The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, located at Florida International University campus, sometimes seems overlooked in a city like Miami where it must compete with fine institutions like the Museum of Contemporary Art and Miami Art Museum and where heavyweight collectors constantly flex the muscles of their extensive collections.
We all remember at one point when the FIU hosted a bevy of works on campus by seminal artists (courtesy of Martin Margulies), such as George Segal and Richard Serra. Is the university still worthy of its former glory? You be the judge. Continue reading 'The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum'
This Sunday the Miami Art Museum opens Between Here and There, an exhibition of the museum’s permanent collection. Gearing up for the move to Museum Park, this marks the first ever long-term display of the MAM’s growing permanent collection, which should stay up with periodic changes well into the year 2013.
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Earlier this month Friends With You, the internationally known Miami-based multidisciplinary art collaborative known for their toys and installations that serve to blur the line between fine arts and commerce, launched a new revamp of their www.friendswithyou.com website.
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Friday night opens a new exhibition at the Carol Jazzar Gallery in Miami Shores. The show is titled between and features work by Miami-based artist Lynne Golob Gelfman.
Gelfman’s paintings for this show take on chain link fences for subject matter, with the artist endlessly layering the canvas with image after image of chain link patterns. The patterns begin to overlap and seemingly trail off from one another creating an eerie, ghost-like imagery. Strange perceptions of depth and spatial distortions begin to manifest themselves within the work creating kinetic visual effects within the viewer. Continue reading 'This Weekend….'
Three new major works were added and unveiled last Saturday to the de la Cruz Collection in the Design District.
The works were by Carlos Alfonzo, the Cuban-born artist who came to the United States on the Mariel boatlift in 1980. Alfonzo started out as a state-sanctioned artist in Cuba, but when he came to the U.S., his work took a different turn, as Alfonzo for the first time became open about his sexuality. He filled canvas after canvas with wildly energetic and anxiously expressive renderings of raw emotion, despair, and alienation. Alfonzo’s life was eventually claimed by AIDS in 1991. Continue reading 'New at the de la Cruz Collection'
I’ll Cross that Bridge When I Get to It is the latest exhibition by Miami artist Bert Rodriquez, opening tonight at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery.
No works will have been created by the time the show opens. Instead, Rodriguez plans to fill the space over the next 25 consecutive days of the exhibition with a single new work a day. All of these pieces will be available for sale before their completion, but collectors, the gallery, and to some extent perhaps even the artist himself, will not know what these pieces will look like until the day they’re completed. The purchase of these works, in turn, becomes an act of faith, or more specifically a gamble. Continue reading 'Second Saturday Quick Pick'
Oh, The Tangled Webs We Weave... opens this Saturday at the David Castillo Gallery. It is a solo exhibition by Karelle Levy Parisian-born and Miami-based founder and operator of local fashion line, KRELwear.
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There’s a lot going on in the art world this weekend.....
Friday:
The Coral Gables Cultural Center of Spain presents a new exhibition titled, Art Encounters: Interstices between Literature, Cinema and Graphic Design. It deals with the way film and literature is interpreted by graphic design and the different ways in which this kind of art negotiates its place in the culture. Curated by Janet Batet featuring works by, René Azcuy, Alejandro Magallanes, Alfredo Rostgard, Carlos Palleiro, Fernando Pimiento, Julián Naranjo, Minerva Ruiz Corte, Francisco Aguilar Galvez, and Renato Aranda Rodríguez. Continue reading 'This Weekend....'
Here’s a show you may have missed last month. Yet Nightly Pitch My Moving Tent is an exhibition by Miami-based artist Gustavo Roman currently on view at the David Castillo Gallery, but only until this Saturday.
The show consists of a series of black and white drawings, each depicting some variation of a shadowy and darkened bedroom, with lumps of various sizes emerging from the sheets. There is also a video installation that features an animated version of these drawings. Continue reading 'Yet Nightly Pitch My Moving Tent'
The Bas Fisher Invitational’s Super 8 movie night from earlier this month was such a resounding success that the artist-run alternative space is having a repeat of the event tonight at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by local artists, Barron Shearer and Kevin Arrow, it’s the only movie night in town that screens their films on vintage and obsolete Super 8 format, you’re surely in for a unique experience. Continue reading 'Alternative Space Weekend'
