Art Basel Week

Levitation and Gravitas by artist Michael Namkung, is an exploration of flying, floating and falling. In this site-specific work, Namkung creates a 3-dimensional sound piece that channels an apparition of his body floating. The New Past by artist Gustavo Oviedo focus on nautical landmarks, Oviedo has embarked on a thorough examination of local sites by gathering historical accounts in addition to visiting … +

Speechless is a new work by the Rotterdam-based artistic duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol), is a multilayered exploration of how we speak about the precarious state of the natural world. The work consists of a custom-built aviary, which houses five parrots taught to mimic phrases from T.S. Elliot’s seminal 1922 poem, “The Waste Land.” The … +

I Like Blue, is an exhibition of new paintings by the artist Ann Craven that comes with the histories of landscape painting and conceptual art, and with the passage of time itself.The exhibition continues Craven’s exploration of painting as an index of our lived experience. The artist starts her work in a place and then remakes them and complete them in another … +

Celebrating the centennial of Miami Beach, Miami Beach: From Mangrove to Tourist Mecca documents the city’s fledgling years. Sculpted by pioneering developers such as Carl Fisher, Miami Beach blossomed during the 1920s into a winter tourist hotspot catering to the wealthy elite. Photographic albums of “lost” hotels—the Nautilus, Flamingo, King Cole, and others—show how these self-contained luxury resorts lured the rich and … +

Again, for the First Time: Contemporary Remakings of Abstraction is the first of two group exhibitions guest-curated by Rina Carvajal. This exhibition examines contemporary abstraction’s contextualization and its re-interpretations, aiming to think contemporary culture and to incite ongoing critical dialogues with everyday reality. The exhibition brings together a group of seven artists whose work engage divergent conceptual approaches to abstract art, such … +

Dina Mitrani Gallery presents Amazogramas by Roberto Huarcaya, an installation of two 30 meter long photograms. During a period of over two years, Huarcaya travelled to the Bahuaja Sonene National Park in southeastern Peru, to capture the lush diversity and enormity of this living environment. Three 30-meter scrolls were placed throughout the Amazon forest using only the passage of time and light, … +

From her early paintings to her contemporary sculptural installations, Marta Chilindron -born in Buenos Aires and stablished in New York since 1969- has always created art which explores perspectival, temporal and spatial relationships. In the 1990s, the artist began experimenting with furniture forms, altering their shape to reflect her point of view in relation to the physical space. From these works emerged … +

Gallery Diet is pleased to announce Trees in Oolite, the inaugural design show in the courtyard of its new space. The first outdoor-design exhibition in the gallery’s history, eight designers and artists present an assortment of outdoor furniture, lighting, and design elements. Set within a Floridian landscape that includes mango, oak, and avocado trees, these objects complement the subtropical flora with a … +

Locust Projects is pleased to exhibit new work by Brooklyn-based artist Martha Friedman. For her first major show in Miami, Friedman has created four vividly colored sheets of rubber, made by pouring around 1000lbs of the material onto Locust Projects’ floor. Each site-specific sculpture has a costume attached and is colored to reference one of the four humors, the theory of which … +

DINA SHENHAV: D.O.A. Curated by Tami Katz-Freiman Preview & Artist Talk | Sunday, November 29 | 6-9 PM Opening Reception featuring DJ Doron Solomons | Monday, November 30 | 7-10 PM VIP Breakfast Reception | Saturday, December 5 | 9 AM-12 PM (by invitation) On view November 29, 2015 – January 31, 2016 ArtCenter [Little River Edition] 7252 NW Miami Ct, Miami … +

Standing in contrast to the experience at the fairs and museums, Open Studios at Cannonball will provide a behind-the-scenes view of ideas still looking for their material form and reveal how the artists negotiate the constraints of media, the slipperiness of ideas, and the demand for novel visual vocabularies. Local artists in residence Sofia Bastidas, Guillermo Leon Gomez, and Matthew Evan Taylor … +

Opening of solo exhibition dedicated to video and performance artist Alex Bag, on view in ICA Miami’s Atrium Gallery, The Van (Redux) through Jan 31, 2016, features a seminal but rarely-seen video by the artist: “The Van” from 2001. After the opening ICA Miami presents a special performance by XL Recordings artist Shamir. Las Vegas’ Shamir evokes ’90s house, pop, and R&B … +

PAMM has been chosen as the Florida Collection site for Ai Weiwei’s new international art project, Lego Collection Point. This project is part of Ai Weiwei’s ongoing efforts to challenge censorship and discrimination from LEGO who refused Ai Weiwei’s order to make a piece. Ai decided to make a new work to defend freedom of speech and political art with LEGOs from … +

Carlos Salas has been engaged in a range of activities and initiatives in art-making and discoursing: painting, sculpting and writing to tackle head-on the sorry state of the human condition. His work is a site for exploration of the boundaries in which human subjectivity is located. Admission $30 Free for Members, North Miami Residents & Art Basel VIP Museum of Contemporary Art … +

Waltman Ortega Fine Art presents “Metallic”, a solo exhibition by artist Jorge Enrique. The new show includes works on a wide range of media such as drawing, painting,silkscreen, monoprints, layered lifted images, sculpture and installation. In the most recent works by Jorge Enrique the idea of beauty has been a constant, drawn to the intellectual separation between Abstraction and Conceptual Art. Jorge … +

In collaboration with Markowicz Fine Art, The National Hotel will transform into a temporary art gallery for Carole A. Feuerman’s iconic water sculptures, hyperrealistic pieces and prints, featuring “The Golden Mean,” a 16-foot male diver statue representing the struggles to achieve perfect balance; and “Survival of Serena,” her first sculpture in a series of painted bronze pieces. The Golden Mean will be … +

Nite Life is a new body of work by artist Martine Syms, curated by Franklin Sirmans. Syms has produced a series of prints inspired by the vernacular advertising used to promote mid-twentieth century “Chitlin’ Circuit” concerts. Nite Life has developed from Syms’ research into the Harlem Square Club, an Overtown nightclub that was part of the “Chitlin’ Circuit”. The club, which no … +

Trans-visual Express by artist Eduardo Capilla shows part of his project Nocion, that started back in 1982. This time the artist is introducing a book documenting the research related to the project. Showing The history and some of the actions, happenings and exhibitions that have been taking place since 1984; to understand them as a substantial contribution to the visual language. Intertextuality. … +

The MSPF is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre capting the world around us. The featured artists of the present edition are Bruce Davidson, David Alan Harvey, Peter Turnley, Maggie Steber and Larry Towell. The 2015 MSPF Street Photography Festival holds its usual contest open to participants … +

Blake Emory, one of today’s newest thought-provoking abstract artists will debut his highly anticipated trademark collection of works in Optic Modernism at this year’s Spectrum Miami art show in Midtown Miami, December 3–7. Emory’s Zebra Love series represents the artist’s inspired discovery of what he refers to as “nature’s grand design” that encapsulates an artistic expression of retro fashion with love, passion … +

Thirty Years on the Road On view through February 1, 2015 VIP Breakfast Reception: Saturday, December 6 | 9:00am – 12:00pm (by invitation) Studio Crawl: Saturday, December 6 | 7:00 – 10:00pm Thirty Years on the Road is curated by ArtCenter’s alumnus Edouard Duval-Carrié, an artist and curator based in Miami who was at the ArtCenter in the early 1990s. The exhibition … +