Confronting a messy divorce is a horror. But for Lamia Khorshid, a local artist who teaches photography at the University of Miami, her breakup served as the inspiration for a photo series, “Hotel St. Michel,” which opens this Friday at Curator’s Voice Art Projects. Egypt-born Khorshid shot these self-portraits at…
When we first encountered Zack Balber’s work, he was exhibiting photos of hookers at the Spinello Gallery. He’d arranged to split sales with their pimps after paying the streetwalkers $10 for a “date” to pose for him. “Tamim,” his first solo show at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, opens on October 5…
“Vanishing Points: Paint and Paintings From the Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection,” on view at the Bass Museum of Art, drew our attention because it was guest-curated by Gean Moreno, one of our city’s crack slingers of contemporary art jive. He is an artist, founder of [Name] Publications, and a…
Confronting a messy divorce is a horror. But for Lamia Khorshid, a local artist who teaches photography at the University of Miami, her breakup served as the inspiration for a photo series, which opens this Friday at Curator’s Voice Art Projects.Egypt-born Khorshid shot these self-portraits at the Hotel St. Michel in Coral Gables…
Few South Florida arts organizations can boast the deep footprints that Tigertail Productions has left on our cultural landscape. Since 1979, the pioneering outfit has constantly delivered inspired programming to local audiences, featuring innovative performing, visual and literary arts, international exchange projects and culturally diverse festivals that have earned the organization national…
El gallo cubanoamericano, Little Havana’s celebrity cock-of-the-walk is back in front of El Pub and preening for his stately re-hatching during& Viernes Culturales.The fiberglass fowl had been bird-napped by a flock of Sigma Phi Epsilon peckerheads from FIU who spray-painted him white to look like Foghorn Leghorn before tailgating with…
After spending the last decade in Mexico, Tobias Ostrander arrives in Miamis as chief curator and deputy director of curatorial affairs at the Miami Art Museum. He’s landed at a critical juncture: The museum is moving into new digs on the Bay, scheduled to open in 2013. Ostrander cut his…
Karen Rifas is a local artist known for her adroit use of materials to convey concepts of volume and space. Her solo show “Strung Out,” currently on view at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, features several large floor-to-ceiling and corner wall sculptures. They’re made using various colors of cord stitched into…
Shows at CIFO and the Bass test your art lingo
Creative types and seasoned art collectors once thumbed their noses at Cafeina Lounge, deeming it unsuitable to hang shows. Tray-toting waiters and blaring DJs can make it hard to contemplate the work on exhibit. Enter Wynwood pioneer Dustin Orlando, who has been invited to add gravitas to the hipster lounge…
Dealing with divorce isn’t easy. The person abandoning ship typically ends up anchored with guilt while the other drowns in rejection. But rather than busy herself with gardening or clearing cupboards to fight stress, photographer Lamia Khorshid holed up in a Coral Gables hotel room to come to terms with…
When we first encountered Zack Balber’s work, he was exhibiting photos of hookers at the Spinello Gallery. He’d arranged to split sales with their pimps after paying the streetwalkers $10 for a “date” to pose for him. “Tamim,” his first solo show at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, opens on October 5…
When hearing the term “Latin American Art,” the uninitiated might expect to encounter bright paintings of tropical landscapes, bull fighters swirling their capes, or maybe even a sultry mulata casting a fetching glance at the spectator. But then you’d be dead wrong and oblivious to the world class talent from…
Borrowing its title from a Philippe Garrel flick, Sunny Suits’s solo currently up at the Fred Snitzer Gallery in Wynwood, transports viewers into the private world of her friends and lovers.Her photos also bring to mind Nan Goldin’s iconic visual diaries even though Suits, who once worked with the famous…
It turns out the perps who plucked el gallo cubanoamericano from his Little Havana perch last Friday are a bunch of frat-house peckers from FIU and not the savior we prayed for to liberate us from unsightly public art. The hijacked cock was returned to Pablo Canton last night stripped of…
Few South Florida arts organizations can boast the deep footprints of Tigertail Productions. Since 1979, the pioneering outfit has featured innovative performing, visual, and literary arts; international exchange projects; and culturally diverse festivals that have earned national recognition. Tigertail has commissioned, presented, and produced more than 500 local, national, and…
“Modify, As Needed,” a new exhibit at MOCA, showcases artists who use found materials
When I first heard that cock-crazed City of Miami officials were planning to pepper Little Havana’s streets with six-foot fiberglass sculptures of roosters back in 2002, I thought le cayó comején al piano. Cojones! What’s next? Soon the nabe was overrun with the eyesores, painted by a bunch of planchado…
As the midafternoon sun beat down on his pale shoulders this past weekend, Amilcar Packer struggled with a twin-size mattress he was wedging between the iron bars of a fence enclosing a lot in Wynwood.The Chilean artist, who had a GoPro camera strapped to his head, spent most of the…
Who says you can’t shoehorn big ideas into tight spaces? At Little Havana’s unpretentious 6th Street Container, the alternative space’s founder and chief curator, Adalberto Delgado, has been dishing out a string of shows that are drawing jaded art connoisseurs like hobos to a ham sandwich.This past weekend, the indie…
Russians are notorious for scribbling in their journals. Dostoevsky kept a diary and so did Anna, his wife. Celebrated Russian hoofer Nijinsky chronicled his descent into dementia during the six weeks he spent in Switzerland before being committed to an asylum.But Ukrainian’s are no slouches either when it comes to…
Some artists like to create works from scratch. Others prefer destroying what already exists to imbue the resulting detritus with new life. At Primary Projects, “His Wife & Her Lover” is a new exhibit whose curatorial premise is the notion of causing damage to something in order to redirect its…
