Views Art Basel Week 2014 12/3/14
Views Art Basel Week 2014
Wednesday, 12/03/2014 – 09:00 am – 01:00 pm
Fountainhead Studios
7339 NW Miami Ct,
Miami, FL, Florida 33150
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Cost: Free
Carla Fache opens her studio for Art Basel Week 2014
Wednesday Dec 3rd – 9am`1pm
Visitors will have the opportunity to have an intimate look inside the artist’s studio and learn more about her new works.
In her studio, Fache will have some of her recent works in exhibition. Among them, “Untitled†an acrylic big escale painting and a new installation.
Carla Fache is a chilean born Miami-based visual artist who explores the frontiers of color, space, balance and matter, through her paintings and installations.
Her work unfolds the juncture of parallel scenarios that occur simultaneously to quotidian realities, providing dimensions of escape against the society status quo, leverage a reconnection through her canvas portals.
Color is essential in Fache’s work; she explores its infinite combinations and balance through careful blending primary and secondary colors, re- contextualizing the concept of coexistence, time and universality; a return to the essential.
Her work employs a variety of materials including traditional canvas, but also introducing unusual artifacts, expanding outside of the two-dimensional plane of the canvas and into the surrounding environment.
“Opening the doors of my studio is like opening the door of color to my canvas’s mental spaceâ€, explains Fache.
Her more recent exhibitions include: Florida Museum for Women Artists, The Invisible Dog Art Center-New York, Armory Art Center- Palm Beach, Cambridge Art Association-Boston and Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Some of the places where her work has been exhibited are: CIFO Cisneros Fontanels Arts Foundation, The Bass Museum of Art, Deering Estate at Cutler, Lowe Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art and Coral Gables Museum to mention a few.
Fache’s work has been included in many publications, such as: “Celeste Prize International 2011†New York, “White Hot Magazineâ€, “New York Art Collectors Book†NY, “Five centuries of Art†LA, “Libro de Arte Ibero Americano Contemporaneo†Argentina, “Studio Visit Magazine†by New American Paintings, Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, Knight Arts, Miami New Times, SunPost, Sun-Sentinel, Miami Rail among others. Her work is included in important private and corporate collections.
Where:
Carla Fache studio is located at The Fountainhead Studios:
7339 NW Miami Ct Miami, FL
Her art studio is located at the 1st floor to the left.
Date: December 3rd, 2014
Visiting hours are from: 9am-1pm
http://www.carlafache.com/?seccion=newworks
14 other artists studios will be also open for viewers at the venue.
Host artists: Don Lambert, Lori Nozick, Nicole Doran, Carla Fache, Julie Davidow, Marisabela TellerÃa, Karen Starosta Gilinski, David Rohn, Kerry Phillips, Sara Stites, Alex Trimino, Juana Valdes, Elaine Defibaugh and Sandra Ramos Lorenzo
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