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Seeing double at museum

Here are two exhibitions that should be seen.

Seeing double at museum:

"Before high-definition TV, before DVD rentals, before movies on demand, home entertainment often meant stereographs. What? To get the idea, think View-Master, an iconic baby-boomer toy that offered captivating three-dimensional images of everything from Western landscapes to TV action heroes."

(Via MiamiHerald.com: Visual Arts.)

Don't miss your last chance to catch their three current exhibits; Unfading Memories, Sphericals and Un Tiempo Blanco. Dorsch Gallery will be having their closing reception Saturday April 5, 2oo8 from 7-10pm

The artists, Claudia Scalise, William Keddell and, Arnold Mesches. Willie Keddell's work also features stereoscopic images.

The Dorsch Gallery, 151 NW 24th St., Miami, from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Thurs - Sat

The Armory Show 08 part 2

Our friends VernissageTV were back in NYC for Armory Art Show.

The Armory Show 08 part 2:

VernissageTV Didier Didier posted a photo:

See the 'The Armory Show 08 part 2' video

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(Via Photos from VernissageTV Didier Didier.)

'Pivot Points' at MOCA

Oh gawd, I remember some of the first items I saw in MoCA's collection. Some were very nice, others... well, let's say that was in the past. Since Bonnie Clearwater has taken on the curatorial role the collection has become one of the better ones in Florida as a whole. Some pieces are, obviously without equal.

Art Pick | 'Pivot Points' at MOCA:

"Launched in 1995, the permanent collection of works by international contemporary artists at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami focuses on art thats connected by concepts and methodology. The pieces mark important moments in the development of an artists career, and were turning points as well in the recent history of contemporary art. Starting this week, the museum is exhibiting its collection in two shows Pivot Points I: Defining MOCAs Collection and Part II / New Mythologies."

(Via MiamiHerald.com: Visual Arts.)

I was not able to attend the opening because I had to meet with a client late in the afternoon and then, needed to work on some documentation but, I will make it to this exhibition for sure.

If you have not done so please, start viewing our new blog over at www.miamiartexchange.com. Also check out the South Florida Artist Entrepreneurs blog while you're there.

Fredric Snitzer Gallery

I hadn't had a chance to mention these works at Fredric Snitzer Gallery. I believe they are incised on the surface and, then filled in with colour to create a more three-dimensional look. They are very well executed but, as is often the case, I was not able to check out the works closely as time was drawing to a close for the evening.

Fredric Snitzer Gallery:

miamiartexchange posted a photo:

(Via Photos from miamiartexchange.)

ArteAmericas, Major Latin art on Miami Beach

Having just enough time to rest from the height of the South Florid art season come ArteAmericas, Latin American Art Fair. Of course, some local artists and galleries will be participating so, get out there and support them!

Major Latin art showcase will shine on Beach:

"Art lovers and collectors eager to explore new trends in the visual arts will descend on the Miami Beach Convention Center starting Friday for an annual exhibition that bills itself, with the confidence of any precocious 6-year-old, as the hemispheres premier Latin American art fair."

(Via MiamiHerald.com: Visual Arts.)

A Director With an Eye for the Fresh and the Local

I cannot deny that Bonnie and Jim Clearwater were part of the reason I moved back to Miami after having moved away for a few years. Ms. Clearwater has been very supportive of a number of my projects including, my art. And, although Miami Art Museum has fought longer for a new buidling, MoCA's efforts seemed, in the public view, a smoother journey.

My only disappointment has been that the attempts to create an art zone around the museum hasn't had the same success as Wynwood. Some of Wynwood's galleries moved from the MoCA area. In spite of those moves, MoCA has always been and, will remain a prime destination for some of the best of South Florida's art.

Cindy Karp for The New York Times

"Bonnie Clearwater, director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, which is about to double in size."

BONNIE CLEARWATER recognized Miami’s potential to become an important arts center as far back as 1990, on a visit from Los Angeles. At the time, South Beach was a somewhat desolate spot on the cusp of revitalization, and a local collector and developer enticed Ms. Clearwater to work her magic discovering new talent in Miami as she had done on the West Coast.

“Craig Robins, who was just starting to develop the area, encouraged me to move to Miami Beach with the idea that my husband and I would help be catalysts to develop an art scene here,” said Ms. Clearwater, who with her husband, Jim Clearwater, had started the art-book publishing company Grassfield Press, which he still operates.

They made the move, and nearly two decades later, as the director and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Ms. Clearwater continues to animate the scene in this eclectic area, capitalizing on a lively community of artists and collectors as well as the crowds that the Art Basel fair brings every December.

Via: NYTimes.
(Also Via: Critical Miami.)

The Cuban Art Revolution

Cuba is still a place of speculation, art included. Some of the artists from the 80s are still living and thriving in Miami. They are embraced and loved.

The Cuban Art Revolution:

"Collectors are betting on Cuba to be the next hot hub of the art market. Americans can't visit the island, but thanks to a little-known exception to the U.S. trade embargo art lovers are finding legal ways to shop for Cuban works. Now the trick is beating other collectors before the market gets too crowded."

(Via WSJ.com: Arts & Entertainment.)

Originally posted on NEW MAeX Artblog view it there.

Winners of New Museum's Altoid Awards; Creative Capital Receives TOBY Fund Gift

NEWS: Winners of New Museum's Altoid Awards; Creative Capital Receives TOBY Fund Gift:

"03.21.08 - The winners of the $25,000 Altoids Awards for American emerging artists have been announced. Ei Arakawa of New York City; Michael Patterson-Carver of Portland, Oregon; Lauren Kelley of Houston, Texas; and Michael Stickrod of New Haven, Connecticut were selected among forty-six nominees by a jury composed of artists Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. The prize is awarded biennially by the New Museum and Altoids to four artists nominated and selected by a panel comprised entirely of other artists. In addition to cash prizes, the 2008 award recipients will appear in a joint exhibition organized by Massimiliano Gioni, director of special exhibitions at the New Museum, on view from June 25 through October 12, offering these artists their earliest exposure to a broad, international museum audience. “For so many of these artists, this is a life-changing opportunity, and that is exactly what we are here for—to champion emerging artists and to consistently offer our audiences the chance to experience new art and new ideas from a variety of perspectives,” said Lisa Phillips, the Toby Devan Lewis director of the New Museum.

Creative Capital is the recipient of a major, three-year gift from the TOBY Fund, established by collector, philanthropist, and former curator Toby Devan Lewis. This $540,000 gift specifically supports the production costs of Creative Capital emerging fields artists, a category that encompasses artists whose work includes imaginative uses of new technologies, as well as genre-blurring applications of familiar creative practices. "From our very first grant round in 1999, Creative Capital was committed to artists whose work doesn't neatly fit the usual discipline categories," said Creative Capital¹s president Ruby Lerner. "While the sometimes indefinable nature of these projects is tremendously exciting, it also creates a handicap, as this kind of work often lacks the support infrastructure of more traditionally defined disciplines. Ms. Lewis has always had a similar passion for artists who boldly cross all sorts of boundaries‹discipline, aesthetic, thematic—and we're thrilled that the TOBY Fund for Emerging Fields at Creative Capital will draw more attention to how these artists challenge the very landscape of the contemporary arts." The TOBY Fund grant will allow Creative Capital to support more of its emerging fields grantees at the $50,000 level, the organization's maximum award. To date, Creative Capital has funded 48 emerging fields projects representing sixty-five artists, with $1.1 million in direct funding and more than $1 million in artist services. Artists previously supported through this category include Cory Arcangel, Luca Buvoli, Hasan Elahi, Marie Sester, and art collectives such as the Yes Men and SubRosa."

(Via artforum.com.)

Originally posted on NEW MAeX Artblog view it there.

Kevin Bruk Gallery

This drawing/painting on mylar is really beautiful. It has such three-dimensional depth yet, it is totally flat and without frame. This is not the first time we've seen this artist, Gina Ruggeri, but, it is worth the first-hand experience of viewing it.

Originally posted on NEW MAeX Artblog view it there.

World Class Boxing

William O’brien at World Class Boxing. Says Adler, "[H]is drawings installation are offers complexity, playfulness and a snapshot into O’brien’s day-to-day studio activities." I totally agree. The "masks" also were full of complexity, not only is surface but, design or style. It's always nice to see World Class Boxing open.

Originally posted on NEW MAeX Artblog view it there.