Aramis Gutierrez, “Do You Wish To Rise? Begin by Descending.” The first thing that will strike you is the series of light, pastel pink canvases that are basically empty. Very little color, very little movement in these latest paintings from one of Miami’s best painters, Aramis Gutierrez. The three main large paintings are of empty […]

A shadow play film directed by Damian Rojo and Celeste Fraser Delgado. Shadow plays may be one of the oldest forms of the collaboration of visual arts, story-telling, performance and music. Cut-out figurines move across a screen while back-lit, like an ancient video, performing some kind of a tale. It’s been particularly popular in Southeast […]

Molly Zuckerman-Hartung at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts. Summer is not officially over, but art can’t wait for artificial perimeters. Tonight, even before fall’s first Second Saturday, a number of new exhibits are being unveiled. Don’t expect to be comforted by the solo show from London’s Mat Collishaw opening at the Bass Museum of Art. Like […]

The South Florida Consortium winners show at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Almost overnight, it seems, Broward has turned into an art center. If you haven’t awakened to what is happening north of Miami, now would be the time. The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood has been consistently putting out good exhibits for […]

Unique crafts from our unique neighbor. For those of you who are still unaware that Miami International Airport has some seriously good art hanging around, this is a reminder. We are not talking about cheesy coffee shop paintings. We are talking about permanent and site-specific works from top-talent artists spread all across the various terminals: […]

Emmett Moore’s table at Gallery Diet. The world of visual arts does not — and never should — stand still. For instance, in antiquity, stone was the ubiquitous material used to create sculptures; thousands of years later, bicycle parts, TV screens and LED lights might be the material of choice. The lines among disciplines have also […]

Ian Cheng in the upcoming exhibit at MOCA, “Love of Technology.” This week it was announced that Alex Gartenfeld, recently brought in as chief curator of MOCA North Miami, will also now be serving as interim director. That’s because the founding director of MOCA – which opened up in 1996 – Bonnie Clearwater is moving […]

Robert “Meatball” Lorie and Justin Long. The summer has almost come to a crawling halt at this point, the hot dead zone of August has everyone regrouping for September. But this is exactly the time that one-off projects can pop up, as galleries and museums are not offering anything new, for the most part, until […]

20 female artists feature their performance-video works. Back when video art was still young, a puppy really, in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas emerged and transformed the genre with the incorporation of her own performances in her filmed work. She also paved the way for women — for so long so underrepresented in the art […]

Franky Cruz at Spinello Projects. Photo by Peter Vahan The world starts to spin when you walk into Franky Cruz’s two-room trip, staged at Spinello Projects new space in what is being called West of Wynwood, called “The World Is Yours.” In the first room, there’s a little green plant growing out of a little […]

Take a look at a Cannonball residency. Get your act together by Aug. 12. That’s when the residency application process for the 2014 year closes, at midnight, for Cannonball (formerly LegalArt, and a Knight Art Challenge Grant winner). Both local and visiting artists, curators, writers and other arts professionals are eligible to apply. Previous residents […]