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Matthew Deleget is a conceptual, reductive painter who will present an installation of new Shuffle paintings. Informed by the “shuffle” feature on his iPod, each painting consists of a checkered grid of four colors completely selected at random, producing visual results that vary widely.These series of paintings are directly inspired by the legendary salsa ensemble Fania All-Stars.  Each will pay homage to a specific musician in the group, including Hector Lavoe, Celia Cruz and Ray Barretto, among others.

David E. Peterson makes rule-based paintings that are informed by high-end industrial design goods, including laptop computers, athletic shoes, men’s fashion, and Modern architecture. (More) The three new suites paintings present his investigation into the formal qualities and associated consumer aspirations of three specific lines of designer goods, including Nixon’s Newton watch collection, Asics’ Onitsuka Tiger line of sneakers, and wallets designed by Paul Smith.

In her series Wanderlust, Kanako Sasaki (Japan, 1976) explores her own imaginative world influenced by traditional Japanese novels, Ukiyo-e paintings and childhood memories. In this inspired state, distracted from reality but informed by recollection, she composes her own floating world. Within her surreal and eccentric settings, Sasaki’s characters, usually herself, evoke ideas of isolation, escape and uninhibited freedom.The juxtaposition of bleak emotion within a fantastical landscape leaves the viewer mesmerized with wonderment.  Sasaki’s work also comments on issues such as the female experience, loss of innocence, hopeless romance and how Japanese culture is viewed from the outside.

Owner and gallerist Oscar Ascanio, will host a celebratory opening and artist reception during the District’s Second Saturday Gallery Walk on September 11, at 7 p.m.

Meet the Artist in his working studio Saturday September 11, 7 – 9

“I paint obsessively, restlessly, feverishly, triggered by the torture of the creative impulse and the certainty that erotic stimulus generates multiple and varying reactions to be explored. I continue to search for concrete answers, I can only attest that every experience is a hallucinating battle.” ES.

The exhibition includes work by Michael Alm, Miguel Aragon, Charles Baird, John Bergmeier, Michelle Brownridge, Eric Bushaw, Nola Dahl, Joshua Distler, Lisa Hasegawa, Elizabeth Jabar, Norman McBeath, Joshua McGarvey, Jonathan Metzger, Johanna Mueller, George Nelson, Elvia Perrin, Jeff Phegley, Richard Repasky, Charissa Schulze, Erin Smith, Susan T. Smith, Joseph Trupia, Robert Truszkowski, Lee Turner, Audrey Van Kirk, Michael Voors, Vilma, Linda Whitney, Connie Wolfe, and Jennifer Yarros. A catalog will be published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Durban-Segnini Gallery was founded in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1970 and in Miami, USA in 1992, by its present director and owner Mr. Cesar Segnini.

Durban-Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting and sculpture, emphasizing in artists who have worked with abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction and kinetic art.Simultaneously, the Gallery strives to promote and diffuse new artistic values as well as the historical vanguards that have influenced those.

Opening Reception Saturday
September 11, 7 – 10

The photographic work of Rytteke offers a unique handling of cultural attitudes towards body image, and includes an interactive installation in the gallery project room.  Ramanziniexhibits finely executed geometrics that make us reflect on societal need/want of all things ordered, elegant and stylized.  The works can be musical and poetic, as well as commentary, with an eye on patterns, consumerism, and branding.  Spector’slarge oil on paper pieces contain rich painterly figures placed center stage.  These works interpret and capture the sarcasm, humor and warmth she finds in the world around her.

Opening Reception Saturday
September 11, 7 – 9

Accustomed to living between cultures, Japanese born and UK based video artist Hiraki Sawa (b.1977) embraces the movement of people and the mutable notion of home as central themes in his work.   .

The images captured by Chilean born and Spain based artist Magdalena Correa (b.1968), during her journey to the Antarctica, have a common denominator that is present in all of them: the snow.   Giving continuity to her past projects, Correa explores another isolated territory, geographically far from us, where the extreme and harsh weather conditions determine the development of the region and the way its inhabitants interact with nature.

In Clary’s words: “I use paper to create a world of fiction that challenges the viewer to suspend disbelief and venture into my fabricated reality. By layering paper I am able to build intriguing land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves. These strange landmasses contaminate and infect the surfaces they inhabit transforming the space into something suitable for their gestation. Towers of paper and color jut into the viewer’s space inviting playful interactions between the viewer and this conceived world. These constructions question the notion of viral outbreaks, transforming it into something more playful and inviting.”

Rafael López-Ramos is a visual artist and critic. Born in 1962 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. Graduated with a major in painting and drawing at the Academia San Alejandro, Havana, 1985 with 4 years of Master studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, 1987-1991.

His work was selected to be exhibited in 2009 at Contemporary Cuban Art in New York (CANY). López-Ramos between 1997 and 2006 resided in Canada whose citizenship adopted. He currently lives and works in Miami, regularly collaborates with Art Nexus and Art Pulse magazines and the curatorial team of Miami Dade College Art Gallery System.