During Art Basel Miami Beach, Kevin Bruk Gallery presented new works along side countless well-known artists. Undeniably, the new paintings of the lesser-known Miami-based artist Craig Kucia stood out as a breath of fresh air among the others. Kucia’s large canvases radiate with color and life, offering a hyper-realist view of a fragmented narrative, one that seems to be undecipherable even to the artist. Formally,[…..]
During the week of the Art Basel, both day and night are filled with art in Miami Beach. On Friday evening, DailyServing.com attended Installation 5 at the Raleigh Hotel, a new exhibition highlighting the art of the self portrait put on by Scion and co-hosted by Beautiful/Decay Magazine. The exhibition, which featured over 30 artists, explored the idea of portraiture through the two dimensional mediums[…..]
Sometimes, the most impressive work on display in Miami during the the first week of December isn’t found in one of the Miami Art Fairs. This was certainly the case for the exhibition, Heavy Manner, by Luis Gispert. The exhibition, which opened last night at the Fredric Snitzer Gallery, included several large format photographs, sound sculptures, and a 26-minute film, titled Smother. The exhibition stood[…..]
Over the next 5 days, DailyServing.com will be reporting from Miami Beach, covering the myriad of art events surrounding the 2008 Art Basel Miami Beach. Opening today at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Art Basel is often called the most important art event in the United States. Art Basel Miami Beach pulls the US art world into southern Florida for four days every year over[…..]
Artist Jay Kelly currently has a new series of works on view in the exhibition titled Rawness & Polish with Commissary Arts in Venice Beach, California. The works on view will include several medium and small-format collages. Some of the works are illuminated by light boxes, constructed of photographs, stencils, spray paint, and found imagery. The artist successfully fuses his personal interests of natural and[…..]
Currently on view at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City are new paintings and sculpture by artist Mark Shetabi. For his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Shetabi was constructed subtle paintings in a muted palette, exploring ideas related live performance, public space, crowd manipulation and the energy that exists between the performer and audience. For his exhibition titled ARENA, the artist has[…..]
In the world of a Caleb Weintraub painting, it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong. Stern-faced, costume adorned children run rampant with no apparent boundaries, tracking down the last remaining adults and turning them into wall-mounted trophies of the hunt. In his recent body of work titled Whatever Shall We Do with these Piles and Piles of Paint?, currently on view at the[…..]
