Old Florida Celebration of the Arts Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival in Cedar Key, FL

     

Old Florida Celebration of the Arts

Join Us at the 50th Annual Spring Arts Festival
in Cedar Key, FL

    

  

 

Call to Artists

What:  50th Old Florida Celebration of the Arts

  

Where: Historic Second Street, 60 miles SW of Gainesville, FL, at the end of SR 24 

  

When: April 12-13, 2014, 10 AM - 5 PM

NOTEWORTHY:

• 120 Fine Artists and Craftsman showcase their work on 2nd Street  
• $14,000 in Prizes and Purchase Awards
• Annual event draws over 20,000 visitors each year
• Complimentary full breakfast on Saturday and continental breakfast on Sunday
• Artists' Reception and Awards Ceremony with food & beverages SaturdayEvening
• $32 Entry Fee (waved for previous year's winners)
• $165 Booth Fee (10' deep by 12' wide) - double spaces available
• Great, local food served by non-profit organizations in Cedar Key's City Park on the Gulf: including famous Cedar Key steamed clams, fried oysters, homemade crab cakes and desserts, freshly squeezed lemonade, & more. Music and children's art activities make this an event to remember.

The town of Cedar Key sits on one of several islands in the Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge. This historic fishing village has long been a haven for artists and nature lovers. You can experience the magic of our community on April 12 & 13, while also connecting with two larger festivals in NW Florida on the weekend before (Santa Fe Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville) & the weekend after (Mainsail Arts Festival, Tampa/St Pete).

Experience the tranquil beauty of Florida's Nature Coast and the unmatchable hospitality of Cedar Key's historic community of artists, fisherman, and creative, eclectic people.

Now Accepting Applications via

www.zapplicaton.org

 

Application Deadline - December 1, 2013 Notifications Emailed - January 1, 2014 Acceptance of Invitation and Booth Fees Due - February 1, 2014

 

Website:

www.cedarkeyartsfestival.com 

Phone: 352-543-5400

Email: cedarkeyartsfestival@gmail.com

 
 
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Galerie Leila Mordoch

François Monchâtre Les Plaisirs démoniaques (Bibliothèque), 2013, bois découpé peint, plexiglas. 40 x 59 x 7 cm Les plaisirs démoniaques Le diable descend de l’arbre de la connaissance, ver immense qui porte en lui les fruits incandescents du savoir, joyaux interdits du jardin d’Eden et… atterrit tout surpris au milieu des livres sous le regard impavide des crétins de bibliothèque. François Monchâtre a toujours aimé les bibliothèques, haut lieu de flânerie de l’imaginaire. Comme il a aujourd’hui 85 ans, on peut affirmer qu’il a passé la majeure partie de son existence dans un monde où n’existaient pas les autoroutes de l’information. S’il était d’une autre génération, peut-être le diable jaillirait-il en 3D brûlé par le feu prométhéen d’un écran d’ordinateur. Notons que l’iconographie reste : seul le support change. Dans son oeuvre protéiforme, auto-maboules, machines à rêver, crétins imbus d’eux-mêmes accrochés à leurs attachés-cases, les livres ont toujours occupé une place privilégiée. Un volume, par ci, un autre par là, clin d’oeil et contre-point d’humour dispersés de la maison du poète à l’antre de l’écrivain, de la petite bibliothèquerosse à la grande bibliothèque… il coule de source qu’une exposition devait leur être consacrée avant qu’ils ne passent à la machine à laver les siècles.  Lélia Mordoch Nota Bene : pour rendre à César ce qui est à César, les titres sont de François Monchâtre. Vernissage le mercredi 27 novembre 2013 de 18h à 21h Exposition du 28 novembre 2013 au 1 février 2014 #fineartmagazine

Artists Space Exhibitions Opening: This Saturday, November 23, 6 - 8pm

Opening: This Saturday, November 23, 6 - 8pm
November 24, 2013 – February 23, 2014 Closed Thursday, November 28 – Sunday, December 1 for Thanksgiving holiday Artists Space Exhibitions 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor Artists Space Books & Talks 55 Walker Street New York NY 10013 T 212 226 3970 Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault is an exhibition of works selected and extended from the collection of Julie Ault. As a founding member of the artists’ collaborative Group Material (1979–1996), and as artist, curator, writer and editor, Ault’s dense practice and its roots in long-standing engagements with artists are reflected in the unique nature of her collection. Its multiplicity is indicative of an organic process of accumulation, foregrounding the ways in which the gifting and exchange of artworks cements both intellectual and emotional affinities. Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault navigates the movement of the collection from Ault’s domestic contexts to the public realm. Works that have great personal resonance are placed into a context of communal engagement – the exhibition has been organized by a team of individuals, itself reflecting numerous existing relationships and histories of collaboration, including Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, and Danh Vo. While the exhibition encompasses and indexes a range of scales and localities of engagement, it is notable in how it emanates from a body of experiences shared in part by a New York-based group of artists, and shaped by the social ruptures that impacted on the Downtown scene in the 1980s and 90s. The cultural climate of this time, when various crises of representation were being addressed head on, exists as a telling bridge between art and politics, a mode of address that courses through Ault’s collection and her affinities with other artists up to the present day. Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault features work by Vikky Alexander, Martin Beck, James Benning, Sadie Benning, Nayland Blake, Jennifer Bolande, Robert Bordo, Alejandro Cesarco, John Currin, Edward S. Curtis, Moyra Davey, Jeanne Dunning, Thomas Eggerer, Andrea Evans, Steven Evans, Tony Feher, Rev. Howard Finster, Mike Glier, Leon Golub, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Group Material, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Peter Hujar, Michael Jenkins, Sister Corita Kent, Carole Kim, Robert Kinmont, Heinz Peter Knes, Louise Lawler, Mary Lum, Donald Moffett, Stephan Pascher, George Platt-Lynes, Forrest Prince, Rasmus Røhling, Tim Rollins & K.O.S, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, Jason Simon, Nancy Spero, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martha Townsend, Danh Vo, Carrie Mae Weems, Martin Wong, and Cerith Wyn Evans. This exhibition is supported by the Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie AultExhibition Supporters Circle: Philip Aarons & Shelley Fox Aarons, Carolyn Alexander & Ted Bonin, Daniel Buchholz & Christopher Müller, Chantal Crousel & Niklas Svennung, Marian Goodman, Jerry Gorovoy, Hauser & Wirth, Xavier Hufkens, José Kuri & Mónica Manzutto, Galerie Lelong, Penny Pilkington & Wendy Olsoff, Andrea Rosen, and Thea Westreich & Ethan Wagner, and Friends of Artists Space. With additional support from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. This exhibition is dedicated to the loving memory of Karin Higa. #fineartmagazine

AN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF CARS TRANSFORMED INTO SCULPTURE BY LEADING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARYARTISTS, PISTON HEAD WILL GO ON VIEW IN MIAMI DECEMBER 3, 2013

AN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF CARS TRANSFORMED INTO SCULPTURE BY LEADING MODERN AND CONTEMPORARYARTISTS, PISTON HEAD WILL GO ON VIEW IN MIAMI DECEMBER 3, 2013   PRESENTED BY VENUS OVER MANHATTAN POWERED BY FERRARI PISTON HEAD: Artists Engage the Automobile 1111 LINCOLN ROAD, MIAMI BEACH, FL DECEMBER 3 – 8TH, 2013, PUBLIC HOURS: 1PM – 8PM DAILY or BY APPOINTMENT “I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals…consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.” --Roland Barthes NEW YORK/MIAMI…Venus Over Manhattan is pleased to announce PISTON HEAD:Artists Engage the Automobile, an exhibition of automobiles transformed into sculptures by leading modern and contemporary artists in the years since 1970. The fourteen works on view will reflect art’s longstanding relationship with the car as a cultural icon and fetish object replete with physical and symbolic possibilities. Opening December 4th in Miami Beach, Florida, the exhibition will be presented on the top level of 1111 Lincoln Road, the dramatic open-air parking structure designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. PISTON HEAD will run through December 8,th in conjunction with Art Basel MiamiBeach, the annual art fair considered one of the most magnetic events of the international cultural calendar. PISTON HEAD is powered by Ferrari. The exhibition includes works by Ron Arad, Bruce High Quality Foundation, César, Dan Colen and Nate Lowman, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Virginia Overton, Olivier Mosset/ Jacob Kassay/Servane Mary, Richard Phillips, Richard Prince, Tom Sachs, Salvatore Scarpitta, Kenny Scharf, and Franz West. Additionally, Los Angeles-based artist Joshua Callaghan will create a new work – a signature ‘rubbing’ of Ferrari’s LaFerrari state-of-the-art hybrid supercar, which was unveiled at the 2013 Geneva Auto Show and will be on view with PISTON HEAD inMiami. Callaghan’s performative process, engaging the precious surfaces and sculpted form of the limited-edition vehicle, will be part of the exhibition. Since 1886, when the Benz-Patent Motorwagen became the first modern motorcar, automobiles have shaped human experience. The quintessential machine of modern life, the car has defined cities, redefined our relationships to the natural world and one another, challenged technology, and fired the imaginations of countless artists in every discipline. Whether via the appeal of its speed to the Italian Futurists, or its mass-produced utility for Pop artists, the automobile has preoccupied artists consistently. Objects on view in PISTON HEAD are not only about the car in contemporary culture, but are actual cars -- fully realized sculptures comprised of vehicles that can roll on four wheels or once did. By removing these works from the white-walled conventions of contemporary galleries and museums, and placing them in the context of a working parking garage, Venus Over Manhattan highlights the way the participating artists have exploited tensions between refinement and brute power, aesthetics and utility. The artists represented in PISTON HEAD have approached the car as both object and subject in numerous ways. Layered in Bondo, Richard Prince’s American muscle cars are monochromatic, neutral compositions reminiscent of Minimalist painting and sculpture (another brand of American muscle). Conceptual Art and Process Art come to mind when viewing Virginia Overton’s ruggedly elegant Dodge Ram, transformed by a mountain of sand to obscure most of the vehicle’s defining details. In the painterly vein, Britain’s Damien Hirst offers Spot Mini, a classic, diminutive British automobile covered in the artist’s trademark colorful spots. Similarly, Keith Haring applied his own recognizable imagery to a well-worn Buick, employing his signature calligraphic style to transform the car into a rolling painting. In contrast to these more painterly works, the car of the late Viennese artist Franz West suggests a sculptural approach tinged with wit. West replaced the existing “Spirit of Ecstasy” hood ornament on his 1970 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow with one of his signature Passstuck sculptures. This small gesture transforms West’s personal ride into a commentary on the car as a conveyance of status, identity, and wish fulfillment. Bruce High Quality Foundation’s recently completed work – a pair of entangled Volkswagen Beetles – is a more suggestive take on cars as symbols of what the artists describe as “passion and suffering.” Brute power has always been the companion of elegance in the world of automobiles and has been frequently addressed in 20th century art history. In a series of works called Compresions des Voitures and created from the 1960s until the artist’s death in 1998, renowned French sculptor César crushed automobiles in order to suggest the collision of classicism and contemporary art. PISTON HEAD will present one of these celebrated works, a “car brick” from among the group César exhibited in the Pavilion of the French Republic at the Venice Biennale of 1995.  César’s work will echo in the contribution of Israeli-born artist and industrial designer Ron Arad, whose own car compression has rendered a six-inch thick ‘canvas.’ Power of another sort – the destructive power of entropy and chaos that result from neglect and mistreatment – will be on view in a contribution from Dan Colen and Nate Lowman. Their collaborative work, created in 2008, is a dilapidated four-door sedan, stuffed with TV sets.  Lucien Smith’s sorrowfully pockmarked and crumbling vehicle once served as the target at a shooting range. With it’s lyric-like title of “The sound of the engine still running and for the last time they locked eyes, together again in the end,” Smith’s work draws chaos away from the merely sad, toward the Romantic. From such glamorous nihilism, PISTON HEAD comes full circle to the joyful, unbridled magic of Kenny Scharf’s painted dinosaur of a family vehicle. #fineartmagazine

Brazil ArtFair Comes to Miami

Brazil ArtFair Comes to Miami   First Fair Dedicated to Brazilian Contemporary Art and Design Debuts During Art Week December 4-8, 2013   Claudia Jaguaribe, Quando Eu Vi Bibliotecas, 2009   São Paulo, Brazil – Brazil ArtFair, the first fair dedicated to Brazilian contemporaryart and design will debut in Miami this December 4-8, with VIP and press previews on Tuesday, December 3rd.  Press can register via the Brazil ArtFair website, www.brazilartfair.com.   Housed in a 25,000 square foot exposition center, on Midtown Boulevard, near the Wynwood Art District, Brazil ArtFair will present work from 15 Brazilian art galleries, over 100 artists, an exhibition of work by Brazilian artists curated by Luisa Duarte, andOrchestra Brasil, a selection of innovative contemporary furniture by 18 of Brazil’s leading design studios.   “Our mission for the first edition is to present art and design that reflects contemporary Brazil,” said Brazil ArtFair director, Michel Serebrinsky. “From the selection of galleries and the art that they will exhibit, to Luisa Duarte’s curated exhibition, to the design of our space, we created Brazil ArtFair with the purpose of bringing to Miami not just a new art fair experience but also a new experience of Brazil.”   Brazil ArtFair has gathered a strong group of carefully selected Brazilian galleries,artists, and designers – both established and emerging – and has approached the fair with a strong curatorial point of view. The show aspires to not only inform the world market about the dynamic new work that is being produced in Brazil, but also to educate the attendees about the country’s complex political, social, and cultural realities. Brazil ArtFair’s directors and curators see Brazil’s contemporary art and design as catalysts for change and movement helping to create worldwide awareness for the country. An important part of this mission, the curated exhibition, Tempo Suspenso (Suspended Time) addresses the political concerns that have galvanized contemporary Brazilian artistic practice and examines relationships between art, politics, and civic engagement. The exhibition will feature works, not for sale, by 15 renowned Brazilian artists including Mauro Restiffe, Rivane Neuenschwander, and Pedro Motta.   The design of the pavilion features an inflatable entrance created by Marton Estúdio.Designed to resemble the concrete architecture of Brasilia, the country’s capital, it will rhythmically inflate and deflate as a metaphor for the dynamic new life of the contemporary Brazilian art scene.   The exhibiting galleries will present a wide range of artistic voices including: the sophisticated popular art works from Galeria Estação, street art from Galeria Movimento and Galeria Logo and conceptual contemporary art from Central Galeria de Arte and Emma Thomas. In addition to the work of young Brazilian artists – such as Ícaro Lira, Frederico Filippi and Mayana Redin, from Galeria Um Zero Três (103) – visitors will have the opportunity to acquire work by prestigious established Brazilianartists, such as Claudia Jaguaribe and Vania Mignone. The galleries will also present multiple solo exhibitions. With nearly all of the participating galleries new to Miami, Brazil ArtFair is poised to become a strong international resource for Brazilian galleries, artists, and designers, and a place of discovery for the attendees of MiamiArt Week. Participating Galleries: Artur Fidalgo, Rio de Janeiro; Central Galeria de Arte, São Paulo; Emma Thomas, São Paulo; Galeria Estação, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria LOGO,São Paulo; Galeria Mezanino, São Paulo; Galeria Movimento, Rio de Janeiro; Galeria Um Zero Três (103), São Paulo; H.A.P. Galeria, Rio de Janeiro; Jo Slaviero e Guedes, São Paulo; Lourdina Jean Rabieh, São Paulo; Marton Estúdio, São Paulo, Mercedes Viegas, Rio de Janeiro; Multiplique Boutique, São Paulo; Paralelo, São Paulo.   Curated Exhibition-Tempo Suspenso: curated by Luisa Duarte, one of the most respected curators in Brazil today, this political exhibition features works Berna Reale, Clarissa Tossin, Iran do Espírito Santo, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Laércio Redondo, Laís Myrrha, Matheu Rocha Pitta, Mauro Restiffe, Milton Machado, Pedro Motta, Raquel Garbelotti, Regina Parra, Rivane Neuenschwander and Sara Ramo.   Orchestra Brasil features a juried selection of 24 pieces including chairs, tables, and home accessories from Alessandra Delgado-Girona Design, Bernardo Senna, Domingos Tótora, Em2 Design, Faro Design, Flávia Pagotti Silva, Índio da Costa A.U.D.T., Gallina e Visentini, Jader Almeida, Lattoog Design, Luiz Pedrazzi, Mameluca, NDT Design, Projeto 3 Design, Quadrante Design, Regis Padilha, Studio B, UNT Intelligence Design and Zanini de Zanine. A number of designers from this highly esteemed group have been awarded top honors and projects, including Zanini de Zanine, who has designed for Tolix and Poltrona Frau; Jader Almeida, recipient of the top award from Museu da Casa Brasileira, Brazil’s premier design museum; Domingos Totora, who creates sustainable furniture and decorative objects using cardboard; and Guto Indio da Costa, who remodeled Rio’s traditionalstreet vendor stands on famed Copacabana Beach.   West Encounters East: a one-hour documentary, which will be shown daily, explores an artistic space where the vibrant palette of Latin America and the silence of the East come together to create something new. Created and developed by filmmaker and art historian Stella M. Holmes of The Brickellian, the film was screened at several film festivals across the United States and broadcast on 280 television stations. It explores the themes of immigration, alienation, and assimilation through work of well-known Latin American artists with Eastern heritage, such as Japanese-Brazilians Yutaka Toyota, Takashi Fukushima, Megumi Yuasa, and Kazuo Okubo,descendants of a century-old diaspora that has given São Paulo the largest Japanese population outside Japan.   PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS   2 Daily Guided Tours for Collectors Noon and 6 pm Reservations can be made at the front desk.   December 4 – 4:00 pm – Conversation with Brazil ArtFair Directors Ester Krivkin and Michel Serebrinsky Krivkin and Serebrinsky will discuss the Brazil ArtFair concept, the art market in Brazil and the importance of the international promotion of Brazilian art and Brazil’s creative economy. They will give overviews of the participating galleries, “Suspended Time,” the curated exhibition, and Orchestra Brazil.   December 5 – 11 to 1 pm – Silent Auction of the Furniture from the Orchestra Brazil Exhibition Silent Auction and Champagne Reception Benefiting DASH, Design and Architecture Senior High, Miami’s premier magnet high school.   December 5 – 4:00 pm – Artist Talk Rio de Janeiro-based artist Claudia Melli will talk about her work and her use of nanquim (india ink) for producing her signature landscapes.   December 6 – 4:00 pm - Panel Discussion with 3 furniture designers participating in the Orchestra Brasil exhibition   December 7 – 4:00 pm – Talk by Wagner Lungov, owner of Galeria Central Lungov is a young gallerist and collector who left his job as at a German multi-national company to dedicate his life to contemporary art. Lugov will talk about his experience in the corporate world, his process for choosing artists to represent and his thoughts about Brazil’s place in the international art market.   December 8 – 4 pm – Talk by Miami-based curator, art historian and filmmaker Stella M. Holmes Founder of The Brickellian, a company that develops art marketing programs for cultural institutions, foundations and non-profit organizations, Holmes is also the founder of West Encounters East, a company that makes documentary films about multicultural artists to increase awareness of and respect for cultural differences. A film made Holmes for West Encounters East about Japanese Brazilians is being shown at the fair.   Fair Previews   Press Preview: Tuesday, December 3, 3 - 5 pm VIP Preview: Tuesday, December 3, 5 - 10 pm   General Admission Dates:   Wednesday, December 4    11 am - 7 pm Thursday, December 5        11 am - 7 pm Friday, December 6             11 am - 8 pm Saturday, December 7         11 am - 7 pm Sunday, December 8           11 am - 6 pm   General admission: $15 / Students & Seniors: $10 Press Contact: Dan Schwartz / Dalia Stoniene Susan Grant Lewin Associates 212-947-4557 dan@susangrantlewin.com / dalia@susangrantlewin.com   Sergio Lucena, Paisagem vasta (Vast landscape), oil on canvas, 180x180cm, 2013   Nino Cais, Untitled, cups, fabric and hanger, 100x50x25cm, 2013   TOZ, Insonia Tropical, Oil and spray on canvas, 180x150cm, 2013 #fineartmagazine

November 12th, 2013 (Long Island City, NY) Dear friends and colleagues,  NEW YORK MINDED is pleased to present “Pandas, Pellets & Power-ups – The Adventures of Pac-Panda” original works by Mike See.  This will be our fifth and last exhibition of 2013 Our biggest show to send us off to Miami to meet you all at our shows during Art Basel.  The exhibit will be displayed at the gallery from Nov. 21th, 2013 to Dec. 13th, 2013.  Opening reception: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 | 6PM – 9PM Location: NEW YORK MINDED GALLERY | STUDIO 38-82 13th Street, LIC NY 11101 ARTIST-WRITE UP: Mike See While in Miami for Art Basel, I did a few outdoor pieces in Wynwood (Miami's Art District), one of those being the PAC-PANDA. For this exhibition I wanted to further explore that concept and actualize it's potential to be something really fun and amazing. Fast-forward almost one year and well I think I captured what I wanted to...the nostalgia of our youth. I've spent time learning how to manipulate neon lighting with the help of master neon bender, Dave Ablon  (Brooklyn Glass) in an effort to transport the viewer into a real life arcade game.  To capture the piece in action, I created a stop motion short with a great photographer and friend Joel Sheakowsky. Finally to bring it all together I worked with my good friend and producer Chi-Bheats of Bklyn Stickup to create a heartbeat for this piece, an original music composition. This collection is meant to transport you back to a time when having fun were our biggest priority. I hope you enjoy. About New York Minded: NEW YORK MINDED Gallery | Studio is a 700 sq. ft. space in Long Island City, NY. NY MINDED is an implausible creative thought process. Attacking obstacles, seizing moments, creating your own luck, and achieving what seems to be the impossible, is being New York Minded. New York City is the culprit behind this modus operandi – the imperative need to shock through achievements. Our goal is to create a continuous dialogue about impossible creativity and prepare to be unprepared for what’s to come. 38-82 13th Street, LIC, NY 11101 | Tues & Wed by Appointment | Thurs – Sat 12pm – 7pm #fineartmagzine