The Soul Of Miami

Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
and
Alliance Francaise of Miami
copresent
“Broarder Horizon”
exhibition by

Aline Jansen

April 17th through May 6 th 2009
Opening Reception
Vendredi, April 17th 2009 7-11pm
@
Alliance Francaise of Miami 618 SW 8th (Calle Ocho)
what : Visual Art exhibition
Who : Aline Jansen
Where: Alliance Francaise de Miami 618 SW 8th street ( Calle Ocho)
When April 17th to May 6th. opening reception April 17th from 7pm
Contact: Damien B. 305 573 4949 damien@damienb.com

The creation of a paradoxical surface of abstract landscapes seems to characterise the new pictorial research of Aline Jansen. This geographical sensitivity takes its place in a tradition of abstract art modelling where multiple references mark her active sense of inquiry.

Aline Jansen’s paintings not only inscribe geometric forms of the earth but also those of the cosmos, onto concepts of Euclidean and non-Euclidean spaces. In fact, at this very moment how should we look at the earth when from high above the sky it is being scanned and the image of which being digitised by high quality software such as Google Earth ? A shift in opinion which marks the beginning of a revolution in the way we see, similar to the early days we used perspective itself. A view from far or from close, to suit demand. And how are we to introduce and project the idea of a « Global Village » in a paiting ? A representation of the phenomenon globally against the uniqueness of creative talent or instead an attempt to make use of the technological advancement in one’s own pursuit. It is at the heart of this divergence that are founded the master pieces of this artist.
We have already brought up about her the notion of cartography since her paintings express two dimensional space while at the same time keeping a very close feel to the notion of volumes. There is thus a build up to an abstract landscape, referring itself not quite directly to nature but allowing room for an option to re-interpretation. Techniques that come into play such as the use of glue and cements combined with pigments and even more trivial materials like carton or cloths constitute her own vocabulary that gets translated into these colourful sedimentations. It’s in this manner that layer by layer the perception of this new world begins to take shape, in a framework of both slow and fast elaboration.
Small and large valleys, craters, hollows, hills and mountains and the likes, occur in such a lexical language of forms that allows the topology of a landscape to be defined. It is then left to the observer to simply travel through these series of shimmerings, to change position in the hope of finding a new vision or to continue the road ahead via the sandy beaches. Earthquakes, movements and overlapping of telluric plates, land slides and so on, bring about a new set of terminology describing earthly movements, allowing once more the esthetic art composition to find its equivalence with the planet. The pictured forms collide, overlap and combine with one another in sometimes gaceful and in other times violent movements, but always carried away by the composition of the plans. The usage of stabilised aqueous elements, similar to the vast frozen expanses, additionally facilitates following this embedding of such planetary lexical fields. For Aline Jansen, the true meaning lies in composing the mental landscapes in accordance to the tangible realities of the earth. These spatial arrangements get materially determined by the grace of the elements making it up. From the relation between the fibres of the ‘making’ of the picture and the possible imagination from each and every vision, will spring a potential landscape, almost moving and based on uncertainty.
In her paintings, the debris from each fabric mix themselves into fleeting impressions of new forms which are in themselves always uniquely repeatable. Writings where complex shapes adjust and result in random structures much to the likeness of landscapes. Working from memory, by invention, structured by the multiple possibilities inherent in the canvasses themselves. Just like a self evolving set up, put in place to seize and illustrate the observer’s own imagination. In the work of Aline Jasen, the multi dimensional spaces come together in harmony to marry into what we can eventually call « straight curves ».

artformz
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Wynwood Art District 2nd Saturday Gallery Walk
7:00pm – 10:00pm

Show Dates: March 14 – April 5, 2009
The Making of Giants

The original 10 artists from the “Giants in the City” Miami 2008 Premier Exhibit – present sketches and designs in the project room that led up to final designs and large scale inflatable sculptures for the acclaimed exhibit. Artists will exhibit in the main gallery selected pieces from their own body of work that strengthens the historical significance of this grand experiment. The exercise was brought to life through charming doodles, complex scale models, and poetic renderings, all demonstrating the intellectual course from thought, to paper, to reality. The 10 artists of the Miami Premier are: Alejandro Mendoza, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Angel Ricardo Rios, Anja Marais, Frank Hyder, Gustavo Acosta, John Martini, Jose Bedia, Michelle Weinberg, and Tomas Esson.

Special premier screening event of “Giants in the City – Miami 2008” video projection.
Launch of “Giants in the City” exhibition catalogue.

Visit “Giants in the City” Onine: www.giantsinthecity.org

Shaker Art and Cocktail Hour in Wynwood this Saturday, Mar 14, 7 – 9 pm

David Castillo Presents

David Castillo Gallery: Jackie Gendel &
Tom McGrath
David Castillo Annex: Shay Kun, Opportunities multiply as they are seized

Jackie Gendel &
Tom McGrath
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
March 14 – April 4, 2009
Reception March 14, 7-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present new work by Jackie Gendel and Tom McGrath. Jackie Gendel combines personal langauge, Art Historical reference, and cultural cues to create a place and time populated largely by symbolic women and feminized notions of abstraction. The work brings to bear the decadence of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Miss Haversham’s disquieting nostalgia. Gendel magnetizes oil paint, merging and estranging color, form, and a delirious but skeptical mode of expressionism. The ultimate effect of her alchemy is akin to being caught in a bad dream. The viewer floats like a Matisse subject through a psychological landscape rendered with careful ambiguity-an oxymoron that pushes Gendel’s mastery of her medium to transient ends. The viewer begins to doubt the innocuous round of a chin against chin modestly discernable beneath an otherworld of lemon chiffon. Who are these women? What do they want? How much of their effervescence is self-portraiture, how much is observation, and how much is paint finding paint on canvas?

Tom McGrath’s recent work hinges on the painted idiom between the personal and the societal. His gridded sky-views inspired by red-eye flights and lookout points along Los Angeles’s Mulholland Drive command a romanticism in the emotional contexts familiar to American cities and city-dwellers. The God- views imbibed by his large canvasses speak not only to the theme-park tourism of American Graffiti-esque make-out spots, but also to the Manifest Destiny apparent in American painting, real estate, and privilege. McGrath’s combination of neon and naturalist colors as well as the underlying irrationality of applied paint behind his grids suggests a wildness in opposition to imperialist thought in American sentiment and sustainability.

Jackie Gendel earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University. She has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. Her work has appeared in Art Papers, Art in America, and the New Yorker. Tom McGrath holds degrees from the Cooper Union School of Art and Columbia University. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and has appeared in Artforum and Harper’s Magazine.

Shay Kun
Opportunities multiply as they are seized
David Castillo Annex
2234 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami
March 14 – April 4, 2009
Reception March 14, 7-10 pm

In the David Castillo Annex, Shay Kun’s Opportunities multiply as they are seized presents a spiritual almanac that unites Himalayan clefts and the shallows of the Hudson River School; a leisurely hot air balloon and the coveralls of industrial unionists; the Bobbsey twins and G.I. Joe. His oil on canvas works recall plein air painting, psychedelic exploration, and science fiction fanzines. Titles such as Put aside the alienation and Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens allow space for the narrative voice of his landscapes to easily incorporate Grandma’s parabolic musings, calculated propaganda, and the script of an undiscovered Alejandro Jodorowsky film.

However, a prolonged look at Opportunities multiply as they are seized seems to suggest that despite the collage-like harmony of Kun’s imagery, Thomas Cole would shake his head at nature’s grandeur populated by human invaders-tourists, adventurists, and workers from all social strata. Although these interlopers and the traces of their occupation do not overwhelm the sublimity of nature, they do question the meaning of progress, the possibility of symbiosis, and whether the spiritual cognizance Cole and his colleagues ascribed to the outdoors stem from unadulterated nature alone.

Shay Kun earned an MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.

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.

UOM Performance
Music Experiment Minimalist Psychadelic
Abro Gallery
2137 NW 2nd Avenue

March Art Exhibitions Edge Zones Art Space
Opening Reception for the Artists March 14, 2009 8 pm – 11 pm.
Edge Zones Art Space
47 NE 25th St.
Miami, Fl 33137
Tel. 305 303 8852

Live music at 9pm
Mideo M. Cruz – Everything Must Go

Notions of self as nation are currently besieged, their inner gut work sucked out by a voracious globalist zeitgeist funded by large late capital. To cite a potential contribution to one’s national culture would have to be determinedly conceited on mine or Mideo’s part, but, if one might be able to determine such a lofty yet necessarily foundational category, then one would have to support those who have been consistent, bold and willing to sustain its thankless, uphill climb, for all that takes. Mideo Cruz has so far shown himself to be equal to this. The nationalist project of Social Realism in the Philippines, which began in 1975, has found, after the co-opted faltering of Salingpusa and untimely implosion of Sanggawa, an appropriate bridge into the 21st century’s vast, bewildering and fractured terrain in Mideo Cruz and his collective, the new world disorder. Jose Tence Ruiz

J. Valdivia – Ten-Selves

Artist Statement:

As a child I would gaze at other children as mysterious individuals. I have shifted that light onto myself to inspect my identity as a person. One’s body, gender, life paths, and death have all been preoccupations of mine. I’ve noticed a need to create identities accordingly with the yearning to be accepted. With that desire I have suffered, rejoiced, and grown thicker skin to bitterness. I find myself on a dividing path of choice in which we take leaps, steps and falls. With destination in mind similarly to one another, we stand alone within an objective psyche.

Edge Zones Website

Fantastic New Paintings by RYAN HESHKA
March 14th, 7-11pm

NEW LOCATION
2294 NW 2nd Ave.
Miami, Florida 33127
(Wynwood Art District)

Ryan Heshka pays homage to Golden Era sci fi pulp while creating a style that is also uniquely his own. He explores themes of man vs nature, (even though often the “nature” is from another world) as well as the exploring the ideology of pushing the limits of science as a tool to help and further mankind, and the technological terrors that can be inadvertently unleashed as a result.

His newer series is also influenced by WW2 era propaganda posters, which demonized the enemy into an cartoonish and evil caricature. Is this case, the “enemy” really is an alien threat and deserving of such treatment!

His work is acrylic painted on wood panel, heavily varnished and embellished with tags cut from pulp magazines, which serve as inspiration and explanation of each piece.

Ryan’s work must be experienced in person, so please come to this special show and see our new location. Originals, Prints, Books, ect… will be available for every budget. See ya there!

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Gallerist Eric Charest-Weinberg will be giving the students of the Miami Design District’s Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH) their first big break. The best artwork done by juniors and seniors will be presented in an exhibition at the Charest-Weinberg Gallery (250 NW 23rd Street – Space 408) on March 14th, 2009, from 7 to 10 PM during the Wynwood Gallery Walk. All proceeds from sales of the work at this special event will go directly to the student artists.

Students featured in the exhibition include: Christopher Bender, Alejandro Cercas, Marcela Escobar, Victor Fernandez, Jasmine Nones-Newman, Lauren Robie, Paula Stevenson, Mei Fung Su, Danielle Zaslavskaya and Thomas Zenteno.

The 24-year old Charest-Weinberg, whose gallery is now celebrating its second season in the Wynwood Arts District, hand-selected the work of the ten students to be featured in this unique exhibition. “I wanted to do something that would directly benefit students that are looking towards art as their life’s work. Throughout my education, I had the benefit of tremendous access to the arts. It allowed to me to follow my passion. Giving these kids a real gallery exhibition and establishing them within the context of a curated show is a great opportunity to push them to follow their own.”

“It is not often that high school students are presented the chance to participate in a truly professional endeavor; especially in today’s competitive art world,” said DASH Principal Stacey Mancuso. “Mr. Charest-Weinberg recognizes these challenges and has responded by this creating this wonderful opportunity. I am honored that Eric has selected DASH as his venue for inquiry. The students are truly delighted to be associated with the exhibition.”

In addition to showcasing new work from the participating students, each artist has been asked to compose their own text to accompany the work that they will be displaying.

HOME Miami & Florida Travel + Life will be sponsoring this one night only event.

In addition, the Charest-Weinberg Gallery has partnered with a number of local business who have agreed to donate to this exhibition including: Impress Digital Printing Solutions impressmiami.com, Clic::Studio Photography clicstudio.com and USA Frame usaframe.com.

Supemarket Creative is Pleased To Announce:

THE GRAND OPENING OF THE AWAREHOUSE
As it introduces a conceptual showcase location
and fine art gallery to Wynwood

The Awarehouse space is transformed into Miami’s newest hub of contemporary culture and modern day artistic ingenuity REDUX featuring Didi and Aaron of BRAZILIAN GIRLS to headline with ORGANICARMA with an opening DJ set by VIDA (pumps/nyc)
for an exclusive complimentary VIP Preview on

Saturday March 14, 2009
Pre Event Gallery Exhibition 7pm to 9pm
Grand Opening Event Begins at 10pm

Acustronic, Miami’s most progressive and forward-thinking concept label, and historic gallery, Luis Perez Galeria, will open its doors for the grand opening of The Awarehouse – a pioneering new events venue and fine art gallery that is set to become a new innovation in contemporary culture, music and art for South Florida and its burgeoning entertainment industry. Acting as the label’s new business headquarters, The Awarehouse, located at 550 N.W. 29th Street in Miami’s Wynwood Art District, is more than 20,000 square foot of warehouse and open space that has been renovated and transformed into a dual-purpose complex
of contemporary art and sound.

As well as being the permanent home for music production by organicArma, within the walls of The Awarehouse lies an exquisite fine art exhibition curated by one of Colombia’s most renowned gallerists, Luis Perez. Luis Perez Galeria has been home to some of the most renowned artists from around the world.

RSVP HERE

For further information, visit www.organicarma.com and www.acustronic.com

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D&G Art Design Gallery cordially invites you to our presentation of
M A N U E L M O U R E ‘ S Paintings &
B∙L∙A∙K∙E F I S H E R ‘ S Fine Art Photography
Saturday, March 14th, 2009 8pm-11pm

“The Happy Return”
Manuel Moure
Oil on Canvas
26 ¾” x 18 ¾”
2007

“Mangrove Sunrise”
Blake Fisher
Print Photograph on Silver Gelatin
39″ x 48″
2003

RSVP
Email: rsvp@dgfineart.com

Please join us for the opening reception of Celluloid Drag: Some Spaces Between Film and Architecture, curated by Terri C. Smith, on Saturday March 14, 7-10 pm. Works on view will be a film by 1960s conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark, a series of paintings by Todd McDaniel and a commissioned installation by Ralph Provisero.

Dorsch Gallery is located at 151 NW 24 St in Miami, FL.

For more, see dorschgallery.com

We hope to see you soon.

Gallery News:
Gustavo Matamoros curated a beautiful exhibition called “Sound” at the Bass Museum of Art. Rene Barge has a work on view. This show is up through March 29. bassmuseum.org

Martin Basher has a solo show called ‘Free Spirit No Interest’ at Starkwhite in Auckland, New Zealand through April 5. www.starkwhite.co.nz

Amanda Burnham’s work is in All Terrain, curated by Dawn Gavin at Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland. http://thestamp.umd.edu/gallery

Elisabeth Condon’s solo show entitled “This Land Was Made for You and Me” is at GRANTPIRRIE in Redfern, Austrailia. March 5-28, 2009. grantpirrie.com

A solo show of Richard Haden’s work is on view at Lincart in San Francisco through March 28, 2009. lincart.com

Mark Koven and Ralph Provisero have work in Aesthetics and Values 2009, an exhibition organized by the Honors College at FIU in the Gallery at Green Library. March 16 – April 10. The reception is April 3, 5-8pm. avexhibition.org

Arnold Mesches’ solo show “Coming Attractions” is up through April 18 at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. smmoa.org

John Sanchez’s show of new paintings will be on view through April 5th at Frost Art Museum. This exhibition is Sanchez’s Florida International University Masters of Fine Art show. thefrost.fiu.edu

Kyle Trowbridge and Brian Reedy have a show at Broward Community College through March 17. www.geocities.com/bccfineartsgallery/

Locust Projects opens Bartow+Metzgar and Viking Funeral, March 14, 7-11pm
Locust Projects, Inc, 105 NW 23rd Street Miami, Fl 33127

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS EXCLUSIVE EVENT
Eco-mmunitiesâ„¢ Earth Hour Event
Saturday, March 14, 2009 (Wynwood/Design District Gallery Walk)
7PM-10PM
Seiden Space – 2501 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33127
Green Art USA will show a preview of its upcoming conceptual art installation for 2009 titled Eco-mmunities â„¢ , representing the undeniable connection between humanity and what we as humans can do to help save our planet. Displayed as one, these two very important components have a meaningful message to deliver to those who capture the human beauty wearing accessories made of recycled materials following our mission statement “more art, less waste”. We will create art pieces as accessories to be displayed in re-used mannequins from different recycled materials saving them from going onto the landfill, with the purpose of reducing the negative impacts in the environment threatening the survival of humans and other living species. The art pieces will be designed by Green Art USA artists: Mickey Dobovan, Nohan Mancia, Thania Aguirre, Alexis Rodriguez and Luis Valenzuela. Jorge Parra photographer also green art USA member will be presenting his campaign “Change 10”, the concept behind it is to showcase how easy it is for everyone to actively engage in helping the sustainability of our future life by doing very small efforts.
This event will coincide with the WWF Earth Hour, and serve as the pre-event for the official Earth Hour event. Earth Hour is a global initiative of WWF in which millions of people around the world will cast a vote in favor of action on climate change by turning off their lights for one hour on March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm local time. By voting with their light switches, Earth Hour participants will send a powerful, visual message to their leaders demanding immediate action on climate change. WWF is the world’s leading conservation organization, working in 100 countries for nearly half a century. With the support of almost 5 million members worldwide, WWF is dedicated to delivering science-based solutions to preserve the diversity and abundance of life on Earth, stop the degradation of the environment and combat climate change. Visit www.earthhour.org to learn more.

This event is graciously sponsored by WWF Earth Hour, Green Art USA, Lombardi Properties, Miami New Times and Metro 1 Properties. Eco-friendly cocktails courtesy of VeeV – a better way to drink.
Please rsvp to rsvp@metro1properties.com

Just got home at 4:30 AM after finishing set up and the place is looking great! You’ll have to come see for yourselves because, there is no way I’m uploading photos right now. Hope to see everyone soon!

Just in case you do not know by now – www.lifeisartfest.org

Life Is Art Miami Featured Artist Fair
March 7th, 2pm-10pm
120 NW 25th Street, Miami (Wynwood), FL
Art, music, drink, food, fashion, fun!

FROM: Patricia Schnall Gutierrez
Please join us at the Bakehouse Art Complex Gallery for a very exciting collaborative installation on March 13th, 7:00 – 10:0 PM. Visit my web site http://www.patriciaschnallgutierrez.com for a preview of some new work.

Hope to see you there!