Monday March 12, 2007
Saturday gallery hop + more
Pictures from Saturday night, and yes — mixing images of art with unrelated photos of the evening. Here are Abner Nolan’s found negatives at Leonard Tachmes Gallery.
AA spot in the Design District I can never seem to catch the name of (Update: it’s an annex of the Moore Space Update #2: madebythem says: “That space as well as the show was is in no way related to the Moore Space. My friend and I wrote a proposal to get the space and decided to have a show with no theme, flyers, invites or any sort of publicity.”), a big exhibition involving live dogs in uncomfortable-looking costumes, video, a lawn-sized patch of live sod, copious piles of broken furniture, an altar, and at least one boy in neon-orange briefs.
This is not art. Actually, I don’t think I was supposed to be upstairs, as the whole floor was linoleum-recently-removed sticky.
Tarot card altar by l’elk!
I am sometimes asked to explain the difference between the Design District and Wynwood. They are adjacent art districts, with roughly separated by I-195. The Design District has some notable architecture and history, and contains several non-profit art spaces, along with high-end furniture showrooms.
Wynwood is mostly old warehouses, many of which have been occupied by the hottest commercial galleries in town. (There are also a few private collections and the MoCA annex.) There used to be a rivalry of sorts, but I think the DD folks largely gave that up when they changed their gallery walk to second Saturdays to coincide with Wynwood’s.
Sara Stites at the Buena Vista Building.
A Jen Stark peephole piece at the Bas-Fisher Invitational.
Kerry Ware at Dorsch.
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The miami art scene looks more and more like a real-life version of myspace.
Beautiful pics. They are very artistic themselves.
the spot in the design district you dont know the name to is a part of the moore space. i did the tarot altar.
Robert~ You’re right, although some of the blame falls on me — I’m for some reason emphasizing the zaniness with my photo choices (and in the case of the cobblestone driveway, completely fake coloring.
Grapevine/l’elk!~ thanks — updated!
I think I just got hypnotized by the peephole piece – Great photos!
Great pix, Alesh! Did you go to Kunsthaus? Bummer I didn’t bump into you! I was there forevah gabbing with the artist. I just posted a Wynwood wrap-up at 411 and linked to here.
Robert … agree to disagree … that’s a crazy comparison!
I imagine that guy in the yellow t shirt is part of the exhibit?
Manola~
One of the things about the gallery walk is how different is depending on your experience. I have lots of friends in the “Art world”, so usually my starting/ending points are pre-defined. Plus, I like to drink heavily and let the evening develop without conscious input from myself.
Therefore I have non-representative, highly idiosyncratic experiences when I go, often missing important things and spending lots of time looking at trivial things. So it goes.
For another perspective of how I got a non-representative view, see the wonderful Getting to Maybe post.
Thank you so much for the link!!!
I had a great time at the gallery walk, I think, because I didn’t take it seriously. You drink a few glasses of the free drink, you ponder the meaning of a painting, you enjoy new mediums, and you converse with friends. As long as the galleries are open and people are around I am happy.
And Alesh, it seems that we frequent a lot of the same Miami events. I definitely hope to get to meet you at one!