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Rob Goyanes is the winner of the Miami Writer’s Prize 2012 as chosen by judges Noah Becker (WHITEHOT MAGAZINE), Hunter Braithwaite (THEREISNOTHERE), Paddy Johnson (ARTFAGCITY) and Hrag Vartanian (HYPERALLERGIC). A writer and musician born, raised, and living in Miami he graduated from FIU with a B.A. in International Relations, where he acquired a passion and a hatred for political things and beings. He currently works for Roofless Records and Publishing, a Miami-based, Knight Foundation-funded label which puts out records and art books. He is also working with a group of writers and editors on a forthcoming lit collective called Thus Spoke Kama Sutra, who’ll be publishing prose and poetry works online and in print. Rob is ARTLURKER’s current Guest Blogger.
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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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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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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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ARTLURKER is currently looking for talented writers to submit text on creative issues. If you are critical and quirky, well written and wry please leave us your details on our contact page and we will be in touch.
