Bird Road Art Walk recently named “Miami’s Best Art Walk 2011” by Miami New Times, celebrated once again their monthly gallery night. This time around many galleries opened their doors to the many art lovers.

I was excited as I came from Miami Beach to attend this event and wanted to have a great experience meeting old and new friends in the artworld. My first stop was at Mano’s Art Project Space which was filled with art lovers and supporters of his artwork. The titled exhibition for this month was “Made in the USA” where 15 artists with ties to South Florida collectively create an interpretive, visual perspective for viewers to reflect on what it means to me “made” in the U.S.A.

In the same floor at Mano was Miguel Rodez who unveiled his new Project Art Space Gallery to present top-of-the-line art to collectors and the public at large.
The gallery’s initial show Drawn from Within explores the versatility of the drawing medium and includes feature works in graphite, ink and charcoal. Some of the pieces offered are huge works, with an even bigger bang for the medium, yet, others are seemingly diminutive pieces packing such a massive visual punch that viewers are knocked out of the ballpark.

I then visited my good friend artist Tatiana Castaneda where she was a guest artist at Romero Hidalgo Artist’s Studio. Her wonderful artwork was exhibited to the delight of art goers.

Not too far away was H. Benitez Fine Art Gallery II where renowned artist Humberto Benitez presents a visiting artist group exhibition entitled “Abstracts” in its opening reception. There were pantings from Julio Bordas and Holly Jones; photography by Roxy Sora and the entire exhibition was curated by Lissette Benitez.

Then it came to visit my good artist and photographer friend Monika Zdziebkowska where she was part of Ave 74 300 Artist Showcase, an eclectic mix of local emerging artists all under one roof! Our goal is to exhibit the art works of 300 artists! Painting, photography and sculpture they had it all from what I heard!

All in all Bird Road Art Walk was a success and can’t wait until next month!!!