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by Onajídé Shabaka - 24 Nov., 2007
Wynwood - 10 Novby Onajídé Shabaka The last round of gallery openings saw Wynwood & Design Districts overflowing with excitement and energy. Miami Art Exchange's recently organized Artist Entrepreneurs Meetup Group gathered on NW 1st Place and then, trek throughout the Wynwood area. Some of the highlights are imaged below. Vickie Pierre' Beautiful Collision at Ingalls & Associates Gallery fed us with sensually and sexually forms similar to ameoba and other organic shapes. The pastel and muted colors of the biomorphic forms were combined with hand-drawn text and other linear forms.
Just a few doors east Locust Projects featured the work of three artists, Sabine Long and Daniel Baumann based in Switzerland and, Ed young on the exterior of the building (unseen at night being that it's painted black) and, a compliation of videos (below) curated by Canadian Mark Clintberg.
Pocket Stadium, by Lang and Baumann, subjvert the space yet, leave part of it under utilized at the rear wall. While non-functional at its heart, the sculpture, throwing out blinding light, creates a potentially dynamic experience if the audience interacts with the work. And, even though the lights are blindingly bright, the amount of heat they gave off was minimal, considering their close proximity. Because of the scale of the work and, that potential for danger, most people seemed to have avoided it. Of course, I did see an image over at Critical Miami where a female viewer was standing the middle of it.
Edge Zones was its typical self with large enthusiastic crowds and new, less well known artists. Among them, Mike Burdman, a student at Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton). His sculpture had a captive group enthralled as the kinetic sculpture went through its motions, dropping balls onto a track that journeyed in many loops until starting over again.
Although it seems I lost the name of the artist below, the heavily impastoed works were a bit uneven in how they appeared, roughly sketched imagery in some, and more refined in others. The rougher works and those that weren't so clearly defined were stronger and less deriative in appearance.
Several other locations had interesting shows but, we have no images to provide: Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Undercurrent Arts, Twenty Twenty, and the beginning point of our Meetup, District Lab. The end of the evening was at the new Diet Gallery, below and, Spinello Gallery, just across street of NW 2nd Av.
Diet Gallery was filled to capacity even though the doors were closing at out arrival. Even so, the space, divided into smaller exhibition areas, seems to provide interesting spaces for working out projects. The suspended sculpture of Daniel Milekewski, above, had a most interesting textural surface and cubic shape but, it was difficult to really judge the weight of it and, the suspension seemed a bit more than needed. Of course, the weight of the work was not known by myself. Spinello Gallery, where we only had the briefest of moments to see the smallish works set up in mini cubicles much like the coming spaces provided for the coming -scope Art Fair, sited on the property right next door to the gallery. However, there were some stellar pieces, some of which are below.
Adriana Farmiga
Agustina Woodgate Now, it's time for Art Basel Miami Beach. Art you ready?
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