Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal tunnel syndrome or shearing off a digit while gearing up for the collapse of Western civilization. He has been manically clipping images from hundreds of magazines pillaged…
Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal tunnel syndrome or shearing off a digit while gearing up for the collapse of Western civilization. He has been manically clipping images from hundreds of magazines pillaged…
If future generations attempt to reconstruct a sense of Miami today, Glexis Novoa’s drawings and installations — rendered in graphite on marble, painstakingly painted on canvas, or etched on a wall — might serve as blueprints for understanding how our metropolis changed. His meticulously drafted cityscapes reveal urban settings where…
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…
For a modest gallery, dishing out a “major painting survey of current international trends in the media” is no picnic. Without the proper ingredients, fettuccine Alfredo hyped as a melt-in-the-mouth experience can risk playing out like a soggy plate of ramen noodles smothered in Wishbone Creamy Italian dressing. After digesting…
Those who think Art Basel injected big-time art into Miami’s anemic cultural artery need to visit the Bakehouse Art Complex. Its latest exhibit proves that trash talkers, who say this town was a sorry backwater before the Swiss invaded, are spouting unadulterated hogwash. Opening tonight at 7:00, BAC smacks back…
Artist Leonel Matheu seems to have a skull full of anxiety regarding the human condition. Consequently his is a provocative world where a sweaty little fellow whimsically grapples with the suffocating hold of life’s uncertainties. “Maneuvers,” his solo show opening tonight at Dot Fiftyone Art Space, features a jaw-dropping collection…
Carlos Estévez has taken sacrifice in the name of art to an extreme. For the past several months, the artist has risked carpal tunnel syndrome or shearing off a digit while gearing up for the collapse of Western civilization. He has been maniacally clipping images from hundreds of magazines pillaged…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a two-year stretch in London’s infamous Wormwood Scrubs prison. In 1984 Morley was…
Fanned from the ashes of events that singed the national psyche during the rise of Reagan Republicanism, Laura Parnes’s video exhibit “Janie 1978-1982” effectively ignites a slow burn stoked by embers of current-day relevancy. On display at Locust Projects, the installation showcases several chapters from Parnes’s Blood and Guts in…
The Frost Art Museum is tapping into a heady brew of emerging talent and serving up works by a trio of students set to graduate from Florida International University’s master of fine arts program. Opening today, the “MFA 2006 Exhibit”makes an intoxicating splash with the creative juices of Santo-Martin Cordero,…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…
From ostriches standing in the ocean to donkeys riding in rowboats to zebras in an Alpine setting, the interior landscape of Paola Pivi’s mind is a world unto itself. And what an astonishing place it can be. During the past decade, Pivi has perfected the art of luring the public…
One of Latin America’s most innovative contemporary artists, Victor Grippo, was a bit of an alchemist. He succeeded in harnessing nature’s most frugal materials into unforgettable metaphors for latent energy. One of the Argentine’s mind-boggling experiments consisted of attaching bushels of the common Idaho spud to a voltmeter and measuring…
Those who think a Latin is a Latin is a Latin and are still barking, “Yo quiero Taco Bell,” are rubbing up against the wrong fire hydrant. For folks uninitiated into the finer points of the melting cazuela that is Latino culture, Centro Cultural Español opens “Constant Disturbance: On Cultural…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…
Brian Reedy farcically hashes out the end of the world as we know it in his new body of work where man, nature, and technology collide calamitously in the aftermath of a warped seismic cataclysm. The drawings, paintings, and woodcuts in “Eleventh Hour” at the Dorsch Gallery project the sense…
At what is arguably South Florida’s balmiest waterfront setting — the atoll at Matheson Hammock Park — fifteen artists are exhibiting monumental sculptures and site specific installations. Through March 31, “Art Expressions,” organized by Miami Dade Parks Division of Art and Culture, situates the works “in the most fantastic environment…
The Art of Painting: Malcolm Morley’s exhibit at MoCA features more than 30 large works dating from the Sixties. The twists and turns of the artist’s formative years pepper his paintings. Born in England in 1931, Morley ran away from home at the age of fifteen and later served a…
The umbilical discord underpinning Robert Melee’s early work is AWOL from “Poplar,” his debut solo show at Ingalls & Associates. Castrated from his arresting mommy-fixated themes, this exhibit seems sadly flaccid. Melee is, after all, best known for his sensationally sleazy films starring his naked and perpetually tanked mother Rose…
Looking at Jean Villamizar’s paintings, one senses a riff on a popular theme: the rejection of chauvinist imposed notions of feminine beauty by a woman who is comfortable in her own skin. It is also clear the artist has tired of jingle-brained pitchmen who use female imagery to sell everything…
The Miami Art Museum is exhibiting seven large scale paintings by American master James Rosenquist, in what the curator hails as an extraordinary coup. “This marks his first U.S. museum show since his retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2003,” gushes Lori Mertes. “The exhibit is a tremendous opportunity for the…
