GEOMETRY and ABSTRACTION OPTICAL ART Jesus Soto, Cuadrados ambiguos, 1990, 153 x153 cm Carlos Anzola. Peter Monahan. José Badia. Ana María Nava. Jorge Blanco. Dario Pérez-Flores. Karin Borjas. Hector Ramírez. Carlos Cruz-Diez. Carolina Sanllehi. Michael Douglas. Jorge Seguí. Amalfy Fuenmayor. Jesús Soto. J.A. García. Luís Torruella. Carmen Herrera. Annette Turrillo. Marcos Marin. Natalia Valera. Luisa Mesa. Victor Valera. 626 Coral Way # 607 Ninoska Huerta Coral Gables, Fl 33134 G ALLERY 305 448 1934 - 305 588 1231 [email protected] www.ninoskahuertagallery.com AC FINE ART Contemporary, Pop & Surreal Art ART IN PUBLIC PLACES ITALIAN AND EUROPEAN CONTEMPORARY ART Andy Warhol Salvador Dali Roy Lichtenstein Jasper Johns GALLERIA CÀ D’ORO Tom Wesselmann Robert Indiana Roberto Matta Damien Hirst Larry Rivers Joan Miro 135 S. LORENZO AVE., Russell Young Rufino Tamayo - SUITE 130 - Philipp Dodard Jim Dine ARTMARIO PERAGALLO | [email protected] DIRECTOR Claus Oldenburg Frank Stella CORAL GABLES, FL 33146 Donald Sultan Purvis Young email:[email protected] Qian Yang Yan Huang Jean-Michel Basquiat & more Phone: 305 898 9153 2911 Grand Avenue, Coconut Grove 305.742.7071 www.acfineartsite.com Tues. - Thurs. 1-5 PM, Fri. - Sat. 1-9 PM www.ca-doro.com Publisher’ Note Collectible 9/51 Miami Art Scene Snapshot he Annual Directory 2011/2012 evergreen edition marks the beginning of our 9th anniversary. It is a guide, so it doesn’t interpret, T just documents Miami Art Scene. The footer of each circuit’s page says <for current exhibits go to artcircuits.com> because the guide is paired with our brand new website. Keep the printed edition for reference and find updated info in our friendly website. Major players in our art scene are the art gallery circuits; we have now six active hubs to visit leisurely because we give you the complete information (pages 12 – 19) therefore, plan visiting at any time, gallery walks’ night or not. Our powerful backbone is the museums in Miami Dade County and Beyond (pages 29 - 33) showing all year round amazing exhibits and crisp programs. Another magnet is the four private collections open to the public during the art season. Elisa Turner explores them in her ArtCentric column: City of Treasures: Art Collections Make Magic in Miami in pages 10 & 11 as well as other private collections that Carlos Evangelista Evolución en rojo, 2010, make Miami a vault. Oil on wood 3 1/4 x 43.3 x 2 inches (100 x 110 x 5 cm) Miami art environment includes the art fair season, find all about it in pages 20 - 23. Each high season our city hosts the sparkling Art Basel show and its court of satellite art fairs. Our springboard, they make us knowledgeable and bubbling, fueling Durban Segnini Gallery specializes in contemporary painting and our passion for art. sculpture, emphasizing in artists who have worked with abstract But everything happens because of our rich community of artists expressionism, abstraction, constructivism, and kinetic art. and collectors. Art is movement. Miami is always changing. This November wait for our pink edition, Best Guide to the Season, where you’ll find all the must see super high season exhibits and programs. CORAL GABLES WYNWOOD ART DISTRICT 3072 SW 38 Ave 2145 NW 2nd. Ave. Art Circuits is happy to turn 9! 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C O M Y^VcVadlZchiZ^c ÒcZVgih '%)(CB^Vb^6kZcjZ B^Vb^!;A((&', I(%**,+&-%);(%**,+&-%* Inaugural Exhibits Opening Oct. 22, 2011 :^c[d YaÒcZVgih#Xdb 285 Aragon Avenue | Coral Gables | 305.603.8067 Visit CoralGablesMuseum.org for information. by ELISA TURNER ARTCENTRIC [email protected] CITY OF TREASURES: ART COLLECTIONS MAKE MAGIC IN MIAMI THIS SEASON Miami Dade College’s Freedom iami’s illUSTRIOUS ART COLLECTING HAS ROOTS Tower. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, of Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation IN AN OUTRAGEOUS VISION: WHY NOT MAKE (CIFO), is another collector MAGIC FROM MOSQUITO-FILLED MANGROVE making her mark downtown. The international character of her SWAMPS LINING BISCAYNE BAY? contemporary collection embraces M photography and other media; it In 1910, industrialist James Another Wynwood treasure: World includes Latin American modernists Deering began work on designs for Class Boxing. Named for gym Gego and Mira Schendel. Irma Vizcaya, now a Renaissance-styled once housed in this building, WCB and Norman Braman Collection, bayfront mansion with gardens exhibits Debra and Dennis Scholl one of the city’s most established, Jason Rhoades Untitled (Chandelier), 2004. and National Historic Landmark. Collection, a varied gathering of is famed for its Modern and Glass, wire, neon, Plexiglas, fabric and plastic. In 1917 famed artist John Singer contemporary painting, drawing, contemporary art, especially by Variable dimensions. Courtesy of Rubell Family Sargent portrayed Vizcaya in sculpture, and photography. Americans. Also known for Modern Collection. Rhoades rocks the status quo with and contemporary art: Aaron I. watercolor. Vizcaya now plays It’s museum quality. You’ll find glitzy sexuality. host to outstanding contemporary intriguing art selected by curators Fleischman Collection. artists by commissioning new art. in Miami and beyond, as well as Today, many art collections in this promising new art created for WCB. Diversity has always been a Magic City enrich the city’s cultural hallmark of Miami, and so too for choices. Art collectors themselves Nearby in Design District is de la its art. make essential contributions to Cruz Collection Contemporary Miami’s cultural infrastructure Art Space presenting collection Fascinating collectors Manita Brug- by providing wonderful exhibits, of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz. Chmielenska and Randy Burman is funding others at museums The building’s elegant, airy design art constructed with found objects, and schools. They champion enhances its bold contemporary whether or not artists are formally art endlessly. Together with our art; this collection pays special trained. Their diverse collection city’s performing arts venues, art attention to artists Felix Gonzalez- is international, with art by Liliana collections do indeed magnify Torres, Jim Hodges and Ana Porter and Robert Rauschenberg, Miami magic. Mendieta. Significant lectures are achieving a Miami mystique with offered. Bonus bringing new energy art by Edouard Duval-Carrié and George Segal Subway, 1968. Plaster, metal and These “big four” maintain public here: It teams with New York’s Purvis Young. Jay and Jean glass. 7 ft. 4 in. x 9 ft. 5 in. x 50 ½ in. Courtesy Kislak Collections encompass of Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Segal rescues hours and informative websites. SculptureCenter to create artist poignant urban moments. residency program in Miami. many treasures. The Jay I. Kislak Rubell Family Collection has Collection, now in the Library of been active here since 1993. As we know, magic has many Congress, focuses on history and Transforming a DEA Agency manifestations. Some you see. cultures of early Americas. The warehouse in the once-unsung Some you don’t. The following couple’s personal interest ranges Wynwood, RFC not only collections are infrequently seen by from historic objects to painting generates exhibitions beyond the public yet still magnify Miami’s by Frida Kahlo to sculpture by Miami but provides the city cultural magic. Alexander Calder to photography by Shirin Neshat. Jean Kislak’s with educational resources and Carla Klein Untitled, 2005, 70 x 157 in. Courtesy changing opportunities to view Also in Design District is Craig own collection focuses on life and times of a long-ago British Empire of Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection. Klein may its contemporary art collection. It Robins Design Collection, filled with suggest a world of diminishing possibilities. features signature artists of our day: insightful connections between fine beauty. Jason Rhoades, Cindy Sherman art and fine design. A distinguished and Andy Warhol. urban treasure, it features historical Vilma and Behrooz Garabaghi and contemporary designers Collection embodies the collectors’ Martin Z. Margulies established with unique and limited edition global love story traversing Iran, Margulies Collection at the objects from 1940s to present Africa, and Italy. Impressively Warehouse to showcase his day, including work by celebrated diverse and museum quality, this legendary holdings in photography, “starchitect” Zaha Hadid. collection mixes African masks with painting, video, installation art, and textiles from Central America and sculpture. These include classic Dr. Arturo and Liza Mosquera Africa. Stunning textiles have been examples by Miro and Noguchi, Collection carries special shared with University of Florida as well art from such innovators as resonance in Miami. Much of its Harn Museum. The Lowe Art George Segal and Ernesto Neto. art seeks to unravel or illuminate Museum of University of Miami has Ana Mendieta Untitled (Sandwoman Series), 1983. The Warehouse provides lectures tangled ties linking the city to borrowed many objects. Sand and binder on wood 55 x 26 x 3 in. Courtesy and guided tours. Laudable feature: Cuba. With impressive historical Admission fee supports Lotus reach, it includes work by Guido Collections in Miami clearly know of de la Cruz Collection. House, a Miami shelter for women Llinás and Maria Brito. In a moving no bounds. Why not start yours? This reveals Mendieta’s enduring fascination with and children.