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Monthly Archives: June 2008

Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk Listings – June 2008

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk. Photo credit: Alex De Carvalho Providing the whole night isn’t completely washed out by a storm, tonight’s 2nd Saturday Wynwood Art walk looks set to be a little thin on the ground. With the season sadly coming to a close and Perrotin’s bizarre if not somewhat inconsiderate decision to open [...]

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Miami Artist Jon Peck begins Summer Residency at Cooper Union

Friday, June 13, 2008

Exhibition view at Miami’s Museum of Contemporary Art’s Goldman Warehouse, 2007 Today ex-Miami-based artist Jon Peck begins his one month summer residency program at The Cooper Union. With plans to settle in NYC after the residency’s completion this will no doubt be a good introduction for Peck who has the opportunity to begin networking and [...]

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Featured Miami Artist Federico Nessi

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Federico Nessi works mainly in video and photography. His staged scenarios in which models and environments interact with trancelike poise use visual metaphors that depict various struggles to attain self-realization. Through stylized use of light, cinematography and post production editing, Nessi conveys a mixture of vulnerability, tenderness and masochistic violence that comments upon both the [...]

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Le Salon Des Beaux-Bains ON SITE SPECIAL with Samuel Borkson from FriendsWithYou

Monday, June 9, 2008

FriendsWithYou need no introduction, however… With an initial release of a line of fetishistic plush toys designed to spread a universal message of luck, magic and friendship, Miami based artists Samuel Albert Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III have gone from strength to strength. Impressively this cosmic duo can now lay claim to a host of [...]

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Miami Art Museum presents Disappearances, Shadows & Illusions

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Mark Handforth Western Sun / Matthew Schreiber Guilloche, The Blind Man / Regina Silveira Escada Inexplicavel 2 “Inside the museum, infinity goes up on trial. Voices echo, this is what salvation must be like after a while.” A part from this somewhat irrelevant Bob Dylan quote that took precedence on the exhibitions brochure, and the [...]

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Saddam paintings: Recreations of destroyed Iraqi murals by Eric Doeringer

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Saddam With AK-47, Dome of the Rock, and Jihadi, 2007. Acrylic on Canvas, 26” x 40″ These paintings are recreations of murals from Iraq that have been vandalized or destroyed since Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled by America and its allies. Although it is often impossible to tell whether the original paintings were defaced by [...]

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