 |
theArtsweb.com Miami Florida and the Florida Keys Events Calendar
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sunday, August 1, 2010 |
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center, Teatro Avante, and American Airlines present
INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC THEATRE FESTIVAL
July 7 - August 1, 2010
Carnival Studio Theater (in the Ziff Ballet Opera House)
Experience some of the best theater companies from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S. onstage at the Carnival Studio Theater! This award-winning festival raises the curtain on Hispanic culture, with plays, dance performances, and even children's theater. This year the festival presents an array of works in a tribute to Mexico. THE INTERNATIONAL HISPANIC THEATER FESTIVAL is the only festival of its kind in the United States, and The Miami Herald raves: "The quality attests to the vibrancy and talent of theater being produced in the Spanish-speaking world."
|
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Sunday, August 1, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Monday, August 2, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Monday, August 2, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM EST
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center and AEG Live present
CYNDI LAUPER
Cyndi Lauper burst onto the world stage as the quintessential girl who wants to have fun. After more than 20 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 25 million, she has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legions of fans compelled by her every creative move. With her newly minted collection, "Memphis Blues," Cyndi firmly asserts her position as one of the most beguiling, innovative, and downright exciting recording artists of this - and every other - generation.
August 3, 2010 at 8pm
Knight Concert Hall
Adrienne Arsht Center
1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132
Tickets: $39.75 - $63.75
For reservations, visit www.arshtcenter.org or call the box office at (305) 949-6722
|
|
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Thursday, August 5, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Thursday, August 5, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
|
|
Event Title: MOJAZZ Music
Where: MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST
|
|
MOJAZZ
THURSDAYS july-aug-sept 7-11pm:
JAM NIGHTS hosted by MADAFO, percussion
+ LARRY KARP/ARTHUR CRUZ keys + sit-ins
FRIDAYS 7-11 PM:
JULY 9: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo +Mo Morgen guest sax/vocals
JULY 16: MIKE GERBER, keys + Madafo
JULY 23/30: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo
AUG 6, 13, 20, 27 PATRICK LOPEZ keys/tpt + Madafo
SEPT 3, 10, 17 one or more of the above/Mo returns Sept 23/24
+ "surprise guests" will often perform on Fridays
MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
no cover, and you do NOT have to be a member
w/side Biscayne Blvd(US1) just north of ne 96st
free self parking all times, free valet parking Fri.
optional table reservations (3+) 305 795-2360 ext 107
Friday night menu attached (pdf)+ free cold buffet
Thursday night abbreviated menu
|
|
Friday, August 6, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Miami Beach Botanical Garden & IRREVERSIBLE Magazine Present:
Giants in the City
August 1 to 6
2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach
Giants in the City is an outdoor installation of 25 giant inflatable fabric sculptures made of lightweight nylon, supported by a continuous air supply. The monumental works of art will be installed throughout the Garden landscape. Schedule of events:
Sunday, August 1 / 11 AM
Opening Ceremony
Meet the artists and tour the installation
Tuesday, August 3 / 10AM to Noon
A Giant Family Day, Guided Tour for Kids, Arts & Crafts
All ages welcome. RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
August 4 and 5 from 10:00 AM to 5PM
Guided tours by appointment. norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
Friday, August 6 / 7 to 11PM
Closing Reception & Celebration
RSVP: norelkysb@irreversiblemagazine.com
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Friday, August 6, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
|
|
Event Title: MOJAZZ Music
Where: MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
Friday, August 6, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST
|
|
MOJAZZ
THURSDAYS july-aug-sept 7-11pm:
JAM NIGHTS hosted by MADAFO, percussion
+ LARRY KARP/ARTHUR CRUZ keys + sit-ins
FRIDAYS 7-11 PM:
JULY 9: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo +Mo Morgen guest sax/vocals
JULY 16: MIKE GERBER, keys + Madafo
JULY 23/30: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo
AUG 6, 13, 20, 27 PATRICK LOPEZ keys/tpt + Madafo
SEPT 3, 10, 17 one or more of the above/Mo returns Sept 23/24
+ "surprise guests" will often perform on Fridays
MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
no cover, and you do NOT have to be a member
w/side Biscayne Blvd(US1) just north of ne 96st
free self parking all times, free valet parking Fri.
optional table reservations (3+) 305 795-2360 ext 107
Friday night menu attached (pdf)+ free cold buffet
Thursday night abbreviated menu
|
|
Saturday, August 7, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Saturday, August 7, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Sunday, August 8, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Adrienne Arsht Center
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
Adrienne Arsht Center presents
THE ALUMINUM SHOW
July 14 - August 8, 2010
Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House
Tickets $55
"Ravishing and engaging!" - Time Out, Tel Aviv
In the family-thrilling tradition of Slava's Snowshow, Blue Man Group, Cirque du Soleil and Stomp, THE ALUMINUM SHOW is stunning and incredible entertainment and a sensational hit around the world! Originally created in Israel by a team of theater and dance innovators, the show boasts a cast of dancers, acrobats, and prop operators with a driving score combining original and pop music. THE ALUMINIM SHOW debuted to rave reviews in Israel, went on to tour Europe, and now comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center with a magnificent, customized staging exclusively for the Miami engagement. THE ALUMINUM SHOW combines amazing special effects, jazz and modern dance, and puppetry while performers use creative mechanical contraptions and acrobatic movement to bring the star element of the show - aluminum -- to life with awesome energy and theatrical wit. Half the time you won't know if what's on stage is a dancer, a prop, a costume, a giant slinky, a piece of scenery, or all of the above. The result is an imaginative, luminous adventure that critics agree is unlike anything audiences have ever seen.
|
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Sunday, August 8, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Monday, August 9, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Monday, August 9, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Thursday, August 12, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Thursday, August 12, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
|
|
Event Title: MOJAZZ Music
Where: MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST
|
|
MOJAZZ
THURSDAYS july-aug-sept 7-11pm:
JAM NIGHTS hosted by MADAFO, percussion
+ LARRY KARP/ARTHUR CRUZ keys + sit-ins
FRIDAYS 7-11 PM:
JULY 9: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo +Mo Morgen guest sax/vocals
JULY 16: MIKE GERBER, keys + Madafo
JULY 23/30: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo
AUG 6, 13, 20, 27 PATRICK LOPEZ keys/tpt + Madafo
SEPT 3, 10, 17 one or more of the above/Mo returns Sept 23/24
+ "surprise guests" will often perform on Fridays
MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
no cover, and you do NOT have to be a member
w/side Biscayne Blvd(US1) just north of ne 96st
free self parking all times, free valet parking Fri.
optional table reservations (3+) 305 795-2360 ext 107
Friday night menu attached (pdf)+ free cold buffet
Thursday night abbreviated menu
|
|
Friday, August 13, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
Water
Audrey Love Gallery
Art by Resident and Associate Artists of the Bakehouse Art Complex
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010 7-10PM
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 St, Wynwood 305.576.2828
Live music from Hyllus, Wine from Schnebly's Winery in the Redlands FL, and Food from Wynwood's Lost and Found Restaurant!
|
|
|
|
Where: Bakehouse Art Complex
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
Books
A collection of artist made books, sketchbooks, and sketches
Swenson Gallery
Opening Reception: July 9th, 2010, 7-10PM
July 10 - August 13, 2010
Bakehouse Art Complex, 561 NW 32 Street, Wynwood. 305.576.2828
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Friday, August 13, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
|
|
Event Title: MOJAZZ Music
Where: MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
Friday, August 13, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM EST
|
|
MOJAZZ
THURSDAYS july-aug-sept 7-11pm:
JAM NIGHTS hosted by MADAFO, percussion
+ LARRY KARP/ARTHUR CRUZ keys + sit-ins
FRIDAYS 7-11 PM:
JULY 9: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo +Mo Morgen guest sax/vocals
JULY 16: MIKE GERBER, keys + Madafo
JULY 23/30: JORGE GARCIA, gtr + Madafo
AUG 6, 13, 20, 27 PATRICK LOPEZ keys/tpt + Madafo
SEPT 3, 10, 17 one or more of the above/Mo returns Sept 23/24
+ "surprise guests" will often perform on Fridays
MIAMI SHORES COUNTRY CLUB
no cover, and you do NOT have to be a member
w/side Biscayne Blvd(US1) just north of ne 96st
free self parking all times, free valet parking Fri.
optional table reservations (3+) 305 795-2360 ext 107
Friday night menu attached (pdf)+ free cold buffet
Thursday night abbreviated menu
|
|
Saturday, August 14, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sculpture with rapidly spinning circles that create the illusion of a vortex-like dept, and an optical phenomenon of suggested color. Felecia Chizuko Carlisle will return regularly throughout the run of the show to continue transforming the installation of "Sketches" in space.
The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the studios and minds of the artists working in Miami. In addition, it will identify and clarify to Miami Art Museum's audiences various broad patterns in local artistic production. For example, several of the artists in the exhibition focus on aspects of urban life that exist just below the surface of what we observe from day to day, while others focus on developing new approaches to traditional artistic conventions. Among the artists whose work is presented in the gallery space are Kevin Arrow, Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, Jim Drain, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Michael Genovese, Jacin Giordano, Guerra de la Paz, Adler Guerrier, Don Lambert, Gustavo Matamoros, Beatriz Monteavaro, Gean Moreno/Ernesto Oroza, Peggy Nolan, Fabian Peña, Christina Pettersson, Vickie Pierre, Manny Prieres, Christopher Stetser, Talking Head Transmitters, Robert Thiele, Mette Tommerup, Frances Trombly, Tatiana Vahan, Marcos Valella, Viking Funeral and Michelle Weinberg.
In line with Miami Art Museum's commitment to community outreach and education, the exhibition will be supplemented with special performance events, artist talks and interactive programs throughout the course of the project.
Miami Art Museum
101 West Flagler Street
Miami, FL 33130
305.375.3000
www.miamiartmuseum.org
|
|
|
|
Where: HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
CRIME IN MIAMI EXHIBIT WITH THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA
February 19 - August 29, 2010
If you love mysteries and thrillers, you won't want to miss a reading by five of Florida's best-loved authors in this genre. The Florida Center for Literary Arts in partnership with the Historical Museum of Southern Florida will present Edna Buchanan, Carolina Garcia Aguilera, James Grippando, Jeff Lindsay and Les Standiford each reading from their works and discussing why they write crime. This event complements the Museum's exhibit, Crime in Miami, an interactive examination of the impact of crime and law enforcement on this city over the past 100 years. The exhibit runs through August 29.
Panel Discussion and Readings:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:30 p.m.
Historical Museum of Southern Florida 101 West Flagler Street
Downtown Miami
|
|
|
|
Where: Locust Projects
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
MIAMI ART SCENE PIONEER, LOCUST PROJECTS, ANNOUNCES A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITION BY SOUTH FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
The LAB (Locust Arts Builders)
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 10, 7-10pm
Through August 2019
Pioneers in the Miami art scene, Locust Projects is pleased to announce a collaborative exhibition by a select group of South Florida High School students. Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters, nine local high school students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks from June 28 to July 10, 2010.
These students, currently attending Design and Architecture Senior High, Hialeah Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High and New World School of Arts answered an open call and were hand-selected by a committee of local art professionals.
Participating Artists: Omar Alvarez, Leslie Chavez, Jason Flores, Luna Goldberg, Kevin Hobbs, Ximena Izquierdo, Vanessa Lacayo, Asher Mones, Christina Quinlan
As a hallmark that makes Locust Projects stand out from other art venues, the organization embraces cutting-edge exhibitions and innovation in art. In furtherance of the not-for-profit's twelve-year commitment to providing an approachable arts venue for the South Florida community, for the first time, Locust Projects has created an exciting new program in which a young generation of artists are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition in a public venue.
The project will be developed and exhibited in Locust Projects' 2,700 square foot space in Miami's Design District and culminate in a publicized show, open to the public. The goal is to promote contemporary art and project-based learning as a means to encourage creativity, critical analysis, and problem solving, while building communication skills. This unique initiative will allow young artists to learn the practical and exciting aspects of creating a public exhibition in collaboration with their peers.
About Locust Projects
2010 marks Locust Projects' 12-year anniversary. Locust Projects is alternative, not for profit exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas without the pressures of gallery sales or limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work and Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artists. With more than 65 exhibitions, representing more than 210 local, national, and international artists, Locust Projects has supported site-specific and installation artworks featuring photography, video, performance, sculpture, drawing, painting and digital media making it a nationally-recognized art institution, and a landmark in the Miami art scene.
About the artist:
Monica Lopez De Victoria is a Miami-based artist that works in collaboration with Tasha Lopez De Victoria under the name TM Sisters. Together the sisters work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. The TM Sisters' recent exhibition, WHIRL CRASH GO! at Locust Projects was featured in The Miami Herald. The sisters' work has been included in the international traveling exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium;" the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and PERFORMA 07 in New York. Their work has been seen and written about in publications like L'Officiel magazine, The Guardian, STEP Inside Design, the New York Times, Vogue Italia, and on the cover of ARTnews.
This exhibition is made possible with the support from: Andy Warhol Foundation; Galt & Skye Mikesell; Hannibal Cox Jr. Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners. Special thanks to Jonathan Eismann Restaurants.
For further information contact: Monica de Miguel
305.576.8570
locustprojects@yahoo.com
|
|
|
|
Event Title: Are We There Yet?
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
A Musical Family Survival Guide, 'Are We There Yet?' Arrives at Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre on July 7
Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre presents a hysterical summer musical that takes a fresh, contemporary look at the typical and not-so-typical American family. Are We There Yet?, which runs July 7 - August 15, 2010, is a musical revue that allows audience member's to "Enjoy the Ride" as a cast of four covers nearly all possible family plights.
Fresh, funny, and totally entertaining, this light-hearted comedy tackles the question we so often ask ourselves on life's roller coaster journey of ups and downs, Are We There Yet? The typical bumps, u-turns, and roadblocks that are all too familiar are played out on stage in a riotous fashion. Through a series of very funny vignettes, the show takes a look at the modern American family - and every variation of it - in a way that may strangely remind audiences of their own family situations. This refreshing and reflective comedy that has been called the parents' edition of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change! will ultimately prove that the answer to life's question is to simply have a sense of humor.
"Are We There Yet? is the perfect summer event for our audiences," Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein said. "It looks at the universalities of family life and tackles them in a fun way. This musical comedy is a great way for audiences to come and enjoy themselves at the Miracle Theatre."
Artistic Director David Arisco also feels Are We There Yet? is the perfect fit for the summer months.
"Are We There Yet? is exactly the kind of new musical I love for the summer -- fresh, relevant, relatable material presented in a vignette style," said Artistic Director David Arisco. "It's very funny, a little 'out there' and totally now."
Artistic Director David Arisco has compiled a slew of talented musical and comedic professionals to present these twisted tales of life and love. Multiple-Carbonell nominated Christopher A. Kent who has been seen at Actors' on numerous occasions including The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aida and Footloose, performs alongside his wife Carbonell-nominated actress Lisa Manuli, who has performed in Grease, Beauty and the Beast and Aida. Meghan Moroney, who was first seen in Oliver! back when the Actors' Playhouse was located in Kendall, Florida, has since made her debut at the Miracle Theatre in this season's The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and has also worked with the likes of Jimmy Buffet and the Broadway company, Mamma Mia. Having recently been seen in Mid Life! The Crisis Musical, Thumbs and Urinetown, Allan Baker, who also played FDR in the 30-year anniversary national tour of Annie, rounds out the talented cast. Actors' Playhouse's award-winning creative team for Are We There Yet? is made up of costume designer Ellis Tillman and set designer Gene Seyffer, with lighting design by Patrick Tennant and sound by Alexander Herrin.
Are We There Yet? will preview at the Miracle Theatre July 7 and 8, open on July 9 and will play through August 15, 2010. Performances will be held Wednesday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through July 24, Thursday - Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. through August 15, with additional Wednesday matinees on July 14 and 21 at 2 p.m.
Preview night tickets on the first Wednesday and Thursday are $35. Tickets for weeknights and matinees are $40, and on Friday and Saturday evenings $48. The theatre offers a 10 percent senior discount rate the day of performance and $15 student rush tickets 15 minutes prior to curtain with identification. Discounts are based on availability and exclude Saturday and Sunday.
Group discounted rates are offered for 15 or more through the group sales department. Single tickets may be purchased through the box office at 305-444-9293 or online at www.actorsplayhouse.org
|
|
|
|
Where: Dina Mitrani Gallery
Saturday, August 14, 2010
|
|
Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image
Curated by Orlando Estrada
Preview and panel discussion:
How digital technology affects artists using
the photographic process to create their work
Saturday, May 22, 2010, 6 pm
Panel Speakers: Orlando Estrada,
Colleen Plumb, and Samantha Salzinger
Exhitibition dates
June 12 - August 28, 2010
Dina Mitrani Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition Disposable: Nostalgia for the Still Image. Curated by Orlando Estrada, this show presents a reference to the obsolete disposable film camera and a connection to the disposable quality now associated with digital picture making. Disposable will feature eight emerging and mid career photographers whose work addresses the connection between photography and memory and how the digital revolution is transforming the notion.
Photographs for many are a means of preservation; little relics from times past. These artifacts are treasured safeguards of our fleeting memories. The development of digital picture making devices and technology has warped our perception of images. It is certain that now thanks to the nature of digital photography, people are photographing more, but without the same emotional connection to the object that the traditional photographic process produces.
Danielle Bender uses photography as an ironic means of commenting on that emotional connection and obsolete technology. Bender searches for VHS format home-video footage and then re-photographs it using a 35mm camera. Her photographs serve as the ultimate lament for the traditional photographic medium. Grant Willing, photographing using film, produces compelling images which emphasize the things themselves; photographs. Presented in varying sizes, his composition of photographs emphasizes their physical characteristics as opposed to being only about the images they contain.
In his Faded series, Luis Lazo manipulates his own family's portraits to capitalize on the nature of traditional photographic prints; eventual decay. In his manipulation of the images, all information about the people and events being photographed is obscured until it is almost unrecognizable as a photograph, making references to death and the past. Abner Nolan, who also uses vernacular photography, employs found negatives from garage sales and flea markets, pairs them with celestial imagery, and printis the images on non-archival-sure-to-turn-to-dust-in-ten-years newsprint paper. A silent dialog of the unknown is formed, a theme also represented in the work of Samantha Salzinger.
Salzinger works with meticulously constructed dioramas which she photographs using a 4x5 view camera. She then scans her sheet negatives, and in the case of her Outer Space series, digitally constructs the sky and atmosphere of her invented landscapes. Unlike Salzinger, Humberto Torres chooses to capture in photos a landscape that is actually vanishing rather than a ephemeral brain map of alien worlds. Torres makes his work in the Florida Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands off the South western coast of the state, an environment currently threatened by what is estimated to be the worst oil spill in United States history. Poetically, his fascination with a disappearing art and a dissolving landscape makes a statement about where and on what humans place value.
In attempt to expose our psychologically constructed world, both Colleen Plumb and Kyle Ford focus in on what Plumb refers to as "Fake Nature." This theme connects back to the nature of photography today, in which the unavoidable question is always asked when something astonishing is seen in a photograph: "Is that Photoshopped?"
Over the past twenty years, the digital revolution has literally lowered the value we place on pictures. We have replaced tangible documents, such as prints and negatives, with phantom information stored on Stick Drives and Memory Cards. While the ability to instantly see what the camera has captured has its advantages, what is seen on a palm-sized LCD screen is usually clear, crisp, and candy-coated. The anticipation that builds with the time spent waiting to develop and process film keeps the medium magical and breathes life into our images and the memories we have connected to them.
The photographers in this exhibition, regardless of processes used, give the viewer back what the digital revolution has taken away; the sense of nostalgia associated with the visual documentation of places and things.
|
|
Sunday, August 15, 2010 (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31)
|
|
|
Where: Wolfsonian-FIU
Sunday, August 15, 2010
|
|
+5: RECENT ACQUISITIONS FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
OPENS APRIL 23, 2010
April 23, 2010 through September 26, 2010
On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, The Wolfsonian presents +5, an exhibition showcasing the dynamic growth of its collection over the past five years. The objects on view, acquired through donation or purchase since 2006, include decorative arts, architectural elements, books, posters, and printed ephemera. The new acquisitions strengthen and broaden the collection's core themes, including design reform, urbanism, travel and transportation, advertising, and political propaganda. Highlights include rare works such as a tabletop sculpture by Gio Ponti and Tomaso Buzzi designed for the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by Richard-Ginori; a large unusual Teco bottle vase with swirled base; a historically significant oak sideboard for the Oak Parlour in Old Heath Hall by Thomas Jeckyll; exceptional art moderne paintings, songbooks, and other works from the Mac Harshberger archive; and delicate watercolors of local scenes created during the New Deal as part of the Florida Art Project.
|
|
|
|
Where: Calix Gustav Gallery
Sunday, August 15, 2010
|
|
The Passing. Calix Gustav Gallery
From Jul 10th through Sept 1st, 2010
Calix Gustav's The Passing exhibits the fleeting of time, new seasons and new beginnings representing rebirth.This resurgence is only accomplished with the understanding of life; its meaning and its hardships. Ecuadorian-born artist, Jovan Karlo Villalba creates cinematic paintings featuring visions of sweeping cataclysmic events. The increasing threat of man-made devastation in forms of biological and nuclear warfare, environmental catastrophe and economic ruin, in conjunction with their magnified portrayal in the media, has created an onslaught of social alarm and has subversively woven feelings of doom into the fabric of present-day life in America.
Colombian-born artist, Catalina Jaramillo creates an installation that deals with issues raised upon both separation from her partner and her mother's death. The installation celebrates the obsessive tendencies that some manifest with their loss and grief, it is an accumulation of the memories and objects left behind at times of loss. In reviving those who we've lost we learn to accept life's realities and thus, learn to move on and accept our destiny. The installation will combine aspects of performance art, video, photography, and sculpture.
Sculptor Richard Herzog examines parts of society and nature trying to bring awareness to these elements hoping to alter the viewer's perceptions and make them look at things differently and consider the world they live in. The sculptures are a combination of a systematic organization of natural forms possessing a chaotic multi-layered visual effect mimicking our world, dominated by its rapid pace and over stimulation.
Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29th Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.576.8116
www.calixgustav.com
|
|
|
|
Where: Artformz Alternative
Sunday, August 15, 2010
|
Artformz Alternative Presents
small wonders (art) salon
An Afternoon Art Party & Evening Exhibition Opening Reception
WHERE: Artformz Alternative
171 NW 23rd Street
Wynwood Art District
Miami FL 33127
WHEN: Afternoon BBQ Party: 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
Evening: Art Walk 2nd Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Show Dates: May 8, 2010 - August 28, 2010
small wonders (art) salon
Summer Fundraising Project
Artformz has the pleasure of announcing the opening of "small wonders (art) salon"
On May 8th the gallery will turn its exhibition halls into one of the most exciting art events of this year. Sixty-two of South Florida's best local artists will be exhibiting affordable small jewels of artwork. The works will fill the wall space and the gallery will be converted into a cornucopian installation of diverse expressions. Small Wonders promises to be a sensory overload of visual offerings that will delight the public and document the pulse of current artistic practice in our community.
The exhibit will highlight artists from around South Florida who will be showing works in a multitude of media, including painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, ceramics, and printmaking. Many artists will be exhibiting works that are their latest explorations. Small Wonders aims to raise everyone's respect for these thoughtful - coveted - irreverent - spontaneous - small works, and to showcase these works that are an important part of every artists practice as they experiment and explore ideas not connected to producing work for any specific market trend, nor for institutions or galleries.
Small Wonders has been curated by the member artists at Artformz. Each member artist invited a group of respected peers. Small Wonders is an experimental event, placing a finger on the pulse of what is happening now and showcasing it. This art belongs to "now", small, but quick and directly to the point.
Artformz strongly encourages the sale of these very affordable works of art. The goal is to raise funds for South Florida artists and to support the venue's yearly community projects. All artists will be donating a portion of their sales to the gallery. Collectors purchasing art will be supporting the individual exhibiting artists and also the upcoming Artformz Project "ArtistaInvitaArtista" (ArtistInvitesArtist). This project is a Cultural Exchange program co-curated by Alette Simmons-Jimenez, artist and director of Artformz (Miami, USA) and Cristina Ghetti, artist and director of Red Nomade (Valencia, Spain). Artformz' member artists as well as a delegation from Italy, will be hosted in Valencia by Red Nomade, Miguel Gago Albert, Cultural Council of the city of Godella, and La Casa de la Cultura de Burjassot in October of 2010. The scheduled art exhibit in Spain will be accompanied by panel discussions, artist's talks, and introductions to local organizations and curators to broaden opportunities between participants. Artformz will in turn host the artist group from Spain, headed by Cristina Ghetti, and present an exhibit of their artwork at Artformz in early 2011. This event will coincide with similar cultural activities introducing these exceptionally talented artists to the Miami art scene.
Artformz invites the community to the gallery on the afternoon of the traditional 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk. From 4:00pm to 7:00pm the member artists will host a party for all the exhibiting artists, and guests to enjoy an afternoon Pre-Art Walk event. The party will feature delicious local BBQ, drinks, music and a special artist performance. This is a free event for adults and children.
Artformz Exhibiting Artists Host Committee:
Natasha Duwin, Henning Haupt, Donna Haynes, Sibel Kocabasi, Anja Marais, PJ Mills, Ray Paul,
Guillermo Portieles, Alette Simmons-Jimenez
Exhibiting Guest Artists:
Harumi Abe, Gustavo Acosta, Eric Anfinson, Rosario Bond, Duane Brandt, Pip Brandt, Leah Brown,
Bill Burke, Stephanie Cunningham, Angi Curreri, Rai Escale, Shady Eshghi, Christian Feneck,
Luis Garcia Nerey, Paul Glass, John Gurbacs, Bryan Hiveley, Judy King, Jacek Kolasinski, Greg Latch, Leila Leder Kremer, Silvia Lizama, Jules Lusson, John Martini, Lauren McAloon, Luisa Mesa,
Venessa Monokian, Hugo Moro, Carol Munder, Sam Perry, Ron Pieniak, Brian Reedy, Barbara Rivera, David Rohn, Gustavo Román, Sara Rytteke, Beatricia Sagar, Edgar Sanchez Cumbas, John Sandell, Claudia Scalise, Gretchen Scharnagl, Shari Schemmel, Carolyn Schlam, Nina Surel, Peter Symons, Chu Teppa, Paloma Teppa, Kristin Thiele, Jackie Tufford, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Daniel Viñoly, Tom Virgin, Ramon Williams
Performance:
Jackie Tufford
Music:
Pocket of Lollipops
Eats:
Marks BBQ
The Cheese Course, Midtown Miami
Please visit <http://artformzprojects.blogspot.com/>
where a preview of work that will be on exhibit at the gallery can be seen and purchased online.
|
|
|
|
Where: Miami Art Museum
Sunday, August 15, 2010
|
|
Miami Art Museum. New Work Miami
From Jul 18th through Oct 17th, 2010
Miami Art Museum will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment with New Work Miami, opening Sunday, July 18th, 2010. This Miami Art Museum-organized exhibition is conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami's artistic community, which is bursting with dynamism and sophisticated artistic points of view.
Approximately 35 artists based in the Miami area will present new and recent artworks executed in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, environmental installation and performance. The bulk of the exhibition will be presented in Miami Art Museum's recently unified 5,000 sq. ft. Plaza Level Gallery, with numerous performances, events and screenings to be presented throughout the exhibition's run.
Many of the artists are creating works for the exhibition that reach beyond the museum walls, including the Talking Head Transmitters, who will broadcast interviews with both scheduled guests and walk-in MAM visitors over live AM radio. On the lobby monitors, a video artwork by Tatiana Vahan, which depicts scenes from the artist's childhood embodying a typical, middle-class American family, intermittently interrupted by real TV commercials. Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza will turn the exhibition's gallery notes from a traditional museum brochure format to a tabloid newspaper that will be distributed at various public locations throughout the city. Other artworks will challenge visitors' perceptions, such as Don Lambert's Flatland, a large sc | | |