If you are heading down to Miami for Aug. 11 Second Saturday Art Walk this
weekend, here's a list
of some art shows you can check out. Please note the hours, as some of
the places here are open earlier earlier in the day, some later, etc.
101/Exhibit
101 N.E. 40th St., Miami, 305-573-2101, 101exhibit.com
kNOBODY, JeanPaul Mallozzi's debut solo exhibition, will feature
new works by the artist known for depicting his figures with tightly
rendered bodies and color-smudged faces that symbolize the extent to
which the person is feeling an emotion. His most recent works address
personal struggles and relationships.
Works in the show will include "Spring Never Falls," a mixed-media work
about emotional bullying among girls. Set on a playground, it depicts
thin girls in
lacy dresses atop springy ducks that are dripping in a black oily
substance, and a not-as-thin girl in jeans and hoodie rides a swan.
The skinny girls in pretty dresses are throwing the black drippy
substance at the girl on
the swan, but the swan's wings surround the girl, who is smiling.
"The
swan's protecting her and she's looking back with this smile on her
face, that proverbial eff you, because she knows she's gonna be OK,"
Mallozzi says. The exhibition runs through Aug. 31. Regular gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Read
Arterpillar's story on JeanPaul Mallozzi in the Aug. 5 Lifestyle section of the Sun-Sentinel.
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| "Glowing in the Morning" by Lauren Fogg |
The Art Place
2722 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 786-709-1842, Theartplacewynwood.wordpress.com
Debra Yates and
Lauren Fogg will exhibit their work during Second Saturday Art Walk.
Yates, who grew up in Key West, has been paintings since age 8. After
graduating FSU with a degree in advertising design, she became art
director for a NewYork ad agency, and later held the same position at
Miami Magazine, Miami Herald's Tropic Magazine and Florida Home and
Garden. She's done large commissioned mixed-media paintings and mosaics
for the city of Miami (North Beach Transit Shelter at Collins Avenue and
73rd Street) and Miami International Airport and been the subject of 16
solo shows. In her most recent works, according to her bio, she starts
with one color and builds on it, using no sketches or preconceived ideas
and utilizes diverse materials to construct "assemblages of primitive
and modern elements."
Fogg, who grew up in a military family in Germany, and has seen most of
Europe by age 7, developed a love for travel and her trips through North
America, Europe and Asia inspire her abstract landscape paintings. As
the artist puts it in a statement about her work, "Rather than painting a
landscape as I first witness it, I use the imprint of the experience it
leaves behind, fusing this imprint with past images to paint what is
both influences by the places I have seen and what a painting will
become on its own. These paintings are not of actual places, instead
they allow a new place."
The exhibition, which will also include work by
Danilo Gonzalez, Molly Bo and
Emilio Adan Martinez, opens 6-10 p.m. Aug. 11 with a meet-the-artist reception and runs through TBA.
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| Ryan McCann will exhibit in Summer Reading at Black Square Gallery. |
Black Square Gallery
2248 N.W. First Place, Miami, 305-424-5002, Blacksquaregallery.com
Summer Reading, a exhibition of text-based art curated by Anna
Milashevyc, will feature works by six artists in one of Black Square's
rare group projects. The roster include Claire Jeanine Satin, creator of large outdoor text projects and artbooks; Kyu-Hak Lee, who uses rolled newspaper to make monumental wall installations; Pablo Lehmann, who cuts out his philosophical essays on paper and vinyl with an X-acto knife; Patrizia Giambi, who creates photographs and installations that address "the communicative problems of modern society," Ryan McCann, who uses text in the images he burns into wood, and Tony Vazquez,
who creates collages of magazine text and images on canvas. The show runs through Sept. 5. Regular gallery hours
are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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| "Susana" by Claudia Di Paolo |
Cienfuegos Space Lounge
Wynwood Building, 2750 N.W. Third Ave., Miami, Cienfuegos.com
Claudia Di Paolo explores
"femininity and the beauty of the female body"in an exhibition of
plastic works" that opens with a meet-the-artist reception 7 to 11 p.m.
Aug. 11 and runs through September.
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| "Domestic Duality: by Patricia Schnall Gutierrez will be on exhibit at Dina Mitrani Gallery. |
Dina Mitrani Gallery
2620 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 786-486-7248, Dinamitranigallery.com
Women's Perspectives is billed as a group exhibition of "photo-based
work, where each piece has been conceived as a series. Consisting of
four or more images each, they are examples of how multiple perspectives
can better describe a concept, story, or narrative. The artworks in the
exhibition are groupings that can work cinematically frame by frame in
some cases, and in others, depictions of how fragmentation can complete
an idea or visual expression."
Exhibiting artists include Amalia Caputo, Vicenta Casañ, Marina Font, Deborah Goldman, Peggy Levison Nolan, Patricia Schnall Gutierrez and Viviana Zargon. The exhibition runs through Aug. 24. Read Arterpillar's story on Patricia Schnall Gutierrez. The gallery will be open from 4 to 9 p.m. during Second Saturday Art Walk.
District Factory
3900 N.E. First Ave., Miami, Districtfactory.com
A collaboration of 30 emerging designers and artists will showcase
their talents at an upcoming shopping event hosted by The District
Factory at Miami Design District showrooms, and featuring DJs, art, jewelry, clothing and vintage items, 7-10 p.m. Aug. 11.
Eleazar Delgado Studio
2703 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 305-814-6588, Eleazardelgado.com
OhSoulFresh: So Fresh, an exhibition of works by five
artists who promise "work is so fresh it might be dripping paint on the
floors and giving off that sweet spray paint smell," will feature works
by
Army of One/JC2, Burn353, Vince"BadPanda" Herrera, Whut and
Trek6
who will exhibit a new series titled Bi-celestial Interventions, in a
show that opens 7 p.m. Aug. 11 and runs through Aug. 31. Also showing:
"Feeling Rosy," Egghead BMD Art's subseries by B M de Varona Art Space
(Studio B).
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| Dan Attoe's "Something New" will be on exhibit in Things Beyond Our Control at Snitzer. |
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 N.W. First Place, Miami, 305-448-8976, Snitzer.com
Things Beyond Our Control, a group exhibition curated by teen Miami collector Andrew Reed, will feature works by Dan Attoe, Hernan Bas, Naomi Fisher, Keith Haring, Rashid Johnson, Anton Kannemeyer, Marilyn Minter, Jonathan Meese, Richard Mosse, Man Ray, Lucas Samaras, Malick Sidibe, David Shrigley, Hank Willis Thomas, Michael Vasquez, Carlos Vega, Kara Walker and Chen Wei.
Each artist addresses "questions of agency, structure and the ability
of art, specifically pictorial art, to come into contact with the
conditions of its own production."
As Snitzer puts it in its press release, "The 'beyond' has been, at
different moments, a Platonic Ideal, a hallucinatory dreamworld, a
utopian vision. But in this specific historical moment, the works in the
show raise a slightly darker prospect ... that what is beyond our
control is specifically our ability to imagine, in a compelling way, any
sort of 'beyond' at all ..."
The exhibition runs through Aug. 13. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
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| Breyer P. Orridge's "Fisionet," four c-prints individually mounted on plexi |
Gallery Diet
174 N.W. 23rd St., Miami, 305-571-2288, Gallerydiet.com
Astral Weeks, an exhibition presented by Art Blog Art Blog
and curated by Van Hanos, explores the ideas and questions prompted by
Brion Gysin's "The Dream Machine," a flickering art work meant to be
viewed with closed eyes. The show will include works by
Liz Deschenes, Brock Enright, Keltie Ferris, Jackie Gendel, Brion Gysin, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Corinne Jones,
Jon Kessler, Nicholas Lobo, Rory Parks, Chad Scoville and
Patrick Walsh.
The show runs through Sept. 1. Gallery Diet will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. during Second Saturday Art Walk.
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| Ahol Sniffs Glue: Hit & Run opens Aug. 9 at Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art in Miami. |
Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art
2239 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 305-456-5478, Gsfineart.com
Ahol Sniffs Glue: Hit & Run, a show of Miami artist Ahol's
drawings, paintings and sculptures, is also a fundraiser for the artist
known for painting drowsy eyes that represent the tired peepers of
Miami's working class. In June, Ahol was struck by a hit-and-run driver
while riding his scooter on Biscayne Boulevard. Severely injured and
hospitalized, he remained bedridden for two weeks and left with
significant medical bills. The artist kept on creating, however, and his
new works, some inspired by the hit-and-run driver who left him on the
road, will be on exhibit in a show that also surveys his artistic
evolution over the last five years.
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| Scene of the accident that left Ahol with big medical bills |
When gallerist Gregg Shienbaum heard of the accident, he offered up his
gallery for Ahol to do a show, noting that "Ahol is a well known local
Miami artist, who has given so much to the art community and I just felt
that Wynwood and the art community needs to support him in his time of
need. It is time for us to give back."
The exhibition opens at 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and also during Second Saturday
Art Walk and remains in the gallery through Aug. 31. All money from the
sale of Ahol’s work will go to the artist. The intention of the show is
to help cover the artist cover his medical bills and provide a means for
locals to support Ahol who has been an active and generous supporter of
local charities and Miami’s arts community. Festivities will include al
DJ set, a digital collaboration with METRO ZU and free Abuelo rum
cocktails. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. during Second
Saturday Art Walk.
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| Hangar Pop Up Shop runs noon to 10 p.m. Saturday |
The Hangar Arts Initiative
2235 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 305-571-0970, Hangargallery.com
Hangar Pop Up Shop will exhibit works by Maria
Alguilar, Kelly Barter, Pablo Bermudez, Jessica Castro, Cristina Covas,
Antonio Covas, Kendrick "Greateclectic" Daye, Rich Esposito, Ximena
Etchart, Melissa Goldman, Jorge Heilpern, Charles Leano, Deeda Lipman,
Sandy Maranesi, Manuel Mazzanti, Luis Arturo Mora, Kareem Piper, Juan
Restrepo, Andrew Ringler and Elvis Suarez as well as vendors including Junk Fuel Apparel, Feather Fashions and iShine 365. The event runs from noon to 10 p.m. Aug. 11.
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space 72 N.W. 25th St., Miami, 305-576-1645, Hardcoreartmiami.com
Radical Genealogy: The Decline of Dauphins, Courtesans, and Hounds, an
exhibition curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective, will feature works by
Carlos Gámez de Francisco,
who according to HACS, "appropriates the aesthetic of the opulent and
decadent atmosphere of the days of the last French monarchs to create a
parable of absolute power. Black humor serves as the narrative thread
linking pictorial scenes in which the bloody and the absurd converge
with ostentatious fashion. Each frame opens a window onto a story that
functions simultaneously as a prophetic mirror: in its background one
may catch a glimpse of the fate that awaits the characters thriving on
excessive power. "The show, featuring free cocktails from Mandarine
Napoleon, will run through Aug. 13. Second Saturday hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m.
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| Miranda Maynard's "Glitter" was selected for Lunch Box Gallery's Summer Photo Show 2012. | | | |
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The Lunch Box Gallery
310 N.W. 24th St., Miami, 305-407-8131,
Thelunchboxgallery.com
Summer Photo Show 2012 will feature photography by 14 artists who were selected from a call to
national and international artists who work in photography or
mixed-media art that utilizes photography as a form of expression.
Lunch Box gallerists
Elaine Minionis and
Rudolfo Vanmarcke were
seeking "insightful conceptual ideals materialized through exceptional
craftsmanship, which are intended to represent fascinating takes and
points of view in photography nowadays." They were as interested in the
thoughts behind the images as the appearance of the images.
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| From John William Keedy's series, "It's Hardly Noticeable" |
The resulting show will include conceptual and documentary photography,
narrative photography, photo-essay, iPhoneography and photo-collage and
touch on a number of topics ranging from obsessive-compulsive
tendencies to the mistreatedment of young Muay Thai boxers from a
Bangkok slum.
John William Keedy will exhibit three works from
It's Hardly Noticeable. In this series, the New York artist indulges his own anxieties by
exploring the world of a character who struggles to achieve balance
while caught between his desire to act on his compulsions and blend in with those around him. New Jersey artist
Aimee Hertog
also explores identity issue. Her works in the show focus on the
difficulty women have constructing and retaining identities in a culture
that favors traditional gender roles by manipulating wedding gowns and
superimposing them onto claustrophobic two-dimensional photographic
landscapes.
Ted Oonk, whose from work
stems from her fascination and discontent with how society deal with
deviations from the norm and how imagery contributes stigmatization,
will exhibit two works from "The too-aesthetic database" a photographic
series on her sister Pim who has Down Syndrome. Another artist,
Sarah Tortora,
sets out to frustrate viewers' ability to establish a narrative by
photographing unrelated objects and then adding anonymous subjects.
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| "Build a Better Man" by Tracy J. Thomas |
Tracy J. Thomas's
works in the show were shot and edited on iPhone4. The California-based
photographer juxtaposes pre-1940s photographs with her own background
elements to create new works, many of which are imaginative and fun. If
you're bored and looking for a hefty challenge, go to her
online i-Phone art gallery
and try to pick out just one favorite work. I like "When Puppies Fly"
... no, "Umbrella Girl" or "When Houses Go to Heaven" ... no it's
definitely "Out for a Spin."
Other artists in the show include
Noah David Bau (Boston/Bangkok),
Amy Leibrand (Ohio),
Miranda Maynard (North Carolina),
Lissette Schaeffler (Miami),
Dafna Steinberg (Washington DC),
Luisa Mesa (Miami),
Troy Colby (Kansas),
Ramesh Pithiya (Washington DC) and
Naimar Ramirez (Puerto Rico).
The show will open
5-10 p.m. Aug. 11 and run through Oct. 6. Regular hours are 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Once Art Gallery
170 N.W. 24th St., Miami, 786-333-8404, Oncearts.com
20 Something, a show featuring art by
Dave L, Cromo, Yuhmi Collective, music by
Deaf Poets, silkscreening raffles and free booze, 6-11 p.m. Aug. 11.
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| The Salon show at Primary Projects will have its closing reception during Second Saturday Art Walk. |
Primary Projects
4141 N.E. Second Ave., Miami, Primaryprojectspace.com (Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday)
Salon de Notre Société, a nod to the historical Salon des Refusés of
Paris, ihighlights the paintings, photography, sculpture and
installations of more than 46 artists in an exhibition tat pay homage to
"outsiders."
“The institution that governed ‘Salon de Paris’ in the 1600s and 1700s
was very elitist and rejected artists who later became some of the most
influential of that period, including Édouard Manet,” explains one of
Primary Projects three curators Chris Oh
in a statement abut the show. “In retaliation, these supposed
‘rejects’ created their own forum called ‘Salon des Refusés.’ To a
certain degree, we can identify because we’ve been marginalized in
similar way by the art world for most of our lives and at various stages
of our careers.”
The exhibition, which will feature more than 400 works by emerging and
established artists, will focus on affordable works that the projects
curators expect to increase in value over time.
The show will include work by Nick Arehart, Autumn Casey, Felice Grodon, Douglas Hoekzema, Miru Kim, Stormie Mills, Emmett Moore, Edouard Nardon, Andrew Nigon, Jessy Nite, Jeffrey Noble, Brandon Opalka, Christina Pettersson, Melanie Ratcliff, Rebeca Raney, Johnny Robles, Jonathan Rockford, Samantha Salzinger, Karen Starosta Gilinski, Tatiana Suarez and Antonia Wright.
The closing exhibition, which will feature free drinks from 42below, Perrier and Duvel, runs 7-10 p.m. Saturday.
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| Stop There by Asser Saint-Val |
University of Miami Gallery
Wynwood Building, 2750 N.W. Third Ave., Suite 4, Miami, 305-284-3161, As.miami.edu/art/
Miami Art Museum staff exhibition will consist of 30 recent works
including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance
by 21 artists. The artists are Raymond Adrian, Michael Balbone, Kyle Barnette, David Brieske, Juan Carballo, Marcos Cherlo, Clifton Childree, José Herazo-Osorio, Kerry Keeler, Dave Kudzma, Sinisa Kukec, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Jay Oré, Bennie Osborne, Jahaira Rios-Galves, Phaedra Robinson, Asser Saint-Val, Colin Sherrell, Isabel Sobrevilla, Misael Soto and Janese Weingarten.
The exhibition, curated by Jay Oré, will have its closing reception 2-9
p.m. during Second Saturday Art Walk.
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| Alain LeFort's "Echo's Breath" runs through August at Zadok Gallery. |
Zadok Gallery
2534 N. Miami Ave., Miami, 305-438-3737, Zadokgallery.com
Echo's Breath, a solo exhibition by Alain LeFort
who creates landscapes from images or fragments from numerous images
captured in nature, presents his photographic journey through the
Florida Everglades. The artist, who earned his degree in photography at
Concordia University, digitally "sews" the images together to create
pictures that allow to abandon their urban confines for "primitive
unconscious fantasies." The event, presented in collaboration with the Everglades Foundation and WLRN, runs through August. The gallery opens 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. during Second Saturday Art Walk.
