-off, imaginary land of childhood: cuddly toys. The fabrics chosen by Labin in her work, cloths of all kinds with soft filling, are the same as those used for teddy bears. This element of tenderness, which is connected to all things soft, snug and spongy, gives her work warmth quite rare in the cynical, disbelieving world of contemporary art, so used to exploiting the darker, seedier side of culture.
This exhibition takes place in an architectural space, which is an elongated prism in shape for which Labin has designed an all-encompassing show: in other words, she uses the space as an interior designer or an architect would. She does not merely “hang” or position her pieces, but plans out meticulously how she is going to use the whole space.
Paula Otegui. Metáforas de la Naturaleza Project Room
As mirrored in her work, Otegui believes the world can be a complex sum, sometimes pathetic. The essential exists in the interactions. Everything occurs simultaneously, while the effects are infinite
Ideobox Art Space 2417 N. Miami Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
305 576 9878
EMAIL WEB Gallery hours:
Mon – Fri 9 – 5
Sat by appt. only
Gallery Night Reception
Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 11
Rodrigo Echeverri
Until November 20
Carola Bravo. Rodrigo Echeverri Calero. Francisco Salazar. Linear Memories All three exhibitions play with space, geometrics, and human connections.
Carola Bravo- Venezuelan artist and architect uses charcoal on marble fragments to illustrate the spatial relationship of lines. The minimalist aesthetics of her intriguing geometric structures play with lines that almost mirror the relationship between people and space.
Rodrigo Echeverri Calero-Colombian artist deals with the political undertones of his country through a creation of geometric coffin like shapes. The 3d effect of his work gives an illusion that the forms are reaching out. Each piece has visual depth conveying a cultural reflection.
Francisco Salazar- Venezuelan artist shows the subtle impact of geometry with his pieces. Each form has a cut out creating optical movement in space. Pure white forms are minimal and shown together brings space together.
For Art Basel Week
Eduardo Costa. Fashion Fictions, Names of Friends & The Painting / Object Scott Burton. Photography: Nature, Furniture, Architecture & Performance
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
3326 N Miami Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
786 488 4375 EMAIL
WEB Gallery hours:
Tues - Fri 10 - 6
Sat 11 - 4
Openig Night Reception Saturday. Nov 14, 7 – 11
Julie L. Friel, Gravy series, Mixed Media on wood, 2009,
4 x 6 in
Julie L. Friel’s. Gravy In her own words “These feral figures that inhabit my cityscapes are of you! However, there are a few self-portraits in there. This thick mix of gravy is influenced by everything from the primitive art in the Pacific Northwest, to the popular culture, and then on to street art and graffiti.” Also showing, Cuban Cintas award winner Gladys Triana, Argentinean Mariela Leal’s mock on curators and prints of NY based artist, Richard Garet. For Art Basel week
Gabriela Morawetz. For Basel Season 09 HACS, in partnership with Bernice Steinbaum will be exhibiting at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery (3550 N. Miami Ave.) the work of Polish artist Gabriela Morawetz.
32nd Street
Bakehouse art complex 561 NW 32 St
Miami, FL 33127
305 576 2828 EMAIL WEB Gallery hours:
Mon - Sun, 12 - 5
Opening Reception Friday November 13, 7 – 10
Also open for Second Saturday Nov 14, 7 – 10
Cesar Barroso, Downtown Miami # 1, 2009
Until October 26 Black & White Resident and Associate BAC artists work in traditional black and white photography and explore a variety of topics.
Tomorrow Friday 13
Bac hosts donation drive for Lotus House Thrift Shop
Donations of new and gently used clothing, linens, beds, tables, chairs, love-seats, TVs and other small appliances, dishes, kitchen items and other household goods. All donations from this evening will be collected at the door and go directly to the Lotus House Thrift. All the proceeds from Lotus House Thrift help fund shelter, meals, education, counseling, health services, job readiness training, social services, and relocation assistance to homeless women and children.
The Lotus House's distinctive pink truck will be parked outside of the Bakehouse Art Complex accepting donations from 6-10 pm the night of November 13th. All donations are tax-deductable.
For Art Basel Week
Bakehouse will be hosting the art fair bac:23. The name bac:23 is derived from the number of years the Bakehouse Art Complex has had it roots in the Wynwood Arts District and has been serving the community as a premiere institution for the visual arts in Miami.
28th street
D&G Art Design Gallery 540 NW 28th St
Miami, Fl 33127
305 438 9798
f: 305.438.9799 EMAIL WEB Private Showings by appt.
Gallery Night Reception Saturday Nov 14, 7 - 10
Blake Fisher, Rocky Beach, Black & White photography on film, silver gelatin print, 2007,
20 x 24 in.
Patricia Schnall-Gutierrez. Paintings
Bruce McQuiston. Sculptures
Blake Fisher. Silver Gelatin Prints
Patricia Schnall Gutierrez. Raw. Curated by Luky Cancio
The driving force behind her work stems from childhood memories and recollections of experiences as a young girl growing up where religion and life’s delicate teeter-totter with life and death existed.
Bruce McQuiston Sculptures His work combines organic forms with figurative reference and a contemporary flow. The pieces are constructed from hurricane salvaged lumber from the South Florida region. His recent Bronze and Aluminum castings utilize the wood pieces as the source for the mold making
Blake Fisher.
Photography Fisher was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He started as a commercial photographer yet maintained a love of fine art photography, principally nudes. His work is printed on silver gelatin paper and in limited editions, focusing on the female form as one of the most timeless subjects in photography.
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Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Composition 3, (Detail), mixed media on voile, 2009, 
Jose Antonio Hernández-Diez, Hegel, 2001, C-Print, 250 x 160 cm. Edición 1/3. Cortesia Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Jerome Soimaud, Lacou, pigment on glossy photo paper, 2009
Klaus Guingand, MAFIART, Wooden letters, painted with black and aluminum colored solution, red and yellow light bulbs, 2009, 24' X 24" X 6'4" 
Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir
Fran Bobadilla, My arrival in the city, very domesticated animal; oil on enamel on canvas; 
Marian Balcacer 
Jesus Soto, Penetrable BBL Blue, 365 x 400 x 1400 cm., 1999, Edition 2/8
Segundo Planes, Cero 
Manuela Ribadeneira, Change is around the corner, aluminio pulido, caucho, 2009, 8 paneles, 11,5 x 11,5 cms por panel
Eduardo del Valle & Mirta Gómez, ON VIEW, Yucatan, Mexico 2001-2006
Cesar Barroso, Downtown Miami # 1, 2009 
Blake Fisher, Rocky Beach, Black & White photography on film, silver gelatin print, 2007, 
