Opening Reception @ BAC: September 11th, 2009
The Miami Dade College Kendall Campus Art Department is proud to present a group exhibition of 19 full and part-time art faculty. Their works encompass a variety of mediums and include the following disciplines: Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, Jewelry, Ceramics, Mixed Media, Photography and Video. Artists with a national and international reputation, their works have been featured in major galleries in Miami, New York, Seattle, Atlanta, Chicago, Japan & Denmark. Exhibition on view until October 1st.

Miami Dade College is the largest institution in American, servicing over 160,000 students annually. The Kendall Campus Art Department offers course work in the following disciplines: Art History, Humanities, Cinema Appreciation, Computer Art, 2D and 3D Design, Painting, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Printmaking, Black & White and Color Photography, Ceramics, Sculpture, Jewelry and Small Metals. It offers premier studio work spaces, designed especially for an established art program. More information can be found at http://www.mdc.edu/kendall/artandphilosophy/.

Extempore Closing Night @ MAS

MICHAEL GENOVESE’S
IT’S NOT THE HEAT, IT’S THE HUMILITY PHASE 2
This exhibition includes documentation of performances that have taken place since the June 13th.

July 11, 2009 – For his premiere solo exhibition in Miami, Michael Genovese releases a recent body of work that will include site-specific installations, sculpture, and paintings.

Michael Genovese’s work operates as a reflection, both in a conceptual context and in a literal sense.  This exhibition addresses a range of subjects, from Art History to American culture, pomposity to personal debt. The artist holds up a mirror in order to understand his identity and his role in relation to these subjects, while challenging the viewer to perform the same exercise. How we define ourselves, our choice of expression, the ways we are influenced by what we read and experience, all create cause for reflection and require a measure of humility in doing so.

Genovese’s text engravings on high-polished aluminum panels are simultaneously illegible and painstakingly detailed; they are further evolved reincarnations of pulp and prose. By turning his formerly disregarded mail – unpaid bills, debt collector threats, and legal documents – into sacred objects, he aims to more accurately convey the power of burden. Also among this collection of engravings is a panel cataloging public commentary gathered from a previous project, citing nonsensical quotes like “Tippy-toe on the pooty-side� alongside profound examples: “Our dreams don’t fit on your ballot.� Another engraving plucks sections of cultural essays; from Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man “You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world…â€� “Today, let tomorrow go� is the incomprehensible message on a monochromatic black painting. In each incarnation of the two-dimensional work a reflection is forced, but an obstacle exists – the process of analysis is difficult, uncomfortable, and at times simply impossible.

Three large-scale sculptures continue the conversation of obstacle and experience. A porch, missing its home, is preserved like a giant chunk of amber containing the DNA of a tragic history. A bizarre arrangement of ordinary pipes and chains is elevated to grandiose through its nickel-plated treatment. Metal rails are manipulated into a circular formation, grounded with cement footings molded from traffic cones. The motive of this work is also an interactive one; an invitation to flex your agility on a course constructed to humiliate. Accumulated sheets of paper, in actuality, weigh less than an ounce, yet can resonate the poundage of an anvil. Genovese takes intellectual ideas and gives them anatomy to match significance, while trying to preserve their original integrity. Ten-gage aluminum panels somehow feel ephemeral, and a hulking wooden sculpture still gives a fragile impression; interpretations change depending on the view.

ABOUT O.H.W.O.W.: Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran’s Our House West of Wynwood (O.H.W.O.W.) is Miami’s most exciting high profile art space. Designed by Rafael de Cardenas of Architecture at Large, the venue features prominent international and U.S. based experimental art as well as innovative contemporary art forms through an alternative cross-disciplinary perspective.
OPENING RECEPTION
Hours: 6pm – 10pm
SPECIAL THANKS
Grolsch
O.H.W.O.W.
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
305.633.9345 office
305.637.3443 fax
info@oh-wow.com

Summer Air Show at FlightStudio Gallery! Saturday July 11, 7-10PM featuring Desiree Bordes, PilotO, and Bernardo Medina
www.flightstudiogallery.com

{Soul Of Miami highly recommends Edge Zones!}


Edge Zones Contemporary Art Space
Kyle Barnette, David Brieske, Paloma Ferreyros, Daniel Fiorda, Robert Huff, Francois Ilnseher, Hector Madera, Jay Ore, Mark Osterman, Raul Perdomo, Claudia Scalise

Second Saturday Opening Tonel Cosmos at Chelsea Galleria
CHELSEA GALLERIA
2441 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL. 33127
Tel 305 576-2950
www.chelseagalleria.com

Wall Lovers,
A few of our Artists are opening their Art studios in the historical Bakehouse Art Complex located in Wynwood, and this saturday will be their opening reception. Come out and show some love!
This is a kid friendly event!
STUDIO OPENING
Krave Art, Gerry Stecca, and Ross Ford Studio Opening
Date: Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Location: Bakehouse Art Complex
Address: 561 NW 32nd Street Miami, FL
Phone: 800-556-6581
E-mail: info@wallove.com
WALLOVE
New work available from Dekal and Nfromero.
www.wallove.com

244 NW 35th Street, Miami FL 33127 – 305-438-9002 – www.miamiartspace.com
EXTEMPORE
Opening Night This Saturday 7pm-10pm
This month Miami Art Space welcomes a group show of contemporary art from local artists whose work ranges from stylized methods to abstract. On exhibit will be a wide variety original art in mediums such as paint, pastel, ink, and sculpture which come together to create a spontaneous and diverse environment of styles and perspectives. The artists’ site their influences as drawn from nature and science, and are interpreted into non-real images containing natural characteristics.
Artists:
Marisela Esteves
Julie Pagano
Niko Yulis
Samara Banks
Schedule: Opening Night – Wynwood Art Walk
July 11th 7pm-10pm
For More Information: Alexis McClean
email: info@miamiartspace.com
305-438-9002

All priced under $500!
Harold Golen Gallery
2294 North West 2nd Ave.
Miami, Florida 33127
305-989-3359
haroldgolengallery.com
Come by July 11th from 7-11pm for your chance to buy original paintings salvaged from our famous fire in December 2007 and all priced under $500. Artists include: DALEK, RON ENGLISH, SKOT OLSEN, SCOTT SAW, KIRSTEN EASTHOPE, BRANDON DUNLAP and many more.

2nd Saturdays Wynwood Art Walk at The Awarehouse
Colombian Export
A collection and mix of classic and contemporary artists
and special performance by The State Of
7-9 gallery
10 live performance
550 NW 29th Street, Wynwood

What:  Opening reception of Andres Dominguez’s solo exhibition “Pieles”. Art Rouge Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in our gallery of new collection “Pieles” by Miami based Chilean artist Andres Dominguez. Andres’s works takes on the human body as subject matter, revealing psychological complexities inherent within these structures. After years of creative exploration A. Dominguez developed his own artistic language with his unique combination of the impeccable reproduction of the human figure and his own color concept. His painting reflects the presence and absence or the human form, in all its forms and its fleeting moment of appearance and disappearance.
We will welcome our guests with drinks sponsored by Buena Cepa Wines to celebrate the show. We look forward to seeing you.
When: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 7 to 11 p.m.
Where: Wynwood Art District
46 NW 36th street
Miami, FL 33127
305.448.2060
hours: Tues.-Sat. 12-6pm/by apt.
www.lurie-kavachnina.com
Contact: Gala Kvachnina
Gallery director
305.448.2060
gala@lurie-kavachnina.com
Nuria Brillembourg
Gallery Curator
305.448.2060
info@lurie-kavachnina.com
Manos, oil/canvas, 34×58,2009

Ross Ford, one of Miami’s most prolific young painters, has moved his studio into the BakehouseArt Complex (BAC) in Wynwood. He will feature his 2009 collection during the neighborhood’s monthly Artwalk on July 11, 2009.

Ross Ford To Exhibit 2009 Collection At New Studio
Artist hosts reception on Second Saturday
Ross Ford, one of Miami’s most prolific young painters, has moved his studio into the Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) in Wynwood. He will feature his 2009 collection during the neighborhood’s monthly Artwalk on July 11, 2009.

Other Bakehouse residents will also open their studios to the public for the Second Saturday party.

WHEN: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 6 – 10 p.m.

WHERE: ROSS FORD’S STUDIO @ The Bakehouse Art Complex, Wynwood Arts District
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.576.2828

ABOUT ROSS FORD:
Since moving to Miami in 2004, Ross Ford has exhibited in more than 35 group and solo shows with his signature style of abstract facial expressions. He creates his faces through a process called “Iterative Expression,” which is the repetition and evolution of emotions, colors, forms and strokes. Originally selling his art on the street in Miami Beach, Ross moved into Butter Gallery in 2007 where he was featured as one of its primary artists. In 2009, Ross moved his studio into the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami. His artwork has been featured in Daily Candy Miami, JoshSpear.com, City Link Miami and the Travel Channel show “5 Takes.” His work is currently on display at the Van Dyke Cafe Upstairs on Lincoln Road and the Century Hotel on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. Ross Ford has a Bachelors Degree from Hampshire College and a Masters Degree from the University of Florida. For more information, visit www.rossfordart.com.

ABOUT THE BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX:
The Bakehouse Art Complex is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to attracting emerging and mid-career artists in South Florida to a workplace that provides affordable studios, exhibition galleries, and professional development opportunities. The artists, who are juried-in tenants, come from many different states and countries bringing with them many different intellectual, social and artistic experiences. By attracting and involving new audiences into the contemporary and culturally enriching world of the visual arts, the BAC continues to be an accessible vital resource to the diverse and dynamic South Florida art community and its patrons. The BAC facility is located in the internationally renowned Wynwood Arts District, a designated area of Miami comprising more than 50 galleries, alternative spaces, private collections and museums. For more information, visit www.bacfl.org.

BAC Will be open for Second Saturday, July 11th from 7-10 pm.
Studios will be open and available for browsing.
Please visit our Swenson Gallery which will showcase the work of the Summer Workshop Students over the past 3 weeks. The students studied Still Life and Figure Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Mixed Media and Pastels.
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
www.bacfl.org

Life Is Art Call For Artists Deadline July 17, 2009

Call for artists is now closed. Artists announced soon.

Life Is Art and Metro 1 Properties Earth Is Art event is now accepting applications for participating artists. The deadline for application is July 17, 2009. All forms and styles of art are considered. Artists are encouraged to submit works with an environmental them or subject matter. There is no fee to apply.

Artists will be notified no later than July 22 via email. Artists must confirm their acceptance by July 24 via email.

The event will take place on August 22 at Metro 1 Properties’ Green Buiding Resource Center, 120 NE 27th Street, Miami, Florida.

We are also looking for performers of all types! Dancers, Musicians, Poets, etc. If you are interested in performing, please contact us at art@lifeisartfest.org

Life Is Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the arts in Miami and the surrounding area.

Please spread the word to any deserving artists that you know.

Sincerely,
James Echols

Pedro Barbeito and Jason Gringler

June 18 – August 8, 2009

Opening Reception June 18, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

MIAMI – Pedro Barbeito and Jason Gringler will be featured in an exhibition of new works at the Charest-Weinberg Gallery, opening June 18 through August 8, 2009. The opening reception will be held on June 18 from 6pm – 9pm at 250 NW 23rd St. Space 408, Miami, FL 33127.

Pedro Barbeito’s work investigates the impact of the Internet and digital image making on the history and language of painting. How these mediums communicate cultural knowledge is of particular interest to Barbeito. His most recent work examines how violence is passively consumed and shapes one’s daily experiences.

More Info

(detail), 2008
on Mylar, 42″ x 64″
FELICE GRODIN
Lost Horizon
WHEN: Saturday, June 13th, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
WHERE: Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts – 2043 North Miami Avenue – Miami – FL – 33127
T 305.576.1804 F 305.576.1805 info@dlfinearts.com

“We are living in a time when fixed notions have been lost and new possibilities are on the
horizon. My work attempts to trap the mutable state of things where paradigms shift, boundaries
erode and particles collide. I investigate the architecture of chance, the stretching of the
‘truth’ and the delaying of the inevitable.”

Exploring drawing, collage and sculpture, Felice Grodin maps out cartographies of tension and
compression that remain spatially ambiguous. They represent moments of transformation,
movement and entropy.

Felice Grodin was born in Bologna, Italy. She obtained her BArch from Tulane University where
she received the Thomas J. Lupo Award for Metropolitan Studies for her thesis project, and her
MArch with Distinction from Harvard University where she was awarded the Faculty Design Award.
Her work was recently featured in the show “Drawing Beyond the Plane” at the Tampa Museum
of Art as well as the publication New American Paintings. In addition, she curated her first show at Locust Projects in Miami called “Synesthetics” which explored the creative interface between art, design and technology. Felice lives and works in Miami Beach.

Please join us Sat., June 13, 7-10pm for the opening of f(r)acture: divisions in painting. This group exhibition features works by Alicia Gibson, David Marsh, Jordan Massangale, Patrick McElnea, Brandon Opalka, Jane Parshall, Carlos Rigau, Karen Seapker and Kevin Van Gorp. The exhibition will be on view through July 18, 2009. Drinks sponsored by Grolsh.
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com

PilotO at FlightStudio Gallery
FlightStudio Gallery | 250 NW 23rd Street, Loft 206 | Miami | FL | 33127

MICHAEL GENOVESE – IT’S NOT THE HEAT, IT’S THE HUMILITY

Opening June 13, 2009 – For his premiere solo exhibition in Miami, Michael Genovese releases a recent body of work that will include site-specific installations, sculpture, and paintings.

A Chicago native, Genovese instinctively carries a metropolitan dialect and acumen into his work. An early exposure to multiculturalism joined with his professional training as a sign painter led to a socially inspired vehicle of expression. Creating work that makes use of his technical abilities and familiarity with specific materials, Genovese’s ability to open a communal discourse ultimately became his trademark style. Through public murals and installations, his deft handling of type and unorthodox use of industrialized media further cemented his status as one of today’s most promising contemporary artists. His latest work exemplifies his focus on community and its influence, but also digs inward and begins the process of reconciling his public works with his personal journeys.

Michael Genovese has recently exhibited at the University of Texas, San Antonio, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Chicago Cultural Center. His work was recently published in New American Paintings; The Upset: Young Contemporary Art, Art Lies Contemporary Art Quarterly and Dazed and Confused.

ABOUT O.H.W.O.W.: Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran’s Our House West of Wynwood (O.H.W.O.W.) is Miami’s most exciting high profile art space. Designed by Rafael de Cardenas of Architecture at Large, the venue features prominent international and U.S. based experimental art as well as innovative contemporary art forms through an alternative cross-disciplinary perspective.
OPENING RECEPTION
DJ set by Camp Gabby
8pm – midnight
SPECIAL THANKS
Grolsch
O.H.W.O.W.
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
305.633.9345 office
305.637.3443 fax
info@oh-wow.com

Join Us! Saturday, June 13th 7-10pm!
3 Exhibitions & 65 Open Studios
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami FL 33127
305.576.2828
www.bacfl.org
MAIN GALLERY: Every Year, the Ceramic League of Miami invites a visiting artist to host a workshop for its members and to judge members’ entries for its annual Member’s Exhibition Juried Show. This year’s guest jurist is Janis Mars Wunderlich. The Main Gallery at the Bakehouse Art Complex will showcase their selected artists for their 59th annual exhibition.

The Ceramic League of Miami was founded in 1950 with the dual purpose of educating local artists and the general public in all aspects of ceramics. It has become a volunteer, non-profit organization whose members learn from each other and from nationally visiting artists.

PROJECT ROOM: Artistic Intervention, Fragmented Conversations Rosa Naday Garmendia
An experimental visual conversation presented by Rosa Naday Garmendia’s current work.

SWENSON GALLERY: The Bakehouse Art Complex is proud to present works from visual art students of Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus.

Luis Perez Galeria & Acustronic invite you to experience a night surrounded by fine art, music, and contemporary culture.
Join us every second Saturday during the monthly Wynwood Artwalk.
Featured Exhibition: Mauro Mejiaz, Jesus Caviglia, Edgra Negret
DJ Set – Mike Sike and Heather Holiday
Live Performances – Organicarma
550 NE 29th Street Miami Florida
Fresh off the Fischerspooner tour organicArma- Miami’s own electronic band and MSN “New Artist of the Month” for July, comes home to perform live this Saturday, June 13th during the Wynwood Art Walk.

The trio toured with art electro-pop duo- Fischerspooner along with art-punk collective Ssion. The band has come back with a bundle of amazing experiences and musical inspirations. And they all want YOU to celebrate it with them.

Starting off the party portion of the evening…
Mike Sike brings his own NYC rooted beats with a mix of Miami’s spices.
Heather Holiday keeps everyone happy with her swagger and Pumpin jams.

And always presenting the best in Fine Art, The Luis Perez Gallery introduces artwork by
Venezuelan constructivist- Jesus Caviglia, Mauro Mejiaz and scultpures by Edgar Negret.

This Saturday’s art walk event is not to be missed!
18+ welcomed.
Free event.
The Awarehouse
550 NW 29 ST Miami, FL 33127
www.acustronic.com | www.organicarma.com | www.luisperezgaleria.com

June 13th – August 1st, 2009
Oh Nancy founded by Nate Wellman and Fionn McCabe
Home Coming Stories : Curated by Brian Burkhardt
Opening Reception June 13th 2009 7- 10 p.m.

Oh Nancy is a vehicle for artists that provides them with a pre-existing narrative structure into which they can fit their work. By having a constantly open submission process Nate Wellman and Fionn McCabe become instigators of a larger phenomena which has grown to include jewelry makers, photographers, sculptors, conceptual artists, and various other kinds of contemporary thinkers and object makers. The narrative, which includes a classic heroine and battling forces of good and evil is manifested through traditional American characters such as football players, monsters, and blonde damsels in distress. The exh ibition at Gallery Diet will bring together all of these media, and the work of over thirty artists.

About Diet:
Located at 174 NW 23 Street in Miami, Florida Diet represents five emerging and midcareer artists. Diet’s artist roster includes Brian Burkhardt, Charley Friedman, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski, whose work is exhibited alongside an invitational series of exhibitions by artists from around the world. For more information please visit www.ohnancy.com or contact Nina Johnson at nina@gallerydiet.com.

gallerydiet.com

Subject: Celebrate Miami Art Group’s Grand Opening
MIAMI ART GROUP
Miami Art Group has moved to the Wynwood Arts District. Please join us for our grand opening event. Enjoy an evening filled with special entertainment, cocktails and new artwork from some of the best talent in the industry.
Date: June 13, 2009 Time: 8pm-10pm
Location: 21 NW 36th St Miami, FL 33137
305-576-2633
www.miamiartgroup.com
Please RSVP
I want to personally invite you to be a part of Miami Art Group’s Grand Opening event. The new gallery space is incredible and has its own unique personality. I have personally selected some new artwork and new artists that I want to show you.
Dustin Benge
Miami Art Group
Miami Art Group | 21 NW 36TH ST | Miami | FL | 33137

Miami Art Space welcomes Arts For Learning’s exhibit “9” for second Saturday Wynwood Art Walk

Arts for Learning’s programming is made possible by individuals like you and by support from Assurant Solutions, Bank of America, BankAtlantic Foundation, City of Miami, City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council, Dade Community Foundation, Educational Foundation of America, E.S. Moore Family Foundation, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, and the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, Peacock Foundation, Joseph H. and Florence A. Roblee Foundation, State of Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, The Children’s Trust, and Young Audiences, Inc. For more information, please contact Kalyn James at 305-576-1212.

Emil Alzamora, “Capsule”
LURIE – KAVACHNINA GALLERY
Wynwood Art District, 46 NW 36 St, Miami, FL 33127 / 305.448.2060 / info@lurie-kavachnina.com
WHAT: Opening Reception for “Expressions of the Soul “Show, June 13 – July 10, 2009
Recent Works by Jorge Fernandez, Emil Alzamora and Oriano Galoni
WHEN: Saturday, June 13, 2009 7:00 – 11:00 pm
WHERE: Lurie-Kavachnina Gallery
Wynwood Art District
46 NW 36th street
Miami, FL 33127
305.448.2060
305.448.2061 (fax)
hours: Tues.-Sat. 12-6pm/by apt.
www.lurie-kavachnina.com
Contact: Gala Kvachnina
Gallery director
305.448.2060
gala@lurie-kavachnina.com
Nuria Brillembourg
Gallery Curator
3o5.448.2060
info@lurie-kavachnina.com

Chelsea Galleria – Opening June 13th 2009 – TONEL

Pedro Barbeito and Jason Gringler

June 18 – August 8, 2009
Opening Reception June 18, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Pedro Barbeito and Jason Gringler will be featured in an exhibition of new works at the Charest-Weinberg Gallery, opening June 18 through August 8, 2009. The opening reception will be held on June 18 from 6pm – 9pm at 250 NW 23rd St. Space 408, Miami, FL 33127.

Exhibited internationally, both Pedro Barbeito and Jason Gringler live and work in New York. This is also the first exhibition for both artists with the Charest-Weinberg Gallery, whose reputation continues to grow as Miami’s premiere venue for emerging contemporary art.

More info

Miami Art Group has moved!!
Come visit our new location at 21 NW 36th St, Miami.
Our grand opening is June 13th from 8-11pm
305-576-2633
www.miamiartgroup.com
Miami Art Group | 21 NW 36th St | Miami | FL | 33137

Future Shock!
The Black Mangrove Collective
From May 29th through 30th, 2009.
The Black Mangrove Collective presents Future Shock; a two-day only art exhibit with an opening reception on Friday, May 29th from 8-11pm. In a world caught in a perpetual state of flux, all the more felt by the dominance of communication technologies, Future Shock explores the work of twelve diverse artists who examine the effects of rapid technological, political, and social change in our society. The title is a reference to a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. Themes of transience, identity, memory, communication, originality, and spirituality are explored as well as how people adapt to the pace of change at the dawn of the 21st century. The artwork in Future Shock raises fundamental questions about the impact that technology has on our experience of contemporary life. Artists present this through a variety of mediums including video, interactive installations, decollages, mixed media, sculpture, and photography. Featured artists include Orlando Estrada, Kiwi Farah, Samuel Gualtieri, The Human Observation Society, Cristina Molina, Federico Nessi, Roxy Ramos, Rosemarie Romero, Nancy Trevino, TV, Kacey Westall Keogh, and Melissa Wallen.

The Black Mangrove Collective
138 NW 37th Street
Miami, FL 33127
561.401.6847
www.theblackmangrove.com

The Bakehouse Art Complex Is Hosting An Open House On May 28th, 2009 6-8pm.
WHO: The Bakehouse Art Complex (BAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to attracting emerging and mid-career artists in South Florida to a workplace that provides affordable studios, exhibition galleries, and professional development opportunities.
WHAT: BAC Open House: Get to Know Us!
-Browse our 2 galleries
-Visit with artists in their studios -Tour our facilities
-Get membership information and applications
-Get Artist studio applications and view available studio spaces
-Get information and register for our Summer Workshops
-Sign-up to volunteer at one of our exciting events or fundraisers
WHEN & WHERE: Thursday, May 28, 2009: 6-8pm- Opening Reception.
The Bakehouse Art Complex is located in the renowned Wynwood Arts District
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, FL 33127
305.576.2828
www.bacfl.org
DETAILS: This event is FREE and Open to the Public.

Encore Reception – Pulp – May 9th 7 to 11pm

Live at The Awarehouse!

Modernage, one of the best indie-electronic rock bands to come out of Miami, and organicArma, Miami-based premier live electronic art band, will take the stage during The Awarehouse 2nd Saturday Artwalk event. DJPJ of Remote Controllers and NIGHTDRIVE fame will be opening the night with a unique & eclectic dj set. Also featured this month, Luis Perez Gallery presents fine artwork by Venezuelan constructivist Jesus Caviglia. Expect an evening of extraordinary performances, substantial people, exceptional art.

The Event is Free!
18+ are welcomed.

Modernage info: The indie quintette has toured the US east coast, Los Angeles, Mexico and all of Florida opening for major label acts such as Bloc Party, The Stills, The Walkmen, Magnet, Elefant and Peter Hook. Modernage videos have been on rotation in Mexico, South America, and various US networks including band profiles on MTV3 and Plum TV.
http://www.myspace.com/organicarma
http://www.myspace.com/modernage

www.acustronic.com | www.organicarma.com | www.luisperezgaleria.com

FUTURE SHOCK!
The Black Mangrove Collective presents Future Shock! a two -day only show with an opening reception on Friday, May 29th from 8-11pm.

In a world caught in a perpetual state of flux, all the more felt by the dominance of communication technologies, Future Shock explores the work of twelve diverse artists who examine the effects of rapid technological, political, and social change in society. The title is a reference to a book written by the futurist Alvin Toffler in 1970. Themes of transience, identity, memory, communication, originality, and spirituality are explored as well as how people adapt to the pace of change at the dawn of the 21st century. The artwork in Future Shock raises fundamental questions about the impact that technology has on our experience of contemporary life. Artists present this through video, interactive installations, decollages, mixed media, sculpture, and photography.
Featured artists include Orlando Estrada, Kiwi Farah, Sam Gualtieri, The Human Observation Society, Cristina Molina, Federico Nessi, Roxy Ramos, Rosemarie Romero, Nancy Trevino, TV, Kacey Westall Keogh, and Mellissa Wallen

138 NW 37th Street
Miami, FL 33127
www.theblackmangrove.com
Melissa@theblackmangrove.com

The second annual “True Elementz” show goes down this saturday. A celebration of the Miami Graffiti book release, this event will be a spectacular happening. There will be a graffiti exhibition with dozens of writers painting live, a b-boy battle, and an emcee battle. This is an exciting time for our culture and city, and we hope to see you there.
EVENTS
TRUE ELEMENTZ
http://www.wallove.com/
INFO True Elementz/ Miami Graffiti Book Release
Saturday, May 9th 2009, 11am-8pm
310 NW 24th St. Wynwood, Miami FL 33138
Entry fee is $6.00

Desiree Bordes at FlightStudio Gallery! Saturday May 9, 7-10PM

MOCA Art and Cocktail Hour in Wynwood this Saturday, May 9, 7 – 9 pm

Bombay Sapphire Art Lounge
2234 NW 2nd Ave.
Behind David Castillo Gallery, Wynwood, Miami

Free Gin, Music, Art Party, What else do you need to know?

Museo Vault Project Space presents Eneida Hartner Elementary School Art
museovault.com

Dorsch Gallery News 5.9.09
Please join us for the opening of nota bene: Illustrated demons & allegories, stripped of one religion, culture or narrative, are cast adrift and, accordingly, find new haunts. Curated by Tyler Emerson-Dorsch, this group exhibition features work by Rene Barge, Ernesto Caivano, Alyssa Phoebus, Shahzia Sikander, Reeve Schumacher, Patricia Smith, and Nora Woloszczuk of Team Team collective. Please join us for the opening reception at Dorsch Gallery on Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7-10pm. The exhibition will be on view through June 2, 2009.

Hello, you are specially invited, attached is the invite to the opening of the MIU student exhibit of photgraphs & illustrations this Saturday, May 9th in the Wynwood Lofts during “Second Saturday’s Art Walk”. This will be a hip cool event, be there.

D&G Art and Design Gallery Cordially invites you to join us in our Cocktail Reception of PATRICIA SCHNALL GUTIERREZ “RAW” Curated by Lucky Cancio & BRUCE McQUISTON’s Sculptured Fine Art
Saturday, May 9th, 2009 8pm-11pm

“RED” Patricia Schnall Gutiérrez, Mixed Media on Canvas, 66″ x 66″, 2000

“Lemos Nichol” Bruce McQuiston, Nickel Plated Aluminum/Slate, 24″ x 10″ x 8″, 2008

EXPRESS RSVP ONLINE
R.S.V.P. BY TELEPHONE 305-438-9798
R.S.V.P. BY EMAIL rsvp@dgfineart.com
D&G Art Design Gallery
Wynwood Art District, 540 NW 28th Street, Miami, FL 33127
www.DGFineArt.com

Join Us Friday, May 8th 7-10pm!
2 Exhibitions, 65 Open Studios & Live Studio Demonstrations!
Live Music from Peter Betan, Instrumental Guitar
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami FL 33127
305.576.2828
www.bacfl.org
The Bakehouse Art Complex is proud to present works from visual art students of Miami-Dade College Kendall Campus.

Gallery Diet is pleased to announce Citygarden and Microscope, a two-person exhibition by Kristopher Benedict and Peter LaBier.

“Given the sobering adjustments one might expect following the world financial collapse, several weeks ago, New York Times film critic A.O. Scott posed the question ‘What kind of movies do we need now?’ His answer? What the people really need is… neo-realism. … Neo realist films, like other forms of realist art and literature, gain a sense of expository justice in showing ordinary, often boring, deviant or sometimes abject images…”

For this exhibition, Benedict and LaBier have created a series of works that depict the mundane views, and objects of our everyday lives. In his extended exhibition text, Afterimages of the Everyday, Tom McGrath describes one of the title works, Microscope by saying, “It’s been a long time since science moved beyond what can be seen with the naked eye, and sometimes it feels like the artist got left behind in his studio with his brushes and a lousy microscope.”

In art, the desire to turn toward something like “realism” in painting might have less to do with reality, and more to do with resolving some very abstract problems in the everyday.

Citygarden and Microscope will be on view at Gallery Diet from May 9th – June 6th, 2009 and will be accompanied by an extensive text written by Tom McGrath from which the quotes for this press release were taken.

About Diet:
Located at 174 NW 23 Street in Miami, Florida Diet represents five emerging and mid-career artists. Diet’s artist roster includes Brian Burkhardt, Charley Friedman, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski, whose work is exhibited alongside that of an invitational series of exhibitions by artists from around the world.

For more information or images please contact 305.571.2288
info@gallerydiet.com

Curtis Lafollette: Metal
May 9th Thru June 20th 2009
Public Opening May 9th 7-10pm

DECONSTRUCTED TEA POT
101/exhibit
101 NE 40th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.573.2101
www.101exhibit.com

David Castillo Gallery: Gallery Projects
Alder Guerrier, Aramis Gutierrez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Javier Piñón, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Frances Trombly, Wendy Wischer
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
May 9- July 31, 2009
Reception May 9, 7-10 pm

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Gallery Projects, a group show of new work by gallery artists Adler Guerrier, Aramis Gutierrez, Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, Pepe Mar, Glexis Novoa, Javier Piñón, Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova, Frances Trombly, and Wendy Wischer.

Glexis Novoa continues to develop a meticulous architecture in the realm of socio-political inquiry with a site-specific drawing for Gallery Projects. Novoa establishes a conduit to Pepe Mar’s site- specific installation of twisted multicolor fantasy, as Orwellian in its penchant for escapism as the brutality of Novoa’s lilliputian detail.

Dwelling in Novoa’s cityscape and illuminated by Mar’s Technicolor is the loss of innocence apparent, too, in the slippery circumstance of Aramis Gutierrez’s new oil on canvas. In At the Water Park, a pregnant couple fumbles to recapture the woman’s missing swimsuit top. The moment is one of greater disconnect similar to the everyday instances of racial and ethnic discrepancy elevated by Adler Guerrier as a black flâneur in his new work on paper.

Startling juxtapositions also exist as the pedestal of 1950’s beauty is shifted in a sinister collaboration between beauty and monstrosity in Javier Piñón’s Medusa collages, while Quisqueya Henriquez’s collages play with the perceived heightened masculinity of Latin cultures by manipulating symbolic male images.

The simplicity of everyday objects is reassessed through subtle alterations in Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova’s mirrored frame. Frances Trombly examines quality and function through painstaking precision to create the optical illusion of a seemingly typical rope, while Wendy Wischer constructs nature through the delicate skill of utilizing manufactured materials to create a moment of organic serenity. Susan Lee-Chun’s Susersize continues the artist’s theme of redefinition in creating a sculpture referencing exercise equipment and warping standard attention to structure.

David Castillo Gallery is proud to announce its participation at VOLTA5 Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland, June 2009. It also recognizes Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova, a Cintas Fellowship Finalist; as well as Susan Lee-Chun’s acceptance to the artist residency Three Walls in Chicago. In the Fall 2009, work by Aramis Gutierrez, Pepe Mar, and Glexis Novoa will be included in TIME + TEMP: Surveying the shifting climate of current painting in South Florida at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL. Work by Quisqueya Henriquez, Pepe Mar, and Javier Piñón will appear in a book of 21st century collage published in London; and Adler Guerrier’s monograph will be released by Miami’s [NAME] publications. Gallery artists’ work in current exhibitions include Quisqueya Henriquez, Susan Lee-Chun, and Frances Trombly in With You I Want to Live: The Collection of Francie Bishop Good & David Horvitz at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL and Wendy Wischer in Bit, Byte, Dot, Spot: Post-digital Art at the Tampa Museum of Art, FL.

About David Castillo

David Castillo holds degrees in History and Art History from Yale University and the Angelicum in Rome. Since 2000, he has dealt in important Latin American, European, and American secondary market works. David Castillo Gallery opened in 2005 after transforming a dilapidated warehouse in Miami, Florida, USA into a 5,000 square foot gallery, project room and annex.

http://www.davidcastillogallery.com

SMALL
Opening Reception
Saturday May 9th, 2009 7:00 – 9:00pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery is proud to present SMALL the first of three group exhibitions
that will precede the fall season.

Pushing away from the minimalist white cube, SMALL recaptures the intimacy of
artworks on paper, canvas and video presented in a small format.

Exhibiting a diverse group of gallery artists including Bhakti Baxter, COOPER,
Natalya Laskis and Beatriz Monteavaro, among others; the Fredric Snitzer Gallery
converts into an observatory for detail. This small format allows artists such as
Gavin Perry, Bert Rodriguez, Alex Sweet and Michael Vasquez to present new
perspectives on their work. Video works by Hernan Bas and Luis Gispert become
visual portals in small projection.

For more information or images regarding this exhibition please contact the gallery
at 305.448.8976 or info@snitzer.com.
Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127

RAI ESCALE
SIBEL KOCABASI
GUILLERMO PORTIELES
GISELA SAVDIE
Join us for a reception with the artists Saturday, May 9, from 7-10pm
Artformz
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127

Anja Marais has been awarded the “People’s Choice Award” at Sculpture Key West for her
installation “False Security” recently presented in Wynwood, Miami through Artformz Outzide –

Ramon Williams is currently exhibiting at Projects Gallery in “Aqui Estamos” in Philadelphia,
and is presented by Cruselle Fine Arts in the exhibit “Eclat” at Eichler Gallery in Orange, California.

Sibel Kocabasihas curated “Open Air Exhibit” a group show of mixed media projects opening in downtown Lake Worth, Saturday, May 16, 2009.

Alette Simmons-Jimenez has been invited to form part of a large group show including approximately 8 Miami artists with Nicolas Leiva and Tomas Esson, among others, sponsored by the “Centro Italiano per le Arti e la Cultura” originating in Turin, Italy and traveling to other countries for two years.

Rai Escale was selected for the “Fountainhead Residency” here in Miami, and has been working in residence for 2 months.

Chieko Tanemura, and former Artformz artist Roalndo dal Pezzo, have been awarded a Two Person show at the prestigious Konica Minolta Plaza Gallery in central Tokyo on February 1, 2010.

Gisela Savdie has two upcoming solo shows for 2009, one opening at NES Gallery, in Argentina in June, and another at La Cueva in Barranquilla, Colombia opening in September.

That 70’s Show! Featuring: Netherland, Ken Bernstein, Jason Snyder
Opening Reception: Saturday , May 9th 7-11
May 9th- June 5th
HAROLD GOLEN GALLERY
(Wynwood Art District)
2294 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Fl 33127
305-989-3359

New (Groovy)1970’s Themed Art at those Old (very affordable) 1970’s Prices!
NETHERLAND

Artist/ gallery curator David “Netherland” van Alphen lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Though David’s family was from Holland, he was born in Toronto, and has been in Chicago for the last eight years. Being a child of the 70’s has influenced him greatly and is reflected in most of his work. Juxtaposing images, his color choices and the new modern context comes through his nostalgic imagery and helps to isolate and enhance them. David has shown at many galleries throughout the U.S. and sold out his first solo show last January.

KEN BERNSTEIN

As a baby boomer growing up in the suburbs of Miami, the majority of my childhood was spent in front of a television. I sat on the Florida room floor with a fold out TV tray and a bowl of Cap’n Crunch as the only separation between myself and the television screen. My eye sockets were black holes providing the portal for the right side of my brain to absorb all energy and matter produced by the flicker fusion television transmission of Outer Limits, Adams Family, Star Trek, Man from Uncle, Invaders, Shindig, Batman, 77 Sunset Strip, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and all the other cult status programing.

Due to long term exposure of the Television’s electro magnetic radiation, I mutated into a robotic space probe. The Voyager 1 of POP, speeding in a solar wind through interstellar space to gather information on popular culture.

Fortunately, I have some ability to translate my information to canvas utilizing the brilliant vivid colors of acrylics, so others can see and feel what I see and feel.

JASON SNYDER

Jason Robert Snyder spent most of his childhood on a farm in Pennsylvania, studying his surroundings and formulating ideas of the world around him. he began transferring his ideas through oil paint while attending the Pennsylvania State University as an Architectural Engineering student. completely self taught, through trial and error in the years since, he has developed his unique style and interpretation of reality to what it is today. in each one of his pieces, he uses vibrant
colors and distorted figures to convey one idea about the human spirit. currently, in addition to fine art, Jason is a custom framer at Carmen’s Gallery and Design Studio in Solomons, Maryland, as well as a freehand pinstriper. Jason resides in Solomons with his wife, Laura; his dog, Leia; and his ’53 Buick.

www.haroldgolengallery.com

Alfred Browning Parker Auction @ Miami Art Space (Oxenberg Fine Art)

Herve Alexandre Aviation Paintings at Out of the Blue Cafe! Friday April 17 RSVP juliagerstman@interflightstudio.com

Please join us for a reception for Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Art and Architecture, a group show featuring the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Todd McDaniel and Ralph Provisero, on Saturday April 11, 7-10pm. The show will be open through April 18th. The exhibition was reviewed in this week’s New Times.

Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com

Opening April 11th – pulp – Chelsea Galleria

Saturday, April 11, 2009
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Corner of NW 23rd St. and NW 1st Place, Wynwood
165 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL

Ever needed a poem but didn’t feel like writing one?

During the Second Saturday Art Walk, members of the Miami Poetry Collective will be selling their lyrical services as a fundraiser for the University of Wynwood Presse, publisher of the __ Cent Journal Series.

For as little as $2, have a poem written on a subject of your choice and receive a free copy of Two Cent Journal: A Modern Anthology of Miami Poets.

The Poem Depot will be set up at the corner of NW 23rd St. and NW 1st Place between 8pm and 10pm, near the galleries World Class Boxing and Gallery Diet.

InterFlight Studio | 201 S. Biscayne Blvd Fl 28 | Miami | FL | 33131
Easter Reception at FlightStudio Design! Saturday April 11, 7-10PM

Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Wynwood Art District 282 NW 36th Street Miami Fl 33127
www.damienb.com

Saturday, April 11th 2009 7-11pm
Closing party of “Sentinels” the secret world of Narbero’s journeys in Africa
painting, sculptures of Christian Bernard AKA Narbero
@ Damien B. Art Center 282 NW 36 street Wynwood Art District – 305 573 4949

Renaissance Arts Emporium | 203 NW 36th Street | Miami | FL | 33127

Kelley Roy Gallery cordially invites you to the Artist’s Reception and Opening of STRUCTURES: John Henry. Henry Lautz.
STRETCH. Robert Thiele
Saturday April 11 from 7 p.m to 10 p.m.

Kelley Roy Gallery announces the inaugural exhibition and grand opening of STRUCTURES, an alternative gallery space focused on sculpture and 3d form. The exhibition is a collaborative show of works in metal, wood, glass, and image, by four renowned sculptors, John Henry, Henry Lautz, STRETCH and Robert Thiele.

World renowned John Henry, known for his massive colorful sculptures, will exhibit new smaller scale works. His aluminum structures communicate a universal visual language through simple, geometric forms and bright vivid colors.

Henry Lautz, uses organic shapes of wood and metal to evoke a sense of calm and quiet that allows the viewer a soulful connection. His new Pillow series will be exhibited.

STRETCH, uses steel and glass to communicate his vision with sturdy, rugged forms infused with delicate, subtle intricacies. STRETCH will exhibit the largest piece in the show.
Artist Robert Thiele, will display mixed media sculptures of acid etched plexi-glass, wood, laminate and canvas. His sculptural paintings appeal to the voyeur within allowing the spectator a glimpse into an unknown world hazed by the façade. Show continues thru the end of May.
Kelley Roy Gallery
50 NE 29th Street,
Wynwood Art District, Miami
Ph: (305) 447-3888.
email skelley@ksrteam.com
web kelleyroygallery.com.

Timothy Buwalda
Dislocation
April 11th – May 2nd, 2009

Opening Reception
Saturday April 11th, 2009
7:00 – 9:00pm

Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127
305.448.8976
www.snitzer.com

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Timothy Buwalda’s second solo
exhibition titled Dislocation. Continuing a large format, this new body of paintings
explores themes of voyage and displacement.

In Buwalda’s work, wrecked cars have been a strong metaphor for
transformation and the potential of becoming. Throughout Dislocation, the
sentiment of change follows through the physical relocation in the paintings from an
industrial setting to woodland. The forest has taken an important role in this new
body of work as natural home and original structure for protection. Buwalda builds
associations with art historical references reinterpreting the idea of ‘home’.

Dislocation features a new project by the artist titled A Roof Over My Head.
A life size one bedroom house’s roof is built and exhibited within the gallery space.
This structure plays with the concepts of architecture and protection referencing the
forest in its function.

Timothy Buwalda was born in West Palm Beach. Buwalda graduated from New
World School of the Arts with highest honors and has exhibited at the Freedom
Tower, Miami, FL and the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL. He currently lives and
works in Miami, FL.

Locust Projects, Inc, 105 NW 23rd Street Miami, Fl 33127

sculpture + painting + installation + photography
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Florida 33127

TRIOS: Anja Marais, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Chieko Tanemura
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Wynwood Art District 2nd Saturday Gallery Walk
7:00pm – 10:00pm

IN THE GALLERY: Three gallery artists present recent work. Marais works with haunting animistic images from folklore of her native South Africa and will show new work in soft sculpture using drawing and sewn paper. Simmons-Jimenez will exhibit a piece created specifically for the project room along with other new works, in various media, that adress man’s paradoxical relationship to nature and technology through the interaction of line, form, and space. Tanemura’s new series of photographic images titled “Melisa at 19” uses nostalgic objects as metaphors in contrast with modern lifestyles as she continues to explore coming of age imagery in young women.

ARTFORMZ OUTZIDE Presenting the mural of Donna Haynes outside until June 2 &
A Special Presentation “False Security” Anja Marais’ interactive installation on loan from Sculpture Key West – 1 Night Only!

For additional information please contact: 305.572.0040
info@arformz.net
www.artformz.net

LURIE – KAVACHNINA GALLERY
Wynwood Art District, 46 NW 36 St, Miami, FL 33127 / 305.448.2060 / info@lurie-kavachnina.com
Arteaméricas, Part “B”
Sculptures and Paintings
Jorge Fernandez (USA), Hugo Moro (USA), Jorge Vallejos (Peru) and Luis Garcia Nerey (PR)
April 11th – May 6th, 2009
Opening Reception: April 11th, 2009 from 7:00 – 11:00 pm

Honoring Arteamericas – Miami’s premier fair for Latin American art – LURIE KAVACHNINA GALLERY is going to present Arteamericas Part “B”, a special exhibition that will be an interesting follow up of its participation in the prestigious art fair that took place in the Miami Convention Center, March 27-30. Guests will be able to view stunning sculptures by Jorge Fernandez and paintings by Jorge Vallejos, Luis Garcia Nerey and drawings by Hugo Moro at the gallery located in Miami’s Wynwood Art District, 46 NW 36 St. The exhibition will start on April 11th with an opening reception from 7:00 to 11:00 pm and will run until May 6th.

Hugo Moro. Master of perfection, Miami based artist with a new body of artworks says about his art : “I see a work in my mind, think it through down to minute details in a most obsessive way, I repeatedly envision myself going through every step of construction, conceptual and formal problems are encountered and revised”.

Jorge Fernández celebrates love and the mystery of life in his latest Welcome… sculpture collection. He wants his work to inspire others to do what they love, and maybe even what they have not had the courage to attempt before. . His creations are large in scale, 10 – 20 feet tall, and are made of first grade 304 L stainless steel. A delicate proposition of a poetic inspiration and calculated balance is involved in the creation of his monumental sculptures.

Luis García Nerey tries to manifest his own personal view of the Self, with its need for construction via human action and interaction, and the everyday living and experiencing.

Jorge Vallejos transmits clearly the intimate feeling of an anxious spirit in search of perfection. He shares with us some aspects of the beautiful philosophical experience to tread the path of the life trying to find out an accomplishment in his art.

SCOTT CAMPBELL – MAKE IT RAIN

O.H.W.O.W. proudly presents SCOTT CAMPBELL

Opening April 11, 2009 – In what will be his first major solo presentation of his works, Campbell will showcase his unique aesthetic via sculptures, paintings, drawings and photography. Scott Campbell was born and raised in a fishing camp, perched alongside a muddy bayou in rural Louisiana. With a clever knack for drawing and a fondness of stories, he began his career by doing illustration and assistant editing. Curiosity soon led him to experiment with tattooing and his immediate mastery of the art was undeniable. After a subsequent 18 month stint in Spain honing his craft, he packed up his skills and his tattoo machines and traveled for the next 5 years taking inspiration from the art and folklore of tattoo cultures all over the world.

In 2004, he opened Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since then, it has grown to be the East Coast’s premier tattoo shop with a devout following of celebrity clientele. Campbell has the taken the blue collar grit and lore of tattoo culture and extracted a visual language and wit that are supremely refined and deliberate. He has an uncanny ability to tell a story with any medium, flesh or otherwise.

Recently, Campbell has been featured in group exhibitions at the IIleana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre in Greece, the Massimo Carasi gallery in Milan, Italy, Colette in France, Moeller Snow Gallery in New York, and O.H.W.O.W. in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.

ABOUT O.H.W.O.W.: Aaron Bondaroff and Al Moran’s Our House West of Wynwood (O.H.W.O.W.) is Miami’s most exciting high profile art space. Designed by Rafael de Cardenas of Architecture at Large, the venue features prominent international and U.S. based experimental art as well as innovative contemporary art forms through an alternative cross-disciplinary perspective.

OPENING RECEPTION
DJ set by Leo Fitzpatrick
8pm – midnight

SPECIAL THANKS Grolsch

3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
305.633.9345 office
305.637.3443 fax
info@oh-wow.com

D&G Art Design Gallery Cordially invites you to join us in our Cocktail Reception of P E D R O A V I L A G E N D I S’ Retrospective Art Exhibition “AYER y HOY” & B R U C E M c Q U I S T O N ‘ s Sculptured Fine Art
Saturday, April 11th, 2009 8pm-11pm

“Gallo con dos Cabezas” (Two Headed Rooster) The Light of my Darkness Series Pedro Avila Gendis Acrylic on Canvas 30″ x 40″ 2005

“Eddy #1″ Bruce McQuiston African Mahogany/Aluminum/Stainless 36″ x 24″ x 6” 2008

R.S.V.P. BY TELEPHONE 305-438-9798
R.S.V.P. BY EMAIL rsvp@dgfineart.com

D&G Art Design Gallery
Wynwood Art District, 540 NW 28th Street, Miami, FL 33127
www.DGFineArt.com

Sonya Blesofsky
New Work
April 11th – May 2nd, 2009
Opening Reception April 11th 7 – 10 p.m.

Sonya Blesofsky is a sculptor and installation artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is comprised of predominantly destructible, fragile materials that are warped to re-create various architectural elements. In New Work, Sonya will draw from the gallery’s immediate surroundings. The installation will address the ways in which people and businesses in Wynwood build structures to protect themselves and their possessions. The installation will contain barbed wire atop chain-link fence, window bars and front door gates, a tangle of electrical cables sprouting from a wall, caged and locked light fixtures and air-conditioning units, cinder blocks, and wooden palettes. Each element of this ghostly installation will be life-size, and made entirely of paper, glue and tape.

Sonya’s work has been exhibited previously at Mixed Greens, Smack Mellon, the Islip Art Museum, the Dieu Donne Papermill, and various other institutions around the country. She has participated in residencies at the CUE Art Foundation, Dieu Donne Papermill, and Plane Space. Artforum online declared her the “critics pick” as did The Village Voice, her work has also been written about in the San Franciesco Chronicle, NYFA Current, and the Bloomberg News.

About Diet: Located at 174 NW 23 Street in Miami, Florida Diet represents five emerging and midcareer artists. Diet’s artist roster includes Brian Burkhardt, Charley Friedman, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski. The work of these five artists is exhibited alongside that of an invitational program of artists from around the world.

For more information or images please contact: 305.571.2288 or nina@gallerydiet.com

Information on Sonya Blesofsky’s previous bodies of work is available at www.sonyablesofsky.com

*Special thanks to The Fountainhead Residency for hosting Ms. Blesofksy.

LUIS GISPERT: Opening Reception at MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Saturday April 11, 7-9 pm RSVP

Opening April 11th, 2009,

HACS presents “LOVE STORIES” in collaboration with the CCE and a solo exhibition by French artist Claude Guenard.

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space is honored to collaborate with the Spanish Cultural Center (CCE), the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the VISIBLE Collection and Gay Pride Celebration in Miami, in the effort to promote Human Rights and equality for all human beings through art. HACS will proudly be opening “Love Stories” from the VISIBLE collection with a gallery walk by Pablo Peinado, curator of the collection, prior to the reception and launch party at 7pm.

Opening event will also present a performance by Queen Cabaret with DJ Kiki and an after party at Vlada Bar in Wynwood.

HACS will also host a seminar on Queer Literature in conjunction with the University of Miami (UM) April 29th. Claude Guenard will show his wildly erotic drawings and mixed media work. He thrives in showing what others don’t dare to show, a certain sexuality that seems to drive the world but is kept under wrap in our Judeo/ Christian societies. His work is sometimes dominated by the sexual tension between sex and church, the tension between the forbidden and the inevitable. A description in his own words, “I topple the values of representation and I create an interaction between words, drawing and the model. I whole-heartedly abuse the voyeurism of art buffs who only think about loving my drawings.”

Miami Art Space Presents Eyes & Tears Mixed Media Exhibit & Installation from artists Gabriela Sanchez-Vegas and Rudolf Kohn
April 11 – 17, 2009
244 NW 35th Street, Miami, FL 33127 – (305) 438-9002

Opening Reception: April 11, 2009 – 7pm -10pm

About The Exhibit:

Gabriela’s Concrete Tears is a wonderful installation where each hand-crafted and intricate tear represents a different human emotion: love, joy, fear, laugher, humor, fear -each a story and discovery in itself. (www.concreative4.com)

Rudolf Kohn’s City of Love Collection features large format paintings representing the theme that the eyes are the window of the soul. Each eye represents each soul in this planet, and together they are unity, humanity and God. (www.rudolfkohn.com)

About Miami Art Space:
Miami Art Space ( MAS ) is a gorgeous contemporary multi-use gallery and event space in the heart of the Wynwood Arts District and just seconds from 95. MAS has hosted a number of art exhibits and installations as well as private events, and is open for each month’s Second Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. MAS is a private/walled compound featuring 2 gallery buildings and two exterior courtyards surrounded by bamboo gardens.

For More Information:
Alexis McClean
info@MiamiArtSpace.com
305-438-9002

David Castillo Gallery: Allow me tore-introduce myself
David Castillo Annex: Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, A Night Light

Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
April 11 – May 2, 2009
Reception April 11, 7-10 pm

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
A Night Light
David Castillo Annex
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
April 11 – May 2, 2009
Reception April 11, 7-10 pm

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Allow me to re-introduce myself, a group show with works by Rakel Bernie, Daniel Crews, Adler Guerrier, T. Eliott Mansa, Adria Marquez, and Aramis ‘Reilly.

As contemporary art practice begs a cyclical understanding of culture, aesthetics, and politics, so too, does a life well lived. The curatorial act introduces and re-contextualizes artwork even as artists ebb and flow in the pursuit of their careers and development as human beings. Allow me to re-introduce myself espouses art and life in self-perpetuating mimicry at its best. The artists’ works advise Poor Richard that the path to enlightenment is circuitous rather than straight.

Rakel Bernie, Adler Gutierrez, T. Eliott Mansa, and Adria Marquez endow historic content with personal sentiment. Bernie’s works of collage, graphite, watercolor, and acrylic on mylar explore the dependencies between birds, femininity, and landscape in Scandinavian mythology. Mansa deconstructs the subjects of his oil-on-canvas portraits according to familial and racial histories and their relationships to the future. The language of socio- political revolutions and protests is given a face by Guerrier’s drawing and sculpture. Marquez’s Mop series transforms materials, such as cleaning supplies, associated with working-class professions and generic tasks into highbrow art objects, implying the duality of process, class relations, and gender.

Daniel Crews and Aramis O’Reilly bring waking consistency to aesthetics like dreams remembered. Crews’ abstractions engage formalist inquiries into the structure and formation of invented and non-specific language. O’Reilly’s understanding of the language of painting as a medium allows for the evolution of narrative in his palettes and mark-making.

Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and studied at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, where he lives and works. He has exhibited at the Miami Art Museum and The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, and have appeared in Art In America and the New York Times.

Rakel Bernie has exhibited throughout the United States. Daniel Crews studied at New World School of the Arts, Miami, and Hunter College, NYC, where he currently lives and works. T. Eliott Mansa attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. He lives and works in Miami. Adria Marquez attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been shown in the US and internationally. Aramis O’Reilly lives and works in Miami where he teaches at New World School of the Arts.

In the David Castillo Annex, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova presents a site-specific installation, A Night Light.

Entering the David Castillo Annex, one encounters the radius of a single nightlight in the gallery’s far corner and the weight of darkened negative space. Forced to adjust physically to the sharp contrast between a gallery’s expected luminosity and A Night Light, the viewer must also confront their psychological fear of blindness as it relates to personal direction, relationships, and self-awareness. The installation speaks to the private confines of the viewer illuminated by the darkness.

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova lives and works in Miami. He studied at the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL and the New World School of the Arts, Miami. Rodriguez-Casanova was the recipient of a 2007 Reed Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center and has received prestigious awards including the South Florida Cultural Consortium. He has exhibited in Miami and New York, and his work has been featured in publications such as The Miami Herald, Artnet Magazine, and Art in America.

About David Castillo

David Castillo holds degrees in History and Art History from Yale University and the Angelicum in Rome. Since 2000, he has dealt in important Latin American, European, and American secondary market works. David Castillo Gallery opened in 2005 after transforming a dilapidated warehouse in Miami, Florida, USA into a 5,000 square foot gallery, project room and annex.
Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5pm and by appointment

David Castillo Gallery
info@davidcastillogallery.com
+1 305 573 8110 Telephone
http://www.davidcastillogallery.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
United States

The Exotic and Lurid Art of RICHIE FAHEY

April 11 – May 2
Opening Reception Saturday, April 11th, 7-11pm

Harold Golen Gallery
2294 NW 2nd Ave.
(Wynwood Art District)
Miami, Fl. 33127
305-989-3359
haroldgolengallery.com

New York City photographer Richie Fahey paints on his pictures in a cold water flat, surrounded by his inspiration: a towering collection of 1930s-1960s musty paperbacks and detective pulp. With the help of a postwar hobbyist’s manual, Photo Oil Coloring for Fun and Profit, he learned to transform black and white photographs into glorious color by dabbling with pigments on snapshots from the ’40s.

Fahey’s Technicolor-like style evokes lobby cards in old movie houses, covers of dimestore novels and star portraits in fan magazines like Screen and Photoplay. In defining his style, Fahey is inspired by the posed photographs from detective magazines, cinematographers of the 1940’s-50’s like John Alton, portrait photographers such as George Hurrell, and painters and illustrators like Leeteg and James Avanti.

In creating his images, Fahey plays with the noir stereotype of beautiful women gone bad and the men who love them. He is painstaking about stylistic detail. Convincing art direction, combined with vintage lighting techniques and hand coloring conspire to create alluring, ambiguous works. The viewer’s inability to pinpoint the exact time frame in which a Fahey photograph was taken, lends a certain timelessness to the artist’s work.

Fahey has created book cover art for PENGUIN, SCRIBNER, WARNER BOOKS, VINTAGE, ST. MARTIN’S PRESS, KNOPF and SIMON & SCHUSTER. Other commercial clients include SONY RECORDS, ADOBE THEATRE CO. and SPOT DESIGN. His editorial clients have included SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, GOTHAM, BUST, ATOMIC and FLATIRON magazines. Fahey produced and co-designed the cover art for the reissued James Bond novels.

Fahey has been featured in JUXTAPOSE art magazine, CAMERA ARTS, YELLOW RAT BASTARD and GARAGE. His work has been shown at the Robin Rice Gallery in New York City’s Greenwich Village . His 2004 pinup calendar, Women in Crime, slyly depicts gorgeous women caught in the act of committing various amusing felonies.

Saturday @ Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Wynwood Art District 282 NW 36th Street Miami Fl 33127
www.damienb.com
You are invited !
Narbero’ exhibition closing reception
Saturday, April 11th 2009 7-11pm

“Sentinels”
Visit the secret world of Narbero’s journeys in Africa latest works solo show by Christian Bernard AKA Narbero

Where: Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
Wynwood Art District 282 NW 36th Street Miami Fl 33127
www.damienb.com
Contact: Damien B. tel/fax 305 573 4949 damien@damienb.com

Please Join us for the Closing Reception of
Collective Consciousness
Thursday, April 2nd: 6-8pm

Last chance to enjoy the widely received Bakehouse exhibition Collective Consciousness

We would like to invite you to attend the Closing Reception of Collective Consciousness, the second installation of the BAC’s Annual Featured Artist Show. Collective Consciousness is an exhibition featuring the work of 5 BAC resident artists who have been chosen as “Best in Show” by guest curators over the past season.
The Opening Reception was attended by over 400 guests including some of Miami’s most well-regarded art critics Elisa Turner, Liana Perez and Jose Lopez. The evening was full of wonderful music, conversation and of course… art! Don’t miss out on your last chance to enjoy the exhibition, and to participate in Tina Salvesen’s Rope Project!
Artists this year include: Collaborative artists Jennifer Basile & Ingrid Eliasson, Patricia Gutierrez, Tina Salvesen and Jose Pacheco Silva. Painting, Sculpture, Installation and Video are explored in this exhibition. Curated by Lauren Wagner

The Bakehouse Art Complex
Wynwood Art District
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.576.2828
www.bacfl.org

Mayor Manuel Diaz will be attending Art For Life this Friday 3/27 @ Chi Alma Art Gallery
(46 nw 36 street)

www.do1thing.org
Standup for Kids
7:30 pm

(parking is available across the street in the mid town mall where target is)

no cover and no age to get in so you can bring your families

raffle includes: 2 airline tickets, private cruise, spa day, jewelry, etc.

silent auction: basketball signed by the heat, britto painting, etc.

Wine Tasting
Pairing Wine with Art at the Bakehouse Art Complex!
The Bakehouse, in collaboration with W. Wine Bistro will be hosting a wine tasting event on March 26th, 2009. Come and sip delicious white wines from the Loire, Bordeaux, Alsace and Rhone regions of France while visiting artists’ studios.

The Bakehouse Art Complex, Main Gallery
561 NW 32nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Thursday, March 26th 2009
6:00PM-8:00PM
Space is limited. Please RSVP to info@bacfl.org
FREE for all BAC members
$10.00 for non-members