Wynwood Art Lounge Presented by 42BELOW Vodka
Behind David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2nd Ave, Wynwood Miami
Sept 11, 7pm – 10pm
Hosted by Valerie Duardo
DJ Set by Mike Duece
Don’t be late because they shut the bar down PROMPTLY at 10 (sometimes earlier).

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts | Silvia Rivas

Calix Gustav Gallery
98 NW 29 St.
Miami, FL 33127
Saturday October 9, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Calix Gustav Gallery is pleased to present its current exhibition mörker, taking place this Saturday during Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk.

Set in a magical and mysterious Scandinavian forest inhabited by eerie mystical characters intricately depicted in charcoal and ink drawings by Swedish artist Johan Björkegren. The longing for comfort is not lost in the innocence of a child and the warm love of a mother. Artists Ingrid Eliasson and Jennifer Basile bring a calming effect from this lurid fantasy with the detailed structured graphite drawings, juxtaposed over the rich biomorphic backgrounds. The feeling of a “cozy home” is amplified by the crocheted fiber tapestries.

We are introducing the new CG Boutique, a smaller gallery intended for the younger art collector. The first featured artist will be Birds Are Nice.

Birds Are Nice is a visual artists and graphic designer working in the Miami area. The decision to work anonymously as Birds Are Nice came from the artist wanting to have fun and make happy, urban work that references pop culture along with the comic and cartoon genres. Formally trained at a university, BAN considers them-self a self-taught artist as most of the materials and techniques used in the current work are not what was learned in school.

Taking inspiration from the graffiti artists of our time, such as Word to Mother, Know Hope, and countless others, Birds Are Nice wishes to get the work out in the general public. There are many traveling outdoor projects currently in the works. BAN feels the art world takes themselves very seriously. Low brow vs. high brow, street art vs. gallery art? Art is art and Birds Are Nice wants people to stumble upon the work and have a moment of laughter.

Birds Are Nice uses illustration, digital mediums, sculpture, animation and video.

Mörker will run from September 11, 2010 through November 19, 2010. Regular gallery visiting hours are from Tuesday to Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information visit www.calixgustav.com.

After Wynwood Gallery Walk come and enjoy Classic Salsa at Mamushka Made in Havana Arts Cafe
Saturday October 9, at 10pm
31 NW 36th St.
(3 blocks west of Biscayne Blvd).

With DJ David Solero and special guests. Drinks, Food, and music … Cash Bar Only!

For reservations call 786-991-3823 or 305-343-2585.

www.mamushkagallery.com

Join Fabrika this Saturday Oct. 9th at The Awarehouse for Claudia Calle’s Solo Show

Miami Photographer/Mixed Media Artist Claudia Calle Receives Top Honors By International Photography Awards For Interpretations Of China
Celebratory Exhibit Slated for October 9, 2010
Awarehouse in Wynwood, Miami
550 NW 29th Street, Miami FL, 33127
7:00 to 11:00 p.m. is free and open to the public.

In celebration of Claudia Calle’s “Fine Art Collage” first place achievement from the International Photography Awards (“IPA”), presenting The Road to Calle: Republic of China, a solo exhibition at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse. The artist will showcase a series of socio-cultural images, which represent China’s controversial globalization, copyright and mass production issues. Slated to coincide with Wynwood’s monthly Second Saturday Art Walk, the opening reception on Saturday, October 9, 2010 from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. is free and open to the public.

A beer sampling courtesy of Samuel Adams and DJ sets by Aramis (Poplife), Mr. Pauer (Fabrika) and Kiko de Gallo (Groovalizacion) will set the tone at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse (550 NW 29th Street, Miami FL, 33127), with the official after-party taking place at Grand Central. For more information please visit www.claudiacalle.com or www.awarehousemiami.com.

“I create from a spontaneous place where, even if only for a brief moment through the lens, I can expose the wondrous nuances of my surroundings,” said Calle. “My passion for traveling and studying social and cultural phenomena pushes me to capture the essence of people and things in front of me. Experimenting with photography, painting and non-conventional materials allows my canvas to expand, making all traditional techniques or rules disappear.”

Calle’s Republic of China series was selected by International Photo Awards among 15,000 submissions spanning 103 countries. The pieces, which fuse photography with collage and acrylic on wood, were further hand-picked by renowned curator Adriana Teresa to appear in the IPA “Best of Show” Exhibit in late-October at Splashlight Studios, New York.

Leading up to IPA’s New York event, complete works of Calle’s Republic of China will be on view from October 9 to 29, 2010 at Luis Perez Galeria / Awarehouse, Miami, FL. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment at 305.573.4004.

Born in Manizales, Colombia, Claudia Calle has resided in Miami for more than 10 years. The vibrant artist whose designs and photographs capture poignant everyday moments, both locally and in foreign countries, opened an eponymous studio in Wynwood during Art Basel 2009 at 2722 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami FL 33127. Calle studied photography and graphic design at the Caldas University in Colombia, the Audiovisual Art Center in Mexico and at Miami AD School. She is the recipient of numerous awards including two honorable mentions by the prestigious International Photography Awards with her series Living in Silence and Between Frontier: The Longneck Story (2009); “Five Minutes of Fame” by the Museum of Contemporary Art (2009); and Photographer’s Forum “Top 100 Best Photography Worldwide” (2002). Please visit www.claudiacalle.com for more information.

Friday Preview : October 8th, 2010 6-8pm
Second Saturday : October 9th, 2010 7-10pm
On view through : November 4th, 2010
174 NW 23 Street, Miami, Florida 33127

Gallery Diet is pleased to present Pre-City, a solo exhibition of collaborative works by Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza. With the works in this exhibition, Moreno and Oroza speculate on what they call the pre-city, a kind of abstract plane or pliable region made up of the different shapes and materials that determine what the city will look like. They propose that the city is already compressed in the range of materials, repeating objects and standard metrics found in construction material depots, lumber yards, roofing companies, landscaping nurseries, and home improvement stores. The pre-city is a series of codes that have yet to be arranged and coupled into larger assemblages. The exhibition will include “diagrammatic lamps”; “photographs” made out of materials printed in newspapers, magazine and catalogues; a new tabloid; domestic tableaux; and collages.

Gallery Diet is a contemporary art gallery located in the Wynwood District of Miami, Florida where it has existed since 2007. The gallery has produced over 25 solo and group exhibitions by new and emerging artists from around the world and has documented those exhibitions in hard cover print on a yearly basis. Represented artists include Charley Friedman, Christy Gast, Richard Höglund, Abby Manock, and Daniel Milewski.

Georgina Chumaceiro and Elizabeth Hazim
Directors of Art Nouveau Gallery, cordially invite you to the Grand Opening of Art Nouveau Gallery
Saturday, October 9 2010, 7 – 10 pm
Wynwood Arts District
348 NW 29th St.
Miami, FL 33127
305 573 4661
www.artnouveaugallery.net

Vernissage Reception for the Inaugural Exhibition Abstracción Geométrica

Exhibition on view
October 9, 2010 – January 8, 2011

Featuring Carlos Cruz Diez, Héctor Ramírez, Martin Morales, Rafael Barrios, Jesús Rafael Soto, Carlos Rojas, Eduardo Rodríguez Villamizar, Carlos Medina, Octavio Herrera, Inca Zabala, Inés Silva, Saverio Cecere, Rodrigo Rodríguez and Joaquín Latorraca.

For over 20 years, Art Nouveau has captured the hearts of collectors who appreciate and enjoy art. Since its creation, this gallery has undertaken de challenge of showcasing the most interesting proposals in the international scene, and has done so with sensitivity and courage. It has become a reference for experts in Latin American art.

It has also been a first home to some new artists whom time has chosen as a way to reward the remarkable vision of this gallery. For many, Art Nouveau represents avant-garde, but it is perhaps the sharp intuition to choose master pieces of contemporary art what best defines the profile of this gallery. They have understood that the eye makes the photography and that history and respect make tradition, but it is the heart that sets the guidelines in this business.

artnouveaugallery@yahoo.com
www.artnouveaugallery.net

Local Artist Miguel Paredes To Unveil New Works
During Wynwood Arts District’s 2nd Saturdays Art Walk
Urban realist to host cocktail reception at Paredes Fine Art Studio
Saturday, October 9, 2010. From 7:00 p.m. to 11:00
2311 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127

Celebrated local pop and multi-media artist, sculptor and urban realist, Miguel Paredes, will continue making his mark in the Wynwood Arts District during the bourgeoning neighborhood’s monthly “2nd Saturdays Art Walk” on Saturday, October 9, 2010. From 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., Paredes Fine Arts Studio will be open to the public offering guests a chance to view new, never-before-seen art work while enjoying complimentary cocktails by Ice Tropez and live music by DJ Ari X.

Paredes was born in New York and is of a Latin American descent. He is an artist who combines the exhilarating sense of New York City’s graffiti art with the skill and perceptiveness of a true exceptional artist. Growing up 72nd Street in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Paredes exuded early signs of artistic ability and accepted an invitation to New York City’s prestigious Fiorello La Guardia High School of Music and Art – immortalized in the musical and movie Fame – in the early 1980s. His studies at Fiorello coincided with the explosion of street culture in the city. Paredes drew inspiration from notorious pop artists like Andy Warhol and Keith Haring and plunged into the world of graffiti and pop art taking the name “Mist” as his moniker.

Another influential figure in Paredes’ artistic career is his mentor Ronnie Cutrone. Cutrone was Andy Warhol’s immediate assistant at the Factory during the notorious pop artist’s most productive and prestigious years. To Paredes, his mentor’s paintings are the essence of pop: colorful, lively and highly accessible. Cutrone’s constant use of bright and fluorescent colors not only influenced Warhol’s return to such hues, but shaped Paredes’ color palette choices as well. Paredes’ piece “Ronnie is that you?” pays homage to Cutrone and features one of Paredes’ sons painted on a vintage Mickey Mouse bed cover. The child represents the artist looking for Ronnie.

In the late 80s, Paredes left New York to come to then burgeoning Miami Beach, FL. in search of new inspiration. He fell in love with the city and immediately submerged himself in its thriving art community. Almost 20 years later, Paredes remains a Miami resident and has established himself as a respected artist. In addition, he is owner and CEO of one of the most successful printing companies in the U.S., PK Graphics, and is happily married with three children which are his most current muses.

At Paredes Fine Arts Studio, the artist will exhibit select pieces and sculptures from collections such as Los Niños, Urban Dreams and Pulgha & Birds.

With Los Niños Paredes has taken what he calls “the best masterpieces I have ever created in my life,” his children, and made them the subjects for his revealing drama about the timeless hopes of all parents and the resolutions needed to face the unknown battles of the future. The entire experience of these paintings is shockingly honest, risky and flies in the face of three decades of neo-Pop and post-modern ideas that no image is truer or deeper than the next.

In the artist’s Urban Dreams series, Paredes explores the parallel spectrums of color and tone and modifies the urban landscape, while combining photographic realism with the rich graphic elements of floating vines, flowers and leaves. Paredes animates New York’s brownstone crayons by darkening the darkest corners, layering one vanishing point across the other, squeezing streets and alleys into exaggerated vertical tunnels, and balancing brick, grit and white space into an ambiguous and deceptive surface.

Paredes’ Pulgha & Birds Digital Art Series showcases his most recent invention, Pulgha, and its colorful world of Birds, Geishas and puckish, child-like tricksters. Paredes’ admiration of Japanese anime is apparent in this collection, however, the artist’s imaginative hands re-create this specific language and re-enchant the original concerns – all through his Latin and urban sense of digital mysticism and narration. Pulgha means flea in Spanish, but there is nothing small or itchy about this rebellious character. Instead, Pulgha and Co. are creative emissaries, seeding innovation, luring younger generations of anonymous house-bound gamers and online exiles out into a public world of human interaction and community. Paredes donated one of his latest pieces “Pulgha World” and created a mural in the Wynwood Arts District near his new gallery.

Paredes Fine Arts Studio is located at 2311 NW 2nd Ave. Miami, FL. 33127. For more information, please visit www.miguelparedes.com.

You Are Invited Opening Reception with the Artists
2nd Saturday Wynwood Art Walk
Saturday, October 9, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm
171 NW 23rd Street, Miami FL 33127 – 305.572.0040 – www.artformz.net

Donna Haynes ……..Natasha Duwin….. .Mary Larsen
“Come Hither”
Constructions – Performance – Painting

Artformz is pleased to present the work of artists Natasha Duwin, Donna Haynes, and Mary Larsen. Storytelling has always played a role in art, whether through words or images. The three artists collaborating for the Artformz October exhibition encourage the public to join them in a visual experience of stories and journeys. Natasha Duwin will exhibit sculptural and wall objects. Duwin also brings a special Opening Night performance that is a surprising and poetic addition to her renowned work exploring the construction of the female identity, using mediums that have long been relegated to the worlds of labor and craft, such as embroidery and textiles. Artist Donna Haynes will show new pieces from her ongoing series of fantastic multimedia constructions. Her work will combine text and preserved imagery, expressing visual narratives that result in a unique sharing of personal journeys. One of the new members of the gallery, artist Mary Larsen, will exhibit newly created works on canvas. Larsen uses books and printed text as part of her mixed media paintings. The rich surfaces play with light, tecture, and color, creating an illusion of an ethereal world of dreams, not quite recalled.

These are interconnecting visual stories not to be told but to be experienced; worlds of despair and chaos intertwined with hope and light.

Exhibition Dates October 2 – October 30, 2010

Rob Fischer QUARRY
October 9th, 2010 – November 21st, 2010
Opening Reception: October 9th, 7 – 9pm

Charest-Weinberg
250 NW 23rd Street, Space 408
Miami, FL 33127
+1 305 292 0411
info@charestweinberg.com
http://charestweinberg.com

ANGEL VAPOR CONSTRUCTIONS
October 9
Edge Zones Art Center
47 NE 25th St, Miami, FL 33137

Edge Zones Art Center proudly presents Constructions, the second solo exhibition of Angel Vapor (La Havana, Cuba, 1970) at Edge Zones. The exhibition will open on October 9 and will run until November 6, 2010. The art critic Anne Tschida says of Vapor’s work ” whether it is sculpture, drawing, or painting, is at an elemental level about perspective and process: The process of construction, and by extension, about deconstruction — of objects, of space, of lives. Vapor continues to explore this process in his latest solo show at Edge Zones.

Vapor crafts his exquisite pieces out of bronze, clay, and oil paint, but in these constructions there is always a tension. That’s part of the beauty of his work; the materials and references are rigid and hard, but the ultimate result feels more fragile and fluid. Like in a delicate piece, a small sculpture made of bronze, where a disembodied arm protrudes from the wall — clearly a woman’s arm — and from her fingers hangs a bomb, but ever so tenuously, as it is only string that ties the two together. Life and death are hanging from a thread.

Strings attached to a hand reveal another aspect of process, that of the manipulator of lives and society. As an artist who was raised and educated within the tight political, physical, and emotional confines of the Cuban state, this part of the “construct” is never far from the surface. Sculptures positioned in vaguely military stances or movement, reflect another state in their facial composure — that of an inner detachment from this imposed outer structure.
Vapor plumbs the architecture of object and space, so he assembles his figurative works very precisely within the gallery setting. The placement and lighting of the artworks and their relationship to one another are critical to the overall perspective.

And like anything under construction, in these artworks something is left unformed — maybe a patch of surface area, or a foot. Like life, Vapor’s pieces are never static; there is a sense of movement created from the tensions within and the placement in their surroundings. In the end, New Constructions remind us of the true liberating power and beauty in art.”

Angel Vapor is a prolific artist whose works include paintings, sculptures, prints, public commissions and drawings. Vapor’s work has been exhibited internationally with critical reviews in El Nuevo Herald and is included in art books such as WET 2, (Edge Zones Press Miami). He studied at the National School of Visual Arts (ENAP), Havana, Cuba and at the Academy of Art, St. Alejandro (Habana, Cuba). His work has been frequently on display in galleries and cultural institution in and outside Miami, FL. There were solo exhibitions by his work in Jhoon Rhee Gallery, Washington, D.C., Ism, Gallery, Miami and in Carmen de la Guerra, Madrid, Spain. His commission pieces are on display in several places in the City of Miami, FL and in San Valentin, León, Spain.

For more information please contact:
Charo Oquet
edgezones@me.com

wynwoodmarket
October 9, 6 pm – 11 pm
22nd and NW 2nd Ave.

Wynwood Market is launching its debut during the Wynwood Art District Gallery Walk on October 9, 2010 from 6 to 10 pm.

The first of its kind in Miami, an Open air market over 35,000 sq. ft. full of various vendors, artists and performers. Wynwood Market will be hosted on every second Saturday of every month during the Wynwood Art District Gallery Walk.

Wynwood Market is an open-air venue that will bring together local artists, fashion and accessory designers, vintage outlets, craftsman, musicians, etc. to create a vibrant and interesting bazaar. It will be the first of its kind, an open air market similar to Portobello in London and SoHo in NY. Expecting a crowd over 3000 people with over 30 vendors ranging from artists of Art Center of South Florida, Art Institute of Miami, local and international artists to food vendors. Live music with guest Dj appearances are scheduled, as well as a fashion show. Wynwood Market is conveniently located down the main row of popular galleries on 22nd and NW 2nd Ave.

“Finally, a market that caters to street art and the needs of the locals.”

The Market will also contribute to the community at every event with charitable contributions and exposure. This month we will host a booth for the Lotus House Thrift to help Women of Miami and their children.

Entrance is Free to the public.

Deviant Productions is a Miami based company operated by Roman Fournie and Natalia Bidnenko. In production for over 3 years, we provide event planning on a grand scale. We will host the Wynwood Market in collaboration with Lombardi properties.

ABSTRACT MIAMI Internationally Acclaimed Miami Master Leads the Next Major Art Movement October 9, 2010 – November 18, 2010
Opening Reception · October 9, 2010 · 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Center for Visual Communication
541 NW 27 Street
Miami, FL 33127
305-571-1415
Contact Sara regarding any questions.
www.visual.org

The Center for Visual Communication is proud to launch the season with an energized exhibition of paintings from an important new movement in contemporary art. The work is Bold, Vibrant, Hot and infused with color – like Miami itself.

Renowned painter and Guggenheim fellow Darby Bannard is charting the course of a new direction in abstract painting. And Miami is the focal point for this exciting development involving not only Bannard but a new generation of highly skilled and intellectually challenging painters.

Consistent in breaking new ground over his career of five decades, Bannard ignited the major art movements of Minimalism in the late 1950’s with Frank Stella and Color Field Painting in the 1960’s with Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland. Bannard and The Miami School form the next big change in direction he has led.

From the time he was lured to Miami from Princeton to take the post of chair of the University of Miami Art and Art History Department twenty years ago Bannard has been mentor and colleague to a string of talented and committed artists that now form the nexus of a new movement in abstract painting.

This new direction celebrates art which is about beauty, reason, logic, esthetic perception, and the joy of human discourse – a revival of themes common in historically significant paintings which have become the foundations of art history. The artists of the group understand that innovation should lead only to excellence and that good art is very hard to do.

The exhibition features Bannard and six younger painters that form the core of this new group, all of whom have worked in Miami with the benefit of Bannard’s guidance at varying times over the last two decades. All share an understanding that great art learns from the past to innovate in the present.

The paintings, which are abstract, cover a wide variety of styles and methods. They reflect Bannard’s encouragement that each artist seek their own direction by finding their individual voice and their innovate spirit. The works range from the bright geometry of Andy Gambrell to the poured and puddled color of George Bethea. Sean Smith and Kathleen Staples combine hard edges, brilliant color and and richly modelled acrylic mediums while Kerry Ware’s pictures exhibit subtle shifts of color on scrubbed surfaces. David Marsh surprises us with dark tones and ingenious, imaginative combinations of unlikely elements.

The work is infused with the spirit of place – bright, hot and intense with color – just like the city itself. For these artists painting is a source of spiritual nourishment that goes beyond labels, language, gimmicks and glitz. It is a new beginning and it is the real thing – The Miami School.

Gallery hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturdays Noon to 5:00 p.m.