Simian Spectacle at Harold Golen Gallery
Saturday July 14th, 6pm -11pm
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 North West 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
305-989-3359
haroldgolengallery.com
Wynwood Art District

Show run through to August 4th

Original artwork by:
Robert Jimenez
Anthony Carpenter
Eddy Crosby
Sam Gambino
El Gato Gomez
Doug Horne
Luru
John Mulder
Nik Satterfield
Stephanie Jaffe Werner

Featuring an appearance by Mikie the Monkey!
Show curated by: Robert Jimenez

Oxenberg Fine Art- Sneak Preview of Opening Exhibition
July 14, 2012, 2:00-9:00PM
Oxenberg Fine Art
50 NE 29 Street *
Miami, FL 33137

Shared with the Kelley Roy Gallery

*between North Miami Avenue & Northeast 2nd Avenue, Midtown Miami
Please join us for a special preview of our
Grand Opening Exhibition on

Saturday, July 14, 2012 from 2:00-9:00PM.

Showcasing works by:
Humberto Castro
Luc Dratwa
Roberto Edwards
Volker Kühn
Bea Oxenberg
Marcelo Wong
Massimo Vitali

Wynwood Art Walk at The Hangar Gallery
July 14th 2010, 7pm-10pm
The Hangar Gallery
2235 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, Florida 33127
hangargallery.com

Come visit The Hangar during the Wynwood Art Walk this Saturday July 14, 2012 to see some new works and some old favorites!

Text-art Exhibition “Summer Reading” at Black Square Gallery
July 14th, 6-9pm
Black Square Gallery
2248 NW 1st Place, Miami, FL 33127
Wynwood Art District

The show will be on view from July 14th through September 5th, 2012.
Six artists from USA, Italy, Argentina and Korea will present their works, objects and installations: Claire Satin, Kyu Hak Lee, Pablo Lehmann, Patrizia Giambi, Ryan McCann, Tony Vazquez.

MAM Staff Art Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday, July 14, 2-9pm
University of Miami Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Ave., Suite 4
Wynwood Miami, FL

The Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (UM) is pleased to present the Miami Art Museum Staff Exhibition at the UM Gallery in the Wynwood art district. This summer, MAM will present the third MAM Staff Art Exhibition, showcasing the talents of its artistically-inclined staff. The exhibition is on view Saturday, July 14 through Friday, August 24, 2012.

The exhibition will consist of 30 recent works including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance by 21 artists. The artists are Raymond Adrian, Michael Balbone, Kyle Barnette, David Brieske, Juan Carballo, Marcos Cherlo, Clifton Childree, José Herazo-Osorio, Kerry Keeler, Dave Kudzma, Sinisa Kukec, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Jay Oré, Bennie Osborne, Jahaira Rios-Galves, Phaedra Robinson, Asser Saint-Val, Colin Sherrell, Isabel Sobrevilla, Misael Soto and Janese Weingarten.

The exhibition is curated by Jay Oré and is supported by University of Miami Gallery. There will be two opening receptions: Saturday, July 14, and Saturday, August 11, 2pm to 9pm.

The Armory Studios presents Decadance Unit
07/14/2012, 8:00pm – 1:00am
The Armory Studios
572 NW 23rd Street
Miami 33127
www.thearmorymiami.com

The Armory Studios presents Decadance Unit an 80’s Cover Band for July’s Unofficial 2nd Saturday Art Walk Party.

Free Drinks, Live Music. Playing hits from Bowie to B-52’s and Duran Duran to Depeche Mode. Starts at 8pm goes to 1am. $10 dollars and plenty of free parking. Next to the Boombox in Wynwood.

Wynwood VIP Studio Showcase
July 14th, 6:00PM
Urban Icons Studio
2509 NW 2nd Avenue.
Upstairs Loft
Miami, Florida 33127
305-202-0246

Wynwood Art Walk
Urban Icons Studio cordially invites you to our July exhibition featuring an international artist showcasing for this month’s July Art Walk. Please join us on July 14, 2012 at 6pm at 2509 NW 2nd Avenue, as we welcome Helbert Ortiz to Wynwood. Drinks & hors d’ oeuvres will be served as well a discussion on the artistic style of the work and the future of the artist.

For artist information and Private Studio tours please contact:
Giuliana D’ Salvador C. at 954-670-4735

Things Beyond Our Control- Curated by Andrew Reed Opening Reception
Saturday July 14, 2012, 7-9pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Things Beyond Our Control, a group exhibition curated by Andrew Reed running from July 14 – August 13, 2012. This exhibition will open with a reception at the gallery on Saturday, July 14, 2012 from 7-9pm.

Things Beyond Our Control is a group exhibition featuring the work of 18 artists that seeks to address questions of agency, structure and the ability of art, specifically pictorial art, to come into contact with the conditions of its own production. The “beyond” has been, at different moments, a Platonic Ideal, a hallucinatory dreamworld, a utopian vision. But in this specific historical moment, the works in the show raise a slightly darker prospect – that what is beyond our control is specifically our ability to imagine, in a compelling way, any sort of “beyond” at all.

The artworks on display, are things – a term chosen to site the works in the realm of social relations rather than idealist speculation – whose purposiveness has run wild. The loss of a “beyond” forecloses on the spatial and temporal possibility of anything other than “now” and aligns processes of meaning production with an austere perspective – one whose reproducibility is its own raison d’être and main criteria for judgment.

The exhibition will feature the following artists: Dan Attoe, Hernan Bas, Naomi Fisher, Keith Haring, Rashid Johnson, Anton Kannemeyer, Marilyn Minter, Jonathan Meese, Richard Mosse, Man Ray, Lucas Samaras, Malick Sidibe, David Shrigley, Hank Willis Thomas, Michael Vasquez, Carlos Vega, Kara Walker, and Chen Wei.

Andrew Reed (born 1995) is a curator and collector who lives and works in Miami, FL.
Fredric Snitzer Gallery is open from Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. For more information and images regarding this exhibition, please contact 305.448.8976 or info@snitzer.com. Additionally, please visit us at www.snitzer.com.

Image: Bert Rodriguez, 5 stages, 2005, C-print, 20″ x 150″

OhSoulFresh: SO Fresh
August 11th, 2012, 7:00pm
Eleazar Delgado Studio
2703 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL, 33127
www.OhSoulFresh.com

OhSoulFresh is back with another exhibit and everyone is invited. Thanks to Eleazar Delgado, we have a space in Wynwood to exhibit the work. This time we have a fresh set of artist with complimenting styles. The body of work is so fresh it might be dripping paint on the floors and giving off that sweet spray paint smell..

Artists:
Alex Yanes
Alexandra Seda
Burn353
Trek6
Vince BadPanda Herrera
Whut

Website: www.ohsoulfresh.com
Facebook Event Page: http://www.facebook.com/events/230111363775839/

Radical Genealogy: The Decline of Dauphins, Courtesans, and Hounds
July 14, 2012, 7pm to 10pm
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
72NW 25th Street
Miami FL 33127
www.hardcoreartmiami.com

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space presents the first solo exhibition in Miami of Cuban artist Carlos Gámez de Francisco (b. Holguín, Cuba, 1987): “Radical Genealogy: The Decline of Dauphins, Courtesans, and Hounds”, curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective | Adriana Herrera & Willy Castellanos). Gámez appropriates the aesthetic of the opulent and decadent atmosphere of the days of the last French monarchs to create a parable of absolute power. Black humor serves as the narrative thread linking pictorial scenes in which the bloody and the absurd converge with ostentatious fashion. Each frame opens a window onto a story that functions simultaneously as a prophetic mirror: in its background one may catch a glimpse of the fate that awaits the characters thriving on excessive power. Its different modes of perpetuation, sometimes associated to a perverted Eros, culminate − as do the diverse series and animations by the artist − in the genetic defects (metaphors for the social disorders) and in the death sentences which the French Revolution associated with the guillotine. The famous attraction of the abyss exerted by the unrestrained libido is as strong and deceitful as the seduction exerted by the libido imperandi, the wish for unlimited power.

Despite being a young emerging artist, this will be his 13th solo exhibit. In 2011, he won the Norman Kohlepp Merit Awards, from the Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, Kentucky. In 2007 he won the award for Best Short Film in the Seventh National Festival of Audiovisual “By First Time”, Holguín, Cuba.

Alex Yanes “Places of Origin” Summer Block Party at Warehouse Alternative Space
Saturday, June 16, 2012, 7-11pm
Warehouse Alternative Space
4396 SW 74th Ave.
Miami, FL 33155.
www.mixedmediacollective.com

Alex Yanes of the Surface Merchants kicks off the summer with his newest exhibition; “Places of Origin.”
Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Acclaimed postgraffism artist, Alex Yanes of the Surface Merchants, will present a solo exhibition, “Places of Origin“ during this Saturday’s Art Walk in the Bird Road Art District. Warehouse Alternative Space will be kicking off the summer, block party style, with an all new exhibition featuring Yanes’ strikingly colorful 2 and 3D pieces on wood. The indoor/outdoor warehouse style gallery will house over 20 of Alex’s signature, works, including his custom, wall-mounted iPod docking stations, complete with built-in speaker systems. Beat the summer heat with complimentary Mike’s Hard Lemonade and tunes by the always-alluring DJ YSL.

Warehouse Alternative Space is located at 4396 SW 74th Ave. Miami, FL 33155. Doors open at 7pm.

As thank you for supporting Alex Yanes and the Warehouse, Chalk Ping Pong and Billiards Lounge invites art enthusiasts to the after party for an open bar from 11pm to 12am.

Fictional Eyes: The Dreams of Reason” photography show
June 9th, 2012 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127.

The Lunch Box Gallery, in conjunction with contemporary art webzine from Spain, Area Zinc, are pleased to announce the second opening of the exhibition Fictional Eyes: The Dreams of Reason, showcasing the photographs of 8 artists who have been previously published in Area Zinc.

After a rigorous selection process, a body of works have been chosen that convey the idea of photography as an exercise for the imagination. All the pieces in this show reveal fictional situations, scenarios, objects and even narratives that defy not only the way we see and associate the elements that surround us, but as well challenge the limits of photography as an art form. The artworks confront the traditional idea that a photograph reflects reality, and they also deal with the diversity of outside influences that photographers have incorporated into their images when utilizing other methods of creation and techniques that weren’t necessarily there in the original take.

The use of technology, digital manipulation, 3D design, illustration, collage, graphics tablet, among many others, indeed transform the image to become “something else”, taking the shape of oneiric expressions and illusions that unleash conceptual and personal imaginations. Nevertheless, even though many of the images reveal nonexistent places, forms and circumstances, they all depart from elements of real life taken with a camera, and at the end, they may become verisimilar to the eye of the beholder thanks to the mastery in merging all the elements together; just like a dream that feels real when dreaming it. Pre-conceived techniques during the taking of the photograph as well as in post-production, become the set for the visual trap, making the impossible, possible.

Awe, curiosity, open conclusions and unlimited meanings arise from the sometimes unconnected imagery that we observe, stimulating the individual appropriation of the photograph by giving the connotation each viewer wants to assign. Here, concept and technique together omit the laws of reason, entering into the dreams of those who create with fictional eyes.

The current exhibition is a mutual celebration between renowned online art magazine Area Zinc, and our photography space. We’ve joined efforts to build together creative bridges between societies and photography artists, each one branching out from its own platform: The Lunch Box Gallery through this show, and Area Zinc with their new issue dedicated to a selection of documentary/conceptual photographers showcased in the gallery through a variety of thematic shows. Here’s the link to see the special number www.area-zinc.com.

Photographers participating in the show include Sandra Torralba (Spain), Stefano Bonazzi (Italy), Christopher Lee Donovan (USA), Michel Rajkovic (France), Serrah Russell (USA), Kaveh Hosseini (Germany), Polly Chandler (USA), Alba Tenas (Spain).

Echo’s Breath VIP Reception
Saturday, June 9, 6:00pm-9:00pm
Zadok Gallery
2534 N. Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33127
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Zadok Gallery, The Everglades Foundation and WLRN are pleased to present Echo’s Breath, Alain Lefort’s photographic journey through the Florida Everglades.

Alain Lefort bends the formal and conceptual delineations of traditional photography by creating disquieting and engrossing landscapes from images captured in nature. Often selecting vignettes or fragments from a multitude of images, Lefort digitally sews them together to create a single, synthesized composition. Lefort’s pictures incite viewers to escape their urban confines in favor of primitive unconscious fantasies.

Having obtained a degree in photography at Concordia University, Lefort has successfully integrated his talents into the international art scene creating a niche of his own in the art world. He has exhibited his works in numerous galleries across Canada and the United States. His work can be found in several important collections including the Musée du Québec, the Cirque du Soleil, the Loto-Quebec and several private collections. He currently lives and works in Montreal.

Echo’s Breath will be on exhibition from June 9th through July 31st, 2012
For further information, please contact the gallery at 305.438.3737 or info@zadokgallery.com

David Castillo Gallery presents DCG Open 2012, Reception
Reception Saturday, June 9, 6-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.davidcastillogallery.com

June 9- July 24, 2012

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present DCG Open, a yearly survey of artists from South Florida. This year’s curator Brandi Reddick, Artists and Communications Manager for the Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places Program & Curator of the Miami-Dade Public Art Collection, has chosen nineteen artists from the region. Reddick has worked with various concepts of sculpture for this year’s edition of DCG Open. As in years past, there is a wide range of media in the exhibition- from assemblage, ephemera, video, and paintings to more universally understood sculpture.

Exhibited Artists:
Nellie Appleby
Jessica Arias
Kevin Arrow
David Brieske
Martin Casuso
Matu Croney
Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez
Karen Starosta-Gilinski
Victoria Gitman
Juan Jose Griego
Moira Holohan
Alma Leiva
Lucinda Linderman
Andrew Nigon
Jonathan Rockford
Carrie Sieh
Sleeper
Valeria Yamamoto
David Zalben

Women’s Perspectives Opening
Saturday, June 9th, 7pm
Dina Mitrani Gallery
Wynwood Art District
2620 Nw 2nd Avenue
Miami Florida 33127
www.dinamitranigallery.com

June 9 – August 24, 2012
Amalia Caputo, Vicenta Casañ, Marina Font,
Deborah Goldman, Peggy Levison Nolan,
Patricia Schnall Gutierrez, Viviana Zargon

Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present Women’s Perspectives, opening on Saturday, June 9th at 7pm and on view through August 24th.

This group exhibition of international female artists shows photo-based work, where each piece has been conceived as a series. Consisting of four or more images each, they are examples of how multiple perspectives can better describe a concept, story, or narrative. The artworks in the exhibition are groupings that can work cinematically frame by frame in some cases, and in others, depictions of how fragmentation can complete an idea or visual expression.
Dina Mitrani Gallery opened in November 2008 and specializes in international contemporary photography. The gallery represents emerging and mid-career artists, offers artists talks and lectures on photography as well as photo-based books. The gallery is committed to promoting its artists, as well as working with independent curators to produce unique group exhibitions.

image above: Marina Font, Untitled from the series Domesticated, 2011,
Archival pigment prints, Edition 5.

Superheroes Then & Now
June 9, 2012, 7:00 – 10:00pm
The Hangar
2235 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood, Miami Arts District 33127
www.hangargallery.com

The HANGAR // Arts Initiative
We are pleased to announce our latest exhibition,

“SUPERHEROES
Then & Now”
Open Reception
June 9th 7-10pm

“A SUPERHEROE is a type of stock character, dedicated to protecting the public, Since the debut of the prototypical superheroes Superman in 1938, stories of superheroes-ranging from brief episodic adventures to continuing years-long sagas- having dominated comic books and crossed over into other media. The word itself dates to at least 1916.

Superheroes remain a staple of most illustrated seriel diction in Western culture, frequestly drawing both acclaim and controversy for their perceived influence on social and political issues addressed in their story-lines. In the twentieth century, superheroes and comic books were occasionally attacked as proponents of subversive political and social ideologies; on the occasions, they served to support and idealize the dominant values of national culture. They have historicall, also been used for commentary on political, social, sexual, and philosophical controversies.”

Group Show:
Sahsa Akimov, Maria Aguilar, Kelly Barter, Pablo Bermuda, Ken Bessemer, Xibie Corea, Rich Espositom Melissa Goldman, Marissa Gould, Don & Wendy Hall, Jorge Heilpern, Charles Leano, John Leano, Griselda Lechini, Teri Levine, ChristineLlorente, Sandy Maranesi, Manuel Mazzanti, Grace McGann, Carolina Mishaan, Luis Arturo Mora, Kareem Piper, Krystle Pizzuti, Juan G. Restrepo, Ally Willgetyou

Digital Art Beatz
06/9/12, 6:00 PM
Grey Area
130 NW 24th Street
Miami, FL 33127
www.greyareamiami.com

Digital Art Beatz
June 9th, 2012 Artwalk

Featuring: Ivano Bellini

Along Side:
Jimmy Trane & Jali
Jeremy Ismael
Chris Ellis
Erhan Ozkaya

brought to you by Dopppler EFX

6pm ‘till Sunrise.

6-9 Free (Complimentary entrance)
9-10 $10/door (entrance only)
10-? $15/door (entrance only)

Original art work to be raffled throughout the night ($15/Ticket) Winners will be chosen every 2 hours
*Participate in the raffle and receive complimentary cocktails all night long*

Artists:
allywillgetyou
Buda
CDG.DM
Danielle Branchaud
Emilio Remior
Floyd the Rock Artist LIVE!
Joseph Ian Baca
Komik28
Xibie Corea LIVE!

Deep sax performance with Leon Morley
Guitar layered vibes with Aaron Lebos
Body painting with Joseph Ian Baca
Fashion show presented by KARIZA (purchases available)
Soundsystem arranged by Homero
Lighting/special effects by Len

Introducing Jacob Gossett | Opening
Opening: June 8, 2012 | 7-9PM
Charest-Weinberg Gallery, LLC
250 NW 23rd Street, #408
Miami, FL 33127

Charest-Weinberg is thrilled to present Olympia, the first public exhibition of Jacob Gossett’s artwork. Olympia will open to the public on Friday, June 8th and will be on view through July 31st, 2012. There will be an opening reception on June 8th from 7-9pm.

Following the opening, Beacon, Gossett’s electro-R&B group, will stage a performative concert alongside Michna (NY) and Heathered Pearls (LA) at The Vagabond in Downtown Miami. This performance is hosted by Charest-Weinberg and Ghostly International (view artwork).

“Introducing Jacob Gossett” is a 46 page ebook (pdf), presenting an in-depth overview of Gossett’s studio practice and his first exhibition, Olympia. View: Introducing Jacob Gossett (PDF) (9.2 MB)

Jacob Gossett was born in 1983 in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up surrounded by athletic culture. Over the past few years, his work has dealt with the cult(ure) of flesh: body politics, competition and aggression, and the physical ideal in the arts. Similarly, Beacon is known for their intensely visual performances and videos based upon sexual fantasy. For Olympia, Gossett has made four large-scale and tightly cropped paintings of flexing Mr. Olympians out of Creatine powder mixed with epoxy resin. Just as weightlifting breaks down the body so that it can become larger and more defined, these compositions, rendered in a dot matrix, are only cohesive when viewed from afar. As the spectator approaches the canvas, they disintegrate. The paintings will be presented alongside a looped video of an athlete training in a dank basement room covered in photographs of bulging muscles.

Olympia is a display of power that cannot be activated. Bodybuilding is performative in nature, yet the ideals of the performers are closer to Greek statuary. When training, these men strive for beauty, symmetry, and proportion—in other words, sculptural qualities. In the 1977 documentary Pumping Iron, a young Arnold Schwarzenegger describes this connection:

“Good bodybuilders have the same minds when it comes to sculpting that a sculptor has. You look in the mirror and say, ‘ok, I need a little bit more deltoids, a little more shoulders so I get the proportions right.’ ”

Schwarzenegger, whose image appears in the show, is a powerful symbol of the intersection of physical and political aesthetics. In this regard, one must remember that Olympia was also one of Leni Riefenstahl’s most famous films. Gossett addresses this racial quotient with the colors of his paintings, which depend on two components: the Creatine supplement (his brand comes in either vanilla and chocolate) and the guidance of the widely used bodybuilding suit chart, which matches the color of the garment to the athlete’s skin tone.
Jacob Gossett was a resident at Skowhegan in 2009 and graduated from the Pratt Institute in 2010.

Asphalt: Expressionist Photo Exhibit by Ellie Perla
June 9, 2012, 6 PM-11 PM
Atelier 1022 Gallery
2732 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

ATELIER 1022 launches the special exhibit: ‘ASPHALT’ – a new expressionist photography series by resident artist Ellie Perla, on display June 9 through June 24, 2012. Opening night and artist meet-and-greet takes place June 9th, 2012, 6-11 PM, during the Wynwood Art Walk for the month of June.

Jet Set Glamour
May 12th, 6pm-11pm
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 North West 2nd Ave.
Wynwood Art District
Miami, Fl 33127
haroldgolengallery.com

Opening Night: May 12th, 6pm -11pm
Show run through to June 2nd

Artists:
Ken Bernstein
Mark George
Robert Jimenez
Michelle Bickford
El Gato Gomez
Miami Mike Hiscano

New Works By Alexi Torres During Saturday’s Art Walk
Saturday May 12, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Unix Fine Art
2219 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood

Featuring new works on view by Atlanta-based, Cuban-born artist Alexi Torres. Working from one waning moon to the next, his oil on canvas paintings re-create portraits of iconic figures, landmarks, and concepts with an ethereal, illusive twist. Portraits on view include depictions of Abraham Lincoln, Vincent van Gogh, and even Super Mario.

Alexi will be present at this Saturday’s Art Walk.

Also on view this Saturday are works by LA-based conceptual artist Desire Obtain Cherish, including a painting containing crushed Adderrall pills, and works by Italian artist Andrea Sampaolo.

Unix Fine Art gallery, founded by curators Daniela Mercrui and Alex Cesaria, displays works by inspiring and emerging artists. The gallery has established a unique presence in the contemporary art world by representing a varied program of international and emerging contemporary artists and pop art. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. For private viewings, appointments, or additional information, please contact 305.496.0621, daniela@unixfineart.com, or visit www.unixfineart.com.

Image: Title: Grand Central Terminal, Artist: Alexi Torres, Size: 84 x 132 inches, Medium: oil on canvas, Year: 2011

The Artlink Presents American Born Artist Steve Beck Opening Reception
Saturday May 12 from 5-9 pm
Artlink Artist Space
130 NW 36th Street
Miami, FL 33127
www.theartlink.org

Wynwood Gallery Walk
Wine and hors d’oeuvre

The Artlink Art Space Is Proud To Show Works By : American born artist Steve Beck leaves USA to discover the artistically rich and wonderful France, in the search of expanding his visual power and transcendent emotional paintings in the old continent.

Beck has left at The ArtLink a vast collection of paintings of incalculable value to be showing for last time in America, giving the public the opportunity to enjoy the vivid and enthralling paintings by an extraordinary artist blessed with the source of all inspiration: PASSION.

Be blown away by these outstanding abstract paintings in a two months exhibition from May 12th to July 12th, 2012

May 14 – July 12 from 10 to 6pm

Works From The Collection: Jon Pylypchuk
Second Saturday Gallery Walk, May 12, 2012. From 7-10pm.
de la Cruz Collection
23 N.E. 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137

The de la Cruz Collection is pleased to announce the opening of a painting, drawing, and sculpture installation by Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk.

“When I had my first child I bought him a Richard Scarry book and I remember having The Greatest Story Book Ever, when I was a kid and constantly looking at it, reading it and that being a reference to my childhood and stuff. Although the work isn’t a reference to my childhood, when I think about the relationship of all the animals who are all human and all doing what everyday people do. When I think about that, it might very well be where it came from.” (Interview with Blaffer Gallery, 2009).

The centerpiece of this exhibition is a boxing ring where both feline adversaries are staring at each other before the match begins. On one side of the ring, another character, the referee, is transformed by Pylypchuk into a gravedigger holding a shovel next to a tombstone, as if preparing the final resting place for the loser.

John Pylypchuk born 1972 in Winnipeg, Canada and lives and works in Los Angeles. He was a member of the artist collective Canadian Royal Art Lodge, founded in 1996.

Fictional Eyes: The Dreams of Reason” photography show opening reception
May 12th, 2012 from 6:00pm to 10:00pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127.

The Lunch Box Gallery, in conjunction with contemporary art webzine from Spain, Area Zinc, are pleased to announce the new exhibition Fictional Eyes: The Dreams of Reason, showcasing the photographs of 8 artists who have been previously published in Area Zinc.

After a rigorous selection process, a body of works have been chosen that convey the idea of photography as an exercise for the imagination. All the pieces in this show reveal fictional situations, scenarios, objects and even narratives that defy not only the way we see and associate the elements that surround us, but as well challenge the limits of photography as an art form. The artworks confront the traditional idea that a photograph reflects reality, and they also deal with the diversity of outside influences that photographers have incorporated into their images when utilizing other methods of creation and techniques that weren’t necessarily there in the original take.

The use of technology, digital manipulation, 3D design, illustration, collage, graphics tablet, among many others, indeed transform the image to become “something else”, taking the shape of oneiric expressions and illusions that unleash conceptual and personal imaginations. Nevertheless, even though many of the images reveal nonexistent places, forms and circumstances, they all depart from elements of real life taken with a camera, and at the end, they may become verisimilar to the eye of the beholder thanks to the mastery in merging all the elements together; just like a dream that feels real when dreaming it. Pre-conceived techniques during the taking of the photograph as well as in post-production, become the set for the visual trap, making the impossible, possible.

Awe, curiosity, open conclusions and unlimited meanings arise from the sometimes unconnected imagery that we observe, stimulating the individual appropriation of the photograph by giving the connotation each viewer wants to assign. Here, concept and technique together omit the laws of reason, entering into the dreams of those who create with fictional eyes.

Photographers participating in the show include Sandra Torralba (Spain), Stefano Bonazzi (Italy), Christopher Lee Donovan (USA), Michel Rajkovic (France), Serrah Russell (USA), Kaveh Hosseini (Germany), Polly Chandler (USA), Alba Tenas (Spain).

Fictional Eyes: The Dreams of Reason will be opened to the public on Saturday, May 12th from 6:00pm during the popular Gallery Walks, at 310 NW 24th. St. Miami, FL 33127 (Wynwood Art District). Nevertheless, the gallery will be open that same day since 1:00pm.

More about Area Zinc: Founded in 2007 in Spain, this internationally renowned webzine is directed by Andres Vargas. More than 30 thematic editions have been published throughout the years, showcasing the artworks of more than 1,000 artists from all around the world. Area Zinc has been successfully giving voice to all mediums which include illustration, painting, sculpture, photography and more, always focused on representing the latest tendencies of these art forms. For more information, please visit www.area-zinc.com.

Wynwood Studio Walk Launch!
May 10, 2012, 5-9 PM
Wynwood Arts District
participating studios along 2nd NW Ave
from 21-28th Street
www.facebook.com/wynwoodstudiowalk

Starting May 2012, local artists working in the Wynwood Miami Arts District will have the pleasure of opening to the public twice a month on Thursdays, after-work-hours (5-9 PM), for community events called WYNWOOD STUDIO WALKS (May 10 and May 24). During these events, all artists will be present and working in their respective studios, allowing visitors to get a complete art experience, to meet the artists personally, learn about their creations and get a behind-the-scenes look into Wynwood’s local artists’ studios. On behalf of Wynwood’s local artists’ community, we greatly appreciate your helping us spread the word about these unique events, to be held monthly starting May 2012.

Beyond The Visual Spectrum Explorations in Alternative Photography
May 12, 2012, 6-10 PM
Atelier 1022 Studio and Fine Arts Gallery
2732 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

Atelier 1022 Studio and Fine Art Gallery presents ‘Beyond The Visual Spectrum: Explorations in Alternative Photography’ – the first solo exhibit of resident artist Carlos Rodriguez-Feo, opening May 12th, 2012, 6-10 PM. The photographic works and accompanying rare camera collection featured in ‘Beyond The Visual Spectrum’ form a comprehensive expression of Carlos Rodriguez-Feo’s mantra – ‘Rescuing Photographic Sensibilities’. Coincides with the Wynwood Art Walk for May.

POST MoDERN group show at Fredric Snitzer Gallery Project Space
Saturday, May 12, 7-9pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127

Project Space: bis
POST MoDERN
May 12 – June 9, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 12, 7-9pm
Merlin Carpenter
Ian Cheng
Jason Galbut
Ed Lehan
Georgie Nettell
Georgia Sagri
Thank You Brenda

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to announce that Clayton Deutsch, director of Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, will curate a series of exhibitions in our project space. The first exhibition POST MoDERN, will open on Saturday, May 12, 2012, with a reception from 7-9 pm. For further information, please contact the gallery at infor@snitzer.com or visit our website www.snitzer.com.

Sagri has hung large sheets of neon-colored gel on the wall with smiley shapes cut out of them in an intentionally naïve manner.

Eleazar Delgado Anniversary Reception
Saturday, May 12, 2012, 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Eleazar Delgado Studio
2703 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127
​www.eleazardelgado.com

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Join us for an evening of art, cocktails and conversation celebrating the amazing first year of Eleazar Delgado Studio on Saturday, May 12th!

Cocktails courtesy of Glenfiddich who also celebrate their special 125th Anniversary. Miami’s Cask of Dreams by Eleazar Delgado and commissioned by Glenfiddich will be on display.

Born in Oklahoma, raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Eleazar Delgado studied Architecture and Interior design. It was in Miami where he began his Architecture explorations. Graduating at the peak of the Deconstruction Movement in 1987 from the Universidad Central de Venezuela, his thesis on the Penal Courthouse for Metropolitan Caracas received Honorable Mention. During the 1980’s Eleazar fell in the love with Miami’s vivid colors and its native surroundings. The radiant sunshine and gleaming colors of the night influenced the choice to paint the story of Miami.

After a successful venture in Architecture and Interior Design, he grew tired of the rigidity of those forms of expression. Architecture is about space. The process is always restrained. Interior design is about other people’s psychology. Painting is the creators’ own vision. Having always struggled against the methods he was taught, it was time to seek release of restrictions.

Exotica In Hi-Fi at Harold Golen Gallery Opening Night
Saturday, April 14th 2012, 6:00pm- 11:00pm
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, Fl 33127
Wynwood Art District
305-989-3359
Admission: Free!

This year’s Hukilau art show pays tribute to “Exotica” record cover art. Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same title, popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s, typically with the suburban set who came of age during World War II. The musical colloquialism, exotica, means tropical ersatz: the non-native, pseudo experience of Oceania (Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, and especially Hawaii).[1] Denny described the musical style as “a combination of the South Pacific and the Orient…what a lot of people imagined the islands to be like…it’s pure fantasy though.”While the South Seas forms the core region, exotica reflects the “musical impressions” of every place from standard travel destinations to the mythical “shangri-las” dreamt of by armchair safari-ers.

Hukilau Opening Night:
Thursday, April 19th, 5:00pm -9:00pm
Admission:
$25 includes Hukilau Opening Patry and Mai-Kai After Party
Location:
Best Western Oceanside Hotel
1180 Seabreeze Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33316
For more info about the HUKILAU 2012,
go to: thehukilau.com

Zadok Gallery Welcomes Colombian Artist, Fabio Mesa, and ‘Lost Souls’ Exhibition
Saturday, April 14, 2012, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Zadok Gallery
2534 North Miami Ave.
Miami, FL 33127

Parking is available on the street.

Zadok Gallery, known for consistently featuring unique, acclaimed contemporary and modern art, with a focus on Chinese Contemporary, welcomes Colombian artist, Fabio Mesa and his “Lost Souls” exhibit from April to May 2012. Utilizing a variety of materials including Plexiglass, oils, and colored LEDs explores topics such as migration, anonymity and mankind’s quest for identity against the backdrop of rapid urbanization and social change. The exhibition opens with complimentary beverages and an artist meet and greet from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 14, at Zadok Gallery, 2534 North Miami Avenue.

Zadok Gallery welcomes Colombian artist, Fabio Mesa, with an exhibition reception embracing first-class international art and filling a niche in Miami’s art scene. Mark Smith, director of the Zadok Gallery, will introduce Mesa at the reception and explain how the artwork contributes to the gallery’s collection of international pieces.

Zadok Gallery celebrates the opening of a unique exhibition featuring Colombian artist, Fabio Mesa, in the main room of the two-story gallery in the Wynwood Arts District. Guests will have the opportunity to meet and interact with Mesa and view a variety of his paintings, while enjoying complimentary beverages and touring the 12,500 square foot gallery space. Mesa’s works will be on display until May 2012.

Zadok Gallery is an elite, full-service art gallery known for acclaimed contemporary and modern art, with a focus on curating Chinese and other international works from master, mid-career and emerging artists. Known for their attention to detail and high level of customer service, the gallery’s professionals collaborate with top curators, the art community, as well as charitable and cultural organizations for exhibitions, themed collections and special events. The gallery provides extensive professional services including art appreciation, education and academic lectures, as well as art curating and sale of art services for private and corporate clientele. With approximately 12,500 square feet of exhibition space on two levels, including six individual gallery rooms, the venue provides a unique destination for art viewing and appreciation, as well as for celebrating memorable and custom-tailored private and corporate events. For more information, visit www.ZadokGallery.com

Unix Fine Art Opens In Wynwood Features Ernest Trova Exhibit At Art Walk
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Unix Fine Art
2219 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood, Miami FL
www.unixfineart.com

Unix Fine Art, Wynwood’s newest art gallery, celebrated its official grand opening on March 10, 2012 at Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Following the great success of exhibits curated by the gallery’s owners at Art Wynwood, the gallery extended several artist shows for its grand opening. During the upcoming Second Saturday Art Walk, the gallery will feature works by American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor Ernest Trova.

Founded by art aficionados Daniela Mercuri, Alex Cesaria, and Gallery Director Andrea Pasin, the gallery has established a unique presence in the contemporary art world by representing a varied program of international and emerging contemporary artists and pop art. The new space exhibits works by inspiring and emerging artists, including London-based artist Max Wiedemann, LA-based artist Desire Obtain Cherish, Italian artist Andrea Sampaolo and a work by Brazilian twin brother duo, Os Gemos. Upcoming exhibitions include works by Cuban artist Alexi Torres, which will be on display at Second Saturday Art Walk on Saturday, May 12.

With locations in London and Miami, Unix has exhibited at art fairs all over the world, including Art Palm Beach, London International Fine Art Fair at Olympia, Art Santa Fe, Art Aspen, Scope Art Fair, Art Chicago, and The Avenue Show New York.

Owners Cesaria and Mercuri have been eyeing the Wynwood area for three years in the hopes of opening their gallery.

“We are so thrilled to finally open our doors in Wynwood and display the work of artists we love,” says Mercrui. “Our gallery is about attracting art collectors and enthusiasts who have a vision of who the next and most interesting artists will be. We want to introduce the future of art, today.”

Situated in the center of the emerging Wynwood Arts District, Unix is in the midst of the epicenter of arts in Greater Miami. Surrounded by more than 50 art galleries, 4 museums and major collections, Unix is among the many local business that continue to bring character to this ever-evolving district.

Unix Fine Art gallery, founded by curators Daniela Mercrui and Alex Cesaria, displays works by inspiring and emerging artists. The gallery has established a unique presence in the contemporary art world by representing a varied program of international and emerging contemporary artists and pop art.

New Improved Art presents Metaphysical Art by Uri Dowbenko: A Ten Year Review
April 12, 7:00 p.m.
April 14, 5:00 – 11:00 p.m.
MOSA Gallery
2242 NW 1st Place
Miami, FL 33127
Ph: 866.317.1390
www.newimprovedart.com
www.uridowbenko.com

VIP Reception FREE with RSVP to VirtualAgency(at)yahoo.com
Art Walk Reception FREE

New Improved Art presents Metaphysical Art by Uri Dowbenko: A Ten Year Review, an exhibit of mural-sized oil paintings and water colors.

“His paintings are the conjugation of a material and visionary exuberance,” writes art historian Robert C. Morgan, author of The End of the Art World.

The Metaphysical Art paintings were created over a period of ten years (2002-2012). They are for the most part large-scale abstract paintings full of raw energy and prolific improvisation, inviting the viewer on a metaphysical journey through unseen-before vistas and landscapes.

Dowbenko says his paintings are meant to be uplifting and healing and to inspire others through the wonder and beauty of life around us.

You are invited to see the first Metaphysical Art show in Wynwood, an interactive art experience. Come and view artwork that has not been previously shown – artwork that takes you into a world of your own and on a journey of exploration. Each piece of art invites you to jump into a journey of traveling to other realms, as you see images which seem to be camouflaged at first, then appear as if out of the subconscious.

The title of each piece is a jumping off place, as your mind starts to experience a wide range of thoughts on what it is that you actually see within it.

Metaphysical Art will take you on a joyous ride into your imagination, as it appears to change every time you look at it, unveiling new imagery from the depths of your creative mind, an experience for every one of all ages. What makes this art unique is that people are interacting with it. How? By writing down what is revealed in each painting, you can compare it to what your friends see.

There will be a FREE raffle for those in attendance. A watercolor, valued at $500, and signed by the artist will be raffled off. Drawing will be held at 11:00 p.m. on April 14. You do not need to be present to win. Winner will be notified by e-mail or phone.

For more information about local events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Project Room Opening A site-specific installation by Brookhart Jonquil
Second Saturday Gallery Walk
April 14, 2012 from 7 pm – 10 pm
de la Cruz Collection
23 N.E. 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137

Brookhart Jonquil was born in Santa Cruz, California 1984 and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Jonquil received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2010, and his BFA and BA (in Art History) from the University of Arizona in 2007.

By using principles of perception and optics, Jonquil’s sculptures and installations create a dialog between the physical and the immaterial. Inverted Night presents an environment in which a large retro-reflective painting sublimates the far wall into light, evoking limitless space, while scattered black stars become voids within a blinding night sky.

The constellations depict the sky as it was at the moment of the painting’s creation, cataloging a time and place. Blurring the distinction between painting and installation, the space of the painting extends forward to the bank of flood lights that illuminates it, occupying the entire room.

In front of the painting stands a large globe divided into five sections by mirrors. As viewers walk though the room, they see only a part of the globe at a time, which combines with its reflections to create Rorschach patterns of continents. The always-political map becomes complicated– countries transform into the viewer’s subjective projections, on a planet that is more mirage than matter.

The Hangar Exhibition “Fetish”
April 14, 2012, 7:00 – 10:00pm
The Hangar
2235 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
www.hangargallery.com

The Hangar Art Intiative is pleased to announce our latest exhibition,
Fetish
An exploration of sexual “ism”
Opening Reception:
April 14th 7-10pm

Sexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. Our current installation will feature a multsensroy experience created to investigate the relationship betweeen object and viewer as it relates to sexual icinography.

Featuring Artists: 305 Airborne Division, Ernesto Barretom Coco, Daze, Jose Garcia, Marissa Gould, Phillip Graybill, Ginger 2 Tone, Don Hall, Wendy Hall, Kelly, Allioson Kotsig, Eric Madrid, Melissa McCade, Carolina Mishaan, Ivana Salander, Pinhead, Kareem Piper, and Agustin Vergara

The Hangar Arts Initiative: Hosting group exhibitions, events and workshops for srtists of all disciplines. Dedicated to the collective movement of creative exhibition, we seek to break down the gllery walls open the lines of communication between artists, patrons, anc community.

Group Show: Sasha Akimov, Kem Bessemer, Danielle Bustillo, Kelly Barter, Xibie Corea, Jorge Heilpern, Janie Jackson, Charles Leano, Teri Levine, Griselda Lechini, Christine Llorente, Sandy Maranesi, Manuel Mazzanto, Krytle Pizutti, Burne Richardson, Daniel Rodriguez, and Jorge Miguel Rodriguez

Luis Lazo: When You’re A Boy
Opening reception for the artist, Thursday, April 12th, 6pm
Wynwood Gallery Walk, Saturday, April 14, 2 – 9pm
Wynwood Art District
2620 Nw 2nd Avenue
Miami Florida 33127
www.dinamitranigallery.com
www.luislazophotography.com

Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present When You’re A Boy by Luis Lazo, opening on Thursday, April 12 at 6pm and on view through June 1st 2012. Luis Lazo’s first solo exhibition in the gallery illustrates, with photographs and videos, the brief time that is the transformation of when a boy becomes a man. The artist incorporates photographs of nature, such as clouds and blooming branches, to create a poetic juxtaposition and visual metaphor. The images evoke the introspective nature of these fleeting moments and the emotional angst that accompanies the fragility of this phase in a boy’s life. Light plays an important role in the depiction of these elements, raising the narrative to a unique level of extraordinary beauty.

Luis Lazo was born in Chile, raised in London and has lived in the south of France for the last nine years. He studied Art History and Photography at Bourneville School of Art, before gaining his Honors Degree in Visual Communication from the University of Wolverhampton, U.K. He has worked as a stills photographer on feature films as well as photographing for publications such as Harpers, Queens, The Telegraph and Premiere Magazine among others. He has also photographed for fashion publications such as British GQ, Twill in Paris, and So-In in Japan. He has had solo and group exhibits in England, France, Amsterdam and was recently awarded Viewbook Photostory’s First Prize in the Conceptual category.

Dina Mitrani Gallery opened in November 2008 and specializes in international contemporary photography. The gallery represents emerging and mid-career artists, offers artists talks and lectures on photography as well as photo-based books. The gallery is committed to promoting its artists, as well as working with independent curators to produce unique group exhibitions.

Dorsch Gallery hosts Sneak Peek of FGO’s Roméo et Juliette Opera During Second Saturday Art Walk
April 14, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Dorsch Gallery
151 Northwest 24th Street
Miami, FL

Florida Grand Opera (FGO) and Dorsch Gallery will host an Opera Preview of FGO’s upcoming production of Roméo et Juliette during the Wynwood Second Saturday Art Walk on April 14 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Guests will enjoy an evening of popular arias, art installations, free entry, and complimentary cocktails by Herradura tequila, Little Black Dress vodka and Chambord vodka. The event is FREE and open to the public. Click here to RSVP or call 305-854-1643 for more information.

Designed to provide attendees with a sampling of the beautiful French music from this operatic retelling, the event will feature mini-performances by members of FGO’s Young Artist Studio. Come hear well-known arias from Roméo et Juliette amid Dorsch Gallery’s current exhibitions, which include a group show entitled Let’s Begin with a Line and Ralph Provisero’s solo show, For Old Times’ Sake. The group show is a vignette designed to observe and enjoy the linear, while Provisero’s human-scale kinetic sculpture communicates ambivalence toward typically joyful childhood objects. Both exhibitions run from April 5 through May 5.

The popular French opera Roméo et Juliette comes to life through innovative light projections and set design, dynamic stage fighting and masterful voices on April 21 at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.

David Castillo Gallery presents Kate Gilmore’s Rock, Hard, Place, Reception
Saturday, April 14, 6-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
United States
www.davidcastillogallery.com

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Rock, Hard, Place, a solo exhibition by Kate Gilmore. The artist’s sculpture, video and photography extrapolate the consequences of testing her body between authenticity and artifice; improvisation and folklore; cultural rupture and embedded practices.

Black bowls containing hot pink paint occupy an expedit shelving unit like larvae in a honeycomb or circles in Kandinsky’s grid. As Gilmore wedges a rock into each bowl, some violently burst, others overflow into Cy Twombly’s gestural script. In the singular performance Rock, Hard, Place (2012), Gilmore’s corporeal agency within environmental construct blurs the line between set design and mark making. Rock, Hard, Place is exhibited as sculpture, video, and photography.

This new performance registers in Gilmore’s oeuvre, using the female body and token exaggerations of femininity, including the color pink and fashion accessories, to test endurance and question reward. Rock, Hard, Place disambiguates actor and network; beauty and destruction; ritual and freedom. While Gilmore’s end goals may remain coyly obscure, her procedural emphasis rallies toward what Lev Manovich might term the anti-sublime: the struggle to understand personal identity within the overwhelming structure of contemporary society.

Rock, Hard, Place is accompanied by two recent video works. Pot Kettle Black interrogates idiom as Gilmore shelves black paint, its overflow a metronome to her audible toil and exasperated distain. Break of Day marks time in the double entendre of a manually powered hourglass. Gilmore sources materials familiar to infrastructure, homemaking and theater to build concentric stage sets: physical attire, interactive environment, camera frame, exhibition space. The contrasting earnestness of her actions leave Gilmore volatile to orbital pull even as she strives to defy physical laws and challenge societal codes of conduct.

Gilmore’s taxing, and often compromising, self-appointed tasks reference a history of performance art from Yoko Ono to Marina Abramović. Whether binding hay bales with ribbon or punching a bare-fisted escape through chimney-tight drywall, Gilmore is the magician and the compliant assistant, leaking like paint into the dialogue surrounding the autonomy of the female body. The toughness of Rock, Hard, Place brings new relevance to sociopolitical resolve.

Kate Gilmore was born in Washington D.C., received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and lives and works in New York, NY. Upcoming exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (2013). Recent exhibitions include Walk the Line at Parasol Unit, London, England (solo); The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, among others. Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI; MAK Museum of Art, Vienna, Austria; and Greater New York 2005 at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY. The artist’s work is in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Verbund Collection, Vienna, Austria; Sammlung Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany; LAC, Lambert Collection, Geneva, Switzerland; Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy; Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy; Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee (CESAC), Caraglio, Italy, among numerous others.

Robert Fontaine Gallery presents Nick Gentry’s Solo Exhibition “Collective Memory”
April 14, 2012. 6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
The new Robert Fontaine Gallery
2349 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
Admission: Free
www.robertfontainegallery.com

The Robert Fontaine Gallery, in its mission to provide viewers with an engaging, vibrant contemporary program throughout the year, is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in the US of British artist Nick Gentry. Nick Gentry, who was born around the same time that the floppy disk became ubiquitous for personal use, the 3.5-inch pieces of plastic are symbolic of the harsh world of obsolescence.

The Central Saint Martins graduate paints sombre, Generation X portraits on canvases made from floppy disks, whose metal hub serves as the subject’s startlingly dilated eye. Adding to his haunting renderings are the handwritten labels on the disks and the way the disks’ original blue, black, or gray color contributes to the composite form.

Floppy disks are in that inevitable process of obsolescence and are already considered to be an artifact of the recent past. These objects are no longer relied upon, but by momentarily placing them in the spotlight, it becomes easier to comprehend the speed and extent of the technological changes that are taking place today.

Whilst being so prevalent, each disk also has the possibility to be completely unique, containing everything from games to important documents, pictures and more. The handwritten labels on each disk provide a clue as to what might lie beneath in a preserved and dormant state. These digital fossils represent the passing age of physical media.

It’s possible to draw a comparison with human mortality and the obsolescence of technological products. Society seems to revere beauty of youth, and often people seek to somehow hang on to it. In the same way, each new technological gadget is desired more than the last. There can be little room for sentiment or nostalgia though, as change should be embraced and celebrated. There is everything to love about the constant flux of existence. Remembering and reflection is also useful to help us connect some of the dots of progress.

The subject of the paintings are often confused. This comes from the traditional way of looking a portrait, where the face of the person is considered to be the ‘subject’ or true identity and the canvas is simply used as the platform to show this. Gentry’s portraits are effectively a reversal of traditional portraiture, where the patchwork of memories beneath becomes the identity and the painting is simply a way to give that mechanical subject a human face.

Opening its doors in February 2011 in Miami’s Wynwood Art District, the Robert Fontaine Gallery offers a unique selection of internationally established and emerging artists, centered around genres of Pop Art, Urban/Street Art, and contemporary photography. This April the gallery is relocating to a new, bigger space in Wynwood, located at 2349 NW 2nd Avenue.

For more information about local events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Constant Contrast Art Show At The ArtLink
Open Reception: April 14th, 2012 6 – 10 pm
The Artlink
130 Nw 36th. St.
Miami, Fl. 33127
www.theartlink.org
info@theartlink.org

The Artlink Art Space Is Proud To Show Works By : Tom O’hara, Teri Brozak and Sandra Garcia-Pardo

Diverging styles meet in a challenging exhibition that shows the complex and the simple passing through the balance in a constant contrast of colors, texture, plasticity and expressions of three Floridian outstanding artists. Tom O’hara, Teri Brozak and Sandra Garcia-Pardo are united this time for the contrasting dimensions of their thinking and the ways they explore and experience human conditions, which are finally developed in the creations of their amazing artworks.

April 16th – 21 10 – 6 pm

Musical entertainment and refreshments will be served
Admission free to the public