VIP launch party and artist reception during Second Saturday Gallery Walk
The opening exhibition is by contemporary artist Carlos Cabeza and is entitled Rhythmic Paintings.
Saturday, September 11 from 7-10 p.m
O. Ascanio Gallery
2600 NW Second Ave in the Wynwood Arts District
For more information visit here.

O. ASCANIO GALLERY TO OPEN IN WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT
Wynwood’s newest gallery boasts rotating exhibitions of world-renowned Latin American modern and contemporary artists

Miami, FL – O. Ascanio Gallery is preparing to open in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. Owner and gallerist Oscar Ascanio, will host a celebratory opening and artist reception during the District’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk on September 11, 2010. The opening solo exhibition, entitled Rhythmic Paintings, shows the dramatic work of Paris-based, Venezuelan contemporary artist Carlos Cabeza, and will be sponsored by Polar Beer and VeeV Acai Spirit.

Rhythmic Paintings is a series of works created by using a stream-of-conscious modality where Cabeza creates movement through curved, ebbless sequential patterns. The feminine form is prominent, as are vividly colored eyes that peer out through the thoughtful maze of strokes. The collection includes 15 works comprised of paintings, découpages and objects.

“Carlos Cabeza’s work is based on continuity and the rhythm of movement within a space. His inspiration comes from a spiritual point-of-view and flows from his mind onto the canvas – almost as if whistling,” said Ascanio. Renowned art critic and cultural historian Alfredo Boulton has said of him: “The individuality of Cabeza’s expressiveness places him in a special niche within contemporary painting.”

The exhibition, whereby five percent of the proceeds generated from sales of the Rhythmic Paintings series will benefit ECOMB, will be available for public viewing until October 3, 2010. From October 9th – November 7th O.Ascanio Gallery presents the Venezuelan contemporary artist Nanin. Finishing 2010 with a bang, the gallery will present an exciting collective of world-renowned artists, including Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz Diez, Alejandro Otero, Victor Lucena, Victor Vasarely and Bernar Venet. The collective exhibit will run from November 13th – December 12th.

Born in Villa de Cura, Venezuela, Ascanio is an accomplished gallerist, artist manager, publisher and collector. He began his art career at the age of 17, while apprenticing with Alfredo Boulton. And in 1974 he co-launched Ediciones Macanao, a publishing company he formed with Boulton and op, kinetic artist Carlos Cruz Diez.

In 1978 he opened his first gallery, Estudio 1, in Caracas which was dedicated to promoting and selling the works of Jesus Soto, one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists. And in 1984 he opened Galeria Oscar Ascanio also in Caracas where he featured artists that included Alejandro Otero, Edgar Negret, Lina Sinisterra, Victor Lucena, Francisco Salazar, Bernar Venet, Bernard Aubertin and Fernando Mignoni.

O. Ascanio Gallery is located at 2600 NW Second Ave in the Wynwood Arts District. For more information visit www.oascaniogallery.com.

Biography

Born in 1953 in Villa de Cura, Venezuela, Ascanio quickly ascended the ranks of Venezuelan society and style. At the age of 17, he immersed himself in art history and theory while apprenticing with the renowned Alfredo Boulton. An art critic, cultural historian and photographer, Boulton was instrumental in the development of Venezuela’s modernist and contemporary art movement.

This experience and his affinity for art history led him to trade medical school for a Masters degree in economy from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello in 1972. Two years later, he launched a publishing company coined Ediciones Macanao with Boulton and kinetic, op artist Carlos Cruz Diez.

The company was named after a cocktail Boulton invented and dubbed Macanao while at his grand estate in Margarita Island with his wife Mirta, Ascanio and Cruz Diez.

Ediciones Macanao was dedicated to producing literature on the study of Venezuelan art and related topics. The company published a bevy of books on Venezuelan artists that included Jesus Soto, Hector Poleo, Armando Reverón and Rafael Monasterios. Also featured in Ediciones Macanao, was Simon Bolivar’s iconography, among others.

In 1976, Ascanio collaborated in the organization of an exhibition of Soto’s work in New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Two years later he founded Estudio 1, a gallery dedicated to Soto’s work, and became Soto’s agent and legal representative. He also represented other emerging and established Venezuelan artists during this time.

Soto is regarded as one of the world’s most famous contemporary artists. He is considered a forefather of kinetic art, and a number of his paintings can be found on the walls of the most prestigious museums or in the hands of respectable collectors.

Ascanio commuted between Paris and Caracas for four years starting in 1978 with the purpose of organizing art exhibitions. He also used this time to refine his knowledge of art history through liberal studies at Université Sorbonne, École du Louvre and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

Ascanio put together retrospective exhibitions for Soto in 1982 in Madrid’s Parque del Retiro and Fundación Juan March; In 1985, he organized the retrospective exhibition Soto Space Art in Miami’s Center for the Fine Arts, and another retrospective exhibition for Soto was organized in 1990, debuting in Tokyo’s Contemporary Sculpture Center and traveling to Osaka and Kyoto.

In 1984, Ascanio opened Galeria Oscar Ascanio in Caracas, Venezuela. Through this venture Ascanio worked with various contemporary Latin-American artists such as Alejandro Otero, Jesus Soto, Victor Lucena, Edgar Negret, Lina Sinisterra, Francisco Salazar, Karl Weidmann and Carlos Cabeza. He also featured international artists that included Bernar Venet, Bernard Aubertin and Fernando Mignoni. Today, Galeria Oscar Ascanio is considered one of Venezuela’s most important and influential galleries.

Now, Ascanio prepares to open a second gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District entitled, O. Ascanio Gallery. His goal is to spotlight various international artists using his latest venture as a catalyst. The gallery, located at 2600 NW Second Ave., is slated to open September 11, 2010.

Oscar is currently a member of the Wynwood Arts District Association (WADA). He has two sons: Nicolas, 27, and Alfredo, 20. Both are involved in their father’s business and will help run the gallery as Ascanio commutes between Miami and Venezuela.

image information:
Title: “Amour supreme”
Dimensions :. 200 cm x190 cm
Acrylic on canvas
Year: 2007.NY
Copyright of the photo: Ricar2 Photography.

New World School of the Arts presents
YOUNGBLOOD: NEW WAVE 2010
En exhibition of NWSA high school and college alumni
Saturday, August 14, 7-10 pm
Artseen Gallery
2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Wynwood
Free and open to the public

Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29 St.
Miami, FL 33127
Saturday August 14, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Calix Gustav Gallery is pleased to present its summer exhibition The Passing during this Saturday’s Art Walk from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Featuring works from Jovan Karlo Villalba, Catalina Jaramillo and Richard Herzog.

The Passing will run from July 10, 2010 through September 1st, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.calixgustav.com.

Important Note: The Gallery will be closed from August 17 to August 24 for summer break.

“The Gates of Hell” is this month’s featured abstract art by Greg Pitts-The Black Jackson Pollock
This abstract artwork, as well as 2 additional new creations by Greg Pitts, can be viewed throughout the month of August at the GAB Gallery.
The monthly Art Walk
Saturday, August 14, 2010 from 7pm to 11 pm
The GAB Studio, 105 N.W. 23rd Street. Wynwood Art District, Miami

Greg Pitts, “The Black Jackson Pollock” created this masterpiece after an encounter with a late night televangelist.

“It was late one night and I was up, flipping through the television channels. There was one particular preacher on TV and he kept talking about judgment and sin, damnation and hell. It seemed that he was on a mission. I changed the channel and the same evangelist was on yet another channel…with the same message. It inspired me.”

The artist build the frame himself, stretched the canvas and began a project that took him over 2 weeks to finish.

“I mixed the colors in the background to obtain what I envisioned the underworld to look like. The faces are faces the souls who were unable to escape.”

Mr. Pitts also used a special technique that lends texture to the piece. “I did that because I think souls do not lose their sense of touch…to look at the painting makes you feel hot and to touch it, you get the perception of being pricked”

Scorching Fire Sale Opening Reception
$499.99 Art Sale
Kavachnina Contemporary
46 NW 36th Street, Miami, Florida
Featured artists: Alonso Mateo; Lucinda Linderman; Sergio Garcia; Silvio Gayton; Sebastien Gonzalez; Teresa Ortiz; Adrian de Brasi; Antuan; Mariano Costa Peuser; Philip Ross Munro; Benedicte Blanc-Fontevile; Lili(ana); Ricardo Triana; Alejandro Mendoza; Pedro Vizcaino; Danilo Gonzalez

Original Information Here.
Opening of “The It Click” exhibit curated by Francisco De La Torre
August 14th, 2010 Artwalk
Butter Gallery
2303 NW 2 Ave
Wynwood, Miami

Pamela Wasabi’s Artist Statement
MIA POP –Fashion Street Photography
Pamela photographs how the underground culture is expressing itself through fashion. Fashion is not a matter of trends but a matter of self-expression and communication. It’s a direct mirror of what’s going on in our pop culture.
She is interested in seeing someone’s unique sense for style. There is no right or wrong, just creative people shaping the culture with their passions; this time, reflected through their choice of clothes. Pamela’s way of displaying her photography is through a collage where she juxtaposed the street fashion shots one next to another. The message is to show what culture is about: everyone. Not one picture can generalize what is happening today. It’s the conglomeration of everyone’s artistic input and everyone’s personality that can tell what our culture is made off. Pamela Wasabi is documenting it.

Charis Kirchheimer Artist’s Statement
Visit: www.chariskirchheimer.com
Charis is a Miami-based photographer with 4 years of experience behind her. She enjoy documenting every facet of life-from corner markets to crawling nightlife-in attempts to provide the viewer with an unbiased and tender portrait of the city she calls home. In addition to cityscape photography, she has a passion for taking an
individual and transforming them into an imposing character. Charis tailors her style to whatever is on the other side of her lens in order to better capture its essence. The development of technical skills and knowledge is crucial to her as a professional and she take on any opportunity to further her intimacy with photography.

Gartel Retro: 35-years of Digital Art
August 13, 2010, 8pm-midnight
Cafeina Wynwood Lounge And Gallery
297 NE 23rd Street,
Miami, Florida 33127

Laurence M. Gartel
Retrospective
35–Years Of Digital Art

August 13- September 7, 2010
Cafeina Lounge And Gallery

Laurence Gartel diverts the inquisitive viewer of contemporary artistic practice miles from the preconceived notion of Computer Art into the realm of Fine Arts. For 35 years he has given the world a tangible and idealistic metaphor of the true meaning of an artist’s innovative discovery of what is considered “New Media.” His heroic artistry has propelled a cultural paradigm shift, and without his constant drive to push the boundaries of technology, the Digital Age would have not have been elevated to the aesthetic levels it has. Gartel’s use of new software and hardware as “dynamic brushes” paints a profound picture of “technology on canvas.”

As a pioneer of Digital Art many notable institutions have been captured by the strong concept of his pieces. He is the first Digital Artist to have his work in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History, and in 2007 a 1978 Digital Art video became a permanent part of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. In addition, in 1990 his Polaroid installation titled “Moz Ocean” was exhibition with the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City. Gartel has exhibited in many other renowned institutions all over the world such as his upcoming contribution to “Computerkunst 2.010 at Museum der Stadt Gladbeck, Germany.”

Artists such as Andy Warhol have enlisted Gartel to teach him how to operate the Amiga Computer while he was creating an album cover for Debbie Harry (Blondie).Gartel has been commissioned by other celebrities like Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Versace others. On Friday August 13th, Cafeina Wynwood Lounge and Gallery, 297 NW 23 St. Miami, Florida will premier a thirty-five year retrospective. The exhibition will travel through the decades, with Laurence Gartel’s works as an “Autobiographical” guide.

“Impact”
August 14, 2010, 7Pm-10Pm
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
3326 North Miami Ave,
Miami, FL 33127
www.modernforest.com

HACS proudly presents local sculptor Troy Simmons’s IMPACT, Julie L. Friel’s TAR & FEATHERED and a collaboration piece, DEAD SEA, by Julie Friel, Nicky Cassinera, Rochi Llaneza and Tita Castro.
The common thread in these exhibits is recent environmental issues.
IMPACT will cover environmental issues such as over development, reforestation, pollution, and conservation. “Impact” is a series based on the harshness of human existence and the beauty taken from nature. A relationship overcome with strife, yet yielding forgiveness by the balance for coexistence. Coveting space, in a tantalizing expression told through the eyes of a sculptor.
As stated by the artist Friel, “Tar and Feathered” “is about the tragic loss of the natural habitat of the plants, and animals in the Gulf of Mexico. This oil spill is not only about the loss of various species, but it is about the loss of a way of life for the people that inhabit these shorelines. And to me, it is the loss of a childhood journey.”
DEAD SEA is a collaborative installation addressing the current ecological issues triggered by the oil spill in the Gulf and its effect on or way of life.
Also showing though September, German-born Manuela Covini’s embroidered work.

The Exhibit is on display from July 10, 2010 through September 4,2010

August 14 · 8:00pm – 11:30pm
Artex gallery
3302 N. Miami Ave. Miami
The Event Decorating Academy & Artex gallery invites you to an awesome event, come meet Carmen in Wonderland. The Academy and gallery will be transformed into a wonderland full of art, sculptures and decor. There will be dancing, drinks and of course a wonderland cake for Carmen’ birthday.
Don’t be late, Don’t be late for this important date. I’ll see you there!
www.eventdecoratingacademy.com – www.CarmenBallering.com

Miguel Paredes Gallery Grand Opening (2nd Saturday Art Walk/Wynwood)
August 14th 2010, 8pm to 11pm
Miguel Paredes Fine Arts Studio
2311 NW 2ND AVE
Miami, FL 33127 (Wynwood)
www.miguelparedes.com
Guests should confirm their attendance by emailing: RSVP@miguelparedes.com

After-party at Florida Room inside South Beach’s Delano hotel
Begins at 11 p.m.
Guests must RSVP to LoveCat at lovecatllc@gmail.com

Local artist Miguel Paredes opens solo gallery space in the Wynwood Arts District in August
Pop artist & urban impressionist exhibits previous and new art collections at Paredes Fine Arts Studio

Celebrated local pop and multi-media artist, sculptor and urban impressionist, Miguel Paredes, will continue making his mark in the Wynwood Arts District with the opening of his first solo gallery Paredes Fine Arts Studio on Saturday, August 14, 2010 during the bourgeoning neighborhood’s monthly “2nd Saturdays Art Walk.” Paredes is scheduled to be present on opening night and be part of the gallery’s cocktail reception at 8 p.m. – open to the public! Guests should confirm their attendance by emailing: RSVP@miguelparedes.com

This marks Paredes’ third stop on his ongoing art tour leading up to Art Basel Miami Beach at the end of this year. The artist has shows scheduled in Seoul, KR; Los Angeles, CA; Boston, MA and New York, NY throughout the next few months. All guests are also invited to attend Paredes’ official after-party at Florida Room located inside South Beach’s Delano hotel. After-party event begins at 11 p.m. and guests must RSVP to LoveCat at lovecatllc@gmail.com

Paredes was born in New York and is of a Latin American descent. He is an artist who combines the exhilarating sense of New York City’s graffiti art with the skill and perceptiveness of a true exceptional artist. Growing up 72nd Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Paredes exuded early signs of artistic ability and accepted an invitation to New York City’s prestigious Fiorello La Guardia High School of Music and Art – immortalized in the musical and movie Fame – in the early 1980s. His studies at Fiorello coincided with the explosion of street culture in the city. Paredes drew inspiration from notorious pop artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring and plunged into the world of graffiti and pop art taking the name “Mist” as his moniker.

Another influential figure in Paredes’ artistic career is his mentor Ronnie Cutrone. Cutrone was Andy Warhol’s immediate assistant at the Factory during the notorious pop artist’s most productive and prestigious years. To Paredes, his mentor’s paintings are the essence of pop: colorful, lively and highly accessible. Cutrone’s constant use of bright and fluorescent colors not only influenced Warhol’s return to such hues, but shaped Paredes’ color palette choices as well. Paredes’ piece “Ronnie is that you?” pays homage to Cutrone and features one of Paredes’ sons painted on a vintage Mickey Mouse bed cover. The child represents the artist looking for Ronnie.

In the late 80s, Paredes left New York to come to then burgeoning Miami Beach, FL. in search of new inspiration. He fell in love with the city and immediately submerged himself in its thriving art community. Almost 20 years later, Paredes remains a Miami resident and has established himself as a respected artist. In addition, he is owner and CEO of one of the most successful printing companies in the U.S., PK Graphics, and is happily married with three children which are his most current muses.

At Paredes Fine Arts Studio, the artist will exhibit select pieces and sculptures from collections such as Boroughs, Digital Art, Pop Collages, Urban Dreams and Los Niños.

With Los Niños Paredes has taken what he calls “the best masterpieces I have ever created in my life,” his children, and made them the subjects for his revealing drama about the timeless hopes of all parents and the resolutions needed to face the unknown battles of the future. The entire experience of these paintings is shockingly honest, risky and flies in the face of three decades of neo-Pop and post-modern ideas that no image is truer or deeper than the next. Paredes will unveil new works entitled “Guadalupe,” “Happy Buddha,” “Clowning 2” and a new 3D piece named “Tagger.”

In his Boroughs cycle of paintings, Paredes provides the viewer with the four compass points of his childhood: Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. With white line work on the blackened surfaces, hints of colors glowing like bright neon lights, the paintings register as semi-familiar images, inverted in places, but clearly conveying the darkness of a humid city night.

Paredes’ Pop Collages paintings are neither illusions of psychological insight nor about the first impressions so many abstract constructions rely on. Instead, the artist’s roots in urban graffiti give him a special facility with collage work. He uses an overlapping technique as another way to express his belief that things are much more beautiful and energetic than we think.

In the artist’s Urban Dreams series, Paredes explores the parallel spectrums of color and tone and modifies the urban landscape, while combining photographic realism with the rich graphic elements of floating vines, flowers and leaves. Paredes animates New York’s brownstone crayons by darkening the darkest corners, layering one vanishing point across the other, squeezing streets and alleys into exaggerated vertical tunnels, and balancing brick, grit and white space into an ambiguous and deceptive surface.

Paredes’ latest series Digital Art showcases his most recent invention, Pulgha, and its colorful world of Birds, Geishas and puckish, child-like tricksters. Paredes’ admiration of Japanese anime is apparent in this collection, however, the artist’s imaginative hands re-create this specific language and re-enchant the original concerns – all through his Latin and urban sense of digital mysticism and narration. Pulgha means flea in Spanish, but there is nothing small or itchy about this rebellious character. Instead, Pulgha and Co. are creative emissaries, seeding innovation, luring younger generations of anonymous house-bound gamers and online exiles out into a public world of human interaction and community. Paredes donated one of his latest pieces “Pulgha World” and created a mural in the Wynwood Arts District near his new gallery.

Paredes Fine Arts Studio is located at 2399 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127. For more information, please visit www.miguelparedes.com.

Come Join us for Pan American Art Projects’ “Summer Salon” during Wynwood Gallery Walk this Saturday July 10, 6 – 9 pm
2450 NW 2nd AVE
Miami, FL 33127

Summer Salon: June 12 – August 15
A refreshing exhibition showcasing a variety of works all under $2,500
Featuring works by:
– Francis Acea
– Gustavo Acosta
– Jose Benito
– Ernesto Berra
– Andrea Cote
– Carlos Estevez
– Daniel Joglar
– Ted Larsen
РArmando Mari̱o
– Santiago Porter
– Magnus Sigurdarson
– Tracey Snelling
– Pablo Soria
– Enrique Camejo

Also in our store:
– Zaida Del Rio
– Eric Cadien
– Nelson Dominguez
– Moises Finale
– Andres Garcia Benitez
– Milton George
– Minerva Lopez
www.panamericanart.com

“The Passing” Opening Reception TONIGHT
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29 St.
Miami, FL 33127
July 10, 2010 at 07:00 PM-to- 10:00 PM

Jovan Karlo Villalba, Death of an Art Studio, 2010, oil on canvas, 60″ x 48″

Calix Gustav Gallery is pleased to present its upcoming exhibition The Passing, taking place on Saturday, July 10, 2010 through September 1st, 2010. The exhibition’s reception will take place at the gallery located in the Wynwood Arts District at 98 NW 29th Street, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m on Saturday, July 10, 2010.

The Passing as the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings represents a rebirth. This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; it’s meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba

Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother’s death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we’ve lost we learn to accept life’s realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The Installation will combine aspects of performance, video, photography, and sculpture.

Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer’s perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation. creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.

The Passing will run from July 10, 2010 through September 1st, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.calixgustav.com.

Edge Zones Art Center
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 2010
Meet the Artists: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
47 NE 25th St. | Miami, FL
www.edgezones.org
Edge Zones Art Center is pleased to announce the first exhibition of Miami and Puerto Rico Based Artists Teo Freytes And Luis Padreda A Fragmented Anomaly
Free music concert “Urban Stories” by Singer/Songwriter Omar Roque at EZAC

Marcsman Co. Airs Dirty Laundry at Cafeina this Weekend

“Dirty Laundry” at Cafeina Lounge & Gallery
294 NW 23 St.
Fri. 7/9 – 8pm. Sat. 7/10 – 7pm.

Join us this Friday, July 9 at Cafeina for the soft opening of Charis Kirchheimer’s month-long “Dirty Laundry” exhibit and for the official kick-off taking place during Wynwood – Design District’s Gallery Walk on Saturday, July 10.

Artist Gerry Stecca will be contributing a few of his enchanting clothespin sculptures for the month as well.

Drinks by Prometheus Springs.

Charis Kirchheimer
Prometheus Springs
Cafeina Lounge & Gallery

The Passing Exhibition: Saturday, July 10 through September 1, 2010
Opening Exhibition: Saturday, July 10, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Gallery visiting hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Calix Gustav Gallery
Wynwood Arts District
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137

CALIX GUSTAV GALLERY DEBUTS NEW EXHIBIT THE PASSING
Wynwood cutting-edge gallery exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth

Calix Gustav Gallery will debut its newest exhibit The Passing on Saturday, July 10, 2010 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. with an opening reception and complimentary cocktails for all guests. The exhibition’s reception will take place at the gallery located in the Wynwood Arts District (98 NW 29th Street) and will coincide with the bourgeoning neighborhood’s monthly art walk.

Calix Gustav’s The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth. This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.

Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother’s death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we’ve lost we learn to accept life’s realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.

Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer’s perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.

The Passing will run from July 10 through September 1, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.calixgustav.com.

Fredric Snitzer Gallery Expands
2247 NW 1ST PL Miami
Opening, Saturday, June 12th, 2010 7pm to 9pm

We are pleased to announce that Fredric Snitzer Gallery has expanded its current gallery space with an additional 3,500 sq. ft. viewing space and storage.

The new space consists of five exhibition rooms, which allow us to rotate our artists and give them exclusive spaces to exhibit their works. The front space will also be used at times for showcasing new talent and group exhibitions

In our upcoming inaugural opening we will have exhibition spaces dedicated to Luis Gispert, Michael Vasquez, Loriel Beltran and Bert Rodriguez. As well as works by Jonathan Pylypchuk, Diego Singh, Alice Aycock and Jacin Giordano on view

Please join us to view our current group exhibition “Paper” at our main space consisting of works by Terence Koh, Alice Aycock, Cristina Lei- Rodriguez, Jonathan Bock, Gavin Perry, Loriel Beltran, Yasue Maetake, Cooper , and Diana Al-Hadid.

The Wynwood Art Lounge 7p-10p
42Below Vodka
Behind David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Ave, Miami

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY JUNE 12 from 7 – 9pm for WYNWOOD GALLERY WALK:
Pan American Art Projects
2450 NW 2nd AVE
Miami, FL 33127
www.panamericanart.com
miami@panamericanart.com
Summer Salon: June 12 – August 15
A refreshing exhibition showcasing a variety of works all under $2,500
Featuring works by:
– Francis Acea
– Gustavo Acosta
– Jose Benito
– Ernesto Berra
– Andrea Cote
– Carlos Estevez
– Daniel Joglar
– Ted Larsen
РArmando Mari̱o
– Santiago Porter
– Magnus Sigurdarson
– Tracey Snelling
– Pablo Soria
– Enrique Camejo

Also in our store:
– Zaida Del Rio
– Eric Cadien
– Nelson Dominguez
– Moises Finale
– Andres Garcia Benitez
– Milton George
– Minerva Lopez

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU
SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 7-10PM
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami FL 33127
www.artformz.net

Thoughtful – Coveted – Irreverent – Spontaneous – Small Works
an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas

Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz.
Each member artist invited a group of respected peers.
Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it.
This art belongs to “now”: small, but quick and directly to the point.

Please visit small wonders, where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.

Gallery Diet, 174 NW 23 Street, Miami
Encore Viewing : JJ PEET “The Sunday Painter”

Edge Zones Art Center
June 12 – June 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 12, 2010
Meet the Artists: 7:00 – 10:00 PM

To present New works this June
Vincent Hemphill
Marking

Eduardo Sarmiento
Burning
In His Own Hell

Edge Zones Art Center
47 NE 25th St. | Miami, FL 33137
edgezones@me.com | 305 303 8852 | www.edgezones.org

GAB GALLERY 105 Northwest 23rd st Miami, FL

Cespedes Studios Gets Personal!
As many of you know I moved to Miami nine months ago, determined to let out my voice as an artist and be heard. It has been a transformational period for me personally and creatively in which I have grown and found a new voice- one that is vibrant, colorful and true and which expresses my happiness and appreciation for life. Throughout my journey in Miami I have truly become a woman and created a life filled with many adventurous opportunities and my art has blossomed as a result of it.
This Saturday, June 12th, I am proud to announce the premiere of my first Wynwood Art Show “Colores de Amor”. This collection was inspired by the love between a man and a woman and all that they created together, but then had to watch fall apart. The ending to this story isn’t a sad one and to find out why please join me this Saturday at GAB Gallery from 7-11pm.

Alexandra Cespedes
Painter/Photographer
cespedesstudios@yahoo.com
www.cespedestudios.blogspot.com
“Keep the inspiration alive”.

Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th St
Miami, FL 33127
June 12, 2010, 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM

“Sticky & Sweet” examines sexuality as a means for personal identity through both self-expression and social labeling. Featured artists Eurydice, Carl Pascuzzi, Diane Arrieta, Jonathan Stein, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte and Spunk and The Orange Kittens use their craft to shed light on sexuality as it relates to human nature – key elements being ambiguity, eroticism as well as overt and graphic references.
“Sticky & Sweet” will run from April 10, 2010 through June 29, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Pop artist & urban impressionist Miguel Paredes
“Pulgha World” Mosaic Mural Unveiling at Wynwood Art District, FL
Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010 during Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: 2311 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127
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Acclaimed Miami-based pop artist and urban impressionist, Miguel Paredes, is gearing up for a busy season throughout the remainder of 2010. His most recent solo exhibition, The Manifestation of Cross-Over Art, opened to rave reviews during last year’s Art Basel Miami Beach and since then has garnered the artist much attention in local, national and international levels. Paredes’ first artistic endeavor begins this upcoming weekend during Wynwood’s “2nd Saturdays” Art Walk on June 12, 2010.

The mural features Paredes’ iconic diminutive anime flea “Pulgha” and boasts multiple, vibrant flowers as well as the artist’s signature graffiti work. Paredes’ rebellious characters from his Los Niños collection are also featured on the 18 X 26 mosaic mural. “Pulgha World” is made up of 550 tiles and is set to add a playful splash of color to the urban streets of Wynwood. In addition, this mural will also serve as a preview to the artist’s private gallery located in the same street and opening later this summer.

“Pulgha World” has been in production for the past couple of weeks. Paredes has already received positive feedback from neighboring galleries and artists who are pleased with the work in progress as it is something that Wynwood hasn’t seen before. Locals are happy to have such a large piece of colorful artwork displayed in the bourgeoning area.

Paredes, a New York native, combines cutting-edge styles of street art, pop art and Japanese animation to create distinct, trend-forward pieces. Drawing inspiration from pop icons such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, he has created his own niche of street graffiti, landscape and pop art affording him the ability to singlehandedly crossover from street walls to creating decorative art. Over the years, Paredes took the Miami Beach art scene by storm, selling out numerous venues to become one of the most prosperous local artists. Paredes, who has been Miami Beach based for over two decades, acquired a private studio space on Lincoln Road to further expand his inspirational environment while simultaneously showcasing his works at local, national and international shows such as Art Basel.
For more information on Miguel Paredes, please visit: www.miguelparedes.com.

NWSA Presents High School Senior Showcase @ ARTSEEN GALLERY. Friday, May 28; 6-9 pm

New World School of the Arts presents
High School Senior Showcase 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, May 28; 6:00 – 9:00 pm

NWSA ARTSEEN GALLERY
2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Wynwood

Free and open to the public

Second Opening: Saturday, June 12
[during Second Saturday Art Walk ]

PAPER
May 8th through June 26th, 2010
Opening Saturday, May 8th, 2010 7-9 pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st Place, Miami, Fl 33127

Marks on paper, whether deliberately or accidentally made, become seeds of thought,
guidelines, if you will, for further interpretation in the process of creating. The skills for
thinking in two and three dimension are not natural companions or abilities accordingly
matched. Understanding space and how an object defines itself and its surroundings is
the thrust and challenge of a sculptor. But where does it begin?
The artists assembled in PAPER are all recognized for their work in sculpture and
installation. This exhibit at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery examines their other work, the
source.

Alice Aycock / Diana Al-Hadid / John Bock / Cooper / Jon Pylypchuk / Gavin Perry
Loriel Beltran / Cristina Lei Rodriguez / Yasue Maetake / Terence Koh

PAPER opens at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida on May 8th, 2010 at 7pm.

JOIN US THIS SATURDAY MAY 8th FOR SECOND SATURDAY
WYNWOOD GALLERY WALK: 6-9pm
Don’t Call Me Pretty! Women In Art
April 22 – June 5, 2010

Featuring selected works by:
Belkis Ayon, Jane Martin
Tania Bruguera, Elsa Mora
Ryder Cooley, Marta Maria Perez Bravo
Nora Correas, Sandra Ramos
Andrea Cote, Rosangela Renno
Maysey Craddock, Graciela Sacco
Antonia Eiriz, Carolina Sardi
Ana Fabry, Tracey Snelling
Aimee Garcia, Vibeke Tandberg
Cristina Lucas, Lucia Warck Meister

2450 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL 33127
t: 305.573.2400 f: 305.573.0720
miami@panamericanart.com
www.panamericanart.com

“Sputnik Plunk” MARK ATOMOS PILON/ Harold Golen Gallery May 8th, 2010, 7-11pm
HAROLD GOLEN GALLERY
2294 NW 2nd AVE
MIAMI, FL 33127
Wynwood Art District
305-989-3359
haroldgolengallery.com

Opening Reception 7-11pm
Performing live during the opening: THE GOLDDUST LOUNGE

* In addition to the 9 fantastic large 20″x24″ paintings at $800 and 3 amazing medium size 8″x24″ paintings at $500, there will be 24 original 6″x6″ paintings at $150 each, this can be a great Mother’s Day gift idea that she’ll keep forever! ( this applies only to those who have cool moms…)

Mark Atomos Pilon was born under the Northern Lights, in Canada’s mysterious north. Perhaps it’s a childhood dwarfed by the aurora borealis that made him seek out his alias. After graduating from art school, Mark was researching an art project when he stumbled across a Walt Disney book called “Our Friend the ATOM”. The Greek name Atomos leapt out at him. “It means indivisible, or the smallest possible object,” Mark explains. “Mystery and science are a good working combination.”

Now based on the West Coast, he sent his imagination into a future that may never arrive. Every aspect of his art is carefully computer drawn and then meticulously painted in acrylic layers, to give them a sharp, print-like synthetic quality.

Mark has worked in magazine design for over 15 years as a designer and illustrator. Today he is one of three creative directors for Vancouver’s Georgia Straight Magazine His commercial clients include IKEA, Walgreens, the Sierra Club, and Virgin. He continues to illustrate for magazines worldwide and paints for galleries across North America. His paintings are a natural transition from his editorial illustrations, which are still computer constructed.

Those paintings grew out of Mark’s love of underground comics, space-age record jackets, scooter culture, and Moog music. “I’ve always been interested in the graphic arts of the 50s and 60s. They always used the best colours and lines. I love the work of Gene Deitch, Mary Blair, BC Binning, and Jim Flora.”

His most recent pieces reflect a post-pop conviction with an dab of surrealism that casts aside logic to reveal slices of modern life projected from dark holes into a dreamy multicolored world. It’s a style that can be recognized in an instant, but will stay with you for a lifetime. However, it’s not for everyone – if you’re looking for institutional, naturalistic art, keep on walking. “I have a lot of people tell me their kids can paint better than me,” Pilon says with a laugh. “I’m okay with that.”

In 2006, Mark received the Best Illustration Feature award for “Running on Empty” at the Western Magazine Awards.

naturist philosophy in design
saturday, may 8, 7 to 10:30 p.m
glottman warehouse 219 n.w. 26th st.
219 n.w. 26th st., Miami
www.glottman.com

glottman features experimental, artistic and limited edition furniture, objects and performance
in company of love contemporary; a movement of pure modern love.

exhibition “naturist philosophy in design”

glottman’s him and her chairs designed by fabio novembre will become integrated with the society of a lost eden as music by dj andrew zahn resonates through our wynwood warehouse.

shots of natural vintage nudity off the shores of the french riviera, curated by love contemporary magazine will be projected on a big screen to show you the secrets of this naturist colony

Miguel Paredes & Area 23 Gallery Presents: “20 X 20”
Saturday May 8th 2010, 6pm till 11pm
Area 23 Gallery (Wynwood Art District)
2294 b N.W. 2nd Av. Miami Fl. 33127 Wynwood Art District

Miguel Paredes & Area 23 Gallery Present:
“20 X 20” 22 artist exhibition.
Saturday May 8, 6pm-11pm 2294 b N.W. 2nd Av. Miami Fl. 33127 Wynwood Art District

22 Artists from 13 different nationalities were selected to produce unique works of Art as a token of their great talent, all pieces are done in a 20X20 inches format which gives the name to the exhibition. “20X20”
Area 23 Gallery is proud to share with all of our friends this great opportunity to experience the diversity, richness and self expression of these 22 artist.

May 8, 6:00 to 11:00 PM.
2294 b N.W. 2nd av, Miami Fl. 33127
Wynwood Art District

Opening: Sabrina Montiel-Soto & Lyndale Pettus May 8th
May 8th to July 3rd, 2010., 19:00 – 22:00
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
3326 N. Miami Ave, Miami, FL
http://www.hardcoreartmiami.com

Opening May 8th at HACS for the course of 2 months: French based Venezuelan artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto’s ”Soul Without FACE” and Local photographer Lyndale Pettus’s “Light” for one month.
”Soul Without Face” leads us through the internal conflicts of modern man and his lost identity, tells us about the psychology of our era, where our desire to achieve live in a world where the most difficult to find is our natural and vital essence that which we call: soul.
In the words of filmaker/photographer, Lyndale Pettus:
“My photos are interiors and exteriors, daylight and night shots of angles of concrete, steel and glass full of endless repetition mixed with depth, light, and shadows. I have a love of architecture and consider it an attractive subject waiting to pose for my camera.”

Gallery hours:
Tues to Friday: 10:00 – 17:00
Sat: 11:00 – 16:00

Information courtesy of Yelp.

Come out to Wynwood Art Lounge for complimentary 42BELOW cocktails and a DJ Set by Aramis from 7 to 10!

David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Ave, Wynwood
Saturday, May 8, 2010 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Click here for more information.

Opening Reception: Friday May 7th, 2010 6 – 9 PM
Zachary Schomburg poetry reading 8 PM presented by The University of Wynwood*

Second Saturday: Saturday May 8th, 2010 7 – 10 PM

Gallery Diet is pleased to present the first solo painting exhibition of NY-based artist JJ PEET entitled The Sunday Painter.

The Sunday Painter is part of an ongoing project in which PEET responds to contemporary social, economic and political events through the process of art-making. While PEET has previously dealt with these issues in a reactive manner using more immediate media such as audio, video, live broadcast and sculpture, The Sunday Painter is focused solely on the act of painting.

Painting, a very different type of practice, allows PEET to take a more contemplative approach to current affairs. This relates directly to the methods of the NY school of painters from the late 1950’s and early 1960’s in which artists were responding to a tumultuous cultural climate via painting. PEET will also explore the relationship of class and economics through the more high-bow leisure orientated act of painting versus the labor/working class act of making present in his previous project, The TV Show.

During the course of the exhibit, PEET will continue to work within a hidden painting studio that he designed to be modular and therefore mobile. The self-contained unit can be easily broken down and gives PEET a space that can be transported to different locations, allowing him to respond to political environments in specifics area around the world.

JJ PEET has exhibited in New York City at On Stellar Rays, where he is represented and is a graduate of the Yale School of Art’s prestigious MFA program. His work has been written about in Art in America twice and in Frieze.com, PEET’s work is in the permanent collections of The White House, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Minnesota Historical Society.

Gallery Diet represents five emerging and mid-career artists including Brian Burkhardt, Charley Friedman, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski. Exhibitions from the gallery have and are scheduled to travel to institutions such as The University of Wyoming Art Museum (Brian Burkhardt ’09), the Benton Museum at the University of Connecticut (Abby Manock, ’10), and MARTE in El Salvador (Abby Manock, ’10 forthcoming).

Zachary Schomburg will present a reading as part of the University of Wynwood visiting poet series. Schomburg is the author of two collections of poetry, The Man Suit (Black Ocean, 2007) and Scary, No Scary (Black Ocean, 2009).

Dimensions Variable Presents
ThE FunnY GUY That Sticks His HAND IN the PAiNt BuckeT- Carlos Rigau
MAY 8TH – JUNE 19TH, 2010
RECEPTION SATURDAY, MAY 8TH, 2010, 7 – 11 PM
Dimensions Variable is pleased to present ThE FunnY GUY That Sticks His HAND IN the PAiNt BuckeT, a solo project by Miami based artist Carlos Rigau. The exhibition will run from May 8th through June 19th, 2010. Dimensions Variable is located at 171 NE 38th Street in the Miami Design District.
Schools, gyms, hospitals, penitentiaries. Organized institutional behavior. Violence restrained for the sake of any institution. Its bathrooms, the break rooms, the classroom… the furniture. Holding areas for personal belongings. Places for excretion …and masturbation. Places where instincts are displaced and replaced.
Upon entering the exhibition the visitor will be encountering sound sculptures that propel them toward violence, frustration, and the general impotence that take place in these communal/corporate spaces. Objects like air conditioning shafts, lockers and urinal dividers to name a few, serve as compact models of the disciplinary mechanism.
“Discipline brings onto play its power which is analysis.” —Foucault.
Carlos Rigau was born in 1978 and was raised in Little Havana in Miami Florida. Carlos graduated in 2002 from F.I.U. with a double major in Fine Art and Television Communications. In 2009 Rigau completed Hunters MFA program in NYC. Carlos has exhibited his work in Berlin, New York, Chicago and Miami. His work is in the collections of Joseph S. Berg and Jefferson Godard.
ABOUT DIMENSIONS VARIABLE
Dimensions Variable is an exhibition space in the Miami Design District interested in innovative new projects in contemporary art.
The intention behind Dimensions Variable is to feature projects by individual artists and collaboratives. Rather than showcasing group or solo exhibitions in the usual format, we are interested in challenging individuals or collaboratives to address our space spicifically and produce one cohesive project. Dimensions Variable aspires to provide a forum for the introduction of unfamiliar, complex, collaborative and multidisciplinary practices to a Miami audience.

Dimensions Variable
171 NE 38th Street, Design District, Miami, Florida 33137, United States
dv@dimensionsvariable.net / www.dimensionsvariable.net

KIKI VALDES: Back in the Club Days
Saturday, May 8th, 6pm – 12am
Cafeina Gallery
297 NW 23rd Street
Wynood Art District

KIKI VALDES: BACK IN THE CLUB DAYS
Live work from 2004 – 2006

The collection of work by Kiki Valdes that will be included in the show
“Back in the Club Days” at Cafeina Gallery is from the years the artist
spent live action painting at various nightclubs around Miami Beach and
New York between 2004 – 06. The work is intuitive and direct by
application of paint. The subject matter ranges from narratives of
Hispanic stereotypes amplified by motifs of Latin women and symbols of
Caribbean culture and folklore. Each work in the show was created in a
hurry and in limited time among party spectators.

Sneak Peak of show: Thursday May 6th 9pm

Show runs till June 9th

YOU ARE INVITED
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of “small wonders (art) salon”
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most energized and exciting exihibits this spring. Sixty-five of South Florida’s best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.

The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone’s respect for these thoughtful – coveted – irreverent – spontaneous – small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.

Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to “now”: small, but quick and directly to the point.

Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the Artformz yearly community projects including the upcoming International Artists Exchange. “ArtistaInvitaArtista” co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz’ member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist’s talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.

Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul, Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Guido Coletti, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Roalndo Dal Pezzo, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck, Priscilla Ferguson, Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa, Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams

Please visit small wonders where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.

Last Thursday
4.29.10, 5 pm – 8 pm
GAB Studio
105 northwest 23 street
Miami, Fl. 33127
www.gabstudio.com

GAB STUDIO PRESENTS
Last Thursday ART WALK
APRIL 29,2010, 5 pm to 8 pm

Jay Lonewolf
Ross Ford
Bridges Aderhold
Alycia Linke
Greg Pitts
Alan Stewart
Barbara Lloyd
Tony Rosca
Ashley Sheppard
Nilia Fajardo
Robyn Vegas
Allen J. Mort
Nelson Martin
Lindsay Vidal
Eduardo
Jaime Adrover

Music: Drum Circle By Jay Lonewolf

GAB STUDIO
Address: 105 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Fl 33127

Live Music by Omine at Brevards for Gallery Walk this Saturday Evening
Miami’s Wynwood Arts District
2320 North Miami Ave
Miami, FL 33127
April 10, 2010 at 06:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Greetings!
You’re invited to join us at Brevards Gallery this Saturday evening from 7-11pm to enjoy art, cocktails and live music by Omine.
Register Now!
We appreciate your support and are looking forward to seeing you at our event.
Sincerely,
John Brevard

DIANA LOWENSTEIN FINE ARTS
Saturday, April 10th, 7:30 to 10:00 pm
Exhibitions on view through May 1st.

MICHAEL FLOMEN
Inside Out
Inside Out marks the first time Michael Flomen creates an environment with his photographic works, which continue to be a dialogue with nature. Since his 2006 exhibition at the gallery, Teeming, Flomen has experimented further into the elemental and phenomenal worlds in nature revealing visions and experiences we seldom see and feel in our increasingly expanding destruction and dominance of the planet. His new Scuptarama, a section of an abandoned building, is a stage to place and provoke the viewer of where we are, who we are, and what we are doing.
Also included in the exhibition are several unique gelatin silver photogrammes from the series Littoral Zone and his most recent photographs from the series Crunchtime. The image, Genesis 15, 2009, is a photogramme of what one can consider as a moment of creation, a new hope in our evolution.
Flomen’s work has been exhibited extensively in Canada, the United States and abroad. It can also be found in public collections throughout the world, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

STERZ
Naïve
Sterz
In my work, lines of action help me generate drawing intuitively as well as through shapes and patterns found in many walks of life and cultures. Whether this process emerges from an obsessive compulsive disorder is a legitimate question. Ultimately, though, my goal is to relax viewers and to provoke in them an almost hypnotic state through the explorations of multiple, interconnected forms.

Sterz uses subjects of natural phenomena, typically light, color and movement for his installations. Intended always to accommodate the viewer and elicit a spontaneous aesthetic response, Sterz directs the gaze towards the infinite variety and power of the natural world. His use of industrial materials and installation techniques give the work a playful, childlike approach; yet recede in the presence of the subject matter – the reminder of nature’s presence within and without the self. The intention is to stimulate emotion with visual information.
Sterz exhibits his site-specific installations throughout North America, Europe and the Caribbean. He has participated in numerous international art fairs including Art Basel and received grants such as from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Project Room: KEVIN HART
Line of Action
In these pieces I am not trying to dazzle with brilliance, baffle anyone with long winded rhetoric, or generate dialogue via shock art. I just want to make work that can be enjoyed with no exclusions. These pieces are all hand drawn and the backgrounds are either water color, oil paints, or more pen work. As time passes the foundations of my work have stayed the same, yet new ideas and methods are constantly being implemented in an attempt to make each piece unique.

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts | 2043 North Miami Avenue | Miami, FL 33127 | 305 576 1804 | www.dlfinearts.com

174 NW 23 Street, Miami, Fl 33127
info@gallerydiet.com

The stark, wailing tones of the artist’s voice punctuate a desolate landscape in Christy Gast’s video installation Batty Cave. Folklore, conjecture and a Dust Bowl aesthetic evoke a narrative of tenderness and desperation in a series of gestures and images that come together like a flipbook to tell us a story of ecological doom, escapism and partnership. Filmed on a desert mountain where two men, expecting a flood of Biblical proportions, built a dusty ark, the artist’s hands form pictograms with scraps of rusty metal, broken glass and chipped rock on an even more humble stage. Creating a densely layered tableau of imagery and sound, a narrative is teased out of the monuments to folly left in the barren landscape. Pulling influence from the history of sound art, photography, and film, Batty Cave will be presented as the corner stone for Christy Gast’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Diet.

Ms. Gast graduated with an MFA from Columbia University in 2004. She lives and works in Miami, Florida and has exhibited previously at The Bass Museum of Art, Artists Space, Exit Art, and the PS1 Contemporary Art Center. Her performative work was included in RoseLee Goldberg’s Performa 07 and she has presented several projects at Andrea Zittel’s High Desert Test Sites. Ms. Gast’s work has been written about in publications such as ArtUS, The New York Times and rhizome.org. Christy Gast will be exhibiting in the Project Space of the de la Cruz Collection during Art Basel Miami Beach 2010.

Batty Cave will be the 13th invitational exhibition at Gallery Diet. Gallery Diet represents five emerging and mid-career artists including Brian Burkhardt, Charley Friedman, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski. Exhibitions from the gallery have and are scheduled to travel to institutions such as The University of Wyoming Art Museum (Brian Burkhardt ’09), the Benton Museum at the University of Connecticut (Abby Manock, ’10 forthcoming), and MARTE in El Salvador (Abby Manock, ’10 forthcoming).

MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery presents Timeless Joy of Life: A Solo Exhibition by Don McClain
Opening reception: Saturday, April 10th, 2010. 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Location: MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery. 3618 NE 2nd Avenue. Miami, FL 33137
Dates: From April 10th through 30th, 2010
Gallery hours: Saturday 11:00 – 6:00 p.m. and weekdays by appointment
Admission: Free
MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery cordially invites you to the opening of The Timeless Joy of Life series by Don McClain on Saturday, April 10th, 2010, his first solo exhibition in the Miami Design District.
This exclusive exhibition is a conversation between a gifted artist and the fleeting yet cyclical character of nature. The landscapes capture the unexcelled beauty of the natural world through the harmony of his colors and brush strokes.
“My personality dictates the necessity to be primarily self-taught and uninfluenced, in an independent attempt to visually express feelings original and personal, that encompasses the timeless joy of life I experience.” – Don McClain
MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery boasts a collection of unique and extraordinary artists from Brazil and America, with an emphasis on exclusivity, education and long-term investments. MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery will strive to be the place for art and culture in Miami.
MIRIAM FERNANDES Gallery
3618 NE 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33137
Ph: 305.573.9531
rsvp@miriamfernandes.com
www.miriamfernandes.com
For more information about local openings and events, please visit www.miamiartguide.com

Saturday April 10th | 8pm-11pm
D&G Presents Bruce Mcquiston
Wood Sculptures “Grace” ( hanging single piece ) Cuban Mahogany 72″ x 12″ x 6″ 2010
and
Blake· Fisher Fine Art Photography “Canyon Passage” Silver Gelatin Print – Limited Edition of 30 20″ x 24″ 2003

Express Rsvp Online Click Here
Rsvp By Telephone: 305-438-9798
Rsvp By Email: rsvp@dgfineart.com
D&G Art Design Gallery
Wynwood Art District, 540 NW 28th Street, Miami, FL 33127
www.DGFineArt.com

Come check out the inaugural group exhibition curated by new creative//design suite Morfiq Studios. The exhibition will be hosted by Cafeina Gallery, located in Wynwood//Design District. Cafeina Gallery is Miami’s most exciting new gallery location, with full service bar and lounge area on premise. The exhibit will showcase selected works of respected artists from a number of major cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and some of Miami’s most exciting local talent. Details below:

Crystal: Completely Transparent & Unclouded

Monolith: A geological feature (such as a mountain) consisting of a single massive stone or rock. A singular piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument. (in this case, the artist)

The crystal monolith is a metaphor for the artist. Each individual in this show, demonstrates a crystalline dedication towards monumental intent in the visual expression they deliver.

Artists Showcased:
Johnny Robles
Jose Mertz
Destroy Rock City
Charlie Immer
Morgan Blair
Francesco Locastro
Ivanco Talevski
Santiago Rubino
Reinier Gamboa

Opening Night: April 10th 2010 // 8-12am
Cafeina Gallery // 297 NW 23rd St. Miami, FL 33127
For more info: info@morfiqstudio.com
Website: www.morfiqstudio.com

CALIX GUSTAV GALLERY DEBUTS NEW EXHIBIT “STICKY & SWEET”
Cutting-edge gallery once again pushes the envelope with sexually charged show

WHAT/WHO: Calix Gustav Gallery will debut its newest exhibit “Sticky & Sweet” on Saturday, April 10, 2010 from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. coinciding with Wynwood’s monthly art walk. The unveiling of the exhibit, which explicitly explores sexual freedom, expression and all related taboos – a-la-Madonna – will be celebrated with an opening reception featuring beats by DJ Johnny the Boy and complimentary cocktails.

In a society where sexual liberation often has a tongue-in-cheek political innuendo, “Sticky & Sweet” examines sexuality as a means for personal identity through both self-expression and social labeling. Featured artists Eurydice, Carl Pascuzzi, Diane Arrieta, Jonathan Stein, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte and Spunk and The Orange Kittens use their craft to shed light on sexuality as it relates to human nature – key elements being ambiguity, eroticism as well as overt and graphic references.

“Sticky & Sweet” will run from April 10, 2010 through May 29, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
For more information on Calix Gustav Gallery, please visit www.calixgustav.com.

WHEN: “Sticky & Sweet” Exhibition: Saturday, April 10 – May 29, 2010
Gallery visiting hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
WHERE: Calix Gustav Gallery
Wynwood Arts District
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137

A La Revenge x Bold Hype x Eazy Street Gallery Proudly Present: BELIEVE THE HYPE! Miami

Believe the Hype is a revolutionary art show featuring paintings, sculptures and installations created by an unprecedented collective of urban contemporary, pop surrealist, mixed media and kill or be killed street artists, from around the world.
The Miami exhibition is the 2nd installment of the group show that opened at Bold Hype Gallery in Orlando, back in September 2009.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boldhype/sets/72157622254941083/

BELIEVE THE HYPE! will be making its Miami debut on Saturday April 10th 2010, and will be held at Eazy Street Gallery in the Wynwood Arts District.
The show will feature a live bodiless head, some 2-d art works, a krink mural, a suspended sculpture, some wood paneled walls, shag carpet, strong drinks, and raunchy video’s.

BELIEVE THE HYPE! Miami features artwork by: Jesse Reno – Doug Boehm – Robert Bellm – Levon Jihanian – David Chung – Johnny Robles – Nick Gazin – Andrew Spear – Johannah O’Donnell – Dolla – Brandon Dunlap – Eric Althin – Dustin Orlando – Mat Curran – Parail – Dubelyoo – Adriaan Mol – Dres13 – David Hoskins – Scott Donald – Brandon McLean – Jose Mertz – Lucy Furs
Curated By: Dustin Orlando
Performing Live: ANR (Awesome New Republic)
With DJ Sets by: Keen-One

Doors Open at 8:00pm-Late Night
Complimentary Cocktails Provided by: Seven Tiki Spiced Rum
Cover : $10
Free Giveawayes from IN4MATION – Bold Hype – A La Revenge
For more information check out:
http://ezstreetgallery.com
http://www.boldhype.net
The official after party will be held at POPLIFE @ The Electric Pickle
To RSVP or to purchase in advance please contact Dustin Orlando at 321-217-1675, or dustinorlando@yahoo.com

Get familiar with the artists work:
Jesse Reno – http://www.jessereno.com/
Doug Boehm – http://dougboehm.com/
Robrt Bellm – http://www.robertbellm.com/
David Chung – http://www.thechung.com/
Levon Jihanian – http://www.levonjihanian.com/
Johnny Robles – http://www.johnnyrobles.com/
Johannah O’Donnell – http://johannahodonnell.com/
Nick Gazin – http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickgazin/
Andrew Spear – http://www.spearlife.com/
Dolla – http://www.myspace.com/dolla_lama
Eric Althin – http://www.boldhype.net/
Mat Curran – http://www.mathewcurran.com/
Parail – http://www.parailstudios.com/
Dubelyoo – http://www.dubelyoo.net/
Adriaan Mol- http://www.myspace.com/adriaanmol
Dres13 – http://dres13.com/
David Hoskins – http://davidhoskins.com/
Scott Donald – http://scottdonald.com/
Brandon McLean -http://www.elus1v.com/
Jose Mertz – http://www.josemertz.com/

Thanks for the LOVE! See you on Saturday April 10th
BELIEVE IT!
Eazy street gallery
3501 NW 2Ave
Miami Fl, 33127
www.eazystreetgallery.com