Energizing Art Abounds Around Coral Gables

December 5, 2017Gallery Artists, Gallery News

If you notice more spring in your step in Coral Gables these days, it’s probably because of all the art energy. The designs of renowned Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez were painted on eight downtown pedestrian crosswalks in his characteristic op-art style and thirteen banners depicting various Cruz-Diez installations around the globe are installed on the … Read More

Must-See Art Guide: Miami by artnet

December 1, 2017Gallery News

Miami’s art week opens just in time to nip that seasonal affective disorder in the bud. Galleries all across North America, Europe, and Asia flock to the sun-drenched city December 5–10 to make their statement on what is now and necessary about art in this moment, with Pulse, Art Miami, and Scope providing them with … Read More

Mateo Blanco: Colombian Artist Switches from Food as Art to Honor Madonna

November 29, 2017Gallery News, Magazine and Newspaper Reviews

Mateo Blanco, the opera-singer-turned-visual-artist, has once again attracted international attention, this time for his kinetic portraits of Madonna being exhibited at ArtSpace/ Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables, Florida from December 1, 2017 through January, 31, 2018. Illustrated articles about the exhibit appeared in the Los Angeles Times; El Universal, a leading Venezuelan newspaper; … Read More

Creating Art From Food Builds Another Audience For Opera Singer

November 29, 2017Press Release

Although he’s only 35, Mateo Blanco already has checked off more ambitious goals than most people dream of. An opera singer, he has performed with major opera companies, recorded his own album, and sung by request for the families of both President George Bush and his father, President George H. W. Bush. He also has … Read More

CitiTower at Eola Park by Israel Guevara

November 24, 2017Gallery Artists, Gallery News

Fans of geometric abstraction now can view works by gallery artist Israel Guevara in a super-sized version. The Venezuelan-American artist recently dedicated eleven monumental aluminum panels painted in his brilliant color compositions on the exterior of CitiTower, a new 21-story luxury residential condominium on the shore of Lake Eola in Orlando. Florida. Other paintings by … Read More

Color + Geometry by Israel Guevara

October 25, 2017Press Release

‘COLOR + GEOMETRY’ TO OPEN NOV. 3RD AT ARTSPACE/ VIRGINIA MILLER GALLERIES See Exhibition installation here > “Color + Geometry,” an exhibition of paintings, assemblage and sculpture by Israel Guevara, will open at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries with a reception for the Venezuelan-American artist from 6-10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3rd. Born in Maracay, Venezuela in 1961, … Read More

Leon Berkowitz: Cascades of Light, Paintings from 1965-1986

November 19, 2015Magazine and Newspaper Reviews

By Richard Speer Taking in the Technicolor orgy that is Virginia Miller’s affectionate and nuanced 21-year survey of the paintings of Leon Berkowitz (1911-1987), one confronts just how thoroughly the metastasis of post-ironic eye candy has been assimilated into visual culture since Berkowitz’s heyday. In entire sectors of contemporary art (Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Peter … Read More

Suzan Woodruff: Cracks in the light

December 2, 2014Gallery Artists

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Moby. Suzan Woodruff’s most recent body of work involving multiple and various painting series she has worked on since the Burning Woman Project is created through a self-invented and designed “Gravity easel,” which though gravitational forces allows control of water and paint, creates echo’s and spectacles of nature, … Read More

PAMM, Virginia Miller exhibits explore abstraction

March 24, 2014Magazine and Newspaper Reviews

By George Fishman Special to The Miami Herald The coincidence of distinctive, but kindred, exhibitions at the Pérez Art Museum Miami and ArtSpace/Virginia Miller in Coral Gables, one of the region’s longest established galleries, provides a valuable opportunity to “compare and contrast.” Besides opening its doors to the community during Art Basel with such international … Read More