Miami Art Museum Presents Focus Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg
Exhibition Preview and Public Lecture
Thursday, November 19, 2010, 6-9pm
Roni Feinstein, author, critic, and curator of the 1990 exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: The Silkscreen Paintings 1962-1964 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Feinstein has been a frequent contributor to Art in America, and is currently an instructor of Academic Courses at The Museum of Modern Art and Adjunct Instructor at the NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Information/RSVP: events@miamiartmuseum.org.

November 19, 2010 – April 10, 2011 Miami Art Museum will present a new exhibition in the Focus Gallery section of its Permanent Collection installation, dedicated to works by the late Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg is celebrated as one of the first artists to incorporate mass media imagery into his artwork. Focus Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg, open November 19, 2010 through April 10, 2011, looks at various techniques the artist used over the course of his career to transfer images from their source medium into his artworks.

“The exhibition will underscore the creative ingenuity that characterized Rauschenberg’s career for over fifty years—the last thirty-five of which he spent based in Florida,” said Peter Boswell, MAM assistant director for programs/senior curator. “It will emphasize his seminal role in understanding the importance of the mass media to modern culture.”

The exhibition will feature a key work from MAM’s collection — Untitled, 1986 from his Copper Series — along with several works lent by the Estate of Robert Rauschenberg to examine how Rauschenberg employed different techniques at different times in his career to achieve stunningly diverse effects. Included among the loans will be a rarely seen series of solvent transfer drawings from 1965; a Hoarfrost work from 1974, made from images imprinted on thin, translucent fabric; and one of the artist’s late dye-transfer works on polylaminate, in which Rauschenberg employed images he himself had taken.

Rauschenberg began in the 1950s by collaging actual newspaper and magazine pages, postcards and book illustrations into his famous “combine” paintings, which also included a variety of found objects ranging from clothing items to stuffed animals. But as early as 1959 he began transferring images from their source medium—the printed page, for example—onto the surfaces of his artworks instead of collaging them. This switched the emphasis from image as object to image as transmitted information. Over the course of his career, he used lighter fluid, solvent, lithography, silkscreen, and water to transfer images from the media onto paper, canvas, fabric, metal and polylaminate, creating unique hybrid works of art that combine elements of drawing, printing and painting.

Focus Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg is located within BETWEEN HERE AND THERE: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, the Museum’s Permanent Collection installation. Changing every four to six months, the Focus Gallery presents mini-exhibitions of artists or themes considered cornerstones of MAM’s collection and collecting goals.

Focus Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg is organized by Miami Art Museum and curated by Peter Boswell, MAM assistant director for programs/senior curator. It is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund. Additional support provided by Marvin Ross Friedman and Adrienne Bon Haes.

Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum located in downtown Miami, FL, is dedicated to collecting and exhibiting international art of the 20th and 21st centuries with an emphasis on the cultures of the Atlantic Rim—the Americas, Europe and Africa—from which the vast majority of Miami residents hail. Recently, Miami Art Museum has presented exhibitions of works by Janet Cardiff and George Buress Miller, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Guillermo Kuitca, Wifredo Lam, Susan Rothenberg (November 2010) and Yinka Shonibare, and its Permanent Collection includes works by Doug Aitken, José Bedia, Mark Dion, Marcel Duchamp, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ann Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Alfredo Jaar, Sol LeWitt, Vik Muniz, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, Tomas Saraceno, Lorna Simpson and Rachel Whiteread. Miami Art Museum’s educational programming currently reaches more than 30,000 people every year, with the largest art education program outside the Miami-Dade County public school system. The new Miami Art Museum at Museum Park, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, is scheduled to open to the public in 2013. The new facility will provide room to showcase growing collections, expanded exhibition space to bring more world-class exhibitions to Miami-Dade County, and an educational complex, which will be a resource for the entire community. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org or call 305.375.3000.

Nicholas Arehart : Opening Reception : October 28th 7pm
October 28th, 2010, 7pm
Christopher Miro Gallery
71 East Flagler Street
Miami, FL
305.741.0058
7pm – 11pm
More Info.

The Christopher Miro Gallery proudly presents Improving Everyday Life for the Majority, a showcase of sculpture and video work by Nicholas Arehart. Opening Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 7pm, this show marks the first solo exhibition at the gallery.

Named after IKEA’s motto, Improving Everyday Life for the Majority, the exhibition reveals minimally colored, reductive sculptures created from furniture parts available at the Swedish superstore. In creating unique objects of value from these generic and widely accessible items, Arehart seeks to reverse the loss of the artisan brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Additionally, he challenges the role of consumerism as identity by beginning these works as a consumer and ending the process as an artist.

In addition to his IKEA objects, two videos will be on display. In An Illegally Downloaded Film, Arehart further explores manipulation of the mass produced by altering a major motion picture. Alternately, Autonomy extends his investigation into the transformation of the everyday.
Nicholas Arehart (b. Orlando, FL.) is a multi media artist living and working in Miami, FL.

Wine Down Wednesday
First Wednesday of the Month
November 3
5 PM
HistoryMiami
101C West Flagler, Downtown Miami

Don’t sit in rush hour traffic when you can be drinking wine, listening to music and mingling with other professionals.
Join us every first Wednesday of the month!
HistoryMiami Members FREE
Non-Members $5
RSVP to 305-375-1614 or to rsvp@historymiami.org
Free parking available at 50 NW 2nd Avenue

Miami Art Museum Presents Local Video Art on Three Story High AmericanAirlines Arena Media Mesh
NWM2010: Video on AmericanAirlines Arena’s exterior Media Mesh
Thursday, October 7, 2010
8pm – midnight
AmericanAirlines Arena, 601 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33130
A selection from the New Work Miami 2010 Video compilation.

Miami Art Museum will present a selection of videos created by local artists, in conjunction with its current New Work Miami 2010 exhibition, on the AmericanAirlines Arena’s exterior Media Mesh, a digital LED screen on the facility’s 34,000 square foot facade, on Thursday, October 7, 2010, from 8pm until midnight. The public screening selection provides a sneak peak at the complete compilation, which will be shown at Miami Art Museum on a loop throughout the final weekend of New Work Miami 2010, Saturday, October 16, and Sunday, October 17, 2010.

Like the New Work Miami 2010 gallery show, the video compilation comprises new and recent works by Miami-based artists. The selection provides a window into the wide variety of local experimental video art, from new forms of abstraction to non-narrative approaches. The compilation artists are: Sam Borkson & Bert Rodriguez, Friends with You, Christy Gast, Jiae Hwang & Nicholas Raftis III, Lee Materazzi, Raul J. Mendez, Magnus Sigudardson, Kyle Trowbridge, Tatiana Vahan, Agustina Woodgate and Juan Carlos Zaldivar.

New Work Miami 2010, July 17 through October 17, 2010, is organized by Miami Art Museum and supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund, with additional support provided by Lin Lougheed.

Coming up:
NWM2010: Video Screening at Miami Art Museum
Saturday, October 16, and Sunday, October 17, 2010
Noon – 5pm
Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
A compilation of video art works by Miami-based artists will be screened on a loop. Free with museum admission.

Growing Up
Agustina Woodgate
Main Library, Auditorium, 101 W. Flagler St. • 305.375.2665
Performance: Thursday, October 7
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., performance begins at 7 p.m.

Dancing couple figurine, ca. 1970s, ceramic music box.
Permanent Collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System.

Agustina Woodgate’s work is about relationships. She investigates the ways we compose our rituals, traditions, and narratives through the materials and places around us. The improvisational performances in her Fairy Tale Series are structured like stories with conflicts and a beginning, middle and end. She constructs settings or stages from materials found at the exhibition site and invites musicians to play live during the performance. The artist’s close friends or family members perform along with her; their actions play out the conflicts at the heart of well-known fairytales. Woodgate then records these bent fairytales; the exhibition will include photographs from previous performances based on Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Sleeping Beauty.

Growing Up is based on the English fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk.” For this one night performance, Agustina will wake up sleepy corners of the Main Library auditorium, make magic with mysterious library collections, and perform with Anthony Spinello as Jack.
ALSO:
The next day (Friday, October 8), come back for a special edition of the Reading Room with special guests Agustina and Anthony and artists’ books from the Library’s Permanent Art Collection–all in a strange little room with coffee and cookies.
The Reading Room: A Temporary Space for Artists’ Books, Publications and Multiples
With special guests Agustina Woodgate and Anthony Spinello
Friday, October 8, 12-2 p.m.
Main Library, Children’s Room Area

AGUSTINA WOODGATE explores the social narratives of human relationships, rather than independent and private space, as a theoretical and practical point of departure. She creates responses to these narratives through situations that unveil the tensions between the natural-becoming-unnatural, and the unnatural-becoming-natural as constructions of our surreal and very real human condition. Her work discovers illogical scenarios that appear in an otherwise realistic or even “normal” setting to explore transience in beliefs and behaviors, revealing unconscious liaisons between these two worlds. Working with available, at hand, and everyday resources contributes a very important element of the conceptual process. Woodgate works inclusively and socially, finding new access points for communication to create public, intensive, and process-oriented works. She approaches the creation of a work as an ongoing discovery, and fold chance-elements, surprises, and synchronicity into everything she makes.

To find more about exhibitions and programs coming up this month, visit our website.

Opening Reception of In Transition: 2010 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition

FACULTY EXHIBITION AT NEW WORLD GALLERY
New World Gallery showcases the work of the visual arts faculty with an exhilarating and varied collection of works. The show, which highlights the talented individuals that are instrumental in the success of the school, includes photography, painting, digital imagery, design and sculpture. Exhibiting artists include: Luisa Basnuevo, Carol K. Brown, Felicia Carlisle, Greg Davis, Tony Fernandez, Christy Gast, Kathleen Hudspeth, Michael Loveland, Rosario Martinez-Cañas, Annette M. Piskel, Karen Rifas, Louise Romeo, and Fred Snitzer.

August 26 – October 7
Opening Reception: Thursday, August 26; 6:00 – 9:00 pm
New World Gallery
25 NE 2nd Street, downtown Miami

Free and open to the public
Information at 305-237-3597

NWM2010 AFTERHOURS
All Afterhours programs: 6-9pm; MAM members $5, non-members $15
Thursday, September 16
Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
Explore auditory sensations with sound art collectives Frozen Music and Flash Orchestra. In the gallery, meet artists Adler Guerrier and Mette Tommerup; plus Talking Head Transmitters with the PDMD Ensemble. Poem Depot will also be on hand to create personalized poems on demand. This Evening of Sound is generously supported by Lin Lougheed.

Parking is available for $5 (with validation) at 50 NW 2nd Ave.
For more information, contact Events@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704, or visit miamiartmuseum.org.
*All programs and times subject to change. Please check miamiartmuseum.org for updated information.

About “New Work Miami 2010”
New Work Miami 2010 is organized by Miami Art Museum and is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund, with additional support provided by Lin Lougheed. It is curated by Peter Boswell, assistant director for programs/senior curator, and René Morales, associate curator.

New Work Miami 2010 artists: Maria José Arjona, Kevin Arrow, Beings, Jenny Brillhart, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Flash orchestra, Frozen Music, Oscar Fuentes & the Gipsy Catz, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Jacuzzi Boys, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Ana Mendez (with Aja Albertson & Richard Vergez), Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Poem Depot, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Humberto Torres, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.

Miami Art Museum, a modern and contemporary art museum in Miami, FL, serves one of the most diverse and fast-growing regions of the country, where a confluence of North and Latin American cultures adds vibrancy and texture to the civic landscape. MAM embraces its role as a cultural anchor and touchstone in a city that welcomes countless ethnic and age groups, lifestyles and ideas. MAM’s far-ranging vision is expressed in the breadth and depth of its exhibition program, and its ambitious education and public programs. The Museum continues to build its collection of holdings from the twentieth century through the present, as it embarks on a major new building and expansion project. The new MAM designed by Herzog & de Meuron will open in downtown Miami’s Museum Park in 2013. For more information about Miami Art Museum, visit miamiartmuseum.org. Hours: Open Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 5pm, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5pm. Closed Monday. Admission: Free for MAM members, children under 12 and students (with valid ID); adults $8; seniors $4. Free admission every second Saturday. Parking: $5 at 50 NW 2nd Ave. Government Center Station.

NWM2010 AFTERHOURS
All Afterhours programs: 6-9pm; MAM members $5, non-members $15
Thursday, September 2
Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
Bring on the bands! Celebrate Miami’s rich crossover of art and music, as local bands Beings and Jacuzzi Boys headline a night of rock at the museum. In the gallery, experience a special interactive performance by Bert Rodriguez, plus Talking Head Transmitters (segment on 80’s rock).

Parking is available for $5 (with validation) at 50 NW 2nd Ave.
For more information, contact Events@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704, or visit miamiartmuseum.org.
*All programs and times subject to change. Please check miamiartmuseum.org for updated information.

About “New Work Miami 2010”
New Work Miami 2010 is organized by Miami Art Museum and is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund, with additional support provided by Lin Lougheed. It is curated by Peter Boswell, assistant director for programs/senior curator, and René Morales, associate curator.

New Work Miami 2010 artists: Maria José Arjona, Kevin Arrow, Beings, Jenny Brillhart, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Flash orchestra, Frozen Music, Oscar Fuentes & the Gipsy Catz, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Jacuzzi Boys, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Ana Mendez (with Aja Albertson & Richard Vergez), Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Poem Depot, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Humberto Torres, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.

NWM2010 AFTERHOURS
All Afterhours programs: 6-9pm; MAM members $5, non-members $15
Miami Art Museum, 101 West Flagler Street, Miami, FL 33130
Thursday, August 19
Psychic Youth, Inc., presents WALKING SPELL, an experimental performance directed by Ana Mendez. In the gallery, meet artists Kevin Arrow and Manny Prieres; Talking Head Transmitters live radio broadcast: Segment on contemporary dance and performance by Carlota Pradera with sound by Gustavo Matamoros; Lara Stein Pardo’s project, Mapping Miami, and LegalArt. For more information contact RSVP@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704.

Parking is available for $5 (with validation) at 50 NW 2nd Ave.
For more information, contact Events@miamiartmuseum.org or 305.375.1704, or visit miamiartmuseum.org.
*All programs and times subject to change. Please check miamiartmuseum.org for updated information.

About “New Work Miami 2010”
New Work Miami 2010 is organized by Miami Art Museum and is supported by donations to MAM’s Annual Exhibition Fund, with additional support provided by Lin Lougheed. It is curated by Peter Boswell, assistant director for programs/senior curator, and René Morales, associate curator.

New Work Miami 2010 artists: Maria José Arjona, Kevin Arrow, Beings, Jenny Brillhart, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Flash orchestra, Frozen Music, Oscar Fuentes & the Gipsy Catz, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Jacuzzi Boys, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Ana Mendez (with Aja Albertson & Richard Vergez), Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Poem Depot, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Bert Rodriguez, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Humberto Torres, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Michael Vasquez, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.

Image courtesy of Ana Mendez. Photo by Federico Nessi

Celebrating Women!
Thursday, August 26
10am – 2pm Display / 11am Presentation
HistoryMiami Members FREE
Non-Members FREE with General Admission ($8)
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution affirmed the right of women to vote in all public elections. Join us as we celebrate the 90th anniversary of this historic event with a special presentation and memorabilia display on the life and legacy of local activist Roxcy Bolton. Pictured: Roxcy Bolton, Women’s Civil Rights leader, speaks in front of a group of women, May 27, 1975. Miami News Collection, HistoryMiami, 1989-011-19389. Plan Your Visit!

Duke University Exhibit, Not Just Mad Men Travels to Miami International University of Art & Design in South Florida
August 25, 2010
panel discussion of The Advertising Evolution: 5:30pm
opening reception for the exhibit: 7pm.

Miami International University of Art & Design recently announced its upcoming exhibit, Not Just Mad Men, an exhibit on loan from the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History of the Duke University Libraries in Durham, North Carolina. An event will be held on August 25, 2010 with a panel discussion of industry experts opening the evening with The Advertising Evolution, at 5:30pm followed by the opening reception for the exhibit at 7pm.

The Advertising Evolution panel features industry experts discussing the graphic design and advertising industry in the 60s and how it has evolved through time. Industry leaders include:
Bruce Turkel of Turkel Advertising
Barry Zaid formerly of Push Pin Studios
Arthur Rockower Graphic Design instructor
Jason Inasi of Factory Interactive
Marie Fernandez-Leon of Imagery Creative

After the panel discussion, the 60s themed opening reception will move into the University’s main gallery. The timely exhibit itself is a collaboration with Duke University featuring documents and ad campaigns from the early 60s along with the University’s own additions to the exhibit including program specific items. For example, graphic design students are creating 60s era posters of current products, fashion students are highlighting the fashions of that time period, film students will be showcasing looped commercials, movies and TV shows, advertising students will have a retrospective of the 60s with a Miami focus, etc. The exhibit offers guests a unique perspective of the 60s advertising industry with a twist.

“The Duke University collaboration is the culmination of a vision I had over a year ago when I learned of their exhibit – I am thrilled to be able to bring this exciting exhibit to the students, faculty and staff, yet also add our own elements and creative energy to it” says Marcia Gomez, director of communications for Miami International University of Art & Design. “We too are thrilled as it is the first time Duke University has a traveling exhibit,” Jacqueline Reid Wachholz, director for the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University.

The exhibit will be on display until September 30 at which time will travel to The Art Institute of Jacksonville and The Art Institute of Tampa, both branches of Miami International University of Art & Design.

Sponsors for the event include The Advertising Federation of Greater Miami, Ad2 Miami, DPR Printing, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Creative Industries Committee, Spuntino Catering and student organizations: Adfed MIU, MIU Fusion, MIU Multi-Major and AIGA MIU.

Miami International University of Art & Design is located near the heart of the arts district offering degree programs in Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Visual & Entertainment Arts, Photography, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, Computer Animation, and Film & Digital Production. We also offer Master of Fine Arts degree programs in Interior Design, Computer Animation, Film, Graphic Design and Visual Arts and a Master of Arts in Graphic Design. For more information on Miami International University of Art & Design, visit us at artinstitutes.edu/miami.

Miami International University of Art & Design is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of over 45 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, visual arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.

IX Annual Faculty Exhibition 2010

Opening Reception for the Annual juried faculty exhibition featuring multimedia works by University faculty.
Opening Reception is Wednesday, July 28th from 5pm – 9pm
Exhibition opens July 22 and runs through August 13
Main Gallery of Miami International University of Art & Design, 1501 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Fl 33132
A group art exhibit featuring the creative works of University faculty
Gallery reception is open to the public at no cost

Metered parking is available on the street as well in the Omni Garage for $12.00 per hour.

Miami International University of Art & Design is located near the heart of the arts district offering degree programs in Fashion Design, Fashion Merchandising, Accessory Design, Visual & Entertainment Arts, Photography, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Visual Effects & Motion Graphics, Computer Animation, Audio Production, and Film & Digital Production. We also offer Master of Fine Arts degree programs in Interior Design, Film, Graphic Design and Visual Arts. For more information on Miami International University of Art & Design, visit us at www.mymiu.edu.

Miami International University of Art & Design is one of The Art Institutes (www.artinstitutes.edu), a system of over 45 education institutions located throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, visual arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals.