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Miami Art Fairs 2011 : Pulse Art

4 Dec

Pulse is one of my favorite fairs not only because of the consistent high level of quality art and galleries, but also for the gorgeous location and courtyard installations at the Ice Palace.

I loved Blythe Project‘s booth, with these fantastic vibrant abstraction paintings by Mark Schoering and an amazing neon light sculpture hanging in the center of the booth that really pulled together the entire focal motif of the space.

 

On the theme of layered vibrant coloured paintings, we saw Kristen Schiele at Freight&Volume, Johannes Giradoni at Tominson Kong, and this massive diptych of runway at night by Ingmar Alge at Kuckei&Kuckei.

Jason Gringler painting at Galerie Stefan Ropke, and this interesting hanging sculpture made of hundreds of little plastic planes by Teresa Diehl at Galerie Anita Beckers

Eye catching broad horizon photos, Matthew Brandt at M+B, and Simon Lee at Cristin Tierney.

On the attractive aesthetic side, beautiful drawn portrait at Zemack Contemporary.  The video – photo- multimedia works by Nici Jost at Balzer Art Projects, this Swiss artist whose works ring a Pipilotti Rist  meets Alice in Wonderland spin on seeing nature from a distorted miniature perspective.  On the theme of miniatures, charmingly ironic salt shakers turned sand-timers with little figures inside by Alta Price & Jonah Koppel at Artware Editions.

Get Ready for Art Basel Miami Beach 2011

2 Dec

I’m on my way to Miami… click the banners to link out to each fair’s site.

  Miami Beach Convention Center

 The Ice Palace | 1400 North Miami Avenue

 

   NE 1st Ave (Midtown Blvd)  at NE 30th St

 

  Deauville Beach Resort Collins Ave & 67th St

 

    1671 Washionton Ave Greenview Hotel

 

 2637 N Miami Ave at NE 27th St.

 

   Aqua Hotel 1530 Collins Ave

 

  2505 N. Miami Ave (at the corner of 25th St)

 

 Suites of Dorchester  1850 Collins Avenue (19th St)

 

Pulse Fair: Highlights and Favorites

6 Mar

This year’s Pulse Fair was held for the first time at the Metropolitan center.

PINTA – the Latin American art fair was held here last year quite successfully since they assumed the entire ground floor space .

The deep narrow booths at Pulse created claustrophobic narrow aisles that made this fair an awkward viewing experience.

Really loved this amazing Packing tape on plexiglass technique by Mark Khaisman at Pentimenti, as well as this nice red square piece at Shshana Wayne.

Nice to see less political works and more approchable paintings like these Markus Linnenbrink and Markus Weggenmann at FTC.

Even the figurative works were mildly abstracted, like Ryan Martin’s collaged paintings at CTS Workshop, Alex Prager photos, Mario Muller painting at Mary Ryan and the Jane Hambleton at Michael Rosenthal.

New perspective in sculpture, the wire speach bubbles by Greely Myatt at David Lusk, and the miniature tree tornado by Jorge Mayet at Horrach Moya.

The upper level hosted ImPulse, hosting galleries that were invited to present solo exhibitions.

ArtJetSet favorite was Damian Stamer’s abstracted landscape paintings at Freight+Volume.

Really enjoyed Mark Schoening’s paintings at Blythe Projects, as well as Rene Barge photos at Dorsch.

Pulse New York

5 Mar

Pulse Miami 2009

14 Dec
Pulse was a great show this year!! A great mix of known works, emerging artists, and a brilliant variety of media, spaces, artists, and galleries.


Myoung Ho Lee at Yossi Milo, Anselm Kiefer preliminary for Sternenfeld.


OK Mountain Collective

Hanging Mickey Mouse sculpture, Neon Books by Airan King, Airplane sculpture


Painting by James Olley at Angell Gallery

Art Miami Fair 2009

13 Dec

Kim McCarty painting at David Klein

I had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting the photographer Denis Darzacq on the Lawrence Miller booth. His work like his character is colourful and dynamic. This series reminds me of the film CashBack directed by fashion photographer turned filmmaker Sean Ellis.

Ferran Cano and Bernardi Roig

Pulse Miami Fair

21 Dec


Pulse Miami is a fair which features international galleries showing cutting edge but polished emerging young artists. I saw some great new artists, but the fair itself was much to maze-like and very difficult to navigate. I kept finding myself in the Grolsch Cafe without knowing which way was up and which way was out.

A special feature was the upstairs portion Geisai Miami, Takashi Murakami’s studio of young artists presenting their works directly to the public.

My favorites at Pulse included Martin Golland at Birch Libralato, Timothy Tompkins at DCKT Contemporary, both textured or pixilated landscapes


Elijah Gowin inkjet photos, and view from above interiors by Grzeszykowska.
The very urban paintings at Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery.
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