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Melissa Diaz is a Miami based curator and critic. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of South Florida where she focused on Italian post-war art and politics. Her academic interests lay primarily in art and social change. She has held positions in several museums throughout South Florida including USF’s Graphicstudio & Contemporary Art Museum and Miami Art Museum. In 2008 she was the first recipient of the Liesbeth Bollen Internship Fund at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy. Melissa currently works at David Castillo Gallery and as an adjunct professor for the Department of Arts & Philosophy at Miami Dade College. In her spare time, she enjoys exploring Miami, experimenting in the kitchen and taking the occasional catnap with her dog Kiwi.
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Violet Forest is a visual arts student at Florida International university working mainly in photography. She alternates between the study and the practice of art. Art theory, sociology and philosophy, are some of her academic interests, while her practice can range from photography, video and audio works. More information is available at www.violetforest.com.
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David Rohn grew up in the suburbs of New York, the city in which he lived throughout the ’70’s and ’80’s. After studying Architecture, Art and Urbanism at NYU, Pratt Institute, and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris he moved to Miami where in 1995 he began to exhibit paintings, videos, installations, and performances. Currently associated with Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art , Miami, his work has reached museums and collections both public and private. David Rohn has contributed art reviews to Art Press (Paris), The Sun Post (Miami), Art Papers (Atlanta), and TWN (Miami-now defunct), and online publications TuMiami , MAEX , and Whitehot Magazine . For more information please visit: www.davidrohn.net
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Shana Beth Mason is an art consultant and critic based in Miami. She holds a master of arts degree in the history of art & connoisseurship (modern and contemporary art) from Christie’s Education London. Mason is an active writer and collector, affiliated with Art Studio Miami, Locust Projects, Miami Art Museum, Women of Wynwood and the Humble Arts Foundation. Contributions include Artlog, ArtPulse Magazine, humble arts foundation | blog, Miami Art Guide, PODER (Miami), Sculpture Magazine, The Art Economist and Whitehot Magazine (Vancouver). She has contributed catalogue essays for Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Salustiano, Oleg Tistol, Rick Falcon and Francesco Lo Castro.
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Richard Haden attended the University of Kentucky and is an apprenticed wood sculptor. Richard has lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York city, San Francisco, North West Washington State, Vancouver BC and currently lives and works in Miami. Along side an art career he has maintained an interest in political activism and political awareness…for example helping to build alternative housing in New York city and houses for Ranchers in Nicaragua. He has also contributed to Aids / Cancer relief while in San Francisco through early development of self supporting buyers clubs. A firm believer in autodidactic life styles, Richard, who stresses the importance of maintaining strong regimens of reading and writing, is represented by the Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Lincart, San Francisco and Dorsch Gallery, Miami. Visit Richard @ www.richardhaden.com
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Thomas Hollingworth was always a strange child; not so much disliked as widely regarded to be indefinably flawed. From somewhat meager beginnings his application of the word – initiated by a frustrated sense of purpose and myriad resounding (yet currently mute) chants of support from various dubiously hallowed educators - thrust him unwittingly into some of the World’s most celebrated cities (and the hands of their inhabitants) where in a short time, with the preponderance of his thoughts vested in selfish ends, he began to exact with startling dexterity a career in writing. Now, marooned in South Florida, his labor as ever marked by a noticeable violation of good taste, this laggard, graduate of London and founder of ARTLURKER strives to sully his undeservedly pleasurable existence with art world dirt.
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