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ART CIRCUITS CALENDAR
SUBSCRIBE A FRIEND HERETuesday, June 18th; NSU Art Museum; 12-1:30pm
Join the NSU Museum for talks and panel lectures on tolerance, acceptance and art within the LGBTQ+ community. For June Pride Month, Ashley Kerr (MFA graduate from Alfred University) will explore the plurality of gender and identity, and the intersection of painting and sculpture.
Cuban American artist Elodia Ramirez de Arellano Fanjul solo show: La Maleta del Abuelo” will open this Thursday, July 11, 6 – 9 at Pigalle Gallery in Little River (360 NE 75th St. Space 122, Little River). On view until August 11.
Thursday, July 11th; 7pm; ICA Miami
Join ICA for a conversation with Kathryn Yousoff entitled “The Geologies of Race: unearthing the ground”, in which the Professor of Inhuman Geography at the Queen Mary University of London will take visitors on a journey explaining the Earth as it was and how it will be in relation to our species as we suffer climate crisis. Kathryn Yousoff’s specialization in earth sciences, black feminist theory, geophilosophy and political aesthetics in the Anthropocene makes this lecture a particularly interesting one as we trek through the theory of origin.
(July 13 – August 24) Pan-American Art Projects opens VITAMIN L: The Disruption of Color in Contemporary Landscape discuss the contemporary variants of oneof the most traditional themes in the history of art: the Landscape. Artists: Gustavo Acosta, Ansel Adams, Ariamna Contino, Laddie John Dill, Edouard Duval-Carrier, Jose Manuel Fors, Carlos Gallardo, Joe Goode, Frank Mujica, Jorge Lopez Pardo, Adislen Reyes, Jorge Rios, Rusty Scruby, and Jose A. Toirac. On view until August 24.
Tuesday, July 16th; 7pm; ICA
Join ICA for “Un-spectacularizing Climate Change”, a captivating lecture with artist and scholar Emily Eliza Scott, who makes the focus of her work revolve around ecological processes within contemporary art. In this discussion, she will talk about climate change imagery in the contemporary art world, and the ways in which artists and activists have called attention to this global crisis.
Thursday, July 18th; 7-8pm; ICA Miami
Join ICA Miami and multimedia Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo for “Stop Being a Threat and To Become a Promise”. This lecture tells about the work of Caycedo, which explores human rights, social and environmental justice, and cultural biodiversity within community, and the processes of performances, drawings, photographs and videos to communicate her contemporary ideas.
Opening Thursday July 18m 7 – 10 pm: Roberto Lombana. Ying & Yang amazing new photographs at ArtScape Lab in Little River.Lombana aproaches photography with a Lenticular technology application that allows him to signify opposite realities that arise from his personal vision of the formal and the conceptual to present a series of works in a dynamic equilibrium.
Thursday, July 28th; 8-9pm; Frost Museum FIU
Join the Frost Museum and Lisa Haque for a discussion on her artmaking process and the way that she transforms paper into art with complexity and concepts. Haque makes paper by hand and turns them into artist books and other works, as shown in the museums current exhibition Spheres of Meaning. This lecture will be given at Books and Books for free.
Bottomless Mimosa Happy Hour, 11 am – 3 pm on Saturday, July 20th. We aim to quench your thirst (MOSTLY) for art… each gallery will offer a different flavor mimosa to tempt you. Participating PAB galleries includes: Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Pan American Art Projects, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Spinello Projects, The Bonnier Gallery, and Tile Blush.
Mindy Solomon Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition of works by artist Azikiwe Mohammed. The content of the show will reflect his earliest recollections of his travels to Miami as a child. July 20 – 27 . (8397 NE 2nd Ave., Little River). Participating i Progressive Art Brunch Bottomless mimosa happy hour! a different flavor mimosa to tempt you. Participating PAB galleries include: Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Pan American Art Projects, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Spinello Projects, The Bonnier Gallery, and Tile Blush.
Thursday, July 25th; 7-9pm; Coral Gables Museum
Join the Coral Gables Museum, Leica Store Miami and their Women in Focus Festival for a panel discussion on their newest discussion “The Art of Compassion”, in which curators and and participants will engage in conversation on how photography empowers social change, how the images were made, and how the participants were touched by the experience.
Wednesday, July 31st; 6:30pm; Coral Gables Museum
Join the Coral Gables Museum and Miami Police Department Officer Kelly Denham for a discussion on gun violence and safety in our community as well as drills on police safety in active shooter situations. The last Wednesday of every month, the museum gives lectures on various topics, so stay posted for information on our community with the museum.
Curated by Bart Merrill in conversation with Nate Dee: “What it means to go hard in the paint”.
Being a professional artist is a dream of many but realized by few. Join Nate Dee in an intimate conversation about going from enthusiast to professional and his ingredient to his success.
The de la Cruz Collection invitation to ART + TECH, a group exhibition of student work from the de la Cruz Collection’s Art + Technology 2019 Summer Camp organized in collaboration with Tile Blush (8375 NE 2nd. Ave. Little River) 01, Office GA, MUD Foundation, and Tropical Alchemy. Participating Students Artists: Mariana Arboli, Maximo Biasutto, Jose Cano, Carlos Dick, Skye Espinal, Lindsay Fornaris, Samantha Fornaris, Julian Henriquez, Flavia Hernandez, Lillian Interian, Dali Interian, Luke Keuthan, Andrea Martinez, Tatiana Multach, Melissa Reyes, Nicole Rodriguez-Camejo, Sebastian Sanchis, Valeria Stecchi, Kaileo Valdes, Alexandra Vazquez. From August 10 – 24.
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August 10 – 31: Gravity Hustle at Mindy Solomon Gallery (8397 NE 2nd. Ave. Little River): Select 2019 New World School of the Arts Graduates: J.M.Urbina, Yusimy Lara, Gabriela Beltran, and Patrick Oleson. Gravity Hustle represents the push and pull of the invisible and indescribable; the constant human struggle to explain complex realities. Gravity Hustle is each artists’ personal analysis of different intangible abstract processes. Opening Reception Saturday, August 10, 6 – 9 pm.
Atchugarry Art Center invites you and your guests to the closing reception of the two exhibits: Women Geometers, at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, curated by Adriana Herrera, and What I really want to tell you…at Pablo Atchugarry Foundation, curated by Jennifer Inacio and Flavia Macuco. Thursday, August 29, 6 – 9 pm.
Opening at MUCE this Sunday, September 1st at 5 pm. Curated by: Bart Mervil. Shakti: An Indian Woman’s Journey Of Healing Trauma Through Ancestral Guidance and Spiritual Awakening . Indian American artist, poet and activist Dita Devi expresses her journey through art of finding solace in culture through deep meditation and trance in the creation of various images of the female archetypes, primarily relating to her Hindu background.
September 21 – November 9: Carlos Quintana: State od Mind at Pan American Art Projects (274 NE 67th St. Little River). The selection of self-referential paintings of the Cuban artist becomes the intellectual radiography of his work. His moods have been explored by the strength of colors in fantastical stories of his unconscious.
September 25 – Novmber 24: Juan Jose Cambre: Fiesta. Curated by Veronica From. Opening Reception on Wednesday, September 25, 7 – 10 pm.Juan José Cambre (b. 1948, Ramos Mejía, Argentina) stands as a living milestone in Argentine artistic scene.
Soth. Works by Luis Tomasello, Julio Le Parc, Manuel Espinosa, Martha Boto, Jesús Rafael Soto, Mateo Manaure, Matilde Pérez, and Carlos Cruz-Diez. Opeinng Reception: Wednesday, September 25, 7 – 10 pm. Artscape Lab ( 7255 NE 4th Ave. Little River).
Today October 5, 1 am – 7 pm last day to enjoy :Spanish artist alfonso borragan: Bucarolito.How iguanas regenerate their tails? bucarolito is an exhibition and project by alfonso borragán with 3 main collaborators: Blanca Pujols, Santiago Reyes Villaveces, Orlando Plein and Kira Tippenhauer. Bucarolito opened at the end of a month in residence at Emerson Dorsch gallery.(5900 NW 2nd. Ave. Little Haiti, Miami).Free.
Curated by Tosha Grantham, Griots’ Gallery opens two-person exhibition that addresses environmental inequality and erasing historical erasures, Najee Dorsey: Poor People’s Campaign and Arturo Lindsay: Children of Middle Passage,Griots’ Gallery is located at 8260 NE 2nd. Ave. in the Center for Haitian Studies.October 12, 1 – 4 pm. On view until November 22.
October 12 – November 16: Effulgence, Elisabeth Condon’s show of new paintings at Emerson Dorsch gallery (5900 NW 2nd Ave. Little Haiti) . Elisabeth’s focus, intensity, joy and painterly prowess are on a full view in these pieces.She paints flowers and other details of landscapes, but for Condon depicting flowers are pretexts for painting details as satisfying as elemental human pleasures, or maybe more so, since such activities aren’t always as fun as they’re supposed to be.
Progressive Brunch this Sunday, October 13, from 11 am to 4 pm in 12 powerful contemporary art spaces: Bill Brady, Miami, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Emerson Dorsch, Fabien Castanier Gallery, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, N’Namdi Contemporary, Pan American Art Projects, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Spinello Projects, The Bonnier Gallery, and Tile Blush.Districts involved: Little Haiti, Little River, Arts & Entertainment,and Allapattah.
Curated by Linda Lopez and Marc Mitchell, featuring works from Nicole Cherubini, Craig Drennen, Ruben Ghenov, Pam Lins, Adam Milner, Amy Pleasant, and Shai Yehezkelli: Hidden Hour opens on Friday, October 25, 6 – 9 pm (Mindy Solomon Gallery: 8397 NE 2nd Ave. Little River). This exhibition features seven artists whose work invokes various notions of “collecting”.
Gustavo Oviedo: No Rush curated by Jane Hart opens at Miami Art Society (6300 NW 2nd. Ave. Little Haiti) on Saturday, November 2nd, 6 – 9 pm. Actively engaging with multilayered aspects of the marine environment informs Oviedo’s use of divergent materials and aesthetics. Waves, coral, clouds, shifting currents, and sea life, all find fresh forms in his latest paintings and drawings.
Today, Sunday 24, from 2 – 4 pm at Dot Fiftyone Gallery in Little River book launch of Anastasia Samoylova: FloodZone with a conversation of the attist with Dennis Scholl (President and CEO of Oolite Arts). Photographs of Southern United States. Ask at the gallery for your free copy of art circuits and be ready for Miami Art Week.
It’s Free: Twelve Stops:amazing art openings, exquisite brunch and a bonus: your free printed guide for the season. Ask for your free printed guide for the art season: Art Circuits. The 12 participating galleries are: Bill Brady Miami. Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Emerson Dorsch, Fabien Castanier Gallery. Fredric Snitzer, Mindy Solomon gallery, N’Namdi Contemporary, Pan American Art Projects, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Spinello Projects, The Bonnier Gallery, and Tile Blush.Sunday, december 1, 11 am – 4 pm.
Sun., Dec. 1, 11 am – 4 pm, Opening Brunch of Dirty Words: Mark Flood, Sam Jablon. Curated by Bill Arning: two very different painters’ work from different decades that nonetheless share the strategy of using words on canvas as blunt instruments to both abuse and delight viewers in equal measure.