This weekend’s art openings and parties ….
Tonight (Friday) is the opening of the fifth annual Red Eye, a multimedia exhibition presented by the nonprofit Fort Lauderdale arts organization ArtServe. Each year, ArtServe solicits work from local artists who produce “highly inventive, lowbrow and radical art.” To meet the criteria, the work must have origins in punk music, underground comics, hot rods or other subcultures, or make a statement about current societal issues or trends. This year, ArtServe worked with the Independent Working Artist Network (I.W.A.N.), the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and 18 Rabbit Gallery to promote a show billed as a “twisted exposé of the uncommon.” The resulting exhibition, which drew 190 visual art submissions and nine installations, is the largest since Red Eye’s 2006 inception and will include artists Skot Olsen, JoAnn Nava, Juan 
Carlos Soto, Keith Clark, Lori Pratico (whose graphite and pastel-on-illustration-board titled “Backyard” is pictured here), and many others. The show went on display July 1, but the opening reception, which will include short films, dance performances, improvisational theater and music by , Alexander, the Green Mantles and The Waves, is tonight. For more info on Red Eye and the Itty Bitty Blazer Gala at The Bubble, read our City Link story on Red Eye.
JF GALLERY & FRAMING OPENS
Clemente, Liz Ghitta Segall, Dan Leahy, Delford T. Wilson, Isavel Gouveia, Reema Houwari, Sibel Kocabasi, Susan Battin, Peter Marshall, Jennifer Sampson, Jamnea Jacas-Finlayson, Joseph Meerbot and Chris Riccardo (whose sculpture titled “B&E” is shown here) will exhibit their works at the grand opening of JF Gallery & Framing, 3901 S. Dixie Highway, in West Palm Beach. The opening is 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and there will also be treats from Amanda Linton’s House of Sweets. Call 561-478-8281 or visit Jfgallery.com.
SWARM III
Kazilla (whose work is shown here) and Luzalma Gonzalez (pictured here) will be the featured artists at Black Locust Society’s Swarm II, a party that will also feature performances by Astrea Corporation, Kin Keezy, ; live tattooing by Magic City Tattoo, live screen printing, music from DJs Gluttonous Rice, Sensitive Side and Name Brand; pro and amateur skateboarding on indoor quarter pipes, art 
by Jinx Remover, Blair Hess, Lorna Ruth and others. The party starts 9 p.m. Saturday at Swarm Warehouse a.k.a. Squeegee Science Lab, 500 S.W. 21st Terrace in Fort Lauderdale.
YOUR LUCKEY NIGHT
Lena Luckey will exhibit her art, paintings, pillows, purses, phone holders and other artworks in Miami’s Design District. Luckey says she believes that opening people’s minds to possibilities will touch their lives and that her art is a spiritual expression of the eternal struggle and ultimate triumph of the human soul. In her acrylic-on-canvas works, she uses beach sand, grass soil or saw dust to give the work more texture. The show is 8-11:30 p.m. Saturday at miniBar, 3612 N.E. Second Ave. in Miami. If you go, be sure to check out their beer selection which includes Rogue Dead Guy Ale, Raging Bitch, Left Hand Milk Stout and Arrogant Bastard.
