Argentine artist, Guillermo Kuitca’s, work is currently on view at MAM in show that will run through Art Basel to January 17. The MAM boasts that it’s the “The most comprehensive survey of Guillermo Kuitca’s work ever presented in North America,” including more than 50 canvases and 25 works on paper. On first impression, taking […]
Article · October 27, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Quiet Village, by Miami-based artist Beatriz Monteavaro, is the latest book to be released on writer/artist Gean Moreno’s [NAME] Publications imprint, and this Saturday from 7:30 to 10:30, Sweat Records will be hosting the release show for it. With this latest release, you have what seemed to be a charmingly tattered and rough around the […]
Article · October 23, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Yay! What can be said about the Miami-based artist collaborative that hasn’t been said before? They’ve been called everything from cute and magical, accessible as well as subversive, and even Miami’s answer to Takashi Murakami. The duo have been making art since 2002 and are still finding new and improved ways to infiltrate the culture […]
Article · October 20, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Tonight at Carol Jazzar gallery is Into The Wild a group show featuring works by local and national artists such as Ai Kijima, Elizabeth Condon, John DeFaro, Luis Garcia-Nerey, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Enrique Gomez De Molina, Juanita Meneses, and Michelle Weinberg. The exhibition’s theme is a straightforward one, dealing with nature and all its primitive wonder. […]
Article · October 16, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
For the most part, Second Saturdays usually offer gallery goers with a lot of sound and no fury. That’s why it’s always refreshing when something different and unexpected manages to slip through the cracks. Last Saturday’s Cutting-Edge Framing exhibition curated by New York-based Lola Sinreich and Miami-based Win McCarthy was one such exception. The show […]
Article · October 13, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
It’s Second Saturday again, Here’s some of what you have to look forward to: Dorsch Gallery opens yet again this month with three solo showings. Venting by Miami’s own Richard Haden continues his exploration into the world of hyper-realist sculpture, carving and painting wood to resemble realistic discarded pieces of metallic trash and debris. Recorded […]
Article · October 9, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
The contemporary art world is such an insular place. It often makes you wonder what’s the point of it all? And what does any of it have to do with the real-world? And seeing Art & Copy, a documentary by director Doug Pray about the advertising industry at the Bill Cosford Cinema at the University […]
Article · October 6, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
On view now at Fredric Snitzer Gallery is American Odyssey, the latest exhibition by emerging local artist Natalya Laskis. This series of paintings focuses on the American psyche and this country’s legacy of risk. The works are oil on canvas, with something of a sparse quality to them, with the details of each painting largely […]
Article · October 2, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
For those who missed it, the Hungarian-born NY-based artist Rita Ackermann gave a refreshingly inarticulate lecture at the MOCA last Saturday. Yes I know, English is not her first language, but I also believe that her body of work said all that needed to be said. As she clicked on slide after slide, chronicling her […]
Article · September 29, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Tonight at 7 p.m. is Pivot Points 3 at MOCA. This exhibition is MOCA’s third in the series of seminal works from the museum’s permanent collection, each of which denote either pivotal shits in an artist’s career or in the contemporary art world at large. You may recognize the above-pictured work by Catherine Opie, who’s […]
Article · September 25, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Pre-orders are currently available for Daniel Newman’s WWW, the first book in the [NAME] Publications series. [NAME] Publications is the brainchild of writer/artist/curator Gean Moreno, and its main function is to serve as the book equivalent of an alternative art space for Miami artists. Aside from the book’s dimensions, artists have free-reign to create […]
Article · September 22, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea