When you think contemporary art, hardly do you ever think Hialeah. Well all that may change come Saturday with the relocated Twenty Twenty Projects’ first exhibition in its new Hialeah location. The show is curated by Twenty Twenty mainstay, Jay Hines and includes his work as well as work by a healthy mix of emerging and […]
Article · September 18, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
MOCA Goldman Warhouse, the museum’s satellite branch, located in the heart of Miami’s Wynwood enclave, is officially closing its doors after a four year run. Back in December of 2005, father and son developer duo Tony and Joey Goldman, who’ve had their hand in fostering growth and revitalization in the Wynwood area for quite some […]
Article · September 15, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
This Saturday at Charest-Weinberg Gallery opens a new show titled Spit-Polishing a Starless Sky/Outer Space, featuring local artists Bhakti Baxter, Nicolas Lobo, Gean Moreno, Daniel Newman, Ernesto Oroza, Gavin Perry, and Giancarlo Sardone. The exhibition gathers together a healthy cross-section of Miami’s contemporary art luminaries, each in varying stages of their career. What will be […]
Article · September 11, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
This coming Saturday, Dorsch Gallery opens up the new season with three solo shows: Peter Barrett’s Ergo Gnomic, Amanda Burnham’s Marginalia, and Michelle Hailey’s Between the Valleys. Below is just a taste of what you can expect from the three artists. Peter Barrett’s wall installations and painted sculptures explore and contain several dualistic and competing […]
Article · September 8, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Have you seen this man? It’s Bad Brilliance, the playful (and sometimes disruptive) performance art alter ego of Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Strasser. Strasser is best known as the designer of album cover art for laptop musician Girl Talk, as well as creating stage visuals for him. He’s recently worked in similar capacity with PARTY-rocker Andrew […]
Article · September 4, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Open call to all architects, artists, and designers. You could have a hand in shaping the new face of Miami. DawnTown is looking for creative architectural ideas for a new Metromover station, set to be located in the downtown area, just off Museum Park — the future home by 2012 of the Miami Art Museum […]
Article · September 1, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Summer’s almost over, which means it’s time for a new art season to kick off. And who better to ring in the new season than local art duo and Hilger Artist Project Award winners, the TM Sisters. For the past two months, sisters Tasha and Monica Lopez De Victoria have been assembling what may be […]
Article · August 28, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Manny Prieres has been a mainstay in the Miami art scene for over ten years now, with a good portion of that time dedicated to having founded and run the early and influential alternative art space, The BOX, alongside Jose Reyes and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. His latest solo show, which opens this Saturday at Spinello Gallery, […]
Article · August 25, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
There’s a new art space now open in Miami’s Design District, Swampspace to be exact. Run by local artist Oliver Sanchez, out of his own art studio, right around the corner from Locust Projects’ and Spinello Gallery’s new locales. Perhaps you remember last December when Sanchez transformed his studio into a makeshift bodega across […]
Article · August 21, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea
Congratulations to Roselaure Mimi, who last Saturday was chosen by Jamaican-born New York-based artist, Dave McKenzie as the winner of a dinner date with the artist, all part of his interactive raffle piece titled “It’s a Date.” Anyone who’s been to MOCA’s summer long Convention exhibition, has probably noticed the unsuspecting clear plastic ballot box, […]
Article · August 18, 2009 by Victor Barrenechea