Visual Arts

Fredric Snitzer Gallery: Title by Iva Gueorguieva
Through Sat May 19, 2018

Fredric Snitzer Gallery is pleased to present Title, by Iva Gueorguieva. The artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery featuring works ranging from paintings on stretched canvas to relief sculptures made with steel, wood, cardboard and muslin. Gueorguieva views them as spatial constructions related to the work of Lucio Fontana and Thornton Dial, in a lineage including Russian Constructivism, American Assemblage and … +

Museums

Dangerous Women at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun 20 May, 2018

The Old and New Testaments are replete with female characters-good and bad wives, courageous heroines, and deceptive femme fatales. While some women saved their people, were paragons of wifely virtue, or repented their sins to pursue lives of virtue, others were purveyors of sin, harlots or hussies, or deadly temptresses and seductresses. Even if it was through their misbehavior, all of these women … +

Visual Arts

9 Sculptors, Types of Abstraction at Durban Segnini Gallery
Through Sun Jul 15, 2018

9 Sculptors. Types of Abstraction features the work of Artists Manolo Valdés; Waltercio Caldas; Agustí­n Cárdenas; Pablo Atchugarry;  Ramírez Villamizar; Jaildo Marinho; William Barbosa; Manuel Felguérez and Germán Botero. 9 Sculptors. Forms of Abstraction includes about twenty works that show the amplitude and richness of the sculptural forms of abstraction. Sculptures in marble, iron, and bronze, but also in aluminum, wood, and mixed … +

Visual Arts

Locust Projects ART ON THE MOVE: Whithervanes by Studio Rootoftwo
Through Fri Jul 20, 2018

Whithervanes are weathervanes for the twenty-first century, tracking and measuring the “climate of fear” on the internet. Installed on three rooftops in Miami, these 4ft-high, internet-connected sculptures inspired by the story of Chicken Little, come to Locust from the Detroit-based hybrid design studio rootoftwo, headed by Cezanne Charles and John Marshall. Whithervanes consists of three headless chicken sculptures, sited on rooftops in … +

Visual Arts

Wendy White: Oil Slicks at David Castillo Gallery
Through Thu May 31, 2018

David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Wendy White’s second solo exhibition at the gallery Oil Slicks, a meditation on the American dream versus the flawed mythos of happiness, optimism and nostalgia. Debuting the newest iteration of her Jeans series, White juxtaposes the tactile and synthetic in brightly hued canvases framed in collaged fragments of denim jeans, resulting in a psychedelic clash … +

Visual Arts

Locust Projects exhibits Laura Marsh’ New Havens immersive installation
Through Fri Jun 8, 2018

Locust Projects is pleased to present New Havens, an immersive installation series about artist-centered placemaking by Miami-based artist Laura Marsh. The exhibition is comprised of three mini-installations situated within the Project Room, providing a village of interactive experiences connected together by Marsh’s passion to create spaces that artists can exist within. The installation will act as an incubator for happenings and dialogues … +

Visual Arts

Artists Chuck Yatsuk / Justin Rancourt: 
Horizons at Locust Projects
Through Fri Jun 8, 2018

Locust Projects presents Horizons, a new commission by artist duo Rancourt/Yatsuk. Inspired by a multitude of sources including alternative medicine; theme park rides, get-rich-quick schemes, and near death experiences, Horizons explores the role of fantasy as a manipulative tool within the darkest corners of unfettered capitalism. The media driven installation is engineered to guide viewers through a layered indoctrination process and sales … +

Visual Arts

Fredric Snitzer Gallery’ Project Space exhibits Orestes Gonzalez: Julio’s House
Through Sat May 19, 2018

Fredric Snitzer Gallery presents Julio’s House, a photographic essay by Orestes Gonzalez. Addressing themes of memory, nostalgia and discovery, Orestes Gonzalez creates a vivid portrait of a late relative, one he previously disregarded in fear of his own first adolescent stirrings of sexuality. On a chance visit, years later, the artist discovers an environment of make believe, of fancy, and comes quickly … +

Visual Arts

Mindy Solomon Gallery: If you would just shut up and listen by Kelly Johnson / Alejandro Contreras
Through Sat May 26, 2018

Exhibition If you would just shut up and listen brings together artists Kelly Johnson and Alejandro Contreras through Sculpture and Painting. The relationship between the participant and the painted object are key to Kelly Johnson’s practice. The body of work is investigating the interaction with the viewer and their movement with the sculptural aspects of the artwork. This is the merging of physical … +

Visual Arts

Group Exhibition “Between a view and a milestone” at ArtCenter Miami Beach
Sat Apr 28, 2018 - Sun Jul 8, 2018

Between a view and a milestone presents works by ArtCenter/South Florida’s studio residents that offer contemplative meditations on place. While place can imply a certain level of geographic specificity, determining placehood can be difficult and requires certain physical and intangible elements to make it so. The exhibition’s title refers to a visual device used in landscape painting, in which the painter includes … +

Visual Arts

Emerson Dorsch Gallery: Opening Reception of Endless Light in an Endless Night
Wed Apr 25, 2018

Emerson Dorsch Gallery presents Endless Light in an Endless Night, an exhibition of seven new glass and light sculptures by Brookhart Jonquil. Building on previous sculptures which delved into the geometric, material, phantasmic potentials of reflection, Jonquil turns his motifs in an investigation of  “continuous cycles of expansion” and infinity. Jonquil’  sculptures take this dynamic as both the essential human drama, and … +

Visual Arts

Hanging By a Nail, By a Thread, By The Skin of Your Teeth at Spinello Projects
Through Sun Apr 29, 2018

Spinello Projects is pleased to present Hanging By a Nail, By a Thread, By The Skin of Your Teeth, a curated group exhibition featuring works by Nathalie Alfonso, Jessy Nite and Paloma Teppa, Agustina Woodgate, Juana Valdes, Antonia Wright, and Naama Tsabar. These women deal explicitly with tangible, textured materials that figure prominently into their respective practices, specifically related to three-dimensional sculpture and painting. The multimedia … +

Art Fairs

Art New York Returns to Pier 94 with 75 Galleries
Thursday, May 3rd – Sunday, May 6th, 2018

Art New York, presented by Art Miami, returns to Pier 94 for its fourth edition on Thursday, May 3 through Sunday, May 6, 2018 offering noteworthy and fresh works by important artists from the contemporary, modern, post-war and pop eras, and featuring paintings, photography, prints, drawings, design and sculpture. The highly anticipated 2018 edition will see more than 95 international galleries from … +

Visual Arts

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood exhibits HABITAT
Through Sun May 20, 2018

Habitat is a multi-disciplinary village of artist environments that examines the cosmos, domesticity, and women’s roles in intimate spaces. Curated by Laura Marsh, visitors are immersed in a series of installations made by individual artists and collaboratives. Inspired by an article written by Anne-Marie Slaughter, Why Women Still Can’t Have It All, RPM Project stands for artist collaborative of Rhonda Mitrani, Patricia … +

Visual Arts

Still Lives by artist Kristen Thiele at ArtCenter/South Florida
Through Mon May 28, 2018

In Still Lives, Kristen Thiele’s paintings reflect on isolation, ambiguity, and the space between action and reaction. Her imagery derived from classic films of the 1930’s to the 1950’s resonate with what is fleeting, missing, and unattainable through their opulence and escapism. The repetition of crowds and close-ups in her paintings are indexes for the ignored places between the deliberate and the … +

Visual Arts

Art Exhibition OBSCURA at MOCA
Through Sun May 6, 2018

In artist Lionel Smit’ native country of South Africa, he observes the fluidity of race through the Cape Malay people of Cape Town. As a result of colonialism, African, European and South Asian bloodlines have been crossed over successive generations to create new identities, of which the Cape Malay people are a striking example. The physical attributes of Cape Malays challenge overly … +

Visual Arts

SEA LEVEL RISE’ Climate Sync at ArtCenter/South Florida
Through Tue 1 May, 2018

Tom Scicluna presents Climate Sync, an inverted yet fully operational alternating time and temperature display unit installed above the main entrance to the ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach. Situated five blocks west of Lincoln Road’s landmark rooftop time and temperature clocks, the commercially produced upside down sign critically invokes geographic, social and economic conditions at play concerning the given South Florida environment. Tom … +

Visual Arts

MDC Museum of Art + Design: María José Arjona’s performance All the Others in Me
Sat 14 Apr, 2018

Taking the form of an unconsummated striptease with a multicultural pop soundtrack, Colombian artist María José Arjona’s performance All the Others in Me functions as a bridge between “miss-understandings.” It refuses to point at anything specific or resolve these misunderstandings, but instead offers a panoramic vista on our perception of each other across distances. Arjona’s work highlights the continuous transitioning of thoughts that encourage … +

Visual Arts

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at PAMM
Fri 13 Apr, 2018 - Sun 2 Sep, 2018

The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art is an art-based exhibition on the subject of soccer, or fútbol, and its interactions with societies around the world. Planned to overlap with the 2018 FIFA World Cup™, the exhibition will explore how the sport has stimulated artists to reflect upon its implications on society. With approximately twenty artists working in video, photography, painting, and sculpture, the aim … +

Visual Arts

Intertidal
 A.S.T. (Alliance of the Southern Triangle)
 exhibits at ArtCenter/South Florida
Through Sun 8 Apr, 2018

Intertidal offers a multi-disciplinary experience of what Miami might look like as the seas continue to rise. Visitors will be immersed in a series of newly commissioned videos, audio and wall drawings by A.S.T. This exhibit imagines Miami as an intertidal zone, an area above water at low tide, yet flooded at high tide. How could Miami adapt to live with water? … +

Announcements

NAEMI and Frost Art Museum presents “Make” Outsider Art Documentary
Fri Apr 13, 2018

“Make” Outsider Art Documentary introduces us to the art, lives and mental illness of artists Judith Scott, Ike Morgan, & Royal Robertson. Screening will be followed by a discussion facilitated by Eugenio Rothe, MD with panelists Silvia Quintana, LMHC, Elizabeth Hoy, MD & Maite Castillo. Friday – April 13, 2018, 6:30pm. Free and open to the public. Upcoming Events The Value and … +

Visual Arts

Mindy Solomon Gallery: Noontide by Osamu Kobayashi
Fri Mar 16, 2018 - Sat Apr 28, 2018

Artist Osamu Kobayashi  allows the ebb and flow of material to determine the direction of his work. He uses reductive forms and flat colors to deconstruct the world around him. Aside from aesthetics, his work plays off of abstract ideas in general—spirituality, humor, nature, relationships, psychology, time, and so on. These days, Kobayashi thinks less about meaning and just paints to paint. … +

Visual Arts

Locust Projects’ Talks: Valerie Cassel Oliver
Wed 21 Mar, 2018

Locust Projects and ArtCenter/South Florida invite for a conversation with Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.  During these intimate conversations, these art proffessionals will talk about their curatorial vision and practice, the art and artists that have shaped their careers, and how they support the work of artists whether … +

Visual Arts

Diana Lowenstein exhibits CONTRAPUNTO | COUNTERPOINT
Through Sat 31 Mar, 2018

CONTRAPUNTO | COUNTERPOINT includes works by artists Clemencia Labin and  Alex Trimino. For both artists the materials, crafts and shapes acquire new meanings,  encompassing metaphors such as the pursuit of perfection or the connection between past, present and future through the use of technologies and techniques. For many years Labin’s work dealt with the interaction between color, form and space.  Just as … +