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Pedro Ruiz, Fly Me to the Moon, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 60 cm., framed 110 x 110 cm, Images Courtesy of Beatriz Esguerra Art

Hadi Tabatabai,Thread Painting No. 7 (Diptych), 2014 thread, acrylic paint and ABS on Dibond panel, 43.5 x 82 x 2.5 cm

The Bogotá-based gallery Beatriz Esguerra has announced participation at the Dallas Art Fair [Booth F13] this week from April 9th-12th featuring works by Colombian artists Pedro Ruiz, Santiago Montoya, Santiago Uribe-Holguin, Max Steven Grossman, Carlos Alarcon, Elsa Zambrano and Iranian artist Hadi Tabatabai.

Located at the Fashion Industry Gallery– adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized downtown Arts District – the 2015 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 90 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists.

Santiago Montoya,SOSOSOS (III), 2014, paper money on paper money, 53 cm x 62.8 cm

Beatriz Esguerra states that "Latin American and Colombian art have recently come into world focus with an international community that has been discovering an exciting universe of ideas and cultures that for years had been a hidden treasure of artistic expressions."

For that reason the gallery is featuring a special exhibition showcasing 6 paintings entitled "Natural Gold" by Colombian artist Pedro Ruiz.

"Ruiz's works have been successfully auctioned off at Christie's NY Latin American sales repeatedly surpassing the estimates," Esguerra says.

In 2011, Ruiz was knighted by the French government with the Order of Arts and Letters, and last year he was named Goodwill Ambassador to Unicef for his social contributions in his native Colombia.

Mary Corse, Untitled (White Light Series), 1967, Image Courtesy of Nyehaus

The NYC-based gallery Nyehaus has announced participation at Dallas Art Fair [Booth F26] this week from April 9th-12th featuring a mini survey of black, white and light works of Mary Corse, complemented by a selection of vintage and contemporary Light and Space works by artists Peter Alexander, Judy Chicago, Laddie John Dill, August Muth, Terry O'Shea, Helen Pashgian and Ken Price.

Located at the Fashion Industry Gallery– adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized downtown Arts District – the 2015 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 90 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists.

Mary Corse's investigations into the depiction of light, specifically this very southern California light, is immersive rather than descriptive as her co-conspirator, Robert Irwin describes:

"One of the most common features is the haze that fractures the light, scattering it in such a way that on many days the world almost has no shadows. Broad daylight– and, in fact, lots and lots of light– and no shadows. Really peculiar, almost dream-like."

Image Courtesy of the Fontainebleu &Nadine Johnson & Associates

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has announced today that the 2015 edition of NADA Miami Beach [December 3-5] will be presented at the iconic Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

The Miami edition of NADA was launched in 2003 with 35 exhibitors showcased in a vacant space located off Lincoln Road near the Convention Center. Then, for the next five years, the fair moved to the Ice Palace on 14th Street, four blocks West of Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami.

As the fair continued to expand, NADA came back to Miami Beach in 2009 to exhibit at the historic Deauville Beach Resort on 67 Street, Collins Avenue which allowed the organizers–for the last five years– to have a more efficient fair production.

“Since the first edition, NADA Miami Beach has more than doubled in scale, and remains a vital alternative assembly of emerging voices in the contemporary art community,” said NADA's Director Heather Hubbs.

For the 13th edition of the fair, NADA Miami Beach remains committed to a selected presentation of exhibitors with this new venture at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.

Situated on 20 oceanfront acres on Collins Ave, Fontainebleau Miami Beach is one of the most historically and architecturally significant hotels on Miami Beach.

Opened in 1954 and designed by Morris Lapidus, it was the most luxurious hotel on Miami Beach, and is thought to be the most significant building of Lapidus' career.

The Fontainebleau has a substantial collection of contemporary art, including works by Ai Weiwei, James Turrell, Thomas Ruff, Sol LeWitt, Tracey Emin, John Baldessari, Julian Opie, Damien Hirst, Doug Aitken, Arturo Herrera, and Alex Katz, among others, making the hotel an apt locale for the fair.

Leslie Hewitt, Untitled (Median) from the Series Still Life, 2013. Digital Chromogenic print in custom maple frame. The large framed photographs explore the paradoxical nature of photographs as well as racial politics in the United States and the relationship between individual experiences and broader social contexts. All Images Courtesy of PAMM [Museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation and the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art.]

WUM NEWS MIAMI– The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) announced the acquisition of three new works by African American artists Terry Adkins, Ed Clark and Leslie Hewitt at the Second Annual Reception for the PAMM Fund for African American Art held last Thursday.

Members of the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art and invited guests as well as Pérez Art Museum Miami Ambassador Co-Chairs Marilyn Holifield and Barron Channer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen, PAMM donor Jorge M. Pérez, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Xavier Suarez, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, City of Miami Commissioner Keon Hardemon, former president and chief executive officer of National Association for the Advancement of Colored PeopleBen Jealous, collection artist Ed Clark, and Merele Adkins, widow of collection artist Terry Akins, attended the event which featured performances by Peter London Global Dance Company and jazz musicians throughout the Museum’s galleries.

Ed Clark, Pink Wave, 2006, Acrylic on canvas. Clark developed a unique painting method using unprimed canvas and a broom that combines painterly, sculptural, and performative techniques to create energetic compositions filled with texture and movement.

Terry Adkins,Behearer, 2004, Steel and brass, Wall-based sculpture that showcases the artist’s practice of working with found objects and his central interests in music, sound and history.

The PAMM Fund for African American Art was initiated with a $1 million grant funded equally by Jorge M. Pérez and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support the growth of the collection of Miami's flagship museum with works by African American and African Diaspora artists.

It is supported and sustained through the museum’s acquisition group, the PAMM Ambassadors for African American Art.

Through the fund, the museum has previously acquired works by Al Loving, Faith Ringgold and Xaviera Simmons.

“Our goal is to make art general in Miami, which it means that it must be general in all communities,” said Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president.

The artworks by Terry Adkins, Ed Clark and Leslie Hewitt represent a variety of artistic practices, ranging from sculpture and painting to photography.

The artists explore a range of subjects relating to art and materiality, history and the African Diaspora, thereby adding important voices to the contemporary African American dialogue in PAMM’s permanent collection.

The new acquisitions join other significant PAMM collection works by African American artists such as Lorna Simpson, Carrie May Weems and Rashid Johnson, and continue PAMM’s long-standing commitment to exhibiting and collecting the work by African American artists, celebrating their critical contributions to contemporary culture and reflecting the diversity of the local community and range of cultures that make up Miami.

Nick van Woert, Untitled (David), 2015, Nickel plated electroformed copper on plastic statue and steel shelf, statue: 13 x 6 x 4.5 inches, shelf: 12.5 x 12 x 4.5 inches, Image Courtesy of OHWOW

The L.A.-based gallery OHWOW has announced participation at Dallas Art Fair [Booth B2] this week from April 9th-12th featuring a solo exhibition by Gallery artist Nick van Woert.
Located at the Fashion Industry Gallery– adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the revitalized downtown Arts District – the 2015 Dallas Art Fair will feature over 90 prominent national and international art dealers and galleries exhibiting painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation by modern and contemporary artists.

Nick van Woert's work focuses on topics concerning the natural environment, material chemistry, and the progress of civilization.

His interests include ecology, geology, and the complex history of terrain – one that is both inherent and fabricated.

Through painting, sculpture, and installation, van Woert, 35, examines deep ecology, radical environmentalism, and dark histories of the American landscape – advancing subtext by proposing a narrative: a dissection of the architecture of anarchy.

Jonathan Borofsky, Running People at 2,616,216 (1978–79) installed on the West Ambulatory, 5th floor, the inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See (May 1–September 27, 2015) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Photo Credit: © Nic Lehoux All Images Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art

WUM NEWS NEW YORK–In three weeks from now, on Friday May 1st, 2015, The Whitney Museum will inaugurate its flawless 220,000 square-foot space new building in an Opening Reception to the public that is anticipated to be the greatest opening for 2015 in New York City.

Situated between the High Line and the Hudson River in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the new building will feature a theater, unparalleled views of the Hudson, outdoor exhibition spaces, and the largest "column-free gallery" in Manhattan.

The inaugural show entitled America Is Hard to See [On view through September 27th, 2015] will be the largest and most extensive display to date of the Whitney’s unparalleled permanent collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art.

A special First View for Museum Members is scheduled a week before inauguration on April 25th and 26th.

Setting forth a distinctly new narrative, America Is Hard to See will present fresh perspectives on the Whitney’s holdings reflecting upon art in the United States with more than 600 works by some 400 artists.

The New York Timesfeatured a preview of works by some of those artists in the exhibition such as Yayoi Kusama, Dana Schutz, Glen Ligon, Edward Hopper, Carmen Herrera, On Kawara, and Ed Ruscha.

The title America Is Hard To See is taken from a poem by the Pulitzer Prize author Robert Frost(1874-1963) and also used by the filmmaker Emile de Antonio for one of his political documentaries—is the most ambitious display to date of the Whitney’s collection.

Sponsored by Bank of America and the Henry Luce Foundation,America Is Hard to See examines the themes, ideas, beliefs, visions, and passions that have preoccupied and galvanized American artists over the past one hundred and fifteen years.

America Is Hard to See is organized by a team of Whitney curators, led by Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Programs, including Carter E. Foster, Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing; Dana Miller, Curator of the Permanent Collection; and Scott Rothkopf,Nancy and Steve Crown Family Curator and Associate Director of Programs; with Jane Panetta, Assistant Curator; Catherine Taft, Assistant Curator; and Mia Curran, Curatorial Assistant.

David Salle, Pink Field, 2013. Image Courtesy of the artist and Skarstedt, NY.

Art copyright David Salle, liscensed by VAGA, NY, Vimeo Courtesy of Quin Mathews Films and Image Courtesy of Dallas Contemporary

The extraordinary non-collecting art museum "Dallas Contemporary" is inaugurating tomorrow, Thursday, April 9th, 2015 three exhibitions entitled "Debris" by David Salle,"America Sneezes" by Nate Lowman and "Intersections" by Anila QuayyumAgha (On view through August 23rd).

The always-free museum inaugurated thirty five years ago in Dallas, Texas as an arts center.

It was co-founded by Mary Ward–the first project coordinator and director of the non-collecting, not-for-profit charity– who along with co-founders Judy Hearst and Patricia B. Meadows, of the Meadows Foundation launched and created a unique institution named "D'ART," a Visual Art Center for Dallas which opened its doors in 1981 welcoming new challenging ideas from Dallas artists who were eager to show their works.

With time the initiative included artists from all over the region and it expanded in magnificent proportions to what it is today, Dallas Contemporary.

Presented by the cutting-edge NYC/ London-based Skarstedt Gallery artist David Salle will exhibit a solo show entitled "Debris" curated by Dallas Contemporary Executive Director Peter Doroshenko.

Salle, 62, will be exhibiting paintings and ceramics made over the past five years.

One of the most important figurative artists of the past several decades, Salle explores various modes of confrontation, juxtaposition, and visual simultaneity.

The exhibition is comprised of nearly 35 works, including a new ceramic series, which will be displayed alongside a selection of paintings in the diptych format, wherein a representational portrait is contrasted with abstract space.

A number of the paintings make use of highly abstracted photographic silk-screens that reveal, on close looking, tightly cropped tangles of wire and wood, i.e., debris - that has washed up on a beach near Salle's home on Long Island.

Nate Lowman,Sideshow Bob Marley, 2014, Image Courtesy of the artist and Dallas Contemporary

A question that artist Nate Lowman raises is, "Why is everyone always saying 'God Bless America?'" and he says, "Because America Sneezes."

Born in Las Vegas in 1979, Lowman's work has been shown in the last decade at some of the world's most prestigious museums, the MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Palazzo Grassi in Venice, Italy.

In his works, Lowman engages its audience through the language of the familiar.

The anonymous platitudes of bumper stickers as well as the iconographic qualities of various found objects have been his source material.

"Because America Sneezes" is Lowman's first solo exhibition in Texas in which he will be presenting paintings and sculptures from five new bodies of work.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a conglomerate of shaped canvases that resembles a map of the United States.

Each state is stretched with a canvas drop cloth culled from the floor of his studio or that of one of his fellow artists.

Beyond this map, shaped canvas works mimic the ubiquitous air freshener trees found in automobiles.

The remnants, or ghosts, of other paintings are found in another series of canvases where the negative space of a given shape has been filled out into rectangular compositions via a stitching technique using dental floss.

The final bodies of work consist of lamps made from mundane and exotic materials and a series of paintings of the tin ceiling found in the artist’s studio.

The ceiling represents the counterpart of the floor (the genesis of the drop cloth works), and the realized paintings are in turn hung on the gallery walls in order to connect the two surfaces.

In "Intersections"Anila Quayyum Agha (Artprize winner of Public and Juried Prize at GRAM, 2014) has created a non-denominational spiritual space inspired by her trip to the Alhambra Islamic Palace in Spain.

Agha emulated patterns of the Alhambra in this installation—drawing upon the location’s history as a site where Islamic and Western discourses came in contact with one another and co-existed.

The artist looks to the use of geometry in Islamic art as opposed to figurative forms seen in other artistic traditions.

Agha uses the aesthetic openness of this patterning to show how it may be interpreted in a myriad of manners.

In doing so, she engenders a conversation about the similarities and variances amongst cultures as well as the permeability of borders between them.

Dallas Contemporary is located at 161 Glass Street, Dallas Texas 75207.

Image Courtesy of Eventstar Structures & PULSE

WUM NEWS MIAMI BEACH– PULSE Contemporary Art Fair has announced today new dates for its Miami Beach edition, which returns to Indian Beach Park at 46th Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach from Tuesday, December 1st to Saturday 5th, 2015.

In response to PULSE's success in its oceanfront location, the 2015 edition will also expand the fair's footprint to over 50,000 square feet of beachside exhibition space, spanning two tents and hosting over 80 local and international exhibitors.

Core and memorable programming will return to PULSE Miami Beach, including PROJECTS, PERSPECTIVES and PLAY, which will be integrated throughout the fair.

Click here for Exhibitor Applications

Alette Simmons-Jimenez, (1) Walk-In #88: Suspended Spiral, a site-specific installation exhibited at Artformz Project Room, Wynwood, 2009, (2), You Crack Me Up, 14" x 56" from The Good Luck Series, Images Courtesy of the Artist

From April 15 to May 10th, 2015, The Honors College at FIU will present its annual student-organized & curated show Aesthetics & Values featuring nine South Florida-based artists: Julie Davidow, Christian Duran, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Aramis Gutierrez, Ruben Torres Llorca, Pepe Mar, Yolanda Sanchez, Robert Thiele and Alette Simmons-Jimenez.

This exhibition is the culmination of the Honors College seminar in which students from all disciplines examine the role that visual arts play in the social and cultural dialogue of contemporary issues.

Miami/Brooklyn-based artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez (B.F.A. Newcomb Memorial College, Tulane University, New Orleans Studio Art: Painting/ Sculpture) will be exhibiting a walk-in installation entitled "Suspended Spiral" and pieces from "The Good Luck Series."

Contemporary art critic and writer Shana Beth Mason refers to Simmons-Jimenez's mixed-media, labor-intensive sculptures as part of "(a) net-work referring to an intricate system of interconnected points joined by a common thread enveloping exposed light."

The exhibition is free and open to the public.Opening Reception is scheduled for Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 6PM.

The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, 109775 SW 17th Street, Miami, FL 33199.

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova,The First Unfinished Wall Work, 2015, Drywall, wood, particle board, vinyl, metal, Image Courtesy of Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery

WUM NEWS WYNWOOD-Tonight, Thursday, April 9th, 2015 from 7 to 9PM, the Wynwood-based gallery Alejandra Von Hartzwill be inaugurating a solo exhibition entitled "Intimate Material Systems" (On view through June 7th) by Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova.

His first solo at the Gallery, Rodriguez-Casanova, 41, is along with artists Adler Guerrier and Frances Trombly, founders of the Downtown Miami-based Dimensions Variable.

For Intimate Material Systems, Rodriguez-Casanova will present a large scale installation as the main feature of the show in addition to new wall and floor pieces.

The aesthetic decisions that govern basic self-expression are not always based in theory, culture, trends or taste, but also by necessity driven by economic and industrial forces.

Those forces lead artists to select whatever is available to create works of art in the ever changing "Culture Industry," a term defined by the German philosophers and social critics, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer described in their Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947).

Rodriguez-Casanova elects to work within these confines by allowing these forces to do their bidding, thus engaging in a practice that questions the autonomy of art-making while demonstrating the passive and subordinated role that society may have become in their most intimate and self expressive environments: their homes.

Ultimately, Rodriguez-Casanova presents to his viewers, a series of geometric constructions using the most basic and limited material standards available to him such as wooden frames and structures, drywall, shelving panels, doors, brackets, blinds and all sorts of materials found in our intimate homes.

The materials follow typical domestic architectural arrangements, but are reconfigured in order to remove the original designed intentions leaving unfinished and sporadic compositions that act as a social disobedience framed within the Culture Industry.

Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, 2630 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33127.

Michael Vasquez2015 YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts, All Images Courtesy of YoungArts

Last year, The Related Group helped establish the YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts, the first of several residency programs in the visual, literary, design and performing arts to support the next generation of American artists.

Two artists were selected for this YoungArts initiative: painter Suzanne McClelland in June 2014, and multimedia artist James Weingrod in November 2014, both receiving an honorarium of $10,000, stipends to cover travel, projects and other related expenses in addition to 3 to 12 weeks of housing provided by The Related Group along with studio space on the YoungArts Campus in Miami.

Suzanne McClelland, 2014 YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts

James Weingrod, 2014 YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts

For the 2015 Residency Program, the Midtown Miami-based organization has selected three artists: NYC-born artist Emma Luisa Fee, L.A.-based artist Sarah Rara and Miami-based artist Michael Vasquez.

Emma Fee,2015 YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts

Emma Luisa Feeis an artist who embraces sculpture by using natural elements and materials to create new tactile forms and shapes that give power to the objects she creates.

Fee says that she is excited to have this challenging opportunity and to see how her work and relationships would progress through this YoungArts experience.

A member of the experimental music L.A.-based group Lucky Dragons, Sarah Rara works with video, film and performance.

Her work has been showcased at the Whitney Museum, the Hammer Museum, London's Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MOCA Los Angeles, among others.

Sarah Rara, 2015 YoungArts Residency in Visual Arts

Rara says that she will shift from the Pacific to the Atlantic and wants to see where Miami takes her on this artistic journey.

"I'm interested to see what changes will occur given new resources, new landscape, new materials, new community and looking forward to a productive adventure," she said.

Already well-known in the Miami art community, the St. Petersburg, Florida-born artist Michael Vasquez says that this opportunity will provide him to realize his vision without limitations; as a Miami resident, he will definitely help Fee and Rara to get to know Miami and its potential during this Residency.

Aiko Hachisuka, April-May 2015, Images Courtesy of Eleven Rivington

May - June, 2013, installation view at Eleven Rivington

From Sunday April 12th to May 17th, 2015, The NYC-based cutting-edge NADA member gallery Eleven Rivington will inaugurate an exhibition in one of its Manhattan spaces at Christie Street by Gallery Japanese-born, L.A.-based artist Aiko Hachisuka (B.F.A. Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL '97, M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA '99).

Hachisuka had a solo show last year at the Armory Show and two years ago at Eleven Rivington where she made colorful sculptures made by collecting, printing on, and stitching together second-hand clothing.

Her sculptures occupy about the same amount of space as human body, and act as anthropomorphized abstraction of the human form. Hachisuka has exhibited at the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and MOCANOMI, Miami.

Mark A. Rodriguez"SEARCH. CONNECT. MOVE. REVIEW"On View through April 26th, 2015 at 5 Car Garage, Images Courtesy of Emma Gray

At Emma Gray's 5 Car Garage, L.A.-based artist Mark A. Rodriguez (B.A. Beloit College '04, M.F.A. California College of the Arts, San Francisco '06) displays old and new inventory of lamp sculptures, memorabilia works, and table parts.

Large-scale vinyl tarps printed with images of American cityscapes are hung to cover three walls, serving as a backdrop to a seemingly mass-manufactured tableau that addresses the aesthetic and scale of the space.

The backdrops allude to financialized and inexhaustible cycles of industrial production while ushering the space into the realm of some fictionalized, general or home goods warehouse.

Mark A. Rodriguez's works have been exhibited in solo projects and group exhibitions at Park View, Los Angeles, CA; metro pcs, Los Angeles; Gridspace, New York, NY; Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Lisa Cooley, New York, NY; and the Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, among others.

Claudio Napolitano [Miami], All Images Courtesy of the Artists for WUM

Amalia Pereira [Bilbao]

On Monday, April 13th, 2015 a group of ten international contemporary artists will be launching the first on a series of "Street Encounters," an initiative aimed at applying the spiritual law of giving through handouts arranged on crafted envelopes containing a selection of their works that will be placed on unusual spots for people to discover in cities like Barcelona, Bilbao, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Frankfurt, London, México D.F., Miami, Palencia, Sevilla and Venezia.

Using their Instagram/Twitter accounts and an event page set up on Facebook, artists are already giving hints as to where to find those "art kit gifts."

The idea sprouted in Spain when collage artist Amalia Pereira, a graphic designer, art director and teacher based in Bilbao placed one of her collages on one of the columns inside the lobby of the Teatro Arriaga, a Baroque-style opera house inaugurated in 1890 that was rebuilt after a fire and reopened in 1919.

Isabel Chiara [Sevilla]

Juan Carlos Bertorelli [Caracas]

"I was visiting Amalia and by learning that she freely gave her artwork with a note that read 'A Gift to Bilbao' people could not believe that such a beautiful piece was truly a gift so I said to her that I wanted to replicate her idea in Frankfurt," said mix-media artist Maria Alexandra de Kempf, a Venezuelan-born architect who studied at Cornell and Cambridge who works and lives in Frankfurt.

A week later, de Kempf contacted her friend Juan Carlos Bertorelli in Caracas, a photographer and publicist who helped put together this concept and spread the word between their artists friends inviting them to join.

The idea behind the artistic project is not only to spread love and beauty by giving a gift, but also to promote their works since each "art kit" contains information about all other participating artists.

"The works are not originals but high quality prints that will be signed by the artists and some of which will be done in collaboration such as Amalia Pereira working with Claudio Napolitano and Marianna Di Ferdinando," said de Kempf to WUM.

Maria Alexandra Guerrero de Kempf[Frankfurt]

Carolina Chocrón [Buenos Aires]

Marianna Di Ferdinando [Palencia]

For those lucky ones to encounter those pieces expect to see collage, painting, illustration, and poetry.

As an experimental initiative, the organizers of Street Encounters expect to repeat this event on a bi-monthly basis as an alternative to finding art in public spaces but this time with a more personal touch using social media as a way to connect and discover new forms of art.

Participating artists and their respective cities are: Nicanor García [Barcelona], Amalia Pereira& Ernesto Velazco [Bilbao], Carolina Chocrón [Buenos Aires], Juan Carlos Bertorelli [Caracas], Alexandra de Kempf [Frankfurt], Ernesto Velazco [Lisbon], Hans Kritzler [Mexico DF], Claudio Napolitano [Miami], Marianna Di Ferdinando [Palencia], Isabel Chiara [Seville], Adrián Villeta [Venezia and London on April 18th].

Other collaborators for this event are: Mauricio de la Garza, Amalia Caputo, Manuel Pita, Roti de Pavo, Kathiana Cardona, Daniel Benaím, Patricia Hirschfield, Carmen Violich-Goodin and Marisol Martínez.

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Ryan Sullivan at the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Design District, Images Courtesy of the Artist and Maccarone

Installation View at Maccarone NYC, February-March 2012

This coming Thursday, April 16th, 2015 at 7PM, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami with the support of the Knight Fund for Contemporary Art at The Miami Foundation, the ICA Miami's Founder Circle, Maccarone NYC, and Sadie Coles HQ London, will inaugurate the first solo institutional exhibition by artist Ryan Sullivan (On view through August 9th, 2015).

In this new group of works, Sullivan, 31, demonstrates the critical importance of painting today by offering vivid, densely material large-scale paintings that pose questions about the relationship between image and object, and between gesture and process.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by ICA Miami, due for release in winter 2015.

A VIP Reception for Members Only is scheduled at 6PM. Beverages provided by Tito's Handmade Vodka. Free Admission is made possible by Akerman.

ICA MIAMI, 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, FL 33137.

Image Courtesy of the Miami Design District

Via Lo Que Pasa en Miami

Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 15th, 2015 at 8PM, the Alma Dance Theater will present a unique piece created in reaction to the outdoor installation, TRANSPOSITION: Over Many Miles, by artist Paula Crown, which is currently on view in the Miami Design District at the corner of 39th Street and NE 1st Avenue across the street from the new Tom Ford store.

The spectacular site-specific installation created by the Marlborough Gallery artist– inaugurated during Art Basel Miami Beach Week '14– done in collaboration with Theaster Gates Studio served as the stage on February 20th for a New World Symphony performance.

Alma Dance Theater is a conceptual performance company that physically activates space, installation and pieces of visual art through collaboration.

By creating innovative and emotional dance performance, the Company strives to be an artistic force for audiences in Miami and abroad.

Paula Crown's TRANSPOSITION is a 3,240 sq. ft work is an outdoor flooring pattern composed of reclaimed wood, decorative crackled glass and artificial turf forms the basis of the interactive sculpture.

This performance is free and open to the public.

Sinisa Kukec, VITRUVIANSLUTS (in red) a gravitwell, polyptych, Acrylic mirror, red oak, mixed media Images Courtesy of Spinello Projects

ZENITHSLUTS (in red) a gravitywell, 2015, Acrylic mirror, red oak, mixed media

With an Opening Reception scheduled this coming Saturday, April 18th, 2015 from 6 to 10PM, Spinello Projects will present the second part of the solo project entitled "VITRUVIANSLUTS A GRAVITYWELL: PART II"(On view through May 9th, 2015) by Gallery artist Sinisa Kukec (D.F.A. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Canada '96, M.F.A. Alfred University NY, 01) at a pop-up space located on 95 NE 40th Street, Miami Design District.

Kukec's work is produced through an intensive studio practice, consistently experimenting with differing materials and methodologies; all the while, maintaining cross-disciplinary interests in applied sciences and philosophy.

In these series Kukec, 44, seeks to create an installation that invokes the simple, subliminal power of the “primary” as in space time.

This new work is a tangent of an ongoing body of work by Kukec called GRAVITYWELL, an investigation of the invisible forces in the universe (whether it be gravity or human ideology) that can influence an experience seemingly confined only to the sense of ones own being.

Through the use of reflection, heat, gravity, color, geometry, and a word who’s ultimate origin is unknown (red, yellow, and blue / square, circle, and triangle / slut).

Kukec draws from Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, a work based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry, by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, who described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the Classical orders.

Alongside this ideal, Kukec places a word who’s ultimate origin is unknown; sluts or “slut,” which first appeared in Middle English in 1402, with the meaning “a dirty, untidy, or slov- enly woman” (and in time men).

However, Kukec refers to the word as ‘non gender (human) greed.’

Kukec harbors a profound curiosity towards gravity, indeterminacy, the elusive nature of consciousness and how their mysterious behaviors affect our place in the universe.

Spinello Projects Pop-Up, 95 NE 40th Street, Miami, FL 33137.

Liz Ferrer, Still from Underwater Prologue, Image Courtesy of the Artist & Nadine Johnson

WUM NEWS MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT–This coming Saturday April 18th, 2015 beginning at 8PM, the Miami Design District will be filled with another series of its Site-Specific that bring out performance of the traditional theater and present it at various indoor settings.

The evening begins with cocktails at the ICA Miami's atrium gallery [4040 NE 2nd Avenue] presenting the first Site-Specific entitled "Underwater Prologue," a collaboration [video projection, object manipulation and performative sculpture] between artists Liz Ferrer, Jen Clay, Kalan Sherrard and Poncili Creation that continues with an imaginative exploration of underwater worlds and the relationships with conspiracy theories referenced in literature.

In addition to this presentation, the artists will present a preface of their "Underwater Opera" at Miami Light Project premiering May 7-17.

At 8:30PM, the private entrance located at the back of The Garden Building [175 NE 40th Street, 2nd Floor] will be open to see in action choreographer and dancer Ana Mendez who will perform "Rebecca," a study of objects and disguise as a source of movement exploration and narrative.

Rebecca is a character name drawing from popular style names for wigs and serves as a caricature for the self-imposed veils that we use to separate ourselves from one another.

This Site-Specific performance is directed in collaboration with Liony Garcia. Music by Richard Vergez. Light Design by Terrence Brun.

The French Horn Collective, is the third group presenting a Site-Specific performance at 9PM at The Moore Building [191 NE 40th Street] led by Vincent Raffard, a Parisian multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer and songwriter.

The energetic and progressive band consists of any number from 3 to 8 highly talented musicians from a myriad of musical backgrounds with instrumentation including Trumpet, Guitar, Violin, Double Bass, Clarinet, Baritone Saxophone, Cello, Drums, and Vocals performing an eclectic mix of Gypsy Jazz, Swing, and modern original French music.

Gallery Diet Artist Nicolas Lobo, Image Courtesy of the Artist & Gallery Diet

Tonight, Thursday, April 16th, 2015 from 6 to 10PM, Poplife Social– the masterminds behind Miami’s famously sought-after and sold-out independent acts– will begin to host PAMM's Third Thursdays in an Poplife Social event every third Thursday of the month through September 2015 from 6 to 9PM.

Visitors will enjoy an eclectic variety of musical acts, while creating their very own masterpiece, and enjoying happy hour drink and food specials provided by Verde Restaurant.

Guests will also enjoy delicious "Poetry Pops" as part of O, Miami Poetry Festival.

The interactive experience extends into the galleries with a social media-based scavenger hunt that awards winning participants with food and drink tickets and other prizes.

PAMM Contemporaries members will have access to a dedicated lounge area serving complimentary cocktails mixed by the AC Culturalist, from the much anticipated AC Hotel Miami Beach, and Peroni.
Hear American musician and producer Jellybean Benitez's signature style that earned him DJ residency at New York’s Studio 54 in the 1970s.

Touting a 40-year career in the music industry, Jellybean is the remix genius behind Madonna’s first-album hits ‘Everyday,’ ‘Lucky Star,’ and ‘Borderline,’ and tracks by artists the likes of Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Whitney Houston, Fleetwood Mach, Billy Joel and The Pointer Sisters.

At 7PM, PAMM's Curator René Morales will be speaking with Miami-based artist Nicolas Lobo who will speak about his new project gallery installation entitled"The Leisure Pit."

The Gallery Diet artist will put into context the physical preparation of his mixed-media sculptures, which are cast inside a swimming pool, with his interest in the intersections of cultural, technological, and corporeal systems of consumption.

Entertainment is Free with museum admission ($16 adults, members free). Free admission for Metromover riders 6-7pm. $5 Beer and Wine. $8 Special Cocktails. Food specials also available.

PAMM 1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL 33132

Robert Thiele, 386, 2015, Mixed media, Images Courtesy of Emerson Dorsch

Jenny Brillhart, Bent (detail), 2015. Mixed media on dibond aluminum. Brillhart along with Sol LeWitt and Frances Trombly are part of "Habit: the politics of repetion"at Emerson's Project Room

From Thursday, April 16th, 2015 to May 30th, 2015, the Wynwood-based gallery Emerson Dorsch will inaugurate a solo show entitled "3 for 8 Minus 23" by Gallery artist Milwaukee-born Robert Thiele (B.F.A. Kent State University Ohio '64, M.F.A. Kent State University Ohio '66).

Thiele will exhibit his new works in advance of his upcoming museum at the Museum of Art + Design in September 2015.

An established figure in the South Florida art scene for more than forty years, Thiele, 73, sustains a remarkable studio practice that, first and foremost, builds on itself creating works in his studio that is truly a magical place.

In these paintings that the artist calls 'wall constructions' he embeds found objects from the environment and creates apertures through which we can see a hint of the object.

The shape and translucency of the window is essential. The construction is about 5 inches deep, and if the sides are straight, then he wraps them in canvas, painted in white.
The action of taking something from the world–of collecting it and bringing it inside– mirrors what it is to go from the bright unrelenting sun outside of his industrial building into his studio, with its filtered light, cool air, and quietness.

Thiele's studio is located in the same building where he runs his project space "Bridge Red," a space managed by his daughter Kristen Thiele and husband Francesco Casale.

Bridge Red exhibits works by artists that have no gallery representation, some of which were students of Robert at the time he was teaching for decades at Miami-Dade College.

The steadiness of his process, both as an artist and a curator, comes from the willingness to be quiet, to observe, and to make.

The talking comes later, and only rarely does he share the stories behind his work. The tale is private, something to be shared between friends.

Thiele's show at the Museum of Art + Design in Downtown Miami will open on September 3, 2015, featuring sculptures and wall constructions from the 1980s.

Emerson Dorsch, 151 NW 24th Street Miami, FL 33127.

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