What do sneakers, carnival rides, a Royal typewriter, a lollipop and a
kaleidoscope have in common? Not much, but they're all depicted in
photos that will hang in "InstaGallery," a group exhibition at the West
Palm Beach art gallery and tattoo shop Ink and Pistons.
Katya Neptune's Instragram will appear in Ink and Pistons
The show is a good fit for the venue, which opened this past July.
Amanda Linton, who co-owns Ink and Pistons with her husband, tattoo
artist and painter JR Linton, says the show helps to achieve her ongoing
goal to get more people involved in the arts. "You don't really have to
consider yourself an artist to be part of an Instagram show," she says.
"Everybody right now is obsessed with Instagram, I think, partly
because people want to peek into people's lives and see what they're
doing."
Instagram, a free app with more than 100 million registered users,
allows people to enhance photos (taken on an iPhone or Android) using a
variety of filters, and instantly share these photos via Facebook,
Twitter and Flickr.
On Saturday night, Ink and
Pistons will exhibit more than 600 Instagram images, all of which were
received in a call to Instagrammers and printed as professional-quality
4x4 photos.
Above is a mini-preview of some of the images you will see at the show. To read the accompanying
descriptions, click the lower right hand corner of the slide show ...
and then click on "show info" (at top) so you can read the text for each
... or simply view the Flickr set.
Musicians Series Volume 1: The Art of Hilda Vazquez unites two of the Fort Lauderdale artist's favorite passions: music and art. As a youth, Vazquez studied music with her mother, a piano teacher, and took clarinet lessons in school. Even as she pursued art in college, she continued to be influenced by music which she says has always been a family thing. "My aunt was a recording artist in the '50s and '60s, and my cousins either played or sang," she says. "Music was always around. Though I never made a career from it, it is a constant influence in my work."
Joel DaSilva by Hilda Vazquez
"We have such amazing musicians here in Florida that are touring nationally and internationally so this series is really about highlighting them," she says. "Other pieces in the series all have ties to Florida in some way. I hope to showcase and highlight the talented musicians I've crossed paths with in my life, as well as those whose music has inspired me along the way."
Her subjects include: blues guitarist JP Soars; Ohio-baed touring jazz and blues musician Wade Baker; Rebecca Dawkins of The Noveaux Honkies; Nashville bassist, instructor, composer, and producer Kevin Simonelic; Stefano Rotati, drummer for Joel DaSilva and the Midnight Howl, and DaSilva, whose band will travel to Memphis in February to represent South Florida and the South Florida Blues Society at the 2013 International Blues Challenge.
Vazquez also will pay tribue to her aunt, Ana Vazquez a.k.a. Nita Del Pino (her stage name) with a collection of images from her band's tour days in the 50's and 60's and some of her album covers.
When not exhibiting or working as senior designer for South Florida Business Journal, Vazquez, who had her first solo show at a Davie coffeehouse in 1997, paints live at music festivals and venues such as Green Room. She also regularly donates works to charities including Surfers for Autism and The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research.
Nita Del Pino by Hilda Vazquez
In addition to sharing her works, she enjoys sharing the limelight, so what she initially intended as the debut of her musician series has now turned into an all-out bash. "The more I thought about it, I wanted to make it a party — a celebration of art and music combined, since without one I wouldn't have created the other," she notes. "So I called a few friends (also artists and photographers) and said 'I have a venue, let's all show our music-inspired work."
DaSilva, who says that he and his wife Kristina already have a portrait Vazquez painted of them hanging in their apartment, is looking forward to the show
"Hilda has a keen eye into the details of the soul of a person," Joel DaSilva says. "She really brings out who the person is in her paintings, and breathes life and love into her art. When you talk to her, shes a bubbly positive person and it shows in her art. I really hope she does well. she really deserves it."
Even as she debuts Musician Series: Volume I, which she's been working on for a few years, Vazquez is plotting the next series.
Meanwhile, you can check out her Volume 1, as well as the works of many of her friends, on Saturday night.
As Vazquez puts it, "Art is incredibly personal. Sharing it with others puts everything you are and feel on display. I hope people walk away feeling something. There's no need to always understand it ... just feel."
Musician Series Volume I: The Art of Hilda Vazquez starts at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at The Bubble, 810 N.E. 4th Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Admission is $10. Call 954-562-3804 or visit Independentworkingartistnetwork.com.
Elezar Delgado's Sunshine Culture will debut Nov. 30 at Eleazar Delgado Studio.
Eleazar Delgado Studio 2703 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 305-814-6588, Eleazardelgado.com
Sunshine Culture, a new collection of works by Eleazar Delgado, was inspired by South Florida living.
VP Operations Joshua Kingston and Delgado, when he was still working on the series
Here are the thoughts at the core of his exhibition, in the artist's own
words: "My new Sunshine Culture collection lives in the 1920's, the
roaring 20's, because it was in that time that Miami became 'The Magic
City.' Miami’s population nearly quadrupled and the swamp became a city
almost overnight. It was the city's first real estate bubble and even
after the big 1926 hurricane, it kept growing nonstop ever since, just
like the mangroves.
"Women are depicted in this collection as the force that influenced the
city’s growth, it is not by chance that Miami was founded by a woman,
Julia Tuttle, a lot of female investors came to the Magic City and
trusted their gut to settle in Miami. Families built their winter homes
and sent their kids to school in the warmth of the tropics. The city is
covered with the names of these women that broke the rules and Miami
gave them a chance of a new life.
"Sunshine Culture celebrates the joy of life, that time that you take
just to enjoy yourself. Miami has been that for me, just you and the
beauty of its surroundings and sharing it with others."
Sunshine Culture will debut 7-10 p.m. Nov. 30. The show is a benefit for Gene Spotlight. Attendees must RSVP toJl-pr.com.
Harold's Coffee Lounge 509 Northwood Road West Palm Beach, 561-833-6366, Haroldscoffee.com
Artists of Palm Beach County is an exhibition that will include works by Detourbutterfly, Paul Caprio, Rolando Chang Barrero, Karen McGovern and Monica McGivern, who will exhibit some of her work done with analog
cameras including Polaroid Spectra, and the Polaroid SX-70. "The actual
Polaroids will be on exhibit, which offer the viewer an introspective
experience perfect in combination with the Harold's Coffee atmosphere,"
she says. "It's art you can sip inspiration from." The show opens 6-9
p.m. Nov. 30 and runs through Dec. 25.
Khamsa-izm, a show organized by artist Nicolas Lobo, is named for "the ancient hand-shaped amulet used to ward off the evil eye." The exhibition will feature work by Kenneth Tam, Alyse Emdur, Oliver Laric, Harun Farocki, Bill Daniel, Emmett Moore. Gean Moreno,Martijn Hendriks and Ernesto Oroza,
all of whom have made work that addresses four questions: "What are the
moral qualities of the hand? Does the eye have the ability to project
good or evil? Can the powers of the hand be perpetuated through
mechanical reproduction? If a machine can see, can it act as a
surrogate, projecting negative feelings through its eye?" The exhibition
will open 7-9 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Project Room and run through Dec. 31.
"The Working Day," a solo exhibition by Ohad Meromi
The Working Day is a solo exhibition in which Ohad Meromi,
who typically uses architecture and figural elements in his work, is
"revising this relationship between architecture/installation and the
figurative, allowing for the figures to become the architecture, and so
assigning them the role of creating that potential-filled ‘new place,’"
the artist notes in a statement about his work. "Grouping a number of
figurative works in the gallery space – each treated as a freestanding
piece but thought of together as The Gravediggers – I seek to address
issues of class and the distinctions made between the individual and the
collective.” The show opens 7-9 p.m. Nov. 30 in Gallery Diet's main gallery and runs through Dec. 31. Extended Basel hours are 10 a.m to 7 p.m. Dec. 3 through 8.
Irreversible Magazine Exhibition features the artists selected for the December 2012 issue by a panel that included Bernice Steinbaum, Carol Damian, Alejandro Mendoza, Lunch Box Gallery directors Rodolfo Vanmarcke and Elaine Minionis, art critic Carlos Suarez de Jesus and Armando Colina of Arvil Gallery, Mexico. Selected artists include
The exhibition will close with a reception that starts at 6 p.m. Nov. 30 and will feature an interactive performance by Patricia Schnall Gutierrez.and sounds by DJ Skitty and Remy Noise.
Bridges, a contemporary art show featuring local and
international artists, will mark the grand opening of the gallery, which
has German origins and provides a bridge between street artists and
galleries.
Rosemary Duffy Larson Gallery Broward College, 3501 SW Davie Road, Davie, 954-201-6984, Broward.edu/studentlife/culturalarts A Proud and Soaring Thing, a solo exhibition by Chicago artist Matt Woodward,
will feature "monumental graphite drawings dealing with the cycle of
loss and revival, the American city, and its obsessive attempts to
rebuke and abandon its history. Through the use of a reductive drawing
technique, Woodward consciously mirrors the push and pull of
deconstructing and reconstructing the experience of space as we come to
remember and forget." The exhibition will open 6-9 p.m. Nov. 29
(including an 8 p.m. artist lecture) and run through Jan. 23.
Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art 2239 N.W. Second Ave., Miami, 305-205-9089, Gsfineart.com Snipers,Ahol Sniffs Glue'snew
solo exhibition, is somewhat of a departure from his previous works.
The work of the Hialeah-born artist, who is well-known for painting the
droopy eyes that he has said tell the stories of Miami's hardest working
individuals, has continued to evolve. But recently he began making
plush toys that are hand-sewn, hand-stuffed and creepy.
"I have
been taking cellphone pictures for a while and chopping them up on my
phone," Ahol explains. "People really started liking the odd creations I
was making and for the last show I had a digital canvas made of some of
the images. People liked them so I wanted to see how I could further
it."
"Murder Bags" by Ahol Sniffs Glue
Around that time, he says, his neighbors (Eekbouteek.com)
introduced him to fabric which led to the idea of plush toys. "It was
basically a way to take these images and bring them into a creepy 3D
existence."
Snipers, the title of the resulting exhibition
refers to the cell phone pics. As explained in a press release about
the show, "Snipers are images of everyday people, places, events and
occurrences that most people never pay attention to. 'Sniped'
spontaneously on a cell phone, unbeknownst to the subject, and
completely cropped, and digitally manipulated by applications on a cell
phone, the images are then turned into three-dimensional soft sculptures
which the artist calls 'plush toys' or peluches.'"
The toys are
meant to capture the essence of Ahol's interactions with his city and
preserve moments that would otherwise be lost after they occurred.
Ahol
prints each image, matches it with fabric (on front and back) and
then stuffs and sews the work into a plush toy about life in Miami as he
sees it.
"Cheetah Creepah" by Ahol Sniffs Glue
Despite the term
"plush toys," the gallery advises that there is strong imagery
associated with the exhibition. They would also like people to know that
the toys can be won, and that guests should bring quarters.
"There
are 100 one-of-a-kind toys for sale ... hand packaged," Ahol explains.
"It's $300 for one, $500 for two and $600 for three. There's a claw
machine with miscellaneous treasures. One dollar to test your luck.
Bring quarters to play."
Be on the lookout for Ahol, especially
if he's carrying his cell phone. Considering his new medium, you could
wind up shot and stuffed for his next show.
Snipers will open 7-11 p.m. Nov. 29 and run through Dec. 9. After the opening, there will be an after-party at Vagabond, 30 N.E. 14th St., Miami.
Pop-Up Piano Miami, a public art project presented by
Steinway & Sons in Miami, will feature eight pianos, each of which
has been transformed into works of art by creative people selected from a
call to artists held earlier this year.
The finished pianos will be placed on the streets of Wynwood during Art Basel (Dec. 6 through 9) and
in between scheduled "pop-up performances" by various musicians,
passersby will have the opportunity to play their hearts out. It should
be interesting, because what talented pianist, even if they haven't
played for years, can walk by an empty piano bench parked in front of a
piano that's so inviting?
Ivan Roque transformed this piano that will be in Pop-Up Piano Miami.
After Basel week, the pianos will be given to local charities where PUPM
will work to implement or expand programs music programs and workshops.
The mixer runs 7-9 p.m. Nov. 28 at Miami Iron Side, 7600 N.E. Fourth Court, Miami. Admission is free but attendees must register via Miamiironside.com (form is at bottom of page below the flyer).
• Pop
Up Piano Miami will also have a fundraising concert to benefit Friends
of the New World Symphony and the Kimbanguist Symphony Orchestra. The
event will feature a preview of the finished pianos before they hit the
streets, performances by Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna, rock jazz pianistElew, and beats by DJ Yissel Cabrera a.k.a. DJ YSL and a silent auction of donated gifts.
The fundraiser runs 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Dec. 5
at The Perry South Beach Hotel, 2377 Collins Ave., Miami Beach. Tickets
are $100 and will includes passed hors d'oeuvres and Grey Goose
cocktails. Purchase them onEventbrite.
As we arrived around 7:30 p.m. some of the artists were just hitting the streets to hide their works.
A crowd had already begun gathering at Laser Wolfand some were more prepared than others. One woman wore a flashlight on her head miner-style, while another sported gloves and carried a long stick to poke into the bushes. We saw a man in what appeared to be his lucky hunting hat, and Charlotte Sundquist even brought her own ladder.
ART SCAVENGER HUNT: Waiting for the maps.
Once the maps went out, everyone was off and running. Squeals of delight echoed down back alleys as people poking through bushes and peering into dumpsters found hidden works which included paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.
One small work was really high up on a building, sitting atop a window covering. Two people were throwing something up there to try to knock it down and finally, it fell to the ground and was swooped up. Another art work was on the edge of a roof on the other side of a barbed write fence. Initially, people were using sticks to try to reach it, but then a guy started to climbed the fence with the rows of barbed wire atop it. I couldn't look anymore so I don't know how that story ended.
Look what I found!
It's easy to miss things. so seeing someone poking around bushes and coming away empty-handed doesn't mean you shouldn't try it. I kept poking around in this one thick bush, feeling sure there was something in there, and seconds after I abandoned it, someone jumped in there and emerged with a fabulous find.
I continued making my way down the alley, turning over old boards and looking into every nook and cranny. Outside a bay door, I spotted a rusty old paint can lid that everyone was passing right on by. I turned it over and found a paintbrush stuck to it. The color of the lid and the paint still on the brush was handicapped-parking-lot-stripe blue ... just like the bikes from the Blue Bike Project, an adventure I've followed and loved for years.
I treasure my find and after heading back to Laser Wolf, got it signed by the Blue Bike Project and Art Scavenger Hunt founder Steve Sticht, who pointed out the little hole in the brush that makes the work perfect for hanging.
We also found an unopened envelope that read "Moxie Nox photo" on the outside. Inside was a picture taken at a carnival. It's a silhouette of a ferris wheel and some other rides. I was unable to find the artist outside Laser Wolf ... but thanks Moxie!!
I did find Charlotte Sundquist standing behind her giant find. The artist who made it, Brandon Webb, said he also had another large work, which was four feet on each side, in the hunt. Asked how one can hide something that big, Webb said he turned the work around and wrote "Garage Sale" on the back of it.
Charlotte Sundquist and her finds ....
Later, we found Sundquist standing beside her car with her very large art work. It was just a few inches short of being able to fit in her vehicle. Fortunately, Webb learned of her dilemma and offered to deliver it.
It was a fun night and best I can tell, even those who didn't find any work, seemed to be having fun.
Above is a slide show with some pics, as well as some photos I took in F.A.T. Villagebefore heading to the hunt. I took many more, too, but my camera doesn't do so well with night photography, so these are the ones I could salvage. Sorry if some are a tad blurry.
To read the accompanying
descriptions, click the lower right hand corner of the slide show ...
and then click on "show info" (at top) so you can read the text for each
... or simply view the Flickr set.
"Surrounded," Misoo Filan's large acrylic and mixed media on panel, depicts a woman lying on her back naked in a sepia-toned forest. Atop her, with one leg on either side of her belly is a baby sucking on her breast.
"Twinkle Twinkle" by Misoo Filan
The eyes of the woman, whose long hair is flowing around her head, look skyward. Deer, cows, ducks and other animals, some brightly colored, stand by watching as the baby seems to be sucking the last bit of energy from her exhausted mother's body.
The work addresses Filan's concerns about taking care of herself so she can continue to care for her 3-year-old daughter.
"One of my fears is: What if I die? What if I get hurt or am immobile? Who's going to take care of Lily?" the 32-year-old Boca Raton artist reveals. "So I made these imaginary animals around me, like I was calling them. They're not real, so I made them unrealistic colors and sizes and was asking them to come and please help her."
Filan, who is part of "Tap Into Miniature," a group exhibit that has been showing at The Art Place Wynwood in Miami, began turning to her art in a time of need at age 18. She had been living with her father in Korea for most of her life, and when he died, she had to move to New Jersey to live with her mother, a woman she says she didn't know very well.
You can view images of Filan's work in the slide show above. To read the accompanying
descriptions, click the lower right hand corner of the slide show ...
and then click on "show info" (at top) so you can read the text for each
... or simply view the Flickr set.
Also on-site: Jolt Radio, Los Chamos Food Truck and TML (Touching Miami With Love) , which will be on-site selling $40 painted plates to raise money for Art That Feeds, an initiative that provides food for 35 underprivileged kids in Overtown. The show runs 3 to 9 p.m. Nov. 25.
Small Stuff 6 opens with vegan treats and mimosas 1-5 p.m. Nov. 25
Bear and Bird Gallery Upstairs at Tate’s, 4566 N. University Drive, Lauderhill, 954-748-0181, Bearandbird.com
Unlike at other Bear and Bird shows, purchased works can be taken home
immediately, so the only way to see the show in its entirety is to attend the opening or
check out the online archive. The exhibition, or whatever is left of
it, will run through Jan. 12.
Early December may be all about Miami Basel-ness, but the Saturday after Thanksgiving belongs to downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Put your sneakers on so you can run as fast as your legs will carry you to find all the art that will be hidden during Art Scavenger Hunt ... and to run from one show to another. Saturday is also F.A.T. Village Art Walk, The Kris Starry and INVI Collab Party at Green Room and Itty Bitty Blazar Gala at The Bubble in Fort Lauderdale.
2012 Art Scavenger Hunt
2012 Art Scavenger Huntis what locals know as that special Saturday-after-Thanksgiving tradition, whereby Steve Sticht,
of local Blue Bike Project fame, makes loads of art works (see above) and rounds up many of his artist friends to do the same.
They meet in Fort Lauderdale (this year, outside Laser Wolf, a neighborhood bar that serves craft beers, wine and sake) and hide their works in bushes,
trees, on fences, under rocks, down back alleys, wherever they can find within the designated surrounding area.
The public is invited to come and find the art (a two-work limit for
each finder, please) and then return to the point of origin to meet the
artists, who will be on hand to sign the works before the finders take them home.
Chief art hunt founder, hider and mapmaker Steve Sticht
Arrive promptly by 8 p.m. with your flashlight, wear good running shoes, get your map (they'll be distributed at start time) and
run as fast as your legs will carry you to look for art by local artists who contribute works for the event.
Don't even try to be snitching
hidden art before the maps go out, or taking more than two works
of art (that's the limit and hoarding is off limits.
Friends of the hunt will be wandering the streets and violators if caught, will be photographed and exposed online. Remember, no one likes a loser who cheats and tries to
ruin one of Fort Lauderdale's best (and free) Thanksgiving weekend traditions.
Now that you know all that, remember that art can be anywhere. Leave no stone unturned, but do be careful. Last year, Sticht encountered a guy with a cut arm and bloodied
shirt. "Some girls wanted a piece that was high on a pole and he climbed
up a chain link fence and caught himself on it – but he was so happy to
get it for them and was showing off his little wound."
Then, the bloodied hunter apparently made his way back to Laser Wolf
to meet the artists, most of whom are on hand to sign the works. You have to look for them, though, and may have to ask around a bit, as they're not always all in one place.
"It's not like we have a section with just the
artists sitting there," Sticht says. "It never gets that organized. It's
just mayhem after the maps go out."
Kris Starry & INVI Collab Party will feature collaborative works by Kris Starry,
who does themed photo sessions with local artists, burlesque dancers
and other models, many of them tattooed and body-painted, andINVI,
who draws and paint zombies and monsters. The artists, both of whom
were recently featured in WeMerge Magazine, will show their
collaborations (a blend of both artist's work) and each will show works of their own as well. See the
slide show above for a little preview.
This is Starry and INVI's second annual collab show. The first, titled Super Fab Co-Lab Party was held last October at Kevro's Art Bar in Delray Beach. Their Green Room show is a little bigger.
The timing is good for Vilonna, who has been drawing since high school, and became a full-time artist five months ago. Prior to that, he worked at a bank and spent his lunch breaks nuking his Lean Cuisine and eating it really fast so he could draw.
"If I wasn't done my lunch within the half hour my boss would yell at me so I'd try to get [one drawing] done and I started posting them," he recalls. "It was funny because I'd go to events and people were like 'Oh you're the lunchtime guy ... That's kind of your big 'F You' to the establishment,' and I'm like, 'Oh OK, I just wanna draw without someone yelling at me."
Now, he's doing his art full-time. "I'm not Benjamin Buttons," he says. "I'm not getting any younger so I might as well try this while I have the time, and thank God my wife is in full support of me."
"'97," one of his collaborations in the show, reflects his feelings about that. Named for the Alkaline Trio song, it depicts a goofy-looking zombie-like guy with a pin-up girl in the background (reflecting him and his wife) and the song lyrics "I don't deserve this" written around the zombie's head.
While the song lyrics are about a breakup, and not deserving a thorn "the size of a Cadillac," Vilonna's work is about not deserving something so good. "I know a lot of people are struggling and want to pursue their dreams, and I'm really blessed," he says. "I honestly never thought I would see the day I was doing this."
The exhibition will open with a party that includes fire dancers, a performance by Killmama, burlesque by The Reckless Dames, and DJ sets by Andie Sweetswirl.
The four-hour bash starts at 10 p.m. Nov. 24 and the work will remain
on exhibit through Dec. 1 at Green Room, 109 S.W. Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Admission to the opening is $5, and the first 30
guests will receive a free print, made especially for this event. Call 954-449-1030 or visit Greenroomlive.com.
Jane Tracy's solo exhibition will be on display at Project Fine Art during F.A.T. Village Art Walk
F.A.T. Village Art Walk, which takes place just west of Andrews Avenue between Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest Sixth Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, runs 7-11 p.m. Saturday. For more details, visit Facebook.com/FatVillageArtsDistrict.
Cagando Al Reves, a site-specific installation by 3PQ Collective, opens Nov. 23 ay 6th Street Container.
Cagando Al Reves, a site-specific installation by 3PQ Collective (Sinisa Kukec, Stephan Tugrul and Freddy Jouwayed), will open at 6th Street Container in Little Havana.
Here's the lowdown on the collective, as put by the collective in its statement:
"To go beyond our means and bodies, 3PQ seeks to transport itself from a static
landscape into a fluid, real time continuum, a sort of momentary bliss of genuine
discovery and refusal, lines erase, transverse or scale infinitely as pixels on a
screen. Overlapping layers of perception, fears and stolen moments recombine
in a united effort, blurring the line between the individual participants towards
a collective organism.
"What remains is the physical memory of the collaborative
exchange. In essence 3PQ is a social experiment. One that could be never be
planned or contrived. It is steered by establishing dates and inviting others to
participate. What happens at these gatherings is a product momentary interaction
where words mean something only if they are drawn or expressed in a visual
vernacular."
The installation will open 7-10 p.m. Nov. 23 and run through Dec. 14 at 6th Street Container Alternative Art Space, 1155 S.W. Sixth St., Miami. Call 786-587-5279 or visit 6thstreetcontainer.com.
Martin Casuso will speak tonight after Art Club of Broward College North Campus's First Annual Art Fest
First Annual Art Fest by the Art Club of Broward College
North Campus features a student art exhibition with paintings, drawings,
ceramics and functional items such as mugs, bowls and other potential
gift items.
There will also be a collaborative art installation
(visitors are welcome to participate), live art demonstrations and a
food and beverage sale to raise money for future art club activities and
events.
The events, which take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 20,
will be followed bya 6:30 p.m. talk by Martin Casuso, an artist who uses home-based crafts and thrift store items to make conceptual works of art. Read Arterpillar's story on Casuso. (It ran in October when he was showing work in Appropriated Gender at 1310 Gallery).
The First Annual Art Fest and Casuso's talk will take place at Broward North Regional Library, 1000 Coconut Creek Blvd., Room 154, Coconut Creek, 954-201-2662
Santas will surely be dropping into the Santa-Con Art Show on Dec. 22 at Geen Room in Fort Lauderdale.
Post-Apocalypse Santa art, including paintings, illustrations, photography, sculpture and mixed media, are needed for a Santa-Con Art Show that will open with bands, a DJ set by Andie Sweetswirl and drink specials, at 10 p.m. Dec. 22 at Green Room in Fort Lauderdale. Each artist may exhibit one to three pieces or one oversized piece. Art, which must be labeled on back with artist's name, contact info and price, must be delivered 6-9 p.m. Dec. 19 and picked up 6-9 p.m. Jan. 2. Artists should contact Gina at Electriccanvas@yahoo.com.
Local Artists Coming Together is accepting submissions
for a series of collectible artist trading cards
called “Local Art” (Series III). The theme is “Self Portraits” and the goal is to inspire/expand the local art
scene through a partnership with local businesses. 50 submissions will be chosen and each selected artists will receive 17 sets of the cards. The rules on entering can be found on the Facebook event page. Submission deadline is midnight Dec. 31.
Miami's Independent Thinkers seeks "painters,
photographers, filmmakers, sculptors, animators, writers, musicians, performance and new media artists.
There is a $35 entry fee for up to four images, $5 for each additional
image. $35 entry fee for film, animation and performance submissions.
Payment is accepted via PayPal. Cash may be accepted but must be
handled in person." Deadline is midnight Nov. 20. Find all the details at Miamithinkers.com/submissions.php. Applications are being accepted for the City-Wide Holiday Extravaganza to be held Dec. 1 and 2 at War Memorial Auditorium in Fort Lauderdale.
3rd Annual Travulous & Friends Spread Cosmic Cheer Holiday Market & Intergalactic Musical needs
artists, vendors and creative people who are interested in
participating in the five-hour party that starts at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at
The Bubble in Fort Lauderdale. E-mail Rachel DeJohn at Say.hello.rachel@gmail.com or Bythewayinc@aol.com. Vendor fees range from $30 to $40 and vendors forms can be downloaded. Intake for Parker Playhouse Fine Art Gallery Show is 11:15 to 1 p.m. Nov. 20. E-mail HeyKosh@aol.com for more info. Artists are sought for a Quentin Tarantino Art Show that will accompany present by Green Room and Black Fridays in honor of "Django Unchained," the latest Quintin Tarantino flick set for release on Christmas day. The party, which starts at 10 p.m. Dec. 28, will feature music, art and burlesque performances inspired by Tarantino films including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and Inglorious Bastards. Each artist can display 1-3 works that are ready to hang (no double-sided tape please). Art must be delivered 6-9 p.m. Dec. 26 and be picked up 6-9 p.m. Jan. 9. Confirmed artists so far include Rosario Psy, Jah Linx, Lauck Ward, Pamela Otto, Dibbie Jane, Mr. Babes, Sonja Santiago, Leah Borja, Jonathan Vinazza, Monky, Keshaunda Parrish. Interested artists should contact Gina at Electriccanvas@yahoo.com.
Spots on "The Good Wall"
The Good Wall is an outdoor gallery of murals located at the Goodwill store at 982 S.W. Eighth St., Miami. For artists who want to participate, here are some guidelines: Art works should relate to "Goodwill, which is to enhance the dignity and quality of
life of individuals and families" or "the positive aspects of Little Havana and its culture" and be "family-friendly." The art should be original, completed within two weeks and contain no logos or protruding elements, Proposed sketches should be sent to Didirok303@hotmail.com. Find more info at Facebook.com/TheGoodWall.
I took a few hours this weekend to catch up on reading some local art blogs. As usual, I brought back some links to blog posts, articles, videos etc. It's kind of a mish-mash of random art-related things ... so here it is ... Mish-Mash Monday.
One of several pics posted recently on Amy Gross's blog, Amy Looks Closer.
The Rickie Report posts that The National League of American Pen Women in having a Feb. 2 extravaganza ad looking for artists who would like to sell their art works or craft items. The cost for a table is $50 anddetails are posted at The Rickie Report.
Betweeners is a regular feature that allows Arterpillar
to justify her time spent reading other local art blogs and surfing for
local art news ... and to talk about herself in third person in
italics.
James Bond Art Show, co-hosted by Heineken Beer, will commemorate the new James Bond movie Skyfall and pay tribute to the other 22 Bond films. Val Barlett and The Reckless Dames' Jordan Calloway will do themed dances and guests can play card games as a mini casino set up inside the venue. Anyone in costume gets a free Heineken at the door up until midnight, when a costume contest with cash prizes will be held.
Artists exhibiting 007-themed works include Blair Hess, Gina Bentivegna, Crystal Jaudon, Jay Bellicci, Mr. Babes, Sonja Santiago, Amanda Reth, Patrick Ijima, Rolando Barrero, Jessica Alvarez and Ian Santos, who will also be doing live art. The party, featuring live music, DJ sets by Andie Sweetswirl and TONX and drink specials, starts at 11 p.m. Nov. 17 and the exhibition runs through Nov. 27 at Green Room 109 S.W. Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Admission is free. Call 954-449-1030 or visit Greenroomlive.com.
Vee will exhibit in Cirque du Jardin
Circus-meets-garden at Artist's Eye
Cirque du Jardin,an exhibition curated by Vee and featuring work by Timothy Leistner and Vee,
will include Vee's new circus motif paintings and Leistner's
watercolors, acrylics and photographs of garden flowers. The show opens
7-9 p.m. Nov. 17at Artist's Eye Fine Art Gallery
38 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach. Call 954-554-3153 or visit Artistseyeinc.com.
JENNIFER N. CHAPARRO will be painting this mural at 9 Arch Mural Project.
9 Arch Mural Project
The 9 Arch Mural Project will be underway on Saturday, with nine
artists painting works that will serve as temporary art during the
three- to four-year rehabilitation of the 1000 Lake Avenue building that
was built in 1927 as the first Scottish Rite Masonic Temple and later
became a post office, drug store, dancing school and eventually a hotel.
Muralists will include Astrid Mora, Jennifer N. Chaparro, Eduardo Mendieta, Judy Dempsey, Paul Slater, Craig McInnis, AnnaMaria Windisch Hunt, Sharon Koskoff and Patricia Levy, who will begin painting their murals from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 17 at a free event that includes live music
by local bands (including Pocket of Lollipops), performances by local dancers, gourmet food vendors and
an artist market.All murals will be completed by Dec. 1 at 9 Arch Mural Project, 1000 Lake Avenue and H Street, Lake Worth. Call 561-493-2550 or visit Lakewortharts.com.
PAPER FOLDING: An exhibition by Odalis Valdivieso
Odalis Valdivieso: Paper Folding
Paper Folding is an exhibition by Miami-based artist Odalis Valdivieso, who describes the work like this: "My recent work stands for something in particular. The images express concept and material, but lack specific narratives. They seek to deconstruct the fetishization of photographic technology and realism. Insisting on an endless deferral of meaning, avoiding romantic notions of transcendent artistic creation in or of itself. They layer further geometries atop the picture surface, while embedding a sense of temporal and topographic movement. They are nothing more than what they are: simple paper objects." The show will open 7-10 p.m. Nov. 17 and run through Jan. 5 at Dimensions Variable at Downtown ArtHouse, 100 N.E. 11th St., Miami. Call 305-607-5527 or visit Dimensionsvariable.net.
