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De Bucks Gallery (New York City) Showed Work By Stephen Towns At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

7/15/2020

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De Bucks Gallery (New York City) showed work by Stephen Towns at Untitled Miami Beach 2019. Untitled is holding an online fair that begins July 31.

Towns work has an icongraphic feel. The dimensions, the halos and they mythology, the stories, in these pieces sometimes looks like Medieval Italy and at other times like earlier images from Byzantium.

Of course, they are MODERN, tweaked versions of that style, not some rote copy of them. It is probably better to say there are elements of those old iconographic styles used to tell new stories..

African-American history and culture provide the subject matter. These pieces are multi-media incorporating fabric, paint, crystal, resin and other media.   

Towns, from South Carolina, holds a  BFA from the University of South Carolina. You can see more of his work at stephentowns.com.

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Makasiini Contemporary (Turku, Finland) Showed Work By Fabian Marcaccio And Pablo Tomek At Untitled Miami Beach 2019

1/28/2020

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Makasiini Contemporary (Turku, Finland) showed work by Fabian Marcaccio and Pablo Tomek at Untitled Miami Beach 2019.

Marcaccio is an Argentine-Italian artist based in New York.

Tomek is a French-born, Belgium-based artist whose expressive work is generally large format.


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Denny Dimon Gallery (Hong Kong / New York) Showed Work By Paula Wilson At Untitled Miami Beach 2020

1/28/2020

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Denny Dimon Gallery (Hong Kong / New York) showed work by Paula Wilson at Untitled Miami Beach 2020.

Wilson is a multi-media artist who uses printmaking, painting, sculpture and video. There is something that suggest stained glass when you look at these intricate works. Her pieces are collage-ish. It is hard to actually label them with that term without qualification.

Window Sill, for instance, is screen print, monotype, acrylic and oil on muslin and canvas with video insert (you can see the insert in the detail below). Light it up also has a video insert and is acrylic, printing ink (monotype, woodblock, lithograph) and oil on muslin and canvas. As you can see the media Wilson uses is varied.

The artist, originally from Chicago and now living in New Mexico, holds a BFA from Washington University (St. Louis) and a MFA from Columbia.

Find out more about the artist at paulajwilson.com.

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Window Sill by Paula Wilson (detail below)
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Jason Jacques Gallery (New York) Showed Work By Nick Weddell At Design Miami 2019

1/20/2020

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Jason Jacques Gallery (New York) showed work by Nick Weddell at Design Miami 2019.

Weddell, from Austin, Texas, holds a BFA  in ceramics from Texas State University and an MFAa  from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.

Four Eyes is stoneware, porcelin and glaze. Even in person it somehow gives the idea of being plush. Weddell's work mixes the monstrous with the whimsical and colorful.

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Todd Merrill Studio (New York) Showed Various Work At Design Miami 2019

1/19/2020

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Todd Merrill Studio (New York) showed various work at Design Miami 2019.

Todd Merrill is the third generation of his family to work in the design business. They began collection eighteenth and nineteenth century American Furniture.

Obviously now they are helping design the furniture (and fine art pieces) of the 21st Century. They represent emerging and established artists with unique, and sometimes outlandish, views on design and functionality.

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Future Perfect (New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles) Showed Work By Chris Wolston At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

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Future Perfect showed work by Chris Wolston at Design Miami 2019.

The Nalgona dining chairs are made from Colombian Mimbre (wicker) which is sourced from the Amazon (and sourced responsibly).  The chairs mimic not only the human form but plastic Remax chairs, which are apparently popular throughout Colombia.

Future perfect was founded 17 years ago by David Alhadeff. IN that time they have become one of the world's foremost design studios. Their work run from one of a kind to studio creations.

Find out more about the artist at  www.chriswolston.com.

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Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels) Showed Work At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

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Pierre Marie Giraud (Brussels) showed work at Design Miami 2019. They work in contemporary art, focusing on glass, ceramics and Japanese craft. They work with a variety of international artists and hold frequent themed group and solo shows throughout the year.

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Wexler Gallery (Philadelphia) Presented "Street Shrine 1: A Notorious Story" By Roberto Lugo At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

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Wexler Gallery (Philadelphia) presented Street Shrine 1: A Notorious Story, by Robert Lugo at Design Miami 2019. The installation features two large funeral urns and a ceramic teddy bear.

Lugo is a teacher, a poet, a social activist and a potter. He is from Philadelphia and started as a street artist before moving into ceramics. Wexler Gallery also showed work by him at Expo Chicago 2019.

This booth demonstrated a unified design by the artist, rather than the collection of pieces that were at Expo Chicago. It is a step beyond.

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Rooms Studio Presented "In Circulation" By Nata Janberizde and Keti Toloraia, Part Of Curio At Design Miami 2019

1/10/2020

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Rooms Studio presented In Circulaiton by Nata Janberizde and Keti Toloraia  as part of Curio at Design Miami 2019. The two artists are from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. They formed as a team in 2006 right after leaving art school in Tblisi. You can read an article on the two at the New York Times.

Several pieces on the artists refer to how the Soviet Union collapsed when they were youngsters and also created what they do in something of a vacuum. Their work, while not "street art" in the sense of how we see these days, is inspired by actual street art, the carved symbols on school desks and park benches. In Circulation is a rumination upon these artifacts and a look at the reason we feel the need to leave behind such marks. Read more HERE.

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Functional Art Gallery (Berlin) Showed Functional And, Sometimes, Monolithic Work At Design Miami 2019

1/9/2020

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Functional Art Gallery (Berlin) showed functional, monolithic work at Design Miami 2019.

The striking blue booth featured pieces with both modern (in different senses of the word even) and ancient, for lack of a better word, "vibe."

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