Monday, February 20, 2006

DWR Coral Gables Art and Design Night

Mark your calendars!
On Friday, March 3rd, from 6-9pm come to DWR in Coral Gables to see the artwork of Reed Smith displayed for one night only.

Music by DJ Shea Smith
Wine & Hors D’oeuvres


RSVP by phone: 305.569.9761
RSVP online: wpardo@dwr.com

Design Within Reach
77 Miracle Mile Coral Gables, FL 33134

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Kevin Bruk Gallery Opening



Tom Friedman
Above: Untitled Collage

Below:Untitled, 2004
rigid styrofoam insulation, packing peanuts
18 x 52 x 36².
blue and pink styrofoam structure: growth, mutation; synthetic andorganic dialogue.



Friedman's art it is linked to 1960s conceptualism, arte povera and minimal to land art but his vision and working method goes beyond these historical precedents creating its own unique visual language; that of the minute and microscopic, in which his investigations focus on the smallness of things.

He gets his art supplies from drugstores, candy stores, the human body, and the supermarket. Friedman relentlessly invents intricate objects out of a range of household materials, such as styrofoam, masking tape, pencils, toilet paper, spaghetti, toothpicks and bubble gum. His work is obsessively and painstakingly crafted and is both beautiful and playful. Friedman's ability to transform common objects into something new, his devotion to material perfection, the way he conceptualizes the action of the artisan, enables him to elevate the ordinary to the status of art.

It was a great opening, a bit chili but fun! Thanks to all who made it on Saturday night. To those who couldn't, here are a couple of pictures of the event.














From right to left:
Adriana Vergara, Gallery Director; Carolina Wonder, Gina Ruggeri and Francis Trombley who will be featured as one of Miami's artists in the spring issue of ID magazine.

Below:
Gina Ruggeri's "New paintings"


















Her work has a sense of lightness about it. Very subtle, yet extremely imposing. She sees her paintings as an overlap between real and imagined worlds. The works are painted with oil on Mylar. Because it is removed from the traditional frame of the rectangle, the image often appears as an illusionary object that floats in the white space of the wall, hovering in a continuum of physical and pictorial space.

Friday, February 10, 2006

ART GALLERY OPENINGS

There is a gallery walk this Saturday February 11 around the Miami Design District at what is now called Wynwood.
www.artcircuits.com/c_ww.html

A good place to start at is at Kevin Bruk Gallery www.kevinbrukgallery.com/

Gina Ruggieri New Work
Ruggeri’s paintings depict natures’ objects like rocks, clouds and wood. She achieves a sense of depth and perspective by scaling them to the size of what could be referred as a human experience. Ruggeri creates her oil paintings on large-sized Mylar sheets. These cut-outs are then adhered directly to the wall transforming it into an illusionistic field upon which the images seamlessly float. These painted images create a trompe l'oeil quality of illusion, appearing three-dimensional yet paradoxically flat at the same time. The wood grain and decorative patterns that run through the images enhance and complicate the sense of volumetric form and space. Gina Ruggeri was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1970, obtained a M.F.A in 1996 from Yale School of Art. She works and lives in New York.


Don't miss it!

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

IDSA Florida Officers

Thanks to all who voted in the 2006 IDSA Florida Elections! Your officers for 2006-2008 are:

Chapter Chair - Jeff Smith, Reflex Design
Co-Vice Chair - Nate Lynch, THENATE.COM
Co-Vice Chair - Jessie Escorcia, Motorola
Treasurer - Arta Sabouni, Zoya, Inc.
Secretary - Katerina Friderici, KaterinaFriderici.com