Open Your Eyes – June 2011

Brave & beautiful art shines for can’t miss Miami-area moments: searing video critique of Nigerian oil craving amid ravenous capitalists by Mark Boulos and burning, war-ravaged painting by Aramis Gutierrez at Miami Art Museum; global ode to friendship by Roberto Behar and Rosario Marquardt at Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale; disarming diagram by Julie Davidow at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood. Worth a drive: history-making photo by Gordon Parks & mind-altering abstraction by José Alvarez at Norton Museum of Art. Savor public transport delights by Horace Christopher Taylor at Wolfsonian. Wynwood is wealthy with fabulous art: Leo Matiz at Miami Biennale, Colleen Plumb at Dina Mitrani Gallery, Jose Gurvich at Sammer Gallery, Bhakti Baxter at Gallery Diet, Abel Barroso and Edouard Duval Carrié at PanAmericanArtProjects, Mariano Costa Peuser at Curator’s Voice Art Projects. Discover summer flora by Chris Fennell at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art.