Exhibitions

From Oct 10th through Nov 14th, 2009. Contradicting common belief that great art emerges from within the secluded walls of academy, the works of self-taught painter and draftsman Jason Shawn Alexander account for the artist’s high motivation and relentless spirit.

October 2009. Cuba Art NY announces the opening of the exhibition Contemporary Cuban Art in New York at the Dactyl Foundation Gallery. The event highlights the refinement and creativity of some of the most noteworthy Cuban artists. It features painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media from both well-established and fast-emerging artists who approach art in very distinctive ways.

Exhibitions. From Nov 18th through 2010. Miró and Noguchi: Masters of Surrealist Sculpture This exhibition will present fourteen works of monumental and small scale sculpture by two great masters of 20th century art, Joan Miró and Isamu Noguchi. “This exhibition gives us an opportunity to juxtapose these two artists in order to trace and link the similarities and diversities in their work,” … +

From Oct 16th through Nov 25th, 2009 Since the sixties, cities have changed at a dramatic pace. This has been due in large part to real estate and financial interests, disconnected from collective needs. This deep restructuring has affected both demography and socio-economic configurations. The quality of life within each growing sector of the population has been compromised.

From Oct 16th through Nov 22nd, 2009. ArtCenter/South Florida presents Splinter/Fuse, a transformative exhibition that showcases the works of the non-profit organization’s newly juried artists-in-residence. Portraying ideas of transition and metamorphosis, J. Kevin Foltz, Jules Lusson, Hugo Moro, Tere Pastoriza, Franklin Sinanan and Robert Wilson will transform ACSF’s main gallery and their respective studio spaces into figurative narratives, each using imagery that … +

From Oct 8th through Dec 17th, 2009. Diaspora Vibe Gallery presents Hastings grad’s Fulbright Scholar as she extends her paper trail to her debut Miami solo exhibition of reflections on paper and recent work. Her medium is pulp; the vehicle is water-dipping, beating sifting.

Wolfsonian Museum. October 2009. The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive is one of the major architectural holdings of The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, documenting the work of the firm John and Drew Eberson, Architects from 1909 through 1988.

From Oct 10th through Nov 7, 2009. PanAmerican ArtProjects is opening an exhibition featuring paintings by Paul Manes and Armando Mariño, in addition to a Project Room by Pablo Soria.

From Oct 3rd, 2009 through Feb 21st, 2010 Chicago- based artist Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language, which translates into sculpture, painting and large-scale installation. Drawing in large part from Chicano lowrider culture and his own Puerto Rican background, Dzine creates ornate handmade lowrider bikes … +

Edge Zones. From Oct 10th through 31st, 2009. Sharing the Press highlights diversity amongst Miami printmakers as they incorporate a variety of conceptual, formal, technical, traditional and nontraditional printmaking into their artistic practices. Having worked together in less than two degrees of separation, the invited artists are professionals, educators, and students working to keep the medium of printmaking alive.

From Nov 3rd through 28th, 2009. Fredric Snitzer Gallery presents Michael Vasquez in his second solo exhibition titled How the Land Lies. In his first solo exhibition, Family Jewels, Vasquez presented a personal portrait of himself in a single parent upbringing, complimented by the adoption of friends and social personalities that seemed to replace a missing father figure.

Video by TeleVisionPhotog Controversial Cuban art gallery in Little Havana, Miami, FL. Watch on Youtube

Miami Art Museum. From Oct 8th, 2009 through May 12th, 2010. Art in Miami is the topic of Miami Art Museum’s annual MAM Morning Lectures, a seven-lecture subscription series in which local critics, historians and curators present a panorama of the arts in Miami from 1896 to the contemporary scene. Subscribers meet monthly over coffee and muffins beginning Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 … +

Howard Sherman. From Sept 12th through Oct 10th, 2009. The Dallas, TX location of PanAmerican ArtProjects is currently showcasing the exhibition  Bloodthirsty Animal on Two Legs by   Houston artist Howard Sherman.

Contessa Gallery. From Sept 11th through Nov 1st, 2009. The Contessa Gallery announced their current exhibition of works by the world-renowned American painter, printmaker, and photographer Chuck Close, who has achieved fame as a photorealist, through his monumental, psychologically charged portraits. The exhibition features limited edition prints (including woodcuts, screen prints, colored, pressed, handmade paper pulp, linocuts, etchings and aquatints), photography (including … +

From Oct 23rd, 2009 through Sept 30th, 2010. Once upon a time, contemporary art spectators were required to digest lengthy manifestos and divine obscure subtexts from the flimsiest of art gestures. Today, too-conceptual art is on the wane, as is detached, slick neo-Geometric painting, and art based solely on appropriation of other art. Current art production is rife with obsessive tinkering, elaborate … +

MOCA North Miami. From Oct 18th, through Nov 8th, 2009. Cavaletti’s Dream, a signature marionette production by Miami artist Pablo Cano, returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) for a series of special anniversary performances from October 18th through November 8th, 2009. The production features Cano’s enchanting marionettes and rod puppets created from found objects, and combines elements of Italian chivalry … +

From Nov 20th, 2009 through Feb 28th, 2010. Miami Art Museum presents Space as Medium, a group exhibition focusing on the development of artistic practices that directly address the walls, floors and ceilings of the physical spaces in which they are installed. The exhibition is conceived as an inter-generational dialogue among artists who helped develop these practices in the 1960s and the … +

Jewish Museum of Florida. From Oct 20th, 2009 through Apr 4th, 2010. 48 Jews examines the representation of Jews in the Diaspora. This is a series of Warhol-esque portrait paintings by Abshalom Jac Lahav of famous Jews that celebrates and questions our notions of what it means to be Jewish.

Colombia Consulate. From Oct 2nd through 30th, 2009. Flea markets, thrift shops and attics are what dreams are made of for Cecilia Moreno-Yaghoubi. Dubbed “assemblages” to reflect the minutiae undertaken in both collecting and creating installations, the artist pieces together discarded materials, antiques and random, found objects to address jarringly familiar topics. Her signature works incorporate dolls that depict religious, political and gender issues. 

The Gemeentemuseum. From Oct 17th, 2009 through Jan 24th, 2010. For the first time since 1956, the works of Cézanne, Picasso and Mondriaan are on display in a Dutch museum. The Gemeentemuseum in The Hague devotes this unique exhibition to the father of modern art, Paul Cézanne. Although Cézanne (1839-1906) is regarded as an impressionist, he was not concerned with depicting fleeting … +