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
“Divergent Illusions,” an exhibition of paintings and sculpture by an acknowledged master and four highly accomplished mid-career artists from five countries, will open at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries with a reception from 6-10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6th. “Each of these artists offers the sort of unique, personal statement that I am constantly seeking in the art … Read More
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
See Gallery installation here for Leon Berkowitz: Cascades of Light, Paintings from 1965-1986
South Florida’s longest-established fine art gallery, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in downtown Coral Gables, registers another entry in regional art history on Nov. 7 when it opens an exhibition of important paintings by Leon Berkowitz. “Leon Berkowitz: Cascades of Light, Paintings from 1965-1986,” features a cross-section of his most important body of work, ranging from the … Read More
View gallery installation here for Panoply: Paintings, Photographs and Sculpture
ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries in Coral Gables Presents Panoply: Paintings, Photographs and Sculpture As suggested by its title, Panoply is a wide-ranging selection of more than two dozen colorful abstractions by eleven artists from six countries: the United States, Cuba, England, Egypt, Mexico and Venezuela. Panoply: Paintings, Photographs and Sculpture, Part I, from May 2 through … Read More
The Silent Shout: Voices in Cuban Abstraction ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries – Miami Curated by Rafael Díaz-Casas, Janet Batet and José Angel Vincench By Margery Gordon Published by ArtPulse Magazine No. 18 Abstraction has become such a widely applied and accepted mode of art-making that it can be hard to perceive the threat it has repeat- … Read More
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
By Richard Speer ARTnews March 2014 Historically significant and visually rich, this exhibition showcases paintings and sculpture by three generations of Cuban artists. The “Silent Shout” of the show’s title refers to the 1997 exhibition “Pinturas del Silencio” (Paintings from the Silence), mounted during the sixth Havana Biennial to illuminate the lineage of Cuban abstract … Read More