From the pageantry of Polynesian fire-dancers to the contemplative mystical arts of Tibet, the spirit of the Orient is being celebrated at Miami Dade College InterAmerican Campus through June 22 at the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival. This series of events includes films, art exhibits, dance shows, martial-arts performances, and…
Enigmatic Figures: This exhibit touts Argentine Mateo Arguello Pitt’s breakout appearance at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries. The show also features works by Aurora Cañero, Maria Gamundi, and José Benito, who provide little more than background noise to Pitt’s quirky paintings. He, at least, has something to say. The female artists appear…
Samantha Salzinger may be able to find her way blindfolded around a sex shop. At least that’s what’s suggested by her provocative pieces on display at ArtCenter/South Florida. Salzinger is one of six local artists whose work is on display in the “Alternative Photographs” exhibit organized by indie curator Carol…
Consumed by alcohol and Paris nightlife, bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani often found himself piss-broke and doodling on cocktail napkins he swapped for absinthe. Jackson Pollock was a staple at New York’s famous Cedar Bar, where he would invariably end up, lit and brawling about art. Indeed “Jack the Dripper” met…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. Scharf has tricked out a 1960 Cadillac coupe, one of the most iconic designs of the era, in a giddy fusion of modern design and contemporary art that pokes fun at duck-and-cover classroom…
In the conflicted conceptual gristle of Mateo Argüello Pitt’s deceptively childlike paintings, the way one confronts the pitfalls of domestic drama or oppressive alienation defines the meat of a man. At least that is what the artist telegraphs in many of his thirteen mixed-media-on-board pieces that dominate “Enigmatic Figures,” which…
In the photography by friends Jacqueline Carini and Eyjólfur Már Thoroddsen (better known as AO), images cling to the familiar as if odes to real scenes and remembered places conjured in the melancholy of tone and mood. The work of Carini — an award-winning photojournalist and freelance contributor to the…
In the photography by friends Jacqueline Carini and Eyjólfur Már Thoroddsen (better known as AO), images cling to the familiar as if odes to real scenes and remembered places conjured in the melancholy of tone and mood. The work of Carini — an award-winning photojournalist and freelance contributor to the…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. Scharf has tricked out a 1960 Cadillac coupe, one of the most iconic designs of the era, in a giddy fusion of modern design and contemporary art that pokes fun at duck-and-cover classroom…
Sabrina Cohen’s portrait on display at the Dorsch Gallery is striking, but her story yanks the rug from under you. The 28-year-old Sandra Bullock look-alike has spent half her life in a wheelchair. “I was fourteen at the time of my accident,” the quadriplegic explains. “On Halloween night 1992, a…
What do a pop artist from Pittsburgh and an Argentine surrealist have in common? Try Romero Britto. Tee “Teepop” Davis and Cesar Levy met a few years ago while working as graphic artists for the Brazilian marvel. Davis and Levy recognized that philosophically they were “twins separated at birth” and…
“Besos,” at Leonard Tachmes Gallery, features a fanciful body of photography, video, and installations in a loosely knit exhibit that combines the talent of four emerging female artists. And as the title suggests, the show seeks to address issues of sexuality, intimacy, and femininity. The works — by the collaborative…
For those thirsting to get their urban funk on, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Moore Space (4040 NE Second Ave., Miami) are serving up a lip-smacking pitcher of life on the mean streets via “metro pictures,” a unique two-part group show. Curated by Moore’s director Silvia Karman Cubiñá,…
When you’re visiting the average gelato joint, the most provocative thing you might expect to encounter is a scoop of jalapeño chocolate, blackberry Cabernet, or rambunctious rhubarb crème fraîche to spice up the vanilla. But at the Gelato Station Gallery, a dose of controversy seems the flavor du jour. Frenchman…
Tuning into “Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents” at Centro Cultural Español, one might be reminded of the B-movie classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The 1956 film depicts the takeover of an entire community by alien seed pods that replicated and eventually replaced humans. At its core,…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. During the era in which the Soviets sent Sputnik hurtling across the sky, America’s obsession with space was limited to watching Annette Funicello fill out her bra on The Mickey Mouse Club —…
Astral Cumulo Uber Express: Kenny Scharf’s exhibit at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties. During the era in which the Soviets sent Sputnik hurtling across the sky, America’s obsession with space was limited to watching Annette Funicello fill out her bra on The Mickey Mouse Club —…
Civilizations crumble and others ascend in the wake, yet humanity must be suffering from a learning disability, considering the average Joe is still digging his own grave. This seems to be the conceptual furrow James Croak tills in his engrossing exhibit at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Croak drops a hammer…
Few sights can unhinge the male peepers as effectively as those rump wagging peelers fishing for greenbacks at a strip joint. When confronted by a curvaceous exotic dancer shimmying in her unmentionables, most men drool for the attention of these beautiful women. What’s a poor mope to do? It’s a…
Since moving from his native Minnesota six years ago, artist Reeve Schumacher has had his fill of the Sunshine State. His solo show “State of Reeve Schumacher vs. Florida,” opening tonight at Damien B. Contemporary Art Center, takes a confrontational tongue-in-cheek look at his experiences here and is somewhat of…
Borrowed World: The exhibit is split into two distinct viewing spaces, with sculptural works on one side and Paredes’s performance photo pieces on the other. One of the more interesting Cibachrome prints, Gnome, depicts the nude artist in a vibrantly hued emerald forest clearing. Her body, painted white, sprouts a…
Kenny Scharf’s “Astral Cumulo Uber Express” at the Kevin Bruk Gallery harks back to the Fifties, when the U.S. and Russia were locked in a race to put a monkey in orbit or a man on the moon. During the era in which the Soviets sent Sputnik hurtling across the…
