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Cernuda Arte (Coral Gables) Showed Their Usual Stellar Collection Of Cuban Artists At Art Miami New York 2015 (Some Highlights)

5/30/2015

The Great Bird by Roberto Fabelo

Cernuda Arte (Coral Gables) showed their usual collection of Cuban artists at Art Miami New York 2015. Here are some of the highlights. It is amazing how Cernuda almost always seems to have different work from such a wide variety of artists.

Their website, linked above, is a great place to learn about Cuban artists. One of the artists here, Roberto Fabelo, was born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1951.

Fabelo is a painter, illustrator professor who has received some of Cuba's highest art awards (Medal for National Culture, the Alejo Carpentier Medal).
His pieces often feature women with "bird-like" features. The piece here also includes a bird. One of his most well known works,Survival, a sculpture, features human headed cockroaches climbing the wall of the Havana Fine Arts Museum. He also illustrated a version of Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Find out more (and see more) at the website linked above.

Ile Nigbe by Manuel Mendive

by Víctor Manuel García, Ángel Acosta León and Mario Carreño

Mulata a la luz de la luna by Carlos Enriquez

Soltando Ataduras by Irina Elén González

Hollis Taggart Galleries (New York) Showed Work By Grace Hartigan At Art Miami New York 2015

5/29/2015

Hollis Taggart Galleries (New York) showed this piece by Grace Hartigan at Art Miami New York 2015.

Hartigan began her career in the midst of the New York School. Her early works were abstract expressionist but she later moved on to creating work that
was pop art and minimalist oriented. Her work, after the early 1960s, is more in this vein. She is an important artist in both of these significant American schools of art.

McCormick Gallery (Chicago) Showed Work By Judy Chicago, Norman Bluhm And Paul Burlin At Art Miami New York 2015

5/29/2015

Untitled by Judy Chicago

McCormick Gallery (Chicago) showed work by Judy Chicago, Norman Bluhm and Paul Burlin at Art Miami New York 2015. McCormick handle estates and represent contemporary artists. You always see the recent and historic pieces at the gallery's booth.

This booth was in conjunction with Abby M. Taylor and VVFA Modern.

Paysage Anime by Paul Burlin

Untitled by Norman Bluhm

Tresart (Coral Gables) Showed Work By Mario Carreño, Tomas Sanchez, Amelia Pelaez and Mariano Rodriguez At Art Miami New York 2015

5/29/2015

Untitled by Mario Carreño,

Tresart (Coral Gables) showed work by Mario Carreño, Tomas Sanchez, Amelia Pelaez and Mariano Rodriguez at Art Miami New York 2015.

These Cuban artists are part of Tresart's focus; they show works by both contemporary artists and masters from Latin America. This group is of both masters and current artists with a variety of styles as well.

Check out the Tresart website for more information.

Desde la colina, la laguna by Tomas Sanchez

Still Life by Amelia Pelaez

Mujeres en Interior by Mariano Rodriguez

Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London) Showed Work By Lluís Barba At Art Miami New York 2015

5/29/2015

Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London) showed this piece by Lluís Barba at Art Miami New York 2015.

Barba, from Barcelona (what a lovely city), is a painter, sculptor, photographer and video artist. This piece is provocatively titled, Guernica. Using Picasso in a collage takes some, shall we say, stones. His work often references the historical and has been exhibited on four continents.

Durban Segnini Gallery Showed Work By Fernando De Szyszlo At Art Miami New York 2015

5/29/2015

Durban Segnini Gallery showed work by Fernando De Szyszlo at Art Miami New York 2015.

One of the important parts of Art Miami New York was the number of Miami galleries represented (news that the show is being "re-branded" as Art New York is a disappointment). These galleries often focus on Latin American art De Szyszlo is a Peruvian painter, engraver and sculptor. He studied at Catholic University in Lima (School of Plastic Arts) and then lived in Paris. He was originally studying to be an architect. His work shows influences from a variety of schools of art--from cubism to surrealism to abstract work. His pieces are held in numerous important public collections such as: Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Guggenheim, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Arequipa (Peru) and numerous others. He currently lives in Lima.

Ignacio Iturria's Work Shown By Ascaso Gallery (Miami) At Art Miami New York 2015

5/28/2015

Ignacio Iturria's painting, which I neglected to get the name for, was shown by Ascaso Gallery (Miami) at Art Miami New York 2015.

Iturria is an Uruguayan artist who spend time working in Spain in the 1980s but even then his work hearkened back to his early days in Uruguay. His work focuses on everyday things, everyday life.

Mari Kim's Work Shown By AP Contemporary (Hong Kong) At Art Miami New York 2015

5/28/2015

Amy Winehouse

Mari Kim's work was shown by AP Contemporary (Hong Kong) at Art Miami New York 2015.

All I could think of when looking at this multimedia work was that it was an updating of pop art (not Marilyn but Amy). I don't know who the modern James Dean is, perhaps Health Ledger.

In fact? Kim did do a piece featuring Monroe and other women from history. These pieces are mixed media on canvas and a print with neon (I trust you can tell which is which).

Kim attended school in Melbourne, Australia and has worked in animation and design. Both influences permeate her work. Find out more about her at marikim.net.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?

Seung Mo Park's Stainless Steel Wire Work Was Shown By Blank Space (New York) At Art Miami New York

5/27/2015

Maya 1677

Seung Mo Park's remarkable stainless steel wire work was shown by Blank Space (New York) at Art Miami New York. These pieces are a sort of mesh and, when close up, look like nothing but twisted metal.

But take a step back and you see these striking portraits and and compositions. It is a little difficult to imagine figuring out how to do this which makes the work even more intriguing. When you see it (and you should) you will want to look at it from numerous angles.

Seung is a Korean-based artist and his work goes beyond this one style. If you head to his website, www.seungmopark.com, you will see sculptures that, from a distance, are almost photo-realistic and are likewise made of steel.

Maya 1677 up close

Maya 9515 (and close up)

Hexton Modern & Contemporary (Chicago) Showed This Piece By Eric Fischl At Art Miami New York 2015

5/27/2015

Hexton Modern & Contemporary showed this piece by Eric Fischl at Art Miami New York. The artist notes that he called the piece Tumbling, rather than falling because he wanted to indicate lateral motion. He need not have worried as the piece gives that impression regardless of title.

The figure almost seems in motion.

The point of the piece, beyond tumbling, is that we, as humans are always in motion; perhaps we have no idea where we are headed but we are, nonetheless, in motion.