December @ swampspace

Swampspace presents

100 Years of Artitude  1913 - 2013  

Pataphysics for Dummies

Opening Reception December 1,  2012

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SWAMPSPACE 

  

The director of Swampspace Gallery in the Miami Design District announced today that Swampspace will present a special exhibition to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach.  Aptly titled "100 Years of Artitude 1913-2013 Pataphysics for Dummies" the installation is a centennial celebration of the artistic development of craft and culture.  Not since the ArmoryShow of 1913 have esthetic seismographs detected such considerable tremors and creative rumblings emanating from fecund minds.   With an amalgamation of historical artifacts and the metaphysical,  Swampspace spirals into the subjectivity of experienced reality; the inseparability of past, present, and future; and the power of language as a pataphor for attitudes in art market nihilism, truth of contradictions and exceptions.  

About Swampspace

What would become of our beloved River of Grass without the water that sustains it. 

What would South Florida be without the arts that nourish culture and civility.  

Launched in 2008 from the studio of artist Oliver Sanchez, Swampspace presents monthly exhibitions of innovative talent.  On the leading edge of Miami's Arts Awakening,  Swampspace defines a brand that is both sophisticated and unvarnished.    Ocean Drive Magazine's Brett Sokol wrote " Miami's Best Kept Art Secret".  Biscayne Times Anne Tschida said " Sanchez is likely the most talented and prolific Miami Artist you've never heard of."    But the truth is everyone knows about Swampspace and the wizard behind the curtain.   Now at a new deluxe location in the Design District,   Swampspace continue to deliver cutting-edge exhibitions for arts lovers of varied lifestyles who come together and share a unique creative experience.   Because it is perhaps the preeminent artist run project space in Miami,  Swampspace is a recognized destination.    Because it is the antithesis of commercial galleries and institutional museums,   Swampspace is aptly called the Un-Gallery.   Because people are thirsty for culture, they visit Swampspace like mariners to Morocco.

December  1 - 28,  2012

Monday - Sat 11am -7pm

150 NE 42 Street    Miami, FL 33137

end of the beginning

With the end of the school year approaching, it is time once again for high school seniors from DASH to put their best footsies forward. After Prom Night before Graduation is the annual Twins Day and Senior Showcase.  This is a time for BFFs to go their separate ways taking with the skills learned that will propel them out onto the bewildering world of art and commerce. Below is a sampling of artworks featured last night in the fabulous Design District. The work this year was exceptional as always. If i had one kernel of wisdom to convey to the kids it is that Luck Trumps Talent.

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making Sh*t

NYC Pedicab Celeb Juan Carlos Rodriguez with the keen observer Tschida.

I'm not making this up, Anne Tschida local legend called me a Fabricator on the pages of the Biscayne Times. With a sharp pen and sapphire eyes on Miami's art scene, Tschida hammers it home with this bit of ink on the humble uncle O. A regular visitor to Swampspace Gallery, Anne recognizes the intimate unvarnished sophistication that lurks under the radar of predictable scripted art reporting in South Florida. Our wild wordsmith Tschida...! rhymes with cheetah.

Another regular visitor to swampspace is little Lily of Lil Muse Lily, a place inspired.

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http://www.biscaynetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1110:the-fabricator&catid=38:art-a-culture&Itemid=201

http://lilmuselily.com/2012/03/15/swampspacin-it/

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Art In Private Places

Swampspace Gallery

is pleased to announce

Failing Upwards

the christening before the launch

A soft opening at our

new deluxe location!

Sunday March 11th 4-10pm

Where the Sidewalk Ends

There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.

shel silverstein

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150 N.E. 41 Street

Miami Design District

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a final swampy opening

Swampspace Gallery

presents

Last Call Wrecking Ball

a collective retrospective

Join the Community of Design District Artists to Commemorate a Decade of Emergence and Fruition.

Opens February 11, 2012

6-12 pm

Cristina Lei Rodriguez - Wendy Wischer - Nektar De Stagni - Naomi Fisher - Frances Trombly - Jim Drain - COOPER - Leyden Rodriguez- Friends W U - Roberto & Rosario - Bhakti Baxter - Jason Hedges - Daniel Arsham - - Domingo Castillo - Nicolas Lobo - Martin Oppel - Adler Guerrier - Tao Rey - Daniel Newman - David Rohn - OliSan

3821 NE 1 Court Miami Design District

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It's New to You

Yard Sale

Design District Annual Multi-Artist Rummage Bazaar

Saturday Only December 17

12 noon until sunset

3809 NE 1 Court

It's New to You !

Nostalgia For Sale

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Basel Briefs 2011

Making the Grade

It is not clear how exactly success is achieved during Art Basel Miami. It depends on who you ask, but a good yardstick measure criteria is just how swampy are you willing to get.

Chopper One

In the days before Basel, a private helicopter makes an elegant landing and heralds the coming exuberance of excess.

Art in Public Spaces

As if artistic interpretation did not abound, the reconstruction of a railroad along the Biscayne corridor in anticipation of future crowds.

Snap With a Twist

Last year , like every year for the past ten years, success for some is about who will take your picture. If it is Cyn Zarko or Patrick McMullan consistently then you are an A+ type.

Perennial Pink n Pinkier

How do you get a picture with these fixtures? Just ask with a smile...

Sans Cintas

To open doors and windows into the upper echelon of blue chip markets and parties, one will need to take out all the guns. Be it who you know, where you shop or even divulging secret information. Emilio Sanchez is my long lost cousin, Anais Nin is also a relation and Buckminster Fuller courted my grandmother in Havana.

Holy as Swiss Cheese

The Bucky Exhibition across from the heart of the Design District is a marvelous display of genius and melancholy.

Eleven Fingers... count'em.

The local chapter of the Allegory-Rich Kids Club earlier this year at Carol Jazar's.

Bob's Your Uncle

Robert Chambers at the Ping Pong Show in the Design District.

Chilling in the Hood

Congratulations to the originator Brook Dorsch and his 20 years in Wynwood.

DASH kids get a donation of american marble (aka styrofoam) compliments of the benevolent deep pockets of Locust Projects.

Please, do not mutilate the signage.

This is a wonderful art installation at an undisclosed location.

More art, i guess.

Before and After

A stark reminder of the need to take a hard look at what is sustainable in the swamp and this awesome video from Kerry McLaney's Independent Thinkers.