It’s been a while since I’ve gone Web surfing and rode back in on a wave with a little bag of art goodies. Alright, so I’ve never actually even been on a surfboard except one of those cheesy Styrofoam thingies when I was a kid, but I did find some local art news, and here are the links:
▪ Bear and Bird’s blog has the lowdown on Danielle [knee] Estefan (whose painting “Assistance Required” is pictured here), Natali Martinez and Tatiana Suarez, the three artists who will exhibit in Umami (So Savory), the gallery’s new show opening on Saturday, Jan. 16.
▪ ArtStreet video on the state of Wynwood
▪ Check out Butter Gallery’s blog’s pics of Jahmal Williams putting the finishing touches on his exhibit which opens on Saturday Jan. 19 at Butter Gallery in Wynwood.
▪ Artlurker’s Thomas Hollingworth ponders the meaning of the penis sculptures showing up around Wynwood in a post titled “The Cocks of Wynwood: How the fight for credit over legitimized murals is turning us on to less laborious fodder.”
▪ YouTube: A video from Federico Uribe’s “Risk” exhibition at Miami Art Fair this weekend.
▪ Another video from Miami Art Fair 2010
▪ If you haven’t checked out Morphologic Studios blog, please do so now. You’ll be glad you did.
▪ Soul of Miami is protesting the cancellation of Miami Art museum’s JAM at MAM.
▪ It’s Showtel time … in April. This time the installation art show will take over the rooms of Hotel Biba in West Palm Beach for a whole weekend (April 8, 9 and 10). Proposals from artists must be submitted by Jan. 31 and selections will be made by Feb. 8.
▪ The Miami Stuckists posted a tiny profile of Alekseyev Ilya on its blog.
▪ Life Is Art puts out a call to artists for Miami Beach Festival of the Arts. Deadline is Jan. 15.
▪ Knight Arts features a photo of a work by Miami artist Jacin Giordano, from “… Years Later,” his solo show that runs through Jan. 30 at Fredric Snitzer Gallery.
