Superfine! Art Fair
Miami, Florida
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Exhibiting Artists:
Brooke Monte
Rebecca Weisman
Superfine! is a curated, boutique contemporary art fair. Superfine! Humanizes the art world by carving out a niche where passionate, professional artists and their champions meet eager collectors one-on-one. Each fair is a fun and accessible environment built for bringing joy and excitement to the collecting experience. Through a hyper-curated exhibitor list, Superfine! consistently delivers high-quality, well-priced artwork directly to you. Discover a jewel in the rough as you peruse hundreds of works by artists from around the globe!
For tickets to Superfine!, go here!
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Surface Traces
Yashar Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York
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Sufaces Traces
Yashar Gallery, 276 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, NY
December 15th - December 30th, 2017
Opening Reception Friday, December 15th, 6 - 8 pm.
Artist talks at 7pm, Philosophy, Art & Drinks to follow.
Curated by Sandra Stephens.
Art Shape Mammoth is pleased to host Sharon Norwood, Oneika Russell, Jeanne Proust, and Sandra Stephens from the Caribbean Islands, for Surface Traces at Yashar Gallery, with the generous support of Exhibition Coordinator Stephen Eakin.
A trace can be seen as a residual mark left over in time, not immediately discernible, or an outline that follows a fixed path. It can also be a conceptual tool used to interrogate the other within the self. This exhibition explores the relation of the trace to the surface.
Each of the artists approaches this concept of the trace in terms of one or more of these various definitions, while all connect to the ways the trace relates to history, time and memory. With connections to the post-colonial Caribbean, (three of the artists were born, live or have ancestry from Jamaica while one was born in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe), all four play with notions of hybridity and unfixed notions of subjectivity to visually push this concept of the trace of the body on the surface and within its environments.
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Sharon Norwood, Guess who’s coming to dinner, or rather tea III
Fired decals on vintage porcelain, cup 4” x 3” x 3.25”, saucer 5.75” x 9.5”, 2015
Sharon Norwood is interested in what happens when the body inscribed within racial languages gets abstracted to a line. In her drawings and ceramic work, she emphasizes the notion of hair as landscape. As Norwood states, “porcelain has long been revered as a highbrow material; Hitler admired and equated it to “perfection,” and likened it to racial purity. I was inspired to subvert this supremacist narrative that is at odds with my own sense of identity.” Norwood’s visual imagination reveals the trace beyond the limited racial languages used to construct our worlds, and deconstructs those cultural narratives to speak in nuanced ways about gender, beauty, race and class.
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Oneika Russell, Notes to You
Wall installation (22 handwritten lacerate printed notecards), approx. 5"x7" each, 2016
Oneika Russell engages with the imaginary world and the world of childlike play: “as children we learn from play and I feel this is still important in my artistic practice. It is how I learn about my own prejudices and am able to get inside the issues I am dealing with.” Russell uses reoccurring figures to suggest stories from the Western psyche filtered through her experience as a Jamaican. The work for Surface Traces are drawings using a collage aesthetic with mixed media on paper and fabric. “I seek to create a new narrative from old stories... environments in which these characters construct their narratives are often taken from locations with idealized associations such as botanical gardens, parks and the seaside.”
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Jeanne Proust & Sandra Stephens, Breathing Skins
video installation and photography, size varies, 2017
In this first major collaboration between Jeanne Proust & Sandra Stephens they also engage the world of play. Using photography, video installations, and superimpositions they confuse the boundaries between inner and outer worlds. Stephens states, “who we are is influenced by what is around us. We constantly change through a dialogue between the self and the outside world. Visually I see this shifting self as a möbius strip with no distinct inside or outside.”
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ASM Artist Aimee Hertog in her East Orange, New Jersey studio. Aimee will be joining us as part of Superfine Art Fair in Miami this December, and is currently in the Mapping Experience exhibit at the University of Vermont.
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Board member Jim Costanzo is participating in Judgment Day, an exhibition by ABC No Rio in Exile, at Bullet Space in New York. His works in the show are typeset, letterpress prints from his Dystopia series. The prints consist of historic and contemporary quotes on fascism.
Included artists: Shay Arick, Shelly Bahl, Jim Costanzo (Aaron Burr Society), Mike Estabrook, Noah Fischer, Akiko Ichikawa, Vandana Jain, Jann Nunn, Nicole Schulman.
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Paul Higham’s work NESCIENT FROND: Fractal Rendition of Noumenal Data a brain machine interface to rapid prototype sculpture, was featured at the Jim Kempner Fine Art Galleries in Chelsea, NYC during the month of October.
Pictured is Synthesizing Liberty, a CNC sculpture originally produced in the mid 90’s which is now cast in aluminum and sited at the Amtrak Station as part of the Salmagundi XXI at the Imperial Art Center in Rocky Mount, NC.
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