One of the less-apparent aspects of Alleman’s extraordinary bronze images is that each is accompanied by her statement about its symbolism and its spiritual aspects, reminding us that all creativity comes from a higher source. This marks the first time her work has been shown in a Miami art gallery or featured on a Miami gallery art blog!
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Enrique Chavarria was an intellectual, widely read Mexican recluse whose works can be compared with those of the Remedios Varo or Leonora Carrington. Like those well-known artists, Chavarria’s paintings often refer to arcane myths and esoteric practices. Acquired by an art gallery owner who passed away, few of them ever were offered for sale, thus the estate prices on these fascinating surrealistic paintings are quite affordable. Chavarria’s paintings have been exhibited in two Florida art museums, Florida International Museum in St. Petersburg and the Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Tallahassee.
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Arte al DÃa International devotes its cover and six full pages and nine photos to a major article on Hugo Crosthwaite by the renowned British author Edward Lucie-Smith. Even the magazine’s subscription cards feature the cover drawing by Crosthwaite, an emerging Mexican artist. Along with its cover, NY Arts magazine has a full-page article by its editor, Zhanna Veyts, accompanied by a color photo of Howtan’s best-known image, “Scream of War.†Another art history notch for VMG—probably the ONLY time a Miami art gallery ever got its artists on the covers of two national art magazines in the same month!
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Cleary is an exuberant abstract expressionist who has had numerous solo and group exhibitions and earned several significant awards. One of the competitions Cleary won in 1977 was juried by the legendary gallerist and artist Betty Parsons, who discovered the New York School of Abstract Impressionists. About that same time, Virginia Miller brought Parsons to Miami and persuaded her to give a talk at Miami’s Metropolitan Museum. She spoke to an overflow crowd about the earliest days of one of this century’s most important art movements. “Betty Parsons had a fascinating life and is so important in American art history that she deserves an art blog of her own,” Virginia says.
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Whether stitched and painted pieces of cloth or burned, chipped and painted wooden constructions, I find the works of Juan Roberto Diago are fresh, provocative and powerful. Along with various venues in his native Cuba, they have been exhibited in Italy, Spain, France and at Art Miami and arteaméricas.
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Mario Rangel has participated in numerous exhibitions in both Mexico and the U.S., including “Otra Generación, Foro de Arte Contemporaneo,” Mexico City in1980; “Trastiempo: La Nueva Pintura Mexicana,” Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City in 1983; “Confrontación,” Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City in 1986; and “Aqui y Allá;” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California in 1986.
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Michael Kessler, who has exhibited in top galleries since 1983, has won a number of major awards, including the highly prestigious Prix de Rome, given to only two U.S. artists each year. The award includes a cash stipend and a year’s residency at the American Academy in Rome. His visits to ancient Roman sites inspired a series of his works, whose multiple layers of paint–”sometimes upwards of forty coats”–give his works an incredible illusion of depth.
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From time to time in their careers, artists achieve a breakthrough, when their work takes a quantum leap onto another level entirely. Concepción recently had such a visual epiphany. Her new series, its palette limited to hues of black and blue, is both elegant and exciting, with surfaces that offer an astonishing illusion of craggy depth. The response to the work, both in our Miami gallery and in leading galleries in Europe, has been highly enthusiastic.
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Matt Carone has always been a painter, but he also is an outstanding classical violinist. His distinctive, lyrical compositions often include stylized references to music and musicians. “You can feel the rhythm and almost hear the music in some of his paintings,” Virginia Miller says, “and the colors in his palette are amazing.” Often reflecting the pastels of South Florida’s art deco buildings, his colors and unique style are the perfect complement to the area’s contemporary architecture.
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No one can glance at a painting by Fran Hardy. Her painstaking oil-and-tempera technique, developed by Jan van Eyck in the early 1400s, gives her work the most amazing inner glow, almost as if they arre illuminated from within. In fact, one of her recent paintings is appropriately called “Glow.” The phenomenon can’t really be experienced on an art blog–you’ll have to visit our Coral Gables gallery and view her paintings for yourself.
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