Trip This

There are several European galleries that maintain a second outpost in Wynwood. Usually, the dealers visit their spaces here once or twice a year, primarily during Art Basel. It’s a cheap way to gain a foothold in our art scene and save on renting a booth during the fair. Many of these spaces maintain a skeleton crew and low operational budgets, allowing them to rotate stock out of their headquarters and present exhibits here in the hopes that their artists might catch the eyes of a passing collector. (Most don’t have a list of local buyers to scare up to their shows.) The good thing about those galleries is they offer access to artists one might never encounter outside of the art fair circuit. Such is the case at the Paris-based Lelia Mordoch Gallery exhibiting “Pigment Rouges (Red Peppers)” a surprisingly nifty collection of retro-contempo psychedelic abstract canvases by Japan’s Yukio Imamura.
Oct. 29-Nov. 19, 2011