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by Onajide Shabaka
[Part 2 of our earlier article]
Around the corner from Gallery Diet is David Castillo Gallery. David Castillo Gallery has become more adventurous by showing more conceptual work than many of the other galleries in Wynwood. That is also a credit to his understanding of what defines quality art and just because it is conceptual doesn’t mean it’s necessarily crap, as some have suggested.
David Castillo Gallery’s current exhibition is the work of Adler Guerrier, his first in over four years. Guerrier has included drawings, prints, sculpture and video with his previously recognized photographic work. He continues to explore the streets of Miami and his own life as the contemporary flaneur in a city that seems to change more rapidly than others. His handling of the everyday and commonplace has taken them to a level where they can be more critically examined.
Hardcore Contemporary Arts, located on N. Miami Avenue, closer to the arbitrary division of I-195 that separates Wynwood and the Design District art districts, featured videos. Some of the videos were a bit cryptic and most likely required multiple viewings. That is one of the issues on encounters when watching artist videos, the level is easy accessibility. Although the space seemed well attended one has to wonder whether something has changed over the past few months that would have them not updating their web site since the spring of 2009.
A few doors away is Kunsthaus Miami, owned by a German born gallerist living mostly in Mexico. Luis Kerch, born in Mexico and currently living in the Canary Islands, is featuring large scale paintings that are a landscape for native Mexican, colonial Mexican and the spirituality and mythology of those cultures wrapped is a cloud like environment of painterly abstraction. Kerch’s work is a rejection of the “death of painting” and his work is the work of a craftsman. Kunsthaus Miami, although a smallish exhibition space, has consistently shown excellent work.
Also in Wynwood is also the home of Dorsch Gallery. After been one of the first galleries to open in Wynwood, their programming has turned up a notch after having built out a few new walls to give artists even more space to work. Even though their September exhibition was very good, their October exhibition was up to a higher level. Richard Haden’s hyper-realist scultpures even had the kids marveling. Jenny Brillhart and John Sanchez’s paintings were absolutely breathtaking.
Richard Haden and Mette Tommerup will both be included in an exhibition at Art and Culture Center of Hollywood's group exhibition Time + Temp, opening November 16th. The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is showcasing many local artists in their programming. Time + Temp will present a survey of dynamic work by a selection of South Florida based artists who embrace and incorporate aspects of painting into their practice. A resurgence of painterly tendencies is currently taking hold among artists on a national and international level.
The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood has an ambitious schedule over the next few months and they’ve managed to keep themselves going in the right direction in spite of the current economy. Hollywood, Florida seems to have made more of an effort to turn their downtown into a gathering place both in the daytime at the Arts Park and the evening restaurants and clubs. We need to support their efforts.
Everyone seems ready for another successful art season, even though everyone’s expectation have been lowered by the economy. Spirits are still high so let’s see how the next few months pan out.
For more information: Miami Art Exchange
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