One of Elliot Miller’s creatures. There is a gem of an exhibit up in North Miami: a solo show populated by forest creatures, carved, chiseled and chainsawed out of wood. The artist is a native Miamian who passed away in 2003, though many locals may not be aware of him. Elliot Miller’s woodland animals – […]
Article · February 20, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Laddie John Dill installation center; Cayetano Ferrer’s carpet beneath; Michael Hunter’s paintings on walls. The Michael Jon Gallery, one of only two Miami galleries represented in Art Basel Miami Beach this year, has moved into new space in the Little Haiti neighborhood. It’s on a side street off of N.E. Second Avenue, across from a […]
Article · February 17, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Rey Jaffet starts painting the Douglas Gardens walls. Art, and especially outdoor street art, has become entwined with everyday life in Miami. Those of us living here may have recognized this, but maybe it’s the tons of visitors who have descended for this holiday weekend who will notice it most. There are the obvious murals […]
Article · February 13, 2015 by Anne Tschida
The London Police “Samurai Girl” at FAAM Urban Art Week. We can fairly call this mid-February period a mini Art Week – and really not so mini. Art Wynwood returns to Midtown, the Coconut Grove Arts Festival dominates further south, and Second Saturdays are in full swing in Wynwood – and they all are taking […]
Article · February 10, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Antoni Tapies’s “Porta roja,” 1995. The amazing aspect to “Tàpies: From Within” is the scope of the Catelan painter’s work. This survey of Antoni Tàpies’ 70-year long career, which started in the 1940s and ended with his death in 2012, just opened at the Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM). In other words, he put his […]
Article · February 6, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Small pieces drawn and found make up “Everyone Goes Home at the End of the Day.” Jorge Pantoja might be best known for his cinematic take in his paintings and drawings: smallish canvases filled with color but also melancholy and nostalgia, with somewhat figurative depictions of movies and memories from his past, which started in […]
Article · February 3, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Detail of ‘Another Space,’ Ye Hongxing. Art Lexing is inaugurating its new space in what is called the Ironside community north of the Design District with artworks from Beijing-based Ye Hongshing. “The Dazzling World of Ye Hongxing” is a beautiful choice for a gallery in an increasingly lovely stretch in the Upper East Side, on […]
Article · January 30, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Sinisa Kucek’s “Red, Yellow and Blue” at Your Fountainhead. The Fountainhead enterprise continues to spread its wings. There is the Fountainhead Residency program, which has brought some great artists to town, many of whom have then had exhibits in Miami; the Fountainhead Studios, which houses myriad artists and has open studio nights; and now there […]
Article · January 27, 2015 by Anne Tschida
One of the original art outlets in Miami, the Bakehouse Art Complex. There seems to be a trend at galleries these days, to throw weekly events or happenings, to keep movement flowing. Gallery Diet, Emerson Dorsch and now the Bakehouse Art Complex are examples. The Bakehouse has been giving a platform to emerging artists since […]
Article · January 23, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Installation from Beatriz Monteavaro. Photo by Zachary Balber There is a lot going on in the inspiration for “International Friendship Exhibition,” which opened up during Art Basel at Primary Projects. There are themes of contradiction, of propaganda, of the truly bizarre world of North Korea. That’s right, the name actually is taken from a pavilion […]
Article · January 20, 2015 by Anne Tschida
Sample of zine pages at the Freedom Tower. Like everything today in the cultural arts, interdisciplinary, multi-genre connections are what it’s all about. Isolated communities just don’t cut it anymore – but nor should they ever have. After all, music and dance always found each other good partners, so why not other combinations? Increasingly that’s […]
Article · January 19, 2015 by Anne Tschida