Oh Nancy. From Jun 13th through Aug 1st, 2009.
Gallery Diet is presenting Home Coming Stories, an exhibition curated by Brian Burkhardt and organized by Oh Nancy, an arts organization founded by Nate Wellman and Fionn McCabe.
Oh Nancy is a vehicle for artists that provides them with a pre-existing narrative structure into which they can fit their work. By having a constantly open submission process Nate Wellman and Fionn McCabe become instigators of a larger phenomena which has grown to include jewelry makers, photographers, sculptors, conceptual artists, and various other kinds of contemporary thinkers and object makers. The narrative, which includes a classic heroine and battling forces of good and evil is manifested through traditional American characters such as football players, monsters, and blonde damsels in distress. The exhibition at Gallery Diet brings together all of these media, and the work of over thirty artists.
Gallery Diet
174 NW 23 Street
Miami, FL 33137
305.571.2288
www.gallerydiet.com


Gallery Diet announces the latest exhibition in its invitational series, The Benjamin Project by German collaborative, Empfangshalle and Thomas Adebahr. The artists, whose work has been exhibited globally at prestigious events and institutions such as the 52nd Venice Biennial and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, will be exhibiting for the first time in Miami, Florida.
Gallery Diet presents the debut solo exhibition of Miami based artist Daniel Milewski. "The Best of Intentions" is comprised of eight conceptually driven works that are executed primarily through sculpture but contain elements of video, collage, and drawing.
Brian Burkhardt has spent the past decade as a sort of mad scientist, fabricating insects, plants, and marine life that appear to have been altered and adapted to human commodity and necessity; ranging from jellyfish that ring with cell phones inside their bellies to militant dragonflies that operate for the United States government as miniature spies.
The Tempest Prognosticator is a 19th century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an approaching storm they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer, which strikes a bell. The likelihood of a storm is indicated by the number of times the bell is struck. 
Located at 174 NW 23rd Street, Gallery Diet will promote visual carb-counting by keeping its artist roster small. According to gallerist Nina Johnson, Gallery Diet’s mission is to curb visual gluttony. "Everything in pop culture has become so image-driven,” she says. “The people showing up to art exhibits are so much more desensitized than they used to be, so creating a diet of what we experience becomes very important".
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