All artist have been confirmed for the Aesthetics and Values 2012 exhibition at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. We look forward to working with Jillian Mayer, Gean Moreno, Luis Garcia-Nerey, Ed Levine, Kuhl and Leyton, David Rohn, Jiae Hwang, Robert Chambers, Robert Behar, Rosario Marquat, and Gavin Perry!
Please check out the new issue of Revista Cruce from the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Communications at the Metropolitan University in Puerto Rico for the latest in Politics, Arts & Culture. This week in the Arts section please enjoy a article by Prof. Carlos Garcia Rodriguez on my ongoing installation project titled Babylon titled Babilonia.
The ArtCenter/South Florida will be presenting at The Pulse Fair Miami 2011. My work will be on exhibit in the independently curated project “Small Wonderz (art) Salon”. The selected group of the ArtCenter Resident and Alumni artistst will be featured in “Pub #1 Booth”. Hope to see you there! December 1 - 4, 2011 | The Ice Palace Studios | 1400 North Miami Ave at NW 14th Street | Miami Public Fair Hours: Thursday, Dec 1, 1 - 7pm | Friday and Saturday, Dec 2-3, 11am - 7pm | Sunday, Dec 4, 11am - 5pm Special Evening Preview: Tuesday, November 29, 6 - 9 pm* Private Press and Preview Brunch: Thursday, December 1, 10am - 1pm* *Invitation or press accreditation required. Click on the image to the left to view a preview of my works for the fair.
Please click above to view a short video of a large scale sculpture for this years Art Basel event at the South Florida Art Center.
The Wynwood Art Fair is an annual celebration of the coming together of art and community, demonstrating the profound ways in which art teaches us to touch our creative source, explore our shared humanity, and remind us we are all interconnected. Proceeds of the Fair will help support programming and operations of the Lotus House Women’s Shelter and other charitable initiatives of the Sundari Foundation on behalf of women and children in need. w/Guest Curators Kimberly Marrero / New York Antonia Wright / Miami. Please click on the image to your right for a preview of works by Luis Garcia-Nerey
The Banff Centre is Canada's creative leader in arts and culture. Their mission is Inspiring Creativity. "In our powerful mountain setting, artists and leaders from around the world create, perform, share skills and explore ideas." Anke and I are happy to announce our acceptance to their Visual Arts Residency Program (BAIR). Please click on the title above to watch a short video for a better understanding of this great and important opportunity we are proud and exciting to be part of!
Please check out the new issue of Revista Cruce from the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Communications at the Metropolitan University in Puerto Rico for the latest in Politics, Arts & Culture. This week in the Arts section I've been fortunate enough to contribute to the publication with a written essay in a article featuring my work titled "La Casa Del Yo Y El Otro". Please click on the Cruce logo for a link to the magazine.
The Texas Contemporary Art Fair has been officially announced. The fair will arrive at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on October 20-23. Complete with VIP preview party, and projects that focus on energy and sustainability by Texas-based artists, the show is produced by Max Fishko and Jeffrey Wainhause of artMRKT Productions, who split off from the Houston Fine art Fair’s producers, Hamptons Expo Group, last year.
Diehl Gallery is proud to represent five artists selected for the National Museum of Wildlife Art's 2011 Western Visions, Miniatures and More Show & Sale. Clockwise from left: Richard Painter; Susan Goldsmith; Les Thomas; Simon Gudgeon; Anke Schofield/Luis Garcia-Nerey. Join us for a special reception featuring new works by these gallery artists.
Western Visions® 24th Annual Paintings and Sculpture Show opens Saturday, September 3 – Sunday, September 25 2011 On display 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM and during Western Visions evening events. More than 200 works of paintings and sculpture by more than 150 top artists will be on display and for purchase during the 24th Annual Western Visions. View these amazing works in the Bison, Changing Visions, and Gilcrease Galleries. Our work will be on view for the month of September. Please stop by and have a look.
The San Francisco Fine Art Fair (SFFAF) returns in 2011 as one of the highlights in the Bay Area for contemporary art. In 2010, a rousing 15,000 art enthusiasts lined up and streamed through the fair- after a decade long absence. There was a bursting energy in the air and contagious enthusiasm as attendees were stunned by the museum quality art displayed by the 83 exhibiting galleries. In fact, the spectacular opening night generated 3,000 eager visitors, many of whom were the who's who of the northern California art buying community.
Twelve years ago, Will Ramsay changed the model of the traditional art fair by creating the Affordable Art Fair, where contemporary art is accessible to all. Now in ten locations around the world, with the upcoming L.A. fair being the eleventh, Affordable Art Fair proves that you do not need to be an art expert or a billionaire to have original works of art by living artists in your home or office. With the fair taking place in Amsterdam (spring and fall), Bristol, Brussels, London (spring and fall), Los Angeles, Melbourne, Milan, New York (spring and fall), North London, Singapore, and Sydney, over $270 million worth of art has been sold at the fairs. The success of the brand continues with the estimated millionth visitor to the Affordable Art Fair expected in 2011.
Art Basel collaboraton piece by Nina Surel, Damian Sarno, Natasha Duwin and Luis Garcia-Nerey. This installation was created as part of the Good & Plenty exhibit during Art Basel Miami 2010 @ the South Florida Art Center. It will be on display in the window of the the 810 building on Lincoln Road Through January 2. Please come by for a closer look.
This is the museum’s second Florida Contemporary exhibition. Last year, 46 artists and nearly 70 works from all over the state were chosen by the museum’s curator to be included in this intriguing show. From realism to abstraction (and everything in between), the 2010 version of this exhibition will include recognized photographers, painters and sculptors who have spent a lifetime at their craft together with an exciting array of new artists that visitors can “discover” for themselves. While not a definitive record of currently exhibiting Florida artists, Florida Contemporary will serve as an overview of the innovative images, subject matter, techniques and mediums that characterize the work being created in the state today. FLORIDA CONTEMPORARY 2010 — MAY 15-JUNE 26, 2010 This exhibition is organized by the Naples Museum of Art.
My basic attempt was to construct a shelter-like structure mainly consisting of found objects. The materials were to be gathered in Haiti throughout my stay and were to serve as the structural part of my installation. My work, in general, is loosely based on the theory of Constructionism with an emphasis on Social Construction. The importance of this philosophy lies not in the prior but in the process.For more information please have a look on www.ghettobiennale.com for details of proposal.
In their third installment of BOSQUE, artists Luis Garcia-Nerey and Anke Schofield, explore questions on the human construct of the forest and its inhabitants. The exhibition travels to The Gilman Contemporary Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho, were the artists will present a series of collaborative paintings and installations on November 25th, 2010. In past exhibitions the artists’ focal point have not only been a philosophical one but also one that emphasizes on an aesthetic balance that resonates in their current exhibit. The heart of the series embarks on a journey in which the viewer is presented with a narrative but not a conclusion. In Bosque III, the artists’ perspective on the subject matter allows the audience to preview a familiar environment while challenging them to examine the existence of human and animal Beings. Although the main premise of the exhibit questions the human construct of the forest, it also aims to reveal an infinite source of reference points beset by the tone of the exhibit itself. Whether literal or abstract, Schofield’s and Nerey’s intentions are not to rationalize a specific idea of the forest but rather suggest that the viewer interpret the works on their own without limitations set by concrete definitions.
For this series of work, I am attempting to simulate the raw aesthetic of today’s urban landscape. The works are primarily based on a conceptual flight examining parts of urban society that are most likely to be overlooked. More specifically, I am referring to the back streets, alleyways, walk throughs, train yards, etc in our cities and their unnoticed beauty. Abandoned and oversaturated with layers of paint, torn ads and graffiti on the walls, these places draw a significant resemblance to the movement and balance of an abstract painting. Usually, these places are considered the backstage of society and are missed or rather, dismissed and unappealing to the eye. Even though, when studied and closely observed, they can be aesthetically beautiful and profound. For me, I see that beauty and I create it within the limits of the canvases. I do this in order to contain the chaos and bring it to an environment in which the works can be viewed without distractions. My intention for this exhibit is to take the participants on a flight, an “urban flight”, in which they can see something familiar in a different social dynamic. By doing this I am commenting on today’s social based importance on beauty and how subjective this ideology is.
In their second two-person show Astolifi Fine Art Gallery is proud to present BOSQUE 2. In this exhibition, artists Anke Schofield and Luis Garcia-Nerey explore the aesthetics of, and the psychology behind, the forest. In this exhibit, the two artists compare the social dynamics and the hierarchy within forest animals in relations to our own society. Though both artists approach the subject matter in their own way, the premise remains the same. The focus is on how we, in society, collectively interpret the forest and its inhabitants and how this interpretation greatly resembles our own social conventions. Schofield and Nereys’ aim is to expand on those perceptions through visual interactions between the viewer and their paintings. Whether the comparison is literal or abstract their intentions are to invite the viewer to see the similarities between both worlds. Astolfi Fine Art Gallery 1170 Howell Mill Rd, p-16, Atlanta, GA 30318 ph 404-307-0215
The Self and the Other: Luis Garcia-Nerey By the John D. McArthur Campus Library. This book is an accompaniment to the solo art exhibition of Luis Garcia Nerey at the John D. MacArthur Capmus Library gallery at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter, Florida. We are happy to announce that this book has been registered with the library of congress.
Florida Atlantic University Exhibition Program Mission Statement: The Exhibition Committee of the MacArthur Campus at Florida Atlantic University was formed to bring museum quality contemporary art to our campus, to educate and inspire the University community and to go beyond the norm by stimulating intellectual curiosity, creativity and public debate. We hope to build a reputation for quality exhibitions with artists who seek to experiment using new and exciting mediums and topics. By giving contemporary art a home among our academic collections, it will serve to inspire research, stimulate the imagination, and encourage other artistic endeavors. Please come see "The Self and the Other" a new exhibition by artist Luis Garcia-Nerey opening March 27th through May 15th 2009.
