Soledad Salamé, whose works range from monumental museum installations to 16-inch photos etched into aluminum, now has a more extensive presence on the gallery web site. Along with three-part section of Salamé’s works divided into Paintings, Photographs and Works on Paper, there also are essays on the artist’s solar sculptures by the Venezuelan art historian … Read More
Gallery Artists
Tremain Smith: 'Spirit Beneath the Surfaces'
Tremain Smith, whose work is included in the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan and other prestigious collections, views multiple strata of oil glazes, collaged elements and transparent beeswax of her paintings as “mappings of the unseen where the physical and spiritual meet,” a medium for communication with the souls of the living and those of our … Read More
New Works by Award-Winning Glass Artist Linda Behar
A graduate civil engineer who always wanted to be an artist, when Linda Behar switched careers she attended a series of schools in photography, blacksmithing, metal casting and finally, glass fabrication at two of the nation’s leading schools for artists working with glass, Pilchuck Glass School and Penland School of Craft. Behar’s mixed-media constructions contain … Read More
Beyond Geometric Abstractions by Argentine Artist Ernesto Berra
One of the newest additions to the gallery’s extensive inventory are paintings and assemblage by the renowned Argentine artist Ernesto Berra. With more than 60 solo exhibitions and a dozen top awards, Berra is one of the leading artists in a nation known for its outstanding plastic arts. Berra’s geometric abstractions, which evolved from a … Read More
James Tyler's Sculpture 'Revel in Motion and Rhythm'
Writing in “Sculpture Review” magazine, Dena Merriam calls Tyler’s sculptures “art of an exciting new direction that may sweep the art world into the next century.” She noted that “Stylistically, Tyler’s works are evocative of the pre-Columbian terra-cottas of the ancient Americas, yet his figures revel in a motion and rhythm that is perhaps more reminiscent … Read More
Luminous Layers of Ricardo Mazal Result From "Idiosyncratic, Focused, Innovative’ Process
Mazal’s work is the subject of the book, “Ricardo Mazal: La Tumba de la Reina Roja: From Reality to Abstraction,” by Elizabeth Ferner and Arnoldo González-Cruz. According to New Mexico magazine, “Mazal’s work is luminously beautiful. In the tradition of abstract expressionism it demonstrates what the painter Kandinsky decribed as the need for the ‘spiritual … Read More
Gallery Selected to Exhibit in Arteaméricas 2007
For the fifth consecutive year, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries participated in this nation’s leading Latin American art exposition, arteaméricas.This was the first time the event was held in Miami Beach Convention Center, site of Art Basel. The fair featured seventy leading galleries exhibiting more than 300 artists. Miller has been exhibiting Latin American works since shortly … Read More
‘Panorama Latinoamericano’ Showcases Fourteen Master, Mid-Career Artists
Superb talents and finely honed techniques unite the widely varied personal statements featured in “Panorama Latinoamericano,” the new exhibition of paintings and sculpture at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries. Two paintings by the Mexican master Francisco Toledo are in the exhibition, along with works by thirteen mid-career artists from Argentina, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and … Read More
New Works by ‘Psychological Realist,’ Kyle
Kyle, a conceptual and assemblage artist who works under a single name, recently was featured in a two-page article in Orlando magazine. Writer Lisa Levine notes that “the Florida he knew and loved as a boy was an idyllic, rural landscape that has gradually disappeared as the land has been carved up, parceled out and … Read More
Virginia Miller’s Artists Receive Major Recognition
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries’ Artists Receive Major Awards, Recognition Six artists represented by Art/Space Virginia Miller Galleries recently received major recognition, including first prizes in international competitions and representation in museum exhibitions. Irene Pressner, an emerging artist from Venezuela whose encaustic works done with ink applied with a tattoo needle were included in the gallery’s last … Read More