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 … Read More
Gallery Artists
Mexican Surrealist Enrique Chavarria’s Paintings Compare With Those of Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington
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 … Read More
Grab a Dose of Exuberance with John Cleary’s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
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 … Read More
Multiple Layers Give Illusion of Depth to Michael Kessler’s Abstractions
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 … Read More
Michelle Concepción's 'Astonishing Illusion of Craggy Depth'
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. … Read More
Lyrical Compositions of Matt Carone Come Naturally to a Painter and Violinist
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 … Read More
Fran Hardy's Oil-and-Tempera Technique Developed by Jan van Eyck
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 … Read More
Allison Stewart, Biologist-Turned-Artist, Adds a Touch of Sensual Romance to Floral Still Lifes
Stewart’s sensual paintings, with their indefinable romantic appeal, can be compared to a movie starlet who’s also a member of Mensa. The biologist-turned-artist begins each work with a background suggesting a site plan, architectural grid or oil field map, then paints her loose, expressive renderings of layers of wildflowers and weeds, her delicate washes suggesting … Read More
Arless Day Creates the Magic of a Master Collagist
Arless Day has the uncanny ability to assemble a collage of disparate printed materials, photographs and paint into an environment that we want to live in, and to repeat the process in each of his widely popular works. His seamless works offer a graphic demonstration of the magic that a master collagist can conjure. See artwork and … Read More
'Latin American Invitational' Exhibition Features 'Masters of Today and Tomorrow'
A review in “El Nuevo Herald” of the gallery’s “Latin American Invitational” exhibition includes color photos of works by Leonora Carrington, Michelle Concepción, Alexis Fernández and Marco Tullio. Virginia Miller notes that its disparate artists are “the masters of today and tomorrow.” For more information, click here.