Alette Simmons-Jimenez comes across like an Amway representative when she describes local artists’ involvement in what she calls the “open collective” of the new incarnation of her gallery, Artformz Alternative. “We have two levels: artist partners, who have an intellectual investment in the space and pay $100 a month, and…
Transforming Light Through August 23. Dot Fiftyone Gallery, 51 NW 36th St., Miami; 305-573-9994, www.dotfiftyone.comThis zippy mélange might be thrifty on the electric bill, but it attempts to balance the dim wattage with a focus on concept instead. Don’t expect to be razzle-dazzled by laser beams, brilliant strobes, or mega-candlepower…
New York-based performance and visual artist Rafael Sanchez has discovered the risks that scraggly chin fur can pose in post-9/11 America. “I began growing my beard in 2004 and realized that in the current political climate, I couldn’t even grab a cab with my beard,” Sanchez rues. The artist, who…
Local graffiti rats Krave, Crome, Typoe, and Monz have earned their street cred by the on-the-cheap dint of pounding institutional authority. They’ve all rubbed their taint across the 305, giving ulcers to the code enforcers who are blind to the fact that art is for aerosols. We say, if you…
Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick and Child’s Play Through August 10. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, 1650 Harrison St., Hollywood; 954-921-3274, www.artandculturecenter.org These two roughly concurrent shows are a reminder that a municipal arts institution need not play it safe. Lawyer-turned-artist Sawaya transcends gimmicky via works created…
Samuel Schultz’s gut-heaving black-and-white 40-second video piece is arguably one of the sickest bits of film in recent memory. Rat Bite depicts an extreme closeup of a man’s mouth in which the dolt’s tongue glistens like a mackerel as thin strands of saliva cling from the roof of his palate…
When contrasting worlds collide, marvels or mayhem might ensue. Fortunately it’s all about the marvelous at ArtCenter/South Florida, where the abstract musings of two resident artists are like peas in a pod. “Inherent Connection” features the work of Elsa Carolina Muñoz and Melissa Ruffino, whose pieces have been inspired by…
VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson Through August 3. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7062, www.bassmuseum.org This sensational exhibition features 26 moving images on large-scale HD plasma flat-screens, including celebs such as Isabella Rossellini, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. They also show images of a frog, a panther,…
“Transforming Light,” a zippy mélange at Dot Fiftyone Gallery, might be thrifty on the electric bill, but it attempts to balance the dim wattage with a focus on concept instead. Don’t expect to be razzle-dazzled by laser beams, brilliant strobes, or mega-candlepower wizardry. With few exceptions, the show is mostly…
For homegrown telenovela star Jencarlos Canela, playing Pepito, a balsero who writes his name in neon across the Magic City, was a natural. “I feel very identified with the character who risks his life to come here on a raft to fulfill his dreams,” Canela says. “We all have a…
VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson Through August 3. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7062, www.bassmuseum.org This sensational exhibition features 26 moving images on large-scale HD plasma flat-screens, including celebs such as Isabella Rossellini, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. They also show images of a frog, a panther,…
At The Americas Collection, paper isn’t playing second fiddle to the canvas anymore. The gallery recognizes that for centuries, works on paper have been shuffled into the background. “The Beauty of Paper,” its current exhibit, features dozens of striking examples of why modern artists chose this surface for its versatile…
If you’re like us, nothing quite quaffs the culture-starved senses like a shot of rum chased by a heady dose of digital art. Rubi Rey Rum is a nontraditional brew after our own hearts. The brand has created the86collective, a cutting-edge cocktail it hopes will intoxicate visual junkies and remind…
VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson Through August 3. Bass Museum of Art, 2121 Park Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-7062, www.bassmuseum.org This sensational exhibition features 26 moving images on large-scale HD plasma flat-screens, including celebs such as Isabella Rossellini, Johnny Depp, and Brad Pitt. They also show images of a frog, a panther,…
You won’t find signs of umbilical discord at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, where a mother and child reunion explores stories of family life through photography, video, and folk wisdom. “Progeny” pairs Deborah Willis and her son, Hank Willis Thomas, in their first official collaboration. The result is a seamless exhibit…
From a vagabond roach to Aesop’s fables to the high jinks of a fancy-free clown, the Hispanic Theater Festival’s International Children’s Day is sure to keep the entire family in stitches and squeals. Beginning at 3 p.m., the homegrown Gira-Sol troupe presents Martina the Cockroach Comes to Miami, the tale…
Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside From the Bronx Museum comes the widely acclaimed survey of 17 years of work by Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henríquez. The exhibition showcases the artist’s proclivity for self-determination and versatility through photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation. From her early photographic documentation of seaweed arranged…
The current exhibit at Damien B. Contemporary Art Center will leave you hot and bothered. Not because of the content of the show, though. “ARTundressed” features 57 works by nearly 50 artists and includes drawings, paintings, sculptures, and digital art, with the bulk of the exhibit fleshed out by photography…
When Sevillan matador Ignacio Sánchez Mejías was gored to death August 11, 1934, by a bull named Granadino, Federico García Lorca was moved to echo the moment across time. “At five in the afternoon,” began his famous elegy to the gallant bullfighter. “There was no prince in Seville who could…
When 27-year-old British adventurer and archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie first entered the Nile Valley in 1880, he probably believed the people of Atlantis had built the Great Pyramid of Giza — and perhaps the Bible’s mysteries were encoded in the ancient structure. “Back then everyone still thought it…
Quisqueya Henríquez: The World Outside From the Bronx Museum comes the widely acclaimed survey of 17 years of work by Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henríquez. The exhibition showcases the artist’s proclivity for self-determination and versatility through photography, sculpture, drawing, sound, video, and installation. From her early photographic documentation of seaweed arranged…
Don’t confuse Alissa Christine’s photographic diary of the Magic City with an obsession to record the inexorable tick of time passing. Since January, Christine has been capturing everyday moments as part of a yearlong project to distill the spirit of Miami on a particular day. “It’s not really about time,”…
