Experience the 24th Annual ArtFest in the Pines

You are cordially invited to enjoy the 24th Annual ArtFest in the Pines on Saturday, November 5th through Sunday, November 6th from 10am – 5pm enjoy the 24th Annual ArtFest in the Pines at the Charles F. Dodge City Center, located at 601 City Center Way in the City of Pembroke Pines. The two-day art festival will feature a multitude of unique works of art in categories such as Jewelry, Drawing, Craft, Mixed Media, Digital Art, Painting (watercolor, oil, acrylic), Wood, Glass, Fine Handcrafts, Photography and Three-Dimensional Sculpture.

See Renowned Artist Vito Bonanno's Solo Show 'Beauty & Chaos II' at Six Summit Gallery NYC Port Authority Public Exhibition Space

Bonanno's solo exhibition 'Beauty & Chaos II' is on display in a public art space located at The Port Authority in association with Six Summit Gallery has been extended through Fall 2022.

Internationally collected artist Vito Bonanno taps into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism, placing his innermost feelings onto canvas. The New England-based artist’s work is image and concept-driven and embedded in his personal philosophy. His art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts, and dreams, coupled with objects or topics that “get stuck in his head”, including traffic lights, grids, ceiling fans, graffiti, and pop culture. Corporate clients include AMAZON, Google, and The Hartford.

The renowned mixed media artist's solo exhibition Beauty & Chaos II at Six Summit Gallery in New York City opened on August 1st, and the show has been extended on view though Fall 2022. Such a successful show, Bonanno has 20+ artworks on display in a public exhibition space located at The Port Authority in association with Six Summit Gallery. The show is comprised of older works by the artist, combined with paintings that Bonanno created throughout the Pandemic, as well as fresh, new work from Spring and Summer 2022. The exhibition could be viewed as a “retrospective” of sorts for the artist, with a history of paintings for art lovers and collectors to experience – while also understanding the deeper meaning of the artist’s body of work.

'Westbrook Pizza' 48"H x 36"W, India Ink, Oil Paint on Canvas

Bonanno taps into the daily emotional and social challenges of living with autism, placing his innermost feelings onto canvas. He is an award-winning, world-famous artist with a career spanning back to his childhood. The artist has participated in numerous art fairs, as well as national and international exhibitions, in addition to many art shows during Art Basel Miami Beach – most recently a NIKE pop-up in Wynwood during Miami Art Week 2021. He unveiled his first Solo Exhibition, ‘Unfiltered V: Vito Bonanno Riding with the Train Girls’, in January 2012 at Akus Gallery at Eastern CT State University which included works on paper, canvas, video pieces, a student-artist interactive mural project, and installations. Akus Gallery Director, Elizabeth Peterson stated, “The characters, objects, and ideas that inhabit Vito Bonanno’s work act and interact in striking ways. Caught within the grids and map-like structures he imagines, they are often in a struggle between multiple worlds. He has found a way to tap in the intensity of focus and insight afforded him through autism to unleash a formidable creative power and vision.”

He is one of only 16 artists in the United States selected for a prestigious exhibition of previous awardees from the VSA Emerging Artists Program in the Kennedy Center Hall of Nations with sponsorship from the Volkswagen Group of America. As part of the celebrations for the 25th Anniversary of the ADA and 40th Anniversary of VSA in 2015, the exhibition included the work of select artists who represented the past 13 years of the VSA Emerging Young Artist Program; Curated by Stephanie Moore, she chose Bonanno’s ‘Daffy Goes to Waterbury with a Ninja Turtle’ and ‘SECR Toilet’ to be part of the exhibition.

Vito is aligned with ArtLifting, which is a non-for-profit art organization that empowers artists living with disabilities through the celebration and sale of their artwork. ArtLifting is about creating opportunity, empowerment, and validation. This collaboration opened many new and exciting opportunities for the artist, which includes his work in Google’s corporate collection, with art hanging in their Leesburg, VA offices, as well as Amazon, for one of their corporate buildings in Seattle, Washington.

'CX Train Cars and Traffic Lights', 28h x 28w x 1.5, Spray Paint, Acrylic Oil Stick on Canvas

Bonanno was diagnosed with PDD/Autism just before his 4th birthday. Because he was language delayed, his parents and teachers developed strategies that tapped into his high visual acuity, utilizing storyboard styles to relay academic and social information. He was also encouraged to draw in storyboard format to express his feelings. The storyboard grid remains prominent in his work and studio preparation today and is a poignant reminder of a boy who was trapped in his own mind.

The New England-based artist's work is image and concept-driven and embedded in his personal philosophy. His art contains the essence of his life, feelings, thoughts, and dreams, coupled with objects or topics that “get stuck in his head”, including traffic lights, grids, ceiling fans, graffiti, and pop culture. Visit Six Summit Gallery to experience Bonanno’s current solo exhibition ‘Beauty & Chaos II’ at 625 8th Avenue, South Building Floors 1 & 2, New York, New York. The show opened August 1st, and will be on view through Fall 2022. For more information about this artist, for inquiries, or to commission a piece contact vito@vitobonanno.com / visit http://www.vitobonanno.com/

The Betsy Hotel Announces Exhibits for Miami Art Week 2022 Opening During Art Basel Miami Beach

 

The Betsy Hotel Announces Exhibits for Miami Art Week 2022 Opening During Art Basel Miami Beach, with new work by visual artists Tamary Kudita, Nadia Huggins, Sri Prabha, Ray Tenario, and Eric Kroll, and a dance premiere by the Peter London Global Dance Company

 

The Betsy-South Beach, one of the preeminent global arts hotels announces exhibits for Miami Beach Art Week 2022, curated by Betsy co-owner Lesley Goldwasser. Works include photography by Tamary Kudita (Zimbabwe), Nadia Huggins (Trinidad/Tobago), and Eric Kroll (USA), and a mixed media collection by Ray Tenorio (Cuba). Also exhibited is new work by conceptual multi-media artist Sri Prabha (India) and a dance work by Peter London (Trinidad/Tobago). The Betsy will also celebrate new artist books by Alessandro Sarno, Carlos Andres Cruz, and Eric Kroll.

 

The Betsy Hotel is well regarded for programs and partnerships that paint a portrait of Miami both old and new by embracing diversity through artist selection, subject matter, and cultural framework. Since 2018, The Betsy has exclusively focused on global photography in all but one of its 9 public galleries; the remaining gallery features the work of emerging artists working in sculpture, painting, illustration, and mixed media.

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS 

Tamary Kudita (photo): Back at The Betsy after a successful US debut of 'African Victorian' at The Betsy's 2021 Miami Art Week, Kudtia presents a new collection "Fabrics of Man, Family, and Society ... ' that explores "the impact of her country's colonial experience on African life and identity today." Tamary's new work specifically reflects "on the intersectionality of the cultural and ethnic fusion of lifestyles from the past and present, and how that is expressed in body language, facial expression, and gestures, as well as the use of clothing as a necessity, social status, and cultural emblems".

 

Nadia Huggins (photo): The Hotel's BBar Gallery features Strange Territory, Huggins' underwater photography, an underground space with 26 light boxes; its mylar ceiling producing a mirrored effect, making viewers feel they are under water. Huggins' cinematic underwater landscapes contain colorful flora environments and human beings interacting with Nature, inviting viewers to reflect not only on 'what I put within an image, but also what I choose to leave out of that frame".

 

Eric Kroll (photo): A titanic figure in contemporary photography, Eric Kroll has published high profile best-selling art books with houses like Taschen and his work has featured in countless magazines. This exhibition contains images from his new art book, THE NEW YORK YEARS 1971 to 1994 (the book!).  "There is no discipline in my life. No order. I used to think that chaos helps creativity—I'm not so sure about that anymore...I shot Grace Jones performing at Studio 54 .... I also photographed Kenny Scharf with his wife and daughter, Keith Haring, and Andy Warhol in his art car ... "

 

Sri Prabha (multi-media), commissioned by the City of Miami Beach and using multi-media in 3 outside areas surrounding The Betsy Orb,  Sri will create a locus of attraction with this message: "We are but  a small part of the cosmos, with energies linked to ideas of regeneration, growth, and sustainability emerging from the cocoon of the pandemic to be deployed internally and for the world around us. In our existence, we ask ourselves about our responsibilities to the universe/"  

Sri Prabha's Spaceresearchcentre/AKA Southern Lights, via the Transmutable Central Dharma Gateway Incorporating the 5 Known Elements at the Orlando Museum of Art

 

Ray Tenorio (mixed media): With art collections influenced by Ray Tenorio's Latin roots, Expressionism, urban mythology and fashion,  Mythological Africa and the Transcultural Influences in the Americas,  inspired The Betsy to break out of its exclusive commitment to photography to provide space for an emerging youthful – and colorful – global artistic voice.

 

Art Books by Carlos Andres Cruz, Alessandro Sarno, and Eric Kroll:  With text written by Miami-based children's author Pablo Cartaya, international dog photographer Carols Andres Cruz contributed images for a book entitled Rosa's First Day as CEO;  Alessandro Sarno will release a new artist book called Miami: Jungle Island, with a Foreword by Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibarguen. These books will be exhibited in Betsy gallery spaces and available for purchase at the front desk – as will Eric Kroll's new art book: THE NEW YORK YEARS 1971 to 1994 (the book!).

 

Peter London Global Dance Company: The Betsy's Miami Art Week 2022 also features 'random and repeated' performances of a new dance work created by former Martha Graham dancer Peter London  in response to Tamary Kudita's new collection entitled,  Fabrics of Man, Family and Society ... ". This work is presented in partnership with the City of Miami Beach and the Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs by the Peter London Global Dance Company.

 

Other 2022 Miami Art Week installations @thebetsyhotel include 1) The Betsy's Outdoor Sculpture Garden exhibiting  Zimbabwean stone carved sculptures inspired by traditional Shona mythology; 2) The Poetry Rail presenting the words of 12 writers that 'shaped Miami', located between Ocean Drive and Collins Avenue at 14^th Place;  3) More than 300 historic images of The Beatles and Rolling Stones (the Paul Saltzman and Bob Bonis Collections), situated in hallways and stairways, 4) And work from architectural photographer Robin Hill, Miami Beach documentarian Andy Sweet, Hollywood set photographer Robert Zuckerman and travel photographer Alessandro Sarno.  

 

The Betsy Hotel exhibits art in 20,000 square feet of gallery space located throughout the property with nine galleries as well as halls and stairway areas open during regular business hours (9 AM – 11 PM) during Miami Beach Art Week 2022.

Art and Culture Center/Hollywood's 2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’

Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents ‘2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’. As the title implies, a multi-media approach is revealed in the practices of artmaking by the participating artists. From traditional portraiture to recycled materials, the exhibition seeks to reveal a rawness that evokes our current times and experiences. Juried by Ylva Rouse, Senior Curator at MOCA Jacksonville; Organized by the Center’s Curator Meaghan Kent, Curator of Exhibitions; and Joanna Ruiz, Arts Aspire Curatorial AssistantAs Rouse states, “Overall, the sense I get is an exploration of our place, in/with nature and in society right now, with a dominant strain of what I want to call magic realism, as well as an overall developed sense of materiality.” The exhibition is on view October 15, 2022 through Sunday, February 5, 2023.

Dana Donaty's Ecosystem 1, 34" x 28" x 21"

South Florida Contemporary Artist Dana Donaty is one of the artists featured in the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents ‘2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’. Donaty's work explores ideas about identity, memory, and domestic and sociological trauma through the lens of play. In a series of Ecosystems, I set the stage for objects hallowed by their historical associations to be considered in a new context. 

Participating Artists:
Javier Barrera (Miami Beach), Bella Cardim (Key Biscayne), Christopher Clark (Jacksonville), Elaine Defibaugh (Miami), Dana Marie Donaty (Boynton Beach), Christian Feneck (Fort Lauderdale), Brendhan Garland (Gainesville), Bonney Goldstein (Fort Lauderdale), Sheila Goloborotko (Jacksonville),Anna Joan Goraczko (North Miami Beach), Jeanne Jaffe (Boynton Beach), Sophia Lacroix (Hollywood), Cynthia Mason (St. Petersburg), Cheryl Maeder (Lake Worth), Raymond Olivero (Mount Dora), Kerry Phillips (Miami), Vickie Pierre (Miami), Evelyn Politzer (Miami), Galal Ramadan (Fort Lauderdale), Alette Simmons-Jimenez (Miami), Aida Tejada (Miami), Cornelius Tulloch (Miami), Jackeuline Walters (Aventura), Zaplaflora (Jesús F Torres) (Hialeah).

BlackTower Gallery in the Miami Design District: Dejando Huellas

BlackTower Gallery in the Miami Design District celebrated its Grand Opening Reception for a charity event, featuring a special art exhibition Dejando Huellas, October 13 - 16, 2022. 

Guests bought works of art at the gallery to support the Moved To Serve International Foundation - founded by Barbara Palacios 2022. Moved to Serve International's mission is to serve other foundations with the purpose of contributing to a world free of domestic violence and child abuse. Exhibition open to the public until Sunday, October 16, from 11am to 7pm.

Oneof MG Stout's paintings, 'Yesterday', original acrylic painting, 36" x 36", unframed, white painted edges, ready to hang - on view at BlackTower Gallery in the Miami Design District. 

The group show features prominent visual artist MG Stout, Mary Gallagher Stout, who is a Resident Artist at Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines. Her creative process allows her to tap into her intuition, go with the flow, and produce a true masterpiece. The artist exhibits her work with critically acclaimed art fairs. The artist will be exhibiting at Spectrum Miami art fair in booth #1408 during Art Basel Miami Beach, a favorite fair by art lovers during Miami Art Week, the fair takes place at Mana Wynwood Convention Center November 30 – December 4, 2022. Spectrum Miami is an upscale and urban curated contemporary art fair, located in Miami’s iconic Wynwood Art District. Mary will also be exhibiting at Red Dot fair during art week with Jen Tough Gallery.

To learn more about this fascinating visual artist, please visit her website at www.mgstout.com. You can purchase works directly from her online store at https://www.mgstout.com/shop. MG Stout’s art studio is located at Studio 18 in the Pines, 1101 Poinciana Drive in Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025.