Ricardo J. Gonzalez III, Director

We are happy to announce the exhibits “Three Carbonell Monumental Sculptures” at the closing exhibit of “Exposed” and “Hibrid” at the Daniel Azoulay Gallery on

Tuesday, January 6th at Midtown Miami
3301 N.E 1st Ave. (Entrance on 34th Street)
6 pm to 9 pm

OCEAN DRIVE MAGAZINE CELEBRATES ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH WITH ITS SECOND ANNUAL PAINT THE TOWN GREEN EVENT
MAGAZINE PARTNERS WITH WARNERS BROS. CONSUMER PRODUCTS TO FETE THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF THE WIZARD OF OZ.

Friday, December 5th, Ocean Drive magazine will fete Art Basel Miami Beach with its second annual Paint The Town Green Event. This year, the magazine will collaborate with Warner Bros. Consumer Products to present The Emerald City, a celebration of fashion, and film in commemoration of the upcoming 70th Anniversary celebration of the iconic American film, the Wizard of Oz. The invitation-only party will be held at Ocean Drive’s Photo Studio at 3250 NE 1st Ave, Suite 105 in Midtown Miami.

SPECIAL METRO 1 PROPERTIES PREVIEW!

Preview the FriendsWithYou Fun House installation at SCOPE Art Fair on Wednesday Dec.3 from 10am-6pm. The preview is free to all Metro 1 Properties’ guests. In order to ensure that we can accommodate you please email rsvp@metro1properties.com or call 305.571.9991! You must RSVP by tomorrow, December 2, 2008! RSVP is required for free entry!

Metro 1 Properties’ Commercial Sales Director, Tony Arellano, has just secured a 4,400 sf location for Friends With You in the Wynwood Arts District. The deal was signed for three years with an additional three year option. Since the initial collaboration of FWY in 2002, Miami based duo Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III have developed FWY into a fully established multi-disciplinary creative studio capable of producing everything from initial strategies and concepts, to products and packaging, POS, print elements, full motion media (i.e. live-action, animation, stop-motion, etc.), and events.
The Wynwood Arts District, a once desolate and obsolete light manufacturing corridor, is being transformed and adaptively repurposed to house an interesting district of art and developing creative shops, in addition to progressive restaurants and lounges. The Wynwood Arts District harbors a community of forward and innovative thinkers.
Solid disciplines of graphics combined with a dexterous mastery of numerous production methods from metal casting to print making amount to a varied and adventurous oeuvre. With an underlying philosophy of sharing, and amity FWY’s work, which ranges from entertainment, fine art and major cultural events, to playgrounds, toys, interactive products and apparel, offers a positive message of magic, luck, and friendship accessible to every demographic-essentially spreading a happy cultural virus to all facets of modern living.

As a one stop shop for clients and creatives alike, FWY consistently generates innovative, award-winning work. Recently FWY have been invited to participate in some of the World’s most respected art happenings including Art Basel, Comicon, and Pictoplasma, and have shown and/or have works included in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, among others. FWY was created with one basic concept in mind; to become Friends With You!
Metro 1 Properties offers a variety of commercial real estate services including tenant and landlord representation. A breakdown of Metro 1 Properties’ landlord and tenant representation services includes, but is not limited to leasing negotiations, tenant prospecting, product positioning, smart marketing strategies, location research, building condition and competitive property valuation marketing analysis.
Based in Miami, Metro 1 Properties Inc. is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage dedicated to providing a superior level of advisory and transaction services for clients conducting business throughout the world. We offer clients the services of a vertically-integrated, full service brokerage with a unique twist: the power of an advertising firm as well. Our services include commercial sales and leasing, landlord and tenant representation, sustainability services, M1 debt and equity finance and M1 marketing. Our focus is to build community and effect the redevelopment of the urban core through strategic alliances with private investors, developers, landlords, retailers, tenants and governmental entities and to promote services that are sustainable, always advocating for smart growth. For more information on Metro 1 Properties please visit www.metro1properties.com or call the Metro 1 Properties office at 305.571.9991

Red Dot Miami Opening Reception, Tuesday, December 2

http://www.reddotfair.com/

Daniel Azoulay Gallery will re-open its doors on December 2, 2008 in its new location at Midtown Miami 4. The new gallery space opens in conjunction with this year’s first Art Midtown- where Azoulay played an instrumental role to attract major art fairs including Art Miami, Photo Miami, Scope and Bridge Art Fair to converge within the pedestrian-friendly city blocks of the Midtown Miami development located just south of the Design District in Miami.

Since its inception six years ago, Daniel Azoulay Gallery exhibits and represents the work of important and noted contemporary photographers and encourages the work of new, emerging photo artists. The first and only gallery dedicated specifically to photographic and video art in MIami, Daniel Azoulay Gallery showcases the always evolving and powerful range of photo art that exists in the art world today.

“Exposed”, a group show featuring the work of Laura London, Alfredo de Stefano, Harvey Zipkin, Gerardo Montiel Klint, Daniel de Azoulay, Michael Grecco, Anja Siemens, Maxi Cohen, Renata Poljak and Nan Gonzalez will open the gallery on December 2nd, 2008 and will run until January 3, 2009.

VIP opening reception Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 from 5 to 10 pm. The gallery will be open for the duration of Art Midtown until December 7th, from 11am to 8pm.

danielazoulaygallery.com

SUSHISAMBA PRESENTS
GINZATROPICALIA: graffiti gone global
FEATURING RENOWNED GRAFFITI ARTISTS AND SKATE SHOW

Trailblazing the way for fusion Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian concepts, SUSHISAMBA first expanded its culinary palate to include visual arts in December 2007 with the inaugural “GINZATROPICALIA: graffiti gone global” art show. Slated for December 5 to 7, 2008 during Art Basel Miami, the second annual edition has a new curator, a new location, a new vibe and above all, new talent.

Francesco LoCastro, South Florida’s ambassador of the national New Contemporary art scene including Lowbrow, Pop Surrealist and Street Art, will be at the curatorial helm of GINZATROPICALIA. The 3-day exhibition will take place at 3250 NE 1st Avenue, Suite 100 in Midtown Miami, the city’s emerging hub of art and design. With a fresh urban landscape as its backdrop, the progressive South American and Brazilian graffiti movement coupled with iconic Japanese illustration have infused GINZATROPICALIA with a breadth that situates Street Art among its contemporaries. Participating artists include: CENA7 (Michel Ramalho de Toledo), Thais Beltrame, Emol (Emerson de Oliveria Brito), Flip (Felipe Yung), Dres13 (André Greppi), LEBO (David LeBatard), Flavio Samelo, Brian Sensebe, Suiko and Rodrigo Villas.

GINZATROPICALIA is the brainchild of Shimon Bokovza, Concept Developer of SUSHISAMBA restaurants and Sugarcane Lounge, along with partners Danielle Billera and Matt Johnson. “Bringing art to SUSHISAMBA is something that is a natural evolution of our whole concept and experience,” says Bokovza. “For our sophomore year, we have developed a bigger and better program that incorporates many renowned and emerging faces in the art world. We would only call upon the best talent to execute a dream that was sparked with the inception of Art Basel.”

Derived from the Japanese pop culture district of Ginza and from Tropicalia, the radical 1960s art movement of Brazil, GINZATROPICALIA captures the changing landscape of Contemporary Art. The Surrealist Graffiti and Mural Art movement of São Paulo is a snapshot of the thriving genre that stems from a rich political, poetic history. Conversely, the clean and simplified lines characteristic of Japanese graphics bring a satiric dimension to the art form. Whereas graffiti first exploded in the United States in the early 1980s, it continues to surpass all musical, cultural and geographic borders: from urban tagging to curated exhibitions, Street Art comes in all shapes and sizes and by its very nature resists conformity.

With concept, comfort and cuisine unparalleled among the contemporaneous satellite shows, SUSHISAMBA is launching a pop-up restaurant open to the public throughout GINZATROPICALIA. Dubbed SUGARCANE Lounge in congruence with SUSHISAMBA New York and Las Vegas outposts, the ephemeral eatery will offer signature favorites including sushi rolls and small plates. The on-site robata grill, a feature shared only with the new Vegas Strip location, and pop-up concept is but a taste of the full-scale SUGARCANE Lounge that is anticipated to open in Midtown Miami in summer 2009.

“The Street Art movement is the new voice and global consciousness of the ascending youth culture,” said LoCastro. “Showcasing some of the finest talent from the capitals of Japan, Brazil, Peru and the United States under one roof marks the arrival of a long awaited, and very personal, endeavor for me and I am excited to be partnering with SUSHISAMBA to bring GINZATROPICALIA to life.”

For the past decade, LoCastro has been South Florida’s thoroughfare to the New Contemporary art scene in the United States as both a respected artist and as the curator of intrepid exhibitions. Founder of Pop Art Studios, a creative services company and design studio, his group exhibition We’ll Make a Lover of You at ArtCenter/South Florida during Art Basel Miami 2006 received numerous industry accolades. LoCastro, who continues to push the boundaries of emerging art at home and abroad, is also featured among the 100 distinguished artists in the definitive book “Miami Contemporary Artists” (Schiffer Publishing in 2007). Recently named Executive Director of Gen Art’s 1st Annual Vanguard Art Fair, he joins SUSHISAMBA for GINZATROPICALIA 2008. More information about participating artists and exhibition program to follow.

Sushi Samba