Spinello Gallery

Spinello Gallery (2294 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami Florida – 33127) is pleased to present the highly anticipated solo exhibition, “Letting Down,” by Agustina Woodgate. This will be Woodgate’s second solo show with the gallery for which the space will be transformed into a theater for one night only.

Woodgate invites the audience to her photo shoot – experiencing a daunting performance and witnessing her process as she creates her next photographic series, “Rapunzel.” This will be Woodgate’s 3rd performance in her ongoing “Fairy Tale” series.

The one night improvised performance consists of a sculptural installation, which becomes the backdrop for Woodgate as she is adorned with a massive 30-Foot long Rapunzel-esq wig painstakingly spun by the artist with human hair. Joining the artist for the first time as a character in the theatrical performance will be Woodgate’s mother, Teresita Sabatte. Also, local Miami collaborators Federico Nessi and Alexander Puentes will be providing the score that will dictate Woodgate’s performance. The score, which dominates and coordinates the actions of the performers, will not been disclosed to the artist until the night of the performance. The photographic series created will be available following the opening night.

The exhibition opens on Saturday, November 8th at 7pm. The performance starts at 8pm and runs continuously through 10pm.
Exhibition through November 22nd.
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Agustina Woodgate is an interdisciplinary artist who explores the concepts of the human body, human identity, and human behavior through a wide range of media, including photography, installation, sculpture, video, and performance.

She is not only captivated by self-perception, but she is particularly interested in the ways that human beings relate to each other, and how people naturally, or unnaturally, relate to the materials around them. Through her work she explores how malleable and impressionable human identity really is and how an individual’s perception can easily persuade what they see and accept as truth.

The notions of memory, heritage, tradition, and ritual appear repeatedly in her work and occupy a nebulous space that exists between the innocence, magic and fantastic dreams of a child, and the mature sarcasm of an adult. Using whatever material suits her purpose, she transforms the mundane into the enchanted and weaves together the varied properties of the physical and the spiritual, the internal and the external, and the personal and the collective.

To Ms. Woodgate, the meticulous process of creation is as significant as the final result. Through creation she often arrives at a paradoxical relationship with the materials being used, and in many cases discovers that the act of collecting material is the first step toward discovering the ambiguous poetic narrative behind the piece.

Ms. Woodgate was born in 1981 in Buenos Aires, and currently lives in Miami. She earned her BFA from the National University of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires. Her work has been exhibited and performed internationally and has appeared in the Museo Nacional del Grabado, Salon Nacional de Instalacion, Salon Nacional de Arte Textil (Bs. As), Museo Casa Blanca (Puerto Rico), Hollywood Biennal (Miami), MOCA (Miami), Portland Art Center, among other venues.
FOR MORE INFO / HRES IMAGES CONTACT: info@spinellogallery.com

Opening Reception Saturday, November 8th, 2008 from 7-10 pm
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Form ← Function is the second installment of “Bridging The Gap” a collaborative exhibition series between the ArtCenter/ South Florida and the Bakehouse Art Complex. Seven artists-in-residence from each institution were asked by Jacquenette Arnette and Lauren Wagner, curators for each space, to think about their visual language and what methods they use to communicate ideas around their work. The art works chosen involved articulate opinions, narratives, emotive gestures and statements that are direct and identifiable by audiences. Constructions like comedy, gesture, metaphor and symbolism help carve out and develop the dialogue. The resulting exhibition centers on a viewer-centric show that imparts what is most important to each artist involved.
Form ← Function is not only an examination of that intuitive communication but of a symbiotic understanding of the ‘other’ in the close knit relationship developed between the artist and observer.

Participating Artists:
Luis Garcia-Nerey
Jose Pacheco
Michael Balbone/ Emily Martinez
Amalia Burjis
Natasha Duwin
Susan Radau
David Leroi
Yehudis Levitin
Venessa Monokian
Anica Shpilberg
Agustina Woodgate
Patricia Gutierrez
Kathy Kissik
Tina Salvesen
Opening Reception: November 8th, 7-10pm at the Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd Street, Miami, Florida, 33127, 305.576.2828

Bakehouse Art Complex
ArtCenter/ South Florida

Private viewing with Jennifer Rubell at the Rubell Family Collection 11/12/08

Rubell Famly Collection

What: “A view on the 9th Art, the art of graphic novels”
An exhibition of originals and rare limited editions comic books authors’ drawings
When: Opening reception Saturday 8th November 7 – 11pm.
Where: Damien B. Contemporary Art Center
282 NW 36th street Miami Fl 33127

Contact: damien@damienb.com
T/F: 305 573 4949
Damien B. Contemporary Art Center Is very proud to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the International Miami Book Fair in collaboration with the francophone pavilion which this year’s theme is “the comics galaxy”
“A view on the 9th Art, the art of graphic novels”
International exhibition dedicated to the Art of graphic novels, comic strip, book illustrations, animations, cartoons… 5 comic books authors will be showing originals and rare limited editions of drawings.
Mohamed Aouamri (France),
Alex Baladi (Belgium),
Regis Loisel (Canada),
Luc Nisset (France)
Yves Swolfs (Switzerland)


Wynwood.

Wolfgang Roth & Partners, Fine Art will be open for Gallery Walk- Saturday, October 11th from 7 – 10 PM. Current exhibition: THE RED COUCH by renowned German photographer Horst Wackerbarth. Incorporated in the exhibition is a Miami series, which features local figures such as Dr. Donna Shalala, President of the University of Miami, Craig Robins, Developer and Art Collector, children from the Overtown Youth Center, among others.

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Symbology: A group show of ArtCenter Artists in Wynwood in cooperation with MAS, Miami Art Space

Please join us for an evening of Art Saturday, October 11th in Wynwood at 244 NW 35th Street, Miami
The ArtCenter has partnered with MAS to showcase the work of ArtCenter artists in residence during Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Art Walk in October. Please join us in supporting this exciting collaboration.
For information please contact Morgan Lorenzo @ 305.674.8278
Or find information about MAS Gallery at www.miamiartspace.com

Wynwood Map

October Opening @ Bakehouse Art Complex

OPENING RECEPTION: OCTOBER 11th, 7 – MIDNIGHT

BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX
561 NW 32nd ST
MIAMI, FL, 33127
305.576.2828

A-B(o)MB VIP Sneak Preview
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd St.
Miami, FL 33127

Artoconecto presents a VIP sneak preview of A-B(o)MB (Art Basel (of) Miami Beach), a juried show of emerging national and international artists featuring live performances by Mad Cat Theater, previewing their fall production, ‘Mixtape’, and complimentary Aperol Spritz Cocktails. To RSVP email at Artoconecto@gmail.com or call 786-246-2052. The exhibit will examine the impact of Art Basel Miami Beach on the art world by showing the best of cutting-edge new and emerging artists from the U.S. and abroad, selected through an exhaustive jurying process.

Thu., Oct. 09 6:00pm-10:00pm
Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd St.
Miami, FL 33127

Please join us
Saturday, October 11th from 7:30pm-10pm
for the opening reception of:

Trisha Brookbank: Hurdling Through Space At Uncontrollable Speeds….

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
2043 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127
www.dlfinearts.com

Trisha Brookbank is interviewed about her work in the “Studio Drive-By” documentary series, coming soon from Wet Heat Project. Watch the “A-Roll” video of Trisha in her studio, here: http://www.wetheatproject.com/preview/Brookbank_A-Roll.html

Diana

A Slice Of The Action new works and collaboration by Carl Pascuzzi & Jonathan Stein

Opening Reception- Saturday, October 11th 7-11pm / Wynwood Gallery Walk, celebrity cake will be cut at 8:30pm

Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, 3326 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33127

Hardcore

Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit
Hosted by ASPIRA of Florida, Inc. and Goldman Properties.
A Group Art Exhibition
Join us
Saturday, October 11, 2008 • 7 pm to 10 pm
Free Entrance and open to the public
Enjoy cocktails by Rums of Puerto Rico
Live Latin Jazz music by Rich Hernandez
2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Fl

Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit, hosted by ASPIRA of Florida, Inc. and Goldman Properties and curator, Elizabeth Erazo Baez will be presenting a group exhibition. The exhibit will take place on Saturday October 11, 2008, from 7 pm to 10 pm Located on 2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida. Free Entrance and open to the public. The evening will be showcasing a group of Miami’s outstanding talented Hispanic artists. The event will coincide with the Wynwood Art District Gallery Night, which occurs every second Saturday of the month and attracts hundreds of art aficionados. The event will benefit ASPIRA of Florida.
Participating Artists
CLARA ALBARRACIN • YOA ART • ELIZABETH ERAZO BAEZ • HUMBERTO BENITEZ
KLARA CHAVARRIA • GIOVANNI CASTRO • MARCY GROSSO • TADEO LAZARO
TONY MENDOZA • LEONOR MURCIANO • SAM NAVEDO • GEORGE RODEZ
GILDA SACASAS • CARMEN SASIETA • MARTA TALERO • PATTY VALERO • MARGARITA VIDAL

Sponsored by:
Alters | Boldt | Brown | Rash | Culmo, The Law Firm
Catering Concepts
CLC Risk Service, Inc.
Goldman Properties
Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of South Florida
Rums of Puerto Rico

ASPIRA (http://fl.aspira.org) is a not for profit organization rooted in the Puerto Rican and Latino community, and driven by the mission to serve and address the “educational and developmental needs of all youth” throughout Florida’s multi-cultural communities. ASPIRA is committed to pursue the highest quality programming for youth who are at risk of dropping out of school.

Event: Wynwood Hispanic Heritage Art Exhibit
Where: 2215 NW 2nd Avenue, Miami, Fl
When: Saturday, October 11, 2008 • 7 pm to 10 pm
Cost: Free Entrance and open to the public
RODEZart.com
www.rodezart.com
Tel: 786-543-7237
Fax:305-412-9783

Artfromz Invites You to Wynwood’s 2nd Saturday Night 10/11/08 7-10 PM
“Every Picture Tells a Story”……..&………”Mr. & Mrs. Candidate”
Fabian De La Flor——————–Donna Haynes——————-Rosario Rivera-Bond

and continuing Fabian’s Artformz Outzide project until Nov. 3
David Rohn & Danilo de la Torre of Homo Sapiens Live Art
Special Guest Artists Performing Outside
7:30pm – 8:30pm & 9:00pm – 10:00pm
and in the project room David Rohn, performance based photographs
In collaboration with Carol Jazzar – Contemporary Art

The work of these three artists featured for the Artformz October show relate stories, or commentaries, on the human condition. The works each base content on the human figure yet use very different approaches to technique, substance and tone. Fabian De La Flor addresses the personal, urban experience with his signature quirky figures in cityscapes. Donna Haynes brings works from her continuing series of drawn and constructed installations that document the personal and emotional journeys of friends and family. Rosario Rivera-Bond exhibiting work from a new series, features a large format painting dealing with the comic and satirical of female issues of beauty, consumerism and aging.

Artormz is also very pleased to present a special project by Homo Sapiens Live Art. This Miami performance group, recently formed by David Rohn and Danilo de la Torre, will perform their piece titled “Mr and Mrs Candidate”; a continuous performance based on the way presidential (and other) candidates running for public office in the US express themselves. The artists felt that the body language, gestures and expressions of political candidates were an interesting starting point to examining the spectacle of election performance during this and past election season. The performance will take place on the sidewalk in front of Artformz Gallery

In addition, David Rohn will exhibit a series of photographs related to the performance in the Gallery Project Room.

Artformz Alternative
Wynwood Arts District
171 NW 23rd Street
Miami, FL 33127
305.572.0040
info@artformz.net
www.artformz.net
This event is free and open to the public
For additional information, please contact:
Alette Simmons-Jimenez (305 572 0040) or Carol Jazzar (305 490 6906)

Fredric Snitzer Gallery : Lia Halloran Project Room : Opening Reception : Saturday Oct.11 7:30 – 10:00pm
Fredric Snitzer Gallery is proud to present “Dark Skate” a site specific project consisting of nine photographic images by, Los Angeles based artist, Lia Halloran

These photographic images are an exploration in drawing, performance and photography in itself. “The idea of drawing with light is not new as a concept, but Halloran not only immerses herself in the urban tropics, but makes herself the instrument to draw” Richard Arregui, Co-Director Fredric Snitzer Gallery.

The works are rich in color density and contrast, with the movement of light streaking across and around the visual frame. The photographs taken in low light situations allow them to become self-portraits of Halloran’s movement. “Because of the darkness and film exposure length, there is no trace of my body, only the line created by my actions” Lia Halloran.

These works created over a period of seven nights in Miami with the collaboration of photographer, William Mackenzie-Smith.

Lia Halloran was born in Chicago, IL and attended UCLA for her BFA and received her MFA at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Fredric Snitzer Gallery
2247 NW 1st PL
Miami, FL 33127
T.305.448.8976
F.305.573.5810

Chelsea Gallery

2nd Saturday Cocktail Hour for Shakers – Saturday, October 11th

www.mocanomi.org

The Continuing Adventures of our Heroine
Opening Reception Saturday, October 11, 7-10 pm
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Continuing Adventures of our Heroine. The heroine of this all-woman group exhibition includes Susan Lee Chun, Francie Bishop Good, Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, Cindy Sherman, Jaimie Warren, and Michelle Weinberg.

Natalya Laskis, Lee Materrazzi, and Francie Bishop Good manipulate ordinary objects and spaces. These artists examine how contemporary women assign significance and emotion in an age beyond that of Valerie Solanas, when establishing recognition and power as a feminist, female, or effeminate artist entailed simply and singularly shooting Andy Warhol. Laskis, Materrazzi, and Good remind the viewer that to be a woman– and more importantly, to be human– means an acquisition of varying degrees of passivity and chaos, comeliness and wretchedness, creativity and dysfunction, youth and maturity, femininity and masculinity.

Michelle Weinberg creates an evolving landscape of contemporary folklore punctuated by vehicles of communication: text messages, billboards, and commercial signage. Through abstract image and words, sublimity and narration, the natural world and constructed reality, Weinberg tailors chance into an aestheticism harkening to her personal experience growing up female in the 60s and 70s.

Susan Lee Chun’s inherited Korean and American identities tint the lens through which she perceives her experience as a woman, finding as little authenticity in race and ethnicity as Weinberg does in women’s traditional roles. In You are cordially invited to tea time, an installation/performance, viewers may drink tea together. The act references the domestic sphere, traditional Asian tea ceremonies, and Judy Chicago’s feminist landmark, The Dinner Party. Sharing tea in a gallery– like eating Rirkrit Tiravanija’s infamous Thai cuisine– destines participants to bifurcate but never leave the table.

Like Nikki Lee, Jaimie Warren stages her physical form within scenes of conspicuous or cult identities presumably far removed from her own anima. In Warren’s photographs, as around Chun’s tea table, a woman’s essence is misplaced in the metaphysics of personal and collective identity. As Leigh Bowery’s avant-garde fashion and performance sensibilities suggested, appearance can sometimes be everything– certainly more than isolated sex, gender, or experience.

Cindy Sherman has long been hailed the queen of masquerade. Masquerade is not new to women, familiar with altering, unleashing, and subjugating identities in order to participate in “men’s work.” Seen in conjunction with the rest of The Continuing Adventures of our Heroine, the gruesome corpse or doll-like artifice with which Sherman presents herself should awaken not remorse, but certainty of Sherman’s exponential multiplication as a woman, an artist, and citizen of a lived-in world.

About David Castillo David Castillo has been a private art consultant and art dealer for over a decade. His professional background began with the Yale University Art Gallery, and later museums and galleries in Miami & elsewhere. His studies and degrees are in History & Art History from Yale University & the Vatican.

david castillo gallery
email: info@castilloart.com
phone: +1-305-573-8110
web: http://castilloart.com
2234 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
USA
WYNWOOD ARTS DISTRICT

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2008
ROSTARR – WRECKLESS ABANDON
Curated by Al Moran
O.H.W.O.W. / 3100 NW 7 AVENUE / MIAMI / FLORIDA / WWW.OH-WOW.COM
As you walk the exhibition space the evidence is clear that Romon Kimin Yang, the artist; the painter, has arrived. Also known as Rostarr, Yang is a member of the genial urban improvisers the Barnstormers’ collective. Yang now sheds all labels and groups as he matures profoundly with this first solo exhibition in Miami, Florida, titled: Wreckless Abandon, reckless by design and adventurous by choice.

Early on in the 1990’s, Rostarr broke through the New York City art scene with his signature trademark, a guerrilla type of graphic design, using the newest digital media tools at the time. He mastered these tools and evolved from his iconography and graffiti subject matter. Now a soloist, Yang is evermore a Renaissance-man who has often executed a series of works in several media.

Yet, his moving image output doesn’t stop there, with a recent screening of the video, Kill the Ego – an audio-visual collaboration with photographer and artist Stephan Crasneanscki at the Centre Pompidou in France, he begins to explore and experiment with new paths in the realm of video art. Even more so, Rostarr continues to surprise us as he removes his newly acquired and validated filmmaker’s cap and easily trades it once again for a French artist’s beret during a very recent visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center for a massive painting installation. This is reckless abandonment in action.

Indeed, the show, Wreckless Abandon, demonstrates the imaginative ways in which Rostarr has reached across his design output and known creative persona to re-invent his art and himself today. His work here breaks with not just dualities and dichotomies as usual, but transcends as the works embody the creative free spirit needed to surpass resistance of any kind. Rostarr manages to cross the bridge because his visual harmonies are geometrical lines undefined by formulaic patterns.

Certainly, this exhibition is not post-graffiti, it’s just Rostarr, it’s anti-anxiety, call it organic harmonies of the self in re-discovery. My strongest suggestion is this; choose your own title for the show. Walk away with a unique interpretation, juxtapose two dynamic words together or think of one word that has all the meaning you can put into it and that’s the show – for you or maybe not.

Excerpt from the essay Organic Harmonies by Rey Parlà

Wow

For next Saturday, October 11, 7-10:30pm,

Dorsch Gallery is pleased to present Mark Koven’s A Stone’s Throw

Join us for a gathering with the artist.

For A Stone’s Throw, Koven will blanket Dorsch Gallery’s floor with 21 tons of sand. The artist asks visitors to bring their own sand/dirt to the exhibition in order to initiate a cycle of making stones and skipping them on sand in the gallery space.

And, October 11 through November 8, check out Classroom, in which Dorsch Gallery puts the question and presentation of education in the arts on exhibition. See the schedule of lectures at dorschgallery.com.

Lecturers include Tiffany Chestler, Brook Dorsch, Adler Guerrier, Ruba Katrib, Mark Koven, Rene Morales, Brandi Reddick, Brian Reedy, Claudia Scalise, Fred Snitzer, and Kyle Trowbridge. Students and viewers are needed and welcome.

Dorsch Gallery
151 NW 24 ST
Miami, FL 33127
305-576-1278
dorschgallery.com

Last chance to see two shows at Dorsch Gallery: Robin Griffiths’ A Mechanical Advantage

and Brandon Opalka’s Yonder:

Please join us for the closing reception

Saturday, October 4, 7-10pm.

Featuring the work of: POOCH and PAUL TORRES

October 11th – November 1st
Opening reception: Saturday, October 11, 2008 7pm- 11pm
Harold Golen Gallery, 314 North West 24th St. (off of NW 2nd Ave.) Wynwood Art District, Miami, Florida 33127.
305.989.3359 www.haroldgolengallery.com
Press Contact: dbaptiste720@aol.com 305.904.8393
Admission is free!

Pooch
Muerto Mechanico (top photo)

Raised on a diet of Walt Disney World , Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida tourist traps, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre afterlife. Early on, Pooch was exposed to artists and illustrators, such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali, Bosch and HR Giger.
A self- taught artist, Pooch owes much of his painting skills to over ten years of daily tattooing and drawing. His art is a visual cocktail mix of Far East mysteries, the magic of European painting with a shot of tattoo culture, shaken and stirred, and served up in a souvenir tiki skull.

Working in different series allows Pooch the freedom to explore various cultural symbols, but also keeps him inspired to dig deeper into those respective subjects. His earlier works are done in oil, containing architectural elements and sinuously carved statue like figures in static display. Newer works are in acrylic and reflect his exposure to Disney World and Florida theme parks, with surreal carnival ride facades (a reflection of the false fronts of modern society) decorated with symbolic figures of death from Tibetan rituals to the Mexican Day of the Dead Festival.

Pooch’s paintings are intended to hold the viewer’s attention, which is quite a challenge in today’s TV, film and computer age. Holding the old masters in high regard, he has a strong respect for painters of the Flemish age such as Bosch and Van Eyk, and modern artists such as Todd Schorr, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden and Robe.

Paul Torres
Notrica 32nd Street Market (bottom photo)

Paul Torres’ art embodies a rich imagination and is laced with social commentary and a soulful interpretation of everyday life. Born in Chile, his interest in art began at age 3 after being introduced to comic books. He started drawing soon after and his father hired a private art tutor for him. By the age 7 he was already enrolled in an art correspondence school. Paul also became influenced early on by Hollywood films and mostly enjoys horror films and Westerns.

At the age of 9, Paul came to the United States for a one-year stay and fell in love with the art culture here. After immigrating to the United States permanently at age 19, he served in the U.S. Army, attended Otis Parsons Art Institute for two years, and then in 1998 he received his Bachelor of Fine Art in Illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He has had the privilege to study with very prominent and leading artists such as Daniel Greene, Albert Handell, Norwegian artist Jan Saether at Bruchion School in Los Angeles, and Joseph Mendez at the Businessman’s Art Institute in Los Angeles. He worked for several years in the animation and movie industry while continuing to paint for gallery shows and private collections.

He works with a variety of mediums ranging from oil to acrylic, ink and dry mediums, preferring oil. Although he feels very comfortable working from life and models, he also uses his imagination combined with working from life to bring the work into a more personal level and aiming for magic realism rooted in the tradition of the old masters with undertones of modern influences. Paul has been called a visionary artist and a soul artist.