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

LITERA – ATELIER 1022 Indie Lit, Film, and Art Showcase
April 14th, 6 PM-11 PM, Artist reception 10 PM
ATELIER 1022 Gallery
2732 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

ATELIER 1022 in Wynwood hosts first LITERĂ of 2012 – an evening of indie book readings, video art, documentary film, and literature-inspired art installations. Featuring works and presentations by C.T. Douglas, Carola Perla, Susana Perla-Mendoza, Ellie Perla, Carlos Rodriguez-Feo, and Wolfgang Lehmann. Private reception for the artists, 10 PM.

Includes afternoon kids program – KINDERART with Ellie Perla, 2PM. Free to the public. To register, please write to atelier1022@aol.com.

Return To Nature at LMNT
Opening Reception: March 9th, 2012 7pm – 10pm
Gallery Walk: March 10th 11am – 11pm
Galleria @ LMNT
55 nw 36th st.
Miami, FL

Pleased to announce its first show of 2012 Return To Nature , open from March 9th to May 31st.

At the current time in which we live there is a shift taking place in the universe that calls for the vast need for us to rediscover our roots, shedding our egos that hold us back from evolving and allowing the consciousness to reconnect with that which we are all a part of, the Return To Nature.

The exhibition Return To Nature studies subjects found in our world, exploring their interaction and manipulation with humanity through a variety of materials and an array of textures and media.

There is a lot that we have still yet to learn in our modern advanced technological society that can be achieved through the arts as a form of universal communication.

Image: Fenol Marcelin

The ArtLink Wynwood Gallery Walk
March 10, 5-10p
The Artlink
130 Nw 36th. St.
Miami, Fl. 33127
www.theartlink.org
info@theartlink.org

The Artlink Presents
The Artlink Art Space Is Proud To Show Works By :
Bartus Bartolomes | Leo Dcroix | Astolfo Funes | Sandra Garcia-Pardo | Katiuska Gonzalez | Paola Puppio | Miguel Rodez

A fantastic group of artists have united their uncountable experiences in a show filled with art that offers an eclectic dialogue with intelligence and confidence, using the simplicity of forms in a mix of questions and answers, to finally be expressed in art works that depict absurd stories, complex gestures, the dark corners of humanity, a symbolic language and mysterious characters. All this ARTE comes from Latin America as an individual proposal, but at the same time, they all have in common the necessity to emphasize their identity and the reality of their own.

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

A Different Light: A Wynwood Photo Exhibit Featuring Limited-Edition Vintage Cameras
Saturday, March 10, 2012, 7:00 pm
The Workshop
171 NW 23rd St.
Miami, FL. 33127

The Workshop, a creative collective located in Miami’s arts district, and Schwerzler Company, focused on fostering artistic entrepreneurship, will proudly feature local artist Andrew Bellamy’s first solo photography exhibit in Miami. Curated by Viviane de Kuyper-Verduyn, A Different Light explores the beauty found in the contemporary reality of Miami’s neighborhoods. Amidst the pulsing chaos of street art wonderland, not one tag or artsy kitchen has earned Bellamy’s attention. Instead, he directs our attention to what has always been, what has changed and what still is. With its connection to reality and his ability to make viewers think about the visible world they live in, Bellamy makes a powerful use of photography as a medium. The Miami that is normally passed over is now seen in a different light.

Bellamy is the founder of ILOTT Vintage, a Miami-based creative movement that advocates the use of vintage cameras and embraces the romantic ideal of pre-electronic photography. With a passion for beautifully engineered mid-century cameras and a delight for using them in the practice of manual film photography, Bellamy exclusively uses rangefinder cameras that are anywhere from 45 to 70 years old.

Great care, time and pride are taken in refurbishing each camera that is acquired for the ILOTT Vintage studio. All cameras pass the same rigorous tests before they are taken out on assignments. Leathers are replaced with premium quality wood veneers custom tailored to each camera for a unique, elegant appearance. The collection is constantly evolving as no two cameras are exactly the same. These cameras will also be on display for the public and available for sale.
“Our rangefinders predate planned obsolescence,” says Bellamy. “They are from a time when an object would be handed down through generations, not just be replaced after a year; when the weight of a product was a sign of quality, and not regarded as a hindrance; when products were repaired instead of discarded…dirt and scuffs give a hint of an individual biography; a history of different owners and unknown travels.”

Bellamy will host a special private previewing on Thursday, March 8th, 2012 and the official launch will take place during this month’s Wynwood Art Walk on March 10th, 2012. Upon arrival, complimentary Mandarine Napoléon cocktails will be available at both events.

UNIX Fine Art Gallery Opening Saturday
Saturday, March 10 from 5 to 10 p.m.
UNIX Fine Art Miami gallery
2219 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood

Curators Alex Cesaria and Daniela Mercury will exhibit new work from artist Max Wiedemann and from Los Angeles based artist, Desire Obtain Cherish. After the artists’ success at Art Wynwood, Cesaria and Mercury have decided to extend their shows and feature them during the gallery’s grand opening, where both artists will be in attendance. Also attending the opening is Italian artist Andrea Sam Paolo. In addition to these works, two museum pieces by Brazilian artists Os Gemeos and Spanish artist Eugenio Merino will be displayed.

Envisions. Contemporary Art at Curator’s Voice Art Projects
Saturday March 10, 2012, 6pm-10pm
Curator’s Voice Art Projects
2509 NW 2nd Ave
Wynwood Art District
Miami, FL 33127

Curator’s Voice Art Projects And Curator Milagros Bello Cordially Invite You To The Wynwood Gallery Walk

En-Visions. Contemporary Art
Atelier Morales
Rosario Bond
Denise Diaz
Lamia Khorshid
Mauricio Mejias

Contraposing views, variances en mediums, critical conceptualisms, define the new practices in contemporary art nowadays. Extreme divergences conform the new visions in art. Artists express their own mythologies and their own crystallization of the world impacting, sometimes surprising the viewers. This show states on the difference and on the concurrence of art. From the figurative informalism of Rosario Bond, the poetics of Paris’ memorials of Atelier Morales, the mystic feminine of Denise Diaz, the feminist stories of Lamia Khorshid to the whimsical entities of Mauricio Mejias, the exhibition creates diverse narratives and distinct voices.
Milagros Bello, Ph.D.
Curator

The Insta Art Walk Challenge
3/10/2012, Throughout Second Saturdays Art Walk
Wynwood/Design District
167 NW 25th St
Miami, FL 33127, USA
More Info

The Insta Art Walk Challenge is an opportunity to experience a communal gathering through the collective eye and lens of Miami, and we want to see it all. To participate in the Insta Art Walk Challenge, simply share a photo from Art Walk (Saturday, March 10) via Instagram with #instawalk305 and @beachedmiami in the caption. Photos from the challenge will be featured on beachedmiami.com, and all participants will be eligible to win a prize from one of the Insta Art Walk Challenge sponsors.

Atelier 1022 Presents Ellie Perla’s ‘PolyChromatica’
March 10, 2012, 6-11 Pm, reception 6-8PM
Atelier 1022 Gallery
2732 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

Atelier 1022 Studio and Fine Art Gallery is pleased to present the first Atelier 1022 feature show for Romanian-born artist Ellie Perla. The exhibition PolyChromatica will showcase a comprehensive collection of mixed-media drawings on paper, and debut the completed ‘Garden of Eden’ series. PolyChromatica will be open March 10 through April 1, 2012, with a reception for the artist at Atelier 1022 Gallery on March 10, 2012, 6-8 PM. During the Wynwood Art Walk for the month of March.

Saturday, March 10, 8pm-10pm
Awarehouse
550 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33127

Please RSVP if you are planning on attending. achase@spimarketing.com

An amazing night of art, cocktails, music and lasers during the March Art Walk in Wynwood.

Featuring DJ Mauricio Parra

Swaying in the Jongno-gu Art Exhibit Opening
Opening : February 11, 7-10 pm
Kavachnina Contemporary
46 NW 36th Street
Miami, FL 33127

Artists: Eun Sook Shin , sculptures and Jong-Taek Woo ( paintings)
February 11 – March 8, 2012

Gallery to host Vail Film Festival Preview Screening & Reception during
Saturday February 11, 2012 6pm – Midnight
Gallery 212 Miami
2407 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.gallery212miami.com

“On the Road to Vail”
Gallery 212 Miami today officially announced a new partnership with the 2012 Vail Film Festival Presented by Cadillac (March 29th through April 1st) in Vail, Colorado. As part of the partnership, Gallery 212 Miami will host a Pre Vail Film Festival Screening and Reception on Saturday, February 11th where the public will be invited into the Gallery for a free evening of art and film with wine, specialty cocktails and light bites provided by Catch Grill and Bar Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay, Societe Perrier, and PopChips!

Miami art lovers and tastemakers attending February’s Second Saturday Art Walk in the Wynwood Art District will be welcomed into the Gallery from 6pm to midnight to experience the work of famed Pop Artist Michael Perez alongside an A-list of Gallery Featured Artists to include; Master Painter John Pate, Photographer Matt Stock, Artist Jonathan Dvortez, Artist Sean Murdock, Painter and Couture Designer Raull (Italy), Painter Johnny Pate, Fashion Photographer Fred Love, Artist Billy Knows (L.A.), Sculptor Henry Souto, Sculptors and Artist Duo Juan Pablo Vizcaino Cortijo and Sandra Madjdi (PR) and Artist Charlotte Oedekoven.

New for February the gallery is delighted to introduce “Rock Candy” Stone Sculptures by ruru and the featured designers of Gallery 212 Miami’s Art Walks the Runway© Fashion Haus :Frais Culture Menswear Couture introducing the “Frais World” Installation. The Fashion Haus line also includes couture art fashion designs Raull of Reception (Italy), , FMIA Brand by Sean Murdock and Michael Perez Original Designs on Tees and Canvas Bags. Guests will be invited to view a selection of short films in preview of the 2012 Vail Film Festival. Guests will enjoy wine and specialty “New York Lemonade” cocktails from Catch Grill & Bar Marriott Miami Biscayne Bay and Societe Perrier sparkling water, plus light bites and a variety of flavors of PopChips, and will also have a chance to win All Access VIP Passes for two to the 2012 Vail Film Festival.

The 2012 Vail Film Festival will officially open on Thursday evening, March 29th and run through Sunday, April 1st in Vail, Colorado, USA. Festival pass holders will enjoy film screenings, red carpet ceremonies and parties, panel discussions, live music featuring Grammy-winning musicians from LA’s famed Hotel Café, a late night lounge featuring DJ Jason Perez, the festival’s hospitality lounge at The Sebastian Hotel, and the annual awards ceremony recognizing the outstanding work of leaders in the film industry on Saturday, March 31st.

Pop Artist Michael Perez will be a featured celebrity guest artist in attendance throughout the festival weekend in Vail, and will be painting live from the Opening and Closing Night Parties, and can also be found daily in the Hospitality Lounge for meet and greets, photo opportunities, and to show a selection of pieces which will be available for sale during the 2012 Festival with a portion of the proceeds to benefit the charity of choice of the 2012 Vail Film Festival.

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 5:00pm until 8:00pm
173 NW 23rd St
Miami FL 33127
RSVP to rsvp@miguelparedes.com
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Unix Fine Art & Miguel Paredes Would Like You To… Join us for a new exhibition in Wynwood During the 2nd Saturday’s ART WALK featuring Miguel Paredes, Desire Obtain Cherish and COPE2

This is our 2nd installment of a new series of group shows! ‘Unix Fine Art’ presents work by leading artists, together with original works from Paredes’ Collection

Cocktails provided by Zignum Mezcal & Perrier
Beats by DJ YSL

5-7pm : Private Viewings please

7-10pm : Open to the Public

Come enjoy incredible art, music and complimentary cocktails with us on Saturday, Feb. 11th!

archiTECTONICS
Saturday, February 11, 2012, 6pm -10pm
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
Wynwood Arts District
2043 N Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
www.dlfinearts.com

Architecture And Art Vie For Relevance In New Paintings By Julie Davidow

Diana Lowenstein Gallery is pleased to present “archiTECTONICS” a solo exhibition of new work by Miami artist, Julie Davidow. The work will be on view from February 11 – April 8, 2012, with an artist talk led by curator Claire Breukel on Sat. February 18 at 2pm.

For this exhibition, Davidow has created a series of paintings with a focus on the relationship between the architecture of contemporary art museums and the artwork that is enshrined within these structures. The term architectonics refers to characteristics of architecture, design and construction; and relates to the scientific systematization of the totality of knowledge.

“Davidow surveys the formal qualities associated with how we interact with, and consume, contemporary art highlighting parts of our experience that we would ordinarily take for granted and overlook, “ says curator Claire Breukel, “Her work is minimal, yet precise and deeply obsessive.” The paintings seek to establish order through the mapping of multiple visual cues, while commenting on the struggle between the natural and built environments.”

“My work has always involved an organizational grid. This grid has evolved to become “samples” of other artists’ works,” says Davidow. “More recently I have been interested in the architecture of the museums themselves, and am now sampling elements of these buildings. The structure which holds the art becomes the scaffold of the painting itself.”

“I use “sampling” in a way similar to musicians,” continues Davidow. “From an image I use of a building, or another artist’s work, I reduce that image to the essential elements that references its physical structure or composition. This creates the rhythm, beat, or geometry of the building or artwork.”

Some of the architecture that Davidow samples in her paintings includes the Denver Art Museum by Donald Liebskind, the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art – Bloch Building by Steven Holl, the Fort Worth Museum of Art by Tadao Ando, and the De Young Museum by Herzog & de Meuron.

Julie Davidow studied at New World School of the Arts in Miami. She has exhibited in The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC; Mass MOCA in North Adams, Mass; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, and numerous galleries nationwide.

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Miami Art Museum and the Girl’s Club Collection in Ft. Lauderdale and numerous private collections. Davidow is coauthor of MIAMI Contemporary Artists, Schiffer Publishing 2007.

An opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2012 from 6 10 pm, with an Artist talk moderated by curator Claire Breukel on Saturday, February 18th, 2pm. A catalog with essay by curator Claire Breukel will be available.

Wynwood Art Walk Reception & Meet the Artist: Byron Keith Byrd
1-14-12 thru 2-4-12, 9pm-12am
Wynwood Exhibition Center
297 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
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Artist Byron Keith Byrd challenges the age-old beliefs of Christianity in his upcoming solo exhibition, Biblical Proportions, presented by Wynwood Exhibition Center in Miami, Florida.

He examines the validity of its claims through works like “Religious Trap”, a 103-inch tall wooden cross which is seemingly plain from a distance. Upon closer inspection, it is revealed to be constructed of over 300 wooden mousetraps, a clear reference to “religious trappings.”

Byrd goes on to examine current events with “Protest,” a 50” x 67” oil on canvas depicting the bigoted stance taken by Pastor Fred Phelps and his devout followers of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.

“Bible Belt” presents another double entendre: It is a mixed media work which incorporates a leather belt embossed with tiny Bibles and praying hands. Mounted on raw wood, it is embellished with gold leaf, featuring the abbreviations of some 15 states which comprise the ‘Bible Belt’ of the southern-most United States. Viewers may wonder if this piece might be attributed to abuse suffered at the hands of the belt meted down by a strict religious father delivering a domestic brand of Old Testament justice.

In Biblical Proportions, Byrd asks viewers to confront their religious misconceptions and spiritual beliefs while also posing this question: Why have the belief systems of various faiths been the impetus for child abuse, prejudice and war?

The gallery will host a reception on Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 7-10 pm. The artist will be present and the exhibition will run through February 4th. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday from 5 – 11 pm, Saturday from 9 – 11 pm or Monday through Friday by appointment.

Art Walk After Party with DJ Supersede at Cafeina Wynwood Lounge, adjacent to the Wynwood Exhibition Center. Tequila Love specials all night, Kitchen open till 1AM.

Unix Fine Art and Miguel Paredes Invite You to Miguel Paredes Studio
Saturday, January 14, 5:00pm – 10:00pm
Miguel Paredes Studio
173 NW 23rd St.
Miami, FL 33127

Join us for a new exhibition in Wynwood During the 2nd Saturday’s ART WALK featuring Miguel Paredes, Max Wiedemann and COPE2

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After party hosted by Ricochet Lounge – 3250 Buena Vista Blvd #122B RSVP@RicochetLounge.com

Gallery Walk “Isolations” @ The Lunch Box Gallery
January 14th from 6 to 11pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127
thelunchboxgallery.com

The Lunch Box Gallery cordially invites you to the popular Gallery Walk (Wynwood Art District) to see the acclaimed photography show “Isolations” which is now considered by the press as one of the BEST art shows of Art Basel’s season.

The exhibition gathers four different expressions of the notion of isolation, where human beings or things that belong to them are isolated to make a call for observation and raise a social commentary about the world today. Through the conceptual photographs of these four artists, themes emerge that can go from the exploration of alienation and passivity in our existing societies by experimenting with public reaction, to the examination of depersonalization as a consequence of the mass consumption, which has shaped this world of identical people even though fully convinced of being completely “free”.

The photographs reveal situations that are encapsulated in time by the use of photography as a medium, and at the same time, they awake in the viewer a sense of strangeness; a result of unnaturally isolating these situations within their own context, or decontextualizing them by removing elements from their expected frames of reference and placing them into new settings.

“Isolations” is open to the public from December 1st, 2011 to February 25th, 2012. Business Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11am – 6pm and open during the Gallery Walks every second Saturday of the month (Dec 3rd, Dec 10th, Jan 14th, Feb 11th).

The Lunch Box Gallery is a small but vibrant and cutting edge gallery founded in February of 2011 and located in the Wynwood Art District of Miami. Its mission is to show and support the work of emerging regional, national and international artists of all media, with a particular emphasis on contemporary photography and its new trends; and where forms like conceptual, fine art, documentary and mixed media photography are subjects of exploration.

Dorsch Gallery presents Post-Identity Garden of Failure a talk with Mette Tommerup and Alpesh Kantilal Patel
January 21, 2pm
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 St
Miami, FL 33127

The Western art world has ushered in an era of post-identity, fueled in part by a
need to move beyond the polarizing debates that reached a frenzy in the early
1990s. However, fundamental questions of the role that identity does or does
not play in artistic meaning remain unresolved. Mette Tommerup’s new series
of paintings begin to ask us to see differently. Drawing as much on the still life
tradition as images found on the Internet, her paintings depict innocuous,
inanimate objects (from vegetables to garden gnomes) that paradoxically
double as sexually and racially charged subjects. Object or Subject?
Her works stubbornly refuse to answer this question by instead engendering in
her viewers a condition of anxiety that denies facile categories of identity.

Art Walk
Saturday, Jan. 14 : 6-11pm
Gallery 212 Miami
2407 NW 2nd Ave
Miami

Every Second Saturday of the Month, People Join Together in the Wynwood Art District to Enjoy the Galleries, Gourmet Food Trucks, Music and All Kinds of Fun in the Streets of Miami’s Hottest New Art District…
Don’t Miss The First Art Walk Of 2012!

Texas Oil Man / Billy Knows
Featured Guest Artist January at Gallery 212 Miami
Billy Knows Art (L.A.) Exhibition
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Featured Guest Artist January at Gallery 212 Miami
Long Awaited Return of Photographer Fred Love

At Gallery 212 Miami the doors are always open, welcoming art enthusiasts to enjoy dynamic, cutting- edge exhibitions monthly. Visitors experience fine art, sculpture, photography, fashion photography, underground art and more.

Fashion House – Art Walks the Runway
2012 Art-Fashion Lines Can Be Found Exclusively in FL at Gallery 212 Miami & Include:
“Reception” by Raull (Italy)
“FMIA” by Sean Murdock
Custom Originals on Denim, Canvas Bags and Tees by Michael Perez

Gallery 212 Miami has earned a reputation as a welcoming and informative gallery as the team is followed up by a fully-trained and knowledgeable staff. Our awesome Brand Ambassadors represent the gallery, its artists and sponsors.

University Of Miami Wynwood Project Space Presents Jeffrey Stern Opening reception
Saturday, February 11, 2012.
UM’s Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW 2nd Avenue
Miami

The UM College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Art and Art History presents the solo exhibition “Legerdemain” by photographer Jeffrey Stern, on view February 6 – 24, 2012

The exhibition features recent work that explores an unseen view of the interaction of people, their environment and the interplay of light. Through a series of 40 photographs, Stern has captured views from everyday life that we all pass by unaware of their existence.

“Legerdemain” will be on view at UM’s Wynwood Project Space. A full schedule of exhibitions can be viewed at www.as.miami.edu/art .

For more information about the exhibition or Wynwood Project Space, call (305) 284-2543 or email m.cardoso1@miami.edu.