Articles of ‘Wynwood Art District’

Edouard Duval Carrié - Mostly Mutants, at Bernice Steinbaum Gallery

April 11 - May 2, 2009
Opening Reception Saturday April 11, 7-10pm
This April Bernice Steinbaum Gallery presents the exhibition “Edouard Duval Carrié - Mostly Mutants.”
Edouard Duval Carrié’s studio is in the “Little Haiti” district of Miami. He was trained in Paris and has lived in Puerto Rico and Canada and traveled to the Republic of Benin [...]



Debra Holt – ZOE Series, at ABBA FINE ART

March 14 - May 6, 2009
Debra Holt’s Photographic Images with a Video & Sound Installation are on view from March 14 to May 6, 2009 at ABBA FINE ART.  The recent series “ZOE” are photographic images that deceive the eye and transform perception in an illusionistic process. The artist imposes an approach to water or [...]



Jacqueline – Encaustic Painting, at MAC ART Group Gallery

May 2009
During the month of May, MAC ART Group will be featuring new encaustic works on canvas by Jacqueline.
Encaustic painting, also known as hot-wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid/paste is then applied to a surface - usually prepared wood. However, Jacqueline’s newest series of works are translated [...]



Love Stories & Claude Guenard, at Hardcore Art Contemporary Space

April 11 - June 6, 2009
Opening April 11, 2009, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space presents “Love Stories” in collaboration with the Spanish Cultural Center (CCE) and a solo exhibition by French artist Claude Guenard.
Hardcore Art Contemporary Space unites its efforts with CCE, the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the VISIBLE Collection and Gay [...]



101/Exhibit Presents 2-one Man Shows

Charles Pfahl
April 4 - May 2, 2009
Gallery Walk Special Reception- April 11, 2009
 
Curtis Lafollette
May 9 - June 20, 2009
Gallery Walk Special Reception- May 9, 2009
 
101/Exhibit will feature Charles Pfahl and Curtis Lafollette during April and May in exclusive one-man shows. 
Charles Pfahl’s favorite piece Archetype presents a subtle shift of color, which may make unintended references [...]



The Nature of Things, at Renee Gallery

Renee Gallery inaugurates “The Nature of Things” Photography by Clyde Butcher and Antonia Wright.  Antonia Wright celebrates her Miami homecoming with a joint photography exhibition with her longtime mentor, the legendary Clyde Butcher. The contrasting works of these stunning photographers together describe a relationship with nature, both contradictory and eerily similar.  Wright’s bits of the natural world [...]



Miami Art Museum Presents Recent Acquisitions

March 13 - October 11, 2009
As it prepares to begin construction of its new headquarters on Biscayne Bay, Miami Art Museum highlights its growing collection of international contemporary art with “Recent Acquisitions,” a new exhibition on view from March 13 to October 11 of this year. These new additions, many of which are on view [...]



Clifton Childree - Miami’s Southern Gothic

By Claire Breukel
Having worked with Miami-based artist Clifton Childree on his sizable video and installation project Dream-Cum-Tru, I discovered that his artwork is a clear extension of his personality. As somewhat of an oxymoron, Childree is humble, kind and caring, yet carries a sense of humor that packs a punch! A punch that made him [...]



Rachel Henriot: The Mutation of Identity

By Janet Batet
Now it appears clear. The spatial axis has been definitively replaced by the temporal axis, which establishes itself in our modernity as the only true tie that binds us to our contemporaries. Within this new errant experience that now confronts a global culture marked by constant flux (the flow of migration, travel, information, [...]



Revisiting the past - The paintings of Gustavo Acosta

By Irina Leyva-Pérez
If we look back at Gustavo’s oeuvre over a span of twenty years, we can easily recognize that he has been interested in social expressions of power. In the 1980s, when his work started receiving attention, he was using metaphors of Roman architecture as a reference to the Cuban social system. The dark, [...]