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This is the premier glass gallery in South Florida and is always showing exciting work. GL
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Renoir to Chagall | Tampa Museum of Art - posted by FFAB
“The Seine at Billancourt” was painted by Alfred Sisley between 1877-78.
DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS
Renoir to Chagall | Paris and the Allure of ColorTampa Museum of Art
On view October 11, 2014–January 11, 2015
Impressionist and post-Impressionist works opening Saturday at the Tampa Museum of Art.
Few places continue to enthrall us like Paris
and the rich legacy of the artists who made the “City of Light” their
home. Together, these artists, including the well-known leaders of
French impres- sionism—Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille
Pissarro and Alfred Sisley—came to define 19th-century Parisian moder-
nity, bringing to life the cafés, city streets, and brightly lit
seaside resorts of the French capital and its environs.
Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color showcases 55 masterpieces from the renowned collection of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.
Museum Show info here
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Jamie Wyeth's Portraits of Rudolf Nureyev - posted by FFAB
Jamie Wyeth's Portraits of Rudolf Nureyev at the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
October 11, 2014 through January 18, 2015
Images of the Dancer from the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
This exhibition focuses on the art of Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) and is drawn from the substantial holdings of the Wyeth Family in the Brandywine River Museum of Art’s collection. It explores the unique collaboration between Wyeth, one of this country’s greatest living painters, and the famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev (1938‒1993). These exuberant works were made in many media and date between 1977 and 2001, including posthumous portraits Wyeth created. The Museum is supplementing the nineteen portraits—three of which are large in scale—with five costumes in the Brandywine’s collection that Nureyev wore in some of his most memorable performances.
Show info here
My teenage niece has a recently discovered love for Andrew and Jamie Wyeth. She even has a Jamie Wyeth gallery opening postcard taped to her high school binder. I'm a big fan of originality and I'll bet my niece is the only highschooler in America to be proudly flying a Wyeth work. Her friends may think it's strange but I think that shows she's already way ahead of the crowd! GL
Monday, October 20, 2014
Ann Norton sculpture delayed as public art program prepares for funding boom - postedby FFAB
Ann Norton sculpture delayed as public art program prepares for funding boom
Palm Beach Daily News
By Jan Sjostrom
Two years after the City of West Palm Beach approved commissioning a 35-foot Ann Norton sculpture for the Okeechobee Boulevard median next door to the Kravis Center not a single brick has been laid.
The delay is connected to changes in the city’s public art ordinance that are likely to uncork a gusher of new money for public art. The revision, approved in March, adds private construction to certain city-financed building projects as a source of financing for public art.
Under the new ordinance, municipal, commercial and multi-family residential projects with above-ground costs exceeding $500,000 will be assessed 1 percent for the public art fund. As an alternative, developers can provide artwork or historical or cultural elements of equivalent value, with the approval of the city’s art in public places advisory board and the city commission.
“We anticipate collecting up to $3 million over the next 12 months if building permits are issued the way we expect them to be,” said Christine Thrower, director of the parks and recreation department, which oversees public art.
That’s a huge leap from the $535,000 the city collected from 2000 to 2012, when the city spent a little more than $69,000 on public art projects.
With so much money on the way, the city has determined it needs a public art master plan. The city has selected IBI Group, a global architecture, planning, engineering and technology firm with offices in Pompano Beach, to create the plan. The plan must be completed by May. The city also intends to hire a public art coordinator, its first staff person wholly dedicated to public art.
The Ann Norton sculpture, which was to be executed in consultation with the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, will be re-examined in the context of the new master plan, city leaders said.
See more at: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/news/ann-norton-sculpture-delayed-as-program-prepares-f/nhcwj/#sthash.Cke9due6.dpuf
Municipalities all across Florida are creating and implementing Public Art Master Plans. This year dozens have applied to the Florida's Division of Cultural Affairs grant programs. Most will be recommended for full funding. These grants were applied for as part of master plans to revitalize downtowns, create new city spaces by reclaiming abandon lots or enhance already important city parks.
Cities gain value through public art - cultural, social, and economic value. Public art is a distinguishing part of our public history and our evolving culture. It reflects and reveals our society, adds meaning to our cities and uniqueness to our communities. public art humanizes the built environment and invigorates public spaces. It provides an intersection between past, present and future. GL
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Wynwood | Art Basel Tours by The Art Experience- posted by FFAB
Art | Experience
ARTISTIC & CULINARY ART BASEL 2014 TOUR PACKAGES
Our tour packages offers a unique opportunity for everyone to dine and explore the three art-centric neighborhoods of Miami Art Districts with (celebrity eateries and bars), Art Galleries, Design Houses and Studios, and the Wynwood Walls. We offer the tour to our locals every week, also we offer customized tour pacakages for (Art Basel) an artistic experience and (SOBE Food and Wine Festival) a culinary experience, this opportunity has never before been offered outside of these two major international events occurring only once a year with over 1,000,000 in attendance.
We provide a 3-Course Dining Experience prepared by Celebrity Chefs at a selection of fine restaurants Oak Tavern, Riviera Focacceria, Shokudo and more, with décor and service at its finest. Our Exclusive Design District, Midtown and Wynwood (Art Districts) Passport which is actual passport sized, containing detailed maps of the districts, venues and vendor locations and ads, gallery information and points of interest. The best part of the passport is the incentives section made just for us, including discounts, 2 for 1’s and savings valued at over $300.00! The passport is good for one year so it may be used repeatedly, the purpose being to bring the customer back to enjoy our three art districts over and over again. Also inclusive Your Personal Exclusive Tourator ( a tour guide highly knowledgeable of the arts) available for (groups of 6+) – The best part of the tour, before or after you dine, you will be able to view some of the best art collections in the world. Entrance into the district’s exclusive galleries is $10 per person normally, and inclusive in the tour is not only one gallery, but up to three galleries. View the Walls of Wynwood, the Margulies Collection, Rubell Collection, and have a once in a lifetime experience!
Website with tour info and pricing found at http://www.artbaseltours.com/
I'm excited hearing about this group and I'm sure they will do well. To get the most out of your time in Wynwood, with the artwork so spread out, its wise to go you're first time with someone who knows the area. I have been giving tours of Wynwood and Art Basel for years now and have been posting my "Glenn's Guide to Art Basel" as a way to demystify the art scene for first timers. A permanent tour company that specializes in the area is a welcomed idea and one I will utilize. GL
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Tribute to American Painter Robert Butler - posted by FFAB
Tribute to American Painter Robert Butler-Florida Wildlife & Landscape Artist
At South Florida State College
November 4, 2014 all day
SHOWING: September 2014-December 2014
Robert Butler, is an American painter best known for his paintings of the wildlife and woods around Florida’s Everglades area. He was a member of the well-known African-American artist’s group, The Highwaymen. He was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, along with the other original Highwaymen.
Butler developed his own style, which was exemplified by fine detail and a dramatic, romantic lighting. He painted every Florida ecosystem with an abiding love for the swamps, palmetto flats, hardwood forests, rivers, lakes, pine flats, and wildlife of wild Florida.
For many years, I’ve lived close to nature and witnessed the beauty my privileged eye has been allowed to see. As an artist, it is important to me to share my experiences, and whenever I work, it is the larger view that I strive to maintain. I invite you to look at your experience in the same way. The textured tapestry we call reality is constantly changing. An artist is one of the few who will be privileged to add his or her special splash of color. My love for the land is the strength behind my paintings, and I know there are many others who share my feelings.
– Robert Butler
Show info here
Robert was a great artist and a great man. His work will live on to tell the story of Florida before the mass development. The wildlife in his paintings is what distinguished him from the other Highwaymen. Every Florida hunter I know has one of Robert's paintings in their collection. GL
Friday, October 17, 2014
How Should Our Buildings Adapt to Florida’s Rising Sea Levels? - posted by FFAB
How Should Our Buildings Adapt to Florida’s Rising Sea Levels?
As sea levels rise and Florida sinks, how should our buildings adapt? The new Perez Art Museum Miami points the way.
Sarasota Magazine
By: Alastair Gordon
From the Article;
... A map recently published by National Geographic shows what North America might look like after the polar ice caps have melted. Coastal areas along the east coast will be entirely underwater and Florida—the entire peninsula, including Sugarloaf—is not even on the map.
“Miami, as we know it today, is doomed,” says Harold Wanless, chairman of the department of geological sciences at University of Miami. “It’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when.” Wanless and other scientists predict that by 2030, the sea may have risen more than two feet and as much as six feet by 2100.
“This is ground zero for sea-level rise,” warned U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who hosted a hearing in Miami Beach on Earth Day last April. More than $1.5 billion has already been allocated for projects designed to hold back the rising tides. Dutch flood experts have been flown in to consult on the matter, and Broward County enacted a climate change master plan, but all of this may be in vain, a case of too little, too late.
Despite the dire predictions, investors and developers in Miami and other coastal cities seem to have missed the memo. With speedy profits in mind, they’ve been lulled into mass denial and continue to build higher and more elaborate structures in a place that may, one day, be a sunken city. Instead of sober resolve, there’s an intoxicated, end-of-the-world giddiness to new development that, regrettably, matches the area’s stereotypical image of sybaritic excess. Party hard and live for today! Forget about the drowning future. Miami Goes Wild, reads the wet T-shirt of today. Of course, it doesn’t help that many of the state’s political leaders—including Gov. Rick Scott, Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush—continue to insist that climate change is a myth conjured up by a liberal conspiracy.
Illustration by Rob Jones
Money speaks louder than scientific fact. Real estate is booming. Wildcat investments are pouring in from South America, Europe, Russia and the Far East. Virtually every block along Miami Beach has a new project under construction, and the skyline of downtown Miami bristles with glassy new high-rise buildings that appear to have been dropped into place like so many alien entities. Architecture with a capital “A” is exploited as a mighty marketing tool, with riotous forms and oversized balconies that expand giddily into fleckless blue skies.
As Miami rises higher, the city continues to sink at alarming rates. On any given day, you can find areas that are already under water, depending on the tide and lunar cycle. Sub-level garages and residential basements are regularly flooded. Fresh water is being contaminated as sewage gets displaced by seawater. Storm drains are overflowing and can’t handle the saltwater that bubbles up through the porous limestone aquifer. During the full moon, small rain puddles expand into lagoons that stretch along the lower sections of Alton Road while the undercarriages of Bentleys and Maseratis corrode in the brackish soup.
Full Article found here
Interesting article. It's sad to think my grandchildren may not be able to grow up on the same land as the last four generations of my family because it will be underwater. What do we do at this point to mitigate the damage? And why are the developers not worried? As the article states; "Money speaks louder than scientific fact." Until the rising ocean cuts into their bottom line the buildings will continue to go up right to the waters edge. GL
Thursday, October 9, 2014
PMorgan Chase & Co. announce a major gift of art to PAMM’s permanent collection - posted by FFAB
Pérez Art Museum Miami Receives Significant New Works for the Museum’s Permanent Collection from JPMorgan Chase
By Alexa Ferra
By Alexa Ferra
MIAMI – At today’s Seventh Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, JPMorgan Chase & Co. announced a major gift of art to the museum’s permanent collection. This gift includes six works by American women: Pat Stier, Marilyn Minter, Jenny Holzer and Maya Lin, across a range of different media. The announcement was made by Lisa Erf, director of the JPMorgan Chase Art Program, at the luncheon following a discussion with PAMM Director Thom Collins on corporate art collecting for a community.
“JPMorgan Chase has a long history of supporting the arts in South Florida, and we are incredibly grateful for yet another gesture of the company’s commitment to culture and this community,” said Thom Collins, PAMM director. “This gift is the perfect example of how corporate collecting contributes to making art more accessible to our community.”
"This is a collection of art that belongs in a museum and for this generation to appreciate,” said Erf. “We are thrilled that these pieces have found a great home at PAMM."
More than 300 of South Florida’s most influential business leaders attended the highly-anticipated luncheon, which honors the corporate community for its vital support of the arts in South Florida. For the first time, the luncheon was held at the museum’s new, and now iconic waterfront facility. Attendees enjoyed the lunch reception and viewed the museum’s new exhibition, Beatriz Milhazes: Jardim Botânico, which opened just last week, and has received rave reviews by the national and international art community.
PAMM Chairman of the Board of Trustees Aaron Podhurst presented the Seventh Annual PAMM Corporate Honors to J.P. Morgan—the firm’s investment bank--, in recognition of the company’s vital impact on the arts in South Florida. In addition to having one of the most established corporate art collections, JPMorgan Chase & Co. has a long legacy of supporting cultural programs, and promoting education and access for the entire community. In South Florida, the firm has supported the Museum of Science, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Discovery of Science, and Miami Art Museum and Pérez Art Museum Miami’s educational and community programs since 1999.
The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County Schools, reaching more than 50,000 children since opening in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free programs possible, which include: free family activities every second Saturday; Brick by Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth; and more.
For the fourth consecutive year, presenting sponsor of the PAMM Corporate Luncheon was South Motors Automotive Group. Additional Pérez Art Museum Miami Corporate Luncheon supporters included: gold sponsors Cernuda Arte; Citi; City National Bank; Douglas Elliman Real Estate; JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Novela & Associates; Podhurst Orseck, P.A.; and UBS Wealth Management; and silver sponsors: Bank of America; BBVA Compass; Beaux Auctions; Carol C. Lumpkin and R. Hugh Lumpkin; Classical South Florida 89.7 FM; Itaú; Jose Milton & Associates; MSC Cruises; Perry Ellis International; RBC Wealth Management; The Americas Collection; U.S. Trust; and Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L.
63rd Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition at Boca- posted by FFAB
Tony Vazquez-F (Miami), Mene Grande, 2014, bitumen
63rd Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Till October 18th
As the state’s oldest annual juried competition, the All Florida has introduced the work of thousands of Florida artists working in all media: emerging, mid-career, and established artists. It reinforces the Museum’s commitment to Florida artists, provides professional exhibition opportunities for emerging artists, and reveals a provocative glimpse – through Florida artists’ eyes – of the state-of-the-art today through approximately 100 paintings, sculpture, photographs, video and installations.
Best in Show
Tony Vazquez-F
Merit Awards
Brookhart Jonquil
Vincent Miranda
José Pacheco Silva
Wayne Thornbrough
Clara Varas
Show info
Two weeks left to see this great show! GL
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
BIG at Art Serve - posted by FFAB
BIG
Art Serve
Till Oct 31
ArtServe
is going BIG! Stunning large-scale pieces in a range of media fill the
gallery this fall. The area’s artists present colossal new works from
their collections which will be judged by a panel of experts. Be it a
giant painting, a massive sculpture, a towering textile, photo or glass
work, the epic art found at BIG will make an over-sized impression.
Jill C. Weisberg, M.F.A., Downtown Hollywood Mural Project
Hamilton Aguiar, Wynwood Art Group
Reception & Award Presentation
Oct 9 6-8pmA cash prize and “People’s Choice Award” will be presented
Show info
Bill Cosby Loan Private Art Collection to the Smithsonian - posted by FFAB
Bill and Camille Cosby Loan Private Collection to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art
Selected Works Never Before Seen Publicly. One of the world’s preeminent private collections of African American art will have its first public viewing later this year at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. “Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue” brings together artworks from two world-class collections: the National Museum of African Art and the William H. and Camille O. Cosby Collection. The exhibition, which opens at the museum Nov. 9 and remains on view through early 2016, is a major part of the museum’s 50th anniversary, celebrating its unique history and contributions toward furthering meaningful dialogue between Africa and the African diaspora.
“Conversations” presents selected pieces from the Cosby collection, including works by Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Loïs Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Keith Morrison, Faith Ringgold, Augusta Savage, Henry Ossawa Tanner and Alma Thomas. With the exception of one work of art, the Cosby collection has never been loaned or seen publicly and only rarely and selectively published. These and other works of African American art are placed in thematic dialogue with African traditional works of art, including a Kongo female figure with child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lidded bowl from Nigeria by the Yoruba master artist Olowe of Ise and a Nuna butterfly mask from Burkina Faso, and with modern and contemporary works of art by artists, including Fodé Camara from Senegal, Godfried Donkor from Ghana and William Kentridge from South Africa. The exhibition and its accompanying publication are organized to explore intersecting ideas about history, creativity, power, identity and artistry in ways that resonate with people the world over.
Henry Ossawa Tanner 1859–1937, United States
The Thankful Poor 1894
The Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr.
Photograph by Frank Stewart
The Thankful Poor 1894
The Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr.
Photograph by Frank Stewart
The unique experience of viewing exceptional African and African American art reinforces the Cosbys’ energizing message: We should all welcome the world of art into our lives—it belongs to us all if we only go out there and make it our own. Bill Cosby also introduced African American art to millions worldwide as a prominent feature of his landmark television series three decades ago.
“At the National Museum of African Art we are excited to show the world these treasured African American artworks for the first time ever,” said Johnnetta Betsch Cole, director of the museum. “The exhibition will encourage all of us to draw from the creativity that is Africa, to recognize the shared history that inextricably links Africa and the African diaspora and to seek the common threads that weave our stories together and over time as part of the human family.”
“It’s so important to show art by African American artists in this exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art,” said Bill Cosby. “To me, it’s a way for people to see what exists and to give voice to many of these artists who were silenced for so long, some of whom will speak no more.”
“Our mission can be summarized by Elizabeth Catlett, ‘Art must answer a question, or wake somebody up, or give a shove in the right direction,’” said Camille Cosby.
Exhibition Highlights
- Rare late 18th- and early 19th-century portraits by the Baltimore-based African American artist Joshua Johnston
- Explorations of black spirituality in the 1894 masterwork “The Thankful Poor” by Henry Ossawa Tanner and in the 1943 painting “Boy and the Candle” by South African artist Gerard Sekoto
- The struggle for freedom and equality explored through the 1989 sculpture “Toussaint Louverture et la vieille esclave” by the Senegalese artist Ousmane Sow and the 1982 painting “Still Life: Souvenir No. IV” by the African American artist Eldzier Cortor
- History, knowledge and memories explored through Cosby family quilts and African textile
- A section on music and urban life that includes African musical instruments and African and African American modern and contemporary works
Show info
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
MAKING SENSE: Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson at USF Contemporary - posted by FFAB
MAKING SENSE: Rochelle Feinstein, Deborah Grant, Iva Gueorguieva, Dona Nelson
September 27 – December 12, 2014
USF Contemporary Art Museum
USF Contemporary Art Museum
Inspired by WWII-era Enigma decoding machines, Rochelle Feinstein takes on puzzling figures of speech, inscrutable ideas and encrypted social codes as challenges for painterly representation.
Using a method she calls “Random Select,” Deborah Grant creates imagined, non-linear narrative encounters between historical artists, interwoven with her own varied humanistic interests from literature to religion.
Iva Gueorguieva adapts the visual language of modern abstraction to create tumultuous, energetic spaces on canvas; her process of building up paintings by layering torn cloth with pigment and color washes produces spontaneous, dynamic compositions rooted in personal stories.
Dona Nelson’s two-sided paintings, stained and layered with strands of cheesecloth, invite viewers to encounter them as freestanding forms.
Making Sense includes new works produced by Feinstein and Gueorguieva at Graphicstudio, the 45-year-old collaborative printmaking and sculpture atelier of the USF Institute for Research In Art.
Curated by Margaret Miller, Director, USF Institute for Research in Art, and Megan Voeller, Associate Curator of Education, USF Contemporary Art Museum; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum
Show info
Alone in the Virtual Museum - New Yorker - postedby FFAB
Alone in the Virtual Museum
The New Yorker
By Alexandra Schwartz
One afternoon last June, while traveling in Naples, I went out wandering and found myself standing in the kind of vast cobblestone square that seems designed for a Fascist rally or the celebration of a royal birth. To my right stood a building that looked like a steroidal homage to the Pantheon; to my left, a long, squat loaf of a mansion that turned out to be the Palazzo Reale, the urban seat of the Bourbon monarchs during their rule, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. I bought a ticket, and found myself in an entrance hall of white, pink, and black marble, dominated by two cascading staircases leading away from one another and toward the vaulted, absinthe-colored ceiling far above. Each could have easily fit four horsemen riding side by side; you could almost hear the hiss made by silk dresses sweeping down the steps and the laughter of the women wearing them. Apart from a half dozen guards playing cards at a small folding table, I was alone. “Go up either one,” a guard wearing an eye patch made entirely of masking tape told me, and I proceeded up the left staircase and through a series of ornate rooms decorated with silk wallpaper and gilded mirrors and portraits of the thick-faced, ogreish Bourbons. Though I occasionally crossed paths with three or four other dazed visitors, I was otherwise left entirely to myself.
I felt a similar solitude the other day, while walking through a ghostly Metropolitan Museum, starting by the Tiffany windows in the American wing and working my way back through medieval art and European sculptures to the front atrium, without encountering a soul. Or maybe “walking” is too anthropomorphic a way to put it; the motion was closer to a glide, or to the bobbing of a stunned moth. My visit was courtesy of Google Art Project, which, in the case of the Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and a number of other institutions, offers partial glimpses, via Google Street View, into great art and archeology sites around the world, under the aegis of the company’s Cultural Institute. Among other things, the Cultural Institute seeks to change the way that art is looked at on the Internet by displaying high-resolution images of a growing range of art works—street art was added this summer—and by ushering people through virtual tours of the places where those art works can be seen.
Some critics complain that Google’s initiative to take us on virtual trips through museums and to show us great pieces of art on demand, as we sit gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast. In 2013, the most visited paying show anywhere was an exhibition of artifacts from the Western Zhou Dynasty, held at the National Palace Museum in Taipei (ten thousand nine hundred and forty six people a day), and the most visited show free of charge was an exhibition of Impressionist works at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, in Rio (more than eight thousand). People want to walk through the halls and look at the stuff on the walls, and, increasingly, they’re doing just that. It’s worth mentioning that a number of museums are jumping on the digital bandwagon, putting pieces from their collections on Pinterest, as the Getty is doing, or, like the Rijksmuseum, making entire collections available on their Web sites and encouraging Web visitors to download favorite images; these are not the actions of institutions that fear for their lives.
Full New Yorker Article here
I posted last year about the Google project here
Monday, October 6, 2014
Women rule the South Florida arts world - postedby FFAB
Silvia
Karman Cubiñá of the Bass Museum, Beth Boone of Miami Light Project,
Susan Danis of Florida Grand Opera, Lourdes Lopez of Miami City Ballet
and Barbara Stein of Actors’ Playhouse, clockwise from left, gather in
the Arsht Center’s Ziff Ballet Opera House.Al Diaz/MIAMI HERALD STAFF
Women rule the South Florida arts world
Miami Herald
But in South Florida’s arts-and-culture community, it’s a different story. For women with vision and the drive to lead, that story is one of opportunity, challenges and creative fulfillment.
On the eve of the 2014-2015 season, a look at the range of visual arts organizations, dance companies, theaters, performance presenters, music groups and opera companies turns up what may be to some a surprising fact: Here, women rule.
Look at a sampling of 148 of the more than 350 arts and culture groups funded through Miami-Dade County’s Department of Cultural Affairs, and you’ll find 91 are led by women. In Broward, of 50 groups receiving grants from the county’s Cultural Division, 28 are headed by women. In Palm Beach, of 73 arts and culture organizations belonging to the county’s Cultural Council, 50 are run by women.
The groups range from startups with modest means to huge organizations with budgets in the millions. Miami City Ballet, the Florida Grand Opera, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and several major museums — the Bass, the NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, the Frost, the Norton — are all woman-led.
Many women are running organizations they created. Some of the region’s power players ascended into their jobs; as Judith Mitchell, chief executive officer of the Kravis Center, observes, “I’m a product of promotion from within. I believe in it.” Still others were hired away from cultural groups in different cities.
Ask some of them why women dominate the arts scene here, and they share a variety of theories. Joann María Yarrow, artistic director of the Spanish-language Teatro Prometeo and conservatory at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson campus, has an evocative one.
“It goes back to the idea that Miami is a young city. Older cities have [entrenched] male leadership, and it’s about women breaking through that,” Yarrow says. “In Miami, women are in the forefront. And if you were going to give Miami a gender, you’d have it say it’s a woman.”
Full Article here
3 Shows on Japanese Design at Morikami - posted by FFAB
Japanese Design for the Senses: Beauty, Form and Function
The MorikamiSeptember 30, 2014 – January 18, 2015This exhibition features three distinct portions related to the theme of Japanese design aesthetics. Each exhibit features objects that touch the human senses visually and spatially, with each work designed and crafted to be both beautiful and useful. Examples range from folding screens with exquisite paintings that divide a room and provide privacy, to brilliant lacquer storage boxes engraved with gold and silver powdered designs, to remarkable furniture pieces that are as magnificent in their form as they are in their functionality.
Touch of Gold: Lacquerware Boxes and the Paintings of Elaine Ehrenkranz
Over 40 years Elaine Ehrenkranz, a talented painter, formed a
comprehensive collection of magnificent Japanese lacquerware boxes
ranging in date from the 15th- to the mid-19th centuries. A large
portion of her collection was donated to the Harvard University Art
Museums in 1997, with the remaining masterpieces, including several of
Elaine’s paintings inspired by these Japanese lacquerware boxes,
bequeathed to Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in 2013. Touch of Gold features her remarkable gift to Morikami.
Ma: Defining Space, Studio Furniture of Yoko Zeltserman-Miyaji
A built-in storage system comprised of staggered shelves, chigai-dana,
first appeared inside shoin-style homes in the Kamakura era (1192 –
1333), replacing the freestanding, portable bookcases that were used to
store and display scrolls, books, tea utensils and other decorative
objects. A companion to the tokonoma, an alcove in which hanging scrolls and other objects of art are decoratively displayed, chigai-dana
is an integral part of Japanese domestic architecture. In its design,
this timelessly elegant shelving and storage system accentuates the
simple yet refined beauty of form and function that is the core of
Japanese furniture design. This exhibition was organized by Mobilia
Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Katachi: The Essence of Aesthetic Form and Function in Japanese Furniture
Katachi embodies the hallmark of Japanese aesthetics: the
harmonious balance of the beauty of form and the fineness of workmanship
and functionality. This exhibition draws upon Morikami’s own collection
of Japanese furniture, including 19th-century decorative folding
screens, large, multi-door storage chests, and benches and tables made
by George Nakashima (1905 – 1990), a leading innovator of 20th-century
furniture design, and one of the founders of the American Craft
Movement.
Art Production Fund & Hyde Park Village Present a Public Installation by Jessica Craig-Martin - posted by FFAB
Jessica Craig-Martin's photographs appear on banners at Hyde Park Village in Tampa, Fla.
Credit Photos by Steve Poisall, courtesy of Art Production Fund
Art Production Fund and Hyde Park Village Present a Public Installation by Jessica Craig-Martin
Hyde Park Village and Art Production Fund are pleased to present a public installation by Jessica Craig-Martin, consisting of 46 banners on display at the Tampa luxury retail locale and neighborhood hangout. These public art works will be the first in a series of outdoor exhibitions, and will be on view at Hyde Park Village beginning September 19, 2014.
The banners feature imagery exemplary of Craig-Martin’s distinctive approach to photography, and will be installed throughout the retail district’s public areas. These works depict objects of luxury in high-contrast, cropped and fantastical compositions–a woman’s heeled foot alongside a dog’s paw, the jewel-like splendor of a chandelier, and the center rift of a of a blonde woman’s French twist – for example. At once bizarre and ambiguous, Craig-Martin’s images at Hyde Park Village are exemplary of her ongoing interest in abstract forms of fashion portraiture.
“Craig-Martin’s works bring an exciting example of contemporary art to an unexpected and uniquely appropriate public venue,” said Art Production Fund Co-Founders Doreen Remen and Yvonne Force Villareal. “We were inspired by the prospect of working in uncharted territory and within an unexpected forum, and hope this work engages the local community.”
"We are very excited to bring public art to Hyde Park and specifically to showcase Jessica’s amazing work. The beautiful and intriguing images provide a wonderful excuse for family and friends to come together for a fun and convenient cultural excursion. We hope that the show will not only make people smile but also provoke lively conversation amongst its viewers,” said Samantha David, Head of upMarkets, a division of WS Development.
Jessica Craig-Martin (b. 1963, lives and works in New York) employs photography to subvert the usually prim and glamorous representations of higher society. Craig-Martin’s photography has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times Magazine. Her work is included in such collections as the New Museum, New York, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Her work has been displayed in solo shows at PS1/MoMA, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; and Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York.
About Hyde Park Village
Hyde Park Village is comprised of six city blocks in the heart of Tampa Bay’s Hyde Park Historic District. With its first building originally constructed in 1905, the village has long been a landmark retail destination and cherished neighborhood hub. Home to a unique mixture of local, regional, and national boutiques and restaurants, The Village offers an edited array of fashion, dining, and entertainment essentials to the Tampa Bay community. With a beautiful park, majestic oak trees, and brick walkways, it also provides an exceptional venue for monthly Fresh Markets, holiday celebrations, and seasonal art festivals. http://www.hydeparkvillage.com
About Art Production Fund
Art Production Fund (APF) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning and producing ambitious public art projects, reaching new audiences and expanding awareness through contemporary art. Recent projects include: After Hours: Murals on The Bowery, NYC, 2011; David Brooks, Desert Rooftops, NYC, 2011; Josephine Meckseper, Manhattan Oil Project, NYC, 2012; Kiki Smith, Chorus, NYC, 2012; Yoko Ono, Imagine Peace Times Square, NYC, 2012; Yvette Mattern, Global Rainbow After The Storm, NYC, 2012; Ryan McGinley, Taxi TV, NYC, 2013; Tony Smith, One-Two-Three, NYC, 2013; Tracey Emin, Roman Standard, NYC 2013; Marco Brambilla, Anthropocene, NYC 2013; Vanessa Beecroft, VB73, NYC, 2014. Co-Founders: Yvonne Force Villareal & Doreen Remen; Director: Casey Fremont. www.artproductionfund.org
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For more information please visit: www.artproductionfund.org
New York Times Blog article about the project
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Kinetic Sculpture: the Poetics of Movement at Vero Beach Museum of Art - posted by FFAB
Anne Lilly, Conductor/Composer, Stainless steel, 36 x 36 x 36 in.
Kinetic Sculpture: the Poetics of Movement
Vero Beach Museum of Art
September 27, 2014 - January 4, 2015
Alexander Calder invented a form of sculpture that constantly changed as it moved in space. Based on the open forms of modernist European sculpture, this new kind of three-dimensional art –called kinetic sculpture– was both lyrical and technical. Like dance, in which forms were constantly flowing and changing as they moved in space, this new kind of sculpture was filled with poetic energy. At odds with the heavy carved or cast sculpture of earlier centuries, kinetic sculpture immediately attracted devoted followers and continues to fascinate viewers today. Vero Beach Museum of Art will present a selection of kinetic sculpture that demonstrates the poetics of movement, involving rhythmic pattern and visual forms in poetic flux. The exhibition will feature artists such as Pedro de Movellan, Tim Prentice, and Ann Lilly, who have explored fresh, lyrical approaches to kinetic sculpture.
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Kinetic sculpture was all the rage a few years ago at Art Basel Miami. I'm excited to see how the artwork will be displayed. Lighting is the key and sometimes the shadows create by the sculptures are as exciting as the artwork itself. GL
Jeff Whipple & Liz Gibson - King and Queen of the NE Florida Arts Scene - posted by FFAB
HOW JEFF WHIPPLE AND LIZ GIBSON BECAME THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE NORTHEAST FLORIDA ARTS SCENE
Folio Weekly
Posted 9/17/14
Meet Jacksonville’s creative royalty
Jeff Whipple and Liz Gibson think big.
The two Northeast Florida-based artists’ careers are testaments to
their large-scale visions, approaching huge ideas and rendering those
concepts through their respective multimedia works. I visited them at
MetaCusp, their studio-gallery space in Riverside, an extension of that
inspiration put into practice. A kind of industrial Camelot, MetaCusp is
a two-story warehouse space that serves as a laboratory of sorts where
the pair can work in relative peace, immune from outside distraction.
Pulling my car into the parking lot, I look up to see a banner hanging
on the building, a reproduction of one of Whipple’s colorful paintings
that features a couple locked in either fierce battle or playful combat.
The front door of the space is surrounded with potted plants, the only
telltale sign that this otherwise factory-sized building might have
human inhabitants. In the entryway, a large birdcage is set to one side,
and paintings occupy every available spot on the walls.
Whipple and Gibson meet me in the studio’s lounge area.
Both are wearing shorts and T-shirts, and an oscillating fan is set to
full blast to cut through the brutal summer heat. It’s early evening,
and they seem a little hangdog from the long hours they’ve worked that
day. They’re both instructors at the University of North Florida, and
they’re working against the clock to complete gargantuan projects before
the start of the fall semester.
If there is a concise definition for the term “working
artists,” it is surely this pair. Over the years, they have been
recognized individually for the caliber of their work and won numerous
awards for their ongoing efforts as visual artists. While some artists
might be featured in a dozen solo shows over the course of a lifetime,
Whipple has had a staggering 82 solo exhibits since 1980. In addition to
his visual art, he’s had 17 original plays produced, five of which
received playwriting awards. Whipple has won six state arts council
individual artist fellowships, and his website features more than 1,000
pages that document a decades-long career that rivals that of any
contemporary artist, here or anywhere.
Gibson is equally driven, and has also been recognized for
myriad accomplishments. Known for her fusion of performance and 2-D
art, Gibson has been featured in more than two dozen performances and
exhibits, as well as site-specific installations. She’s won an array of
prizes — in the last year alone she won the locally based Spark Grant
and Art Ventures grant — and is active in programs that introduce
children to visual art.
Most recently, both received Florida Individual Artist
Fellowship awards, perhaps the highest accolade offered by the state’s
Division of Cultural Affairs. Handed out bi-annually, the fellowship is
akin to a Pulitzer, recognizing artists who continually push the limits
and expand on their abilities of personal expression.
Whipple seems grateful for the honor, but brushes it all
aside, redirecting the focus to what is really important in their lives.
“The fellowship and Liz’s other recent grants just helped us do what we
always do: make art,” he says. “We would — and did — do it anyway.”
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now at the Ringling - posted by FFAB
Li Wei (1970-) Li Wei Falls to the Earth, 2012, 120x212 cm, C-Print, Courtesy of the Artist.
Seeing the Unseen: Photography and Video Art in China Now
The Ringling
Till February 2015
This exciting exhibition features photographic and video works by
important contemporary Chinese artists. Reflecting art innovations of
our media age, their works provide a fresh view of the changing cultural
landscape in China. Unlike their predecessors, these new-generation
artists are even bolder in applying new concepts and technology to
record the inspiring moments veiled in daily life, and in creating
startling and unexpected scenes. Performance and visual tricks are
smartly incorporated into their works to create impressive visual and
mental experiences, providing the opportunity for viewers to meditate on
the invisible.
The artists in the exhibition, including Cao Fei,
Li Wei, Wang Qingsong, and Miao Xiaochun, explore their individual
approaches, subjects, and styles, while mixing aesthetic ideas, cultural
expressions, and commercial inspiration. Individually and as a group,
they use art photography and video to tackle issues of identity and
experience, youth culture and urban development, history and memory, and
the conflicts of tradition and commercialization in contemporary China.
The Pink House Art Gallery opens in Tavernier - posted by FFAB
Susana Fryman stands in front of the newly-opened Pink House Art Gallery.
Susana Fryman, a South Florida entrepreneur, and her artist father, Luis Nunez, have opened a new art studio in Tavernier.
The Pink House Gallery features Nunez’s paintings, as well as works by Aleta Burge, Carlos Alvarez Cotera, Victoria Morales, Patricia Rottino Cummins and Fernando Vallejo.
“It’s been a longtime dream of mine to open an art gallery,” Fryman said in a statement. “We have lovingly and painstakingly taken on this business project. Now it is my goal to place artists’ work in a wide range of public and private collections.”
The gallery is located at 264 Tavernier Street. There is a grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 27 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. The opening exhibit features Nunez’s work “whose vibrant landscapes capture the serene beauty of Florida’s natural environment.”
Nunez was featured in the 2007 White House Christmas tree ornament exhibit, honoring the centennial of U.S. National Parks.
In 2010, Nunez was chosen by then-Gov. Charlie Cris as Florida’s featured artist for Hispanic Heritage Month.
He is an award-winning participant of art in public spaces at Florida International University, and his work is featured in permanent collections of the Florida Department of State, Biscayne National Park, Miami-Dade College, the Frost Art Museum and numerous private collections.
Call Susana at (305) 394-0069 or go to www.pinkhouseart.com for more information.
I spent a few wonderful summers in a little trailer directly on the Bay in Tavernier. Right down the street from this new gallery. I wish them much success. Oh what a dream it is to have a gallery in such an incredible beach community. Tavernier is paradise! One of the challenges will be to somehow get the cars driving past on their way to the lower Keys to stop and check out the artwork. That and actually trying to get work done on a beautiful day with the ocean calling! GL
Friday, October 3, 2014
The Art World Finds a New Home in Broward County - posted by FFAB
The Art World Finds a New Home in Broward County
By Andrea Richard Tue., Sep. 30 2014
New Times
Two years ago, anyone who invited their friends to Artwalk in FAT Village would have gotten a few blank stares. Just one year ago, you couldn't have signed up for an arduino, AKA robotics, class at Makers Square, a communal tool shop where circus music blares in the background.
But now, Miami has snagged serious international art-world cred with the annual Art Basel Miami Beach, and cultural opportunities spawned from it have crept northward. Some art professionals are making the pilgrimage here because rent and studio spaces cost less than those in the 305. That gives Broward, the attention-starved misfit, its time to shine.
Major cultural institutions paved the way, and those are still kicking: The Broward Center for the Performing Arts recently expanded its downtown facility and has been bringing audiences major theatrical productions and ballet spectacles for decades. The little church-turned-arthouse movie theater, Cinema Paradiso, will host its 29th International Film Festival this November. And the longstanding NSU Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, which critics had called mediocre at best, is transforming into a serious institution with acclaimed curator Bonnie Clearwater now at the helm.
The Museum of Art this year started a club for the young and hip, ages 18 to 30. The JETS get together the first Thursday evening of every month for live music, hip-hop dance workshops, and DJ sets at the museum, followed by an afterparty and a free drink at Bar Stache. Upcoming exhibitions at the museum include a show by New York contemporary artist Julian Schnabel, the exhibit "American Scene Photography," and, in February, works by early-20th-century Mexican artists such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Some city governments are even joining in the frenzy. In suburban Pembroke Pines, the city's curator of special projects, Jill Slaughter, has done some cool street art projects and is working on Inside Out, a global project, this fall. Downtown Hollywood has become like an outdoor arts safari thanks to the Downtown Hollywood Mural Project. Program manager Jill Weisberg has brought in street artists -- including Tatiana Suarez, 2Alas, Jessy Nite, and the London Police -- to do murals. The TM Sisters are slated to create one in January. "They're taking a big parking garage and putting a beautiful sunset mural on it and will change the complete look of that block on Tyler Street," Weisberg says.
Jane Hart, curator of the hip, contemporary Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, is psyched about the explosion of culture: "Together with the Girls' Club; the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale, with Bonnie Clearwater at the helm; Young at Art; Bedlam Lorenz Assembly; Downtown Hollywood Mural Project; and FAT Village, Broward is becoming a hotbed of contemporary art."
Hart's venue will host a December exhibition by Los Angeles artist Dave Muller, whose work, she says, "is very much focused on the history of music in all genres. He will be here for nearly two weeks creating a site-specific installation, as well as individual works, sound stations, and sculpture. For one new painting being made for this exhibit, we were able to get Iggy Pop to interact directly with Dave."
Read the full article here
Fat Village website
I see great things happening across the County. Artists are being valued and local governments are doing all they can to court artists to establish "art zones" in the more blighted areas of town. Larger art organizations and museums should continue to reach out and partner with local artists to share marketing opportunities. GL
Alex Trimino | Tales from a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere - posted by FFAB
Alex Trimino | Tales from a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere
Tales from a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery
September 11- October 31
Press Release:
Illuminated totem
poles covered in crochet, knittings and found objects reveal the
similarities between modern, hi-tech materials (micro-controlled neon
lights) and colloquial, lo-tech crafts (crochet, knittingsand weavings)
used, creating an equilibrium between traditions, technologies and
generations.
Old ways and new technologies commingle together exploring how we connect to reality today.
Old ways and new technologies commingle together exploring how we connect to reality today.
Tales
from a Sun-Drenched Elsewhere explores the nostalgic desire to revisit
time like space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time.
Trimino,
born in Colombia, lives and works in Miami, FL. She graduated with a
Master of Fine Arts degree from Florida International University. As a
recipient of the the Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship for Visual
Artists, she attended the Ox-Bow Artist Residency affiliated with the
School of The Art
Institute of Chicago. In addition, she has been the recipient of
several awards from institutions such as The Frost Art Museum, The
Elliot Museum, The Appleton Museum of Art, The Rawls Museum Arts, and
The Cambridge Art Association and was selected to participate in an
International Art Symposium in Sweden. Her work can be found in public
and private collections.
Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Gallery
Thursday, October 2, 2014
Not of This Earth: An Extraterrestrial Art Invasion at Bear & Bird - posted by FFAB
Not of This Earth: An Extraterrestrial Art Invasion
Bear & Bird
October 3rd - November 15th
Opening Night Artist Reception: Friday, October 3 from 6-10pm
Featuring artwork by: Agent 17; Al Negas; Alex Maldonado; Alex Merly; Amy Steinberg; Andrés Arango; Angelina Page; Anomie Rose; Barbrasaurus; Bianca Why; Blackened Honesty; Blair Hess; Bobby Neal Furedi; Brian Reedy; Brittany Maxey; Bryan Steinlage; Butter Cloud; Carlos G. Garcia; CHNK; Colin Christian; Constantina Pratsas-Lopez; Copernicus; Cynthia Goodman; Daniela Reyes; Danielle Brady; Danny Kidwell; Daryl Hyman; Demi Mirsky; Derion Brown; Devin Alexis Saccomanno; Dibbie Jane; Dinah! Caldwell; Elle Olive Ira; Emily Rimada; Erica Sheldon; Erin O’Dea; FWACATA; Gena del Portillo; Gioconda Taylor; Gregory Dirr; IdeaStorm Media; Illustrated Chick; J.P. Duque; Jasmine Espinal; Jenny De La Torre; JME; Johana Lopez; John Kissee; John Vale; Jonathan C. Diaz; Jonathan Gonzalez; Jonathan Jackson; Jose E. Arce Jr.; JulieCImagery; Karl Johnsen; Katnip; Kelcy Erbele; Kerry Tichenor; Kevin King; Kim Vaughan; Lailee Goodman; Lauren Robie; Lindsay Watson; London Buil; Lorenzo Mohammed; Luckas Arias-Torfs; Maor Ovzana; Maranesi; Megan Coffey; Melanie Mastrangelo; Melly Pereda; Miniver Patrice; MOCJOES; Mohammad Mumtaz; mokiok; Nadim Tabsch; Nakia X. Mann; Natalia Contreras; NicholeHatesYou; Nina N. Mitchell; Nomiie; Norma Soulet; Patrick Keane; Pavlina Nichole; Pooka Machine; Rey Acevedo; Ricardo Torraca; Rolando Guillama; Rosanna Pereyra; Rose; Shanan Cummings; Shane Weaver; Steven C. Imas; STIBI; Summer December; T-Ray; T. Sainz D.; Tanya Lopez; Tasha Milano; Tiina Purin; TJL; Travis Amores; Trisha Quintana; Violeta Caloor; Walter Gee; Wenjuice; Willo Segersbol; YoArt; Yuri Meister; Zachary Ensign; Zandra Martinez; Zero and more!
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