Category: exhibition

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mel bokner (notes on value)
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Saturday, February 8, 5 – 7pm. On view through April 5, 2025

Join us on Saturday, February 8, 2025 from 5 – 7 pm for the opening reception of mel bokner (notes on value), an exhibition featuring over twenty five 8.5 x 11in drawings. All drawings—in disregard of the consensual magic that subtends the external determinates that structure their current value—will be for sale at $250 during the course of the exhibition.

                 Dennis Balk              Kitty Brophy                   Yamel Molerio            

Alyssa Andrews                                   Paul Mullins                          Cynthia Cruz

          Avi Young                    Beatriz Monteavaro              Kevin Arrow                  

Adam Putnam                 Tonel (Antonio Eligio Fernández)             Jennifer Printz                          

               Lucía Aquino                 Sue Montoya                                 Melissa Wallen                      

Rosemarie Chiarlone            Brigette Hoffman           AdrienneRose Gionta        

            Sebastian Restrepo                       Bhakti Baxter                      Tara Long        

     Robert Chambers                 Nicole Doran                                Yerrie Choo  

           Zachary Balber                              Corie Sharples                  Justin H Long

Ryan Foerster               Dona Altemus                               Sarah Viviana Valdez

           Onajide Shabaka                  Clifton Childree                 Adler Guerrier          

     Roxana Barba                      Amanda Keeley               Ken Oliver Mercury    

      Jason Breeden                    Misael Soto                    Maitejosune Urrechaga

Tony Kapel                Donna Torres                 Kayla Delacerda        Tom Scicluna      

       Alisa Pitchenik Charles         Daniel Joseph Martinez                Francisco Masó

 Jillian Mayer                      Mark Handforth                     Genesis Moreno

        Alejandro Valencia                  Sterling Rook                            Regina Jestrow

       Monica Lopez De Victoria                  Manny Prieres               Casey Jargo          

Tom Mickelson           Hannah Buonaguro            Theo Shure                 Kerry Phillips

             Jessica Gispert                 Liduam Pong               Westen Charles      

Brooke Frank                Nickolas Peter Chelyapov               Claudio Marcotulli

        Charles Humes Jr.             Leo Castaneda                          Glexis Novoa  

                           Max Estenger                    Dino Felipe                         Lee Pivnik            

 Mary Griffin                              Karen Rifas                              Sean T Randolph                  

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Art Loft on No Vacancy

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South Florida PBS‘s Art Loft on the recent art events, including the latest iteration of No Vacancy 2024.

Art transforms some of Miami Beach’s most iconic places with “No Vacancy.” This juried art competition brings together 12 talented local artists to create site-specific public works to be displayed across 12 famed hotel properties. From lobby installations to outdoor alleys, this program reimagines public spaces as dynamic canvases for contemporary art. Among the excitement of Art Week Miami Beach and Art Basel, No Vacancy gives local artists a spot to shine on Miami Beach.

Jeffrey Noble and Alison Matherly, the duo behind art collaborative, We Are Nice’n Easy welcome visitors to their installation entitled, “Soft Squeeze.” It’s a playfully giant yet thought-provoking inflatable sculpture suspended in an alleyway behind Esmé Miami Beach.

At the Kimpton Surfcomber Hotel, artist Adler Guerrier presents “Objects, Landscapes and Things.” The multimedia work explores South Florida’s environment and temporality – all in a bright corner of the hotel lobby.

Artist Magnus Sodamin takes over the lobby of the Faena Hotel with a contemporary work. Delicate rose-gold representations of Floridian wildlife are suspended in the grand space. While the imagery may be whimsical, the piece asks viewers to reflect on humanity’s fragile relationship with nature.

The lobby of the Cadillac Hotel & Beach Club is home to artist Marielle Plaisir’s work, “Rhapsody for a Beloved World.” The work is a backlit collage that encourages joy and harmony, with the possibility for a more peaceful and inclusive world.

Artist Dennis Scholl’s work is on view at the Hotel Croydon. The artist’s trademark ray-like dodecagon motifs are arranged in a 12-sided structure to represent time, memory, and the collective experiences we all share.

viewsandtraces

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Untitled, 2018 - Alder Guerrier (Installation View and Close Up)
Adler Guerrier
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Untitled (tilting views, marks and trace; 5th and Meridian), 2015
Graphite, acrylic, enamel paint and xerography on paper. 71.5 x 48 inches.

tilt : to move or shift so as to lean or incline

Middle English tulten, tilten to fall over, cause to fall, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan, akin to Old English tealt unstable, tealtian to totter

“Tilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tilt. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

A web of loss

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View of Surfcomber Hotel

Gauzy film between
evergreens is a web

of loss. Get closer. Reach
to touch the shimmering

gossamer and your finger
pushes through. Remember

filling that space with desire?
Someone else might grieve

the spider who abandoned
this home; others grow anxious

waiting for a deer’s walk
to wreck it. But you—

you grieve the net of thought
spun inside your own womb:

intricate and glossy and strong.

Miscarriage, Christine Stewart-Nun?ez

In the quiet, Vera could hear its sharp puffs of breath—low and fast—a complete and utter confusion. A denial. The eyes like blank boxes, but there, in their depths, a sense of something moving. A frantic dancing. Erratic. Vera felt her heart pumping awkwardly, palpitating. “Please wait,” Vera whispered.

And then it died. Just like that, she felt it go. Something horrible and also strangely thrilling in it.

Roughage, India Ennenga (Verso)

a kind of solution

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“Now what’s going to happen to us without barbarians?
Those people were a kind of solution. “

Waiting for the Barbarians, C. P. Cavafy

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, The Fitzwilliam Museum
20 September 2024 – 2 March 2025.

In The Week in Art. (Podcast)

 I’m Gonna Getcha, a two person show by Alejandra Moros and Thomas Bils. Spinello, September 21 – October 26, 2024. Checklist.

Bils, Ain’t Them Schools Learned You Nothin’, 2024. Oil on panel. 5 x 7 inches.
Moros, Gabi, 2024. Oil on canvas. 8 x 6 inches.

Cada sonido es una forma del tiempo

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Glenda León
La Lluvia
The Rain
2015
Monotipo, crayón y foto-grabado sobre papel Bunkoshi 60 g
Monothype, crayon and photo gravure on Bunkoshi paper 60 g

Every sound is a shape of time: selections from PAMM’s Collection is organized by PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans with PAMM Curatorial Assistant Fabiana A. Sotillo.
Participating artists include Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alfredo Jaar, Ellsworth Kelly, Glenda León, Helen
Frankenthaler, Jennie C. Jones, Jules Olitski, Julie Mehretu, Lawrence Weiner, Luis Camnitzer,
Lydia Okumura, Mark Bradford, Morris Louis, Nicole Cherubini, Richard Serra, Richard Dupont,
and Robert Morris.

Bienvenu Steinberg & C, May 26 – July 15, 2022.

Folding Suns or in debt to promises

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Adler Guerrier, Untitled (…whispered intelligence lurking in the leaves; Painted Bunting), 2020-2024. Photo collage, 71 1/2 x 46 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Marisa Newman Projects.

Folding Suns connects artists from the Western New York Region with those from Puerto Rico and the American South; it poses sun and water as real and metaphorical binding agents across geography, time, and identity.

Curated by: Pablo Guardiola

Pablo Guardiola is a visual artist. His work points to different modes of narration and how these are perceived and understood. Recently he curated with Yina Jiménez Suriel, one month after being known in that island (ways of working in the Caribbean). He is co-director of Beta-Local, an arts non-profit dedicated to support and promote contemporary art practices and aesthetic thought in Puerto Rico.

Featured Artists:

Genesis Baez
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Claudia Caremi
Adler Guerrier
Gregory Halpern
Ahndraya Parlato
Silas Rubeck
Paul B. Thulin

The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, August 02, 2024 – September 21, 2024.

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The Guggenheim Bilbao was hardly the first iconic building, but it was the first to be credited with a measurable economic spin-off. And while that temporarily elevated the status of architects to near deities, it proved detrimental in the long run. After the Guggenheim, architecture was never quite the same. A single building had defied all expectation, only for expectations to defy all of architecture ever since. Economic success became the measure of architecture’s quality, to which architecture, in turn, had no choice but to apply itself. Architecture found itself in debt to promises it didn’t make and ultimately can’t fulfill. After Bilbao, ambitious museum projects could only fail. And they did.

architect, verb The New Language of Building, Reinier de Graaf