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

 

Making Sense brings together four artists who make distinctive contributions to contemporary painting. Through a range of approaches, they explore painting as a medium, a set of techniques, an historical institution and a framework for making sense. 

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

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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

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

For all the progress women have made in shattering glass ceilings, barriers to top leadership jobs, career progress and equal pay still exist in plenty of fields.

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.”

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Read more here: http://eprod.miamiherald.com/entertainment/season-of-the-arts/article2169870.html#storylink=c

Read more here: http://eprod.miamiherald.com/entertainment/season-of-the-arts/article2169870.html#storylink=c

 

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, 2015

This 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.

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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

Join the conversation: @ArtProductionNY @HydeParkVillage #hydeparkvillageart

For more information please visit: www.artproductionfund.org


New York Times Blog article about the project

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

By Daniel A. Brown

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.”

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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.

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The Pink House Art Gallery opens in Tavernier - posted by FFAB

 

Susana Fryman stands in front of the newly-opened Pink House Art Gallery.

The Reporter September 19, 2014 
 
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

The Art World Finds a New Home in Broward County - posted by FFAB

                                                          Sølve Sundsbø
 

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.

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

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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The Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers at the Norton Museum - posted by FFAB

The Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers
Norton Museum 
October 2nd 2014 - January 11th 2015

Every other year, the Norton invites a panel of world-renowned artists to nominate emerging photographers whose work is on the leading edge of contemporary art and photography, but have not yet had a solo exhibition at a museum. Those nominees share an exhibition. A separate panel of judges awards one of them the $20,000 Rudin Prize, named for the late New York City real estate developer Lewis Rudin.  This year’s nominators are: Thomas Demand (Germany), Adi Nes (Israel), Luis Gonzalez Palma (Guatemala), and Deborah Willis (USA). 

2014 Rudin Prize Nominees: 

Delphine Fawundu (USA)

Miriam Böhm (Berlin)

Renato Osoy (Guatemala)

Rami Maymon (Isreal)

 

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Permutations: Contemporary Art from Cuba at Pan American Art - posted by FFAB

 Gustavo Acosta - Postcards from Havana 2012

Permutations: Contemporary Art from Cuba 
Pan American Art - Miami
Sep1 - Nov 5

Pan American Art Projects is very pleased to announce our next exhibition Permutations. The show brings together the works of five artists who live and work in Cuba. They are Abel Barroso, J. Roberto Diago, Jorge Lopez Pardo, and the duo of Meira Marrero & Jose Toirac (M&T)
Throughout the show we can see a distinctive component that has characterized Contemporary Cuban Art for at least the past two decades: direct or indirect social and political commentaries. While some artists choose to illustrate it straight with clear symbols, others take an introspective attitude and use metaphors instead. 
 

About Pan American Art
Pan American Art Projects specializes in art of the Americas with the mission to build a bridge between North and South American cultures by presenting and exhibiting artists from both regions concurrently. 

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Suzanne Weaver Will Lead Miami’s New Contemporary Art Museum - posted by FFAB

Suzanne Weaver. Photo: courtesy the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, K

Suzanne Weaver Will Lead Miami’s New Contemporary Art Museum
ArtNet - Sarah Cascone, Tuesday, September 23, 2014

The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami (see “MOCA North Miami Closes in Controversy“), is making a fresh start in its new Miami Design District home with Suzanne Weaver, who has been appointed the reborn institution’s interim director.

A 20 year art world veteran, Weaver has previously held curatorial positions at institutions such as the Dallas Museum of Art and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. Alex Gartenfeld, who had served in an interim capacity as director since September of 2013, following the departure of Bonnie Clearwater, has been promoted to deputy director and chief curator. He joined the museum in May of 2013 as a curator.

The new ICA Miami looks to move past its troubled MOCA North Miami past, which saw the city fail to provide funding and led to a heated battle over museum leadership (see “The Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Sues City For Breach of Contract” and “Racist Taunts Escalate MOCA North Miami Feud“).

It will open in the the Design District’s Moore Building in December, presumably just in time for Art Basel in Miami Beach festivities (see “Art Basel in Miami Beach 2014 Boasts an Intimidating 267 Galleries“). The interim space, provided rent-free by Miami Design District Associates while the board of trustees seeks a new permanent home, measures 12,500 square feet.

“We are thrilled to be welcoming Suzanne Weaver as our new interim director, whose talent, enthusiasm, and professional experience will be an invaluable asset as the museum continues to grow,” said Ray Ellen Yarkin, co-chair of the ICA’s board, in a press release.

“It is truly an honor to work with such a highly talented and committed Board of Trustees and staff to launch a new museum of contemporary art dedicated to quality, excellence, and rigor,” added Weaver. “Together, we will create an institution that will be an important addition to Miami’s dynamism internationally and make a lasting mark on the intellectual, cultural, and artistic life of the region.”