Here at POPLIFE, we love art, and we love free drinks!

It’s early, it’s free, you get to see artwork, and drink free beer!
Tonight Friday, November 14th
7:30pm – 10pm
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
3550 North Miami Ave

Curator’s Voice Art Projects
Led by Milagros Bello
cordially invites you
To the Opening Reception of its new space
In Wynwood Art District
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 7 pm

Rosario Bond, Bunny Girl, Oil over Canvas, 2008, 90 x 90 in

CURATOR’S VOICE ART PROJECTS, led by curator Milagros Bello, has selected the works of Rosario Bond based on their quality and visual strength. CURATOR’S VOICE ART PROJECTS has organized the show LIPSTICK to be presented as part of the main venues within the Miami art scene. LIPSTICK will open on November 8, 2008, and will run during Art Basel week, closing on February 14, 2009.
Rosario Bond proposes neo-expressionistic paintings made out of thick layers of impasto, where figures, objects, and nature intertwine in voracious and parodic relationships. Her most recent series depicts parodies of icons, such as rock stars, models, and other portraits represented through gestural brushstrokes and a bright and intense palette. Her figurative approach is done through a humoristic stanza. Her paintings are collections of personal mythologies combined with critical imagery, posed over disrupted settings and dislocated compositions inhabited by unusual and eerie objects. Her works are a monumental palimpsest of delirious and contrasting shapes that establish a radical dialogue with the Contemporary German neo-expressionists.
About Curator’s Voice Art Projects
CURATOR’S VOICE ART PROJECTS is led by curator Milagros Bello, and its mission is to foster the contemporary arts and the new, emergent voices in the international and national art scenes. CURATOR’S VOICE ART PROJECTS works in conjunction with art institutions, museums, and galleries in the United States and abroad. CURATOR’S VOICE ART PROJECTSinvites guest curators to participate in its art venues.
CURATOR MILAGROS BELLO, PH.D., was the former curator of Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS) in Miami since its inception, until December 2007. At HACS she curated important shows such as OBJECTHOOD (Dec. 2007), HAPPILY EVER AFTER (Dec. 2006), and HARDCORE MENU SAMPLES AND DISHES (Dec. 2005). She was also in charge of the New Media Festival in its First and Second Editions. Dr. Bello holds a Ph.D. from Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She is a professor of art at Florida Atlantic University, and a member of the International Art Critics Association.
The opening reception is free and open to the public
Curator’s Voice
2032 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
786 357 0568
milabello@aol.com

Galerie Helene Lamarque Cordially invites you to the Pre-Opening Reception of its new Gallery In Wynwood Art District
Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 7 pm
Thierry Farcy, The United States of France, 2008 Photograph

Beyond the Body: An Inaugural Exhibition
Hélène Lamarque is pleased to announce Beyond the Body, the inaugural exhibition of her new space in Miami’s Wynwood Art District. The group show, marking the opening of the gallery’s first location outside of France, will introduce some of the artists from the gallery’s program to its new neighborhood.
In their own, very distinct ways, the works of 12 artists speak to the representation of the human body and its connection to that which exists beyond the physical realm of passive flesh and its aesthetic appearance. The soma-body is the source of our capacity to feel and to think: It is the nature of our bodily perceptions that fashion our knowledge and construction of the world. The body is the basic medium of experience and existence. It is both the object and the subject of works that question the role it plays in realm of ethics, cognition, politics and aesthetics. The works question the conception of corporeality itself.
Conceived specifically for the new Miami gallery by French artist Thierry Farcy (b.1965), a series of photographs, The United States of France, explores the idea of the United States as a now necessary melting-pot of ideology. A video by the artist in the gallery’s adjacent sculpture garden will accompany the series.
The paintings of Indian artist Bose Krishnamachari’s (b.1963) Stretched Bodies series, which embody the frenetic energy and life of Indian megacities, will be presented in Miami for the first time since the gallery’s participation in last year’s Art Miami fair, also in Wynwood. Krishnamachari is considered the rising star of India. The photographs of Akbar Padamsee (b.1928), recognized as one of the most important Indian artists, reveal the body as a construction, forming compositions of contours, light and shadow. Also representing the gallery’s contemporary Indian program will be works by Manish Pushkale (b.1973), Anish Kapoor (b.1954) and Paris-based artists Anju Chaudhuri (b.1944) and Debesh Goswami (b.1965).
A Body Container, fashioned from the knitting of old magazine pages, by Chinese artist Movana Chen (b.1975) “examines the relationship between clothing and the news/media industry and our consumption of disposable commodities,” while the torn-paper works of Afghani artist Barmak Akram (b.1966), also made of magazine pages, treat the revelation of the female form in natural images. Portuguese artist José de Guimarães (b.1940) defines the contours of the human form in his neon works. And French artist Francois-Xavier Fagniez (b.1936) will present his nature-inspired abstract pictures. The painter, acting almost as a shaman, explores the earth’s fundamental elements through his body’s perception. Also on the border of the ritualistic, one of Damien Hirst’s (b.1965) spin paintings completes the show.
Hélène Lamarque opened her first gallery, in 1994, at the age of 24. She also directs a gallery in Paris’s 7th arrondissement, on the Left Bank. Presenting modern and contemporary art, the gallery has been specializing in Indian contemporary art for the past four years.

The opening reception is free and open to the public

Galerie HElene Lamarque
125 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami, FL 33127
305 576 6095
www.galeriehelenelamarque.com
For press inquiries contact Chadd Kortge at
miami@galeriehelenelamarque.com

Chelsea Galleria – Opening this Saturday Nov. 8th – eARTh Part One: ANIMA

www.themapmag.com

Opening Saturday, November 8/08 7-10 PM
Show Dates: Nov. 8,2008 – Jan 3, 2009

Artists were challenged to create one work or installation, responding to the gallery’s physical space as if it were a blank canvas. The result: T-Rex in a dress, an irreverent chimpanzee, 8′ of red, Braille gone wrong, metallic constellations, and bleeding books.

Exhibiting Artists:
Alejandro Mendoza
Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Anja Marais
Chieko Tanemura
Donna Haynes
Fabian De La Flor
Natalia Reparaz
Natasha Duwin
PJ Mills
Ray Paul
Ramon Williams
Rosario Rivera-Bond

Wynwood Arts District
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.572.0040
info@artformz.net
www.artformz.net
additional information
contact: 305.572.0040

Spinello Gallery is pleased to announce a new addition to the family, Miami’s most infamous street artist: TYPOE. Keep posted for his debut solo exhibition coming this February.

MIAMI NEW TIMES
CITY OF MIAMI BULLIES MARTIN MARGULIES
WILL THE ART COLLECTOR BE FORCED TO PAINT OVER A MURAL ON HIS OWN WAREHOUSE IN WYNWOOD

The City of Miami hopes the Wynwood Art District might finally bring some hip to the downtown area. One of the scene’s anchors is the massive Margulies Collection at The Warehouse on NW 27th Street. Martin Margulies has taken to granting permission to handpicked graffiti artists to spray-paint elaborate murals on the building’s sides.

But a Miami code enforcer recently delivered a citation to the gallery. The infraction: a giant apocalyptic mural spray-painted by artist TYPOE and six others. The piece has at its center the image of an emaciated human figure violently squeezing an alien-like creature. Across the top of the mural are the letters TCP, for The Cat’s Pajamas, the name of TYPOE’S graffiti crew. The artist estimates he spent 200 hours on his part of the mural.

But the code enforcer declared the mural graffiti. The collector was ordered to paint over the mural or face fines.

Margulies was indignant. “We said to them: ‘This is not graffiti. Graffiti is lines and scribbles against the property owner’s will…. This is urban art, and this is an art district.'”

TYPOE, who declines to give his real name, says gallery managers throughout Wynwood have been pressured to paint over murals by him and other graffiti artists. “They’ve handed down fines of $200 a day,” he says. “Basically, if it looks urban, they don’t want it. If there’s any hint of hip-hop – which isn’t even what my work’s about, but they don’t know what they’re talking about – they don’t want it. If there are any hints of letters that aren’t advertising a store, they don’t want it.”

Code enforcement referred New Times to inspector Jackie Gil, who did not respond to our e-mails.

On November 12, Margulies will fight for the mural at a code enforcement hearing. “Who is the city to say what is art and what isn’t?” asks TYPOE.

info@spinellogallery.com
www.spinellogallery.com

You are cordially invited to our gallery opening in the Wynwood Art District
InterFlight Studio Gallery proudly presents: Jo-Ann’s Flight of Fancy (butterfly series)
Artist Reception: Saturday, November 8, 7-10 PM
Enjoy a glass of wine, champagne or a cappuccino while you admire the fine art!

And since you are here, visit our neighbouring galleries and artist studios in the same building! Ample (free) parking in front.

We are located on the corner of 23rd Street and NW 2nd Ave.
The Wynwood Lofts at 250 NW 23rd Street, Loft 206, Miami, Florida 33127

www.interflightstudio.com

“i love miami 365(tm)” : an art book project in progress… only 57 days to go!

Saturday, Nov 8 : 7-10pm
Damien B. Contemporary Art Center : Wynwood artwalk
282 NW 36th St : 305.573.4949

“i love miami 365(tm)” slide projection & live photo shoot (day #313)

Alissa Christine will be capturing the vibrations of
“Resonance: A journey into the feeling of sound”
— An interactive experience created by Erik Thompson-Green

Sounds are directed into a resonance chamber to explore the vibrational quality of the echo.
The chamber is an installation of metallic cans which reverberate through varying levels of sound that you can feel.
Erik’s inspiration is to get lost in the flow… and take everyone with him.

be a part of it :)

Miami Art Space (MAS) Presents a New Group Exhibit for Wynwood Art Walk
Featuring: Steve “Beast” Alvin, Louis Wood and James Dubuisson
Opening Night: Saturday November 8, 2009
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Miami Art Space (MAS) is proud to present 3 local artists exhibiting together for the first time.

Steve “Beast” Alvin returns to Miami after recent world travels to present a selection from his extensive creative history. Former Gallerie Mysterioso owner, Beast brings a natural eye and open mind to his multi-faceted creations.
Louis Wood, a local artist in Miami, premiers his new exhibit “resolute” featuring refined pieces, working color, form and movement out of enamels and ink to describe his airy constructions.
James Dubuisson is a young Haitian artist who is just beginning to exhibit his canvases; a variety of styles in vibrant colors including realist still lives, country scenes and abstracts.
About MAS:
Miami Art Space (MAS) is an informatively designed gallery and event venue that features modern loft-style interiors paired with lush exterior courtyards. Past exhibits have included Kenneth Treister, Purvis Young, Harvey Oxenberg Fine Arts and more. Located in the heart of Wynwood, MAS is only 2 blocks west of MidTown and within easy walking distance of galleries along NW 36th Street.

Miami Art Space
244 NW 35th Street
Miami, FL 33127
305-438-9002
www.MiamiArtSpace.com

THE COSMIC GLOB SHOW
The spectacular work of KRK RYDEN

November 8th – December 6th
Opening reception: Saturday, November8th, 2008 7pm- 11pm
Harold Golen Gallery, 314 North West 24th St. (off of NW 2nd Ave.) Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127.
305.989.3359 www.haroldgolengallery.com
Admission is free!

KRK Ryden’s art is a record of mongrel pop culture. His aesthetic is informed by comic books, punk rock, and cartoons, while his world view is strictly DEVO. KRK’s work embraces everyday absurdity and a cartoony view of reality. His paintings are colorful and visually appealing reflections on discarded icons, and his graphics are well-realized snapshots of cartoon life. For over thirty years, KRK has been creating illustrations and paintings for underground bands, publishers, and institutions.

KRK was born in Seattle, Washington but didn’t stay there long.
His early years were spent growing up in Southern California, in cities like Anaheim, the home of Disneyland. KRK’s uncle Al was employed by Disney in the late 50’s and early 60’s as a manager of the ‘Main Street’ area of Disneyland. Because of this, “Keithie” got a lot of free E tickets. When he was four, he was introduced to old man Walt himself. Later that day, due to all the excitement, little Keithie hurled at the entrance of Disneyland, right on the cobblestone street.

Leap forward to Canyon High School, Castro Valley, 1968. In his sophomore year, an art class assignment would define his painting and drawing style, and consequently influence the artistic style of his brother, Mark Ryden. An art teacher had each student reach in a hat and pick a slip of paper with the name of a particular art movement scrawled on it. The student was to write a paper on the movement of art randomly chosen. When KRK (then Keith) picked “Surrealism,” he was peeved because he wanted to write about the Italian Renaissance. Another reason for the upset was because he had no clue what Surrealism meant. The word had looked utterly foreign. But after checking out a few school library books and seeing for the first time the art of Dali, the artist’s art and life was changed permanently. This art triggered a sort of rebellion; it created a disdain for the norm. There was no turning back to the imagery of landscapes, still-life, and puppies.

Free for cifo members

Cifo

A B B A F I N E A R T
Wynwood Art District 233 NW 36th Street Miami, FL 33127

www.abbafineart.com

PETER MACKIE, Recent Photography
Nov 8th to Nov 22, 2008
Reception: November 8, 7 to 10 pm

Abba Fine Art is pleased to present curator, Milagros Bello, Ph.D of Curators Voice’s selection of PETER MACKIE’S recent photographic images.

Peter Mackie’s photographic images present scolding references to urban elements and recreate a constructivist world of tools and industrial materials in a rough and textured environment. Compiled in chaotic arrangement of a Baroque ‘horror vacui’, Mackie overload his photographic scenes with multileveled meanings from social allusions to personal memories. Surprises and discoveries unexpectedly appear in the diverse and delirious combination of incongruous and disparate elements, either relating to domestic life or to urban detritus. There is an excess of the visuality in his works, an exaggerated overpopulating of objects that reminds us the excess and accumulation of things in our consumer oriented society. Mackie is an obsessive collector of items that mostly they relate to its surrounding in the busy and overpopulated New York City. We can call Mackie’s photographs ‘natura morta’, urban still life, or in the most extreme case, dead collectible. But in whatever sense we approach to these works, we know we are dealing with a contemporary ‘vanitas’ that alludes to the futility of life and its ultimate mortal essence. The ephemeral effects of these used and discarded articles link to death and disappearance.

For further information about this exhibition or for a private viewing, please contact the gallery at (305) 576-4278 or via email at art@abbafineart.com. For press inquiries and image requests, please contact ABBA FINE ART.

About Abba Fine Art:
Abba Fine Art’s objective is to showcase samples of the diversity found in the creative flow of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery stable includes works from artists that deal with different aesthetics as well as ideological dynamics. The subjects represent different aspects of life, ranging from the organic and natural to the psychological, figurative and pop culture references.

Locust’s 10-year anniversary exhibition Inevitable Continuum opens this Saturday 7-11pm

Locust Projects, Inc, 105 NW 23rd Street Miami, Fl 33127

David Castillo Gallery opens Glexis Novoa Old / New, Saturday November 8, 7-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Old / New, a solo exhibition by Glexis Novoa. Novoa renders cityscapes like peering into a curio cabinet and coming face-to-horizon with societal apocalypse in miniature. In Harold and the Purple Crayon, a children’s book by Crockett Johnson, Harold draws his own picaresque narrative into being. With similar intuition, autonomy, and deceiving innocence, Novoa’s sculptural approach to drawing conjures urban environs as products of and covert oppositions to totalitarianism. The exhibition includes work the artist has been developing over the past several years: his graphite on marble and graphite on dry wall drawings. The exhibition includes new bodies of work as well, such as an installation and color prints.

Novoa constructs a language of symbols based upon icons of political, ideological, religious, and Art Historical significance in the trench between what one sees and expects to see. In this no-man’s land, Novoa re-codifies the past, critiques the present, and projects a future either destined for disrepair or ripe for collaboration and creative reconstruction. Novoa’s architectural surfaces of marble and drywall evoke the construction of history. Similarly, his use of graphite evokes the written word, further aligning the viewer with the authorship of history, and history with interpretation.

Unlike Harold’s innocuous wandering, Novoa’s work brews an urgency implicit in the satellites, monuments, microchips, and parachutes almost voyeuristic in their revelation of the past and manifestation of the future- two unknowns responsible for the despair and hope entwined in Novoa’s work. Post-Guerrilla / Post- Terrorism, for example, suggests both static complacency in the wake of guerrilla attack and the naming (in the fashion of Art History) of a successive militant movement.

Confronting Novoa enables one to realize the weightlessness of pedigree in the face of universal concerns such as alternation of landscape, destruction of life, and perpetuation of culture. Novoa causes the viewer to isolate and associate objects, endowing them with potential energy. The symbolic nature of his drawings warns that if not given a collaborative, pensive, and immediate push in the righteous direction, a force beyond human power and Newtonian physics will seize the opportunity, perhaps to disastrous results.

Glexis Novoa was born in Holguin, Cuba and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the National School of Art, Havana and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. His work has appeared in Artnews, New York Times, Miami Herald, Artpapers, and Art in America among many other publications. He is also included in the Phaidon book Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. The artist has exhibited at prestigious venues throughout the US, Latin America, and Europe.

In the project room, the gallery is pleased to present Jay Ore. Ore’s work investigates the intersection of comic and vulnerable elements through observations of the UFO phenomenon. His paintings and Polaroid collages blend fantasy and reality, pop culture and myth in Miami and society at large. Ore lives and works in Miami and has exhibited widely at venues such as Miami Dade College and Old Capitol Gallery in Tallahassee, FL.

About David Castillo David Castillo has been a private art consultant and art dealer for over a decade. His professional background began with the Yale University Art Gallery, and later museums and galleries in Miami & elsewhere. His studies and degrees are in History & Art History from Yale University & the Vatican.
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat. 10 am- 5pm, and by appointment

david castillo gallery
email: info@castilloart.com
phone: +1-305-573-8110
web: castilloart.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
USA
WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

Bruce Lurie (LURIE Gallery) and Gala Kavachnina (Art Rouge Gallery) are proud to announce their partnership in the new fine art enterprise: Lurie – Kavachnina Gallery. To celebrate this event Bruce Lurie, Gala Kavachnina and Lenore Stern-Morris request the honor of your presence for their Opening Reception, Saturday Nov. 8th from 7-11 pm with featured artists Marianna Fox and Margit Fureder.

Lurie – Kavachnina Gallery is located at 46 NW 36th Street in The Wynwood Art District of Miami (between N. Miami Ave and NW 1 Ave.) We look forward to welcoming you to our venue open Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 7:00 pm and every Second Saturday of the month for the Wynwood Art Walk. For directions or more information about the gallery and special art related events, please use info@lurie-kavachnina.com or 305-448-2060.

www.artrouge.com
www.luriegalleries.com

Spinello Gallery

Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is pleased to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition, “Letting Down,” by Agustina Woodgate. This will be Woodgate’s second solo show with the gallery for which the space will be transformed into a theater for one night only.

Woodgate invites the audience to her photo shoot – experiencing a daunting performance and witnessing her process as she creates her next photographic series, “Rapunzel.” This will be Woodgate’s 3rd performance in her ongoing “Fairy Tale” series.

The one night improvised performance consists of a sculptural installation, which becomes the backdrop for Woodgate as she is adorned with a massive 30-Foot long Rapunzel-esq wig painstakingly spun by the artist with human hair. Joining the artist for the first time as a character in the theatrical performance will be Woodgate’s mother, Teresita Sabatte. Also, local Miami collaborators Federico Nessi and Alexander Puentes will be providing the score that will dictate Woodgate’s performance. The score, which dominates and coordinates the actions of the performers, will not been disclosed to the artist until the night of the performance. The photographic series created will be available following the opening night.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 8th at 7pm. The performance starts at 8pm and runs continuously through 10pm.
Exhibition through November 22nd.
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Agustina Woodgate is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the concepts of the human body, human identity, and human behavior through a wide range of media, including photography, installation, sculpture, video, and performance.

She is not only captivated by self-perception, but she is particularly interested in the ways that human beings relate to each other, and how people naturally, or unnaturally, relate to the materials around them. Through her work she explores how malleable and impressionable human identity really is and how an individual’s perception can easily persuade what they see and accept as truth.

The notions of memory, heritage, tradition, and ritual appear repeatedly in her work and occupy a nebulous space that exists between the innocence, magic and fantastic dreams of a child, and the mature sarcasm of an adult. Using whatever material suits her purpose, she transforms the mundane into the enchanted and weaves together the varied properties of the physical and the spiritual, the internal and the external, and the personal and the collective.

To Ms. Woodgate, the meticulous process of creation is as significant as the final result. Through creation she often arrives at a paradoxical relationship with the materials being used, and in many cases discovers that the act of collecting material is the first step toward discovering the ambiguous poetic narrative behind the piece.

Ms. Woodgate was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and currently lives in Miami. She earned her BFA from the National University of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally and has appeared in the Museo Nacional del Grabado, Salon Nacional de Instalacion, Salon Nacional de Arte Textil (Bs. As), Museo Casa Blanca (Puerto Rico), Hollywood Biennal (Miami), MOCA (Miami), Portland Art Center, among other venues.
FOR MORE INFO / HRES IMAGES CONTACT: info@spinellogallery.com

Opening Reception Saturday, November 8th, 2008 from 7-10 pm
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Form ← Function is the second installment of “Bridging The Gap” a collaborative exhibition series between the ArtCenter/ South Florida and the Bakehouse Art Complex. Seven artists-in-residence from each institution were asked by Jacquenette Arnette and Lauren Wagner, curators for each space, to think about their visual language and what methods they use to communicate ideas around their work. The art works chosen involved articulate opinions, narratives, emotive gestures and statements that are direct and identifiable by audiences. Constructions like comedy, gesture, metaphor and symbolism help carve out and develop the dialogue. The resulting exhibition centers on a viewer-centric show that imparts what is most important to each artist involved.
Form ← Function is not only an examination of that intuitive communication but of a symbiotic understanding of the ‘other’ in the close knit relationship developed between the artist and observer.

Participating Artists:
Luis Garcia-Nerey
Jose Pacheco
Michael Balbone/ Emily Martinez
Amalia Burjis
Natasha Duwin
Susan Radau
David Leroi
Yehudis Levitin
Venessa Monokian
Anica Shpilberg
Agustina Woodgate
Patricia Gutierrez
Kathy Kissik
Tina Salvesen
Opening Reception: November 8th, 7-10pm at the Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, Florida, 33127, 305.576.2828

Bakehouse Art Complex
ArtCenter/ South Florida