Contemporary artist, Randee Heller at Art Fusion Galleries during Wynwood Art Walk.
Saturday, 02/09/2013, 07:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Art Fusion Galleries
3550 North Miami Avenue ,
Miami , Florida 33127
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Contemporary artist, Randee Heller at Art Fusion Galleries during Wynwood Art Walk.

Hosted by Erin Mia Milchman

7-10pm Saturday, February 9th
Art Fusion Galleries
3550 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127

* Refreshments
* Live Music
* Valet Parking Upon Request

Biography
RANDEE began painting at a young age, born into the artistic nature of New York. Her passion to pursue art is nothing short of destiny. In the 1980’s she began working with Textile Prints in the creative capital Miami, Florida.
As a Designer, RANDEE assisted artists with textile renderings. Participation in several local and regional art shows helped RANDEE to gain enough recognition to inevitably sell designs to many of today’s Fort Lauderdale manufacturers.

The self-trained & award winning artist is best known for her colorful composition. You will also notice the graceful movements in RANDEE’s work within her profoundly reflective paintings. Her unique taste for texture perception has become increasingly well received in the art world, having made custom pieces for the personal homes of Hollywood celebrities.

The artist’s value is heavily steeped in the appreciation of contemporary abstract art. Her paintings portray the significance of the harmonious balance between human discord & nature. Much like a Kandinsky, the representational elements are removed, leaving paintings that communicate through the pure abstract language of symbols, shapes, and most importantly, color. RANDEE’s gift and ability to combine color has made her an expert at her craft.

Looking toward the future, RANDEE is working on an art curriculum for children in local hospitals as this gifted artist is driven by her passion for philanthropy.

www.RandeeHeller.com

Twitter: @RandeeArt

BAC Spotlight Series Premieres with José Pacheco Silva Preview Reception
Friday, February 8, 2013, 7-10pm.
Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Arts District
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.576.2828
www.bacfl.org

On view- February 9 – March 1, 2013

The Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC), South Florida’s premiere center for emerging and mid-career artists, presents the inaugural exhibition in an annual series, entitled BAC Spotlight, featuring BAC Resident Artist, José Pacheco Silva. Guest curators Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos, of the Aluna Curatorial Collective, collaborated with Pacheco Silva for the past year to develop Transformed Interceptions / Encuentros Transformados. This premiere solo exhibition will open with a preview on Friday, February 8, 2013 from 7-10pm in the Audrey Love Gallery. Also opening that evening is another solo exhibition in the Swenson Gallery featuring Bryan Hiveley entitled The Snake Revolution. Both exhibitions will be on view to the public through March 1, 2013.
 
About Transformed Interceptions / Encuentros Transformados by José Pacheco Silva:
"Behind the austerity of these photographs, there lies hidden the affective intention of retaining the image of the places where he passed by, with the knowledge that everything is condemned to a form of destruction. His references to this responds more to a personal biography than to a collective memory, but they construct a poetic of death as a constant chord of his work, inseparable from the notion that everything is out of control. This idea trespasses the same creative process in which Pacheco Silva leaves space to accident and chance. His works, fabricated through montages that mix pictures with blackened blocks of wood, and violent expressive strokes, contain gestures foreign to perfect forms, but have the capacity to make the gaze burn. In this act of preservation, one can see the "concept of salvaging" that Walter Benjamin united to the recovering of the past. Although it is submerged in nostalgia, his work contains that of an affirmation, a laugh that affectively maintains the spaces that were once inhabited, and that now belong to the construction of the artistic world of José Pacheco Silva, for whom this exhibition is an entrance." -Aluna Curatorial Collective.
 
About The Snake Revolution by Bryan Hiveley:
This solo exhibition is about the absurdity of nature and the artist’s fascination of evolution and intelligent design… It challenges these ideas by breaking the laws of nature. The artworks are based on the artist’s individual interpretations of animals and serves to question their typical archetypes and zoological imagery.
 
Exhibitions Preview:                                                                                                        
Transformed Interceptions / Encuentros Transformados by José Pacheco Silva (Audrey Love Gallery) and
The Snake Revolution by Bryan Hiveley (Swenson Gallery)      
 
$5 Admission; Free for BAC Members (and Press-please contact gshonek@bacfl.org for reservations)

Celebrated Painter Diego Jacobson Hosts Cocktail Reception
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, 7 p.m. reception
LMNT Gallery
59 NW 36 Street
Miami, FL 33127
Kindly RSVP to DiegoJacobson@TaraInk.com

On-site complimentary parking available

Titled “Everything Is Perfect,” the exhibition will focus on artist Diego Jacobson’s spiritual and philosophical outlook on life based on the principle “do not judge”

Abstract expressionist painter Diego Jacobson will host a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres reception featuring 70 paintings from his personal collection. Titled “Everything is Perfect,” the exhibition is based on Jacobson’s philosophy on life, which is simply: “If everything is perfect, you can’t judge anything.”

For Jacobson, every brushstroke is painful, but that didn’t stop the Miami resident from conquering dystonia, a crippling neurological disorder, to become one of the most celebrated Latino artists of his generation. Born in Argentina and raised between Puerto Rico and New York, Jacobson dabbled in drawing as a child, but concluded he just wasn’t any good. When he was eight years old, the earliest signs of generalized dystonia began to creep into his body, forcing him into a wheelchair. At 13, Jacobson underwent cryosurgery, an invasive brain surgery that drastically improved his symptoms.

Jacobson officially began painting when he was in his 30s – after managing a clothing manufacturing business, completing a Master’s degree in Practical Spirituality at the Peace Theological Seminary & College of Philosophy in California, and traveling the world. It wasn’t until Jacobson discovered the artwork of Beatles’ artist Paul McCartney that he felt inspired to put paint to canvas. Today, Jacobson’s paintings have been shown in exhibitions from New York to Italy, and have impressed critics around the world.

Rise Up Gallery Opening Exhibition
Friday, January 16, 7:00pm until 11:00pm
Rise Up Gallery
187 NW 27th St
Miami, Florida 33127
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Come celebrate the opening of our new gallery located in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District! We will be hosting a wine reception and art auction complete with a DJ and Live Music Performances! Check out our latest works, meet our artists, and show some love to our fresh new home!

Rise Up Gallery provides a venue for artists with disabilities to showcase their work and offers art therapy workshops to the community. Rise Up is a registered 501c3 non profit organization. All donations are 100% tax deductible.

Our award winning community programs are made possible as a direct result of your generous support. So please come out & bring a crew, tell your friends, share on social media, whatever it takes to spread the word! Thank you!

Can’t make it but still want to support? Please consider making a donation via our website, thank you!

Cafeina Wynwood’s Packed Art Basel Line-up
Thursday, Dec. 6, through Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge
297 Northwest 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.438.0792
www.cafeinamiami.com

Cafeina, the chic lounge, art gallery and outdoor garden nestled in the Wynwood Art District, is proud to announce its lineup for Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, featuring its signature blend of art and nightlife including international art exhibitions, the official after party for NYC-based Fountain Art Fair, works by Miguel Paredes, and a roster of burgeoning DJs from around the world.

From Thursday, Dec. 6 through Sunday, Dec. 9, Cafeina’s Wynwood Exhibition Center gallery will house the “The Extraordinary Five,” an international group show featuring mixed media curated by artist Alejandro Mendoza, including works by Tania Marmolejo, cover artist for MIAMI Magazine’s December 2012 issue; Carlos Caballer; Alejandro Mendoza; Angel Ricardo Rios and Aida Tejada. The exhibition will portray artists breaking free from traditional aesthetic signature and cultural molds to showcase the individual’s conceptual works.

“The show presents five artists who have developed a plastic expression without allusion to ethnicity, a conventional visual language of discourse in Latin American art. It has semiotic approach, within an international framework, in which the importance lies not in who we are or where we come from, but in what is proposed aesthetically within the context of Contemporary Art” said Mendoza.

The full Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 lineup includes:
Thursday, Dec. 6, 5 to 8 p.m.
Kickoff Happy Hour drinks and tapas for Cafeina’s packed Art Basel lineup
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Curator Alejandro Mendoza and “The Extraordinary Five” present a meet-and-greet plus the Vernissage preview party with Wynwood Exhibition Center
and Irreversible Magazine
Set begins at 7 p.m.: Live beats by DJ A-Train + Special Guests

Friday, Dec. 7, 5 to 8 p.m.
Happy Hour hosted by Svedka Vodka and Beck’s Beer
7 p.m. to midnight: Sounds by DJ Skitty and special video DJ set by Tom Laroc
Midnight to 5 a.m.
Official after-party for the Miami edition of NYC based, Fountain Art Fair 2012 co-hosted by official sponsor, cream*hotel® with ‘Resolute’ resident DJ Connie, sounds by Low Pitch Orchestra and special aerial performance by Masci

Saturday, Dec. 8, Noon to 4 p.m.
Brunch returns to Cafeina
Curator Alejandro Mendoza presents á la carte “Brunch n’ Basel” menu with $25 bottomless mimosas for 2 hours, signature dishes, cocktails and pitchers in the Big Garden and gallery with beats by DJ Jatinder Channa. Reservations encouraged.
7 p.m. to 9 p.m.: Artist Miguel Paredes’ with Cone present a Mural Reception at the Rouge Garden. Signature beats by resident DJ SUPERSEDE
11 p.m. to close: Cafeina and Safe Music present Europe’s biggest upcoming DJ’s, Joy Orbision & Ben UFO, and special guests to make their Miami Debut with ART OF MUSIC sponsored by REDBULL, Svedka and Beck’s Beer in the Big Garden

Sunday, Dec. 9, Noon to 4 p.m.
Grand closing “Brunch n’ Basel” fete in the Big Garden and gallery
À la carte, signature dishes and cocktails
beats by DJ Jatinder Channa

Art Basel Kick-off Party
Wednesday, 12/05/2012, 07:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Daniela Cadena
11263 NW 51 Tr,
Doral, Florida 33178
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Yes, Art Basel is back!

Come celebrate with us as the largest art fair in the world makes it way to Miami. Shop local emerging designers and try your hand as an artist with our paint-by-numbers mural featuring urban artist GG.

Brought to you by: Style CTZN, Creative Native, Queens of Sheba, GG Artwork, All ’bout Trees, AVivas Hidalgo, Yummy ChunBuns, Capurro Premium Pisco, and Connies Treats.

Oxenberg Art: The Paintings of Ashley Colilns
Thursday, 11/29/2012, 07:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Oxenberg Fine Art
50 NE 29 Street,
Miami, Florida 33137
Webpage Link

OXENBERG FINE ART: THE PAINTINGS OF ASHLEY COLLINS

Oxenberg Fine Art cordially invites you to a special preview reception featuring:

The Paintings of Ashley Collins

Thursday, November 29, 2012
7:00 – 10:00PM

Guests will receive a first view of mega-scale artworks to be presented in the solo exhibition during Miami Art Week and enjoy light fare and refreshments.

RSVP: 305.854.7104 or gallery@oxenbergart.com

Image caption:
Ashley Collins, Bridge
Mixed media on aged paper
84 x 96 inches

Art Miami VIP After-Party @ BAC
Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7:00pm until 11:00pm
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
$10 Admission; Free for BAC Members and Art Miami + CONTEXT Art Miami VIP Cardholders and exhibitors

Enjoy cocktails, savory fare, and live entertainment.

Exhibitions on view:
If a tree falls, a chain reaction… (Audrey Love Gallery)
Take Me Home (Swenson Gallery)

Oxenberg Art Special Preview Reception The Paintings of Ashley Collins
Thursday, November 29, 2012, 7:00 – 10:00PM 
Oxenberg Fine Art
50 NE 29 Street, Miami, FL 33137
Wynwood Art District
Space Limited – RSVP Required: 305.854.7104 / gallery@oxenbergart.com  
 
Special preview reception featuring: The Paintings of Ashley Collins 
Guests will receive a first view of mega-scale artworks to be presented in the solo exhibition during Miami Art Week and enjoy musical entertainment, light fare and refreshments.

Following a challenging upbringing and journey leading  to establishing her studio in Venice, California,  Ashley Collins has broken ground creating mega–scale, contemporary and layered paintings of horses. Collins’ technique incorporates collage with pages from the 1800s to mid-1900s, obscured historical images and book covers, among other unique layers. Her goal to create lasting works of passion, depth and hope has established her position as one of the most highly valued female contemporary artists of our time.

Collins’ 900 plus work history is included in many of the most important art collections in the world. Today, Collins is among an elite group of valued contemporary artists, as her artworks are iconic in the lexicon of American art.

Centrally located across from Wynwood/Midtown Miami art fairs held during Miami Art Week, Oxenberg Fine Art will be open for  special exhibition viewing hours on those days: 
5 December, 10:00am – 9:00pm
6 December, 10:00am – 9:00pm 
7 December, 10:00am – 10:00pm
8 December, 10:00am – 9:00pm
9 December, 10:00am – 6:00pm

Enrique Martinez Celaya Art Basel Preview
Thursday, 12/06/2012, 09:00 am – 01:00 pm
Whale & Star Studio
2215 NW First Place ,
Miami, Florida 33127
Webpage Link

The studio of Enrique Martínez Celaya will be open for an informal brunch to unveil several monumental works he has created for his upcoming solo show at SITE Santa Fe. This is a rare opportunity to see several key elements of what will be an unprecedented museum-wide installation that Martínez Celaya is creating for SITE next summer. For these new works, which include two large-scale paintings, and two massive sculptures, the artist has relied on readings on the nature of memory and on his own biography to create a world that belongs to the imagination of children and which juxtaposes sadness and melancholia against fantasy.

Fashion Photographers Stephan Ach and Enrique Badulescu Art Basel collection
Thursday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Once Arts Gallery
170 NW 24 St.
Wynwood, Miami, FL

Once Arts Gallery has announced it will debut the works of celebrated international photographers, Stephen Ach and Enrique Badulescu during Art Basel week. The gallery exhibition will feature each artist’s newest collections, Ach’s Joropo – Spiral of Seduction and Badulescu’s My Life Below <My Life Above>, which blend traditional photography with artistic elements to capture split-second moments and nuances in traditional dances and airports, respectively.
 
The exhibition will serve as the first installation of The Zone, a pop-up gallery of contemporary photography that will travel the world searching for new visions from emerging and established photographers.
 
Best friends since college, Ach and Badulescu are celebrated fashion photographers who have captured images for top publications, designers and musical talents worldwide. Ach, whose recent photography focuses on the essence of Latin American landscapes and popular traditions, named his latest collection, Joropo, after the traditional Colombian dance. The collection features vivid images that capture an instant in the dance, with colorful photographs that blur the line between photography and art.
 
“Joropo aims to capture the Latin happiness and joy reflected in the spiral-like dance of which submission and social order are the subject,” Ach said.

Badulescu’s collection, My Life Below <My Life Above>, provides a window into his detailed observations of color, people, airstrips and clouds perceived during his many hours spent in airports around the globe. In his collection, Badulescu captures snapshots of seemingly mundane objects, bringing them to life in one-of-a-kind digital collages and landscape portraits.
 
“This project enables us to fly above the clouds,” Badulescu said. “Stripes, numbers, signs and arrows signal our own journey through life.”

Inaugural Opening Reception for "Salute To Art Basel Miami 2012" Exhibition
Saturday, December 8th, 2012 from 7-11 pm
Art Fusion Galleries
3550 North Miami Avenue
At North Miami Avenue & 36th Street
Formerly Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

Art Fusion Galleries Proudly Announces Our Inaugural Opening Reception In Our Grand New Home  "Salute To Art Basel Miami 2012"
 
Featuring over 30 emerging to mid-career contemporary international artists, this exhibition honors Miami’s internationally acclaimed Art Basel art fair by featuring a select group of multicultural artisans spanning the globe.  Art Fusion Galleries is particularly excited to host this exhibition in our grand new home which boasts over 8,000 Sq. feet of Pristine Contemporary Gallery Space. Exhibiting from Saturday, December 1st, 2012 through Friday, December 21st, 2012

National and International Artists Represented:  Alberto Detomas; Allan Herskowitz; Amy Donaldson; Andrew J. Fitt; Andrew Ringler; Art Siegel; Beatriz E. Ocampo; Bob Kolb; Carl Roberts; Daniel Hanifan; David Gonya; Dr. Leonard Askowitz; Francine S. Rogers; John Frazee; Judie Lee & Julie Kessler; Lenore Robins; Lina Vandal; M. Nillo; Magdiel; Marcello Ibanez; Maria Antonia Sosa; Martin Schreiber; Michael Altheim; Michael Katz; Paolo Anselmo; Patricia Peters; Pedno; Semadar; Tiril; Victor Bregeda; Wendy Cohen; And Many More…..

Also Exhibiting at our Miami Design District Gallery
Art Fusion Galleries Miami Design District
Art Basel Celebration
"Fusion IX~Seducing The Globe"
Saturday, December 8th, 2012 from 7-11 pm
Live music and refreshments will be served.  For more information please call 305.573.5730 or email our gallery at info@artfusiongallery.com
Exhibiting from Monday, October 1st, 2012
through Monday, December 17th, 2012 
1 N.E. 40th St. Suites 3, 6 & 7
Miami FL, 33137

Gentleman Jack Art, Beats and Lyrics @ LMNT during Art Basel Miami
Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 7:00pm until 12:00am
LMNT
55 NW 36 Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Facebook Link

This is a free event with an open bar. RSVP Required.
Text "Miamiabl" To 68405 to RSVP
www.gentlemanjackabl.com

Gentleman Jack’s Art, Beats + Lyrics is an explosion of creativity and originality; a traveling art exhibition that infuses various mediums to produce a one night event that ignites the inner desire for innovation and freshness GJ AB+L, strives to bring to the masses a platform in which emerging artists are showcased with veterans deeply rooted in their craft to give the audience a first-hand and unfiltered art/music experience.

Irreversible Cover Featured Winners Release Party
November 30TH 7PM
Wynwood Exhibition Center
297 Northwest 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
RSVP norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
 
Foreword by Dr. Carol Damian
Director/ Chief Curator Frost Art Museum
 
A BIG and SPECIAL THANK YOU note goes to Rodolfo Vanmarke and Elaine Minionis founders of www.thelunchboxgallery.com whom witohut their unconditional support this competition would not be possible.
  
The Lunch Box Gallery Is a small but vibrant and cutting edge gallery llocated in the Wynwood Art District, Miami. Our emphasis is on contemporary photography, where conceptual, fine art, documentary and mixed media photography are subjects of exploration. www.facebook.com/thelunchboxgallery

  
Cover Featured Winner
Illustration 
Edwin Villasmil (venezuela)
  
1st Place Mixed Media
K. Kissik  (usa)
  
Honorable Mention
Sculpture Lori Nozick (usa)
  
Honorable Mention
Painting  Carlos Caballero (cub) 
 
20 winners
20 unique works invitations
Marina Font (ARG); Aimee Hertog (USA); Alexios Avlamis (GR); Amber Quimby (USA); Astolfo Funes (VNZLA); Clara Varas (CUB); Aida Tejada (RD); Cynthia Patrick (USA); Ernesto Kunde (BR); Jean Paul Mallozzi (USA); Jon Mcintosh (USA); Katiuska Gonzalez (VNZLA); Marcelo Daldoce (BR); Mariusz Navratil (POLAND); Patricia Gutierrez (USA); PJ Mills (USA); Tania Marmolejo (RD); Todd Brittingham (USA); Chika Matsuda (JP); Kerri Corser (USA)

image credit: Illustration  EDWIN VILLASMIL (Venezuela)

Get Scrooged!
11/27/12, 7pm
Bloom
2751 N. Miami Ave
Wynwood Miami, FL

Tickets
HistoryMiami/JCI Members: $15
Non-Members: $25

RSVP
305-375-5356
RSVP@historymiami.org

Join the HistoryMiami Flagler Street Society as we kick off the holiday season and launch Giving Tuesday.
 
Enjoy a Pisco cocktail specially made for our guests. Pair your cocktail with Latin American hors d’oeuvres as you mix ‘n mingle with Miami young professionals

Miami Mix 2012
Saturday, 11/10/2012, 06:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Wynwood Warehouse Project
450 NW 27th St.,
Miami, Florida 33127
Webpage Link

MIAMI MIX 2012 at the THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT

The Art Place Wynwood, presents Miami Mix 2012 opening in their second location THE
WAREHOUSE PROJECT. Opening Reception is Saturday Nov. 10 , 6-10 PM during the
Wynwood Art Walk. The Exhibition will run from Nov. 10 – Dec. 10, 2012.

The Art Place Wynwood is thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of THE WAREHOUSE
PROJECT! After 4 years on NW 2nd Avenue we have acquired a 7300 square foot warehouse
in the Heart of Wynwood. This is our second location, we are NOT moving, we are growing!
Now with two locations we can continue to provide a multitude of opportunities to local and
international artists. Join us next second Saturday to witness the launching of Miami Mix 2012,
our artist showcase for ART BASEL WEEK!

We will also have a live musical performance by ANIMAL SPOUSE a licenced Massage therapist and Becks Beer!

THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT
450 NW 27th St. Miami, FL 33127

ARTISTS
Marcela Garcia Bonini / Rishona Cann / Toa Castellanos / Claudia Di Paolo / Sol Gersh / Mark Gonzalez
/ Cory Hunter / Carolina Llano / Maranesi / Scott Marsicano / Alexis Martinez / Beatrice
McClelland / Lauren Ashley Munoz / Michelle Oravitz / Miguel Payano / Christy Perez / Judy
Polstra / Juan Restrepo / Dlynn Roll / Santiago Rueda / April Saler / Dale Stryker / Sacha Suarez

Marc Lagrange Exhibition VIP Opening
LMNT Arts
59 nw 36th st.
Miami, Fl. 33127
www.l-m-n-t.com
RSVP: 305-989-6963 or info@l-m-n-t.com

You’re invited to view the first US solo show of European photographer legend, Marc Lagrange, before the public opening on Saturday Nov. 10th. There will be the opportunity to meet Lagrange in person as well as being some of the first people in the US to have access to the collection.

Evocative, sensual and voluptuous, Marc Lagrange’s work celebrates beauty and pleasure. The Antwerp-‐‑based photographer, who has a predilection for nudes and portraits, creates luxurious and timeless environments, where eroticism and intimacy play a central part. Lagrange’s work has been praised by critics and collected worldwide and now we are pleased to have the opportunity to host the first solo show in the US at LMNT with NAC Gallery.

in collaboration with NAC Gallery

Fabienne Lasserre The Us and the It opening reception
Friday October 19th, 6 – 9 PM
Gallery Diet
174 Nw 23 Street
Miami Fl 33127
www.gallerydiet.com

Gallery Diet is pleased to announce Fabienne Lasserre’s second solo exhibition, The Us and the It. The exhibition will open on Friday, October 19th and will run through November 24th 2012, this is Ms. Lasserre’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Fabienne Lasserre’s thin, curvilinear sculptures take hold of the main gallery space, these works have the abstract quality of a line and the tactility of a limb. Layers of dyed linen and acrylic polymer wrap steel rods like a cast on a broken arm. The pieces circumscribe space, carving out blank areas that can enclose or surround a human body. Equally objects and context, they determine a site in which space, thing and body aren’t quite distinct from one another.
In the projects room, the works are more compact, figure-like. They bear anthropomorphic qualities and the inertness of objects. As things, they evoke the animate; as beings they seem mute. Their pliant identity admits no beginning or end; it seems that sections could migrate and assemble into different forms.

Fabienne Lasserre has recently exhibited in the Quebec Triennial at the Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, in a three person exhibition with Lucas Blalock, and James Hyde at Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center for the Arts and at Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City. Her works have been written about in Art Forum, the Brooklyn Rail, the Village Voice, and Art Papers amongst numerous other publications. Fabienne has also been a visiting artist at the Vermont Studio Center, the University of Oregon, La Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, Karunkina in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, and La Curtiduria in Oaxaca, Mexico. She will also be a resident at the Dieu Donne Paper Mill in New York City in 2013.

1st View- 2nd Friday
October 12, 7-10pm
Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC)
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127

$5 Admission; Free for BAC Members
Enjoy wine and live music

Exhibitions Preview:

R4 Recycled, Reclaimed, Reused, and Reinterpreted
This BAC exhibition focuses on the everyday object and its transformation and manipulation into contemporary art. 

(On view in Audrey Love Gallery October 13- November 2)

Kim Litch: Jack Me In, Jack Me On, Jack Me Off
The exhibition consists of several elements that explore the idea of social networking and isolation in the digital world. A mixture of sugar, water and glue coated sculptures and images that represent a literal sugar-coating; electric chords and latex create umbilical cords of line lines.

(On view in Swenson Gallery October 13- November 2)

David Castillo Gallery presents Quisqueya Henriquez’s After Some Twisted Lines Reception
Thursday, October 11, 6-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present After Some Twisted Lines, Quisqueya Henríquez’s third solo show with the gallery. Henríquez deepens her investigation into appropriation, architectural form and Art History with new works in collage, fabric, video, and Rorschach technique.

After Some Twisted Lines grapples with the Lacanian condition, which asserts that entrance into language and visual representation tragically severs humans from the unadulterated real at birth. Henríquez challenges the impossibility of the real by exploring how we exist, communicate, and desire after some twisted lines. Rorschach references the psychological test for which a subject interprets inkblot images. Henríquez’s Rorschach test, bold in scale and ornithological in aesthetic, invites phenomenological response, affective relationships and pleasure. The artist builds a menagerie on the foundation of clinical analysis.

Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a seminal taxonomy of facial expression across species. To browse its pages is an exercise in the instability between self and other, originality and appropriation, art and research, procedure and spontaneity. Henríquez adapts this framework for the post-internet age. After Some Twisted Lines evokes the process of computer screen-capture that subtly informs the artist’s works in collage. The resulting artworks bear the names of renowned conceptual artists, from Surrealist Hannah Hoch to fashion, still life and portrait photographer Irving Penn. Henríquez’s collage emotes Dan Flavin’s fluorescent minimalism, Louise Lawler’s meta-photographs of artworks on exhibition, and Gordon Matta-Clark’s site-specific interventions upon abandoned buildings. The dominance of social media and virtual exchange has led Olga Goriunova to coin autocreativity, a methodology for thinking creativity as an assemblage of human, technical and social. Henríquez works at the forefront of autocreativity to make salient the continuity between appropriation and network.

After Some Twisted Lines lays bare the problematic of making artwork within Art History; locating materiality within semiotics; inhabiting the intimacy of interior within architectural countenance; and recognizing beauty within a network culture that numbers it a scarce resource. Henríquez gives form to what Arakawa and Gins theorize as "body-wide" modes of sensing, and does so in full view of convergence culture. Henríquez asks the viewer to defy the shortcomings of simulation and lust after the real.

Henríquez was born in Havana, Cuba and lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. After graduating from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba, Henríquez has exhibited throughout Latin America, Europe, and the US. Her work is in important private and public collections including El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Miami Art Museum; Cintas Foundation, NY; Rhode Island School of Design; and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, NY, among others. Henríquez had a mid-career retrospective at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, which later traveled to Miami Art Museum. The artist’s recent solo exhibitions include the McColl Residency in North Carolina; BARNA and Centro Cultural de España, both in Dominican Republic. Among her recent group exhibitions are the Cintas Foundation, Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL.

Jon Pylypchuk Opening
I Won’t Give Up On You
Opening Reception Friday, October 12, 7-9 Pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

October 12 – November 24, 2012

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Jon Pylypchuk. 
 
For his second solo exhibition at the gallery, Pylypchuk presents an installation of 85 sculptures and 10 small works on paper.  Deploying the logic of commodity critique within the space of theatrical installation,  cardboard forms, carefully spray-painted to resemble discarded cigarettes, stand on end in groups clustered  throughout the exhibition space.  Standing between 12 and 36 inches tall, the mimetic forms begin to take on anthropomorhipic silhouettes.
 
In this particular body of work, Pylypchuk has chosen signifiers of intentionality and mimicked them in sculptural form to thematize the material surplus of 20th century avant-garde practices.  If readymades  were a sort of 20th century social contract, offereing not-so-subtle advice on how to behave and look in accordance with a generalized social and moral code, cigarettes were momentary breaks with this contract.   Cigarettes condensed the more unruly aspects of subjectivity into disposable, micro intentionality signifiers.  In their dumb enactment of virtualization (a solid to a gas), they commemorated the loss of the avant-garde’s most cherished site of identification, its liquid reservoir of reflection, and inserted brief interruptions into the march of post-Fordist labor time.  The appropriation of the cigarette by the culture industry as lifestyle accessory, suggests that, contrary to popular belief, the melancholic character is one of the readymade’s intended users.
 
Pylypchuk’s work displays an impoverished and, in this case, dessicated, vernacular.  By populating the  traditional space of sculpture with readymade content, Pylypchuk places each on the same plane of  production.  Yet, Pylypchuk’s criticism of the commodity form has less to do with reified social relations than with its affective register.  The studio is conceived as a space to both bind and unbind the relation between the readymade and the body, the way the former structures the psychology of the latter.  There is a figurative quality to the sculptures, indicating that hyperreal anthropomorphism and discursive compression are one and the same process.
 
As with his previous bodies of work, Pylypchuk employs reflexive material procedures alongside a logic of consumerist selection to occupy the territory between use, display, and refusal.  These oversize and numerous works find antecedents in the positions of Arte Povera, post-Minimalism and Group Material as well as the material strategies of a legacy of artists as diverse as Piero Manzoni, Claes Oldenburg, Haim Steinbach, John Miller, and Mike Kelley.
 
Jon Pylypchuk was born in 1972 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canda and has been exhibiting his work since 1999.   He has had recent solo exhibitions at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Hussenot Gallery, Paris, and was in the 18th Biennial of Sydney.

First View/Second Friday
Friday, October 12, 7 – 10pm
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL  33127

$5 Admission; Free for BAC Members
Enjoy wine, Vitamin Water Zero, and music by Sunshine Stompers!

Exhibitions Preview:
 
R4: Reused, Recycled, Reclaimed, and Reinterpreted
Exhibition focuses on the everyday object and its transformation and manipulation into contemporary art. (On view in Audrey Love Gallery October 13- November 2)

Kim Litch: Jack Me In, Jack Me On, Jack Me Off
Exhibition will consist of several elements that explore the idea of social networking and isolation in the digital world. A mixture of sugar, water, and glue will coat sculptures and images and represent a literal sugarcoating; electrical cords and latex create umbilical cords or life lines. (On view in Swenson Gallery October 13- November 2)

Concrete Perspective
Oct 11, 2012, 6:30-9:30 p.m
O Ascanio Gallery 
2600 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127 
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“Concrete Perspective” is a solo exhibition of monumental photographs that transports viewers into ambiguous environments where our city’s soaring sites of construction take center stage after being vividly altered. The grand opening reception for this emotive suite of photographs will be held in O. Ascanio Gallery in the Wynwood Arts District on Thursday, October 11 from 6:30-9:30 p.m.
 
Gallery owner, Oscar Ascanio, was captivated by Hester’s ability to draw out subtle undertones of delicacy and beauty in otherwise seemingly cold and inanimate structures.
 
“Hester’s photographs engage and surprise viewers by revealing an aesthetic that’s seemingly musical. Construction materials, such as, concrete, tubes, screws and cables are transformed into sensible and visually delightful surfaces,” said Ascanio. “There is undeniable beauty in these inanimate landscapes that lie dormant around us and enrich our surroundings – many times without us noticing.”
 
Hester’s photographs conjure a distinct human quality. They evoke the urban surroundings we travel to-and-from work, our places of leisure and commerce, the flow and ebb of a vibrant metropolis. They also compel us to look beyond the obvious to embrace the unseen poetry of the concrete surfaces of these structures.
 
For example, in an angular close up of an overhead section of Herzog & de Meuron’s iconic 1111 Lincoln Road design, the artist freezes a slab of concrete the tropical sun never penetrates. But Hester succeeds in capturing the incandescent glow radiating across the surface cast from fluorescent lighting, as if suggesting the vanishing electric blue whispers of twilight before the sun fades.
 
The documentation of the simultaneous inter-reliant relationship between man and construction, construction and the environment, and the unintentional emotional response to the design process is what Hester captures.
 
“The process is made up of the constructed environment, memory and the universal desire to be flawless,” said Hester. “It is a process that instigates the recognition that even in the most basic bare-boned structures such as the University of Florida Stadium and highway overpasses, or that in the most elemental need to park, one can encounter a powerful and revelatory emotion of self-acceptance inherent in the architecture itself.”
 
“Concrete Perspective” will be hosted by Cultured Magazine, and wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
 
The solo exhibition will be held from October 11 – November 7.

Tigertail’s Season Kickoff at Wynwood Walls
Wednesday, October 10, 7 To 9 Pm
Wynwood Walls
2506 Nw 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL

Free
tigertail.org

Party with us at Wynwood Walls for our October Opening Kickoff

Learn more about Tigertail’s 33rd season of events. Dance to Forró, burning hot dance music from Northeast Brazil. Take in music by the Nu Flamenco guitarist Jose Luis Rodriguez. Enjoy film loops by Barron Sherer who has one of the finest stocks of unusual films in all of Florida. Listen to fabulous teen poets Maylin Enamorado, Diego Mosquera and Brianna Woods from Tigertail’s WordSpeak team, hot from Brave New Voices in San Francisco. Win prizes and season tickets. Stay for dinner, 15% discount at Joey’s or Wynwood Kitchen and Bar.

Tigertail’s 2012 Kickoff Party will be held in memory of Tony Goldman, without whom the Wynwood Walls and so many other of Miami’s gems would not have been possible.

Gringo Bingo at Wood Tavern
10/3/12, 6pm-9pm
Wood Tavern
2531 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Florida 33127
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Don your pancho and grab some amigos because it’s time for some good ol’ fashioned bingo!
 
It’s the same game you remember playing as a kid, only now you win free drinks and tacos instead of those crappy plastic dinosaurs. Our host, Casa de HaHa’s Daniel Reskin, will keep you on the edge of your seat (or falling out of it) while he calls out the numbers and entertains you with his antics in between games.
 
Prizes are going to include everything from free drink tickets, to tacos, to t-shirts and more! And make sure you get there in time for the last game which’ll be filling out a full card instead of just 1 row and the prize will be a package including a $25 bar tab!
 
So come out, get your senior citizen on, and learn why the old folks do it right.

Boudoir Diaries Opening Night
October 4th, 2012, 7pm
LMNT
59 NW 36th Street
Miami, FL 33127

Howard Austin Feld and Christine Afaro presents "The Boudoir Diaries" Photographic Exhibition. Join us for the premiere showing of "The Boudoir Diaries" Photographic Exhibition at LMNT Gallery. Show closes with "The Boudoir Ball" on Halloween night!

Closing Night October 31st, 2012

Oxenberg Art Opening Reception: Humberto Castro, Drawings & Sculpture
October 4, 2012, 7:00-10:00PM
Oxenberg Fine Art
50 NE 29 Street
Miami, FL 33137
(between North Miami Avenue & Northeast Second Avenue)
www.oxenbergart.com
 
Humberto Castro: Drawings & Sculpture, will open with a reception and opportunity to meet the artist on Thursday, October 4, 2012, 7-10:00PM.
 
Complimentary light fare, refreshments and public parking will also be available.
 
Featured image: Humberto Castro, Flying Over the Ocean, 2010, Ink oil and acrylic on fabriano paper, 45 x 64 inches
 
Humberto Castro: Exhibiting work since 1978, Castro is a renowned “1980s generation” Cuban artist. He has participated in 126 juried and invitational exhibitions as well as 52 solo shows throughout Europe, South America and the United States, among other locations. Castro’s works is infused with magical, lyrical and transitory qualities, incorporating organic elements such as water and the human form. For additional information on the artist, please visit: http://www.humbertocastro.com/
 
Oxenberg Fine Art: Oxenberg Fine Art exhibits and represents the work of local, national and international artists, most of whom work in mixed media, painting and sculpture. Additionally, the gallery assists individuals in starting collections and expanding those of seasoned buyers.

Opening Reception for Ana Mendieta in Context: Public and Private Work at the De la Cruz Collection
Thursday, September 27, 2012. 7:30 p.m.
De la Cruz Collection
23 NE 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137
www.delacruzcollection.org

Refreshments and Dim Sum will be served at 7:30 p.m. Talk will begin promptly at 8:00 p.m.
To RSVP send an email to rsvp@delacruzcollection.org .

César Trasobares will present an illustrated overview of Ana Mendieta’s development as an artist with an emphasis on the work she executed in Miami from 1981 to 1983. The talk will cover the contexts of Mendieta’s body of work (site, performance, video, drawing and sculpture), including references to the work of other artists as well as examples of the historic and anthropological sources of her iconography.

César Trasobares is an artist and art activist based in Miami. During the past four decades, he has organized numerous exhibitions and written texts about Cuban American Art in the United States, as well as essays about various artists and his own practice. From 1985 to 1990 he served as Executive Director of Miami-Dade County’s Art in Public Places Program. He is currently writing Among Friends, a personal memoir recalling his friendship with Ana Mendieta, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Carlos Alfonzo.

Tigertail Art Out Loud Season Party
Wednesday / October 10 / 7 To 9 Pm
Wynwood Walls
2506 Nw 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 
Free
tigertail.org

Party with us at Wynwood Walls for our October Opening Kickoff
Learn more about Tigertail’s 33rd season of events. Dance to Forró, burning hot dance music from Northeast Brazil. Take in music by the Nu Flamenco guitarist Jose Luis Rodriguez. Enjoy film loops by Barron Sherer who has one of the finest stocks of unusual films in all of Florida. Win prizes and season tickets. Stay for dinner, 15% discount at Joey’s or Wynwood Kitchen and Bar.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Part 2
September 15th 2012, 7pm-10pm
Warehouse Alternative Space
4396 SW 74th Avenue
Miami, Florida 33155
www.guild-artists.com
 
Warehouse Alternative Space  presents "A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Part II." An art exhibition featuring the work of GUILD artists: Jose Luis Telot, Jovan Karlo Villalba, T. Eliott Mansa and Vincent Serritella.  "GUILD’s artists are conscious of the irony implicit in their position as rebels who seek to move art forward precisely by not  abandoning craftsmanship, the cult of originality, and other traditions which are central to Western art, and last extolled in Modernism." -Ricardo Pau Llosa  

Black Square Gallery opening of Shonagh Adelman’s solo show, Disorderly Conduct.
September 13, 2012 from 6 to 9PM
Black Square Gallery
Wynwood, 2248 NW 1st Place
(corner of NW 23rd St and NW 1st Place),
Miami, FL 33127.
www.blacksquaregallery.com

On public view:  From September 8 to October 9, 2012

Adelman’s most recent exhibition at Black Square Gallery renders a cast of characters out of place and time. Unlikely pairings of figure and location converge through the medium of meticulously crafted 4mm glass and acrylic crystals on canvas. The title of the exhibition takes its inspiration from Lewis Carroll’s book, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” about a fantastical world in which disorderly conduct is the norm. Midway through Alice’s adventures, the Duchess advises her, “[n]ever imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.”

The first of Adelman’s series, Beast and the Booty, conjures familiar archetypes of beauty and monstrosity, and reflects them back onto the eye of the beholder, both figuratively and literally, as light refracts off the glass surface and into the viewer’s eye. Her second series, The Last Queen, depicts Marie Antoinette in the apocalyptic landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans, casting the last Queen of France in a context as unlikely as a Twilight Zone portal. Shrouding the scene in the glittery hue of crystals amplifies the incongruity. The title series, Disorderly Conduct, occupies the opulent interiors of the Palace of Versailles and the Parisian opera house, "Palais Garnier." Designed in part to facilitate the king’s attempt to consolidate power, Versailles’ resplendent chambers, festooned with silk curtains, crystal chandeliers and ornate furnishings, are imbued with power and prestige. Marie Antoinette, the last Queen to inhabit the “Grand apartment of the Queen” before the monarchy was deposed, became inextricably associated with the anecdote "Let them eat cake," a phrase that invoked the callousness of unenlightened privilege. Versailles similarly became symbolic of the exploitative excesses of absolute rule. The Palace, which was the repository for confiscated items of artistic and intellectual merit dedicated to housing the “glories of France”, and now a closely monitored museum, is an unlikely backdrop for marauding madams, merry minstrels, bicycling babes and kissing cops. To paraphrase Alice’s realization in chapter one, however, very few things are indeed impossible.

The collateral association between visual pleasure and political power in Disorderly Conduct is amplified by the use of the crystal medium. Luminosity and texture invoke a hyper-awareness of visual seduction while the humorous juxtaposition of figure and setting imparts a theatrical bent to the disorderly conduct.

Adelman has exhibited widely at distinguished institutions and galleries, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Aldrich Museum, Linda Kirkland Gallery and Fuller Museum, among others. Her work also has been featured in art publications such as Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Bomb Magazine and Parachute.

From Abstract to Realism
09/07/2012, 7:00pm to 11:00pm
LMNT
55 nw 36 street
Miami, FL 33127
www.lmntartsmiami.com
 
A new exhibition opening at LMNT. The works of Diego Jacobson, Felix Bonilla, Flavio Galvan and Havi Schanz have been sold and exhibited internationally. They are all successful mid career artists both here and in South America, they have similar herritage and similar artistic backgrounds, yet their styles are in two distinct camps. So contrasting are the styles as a viewer we tend to like one or the other. With this show we want the viewer to open their minds to the pecrceived oposing styles.

Miami Rail Issue 2 Release Party
September 7, 9pm
Lester’s
2519 nw 2nd ave.
Miami, Florida 33127

Join us at Lester’s to celebrate the release of the second issue of the Miami Rail!

Music provided by:
Resident DJs of
NOMEMORIES

Get your copy of the new issue before anyone else does!