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Gallery Hours
Mon – Fri 10:30 – 4:30 ;
Sat 11 – 3

Grand Opening Reception Saturday
October 9, 7 – 10

For over 20 years, Art Nouveau has captured the hearts of collectors who appreciate and enjoy art. Since its creation, this gallery has undertaken de challenge of showcasing the most interesting proposals in the international scene, and has done so with sensitivity and courage.

It has become a reference for experts in Latin American art. It has also been a first home to some new artisits, whom time has chosen as a way to reward the remarkable vision of this gallery. For many, Art Nouveau represents avant-garde, but it is perhaps the sharp intuition to choose master pieces of contemporary art what best defines the profile of this gallery. They have understood that the eye makes the photography and that history and respect make tradition, but it is the heart that sets the guidelines in this business

Sandra Muss’ body of work is inspired by the majestic qualities of nature. This first exhibition in Miami is a highly personal reflection of a journey that incorporates the mysteries of life, the magical characteristics of light, the brilliant sun, the moving power of water and the strength of the elements. .

Muss describes her work as energetic and passionate and as the simple inspiration that one finds in the unexpected? Each piece is a mirror of her travels.

Muss holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in New York, and a Masters Degree in Media from the New School in New York. Muss has taught painting and drawing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Hunter College High School and Lehrman Day School.

Opening Reception Saturday
October 9, 7 – 11

In celebration of Claudia Calle’s “Fine Art Collage” first place achievement from the International Photography Awards (“IPA”), The Road to Calle: Republic of China.

The artist will showcase a series of socio-cultural images, which represent China’s controversial globalization, copyright and mass production issues. Calle’s Republic of China series was selected by International Photo Awards among 15,000 submissions spanning 103 countries. The pieces, which fuse photography with collage and acrylic on wood, were further hand-picked by renowned curator Adriana Teresa to appear in the IPA “Best of Show” Exhibit in late-October at Splashlight Studios, New York.

DJ sets by Mr. Pauer (Fabrika), Aramis (Poplife) and Kiko de Gallo (Groovalizacion) will set the tone at the gallery with the official after-party taking place at Grand Central. For more information please visit www.claudiacalle.com orwww.awarehousemiami.com

Gallery Walk Reception Saturday
October 9, 7 – 10

Mörker signifies the gloomy darkness seen through a child’s dream, a nightmare perhaps. Set in a magical and mysterious Scandinavian forest inhabited by eerie mystical characters intricately depicted in charcoal and ink drawings by Swedish artist Johan Björkegren. The longing for comfort is not lost in the innocence of a child and the warm love of a mother. Artists Ingrid Eliasson and Jennifer Basile bring a calming effect from this lurid fantasy with the detailed structured graphite drawings, juxtaposed over the rich biomorphic backgrounds. The feeling of a “cozy home” is amplified by the crocheted fiber tapestries.
Birds Are Nice. New CG Boutique

Birds Are Nice is a visual artists and graphic designer working in the Miami area. The decision to work anonymously as Birds Are Nice came from the artist wanting to have fun and make happy, urban work that references pop culture along with the comic and cartoon genres.

The focal point of the Madí movement was a break within the figurative tradition. Some of the most original innovations of this movement were the concepts of invention as an aesthetic artistic method and the irregular or trimmed frame. The leimotiv od the Madí was to break the representation line in art in favor of the idea of presenting the work of art as an object itself, showing its own elements without any further reference to reality.

Gallery hours:
Tues – Fri 10 – 6
Sat 11 – 4

GALLERY NIGHT RECEPTION & PERFORMANCES ON SATURDAY
OCTOBER 9, 7 – 10

This 5th installment of the New Media Festival shows the works of local and international artists. Among the artists:Jonathan Rockford with a solo exhibition, New York basedMiru Kim and Gladys Triana, local Miami artists Xavier Cortada, Venessa Monokian, Antonia Wright, Ruben Millares.Also showing at the NMF, a representation of video artists from Rome’s MACRO.

There will be a DNA performance by Xavier Cortada of his “Ancestral Journeys” piece at the October 9th Wynwood Gallery Walk. Other performances will be expected.

HACS will participate in Pinta NY with artist Gladys Triana and in Miami Scope Basel 2010.

Gallery hours:
Mon – Sun, 12 – 5

Opening Reception
Friday,
October 8, 7-10

Illustration is quickly becoming one of the trendiest art forms seen today, and is unfortunately taken so much for granted through our constant interaction with printed and online materials. This exhibition will take you on a journey from process to result, as it follows the work of BAC illustratorsJean-Paul Mallozzi, Luis Diaz, Mike Rivamonte, Dan Fila,and Hugo Patao.

Parapraxis. Swenson Gallery
This group exhibition highlights works in a variety of media that deals with broken memories, the irrational, subliminal messages, optical illusions, puns, paranoia, and double entendres as formal and conceptual devices that operate in their work.

Gallery Hours
Tues – Sat 11 – 4
& always by appt.

Opening Reception Saturday
October 9, 7 – 10

Gallery Hours
Mon – Fri 11 – 7:30
Sat 1 – 6
Private Viewing available by appt.

Art Walk Reception
Saturday
October 9, 7 – 10

Omar Barquet sheds the formal purism to move the geometry to an organic state, where properties are abstracted of the individual’s subjectivity. Barquet condenses so particularly the operation on the set of works of art presented in the show Pautas, where he reveals the chromatic dissonance of memory..

Like a reflectent kaleidoscope, Omar Barquet’s body of work, to be exhibited in his first Miami show, projects chromatic abstractions of suggestive luminance nature, that when going into depths of a dark room bounces and shapes spectral volumes, resonant permanence of what was one presence.

Art installations by Japanese artist Michiyoshi Deguchi’s will be exhibited for the first time in Miami. Deguchi has been creating such artworks that lead the viewers make their own interpretations by many ways of expressions. His present works adopt acrylic domes, in which he places photos showing a process of drawings and the on-site scene of them as well as actual motifs.

Wulf’s work is at once sublimely childlike while simultaneously being profound and illuminating. There is a sense of joy and discovery and a complex back-story that drives each individual piece. Damien Whitmore, Head of Programs at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum says “The work is warm, perverse, innocent and dirty. It’s also very funny, even when it’s going for the jugular.”

“Wulf Treu does not fool around. His work is personal, brash, painterly, expressive and full of extraordinary energy…” So quotes Carol Damien the Curator of Miami’s Frost Museum about German Artist Wulf Treu.

Recent oil paintings from the Buenos Aires based Argentinean painter. Approaching his work with a sense of its place in art history, Grün is very much a painter’s painter. Grinding his own pigments rather than finding them commercially, Grün seeks to establish a link between the current day and the age from which he draws his stylistic inspiration. Recalling Flemish masters Van Dyck and Rubens, Grün’s work typically sets nude figures against idyllic landscapes but with modern interpretations and representations of mythological and religious themes.

His figures are rendered with a classical sense of realism in their detail and are frequently featured in movement or contortion. And though Grün follows a pre-meditated and prescribed language from a compositional point of view, his work absolutely transcends any possible banality or cliché, as it is painted with ferocity, unafraid to approach the darker sides of the sources of its inspiration. As such, the work seems to dare the viewer, flaunting its ability to use a language anew, self-assured in its aesthetic harmony.

Floridian artist Steven Gagnon became famous with his innovative and influential work in the Miami art scene and is now internationally recognized. Two nice serigraphs will be setting there among other pop art artists also in view asRobert Indiana, Takashi Murakami, Keith Haring and Mel Ramos among others.

Last April, Steven Gagnon was exhibited at the 25th London Original Print Fair in the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

Pullen shows his newest body of work capturing the architectural illusions and realities of New York’s buildings and skyscrapers. Born and raised in New York, Pullen gets his inspiration from the flashy Broadway corridors, to the soaring skylines. Working a unique reality/illusion dynamic,Pullen paints New York images onto constructions of brick, wood, plastic, louver doors, car-hoods, etc. The images undulate across these constructed surfaces creating an energy and a tension that seems to says ‘ this is New York’.

Jeff Pullen’s work is represented internationally in numerous private and corporate collections, including New York University’s Washington Square Windows in 2008 and Broadway Windows in 2004.

Also on view the works of: Andy Warhol, Tolla, Marlene Rose, Brad Howe, Joerg Doering, Donald Sultan, Zammy Migdaland many others.

Miriam Fernandes Gallery and Luciana Junqueira are proud to present the artwork of JB Lazzarini from Brazil to Miami Design District for his first solo exhibition in the USA. Experience the joy he aims to exude in the series of artwork he entitles METAMORFOSE.

With strong contrast of colors and shapes, he wisely creates a sense of harmony among both geometric and organic notions. It’s ingenious the way he transforms flat canvas into broad poetic tales and converts nature into an eclectic, lively form of pop art.

Since 2007, Héctor Maldonado has been working on various series from mixed media on canvas to construction/sculptures made from found objects. His work is a reflection on issues that are visceral and vital to him: God, family, home vs. house, childhood, language (communication), time, eternity, and levels of human existence; spiritual and physical.

The first series is Mi familia/ My Family, a mixed media on canvas series that deals with the relations between individuals and their immediate (familiar) habitat, exploring aspects that go beyond the physical.

Then Void Toys is a series of small scale construction/sculptures made of found objects.They are minuscule poetical and intimate scenarios where, the artist “opens the drawers” to his personal memoirs.

The third series Listen, deals with the use of children images as an excuse to reveal semantic images of profound content within an unidentifiable space, where visual and interpretation levels are touched.