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Miami, Florida

Hialeah Park

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The Herald:

“Activists, historians and Hialeah politicians gathered” … ” at the offices of the Dade Heritage Trust to celebrate Hialeah Park being placed on the National Historic Trust’s list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.”

It does not guarantee the destruction of park.

I propose to all a multi-disciplinary competition to propose programs for the park. The idea is simple — don’t focus on practical solutions for the park and yet, make it relevant again to us all. This competition should enlist all students(elementary school to college) to send in a proposal. Also, invite artists, musicians, dancers, storytellers, comedians to address the park. Hopefully, all these interventions would begin the re-establish the cultural value of Hialeah Park.

Citizens to Save Hialeah Park. Their myspace.

Herald on the Cintas

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Tom Austin wrote about the Cintas award and exhibition. Of the exhibition at the Frost Museum, Austin wrote “the quality of the work is wildly uneven.” He stated, in reference to Maria Martinez-Canas, “Hers is easily the best work in this year’s Cintas finalists’ exhibition.” And “Moreno’s work,…, has grown into something more complicated and visceral.”

The article’s statements in regards to Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova:

“Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova’s Two Sectionals Creating Closure may be too simple: The artist — who has previously created such pieces as A Gated Space for One, slabs of ornamental powder-coated aluminum welded together to form a conceptual cage — bought two stupendously mediocre imitation leather sectionals at El Dorado and simply pushed them together. Rodriguez-Casanova, who attended the New World School of the Arts in 1994 and ’95, is from Westwood Lakes in southwest Miami. He concedes that Two Sectionals didn’t require ”a lot of process,” but points out the bigger picture: “It’s a comment on my personal nostalgia, the life of the suburbs. And also a dialogue with the viewer about the importance society attaches to working class objects, and why the efforts of the working class are not as valued as the work of others.”

There has been a discussion, here at TNFH Central, about the recent works of LRC. Though, it has not concluded; we have come to perceive the recent works by LRC haven’t always deliver its intended poetics. I believe the systems and rules used by LRC to form and generate works are sound and conceptually attractive. But in the final hours of the executions of works like Two Sectionals, I believe LRC allows Duchampian readymades to overly influence the works. By that I mean the idea that readymades are simply found and are coupled and are exhibited. This is in contrast to Rauschenberg’s and Johns’s brand of readymades, in which objects are manipulalted , abstracted and shaped into a work.

Two Sectionals Creating Closure is a very poetic phrase. For one thing, I think of the ying-yang. Another thought is of matrimonial unity. One can go on…

Vizcaya talk

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Artist Talk: Anna Gaskell
Wednesday, May 23 at 7 p.m.
Courtyard, Main House
Please note change of speaker at this free event:

New York-based visual artist Anna Gaskell is unable to attend the talk scheduled for Wed. May 23. Gaskell’s site-specific installation Still Life, a contemplative meditation on time, space and memory, was filmed at Vizcaya and is on view through June 1, 2007.


Miami Art Museum’s Assistant Curator Rene Morales will present a talk on Gaskell and her work. Morales, who holds a Master’s in Art History, recently curated MAM’s Collectors Council Acquisitions (April 13 – July 1, 2007) that features another Gaskell piece entitled Erasers.

May Miami

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This past Saturday night, many exhibitions opened. Though, we didn’t attend most of them. The night was very rewarding. Miami’s art scene can take great pride in what it is offering. Mainly, smart, considered and well-crafted works. We’ll provide more images and discussions relating to these works.

Kari Snyder

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Lamia Endara

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Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova

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We also noted : Michael Rodriguez at Ingalls. Jacin Giordano at Snitzer. And a refreshing exhibition of photographs at twenty twenty, featuring Tom Scicluna, Hugo Montoya .

Conditions of Display

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I would like to apologize for not posting this before Saturday. I am participating in this exhibition, Conditions of Display, curated by Gean Moreno.

Conditions of Display

Invitation with a view of the Moore space.

Conditions of Display

Invitation with a view of Locust Projects.

PRESS RELEASE

In their first collaborative project, The Moore Space and Locust Projects are pleased to present the two-venue exhibition Conditions of Display, curated by Gean Moreno. This exhibition will open to the public at both locations on SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007 FROM 7-10PM and will include the following 23 artists: Shahin Afrassiabi, Tobias Buche, Gardar Einar Einarsson, Eugenio Espinoza, Andrea Fraser, Gaylen Gerber, Adler Guerrier, Swetlana Heger, Gareth James, Sergej Jensen, Michael Krebber, Michaela Meise, Paulina Olowska, Elena Pankova, Sean Paul, Kristen Pieroth, Seth Price, Blake Rayne, Michael S. Riedel, Josh Smith, Christopher Williams, Johannes Wohnseifer, and Kevin Zucker.

In recent years there has been a renewed interest among younger artists to produce work that rescues some of the critical gestures of past generations. Conditions of Display sets out to showcase and explore the meaning of this refocusing on display strategies, presentational contexts, and the myriad ways in which artworks are framed and distributed. Stemming from the preoccupations of early conceptual artists that first turned toward a rigorous investigation of site, the concerns of these younger artists engage not only the immediate physical locale where the work is exhibited but the systems of distribution and display in which they function. Beyond this, the exhibition will explore how the critical gestures fare in our contemporary socio-cultural situation.

The work of five artists that first emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s—Andrea Fraser, Christopher Williams, Michael Krebber, Eugenio Espinoza and Gaylen Geber—made theirs the tradition of institutional critique and context-specific production. Against these, the work of the younger artists in Conditions of Display will be presented. Relying on different media—from digital videos to banners to paintings—these younger artists have revived certain critical and self-reflexive gestures, renewing an interrogation of site and the systems that frame the art object while remaining keenly aware of the socio-cultural situation in which the function.

Along with pre-existing objects, a number of the artists will be producing projects specifically for this exhibition. Gaylen Gerber will participate with a new Backdrop painting made specifically for The Moore Space. Berlin-based artist Tobias Buche will build a new, large-scaled display unit. Shahin Afrassiabi has shot a new video that focuses on educational spaces. Miami-based artists Adler Guerrier and Eugenio Espinoza will both make new work. Guerrier’s will involve, among other things, a psycho-geography of the increasingly-gentrified neighborhood of Wynwood and Espinoza will be rehabilitating part of the installation that he produced for Locust Projects in 2005. Sean Paul and Michael S Riedel are both working on context-specific reactions to the sites in which this exhibition will take place. Gardar Einar Einarsson and Blake Rayne will also be participating with new work.

This exhibition runs through the end of June at both locations. The Moore Space is a non-profit art space in the Design District in Miami. Founded in 2001, its mission is to present international contemporary art forms. It will achieve this through an experimental program of cross-disciplinary exhibitions, performances, artists and curators residencies and public programs which reflect the state of contemporary art today: new forms, new voices and new thought. The Moore Space is located at 4040 NE 2nd Avenue, 2nd floor in the Design District.

Locust Projects is an alternative, not for profit, Miami based exhibition space dedicated to providing contemporary visual artists the freedom to experiment with new ideas and methods without the pressures of gallery sales or other limitations of conventional exhibition spaces. Artists are encouraged to create site-specific installations as an extension of their representative work; Locust Projects offers them a vibrant Miami experience to develop their ideas and methods. Locust Projects is committed to offering an approachable and inviting venue for the Miami and international art community to experience the work and meet the artist. Locust Projects is located at 105 NW 23rd Street in Wynwood.

Optic Nerve

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Jason Hedges, “hardcore epicurean, master mixologist, novist sommelier, ” posted this on myspace. I could not find it on MoCA‘s website.

CALL TO ARTISTS:
MOCA SEEKING FILM AND VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
FOR UPCOMING OPTIC NERVE IX SHOWCASE

Deadline: June 22, 2007
Screening: July 28, 2207

(North Miami) – The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is seeking film and video submissions for the ninth annual Optic Nerve, the museum’s popular film and video showcase featuring the work of emerging South Florida artists and filmmakers.
Rules: Submissions must be on VHS or DVD, no more than 6 minutes in length, contain original material and has been made within the last 2 years. All applicants must include the artist’s resume, contact information, a brief description of the work, a biographical statement, price of work and number of edition. Submissions must also include a $10 entry fee for MOCA members, $20 for non-members, payable in check or money order to Museum of Contemporary Art. Entries are limited to two submissions per person. A separate entry fee applies to each submission. Films will be selected by a jury of film and art professionals, and will be screened at MOCA during Optic Nerve on Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 7PM. One of the films will be purchased for MOCA’s Permanent Collection.

Deadline: Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 22, 2007. Only those submissions accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope will be returned.
All artists will be notified early July via mail if their work has or has not been selected for the July 28th screening.

Optic Nerve is sponsored by Starbucks Coffee Company.

“Optic Nerve has become a wonderful way to discover new South Florida artists. It has also inspired artists to create new works for submission to the jury,” said MOCA Executive Director Bonnie Clearwater.

Anna Gaskell at Vizcaya

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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is presenting Anna Gaskell’s Still Life, the second installment of its Contemporary Arts Project (Gustavo Matamoros presented ORGANIC PIPES, last November.)

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She spoke briefly and broadly about the work; mentioning themes of memory, gardens, mazes, games and multiple point of view within a narrative or multiplicity of a character with the narrative.

Anna Gaskell