Exhibitions

Locust Projects. From Jul 15th through Oct 17th, 2009. Locust Projects has announced the opening of the 2008 Hilger Artist Project Award Exhibition, the TM Sisters’ Whirl Crash Go! The Miami-based collaborative will begin their 6-week transformation of Locust Projects’ space for a site-specific performance and exhibition debuting on Saturday, August 29th.  Visitors are welcome to observe their progress over the summer.

From Jul 9th through 25th, 2009.  The Americas Collection will showcase works of Pablo Picasso courtesy of the Ortiz-Gurdian Family Collection. Mr. & Mrs. Ramiro Ortiz are the founders and owners of The Americas Collection and The Ortiz-Gurdian Foundation, a not for profit organization in Nicaragua. As a tribute to their friends, clients, and the cities of Coral Gables and Miami, Mr. … +

From Jul 24th through Aug 30th, 2009. ArtCenter / South Florida’s One-Three Collective presents The Walden Project, a compelling exhibition of works created with images by famed Miami photographer Carl Walden.  On view from July 24th to August 30th, 2009, opening night is slated for Saturday, July 25th at ACSF, 800 Lincoln Road at Meridian Avenue.  ArtCenter artists-in-residence Natasha Duwin, Jules Lusson, … +

Summer 2009. For his premiere solo exhibition in Miami, Michael Genovese releases a recent body of work that will include site-specific installations, sculpture, and paintings.

Wolfsonian Museum. From Jul 10th through Oct 11th, 2009. The Wolfsonian-Florida International University presents Beauty on the Beach: A Centennial Celebration of Swimwear, a retrospective look at swimwear design and Sun Stroke Stimulus, an installation which focuses on contemporary bathing culture.

Wolfsonian Museum. From Nov 20th, 2009 through Feb 28th, 2010. The Wolfsonian – Florida International University presents Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939, an extraordinary exhibition that focuses on the dynamic synergy of modern man and machine as seen in the artistic movements of early twentieth-century England. The exhibition highlights the impact of Italian Futurism and French Cubism on British modernist … +

101/exhibit. From Jun 25th through Jul 18th, 2009. Renowned artist Jim Pollock, legendary for creating the visual imagery for the cult status band Phish, comes to 101/exhibit to reveal for the first time a complete retrospective on his two-decade plus career.

Artformz Alternative. From Jun 9th through Sep 1st, 2009. Back in 1966 the rock group Lovin Spoonful couldn’t have described our streets of the Wynwood Art District better: Hot town, summer in the cityBack of my neck getting dirt and grittyBeen down, isn’t it a pityDoesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city

Three new exhibitions. From Jun 12th through Aug 23rd, 2009. The Museum of Florida Art, Board of Trustees invites you to the opening of three new exhibitions: Confessions of a Suburban Primitive: Paintings by Carl Knickerbocker, Imagining Flora and Fauna: Oleda Baker, A Naive Painter and Eye of the Needle: Fiber Art by Katherine K. Allen, Eleanor A. McCain and Barbara W. … +

Art nowadays is a very enigmatic activity for those not initiated in this very tiny marvelous world. Curiously, from its very beginning, art was only conceivable as an active part of the life and the community. This alienation that the contemporary arts has been trying to break down for more than a century now – through the integration of ordinary materials, subjects … +

Bass Museum of Art. Ongoing. The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach is known for showcasing and holding important examples of Northern European Renaissance and Baroque art. Currently, the museum is exhibiting The Sacred and Sublime: Renaissance and Baroque, a show curated by Ruth Grim and displayed at the Taplin Gallery. Works on view in this exhibition span two centuries and … +

Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection. Ongoing. The Wolfsonian Museum at FIU holds and incredible collection of Design. Think Miami and think Design. However, many of the museum’s holdings precede our era of magnificent condos by the bay and aseptic contemporary interiors. The exhibition holds nearly 300 objects from the museum’s collection, covering a period from 1885 to 1945. The boundaries between art … +

May/June 09. Pablo Peinado, curator of Coleccion Visible’s Love Stories / Historias de Amor, presents Miami with his collection of homosexual art in avid support of the gay rights movement in Spain and around the globe. His collection, currently at the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space in Wynwood, is comprised of 200 pieces by 30 artists from different parts of the world. Living … +

Arts at St. Johns. From Jun 8th through 12th, 2009. Arts at St. Johns starts the month of June with the exhibition Divine Debris and Glorious Trash, hosted at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. The exhibit features artwork fabricated from found, discarded and recycled objects. The result is works that celebrate the reinvention of castoffs in media ranging from sculpture and assemblage, … +

The Black Mangrove CollectiveFrom May 29th through 30th, 2009.  The Black Mangrove Collective presents Future Shock; a two-day only exhibit with an opening reception on Friday, May 29th from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m.

Exor Galleries. From May 23rd through Jul 30th, 2009.  Purvis Young: RAW, opening at Exor Galleries in Boca Raton, features twenty works by the ultimate recycler and artist extraordinaire, Purvis Young. Several of the works will be on public view for the first time. The collection includes large wooden pieces which characterize the body of work Purvis produced during his most vital … +

From May 14th through Jun 8th, 2009.   Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art is presenting the show New Abstraction, an exhibit of new abstract paintings rooted in gesture, space and the qualities of the paint. The exhibition features works by Eve Aschheim, Chris Fennell, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Christian Haub, Rory MacArthur, Cordy Ryman and Leslie Wayne.

From Apr 3rd through May 31st, 2009.  The Museum of Florida Art is currently presenting an exhibition titled Wood, Paper, Paint: Bitner and Bogdanowitsch. This exhibition brings together the paintings of Donne Bitner and the sculpture of Cheryl Bogdanowitsch.  The title refers to the primary mediums used by each artist.  Together they explore a personal fantasy world incorporating portraiture, animal images and … +

From Mar 14th through Jun 14th, 2009.  The Henri and Flore Lesieur Pavilion, Kaiser and Kosh Gallery at the Bass Museum is currently hosting the exhibition The Best of Bert Rodriguez Greatest Hits Vol. I. A conceptual artist based in Miami, Bert Rodriguez explores the relationships between art and the artist, while examining personal value systems of the viewer, and often poking … +

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. July 1st, 2009. 6:00 p.m.  On Thursday, July 9, at 6:00 p.m., the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University and the 2009 NPC Southern States Fitness, Figure, Bikini and Bodybuilding Championships will unite to present “The Muscular Body as Living Art.” The special event will be held at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale’s … +

From May 8th through 22nd, 2009.  Video artist m lafille has gathered three artists around her latest piece, Mangrove. She offered her video as a starting point for this exhibition, and asked artists Brandon Opalka, Sinisa Kukec and Reeve Schumacher to respond to it with their own work.