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Colorado: Locust Projects
Through Jul 30, 2016

Locust Projects presents Colorado, a new project by this year’s LAB MFA artists, Beki Basch and Laura Hughes. The exhibition consists of imagery relating to cars and the American landscape, a sculptural interpretation of the experience of taking a cross-country roadtrip. Two podiums have been conceived as commemorative portraits of Michèle Mouton, the woman who won the Pike’s Peak Hill Climb in … +

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Spinello Projects: Cathedrals of Consumption
Through Jul 30, 2016

Cathedrals of Consumption, a term coined by sociologist George Ritzer, are places (the home, the mall, cyberspace) that enchant us to stay longer and consume further. While recreating forms of display, the exhibition recreates the spatial arrangements of a modern home addressing the commodification and branding of the artist,funneled into mainstream methods of visual merchandising. Cathedrals of Consumption includes works by Gabriele … +

Music

ICA Ideas presents Miami Music Club featuring Profligate
Jun 11, 2016, 8PM

Miami Music Club will offer a series of three shows over the summer of 2016, which will explore the porous boundary between rhythm and its dissolution. Taking place in June, July, and August, each show will present an experimental musical artist working outside Florida, paired with local acts of similar tendencies or mindsets. In this occasion Miami Music Club features Profligate from … +

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ICA Miami: The Inverse by artist Laura Lima Opening night
Jun 3, 2016, 7PM

The Inverse is the debut American solo museum exhibition for the renowned Brazilian artist Laura Lima. Working across mediums, the artist frequently subjects the body to surprising juxtapositions with objects and architectures. For this exhibition Lima will entangle the gridded support beams of ICA’s Atrium Gallery with industrial nylon rope. Laura Lima (b. 1971) has had solo exhibitions at the Migros Museum, … +

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IDEOBOX Artspace: 1.000.000 mm Exhibition opening
May 12, 2016, 7 PM

Ideobox Artspace opens exhibition 1.000.000 mm, the second of the 2016 Uprooting Architecture curatorial program with the first Miami solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Lydia Okumura. This exhibition re-stages seven historical site-installations conceived in the decades of the 70s and 80s, in the frame of the Natinoal Biennial of Sao Paulo and the commissions of PS1, New York, among others. The title … +

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Miami Light Project exhibits Body Mandalas
Through May 23, 2016

Exhibition Body Mandalas by artist Federico Bianchi presents to the viewer the idea of limitlessness. The artist uses the matrix of the female body to build intriguing and complex images, capturing the dance of light and movement in those archetypal geometries, which summarize the image of the universe and a mystical sense of oneness. Federico Bianchi (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974) was born … +

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Locust Projects exhibits The Moment by Ivan Toth
Apr 30 - Jun 4, 2016

Ivan Toth Depeña is an artist currently living and working between Miami, FL and Charlotte, NC. With a Masters Degree in Architecture from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, Depeña’s production as an artist is informed by his experience in art, architecture, technology and design. His process combines traditional, hands on methodology layered with high tech output and fabrication. Depeña’s studio output … +

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Downtown Hollywood to Launch Online Survey to Determine Space Needs for Area Artists, Arts Organizations, and Creative Businesses
Feb 1st, 2016

The Hollywood CRA in collaboration with Artspace Projects, Inc. will conduct a major online survey of artists, arts organizations, and creative businesses in South Florida to determine the size and nature of the market for an Artspace affordable live/work/create project planned for Downtown Hollywood. The eight-week survey period runs through March 28, 2016. Artists, musicians and other creative individuals are encouraged to … +

Events

Open Studios at Cannonball
Dec 4, 2015, 11 AM

Standing in contrast to the experience at the fairs and museums, Open Studios at Cannonball will provide a behind-the-scenes view of ideas still looking for their material form and reveal how the artists negotiate the constraints of media, the slipperiness of ideas, and the demand for novel visual vocabularies. Local artists in residence Sofia Bastidas, Guillermo Leon Gomez, and Matthew Evan Taylor … +

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De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space: Beneath The Surface
Through Oct 2015

Beneath The Surface brings together a selection of works from a generation of artists who are redefining post-war art movements. Through a variety of practices that include New Abstraction and Figurative Painting, these artists are responding to the consequences of globalization. For historical, sociological, and conceptual reasons, the works selected for this year’s exhibition are subjective representations of our new American landscape. … +

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Dimensions Variable presents Hither/Thereat by Margrethe Aanestad
Jan 30 - Mar 23, 2015

Margrethe Aanestad explores spacial relationships through form, color, material and space. She uses various techniques on paper and a careful orchestration of found objects to reveal a sublime balance. Her compositions are not only a relationship between drawings and three dimensional panels, but a response to the space and place itself. Aanestad has been working in Miami for several weeks and has … +

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Dimensions Variable and Site95 present Plot by Jude Broughan
Sep 6 - Oct 20, 2014

This is Broughan’s first exhibition in Miami. The ten works in Plot are striking juxtapositions of structure and surface that alternate between the figurative and the abstract. Layering photographs between vinyl, leather, and mesh, and sewing the printed images directly to the fabric’s surface, Broughan’s playful arrangements highlight her materials’ diverse qualities and associations. A garden, a small piece of ground, a … +

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David Castillo Gallery announces inaugural exhibition on it's new space in Miami Beach!
Sep 26, 2014, 6:00 - 11:00 pm

David Castillo Gallery announces its new space on Miami Beach’s 420 Lincoln Road. The inaugural exhibition – a large group show – will mark the gallery’s 101st exhibition. The inauguration of the space comes after one decade in Miami with a 5,000 square foot gallery. The gallery’s new exhibition space was designed by architect Albert Anis and built in 1942 on the … +

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Locust Art Builders (LAB) exhibition on view at Locust Project
Through August 16, 2014

This year, 26 South Florida high school students selected from an open call, will have the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition at Locust Projects’ gallery in Miami’s Design District. Under the direction of contemporary visual artists Monica Lopez de Victoria from the TM Sisters and Loriel Beltran, students are given the opportunity to create a collaborative exhibition managing all aspects of … +

Editorial

Taking Flight: Ongoing exhibits at Locust Projects
By Mia Opalka

Before Wynwood was synonymous with the arts, three local artists – Westen Charles, Elizabeth Withstandley, and Cooper – got together and started an alternative space where their peers could create work without having to deal with the pressures of producing art for a commercial gallery. Ten years later, Locust Projects has grown from a grassroots, artist-run space to an official non-profit organization … +