Chelsea Galleria – Opening this Saturday Nov. 8th – eARTh Part One: ANIMA

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Opening Saturday, November 8/08 7-10 PM
Show Dates: Nov. 8,2008 – Jan 3, 2009

Artists were challenged to create one work or installation, responding to the gallery’s physical space as if it were a blank canvas. The result: T-Rex in a dress, an irreverent chimpanzee, 8′ of red, Braille gone wrong, metallic constellations, and bleeding books.

Exhibiting Artists:
Alejandro Mendoza
Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Anja Marais
Chieko Tanemura
Donna Haynes
Fabian De La Flor
Natalia Reparaz
Natasha Duwin
PJ Mills
Ray Paul
Ramon Williams
Rosario Rivera-Bond

Wynwood Arts District
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.572.0040
info@artformz.net
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additional information
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Spinello Gallery is pleased to announce a new addition to the family, Miami’s most infamous street artist: TYPOE. Keep posted for his debut solo exhibition coming this February.

MIAMI NEW TIMES
CITY OF MIAMI BULLIES MARTIN MARGULIES
WILL THE ART COLLECTOR BE FORCED TO PAINT OVER A MURAL ON HIS OWN WAREHOUSE IN WYNWOOD

The City of Miami hopes the Wynwood Art District might finally bring some hip to the downtown area. One of the scene’s anchors is the massive Margulies Collection at The Warehouse on NW 27th Street. Martin Margulies has taken to granting permission to handpicked graffiti artists to spray-paint elaborate murals on the building’s sides.

But a Miami code enforcer recently delivered a citation to the gallery. The infraction: a giant apocalyptic mural spray-painted by artist TYPOE and six others. The piece has at its center the image of an emaciated human figure violently squeezing an alien-like creature. Across the top of the mural are the letters TCP, for The Cat’s Pajamas, the name of TYPOE’S graffiti crew. The artist estimates he spent 200 hours on his part of the mural.

But the code enforcer declared the mural graffiti. The collector was ordered to paint over the mural or face fines.

Margulies was indignant. “We said to them: ‘This is not graffiti. Graffiti is lines and scribbles against the property owner’s will…. This is urban art, and this is an art district.'”

TYPOE, who declines to give his real name, says gallery managers throughout Wynwood have been pressured to paint over murals by him and other graffiti artists. “They’ve handed down fines of $200 a day,” he says. “Basically, if it looks urban, they don’t want it. If there’s any hint of hip-hop – which isn’t even what my work’s about, but they don’t know what they’re talking about – they don’t want it. If there are any hints of letters that aren’t advertising a store, they don’t want it.”

Code enforcement referred New Times to inspector Jackie Gil, who did not respond to our e-mails.

On November 12, Margulies will fight for the mural at a code enforcement hearing. “Who is the city to say what is art and what isn’t?” asks TYPOE.

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You are cordially invited to our gallery opening in the Wynwood Art District
InterFlight Studio Gallery proudly presents: Jo-Ann’s Flight of Fancy (butterfly series)
Artist Reception: Saturday, November 8, 7-10 PM
Enjoy a glass of wine, champagne or a cappuccino while you admire the fine art!

And since you are here, visit our neighbouring galleries and artist studios in the same building! Ample (free) parking in front.

We are located on the corner of 23rd Street and NW 2nd Ave.
The Wynwood Lofts at 250 NW 23rd Street, Loft 206, Miami, Florida 33127

www.interflightstudio.com

“i love miami 365(tm)” : an art book project in progress… only 57 days to go!

Saturday, Nov 8 : 7-10pm
Damien B. Contemporary Art Center : Wynwood artwalk
282 NW 36th St : 305.573.4949

“i love miami 365(tm)” slide projection & live photo shoot (day #313)

Alissa Christine will be capturing the vibrations of
“Resonance: A journey into the feeling of sound”
— An interactive experience created by Erik Thompson-Green

Sounds are directed into a resonance chamber to explore the vibrational quality of the echo.
The chamber is an installation of metallic cans which reverberate through varying levels of sound that you can feel.
Erik’s inspiration is to get lost in the flow… and take everyone with him.

be a part of it :)

Miami Art Space (MAS) Presents a New Group Exhibit for Wynwood Art Walk
Featuring: Steve “Beast” Alvin, Louis Wood and James Dubuisson
Opening Night: Saturday November 8, 2009
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Miami Art Space (MAS) is proud to present 3 local artists exhibiting together for the first time.

Steve “Beast” Alvin returns to Miami after recent world travels to present a selection from his extensive creative history. Former Gallerie Mysterioso owner, Beast brings a natural eye and open mind to his multi-faceted creations.
Louis Wood, a local artist in Miami, premiers his new exhibit “resolute” featuring refined pieces, working color, form and movement out of enamels and ink to describe his airy constructions.
James Dubuisson is a young Haitian artist who is just beginning to exhibit his canvases; a variety of styles in vibrant colors including realist still lives, country scenes and abstracts.
About MAS:
Miami Art Space (MAS) is an informatively designed gallery and event venue that features modern loft-style interiors paired with lush exterior courtyards. Past exhibits have included Kenneth Treister, Purvis Young, Harvey Oxenberg Fine Arts and more. Located in the heart of Wynwood, MAS is only 2 blocks west of MidTown and within easy walking distance of galleries along NW 36th Street.

Miami Art Space
244 NW 35th Street
Miami, FL 33127
305-438-9002
www.MiamiArtSpace.com

THE COSMIC GLOB SHOW
The spectacular work of KRK RYDEN

November 8th – December 6th
Opening reception: Saturday, November8th, 2008 7pm- 11pm
Harold Golen Gallery, 314 North West 24th St. (off of NW 2nd Ave.) Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127.
305.989.3359 www.haroldgolengallery.com
Admission is free!

KRK Ryden’s art is a record of mongrel pop culture. His aesthetic is informed by comic books, punk rock, and cartoons, while his world view is strictly DEVO. KRK’s work embraces everyday absurdity and a cartoony view of reality. His paintings are colorful and visually appealing reflections on discarded icons, and his graphics are well-realized snapshots of cartoon life. For over thirty years, KRK has been creating illustrations and paintings for underground bands, publishers, and institutions.

KRK was born in Seattle, Washington but didn’t stay there long.
His early years were spent growing up in Southern California, in cities like Anaheim, the home of Disneyland. KRK’s uncle Al was employed by Disney in the late 50’s and early 60’s as a manager of the ‘Main Street’ area of Disneyland. Because of this, “Keithie” got a lot of free E tickets. When he was four, he was introduced to old man Walt himself. Later that day, due to all the excitement, little Keithie hurled at the entrance of Disneyland, right on the cobblestone street.

Leap forward to Canyon High School, Castro Valley, 1968. In his sophomore year, an art class assignment would define his painting and drawing style, and consequently influence the artistic style of his brother, Mark Ryden. An art teacher had each student reach in a hat and pick a slip of paper with the name of a particular art movement scrawled on it. The student was to write a paper on the movement of art randomly chosen. When KRK (then Keith) picked “Surrealism,” he was peeved because he wanted to write about the Italian Renaissance. Another reason for the upset was because he had no clue what Surrealism meant. The word had looked utterly foreign. But after checking out a few school library books and seeing for the first time the art of Dali, the artist’s art and life was changed permanently. This art triggered a sort of rebellion; it created a disdain for the norm. There was no turning back to the imagery of landscapes, still-life, and puppies.

Free for cifo members

Cifo

A B B A F I N E A R T
Wynwood Art District 233 NW 36th Street Miami, FL 33127

www.abbafineart.com

PETER MACKIE, Recent Photography
Nov 8th to Nov 22, 2008
Reception: November 8, 7 to 10 pm

Abba Fine Art is pleased to present curator, Milagros Bello, Ph.D of Curators Voice’s selection of PETER MACKIE’S recent photographic images.

Peter Mackie’s photographic images present scolding references to urban elements and recreate a constructivist world of tools and industrial materials in a rough and textured environment. Compiled in chaotic arrangement of a Baroque ‘horror vacui’, Mackie overload his photographic scenes with multileveled meanings from social allusions to personal memories. Surprises and discoveries unexpectedly appear in the diverse and delirious combination of incongruous and disparate elements, either relating to domestic life or to urban detritus. There is an excess of the visuality in his works, an exaggerated overpopulating of objects that reminds us the excess and accumulation of things in our consumer oriented society. Mackie is an obsessive collector of items that mostly they relate to its surrounding in the busy and overpopulated New York City. We can call Mackie’s photographs ‘natura morta’, urban still life, or in the most extreme case, dead collectible. But in whatever sense we approach to these works, we know we are dealing with a contemporary ‘vanitas’ that alludes to the futility of life and its ultimate mortal essence. The ephemeral effects of these used and discarded articles link to death and disappearance.

For further information about this exhibition or for a private viewing, please contact the gallery at (305) 576-4278 or via email at art@abbafineart.com. For press inquiries and image requests, please contact ABBA FINE ART.

About Abba Fine Art:
Abba Fine Art’s objective is to showcase samples of the diversity found in the creative flow of today’s contemporary art scene. The gallery stable includes works from artists that deal with different aesthetics as well as ideological dynamics. The subjects represent different aspects of life, ranging from the organic and natural to the psychological, figurative and pop culture references.

Locust’s 10-year anniversary exhibition Inevitable Continuum opens this Saturday 7-11pm

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

David Castillo Gallery opens Glexis Novoa Old / New, Saturday November 8, 7-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Old / New, a solo exhibition by Glexis Novoa. Novoa renders cityscapes like peering into a curio cabinet and coming face-to-horizon with societal apocalypse in miniature. In Harold and the Purple Crayon, a children’s book by Crockett Johnson, Harold draws his own picaresque narrative into being. With similar intuition, autonomy, and deceiving innocence, Novoa’s sculptural approach to drawing conjures urban environs as products of and covert oppositions to totalitarianism. The exhibition includes work the artist has been developing over the past several years: his graphite on marble and graphite on dry wall drawings. The exhibition includes new bodies of work as well, such as an installation and color prints.

Novoa constructs a language of symbols based upon icons of political, ideological, religious, and Art Historical significance in the trench between what one sees and expects to see. In this no-man’s land, Novoa re-codifies the past, critiques the present, and projects a future either destined for disrepair or ripe for collaboration and creative reconstruction. Novoa’s architectural surfaces of marble and drywall evoke the construction of history. Similarly, his use of graphite evokes the written word, further aligning the viewer with the authorship of history, and history with interpretation.

Unlike Harold’s innocuous wandering, Novoa’s work brews an urgency implicit in the satellites, monuments, microchips, and parachutes almost voyeuristic in their revelation of the past and manifestation of the future- two unknowns responsible for the despair and hope entwined in Novoa’s work. Post-Guerrilla / Post- Terrorism, for example, suggests both static complacency in the wake of guerrilla attack and the naming (in the fashion of Art History) of a successive militant movement.

Confronting Novoa enables one to realize the weightlessness of pedigree in the face of universal concerns such as alternation of landscape, destruction of life, and perpetuation of culture. Novoa causes the viewer to isolate and associate objects, endowing them with potential energy. The symbolic nature of his drawings warns that if not given a collaborative, pensive, and immediate push in the righteous direction, a force beyond human power and Newtonian physics will seize the opportunity, perhaps to disastrous results.

Glexis Novoa was born in Holguin, Cuba and lives and works in Miami. He studied at the National School of Art, Havana and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. His work has appeared in Artnews, New York Times, Miami Herald, Artpapers, and Art in America among many other publications. He is also included in the Phaidon book Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing. The artist has exhibited at prestigious venues throughout the US, Latin America, and Europe.

In the project room, the gallery is pleased to present Jay Ore. Ore’s work investigates the intersection of comic and vulnerable elements through observations of the UFO phenomenon. His paintings and Polaroid collages blend fantasy and reality, pop culture and myth in Miami and society at large. Ore lives and works in Miami and has exhibited widely at venues such as Miami Dade College and Old Capitol Gallery in Tallahassee, FL.

About David Castillo David Castillo has been a private art consultant and art dealer for over a decade. His professional background began with the Yale University Art Gallery, and later museums and galleries in Miami & elsewhere. His studies and degrees are in History & Art History from Yale University & the Vatican.
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat. 10 am- 5pm, and by appointment

david castillo gallery
email: info@castilloart.com
phone: +1-305-573-8110
web: castilloart.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
USA
WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

Bruce Lurie (LURIE Gallery) and Gala Kavachnina (Art Rouge Gallery) are proud to announce their partnership in the new fine art enterprise: Lurie – Kavachnina Gallery. To celebrate this event Bruce Lurie, Gala Kavachnina and Lenore Stern-Morris request the honor of your presence for their Opening Reception, Saturday Nov. 8th from 7-11 pm with featured artists Marianna Fox and Margit Fureder.

Lurie – Kavachnina Gallery is located at 46 NW 36th Street in The Wynwood Art District of Miami (between N. Miami Ave and NW 1 Ave.) We look forward to welcoming you to our venue open Tuesday to Saturday from 12:00 to 7:00 pm and every Second Saturday of the month for the Wynwood Art Walk. For directions or more information about the gallery and special art related events, please use info@lurie-kavachnina.com or 305-448-2060.

www.artrouge.com
www.luriegalleries.com

Spinello Gallery

Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is pleased to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition, “Letting Down,” by Agustina Woodgate. This will be Woodgate’s second solo show with the gallery for which the space will be transformed into a theater for one night only.

Woodgate invites the audience to her photo shoot – experiencing a daunting performance and witnessing her process as she creates her next photographic series, “Rapunzel.” This will be Woodgate’s 3rd performance in her ongoing “Fairy Tale” series.

The one night improvised performance consists of a sculptural installation, which becomes the backdrop for Woodgate as she is adorned with a massive 30-Foot long Rapunzel-esq wig painstakingly spun by the artist with human hair. Joining the artist for the first time as a character in the theatrical performance will be Woodgate’s mother, Teresita Sabatte. Also, local Miami collaborators Federico Nessi and Alexander Puentes will be providing the score that will dictate Woodgate’s performance. The score, which dominates and coordinates the actions of the performers, will not been disclosed to the artist until the night of the performance. The photographic series created will be available following the opening night.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 8th at 7pm. The performance starts at 8pm and runs continuously through 10pm.
Exhibition through November 22nd.
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Agustina Woodgate is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the concepts of the human body, human identity, and human behavior through a wide range of media, including photography, installation, sculpture, video, and performance.

She is not only captivated by self-perception, but she is particularly interested in the ways that human beings relate to each other, and how people naturally, or unnaturally, relate to the materials around them. Through her work she explores how malleable and impressionable human identity really is and how an individual’s perception can easily persuade what they see and accept as truth.

The notions of memory, heritage, tradition, and ritual appear repeatedly in her work and occupy a nebulous space that exists between the innocence, magic and fantastic dreams of a child, and the mature sarcasm of an adult. Using whatever material suits her purpose, she transforms the mundane into the enchanted and weaves together the varied properties of the physical and the spiritual, the internal and the external, and the personal and the collective.

To Ms. Woodgate, the meticulous process of creation is as significant as the final result. Through creation she often arrives at a paradoxical relationship with the materials being used, and in many cases discovers that the act of collecting material is the first step toward discovering the ambiguous poetic narrative behind the piece.

Ms. Woodgate was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and currently lives in Miami. She earned her BFA from the National University of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally and has appeared in the Museo Nacional del Grabado, Salon Nacional de Instalacion, Salon Nacional de Arte Textil (Bs. As), Museo Casa Blanca (Puerto Rico), Hollywood Biennal (Miami), MOCA (Miami), Portland Art Center, among other venues.
FOR MORE INFO / HRES IMAGES CONTACT: info@spinellogallery.com

Opening Reception Saturday, November 8th, 2008 from 7-10 pm
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Form ← Function is the second installment of “Bridging The Gap” a collaborative exhibition series between the ArtCenter/ South Florida and the Bakehouse Art Complex. Seven artists-in-residence from each institution were asked by Jacquenette Arnette and Lauren Wagner, curators for each space, to think about their visual language and what methods they use to communicate ideas around their work. The art works chosen involved articulate opinions, narratives, emotive gestures and statements that are direct and identifiable by audiences. Constructions like comedy, gesture, metaphor and symbolism help carve out and develop the dialogue. The resulting exhibition centers on a viewer-centric show that imparts what is most important to each artist involved.
Form ← Function is not only an examination of that intuitive communication but of a symbiotic understanding of the ‘other’ in the close knit relationship developed between the artist and observer.

Participating Artists:
Luis Garcia-Nerey
Jose Pacheco
Michael Balbone/ Emily Martinez
Amalia Burjis
Natasha Duwin
Susan Radau
David Leroi
Yehudis Levitin
Venessa Monokian
Anica Shpilberg
Agustina Woodgate
Patricia Gutierrez
Kathy Kissik
Tina Salvesen
Opening Reception: November 8th, 7-10pm at the Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, Florida, 33127, 305.576.2828

Bakehouse Art Complex
ArtCenter/ South Florida

Private viewing with Jennifer Rubell at the Rubell Family Collection 11/12/08

Rubell Famly Collection

What: “A view on the 9th Art, the art of graphic novels”
An exhibition of originals and rare limited editions comic books authors’ drawings
When: Opening reception Saturday 8th November 7 – 11pm.
Where: Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
282 NW 36th street Miami Fl 33127

Contact: damien@damienb.com
T/F: 305 573 4949
Damien B. Contemporary Art Center Is very proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Miami Book Fair in collaboration with the francophone pavilion which this year’s theme is “the comics galaxy”
“A view on the 9th Art, the art of graphic novels”
International exhibition dedicated to the Art of graphic novels, comic strip, book illustrations, animations, cartoons… 5 comic books authors will be showing originals and rare limited editions of drawings.
Mohamed Aouamri (France),
Alex Baladi (Belgium),
Regis Loisel (Canada),
Luc Nisset (France)
Yves Swolfs (Switzerland)


Wynwood.

Wolfgang Roth & Partners, Fine Art will be open for Gallery Walk- Saturday, October 11th from 7 – 10 PM. Current exhibition: THE RED COUCH by renowned German photographer Horst Wackerbarth. Incorporated in the exhibition is a Miami series, which features local figures such as Dr. Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami, Craig Robins, Developer and Art Collector, children from the Overtown Youth Center, among others.

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Symbology: A group show of ArtCenter Artists in Wynwood in cooperation with MAS, Miami Art Space

Please join us for an evening of Art Saturday, October 11th in Wynwood at 244 NW 35th Street, Miami
The ArtCenter has partnered with MAS to showcase the work of ArtCenter artists in residence during Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk in October. Please join us in supporting this exciting collaboration.
For information please contact Morgan Lorenzo @ 305.674.8278
Or find information about MAS Gallery at www.miamiartspace.com

Wynwood Map

October Opening @ Bakehouse Art Complex

OPENING RECEPTION: OCTOBER 11th, 7 – MIDNIGHT

BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX
561 NW 32nd ST
MIAMI, FL, 33127
305.576.2828

A-B(o)MB VIP Sneak Preview
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd St.
Miami, FL 33127

Artoconecto presents a VIP sneak preview of A-B(o)MB (Art Basel (of) Miami Beach), a juried show of emerging national and international artists featuring live performances by Mad Cat Theater, previewing their fall production, ‘Mixtape’, and complimentary Aperol Spritz Cocktails. To RSVP email at Artoconecto@gmail.com or call 786-246-2052. The exhibit will examine the impact of Art Basel Miami Beach on the art world by showing the best of cutting-edge new and emerging artists from the U.S. and abroad, selected through an exhaustive jurying process.

Thu., Oct. 09 6:00pm-10:00pm
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd St.
Miami, FL 33127

Please join us
Saturday, October 11th from 7:30pm-10pm
for the opening reception of:

Trisha Brookbank: Hurdling Through Space At Uncontrollable Speeds….

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
2043 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
www.dlfinearts.com

Trisha Brookbank is interviewed about her work in the “Studio Drive-By” documentary series, coming soon from Wet Heat Project. Watch the “A-Roll” video of Trisha in her studio, here: http://www.wetheatproject.com/preview/Brookbank_A-Roll.html

Diana

A Slice Of The Action new works and collaboration by Carl Pascuzzi & Jonathan Stein

Opening Reception- Saturday, October 11th 7-11pm / Wynwood Gallery Walk, celebrity cake will be cut at 8:30pm

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, 3326 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Hardcore

Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit
Hosted by ASPIRA of Florida, Inc. and Goldman Properties.
A Group Art Exhibition
Join us
Saturday, October 11, 2008 • 7 pm to 10 pm
Free Entrance and open to the public
Enjoy cocktails by Rums of Puerto Rico
Live Latin Jazz music by Rich Hernandez
2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Fl

Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit, hosted by ASPIRA of Florida, Inc. and Goldman Properties and curator, Elizabeth Erazo Baez will be presenting a group exhibition. The exhibit will take place on Saturday October 11, 2008, from 7 pm to 10 pm Located on 2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida. Free Entrance and open to the public. The evening will be showcasing a group of Miami’s outstanding talented Hispanic artists. The event will coincide with the Wynwood Art District Gallery Night, which occurs every second Saturday of the month and attracts hundreds of art aficionados. The event will benefit ASPIRA of Florida.
Participating Artists
CLARA ALBARRACIN • YOA ART • ELIZABETH ERAZO BAEZ • HUMBERTO BENITEZ
KLARA CHAVARRIA • GIOVANNI CASTRO • MARCY GROSSO • TADEO LAZARO
TONY MENDOZA • LEONOR MURCIANO • SAM NAVEDO • GEORGE RODEZ
GILDA SACASAS • CARMEN SASIETA • MARTA TALERO • PATTY VALERO • MARGARITA VIDAL

Sponsored by:
Alters | Boldt | Brown | Rash | Culmo, The Law Firm
Catering Concepts
CLC Risk Service, Inc.
Goldman Properties
Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of South Florida
Rums of Puerto Rico

ASPIRA (http://fl.aspira.org) is a not for profit organization rooted in the Puerto Rican and Latino community, and driven by the mission to serve and address the “educational and developmental needs of all youth” throughout Florida’s multi-cultural communities. ASPIRA is committed to pursue the highest quality programming for youth who are at risk of dropping out of school.

Event: Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit
Where: 2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Fl
When: Saturday, October 11, 2008 • 7 pm to 10 pm
Cost: Free Entrance and open to the public
RODEZart.com
www.rodezart.com
Tel: 786-543-7237
Fax:305-412-9783

Artfromz Invites You to Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Night 10/11/08 7-10 PM
“Every Picture Tells a Story”……..&………”Mr. & Mrs. Candidate”
Fabian De La Flor——————–Donna Haynes——————-Rosario Rivera-Bond

and continuing Fabian’s Artformz Outzide project until Nov. 3
David Rohn & Danilo de la Torre of Homo Sapiens Live Art
Special Guest Artists Performing Outside
7:30pm – 8:30pm & 9:00pm – 10:00pm
and in the project room David Rohn, performance based photographs
In collaboration with Carol Jazzar – Contemporary Art

The work of these three artists featured for the Artformz October show relate stories, or commentaries, on the human condition. The works each base content on the human figure yet use very different approaches to technique, substance and tone. Fabian De La Flor addresses the personal, urban experience with his signature quirky figures in cityscapes. Donna Haynes brings works from her continuing series of drawn and constructed installations that document the personal and emotional journeys of friends and family. Rosario Rivera-Bond exhibiting work from a new series, features a large format painting dealing with the comic and satirical of female issues of beauty, consumerism and aging.

Artormz is also very pleased to present a special project by Homo Sapiens Live Art. This Miami performance group, recently formed by David Rohn and Danilo de la Torre, will perform their piece titled “Mr and Mrs Candidate”; a continuous performance based on the way presidential (and other) candidates running for public office in the US express themselves. The artists felt that the body language, gestures and expressions of political candidates were an interesting starting point to examining the spectacle of election performance during this and past election season. The performance will take place on the sidewalk in front of Artformz Gallery

In addition, David Rohn will exhibit a series of photographs related to the performance in the Gallery Project Room.

Artformz Alternative
Wynwood Arts District
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.572.0040
info@artformz.net
www.artformz.net
This event is free and open to the public
For additional information, please contact:
Alette Simmons-Jimenez (305 572 0040) or Carol Jazzar (305 490 6906)

Fredric Snitzer Gallery : Lia Halloran Project Room : Opening Reception : Saturday Oct.11 7:30 – 10:00pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery is proud to present “Dark Skate” a site specific project consisting of nine photographic images by, Los Angeles based artist, Lia Halloran

These photographic images are an exploration in drawing, performance and photography in itself. “The idea of drawing with light is not new as a concept, but Halloran not only immerses herself in the urban tropics, but makes herself the instrument to draw” Richard Arregui, Co-Director Fredric Snitzer Gallery.

The works are rich in color density and contrast, with the movement of light streaking across and around the visual frame. The photographs taken in low light situations allow them to become self-portraits of Halloran’s movement. “Because of the darkness and film exposure length, there is no trace of my body, only the line created by my actions” Lia Halloran.

These works created over a period of seven nights in Miami with the collaboration of photographer, William Mackenzie-Smith.

Lia Halloran was born in Chicago, IL and attended UCLA for her BFA and received her MFA at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127
T.305.448.8976
F.305.573.5810

Chelsea Gallery

2nd Saturday Cocktail Hour for Shakers – Saturday, October 11th

www.mocanomi.org

The Continuing Adventures of our Heroine
Opening Reception Saturday, October 11, 7-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Continuing Adventures of our Heroine. The heroine of this all-woman group exhibition includes Susan Lee Chun, Francie Bishop Good, Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, Cindy Sherman, Jaimie Warren, and Michelle Weinberg.

Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, and Francie Bishop Good manipulate ordinary objects and spaces. These artists examine how contemporary women assign significance and emotion in an age beyond that of Valerie Solanas, when establishing recognition and power as a feminist, female, or effeminate artist entailed simply and singularly shooting Andy Warhol. Laskis, Materrazzi, and Good remind the viewer that to be a woman– and more importantly, to be human– means an acquisition of varying degrees of passivity and chaos, comeliness and wretchedness, creativity and dysfunction, youth and maturity, femininity and masculinity.

Michelle Weinberg creates an evolving landscape of contemporary folklore punctuated by vehicles of communication: text messages, billboards, and commercial signage. Through abstract image and words, sublimity and narration, the natural world and constructed reality, Weinberg tailors chance into an aestheticism harkening to her personal experience growing up female in the 60s and 70s.

Susan Lee Chun’s inherited Korean and American identities tint the lens through which she perceives her experience as a woman, finding as little authenticity in race and ethnicity as Weinberg does in women’s traditional roles. In You are cordially invited to tea time, an installation/performance, viewers may drink tea together. The act references the domestic sphere, traditional Asian tea ceremonies, and Judy Chicago’s feminist landmark, The Dinner Party. Sharing tea in a gallery– like eating Rirkrit Tiravanija’s infamous Thai cuisine– destines participants to bifurcate but never leave the table.

Like Nikki Lee, Jaimie Warren stages her physical form within scenes of conspicuous or cult identities presumably far removed from her own anima. In Warren’s photographs, as around Chun’s tea table, a woman’s essence is misplaced in the metaphysics of personal and collective identity. As Leigh Bowery’s avant-garde fashion and performance sensibilities suggested, appearance can sometimes be everything– certainly more than isolated sex, gender, or experience.

Cindy Sherman has long been hailed the queen of masquerade. Masquerade is not new to women, familiar with altering, unleashing, and subjugating identities in order to participate in “men’s work.” Seen in conjunction with the rest of The Continuing Adventures of our Heroine, the gruesome corpse or doll-like artifice with which Sherman presents herself should awaken not remorse, but certainty of Sherman’s exponential multiplication as a woman, an artist, and citizen of a lived-in world.

About David Castillo David Castillo has been a private art consultant and art dealer for over a decade. His professional background began with the Yale University Art Gallery, and later museums and galleries in Miami & elsewhere. His studies and degrees are in History & Art History from Yale University & the Vatican.

david castillo gallery
email: info@castilloart.com
phone: +1-305-573-8110
web: http://castilloart.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
USA
WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008
ROSTARR – WRECKLESS ABANDON
Curated by Al Moran
O.H.W.O.W. / 3100 NW 7 AVENUE / MIAMI / FLORIDA / WWW.OH-WOW.COM
As you walk the exhibition space the evidence is clear that Romon Kimin Yang, the artist; the painter, has arrived. Also known as Rostarr, Yang is a member of the genial urban improvisers the Barnstormers’ collective. Yang now sheds all labels and groups as he matures profoundly with this first solo exhibition in Miami, Florida, titled: Wreckless Abandon, reckless by design and adventurous by choice.

Early on in the 1990’s, Rostarr broke through the New York City art scene with his signature trademark, a guerrilla type of graphic design, using the newest digital media tools at the time. He mastered these tools and evolved from his iconography and graffiti subject matter. Now a soloist, Yang is evermore a Renaissance-man who has often executed a series of works in several media.

Yet, his moving image output doesn’t stop there, with a recent screening of the video, Kill the Ego – an audio-visual collaboration with photographer and artist Stephan Crasneanscki at the Centre Pompidou in France, he begins to explore and experiment with new paths in the realm of video art. Even more so, Rostarr continues to surprise us as he removes his newly acquired and validated filmmaker’s cap and easily trades it once again for a French artist’s beret during a very recent visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center for a massive painting installation. This is reckless abandonment in action.

Indeed, the show, Wreckless Abandon, demonstrates the imaginative ways in which Rostarr has reached across his design output and known creative persona to re-invent his art and himself today. His work here breaks with not just dualities and dichotomies as usual, but transcends as the works embody the creative free spirit needed to surpass resistance of any kind. Rostarr manages to cross the bridge because his visual harmonies are geometrical lines undefined by formulaic patterns.

Certainly, this exhibition is not post-graffiti, it’s just Rostarr, it’s anti-anxiety, call it organic harmonies of the self in re-discovery. My strongest suggestion is this; choose your own title for the show. Walk away with a unique interpretation, juxtapose two dynamic words together or think of one word that has all the meaning you can put into it and that’s the show – for you or maybe not.

Excerpt from the essay Organic Harmonies by Rey Parlà

Wow

For next Saturday, October 11, 7-10:30pm,

Dorsch Gallery is pleased to present Mark Koven’s A Stone’s Throw

Join us for a gathering with the artist.

For A Stone’s Throw, Koven will blanket Dorsch Gallery’s floor with 21 tons of sand. The artist asks visitors to bring their own sand/dirt to the exhibition in order to initiate a cycle of making stones and skipping them on sand in the gallery space.

And, October 11 through November 8, check out Classroom, in which Dorsch Gallery puts the question and presentation of education in the arts on exhibition. See the schedule of lectures at dorschgallery.com.

Lecturers include Tiffany Chestler, Brook Dorsch, Adler Guerrier, Ruba Katrib, Mark Koven, Rene Morales, Brandi Reddick, Brian Reedy, Claudia Scalise, Fred Snitzer, and Kyle Trowbridge. Students and viewers are needed and welcome.

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

Last chance to see two shows at Dorsch Gallery: Robin Griffiths’ A Mechanical Advantage

and Brandon Opalka’s Yonder:

Please join us for the closing reception

Saturday, October 4, 7-10pm.

Featuring the work of: POOCH and PAUL TORRES

October 11th – November 1st
Opening reception: Saturday, October 11, 2008 7pm- 11pm
Harold Golen Gallery, 314 North West 24th St. (off of NW 2nd Ave.) Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127.
305.989.3359 www.haroldgolengallery.com
Press Contact: dbaptiste720@aol.com 305.904.8393
Admission is free!

Pooch
Muerto Mechanico (top photo)

Raised on a diet of Walt Disney World , Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida tourist traps, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre afterlife. Early on, Pooch was exposed to artists and illustrators, such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali, Bosch and HR Giger.
A self- taught artist, Pooch owes much of his painting skills to over ten years of daily tattooing and drawing. His art is a visual cocktail mix of Far East mysteries, the magic of European painting with a shot of tattoo culture, shaken and stirred, and served up in a souvenir tiki skull.

Working in different series allows Pooch the freedom to explore various cultural symbols, but also keeps him inspired to dig deeper into those respective subjects. His earlier works are done in oil, containing architectural elements and sinuously carved statue like figures in static display. Newer works are in acrylic and reflect his exposure to Disney World and Florida theme parks, with surreal carnival ride facades (a reflection of the false fronts of modern society) decorated with symbolic figures of death from Tibetan rituals to the Mexican Day of the Dead Festival.

Pooch’s paintings are intended to hold the viewer’s attention, which is quite a challenge in today’s TV, film and computer age. Holding the old masters in high regard, he has a strong respect for painters of the Flemish age such as Bosch and Van Eyk, and modern artists such as Todd Schorr, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden and Robe.

Paul Torres
Notrica 32nd Street Market (bottom photo)

Paul Torres’ art embodies a rich imagination and is laced with social commentary and a soulful interpretation of everyday life. Born in Chile, his interest in art began at age 3 after being introduced to comic books. He started drawing soon after and his father hired a private art tutor for him. By the age 7 he was already enrolled in an art correspondence school. Paul also became influenced early on by Hollywood films and mostly enjoys horror films and Westerns.

At the age of 9, Paul came to the United States for a one-year stay and fell in love with the art culture here. After immigrating to the United States permanently at age 19, he served in the U.S. Army, attended Otis Parsons Art Institute for two years, and then in 1998 he received his Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has had the privilege to study with very prominent and leading artists such as Daniel Greene, Albert Handell, Norwegian artist Jan Saether at Bruchion School in Los Angeles, and Joseph Mendez at the Businessman’s Art Institute in Los Angeles. He worked for several years in the animation and movie industry while continuing to paint for gallery shows and private collections.

He works with a variety of mediums ranging from oil to acrylic, ink and dry mediums, preferring oil. Although he feels very comfortable working from life and models, he also uses his imagination combined with working from life to bring the work into a more personal level and aiming for magic realism rooted in the tradition of the old masters with undertones of modern influences. Paul has been called a visionary artist and a soul artist.

Opening Reception: SATURDAY, OCT 11TH / 7-10PM

Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is proud to present, “So Long Scarecrow,” an exhibition of paintings by Kris Knight. This will be Knight’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Kris Knight’s latest series of paintings pays homage to the lost friends of the artists hometown; the guardians of tradition who never migrated, but rather stayed behind to sow their fortunes and reap their shortcomings amidst the hopeless redundancy of routine.

Hi friends and art lovers,

Art Rouge Gallery has the honor of presenting “Fire, Earth and Scriptures” the newest collection by Juan Gaitán, one of the most important living Colombian master artists. The opening of the exhibition will be a private cocktail reception (RSVP: info@artrouge.com) that will take place on Sept. 25 from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Our space is located on 46 NW 36 St., loft 3 in Miami’s famous Wynwood Art District. It is west from the corner of North Miami Avenue and 36 St. (2 min. walking distance). There is limited parking available at the gallery, the guests can also park at Midtown Mall which is only 5 min. walking distance from our space.

The exhibition, that will be on display until Oct. 25, can be seen Tuesday through Saturday from 12:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. We also coordinate after hours private viewing; those interested can call 305-448-2060 to make an appointment.

 

TUTTLE Opening Reception Saturday, September 13, 7-10 pm
September 13- October 4, 2008
David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present TUTTLE, a group exhibition contextualizing work by Jenny Brillhart, Nicolas Lobo, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Tom Scicluna, Molly Springfield, and Frances Trombly within the legacy of Richard Tuttle.
email: info@castilloart.com
phone: +1-305-573-8110
web: http://castilloart.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
USA
WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

Miami Art Season Opening – Wynwood 2nd Saturday 9/13/08 7-10 PM proudly presents
“ASSOCIATES SHOW ’08”
9/13/08 thru 10/4/08
and the unveiling of our new street art projects artformz outzide
presenting art by Fabian De La Flor september – october
171 nw 23rd Street, Miami, Florida 33127 + 305.572.0040 + www.artformz.net

Clifton Childree’s DREAM-CUM-TRU opens this Saturday 7-11pm after two months!

Art Rouge – Lurie Galleries want to personally invite you to our upcoming exhibition September Group Show. We will be showcasing a fine selection of photography, paintings and sculptures by outstanding modern artists: Cheryl Maeder (photography), Patricia S. Gutierrez (painter), Jason Poteet (painter), Gay Germain (painter), Doris Mayoral (painter), John Berry (sculptor), Jorge Blanco (sculptor), Tom Brewitz (sculptor) and Kevin Duffy (sculptor).

The opening reception will be held in September 13 from 7:00 PM to 12:00 AM at Art Rouge – Lurie space located in the Wynwood Art District, 46 NW 36 St., Loft 3. The exhibition will be displayed until Oct. 8, 2008

Supported by Grolsch.
Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com
Please join us at Dorsch Gallery this Saturday, September 13th, 2008
as we open two exhibitions:
A Mechanical Advantage New Sculptures by Robin Griffiths.

and Yonder New Paintings by Brandon Opalka

SPINELLO GALLERY (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is pleased to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition, “Emotional Response Can Be Deconditioned,” by season opener, Federico Nessi. This will be Nessi’s first solo show with the gallery for which the space will be specially reconditioned.

Exclusive Collectors Reception
Thursday, September 18 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Harvey Oxenberg, an esteemed local art dealer and collector, hosts a group show of work by Fernando Vignoli, Massimo Vitali, Joseph Wheelwright and Marcelo Wong at the Miami Art Space. Oxenberg Fine Art represents a group of contemporary artists and focuses on paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography. View fine art in a hip setting and enjoy a full open bar, passed hors d’oeuvres and free valet parking. The exhibit will remain on display through September 19. A portion of the art sales will be donated to Children’s Home Society of Florida. Call or email to RSVP, ca@oxenbergart.com. Pictured: Fernando Vignoli; The Reconstruction of Big Apple; Oil on Canvas, 55×55 inches.

Miami Art Space MAS
244 N.W. 35th Street, Miami
305-854-7104, Ext. 203

Oxenberg Fine Art at Miami Art Space
Saturday, September 13 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Join fellow art lovers at the Miami Art Space where Harvey Oxenberg, an esteemed local art dealer and collector, will host a group show of work by Fernando Vignoli, Massimo Vitali, Joseph Wheelwright and Marcelo Wong. Oxenberg Fine Art represents a group of contemporary artists and focuses on paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography. The exhibit will remain on display through September 19, and a portion of the art sales will be donated to Children’s Home Society of Florida. Stop in to see the exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine before continuing on the Wynwood Second Saturday Gallery Walk. On-street parking is available. Pictured: Marcelo Wong; Gran Jefe; Sculpture; Fiberglass and Resin, 47x47x34 inches. For more information, please call or email, ca@oxenbergart.com.

Miami Art Space MAS
244 N.W. 35th Street, Miami
305-854-7104, Ext. 203

Without Boundaries”
Saturday, September 13 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Through Miami’s hundreds of square miles of sprawl, lack of center, collage of neighborhoods and diversity of architecture, individuality and hybridism have emerged. Join Bakehouse Art Complex for the opening of “Walls Without Boundaries,” an exhibition that reflects the city’s heterogeneity through the look of art where no dominant style has prevailed and no major movement has been named. BAC works include prints, photography, painting, sculpture and video. The exhibit will be on view through October 3.
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 N.W. 32nd Street, Miami
305-576-2828

Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 13, 7 – 11
Perry MiLou
2450 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, 33127
305 573 2400
Inaugural Launch of Milou Gallery
Perry Milou. Thomas Dellapenna. Denise Fike.
MILOU GALLERY Presents Photographer “WILLIAM JOHN KENNEDY”
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 7:00PM
Enjoy complementary Cocktails from 7:00PM to 9:00PM
MILOU GALLERY Wynwood Art District 17NW 36st Miami, FL 33127
Please RSVP at INFO@URBANICONSMARKETING.COM
Admission by Invitation only – Must be 21 or older to attend

American Born Pop- Artist, Entrepreneur and Curator, Perry Milou has arrived via Philadelphia in the inspired Miami art market with his arsenal of emerging and seasoned artists. Milou’s vision, unique to Miami, stands as the only eponymous working studio gallery. Milou’s 2000 square foot space is contagious and kinetic, full of light and laughter, and always friendly to visitors and friends. Simply put, a real euro-style botegga. Promoting himself and cultivating talents, Milou intends to keep his walls full of his ever-changing bright and fanciful contemporary fine art. The current national and international stable includes artists, Thomas Dellapenna, Frank Hyder, Denise Fike, and Brett Sauce.

Gallery Walk Reception Saturday, Sep 13, 7 – 10
Dot Fiftyone Gallery
51NW 36th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 9994
Mark Indig was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles. He has spent 35 years in the motion picture industry, most recently as a Studio Executive, Producer and Production.
For this talented photographer Civilization is all about creating order out of chaos. We build structures and environments that make us feel like things are organized and safe. Those are the places he likes to shoot, by being close enough to remove the clutter and distractions around them. What’s left are the essential shapes and colors that are a universal reflection of man’s hopes, fears, successes and failures.

Opening Reception: Saturday, Sep 13, 7 – 10
PanAmerican ArtProjects
2450 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, 33127
305 573 2400
Jorge Camejo & Pablo Soria
Project Room: Ryder Cooley
We are opening our new season with the works of Pablo Soria and Luis Camejo in the main gallery and Ryder Cooley in the project room.

Pablo Soria’s bucolic views of his country originate from selected fragments of his memories. His photographs of desolated landscapes and ruins of buildings show fragments of his past. Pablo is selecting and shooting these images like his memoirs.

Luis Camejo’s paintings are cityscapes, revealing his urban background. His interest in documenting the city is related to a sense of loss, a recording process aiming at preserving the past. His use of color reflects his view of deteriorated surroundings, a city in ruins.

In the project room we will be featuring the work of Ryder Cooley. Her delicate drawings seem to be inspired by her dreams and in her childhood. She has developed a very personal iconography; creating her own fantasy world.

Summer is over and the Wynwood Artwalks are in full swing…
Join POPLIFE and MAP Magazine at the MAP WYNWOOD ART LOUNGE during Gallery Walks.
Its the best place to meet and greet before, during, and after appreciating the gallery exhibitions.
Music provided by POPLIFE
Get lucky and snag a wristband for complimentary admission to the after party at POPLIFE

Oxenberg Fine Art at Miami Art Space
Saturday, September 13 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Join fellow art lovers at the Miami Art Space where Harvey Oxenberg, an esteemed local art dealer and collector, will host a group show of work by Fernando Vignoli, Massimo Vitali, Joseph Wheelwright and Marcelo Wong. Oxenberg Fine Art represents a group of contemporary artists and focuses on paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photography. The exhibit will remain on display through September 19, and a portion of the art sales will be donated to Children’s Home Society of Florida. Stop in to see the exhibition and enjoy a glass of wine before continuing on the Wynwood Second Saturday Gallery Walk. On-street parking is available.

www.MiamiArtSpace.com
244 NW 35th Street, Miami FL 33127
Office: 305/438-9002
email: info@miamiartspace.com

Saturday, August 9 from 6 to 9 p.m.

Arts at St. Johns, downtowndiva art, and Imagine Miami present a visual arts exhibit featuring works by local street artists. Two teams of street artists have created a meaningful collective statement through colorful 4’x 4′ panels with each panel representing one of 12 local issues effect Miami today. By looking to these young city-dwellers, living on the edge of society and dealing first-hand with many of these issues, we get an honest and edgy look at what these social issues mean to the average Miami resident. The artwork is available for purchase through a silent auction and other means with proceeds going to the creating artist, Arts at St. Johns and Imagine Miami. The opening will be followed by “Break’n Bred” a B-Boy Dance Competition at 9 p.m.. The competition is a separate event, and will include an entrance fee charged at the door. Guests from the opening exhibit are invited to stay and enjoy the competition for free. Pictured:

1st and 21st Street Studios
2045 N.W. 1st Avenue, Miami
786-942-7002

You are cordially invited to our gallery opening in the Wynwood Art District
InterFlight Studio Gallery proudly presents:
Contemporary Aviation Art by:
GIANCARLO DE ASTIS – DESIREE BORDES – DONOVAN FELL III – DAVID GALE – ERIK LINDBERGH – JO-ANN LIZIO – PILOT O – FER SUCRE – YOSHI YASUDA
Reception: Saturday, Augsut 9, 7-10 PM
Enjoy a glass of wine, champagne or a cappuccino while you admire the fine art!
And since you are here, visit our neighbouring galleries and artist studios in the same building! Ample (free) parking in front.
We are located on the corner of 23rd Street and NW 2nd Ave.
The Wynwood Lofts at 250 NW 23rd Street, Loft 206
www.interflightstudio.com

CIFO 8pm
First join us, starting at 8PM for some art and music with
DJ WAVE “A Latin Electronic & Art Experience”,
Where you’ll find our resident DJ Aramís mixing up an experimental set of music.
at CIFO 1018 N. Miami Ave.,

Map of Wynwood. Relatively incomplete, but a starting point.

Some galleries we have not ever been to but are recommended by the nice folks at Plum TV:
Bakehouse Art Complex 561 NW 32nd Street
Blank Canvas Concepts 700 NE 25th Street, Suite 1502
Gallery Diet 174 NW 23rd St

http://www.spinellogallery.com/
Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is pleased to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition, “Emotional Response Can Be Deconditioned,” by season opener, Federico Nessi. This will be Nessi’s first solo show with the gallery for which the space will be specially reconditioned.
Haunting themes of instability, insecurity and panic temper this forthcoming exhibition by the Miami based artist. Imbuing mundane, everyday materials like flashlights and hand mirrors with a host of universal and metaphoric meanings, Nessi explores the dark side of love; particularly feelings of obsession and submission that arise from tensions within relationships.
Taking its name from a controversial statement in the 1970’s defending the practice of aversion therapy [including shock therapy] the exhibition questions the notion that feelings can be controlled.
Through the crystallization of his own poetic idioms and the consistent use of familiar objects in unfamiliar ways, Nessi succeeds in creating a specific emotional environment that harks to the shame of loss. Yet the simplicities inherent in his production expose an acute and calculated mendacity, for whilst these scenes may evoke fantastic elements, there is intentionally nothing fantastic about them at all. Free of heavy symbolism and explanative content, his work serves purely to summarize; paired or arranged into series’ that allow narratives to form.
The exhibition, which will exercise unexplored aesthetic versatility by completely altering the interior of the gallery, will also be venturing onto the street for a special performance on Saturday, September 13th. Joining the artist will be a bevy of local talent and recurrent collaborators including Victor Barrenechea, Ricardo Guerrero, Ana Mendez, Alexander Puentes & Alex Senf.
Exhibition through October 4th.

Just a quick reminder that the very fun Wynwood Art Walk is this Saturday! We will definitely be out and about! I will post more info later this week, but be sure to mark your calendar.

Next up, on the 8th day of the 8th month of the two-thousandth and 8th year (at 8pm) Dorsch gallery is thrilled to present the third biennial Dixie Dingo Super-8 Invitational Film Festival. 8 strangers are invited to make 8 Super-8 films. Opening and closing sequences created by Miami’s Clifton Childree. There will be music by DJ Lolo (Sweat Records). At Dorsch Gallery, 151 NW 24 St, Miami, FL 33127. 305-576-1278, www.dorschgallery.com