DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

DANA DONATY Miami Beach Artist

Dana Donaty (b. Columbus, Ohio), Colombian-American, raised in New Jersey. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing from Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA. After twelve years of living in London, England, Dana relocated to South Florida. She is currently completing her MFA at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York.

Through a research-based interdisciplinary approach Donaty’s work explores women-centered experiences, the complexities of identity, and the challenges of inequality. She infuses her maximalist, color-pumped playground-like aesthetics with humor mirroring life's absurdities and exposing culture's dark side by subverting the intended use of materials. Similarly, in prior work, gigantic canvases depict larger-than-life human figures imposed on a playground of tiny fantastical creatures, speaking to the paradoxes of freedom and equality in an out-of-scale, absurd world.

Selected solo shows: The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Fl, The Cornell Museum of Art, Delray, Fl, and Paul Fisher Gallery, Palm Beach, Fl. Selected group shows; The Armory Art Center in Palm Beach, SVA Gramercy Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, The Palm Beach Cultural Council, Lake Worth, FL., The Arts Warehouse, Delray, FL, The Audrey Love Gallery Miami, FL., The Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, FL, The Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; and The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA. Art fairs: American International Fine Art Fair, Scope, Red Dot, Art Palm Beach, and Art Boca Raton. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Government agencies, and private collections in the US and Europe.

She has an artistic lineage that includes maternal family members, notably, her mother, her aunt-painter Esther Cárdenas, her cousin-painter Santiago Cárdenas, and her grandfather Eduardo Cárdenas, who was invited to emigrate to the United States as the first editor of Selecciones del Readers Digest [Spanish version of Readers Digest]

Daniel Marosi Miami Beach Artist

 

Daniel Marosi Miami Beach Artist

Daniel Marosi is a multi-disciplinary artist who examines words and phrases that are both ubiquitous and ambiguous.

By overlapping repeated layers of text, Marosi appropriates phrases from sermons, advertising, music, and media to create paintings and sculpture that combine formal aspects of abstraction and graffiti.

Daniel Marosi is a resident artist at Studio 18 Art Complex in Pembroke Pines, Florida and the recipient of two Broward Artist Support Grants. His work has been featured at numerous international art fairs and Miami art institutions. In addition to a rigorous art practice, Marosi runs the award-winning design studio Creative Order, producing commercial environments for live media and broadcast television.

YOCHI YAKIR-AVIN Miami Beach Artist

 

Lobby Art Gallery
City Hall Fort Lauderdale


YOCHI YAKIR-AVIN Miami Beach Artist

I have been exploring and expanding my artistic practice by moving from figurative painting to include and incorporate contemporary object-making and installations. This is an exciting shift, as it opens new possibilities for expression and experimentation.

As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore different materials, techniques, and concepts.

Object-making and installations often require a different set of skills than figurative painting, such as sculpture, installation, and conceptual art. It's important to me to stay open and challenge myself, pushing my artistic boundaries, but also to stay true to my own vision and style. 

Incorporating memories into my artistic practice is a powerful way to explore my own experiences, connect with the audience, and evoke energies to mend fragmented parts of one’s self.

Yochi Yakir-Avin is a multidisciplinary artist with a passion for exploring the topic of representation.

Born in Poland and raised in Israel, she now resides in South Florida where she works as a resident artist, instructor, and mentor at Studio 18 Art Complex in Broward County.

Yakir-Avin's academic background includes the study of fine art in both Israel and Italy, where she earned her BFA from the esteemed Brera Academy of Arts in Milan. Her artwork is characterized by a deep interest in the themes of time and memory, particularly in the ways that our personal and collective memories can be shaped and reshaped over time.

As an artist, Yakir-Avin employs a variety of mediums, including installations and 2D works, with innovative use of materials, space, and scale. 

Her work invites viewers to engage with memory, exploring the complexities of how we remember and what we choose to forget, challenging us to question our assumptions about the past and present, and to embrace the fluidity of memory.

Aliya Gordon Miami Beach Artist

 

Aliya Gordon Miami Beach Artist

Aliya Gordon is a printmaker based in South Florida. Gordon earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. In her work, she explores concepts of identity, as well as interpersonal connections and the flow of energy. She uses relief printmaking and mixed media techniques, and upcycles found objects into three-dimensional works.

Gordon’s works have been featured in exhibitions throughout Florida. In 2014, several of her paintings were displayed in a privately curated exhibition at the Gallery of Amazing Things in Dania Beach, Florida. After completing an inspiring study abroad program in Italy in 2018, Gordon exhibited her work at the University of North Florida’s Lufrano Intercultural Gallery in 2018. Most recently, her 2019 large scale relief print, The Flow and Overflow, was displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida.

Throughout my work, I explore concepts of identity, escapism, growth and reflection, and interpersonal connections. Visualizing how energy can flow on the physical plane between people and things as well as the intangible energy of thoughts and emotions. I use tools and imagery from personal rituals to resist the social norm of hyperproductivity in order to gain success. I am inspired by my personal history and multifaceted identity as a Black queer femme, tarot and oracle card imagery, as well as nature, everyday objects, and personal symbolism. My work can be visually simple at times, but the intention and expression is complex. 

I primarily use relief printmaking techniques to create, emphasizing the time and intention put into these compositions. When a piece leads me to it, I incorporate mixed media into my work. During my time in University of North Florida's Fine Arts program, I learned many different mediums and techniques, such as screen print, three-dimensional fabrication with wood and ceramics, various drawing media, and painting techniques. Though I devote most of my creative energy towards printmaking, I am a learner and explorer by nature and love learning new techniques to incorporate into my practice.

Lloyd Goradesky Miami Beach Artist

 

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6111

Lloyd Goradesky Miami Beach Artist

South Florida public artist Lloyd Goradesky‘s famed interactive art project ‘Let LOVE Guide Your Way‘, is a spinning red metallic heart made into a Cupids Arrow weathervane capturing the wind and points in the direction of love. The purpose of ‘Let LOVE Guide Your Way’ is to celebrate kindness, and to share the message of universal LOVE, while encouraging compassion, consideration and tolerance for everyone. The Project is community interactive and encourages individual participation with Stories, Interviews & News of Kindness. ‘Let LOVE Guide Your Way’ was featured in the 2019 International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium.

Goradesky’s breathtaking sculpture is a kinetic, candy red weathervane that stands 16 feet high and weighs 5,000 pounds. It was originally part of the Boynton Beach 2021 Kinetic Art Exhibition, which was an exciting public art group showcase created by the Boynton Beach Arts Commission and produced by the City of Boynton Beach through its Art in Public Places program. The 5th Biennial Kinetic Art Exhibit was created by the Boynton Beach Arts Commission to celebrate art in motion.

Twyla Gettert Miami Beach Artist

 

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

Twyla Gettert Miami Beach Artist

South Florida Visual Artist Twyla Gettert has been a professional artist for over 20 years. Her work is in over 65 corporate collections and has shown in galleries and museums internationally including the National Museum of Art; Osaka, Japan. Twyla creates in several styles and mediums- painting, monotypes, photography, digital, and includes large- scale original canvasses over 12 feet in length for corporate, hospitality, and healthcare projects. She graduated from the University of Iowa, B.A., and received a grant from the Enrico Donati Foundation in NYC, NY.

Her striking compositions are created using oils, acrylics, India ink, and monotype on paper or canvas, creating large-scale, abstract paintings in a number of approaches. The Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery at St. Thomas University will be presenting a solo exhibition of paintings by South Florida artist Twyla Gettert in ‘Where Ocean Meets Sky‘. The exhibition will officially open with a reception at 2:30pm on Thursday, October 6, 2022 at Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery, located on the second floor of St. Thomas University’s Main Library, on view through January 16, 2023.

“The distant horizon on the ocean fascinates me,” explains Gettert. “It seems to quiver and create a magical space. Staring at it for any length of time stirs my soul transporting me to that creative space. My creative process is that dreamy horizon in my soul. My mind’s anchor releases. It opens. Free space. No boundaries. No judgement. Loving to experiment with spontaneous brushstroke, line, and color, I am inspired by the Abstract Expressionist artists and Sumi-E Masters. It’s always my intent that what I put on canvas tells a story or evokes a feeling that touches and guides the viewers into their own inner worlds.”

Mary Gallagher Stout Miami Beach Artist

 

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

Mary Gallagher Stout Miami Beach Artist

Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. Stout graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Philosophy. Mostly self taught, she attended Virginia Commonwealth University's Graduate Summer Studio Program decades ago. Her professional journey began at the Workhouse Arts Center, in Lorton VA. As a resident studio artist she curated, exhibited, and produced monthly exhibitions. Stout also began painting in DC to connect with the community and share her process. Sunbury Press published the series REAL Life Drawing, My Eye on DC. Live painting became a large part of her practice. "Art isn't created in a vacuum it grows out of experiences, observations, and events, that's why getting outside the studio to create is so important to me." Sharing what she has learned throughout her career as a painter and "ART-tertainer" she has designed and lead interactive painting workshops, and team building exercises for corporations and community centers.

Today her primary studio is in South Florida, but she paints in her San Francisco studio quarterly. She exhibits with critically acclaimed art fairs - The Other Art Fair, Superfine, Spectrum Miami, Red Dot Miami, Dallas Art Expo, and regularly participates in juried gallery exhibitions across the United States. Stout is currently working with producers to launch an ART-ertainment channel on YouTube in 2023. Her work is highly accessible and collectable.

Included Collections: Securities Exchange Commission, Mary Washington University, Boston Children's Hospital Hale Building, National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency, Bayer Corporation Headquarters, Berkeley, Insight Property Group, Danica Patrick and various other private collections across the United States and Europe

Vito Bonanno Miami Beach Artist

 

Miami Art Scene™
111 SW 3rd Street
Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: (786)571-6112

Vito Bonanno Miami Beach Artist

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 artist recently completed a solo exhibition at Six Summit Gallery NYC Port Authority Location Public Exhibition Space, Beauty & Chaos II, at 625 8th Avenue, South Building Floors 1 & 2, New York, New York. The show opened August 1st, and was on view through November, 2022. The show was comprised of older works of Bonanno’s, combined with paintings that he 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.

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 and high profile events during Art Basel Miami Beach – such as a past NIKE pop-up in Wynwood during Miami Art Week, as well as traveling in an art van Truck’N With Vito! at Umbrella Arts Gallery in NYC’s lower east side, selling his art and spreading awareness about being an artist with autism.

CHERYL MAEDER Miami Beach Artist

 

Miami Art Scene
111 SW 3rd St, Miami, FL 33130
(786) 571-6112

CHERYL MAEDER Miami Beach Artist

I am a photographer and video/sound installation artist. The core of my work is about ‘connection’; the connection to the self, each other, to all life forms and the environment.  It is my philosophy, that we humans are not only of this world, we are also connected to the broader universe.  It is this concept that permeates and empowers my work.

I was born in New Jersey and in my twenties moved to Zurich, Switzerland, where I studied at the Zurich University of the Arts.  After eight years in Switzerland, I returned to the United States and opened my studio in San Francisco.  My photography work was the inspiration for the Dove Campaign on Real Women, Real Beauty which transformed the way women are viewed in the global media today.  

In 2005, I relocated my studio to the Miami area and immersed myself into film making and fine art photography.  Investigations into video and large-scale installations have expanded my visual world.  My installations are on many topics, including climate change and the environment, and have been exhibited in United States, South America & Europe.

“We are all on this planet to create and we each have our own self-expression of who we are. It’s the job of the artist to bring out what is inside, what they are feeling, what they are conceptualizing, and bring it out in their work and I do that in my fine art photographs and video installation art. My work keeps moving and growing and it keeps changing but there are some things which are constant about it. My work is about connection. Connection to the self, each other, to all lifeforms on this planet and also a connection to the entire universe,” explains Maeder.

SAMUEL NAVEDO Miami Beach Artist

 

7225 southwest 48th street
Miami, Florida 33155
(305) 669-0524

SAMUEL NAVEDO Miami Beach Artist

Born in the coastal town of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, Samuel Navedo has always embraced the energy of colors. His vibrant, Caribbean roots, family and beauty of the island have long been the inspiration for his creative vision as is evident in each of warm, bright canvases.

A self-taught artist, Samuel began drawing caricatures at the early age of six. His undeniable artistic ability not only impressed his mother and five older siblings, but the entire community, and it was with this overwhelming support that drove Samuel to fully immerse himself in his art and pursue it as a career.

He began experimenting with different mediums and mixed painting techniques, and it was not until much later in his career that he chose canvas.

At age 29, Samuel moved to Miami, Florida, where he held his first gallery exhibit-”Colors Culturales” in December of 2003. He currently has his own gallery in the Bird Road Art District and continues to challenge himself and create art that captures his love for his culture and the color lives in his soul.

Milixa Morón Miami Beach Artist

 

5900 NW 74th Ave
Miami, FL 33166
(786) 208-8607

Milixa Morón Miami Beach Artist

I am a contemporary figurative painter.

I have a wide range of sources of inspiration, mostly are mythology of different cults, religions or cultures, universal symbols, universal believes with I could agree with or don't, psychological behavior, stories or people from history (mostly from women) that left us an important reflection or thought, I drive to paint this kind of themes not only because I feel connected to them and like them but also because I think they serve to today's world more than ever.

Therefore I am working in a series of Self portraits, depicting all these themes. In which my alter ego gets imprinted, I love the feeling they transmit to me, for a while I become them, I feel their knowledge, their pain or agony, their power, their mystery.

I like the creation of painting, how they become alive as you work on them and am working to create an unforgettable iconic image whose narrative and gaze transcend time, location, gender, culture, ethnicity, predisposition and the like.

Being inspired by all these, I enjoy painting different forms, colors, values and textures. Always my still life have some meaning; and representing figures and portraits I do my best to capture the personality of the sitter.

Dave Lavernia Miami Beach Artist

 

(305) 613-5206

Dave Lavernia Miami Beach Artist

DaveL (Dave Lavernia) is a South Florida Cuban-American muralist, painter and tropical street artist with many of his pieces inspired by the vibrant florals, marine life and land animals around him.

He has been a featured artist in magazine publications, participated in brand activations, live painting events, art festivals, art classes, and solo shows among other events. His works and installations can be found across the US and abroad.

DaveL works with a variety of media, including acrylic, oil, spray paint, oil pastels, fiber and mixed media. He has created on small to large scale multiple story walls, floor murals, canvas, apparel, surf boards, and on paper. 

When not painting, you can find DaveL with his family and friends, taking photos of plants and animals as an amateur photographer and likely planning his next meal. 

DaveL lives in Miami, FL with his wife. 

Hermes Berrio Miami Beach Artist

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct
Miami, FL

Hermes Berrio Miami Beach Artist

Hermes Berrío (b. 1980, Colombia), currently living and working in Miami. He received his BFA from New York, University (2005). In recent years, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions around the world for galleries and institutions in the U.S. and Colombia, Spain, Germany, Mexico, Australia, and Canada.

In 2018 and 2022 he was awarded a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and in 2019 from the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation; In 2023 he received a South Florida Cultural Consortium Grant. He has been a Fountainhead Studio artist resident since May 2019 and is represented by Fabien Castanier Gallery in Miami. He continues to evolve his practice, investigating new processes and mediums, while challenging contemporary expectations with his prodigious compositions.

Hermes Berrío, transitioned to a global environment from early on, living between Bogota, Florence and New York, enabling him to expand his boundaries while exposing him to new opportunities. Ever since moving to Miami, he has grown his artistic career, finding inspiration through the city’s rich landscape and cultural diversity. 

His practice captures the significance of everyday life, relating the grand scope that emphasizes both the mundane and the extraordinary. His urban style embedded within mixed media utilizes materials ranging from oil and aerosol, to textiles and gold leaf. In addition to carrying out a physical examination, Berrio conducts a conceptual survey, with reality as the foundation of his practice, creating a vibrant narrative and a personal reflection on the world. He continues to find inspiration in these unusual and yet commonplace experiences, by exploring the complexity of such simple moments and rendering them on a monumental scale.

Berrio’s paintings are at once deeply personal snapshots of his people and his city, and a sublimely laid out perspective that feels universal and unpretentious, his pieces are documentary-like in nature, derived from the artist’s photographs. Reaching beyond the simplicity of such fundamental daily happenings, Berrio’s paintings present a monumental vision of urban life. He has re-imagined, re-arranged, and metamorphosed visions of a cultural and personal landscape, seeking new ways to interpret one’s truth visually.

Regina Jestrow Miami Beach Artist

 

(305) 546-3958

Regina Jestrow Miami Beach Artist

My organically shaped geometric art quilts stem from my constant reexamination of American history and recontextualizing of textile traditions. I learned how to sew as a child and utilize techniques from quilt-making using improvisation, contrast, repeat patterns, and shifts in scale while incorporating colors, textures, and structures representative of the natural surroundings in South Florida using new, second-hand, and hand-dyed textiles.  I use symbolic geometric quilt patterns and manipulate the shapes to create movement and transformation.  Wanting to represent the Miami landscape I use colors that portray the skin tones of the population combined with dyes created from locally sourced plants and rust. Other materials, such as neoprene, sequins, and faux leather reference the pop culture of Miami.

Along with my constant interest in American Folk-Art Quilts, geometric-abstract artists from the mid to late twentieth century are my influencers, including Gees Bend quilters, Elizabeth Murray, Helen Frankenthaler, Annie Albers, and Gego. These artistic voices have driven me to create quilts of scale with strong personal symbolism and narrative.

Regina Durante Jestrow (1978) is a textile artist born in Queens, NY, and based in Miami, FL. She learned how to sew from her mother at a young age, and she has utilized these skills throughout her practice. After attending school for photography and moving to Miami, Jestrow turned to quilting to cope with homesickness. Jestrow’s ongoing interests in women's rights and history, patterns and stories from American quilt-making traditions, and textile arts have led her to develop a body of work that includes painting, drawings, sculptural installations, textile wall hangings, and functional objects. Her art quilts consist of new, second-hand, and hand-dyed fabrics using natural dyes, inks, and iron, and burning, using colors representative of Miami's people, culture, and landscape.

Dan Bondroff Miami Beach Artist

 

8365 NE 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33138
(786) 942-2511

Dan Bondroff Miami Beach Artist

When you look at my artwork, I want you to feel like you've stepped into a magical dream.

In most of my work, my characters are the focus. Some contemplating their surroundings, some interacting with others, all making statements on our human condition.

The work is a combination of pastel and acrylic on hand dyed paper, with details in ink, foil leaf, and found objects.

I'm originally from Baltimore, MD, and I earned my art degree from Towson University in 1994. After a number of years working as a graphic designer, I moved to Miami, FL in 2003. I started my art career doing live demonstrations at Café Tu Tu Tango in Coconut Grove. I now have 1,oo0s of pieces of every size in collections around the world, and participate in 15-20 art festivals a year all over the country.

Jude Papaloko Thegenus Miami Beach Artist

 

154 NW 37th St
Miami, FL 33127

Phone: (786) 312-5947

Jude Papaloko Thegenus Miami Beach Artist

Haitian culture sustains myriad art forms, such as painting, that express a Caribbean synthesis of African and European elements. Though formally trained artists appeared by the beginning of the nineteenth century, Haitian painting burst into the art world during the second half of the twentieth century. The movement was launched in the 1940s, when American artist DeWitt Peters arrived in Haiti to teach English. Peters recognized the distinctive aesthetic vision of Haitian painters, both trained and self-taught. He established the Centre d’ Art in Port-au-Prince, which helped established and aspiring artists by providing needed supplies, exhibition space, and assistance with marketing. This led to the establishment of schools or centers in other areas, and encouraged self-taught painters to enter the art world. The result was an explosion of Haitian art.

 Multi-talented artist and Vodou oungan (priest) Jude “Papaloko” Thegenus was raised in Jacmel, Haiti. His passion for painting started at age six: “I have been drawing and painting for as long as I can remember,” he recalls, “ I would find myself drawing all over my house, on the walls, the floor. I drew anywhere, my pants, the walls of school, and when I got older I began to paint, enrolled in art school and have been painting ever since.” Thegenus started working with metal in 1979, when he first cut milk cans to make little cows.

Thegenus sang and danced from a young age, but he “felt the drum” at 12. He then began to study Vodou and play its music during local festivities. In this way he followed the path of many of his family who were involved in Vodou. During his teenage years, Thegenus organized a group of artists who expressed political and social concerns through their art. He was forced to leave Haiti in 1987.

After settling in Miami Thegenus founded Papaloko & Loray Mistik, a band that plays Vodou music as well as Vodou pop – a fusion of traditional Haitian instruments and rhythms with West African percussion, rock and roll, blues and hip-hop. During performances, the group also presents ritual dances, prayers, and other religious arts that educate the audience about Haitian culture in addition to entertaining them. Thegenus participated in the recent opening reception of Tarpon Springs’ exhibition, Haitian Folklife in Florida, in which three of his paintings were featured. His performance of traditional songs belonging to the Haitian Vodou tradition was exceptional, impelling Haitian audience members to join in.

Erni Vales Miami Beach Artist

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct
Miami, FL
PHONE: + 1 646 344 9599

Erni Vales Miami Beach Artist

Now a creative powerhouse, Vales has completed many successful projects ranging from large-scale murals, to art directing films and videos, fashion, photography to restaurant and nightclub interior design worldwide. His collaborations have placed him in the heart of Google’s NYC office and the surreal world of photographer David LaChapelle. He has also worked closely with video director Hype Williams, spanning his art across all mediums.

It was at the High School of Art and Design where Vales was introduced to graffiti and the emerging culture of Hip Hop. Painting at a feverish pace both on subway cars and on canvas the artist was soon to start showing at Graffiti Productions Inc., one of the first galleries to feature authentic graffiti works by the legends of the era. These shows, greatly received by press, fans and collectors became the solid foundation to a spellbinding career.

Vales would hone this talent through an array of many mediums: a foray in hand painted clothing led Vales to creating large murals in nightclubs of NYC. Having practiced large-scale pieces on the flanks of subway cars, he was well qualified to execute fantastic large-scale murals, quickly. Vales executed murals in Limelight, The Tunnel and Gil and Erni’s Rock and Roll Bar to name a short few out of more than 500 at least.

Someone recently told me I was old now, for the first time in my life I found that statement to be so funny. Yes I have been here now many years but old, I don’t think so.  Its true I was painting subways cars in the 80s at a feverish pace which has brought me “legitimacy” in the graffiti art and commercial world, a world that I remember being a part of hundreds of people, today I guesstimate I am now a part of close to a million, worldwide.

Graffiti, the foundation of my career (who knew?) is a worldwide phenomenon and I am proud to be a part of its history. Its true, because of graffiti I have traveled the globe, painted for celebrities, been written about and have been able to challenge the artist in me for well into 30 years now.

I have become less “old” these days, reinvigorated by the new challenges in life and its true that I will be sharing more on this website than in my previous sites, this site I will try to share my thoughts, my ideas that drove my body to create and create I did, thousands on thousands of drawings, sketches, paintings weather with tools or lately digitally I create, I hope to color everyone’s world with at least one small splash of color, of life and share my times with anyone interested enough to take a look.

Its true I’m so much younger than I ever was.

Adrian Lorenzo Miami Beach Artist

 

Phone: (786) 228-6631

Adrian Lorenzo Miami Beach Artist

I'M AN ABSTRACT ARTIST DEDICATED TO EVOLVING MY CREATIVE SKILLS TO CONTINUALLY PRODUCE UNIQUE AND  STIMULATING PIECES THAT YOU LOVE TO BE AROUND.

Hi, welcome. I'm glad you're here. I appreciate your curiosity and am happy to share some of myself with you. Let's start from the top.

I'm a born-and-raised Miamian and proud Cuban-American. If I could sum up my life in two words, I'd say baseball and art. Even though baseball took priority, I was always intrigued by art and had sporadic urges to create. 

I've been expressing myself through art since I was in high school, mostly drawing and doodling. It wasn't until fairly recently that I began to explore more mediums and to take art more seriously.

My "aha" moment came with the creation of my art Instagram page.  

For years, my friends and family have been telling me to showcase my art. I avoided putting myself out there because I'm shy by nature and considered myself an amateur, or not established enough to matter. However, my curiosity to see if my art resonated with people I didn't know began to overcome that self doubt. 

To my humble surprise, it did. I started getting requests for custom pieces and was frequently asked for pricing by complete strangers. It was then that I realized my art fulfilled a need unique to the person requesting it.    

Elaine Defibaugh Miami Beach Artist

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct
Miami, FL
(585)281-6424

Elaine Defibaugh Miami Beach Artist

Artist Statement

As an artist, I am inspired by the transitional world that we experience. Particularly, about the relationship between natural and man-made environments. The juxtaposition between manufactured and organic drives me to find the layers behind each of these respective worlds, especially when we look through the lens of science and technology. I’m interested in seeing if these worlds can co-exist and not destroy each other. That being said I’m inspired & driven to find a balance myself as an artist and occupant of this amazing & fragile world I co-exist in.

As a creative, I am inspired to use my talent to investigate patterns from science, nature and art. When I consider the beauty of the ocean, a mountain side or a lush forest, I become cognizant of the story that may exist there.  My work is driven by my desire to discover the layers and stories in these spaces. The story always involves more than meets the eye, such as the development, pollutants and politics that now impact these beautiful natural spaces.

My goal is to invite my viewers in to a dimension that goes beyond 2D visual art hanging on a wall; I want to lure viewers into a complex 4D world that includes the typical visual layers, but also has the textual stories, and an exploration of our environment. By doing this, my work can be a forum for dialogues that may find solutions to protecting the natural environment, which is precious for human survival.

Jordan Betten Miami Beach Artist

 

Address:
164 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33127
Phone:
 (917) 209-9939

Jordan Betten Miami Beach Artist

Jordan Betten is an American artist whose creative career encompasses painting, sculpture and design.

Known for his unique application and use of colors, Betten’s art captures the feeling of freedom and strength. Inspired by the marks and shapes of urban settings, he infuses his love of the street with a sophistication and modernism. He overlaps his oil paint with oil sticks and pencils, adding abstract symbols, and signs. His works are fluid, lyrical and chaotic, infused with a sense of balance.

Betten’s sculptures are extensions of his life using what he can recycle from his painting practice. The sculptures are abstractions made of materials such as wire, wooden sticks, paint jars and canvas. He often combines these materials into his paintings creating a hybrid painting sculpture. All of the works share a raw visceral energy combined with sophistication and finesse.

The founder of Lost Art, an art and design brand, Betten spent twenty years designing and making one-of-a-kind pieces from leather and other natural materials. His works are coveted by rock stars and receive international press coverage. Betten’s collaborations have included clothing and accessories for Lenny Kravitz and costumes and wings for the Victoria’s Secret fashion shows.

Betten currently lives in Miami, where his paintings have been exhibited with Faena Arts and Goldman Global Arts. His paintings are collected by Alan Faena, Ximena Caminos and Jessica Goldman.

Betten’s work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC and The Victoria & Albert Museum London.

2016 The Originals Art Basel Miami 2016 Goldman Global Arts Gallery

2017 HumanKind ArtBasel Miami Goldman Global Arts Gallery

2017 AirX Casa Faena Hotel, Faena Arts, Art Basel Miami

2018 Beyond Words Art Basel Miami Goldman Global Arts Gallery

2019 The Divine, Faena Bazaar, Faena Hotel Miami

ALMA DANCE THEATER Miami Beach Artist

 

1036 N Miami Ave, Miami, FL

ALMA DANCE THEATER Miami Beach Artist

Is a female-centric performing group, created and directed by Marissa Alma Nick, and voted BEST DANCE COMPANY of 2018 in the Miami New Times. Taking on millennial-fem social issues through dance, this girl gang unapologetically reveals their mind, body, and soul to you in a way that makes YOU feel seen.  The company was deemed "provocative, intelligent & unexpected" by the New Times, and as "the freshest dance troupe in Miami" by the Huffington Post. 

Alma Dance Theater was founded in the fall of 2014. The company premiered its first official performance for the Miami Design District, AND their site-specific commission for the show “Transpositions: Over Many Miles”, activating the work of visual artist Paula Crown. Since its establishment, ALDT has made its mark on the cultural arts scene that is Miami, and has been gratefully supported by their hometown. The company has been awarded a Knight Arts Award ; presented through The Pentacle Gallery at the American Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) ; performed at Faena Art Forum, Faena Hotel, Fashion Fights Cancer, Art Basel Miami and Dance USA ; commissioned by visual artists Amanda Season, Magnus Sodamin, Alejandro Guzman, Christina Pettersson ;  and has successfully self produced multiple theatrical main stages, site-specific and screendances.

Marissa Alma Nick was born in Miami, Florida, and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Nick received a high school degree from the New World School of the Arts (2003) and received her BFA in Dance-Performance from the University of South Florida (2007), as well as continuing her education through the Creative Capital Professional Development Program (2016 - 2019). Her practices include choreographing and directing for live and immersive dance-theater, writing books and screenplays, and directing screen-dances (specific dance-for-camera projects). In 2015, Marissa established her own dance performance company, Alma Dance Theater, which has produced four full-length live and immersive shows in Miami, Florida: “Flowers” (2015), “Cask”(2018), “Rebel In Venus”(2020), and most recently, her adaptation of “Giselle” (2022); as well as collaborating with notable Miami, Florida venues like Showfields Miami (2021), Faena (2019 - 2022), Vizcaya (2019), and Perez Art Museum Miami (2017 - 2023). Marissa was also the original founding Artistic Director of Screendance Miami, under the direction of Mary Luft and Tigertail Miami (2014 - 2016), and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami's, Musical Theater Department (2020 - 2021); as well as a guest choreographer at Nova University (2018, 2019), and a guest instructor at Miami Dade Community College (2015 - 2017). As of 2023, REBEL IN VENUS, is Marissa’s first published novel. 

David Rohn Miami Beach Artist

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct
Miami, FL
305 301 1772

David Rohn Miami Beach Artist

Ethics and Values 2012, Frost Art Museum, Fl. International Universuty

the Piece came out of two related concerns:

The emblematic male dress model of the ‘suit’: a matching costume of pants and jacket, usually rendered in a proscribed somber color. This uniform turns out to be a defining construct of male gender definition that in some ways contradicts, and in others, reinforces, the parameters of the male myth.

2.   The accepted form of physical interaction proscribed in the somber male world, in other words, the handshake: A limited even controlled measure of touch which is formal and rigid, one that can be delivered as a friendly, antagonistic, even derisive tone, and one that in spite of it s apparently limited scope, does nonetheless incorporate center palm to center palm ‘chakra’ contact. As many know, Eastern philosophy and medicine incorporates the concept pf physical body ‘chakras; that are considered to be portals for the reception and projection of electro-magnetic or psychic energy that these systems consider to be part of the entic construct.

Anyone who has looked closely at a man s suit jacket quickly notices that the padded shoulders, chest, and other nuances of tailoring, the system of buttoning below the chest, the flaps or vents below the waist, all shape the covered torso in a way that compensates for non-existent or fallen shoulders and chest, and enhances the perception of a slim(mer) waist by incorporating a flaring effect above and below the waist.

In a culture that has long paid lip service to an idea that men don t care about their appearance, this seems surprisingly contradictory.

We know that many animals involuntarily ‘raise their hackles’ (the hair on their necks and shoulders) when a treat of competitive situation appears; The enlarged upper body is meant to project a threatening, physical mass and therefore strength. That suggests that part of the reason for the signaling of mass and strength of men’s suits, may be a parallel signaling.

This corresponds to what many women claim about women’s dress: tat they dress intimidate other women at least as much as they do to attract men.

Beyond the idea of the suit as competitive device, it also contains men and tends to force them  to stand erect, arms at side,; and neckties are a clear symbol of social cooperation in ways that parallel the feminine accessory of the handbag, or the  way women’s  high heels force them to walk in precarious feminine ways, that suggest vulnerability and fragility.

Beyond the significance of the suit, the formal handshake becomes another paradoxical convention: it is at once a minimal, rudimentary gesture of social engagement, and a potentially informative (if nuanced) exercise in what may be the most significant sense  experience that can occur between two living creatures: the sense of physical contact, of touch.

The combination of the suit as containing and forbidding fortress, in conjunction with the controlled, but subtly communicative handshake, is intended to examine the way the two go together in conventional social and business encounters, with a particular concern for the significance of the handshake: what information is transmissible through the handshake, what  variations exist in this encounter of touch.

Michael Stavaridis Miami Beach Artist

 

305-479-6426

Michael Stavaridis Miami Beach Artist

A lifelong cinephile, he has honed his visual language first as a film student at Boston University, inspired by the richly detailed set design of filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, where every frame revealed something new. He later worked in New York City directing and editing music videos and live concerts before transitioning to design photography. Now based between Boston and Miami, he brings the same animated energy into all his projects, incorporating handheld techniques as well as more formal ones to convey a sense of movement and atmosphere. For every space he captures, “I always try to find that point of departure that transports you into the experience of being there.”

Allan Gorman Miami Beach Artist

 

Address:
2219 NW 2nd Ave
Miami, FL 33127

Phone: (305) 333-8607

Allan Gorman Miami Beach Artist

Allan Gorman's artwork takes the viewer on a journey into the unusual shapes and tensions created by light and shadow on urban structures, machines, and objects. With a meticulous attention to detail and a fine-tuned design sense, his intriguing compositions blur the lines between hyperrealism and abstraction.

Gorman’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums, such as the Arnot Museum, Springfield Museum of Art, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, Albany Museum of Art, and The State Museum of New Jersey; and in commercial galleries, including Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Howard Rehs Contemporary, Garvey|Simon NY, Nicole Longnecker Gallery and, CK Contemporary in San Francisco. A multi-venue museum exhibition currently touring throughout the USA includes institutions like the Daytona Museum of Arts and Sciences, Museum of the Rockies, Deusenberg Museum, Morris Museum of Art, Art Museum of South Texas, and Haggin Museum. A European exhibition—Galeria ArteLibre’s “20 Years in 20 x 20”—was shown at the Palacio Bantierra in Zaragoza, MEAM Museum in Barcelona, and Palazzo Einaudi Palace in Chiavasso, Italy. And he has been invited to participate in "Hyp'Art" an ambitious survey of hyperrealism's impact internationally, with a major exhibit planned for debut in Brussels in 2024. 

The artist is a two-time recipient of The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Painting; resident fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and ESKFF at Mana Contemporary; Architectural Artist of the Year from ADC’s Art Comes Alive!, the Salmagundi Award from the American Artist’s Professional League, and the Pioneer of Realism award from the International Guild of Realism. He was also selected as one of the 100 Grandmasters of Realist Art by Salon Des Beaux Arts. Notable press includes articles in The Huffington Post, Manifest’s International Arts Annual, American Art Collector, Poets/Artists Magazine, Hyperrealism Magazine, ArtHabens Review, The Huts Magazine, and dozens of other print and electronic publications.

His work is part of the permanent collections of the Savoy Automobile Museum, Belskie Museum of Art, and the Copelouzos Family Art Museum in Athens, Greece. Gorman’s art can also be found in many corporate and private collections. 

Bibiana Martinez Miami Beach Artist

 

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct,
Miami, FL 33150

Bibiana Martinez Miami Beach Artist

 Born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Political Science graduate from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, later specialized in video editing at New York University. Her interest in visual arts grew in the 90s; and attended SCAD, Savannah College of Art and Design, where she ventured in courses in digital art and sculpture, among others. She continued to connect her passion for art with history. Her experimental narrative shows persistent observations of reality.  Pieces that release historical arguments of war and violence constantly present in her native Colombia; scenes of globalization, human waste, and technology’s influence on man, take shape and dynamism through her compositions. These past years have been important for Bibiana. A solo exhibition in Paris, France; and being part of collective art exhibits in Dallas and Miami (USA), at Museo del Chicó in Bogotá, Colombia, and in JUSTMAD at Madrid, Spain. She was selected to exhibit at Florence Biennale in Italy representing Colombia last October 2019. Recently moved to Miami, and currently working at her studio at Fountainhead in Little River, Miami.

Medium

From a young age she was drawn to the idea of constructing figures with different elements collected in time, and bringing them together through painting.

Aesthetics which jump between iconography and conceptualism, give rise to artwork that is built from mixed materials and techniques. The recollection of miniatures, metals, garbage, jewels, rhinestones and an endless number of elements in apparent disuse, started to get involved with her drawings in the assembly of dynamic pieces of art, thus leading to a sensation of wavelength that create subatomic movement on the pieces. Some built on canvas and some 3D scenarios.

Her artwork is a constant expression of an inspirational process that overcomes any philosophical resources.  Her artistic practice is meticulously conceived in a process of preciousness and configuration.  In the series “scenarios” the artist stages situations in small format boxes. Shaped and scenically acquiesced, the characters and elements meddle in dreamy scenes related to human behavior. Built by assembling miniature objects and props that evolve to a particular atmosphere, intuitive sentiments and themes titled by the most used

Lauren Shapiro Studio Miami Beach Artist

 

Bakehouse Art Complex, Studio #22
561 NW 32nd St, Miami, FL

Lauren Shapiro Studio Miami Beach Artist

Lauren Shapiro lives and works in Miami, Florida. Shapiro received a Masters degree in Fine Arts from University of Miami in Ceramics (2016) and a BFA from Florida Atlantic University (2009). Her work experiments with art’s possibility to affect change and cultivate a broad awareness of our environment. Working alongside ecologists to understand and narrate nature, she merges craft, science and technology to document disappearing ecosystems as sculptural ceramic archives. Selected solo exhibitions include "Future Pacific'' (2021) at Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, Florida, "Garden Portals" (2021) at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, in Miami, Florida, and "Fragile Terrains'' (2018), at Bianca Boekel Galeria, in São Paulo, Brazil. Selected group exhibitions include "Design Miami," (2021) with Todd Merrill Studio in Miami Beach, Florida, "Powder Hounds'' (2020) at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado, and “Projektraum M54” (2017) in Basel, Switzerland. Shapiro received awards from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2019), Knight Foundation (2020), Awesome Foundation (2020), Oolite Arts (2020), Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and is currently artist-in-residence for a National Science Foundation grant awarded to marine ecologists at California State University, Northridge. Her work is in the Jorge M. Perez Collection.

Mutas mural Miami Beach Artist

 

572 NW 23rd St
Miami, FL 33127
Phone: (239) 628-5366

Mutas mural Miami Beach Artist

I am a street artist currently living and working in Miami, Florida. My playful, dynamic and colorful work recycles his environments and strives to inspire people to re-use objects and give them a second life. I have done murals in Florida and Panama and my paintings have been shown locally. My most recent primary mediums are recycled materials, aerosol paint, acrylics, enamel and wood. 

The democratization of technology has offered us the possibility of spreading and sharing knowledge – and that equals empowerment. Knowledge is power, power to unfold, fight and direct your own life. The world we live in nowadays is a world in which ideas and information disseminate rapidly and reveal themselves in this infinite accumulative unfolding looping process. You have the feeling of being devoured by this infinite swirl of information black hole. We are bombarded daily by an amount of information without any precedents. In wich now has given way to a new kind of human species, capable of absorbing and digesting loads of information at high speeds. A new cross breed between a human and a virus is born, whose essence is based on the idea of contamination, and the existence in different dimensions and bodies, commuting easily between them. VIRUS HOMO SAPIEN. Obsession, curiosity, generosity and anxiety are center elements in my projects – particular mind sets necessary to cover every single aspect related to the ideas we are discussing at a given moment. Space and time are multi-layered and multi-faceted – and people’s perception/experience of the world is finally heading the same way. Our minds and dreams are ahead of laws, politics, social codes, ethics and even technology. We live in a world of unaccomplished dreams. Nevertheless, we are also having a more vivid taste of these dreams today, because of knowledge spread. We have a better understanding nowadays of how we can have a better living. Unfortunately there are a few generations that came before us that keep holding these views back. But they will eventually fade away. The pressure is strong and they won’t be able to hold it for too long. For instance: does anybody doubt that music will be free in the near future? We know it will and we know why it’s not still. People want that and that’s what we will get sometime soon. In our own way and in a very general sense, this is the core belief of all avaf projects: freedom to share/spread/absorb/assume/contaminate/inseminate/devour.

Kike Valderrama Miami Beach Artist

 

601 NE 23rd St APT 1206
Miami, FL 
(305) 407-4628

Kike Valderrama Miami Beach Artist

Hi, Kike Valderrama, a professional photographer based in Miami, FL. I specialize in portrait photography, capturing the essence and personality of my subjects with a creative and artistic style. I have over 17+ years of experience in the photography industry, working with clients ranging from individuals and families to celebrities and magazines. Whether you need a headshot, a personal branding session, or a family portrait, I can help you create stunning images that tell your story. You can check out some of my work on my website or follow me on Instagram to see my latest projects. If you’re interested in working with me, please feel free to contact me anytime. I’d love to hear from you and discuss your photography needs. Thank you for visiting my page and I hope to hear from you soon!

BARBARA ROCA Miami Beach Artist

 

Fountainhead Studios
7338 NW Miami Ct,
Miami, FL 33150

BARBARA ROCA Miami Beach Artist

Her love for the arts started in Paris 20 years ago, and it hasn't stopped since. There, Barbara took painting and drawing lessons at the Parsons School and classes with various Parisian painting masters. Later she relocated back to Santa Cruz Bolivia, her hometown, to start a prolific production of paintings for seven years while exhibiting around the country and studying printmaking at NUR University. In 2004, she moved to Miami and worked at Frederic Snitzer Gallery for almost two years. Also, she transferred credits from NUR University and continued her studies at New World School of the Arts for six years. She graduated in 2012, Cum Laude, with a double major in Graphic Design and Digital Media. She obtained her Museum Studies Certificate at Florida International University (FIU) in 2015. 

She assisted at the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry from 2012 to 2016. In September 2015 she opened ABC Silkscreen shop, where she helps creatives make their printed related projects come alive. From 2015 to 2016 she interned at the FIU-Wolfsonian Museum, assisting Frank Luca in curating the show: Boxeo y Béisbol: The Cuba-U.S. Sports Exchange. 

She enrolled in the MFA in Visual Arts: Curatorial Practice program at FIU, in 2016. As part of her degree, she organized the exhibition Form as Context (July 2017) at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum. 

Sterling Rook Miami Beach Artist

 

561 NW 32nd St Studio 26
Miami, FL
(305) 942-7419

Sterling Rook Miami Beach Artist

Sterling Rook is a Miami native with Masters in Fine Art from Florida International University. He works out of his studio at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, Florida. 

Rook’s work uses his skills in metalwork and fabric to further expand the language of sculpture and fiber-art. Forged and welded steel, painted palm fronds, and handmade rope from used clothing, all factor in for Rook in as avenues expanding this visual vocabulary. 

This visual-vocabulary is enriched through working within a family legacy of fiber-crafts: On the maternal/Peruvian side of his family, his grandmother was a re-weaver, and his grandfather was a tailor. His paternal/British grandfather’s last name was “Stringer,” which is a British historical-occupational name for one who made rope or string. Rook uses these as beacons to explore art-making as both a generative and regenerative process,  which is like tapestry that interprets and combines histories in the creation of an artwork. Using these markers as a compass, his work bridges gaps within disparate cultural heritages connecting past to present. 

“I’m interested in how sculpture and fiber-arts is enacted as a facet of personhood- how craft can be utilized as a modality that mines the local, global, and historical, to devise novel forms.

Growing up with disparate cultural family backgrounds gave me a unique experience of culture that I believe still actively plays a role in my artistic decisions- I enact craft as an inheritance. It is a process that I think of as ‘making-home.”

Gloria Hernando Miami Beach Artist

 

(305) 904-7160

Gloria Hernando Miami Beach Artist

Gloria Hernando, artistically known as Latin for Glory, is a Dominican American multidisciplinary creative based in Miami. Her practice intersects art, design, and transpersonal psychology with an aim at exploring the relationship between spirituality and natural environment. The emblem and core subject matter of her work is the archetype Bull that represents the universal symbolism of empowerment, strength, and perseverance. The Bull serves as the guiding lens throughout the creative process, allowing her to investigate the deep history, culture, and practice of the human spirit. Gloria combines these findings with the natural elements to create work that is rich in meaning, allegory, and purpose. Her craft is not limited to a single style or medium, but rather focuses on experimentation with materiality such as burning wood, molding clay, and hyper-layering color pencils. 

“I consider myself a spiritual pyro with a mission to awaken the inner bull in others. Art and design are the tools I use to spark hope within my communities and ignite the collective spirit at large.” 

Gloria is a self-taught artist who merged into a professional design career. She studied Architecture at the University of Florida, attended Parsons School of Design in Paris, France, and was awarded a Bachelor of Design, summa cum laude, at the University of Florida’s School of Design, Construction, and Planning. During this time, she developed the Latin for Glory alias, which years later led to her dream of becoming the independent creative she is today. 

The most recent exhibition Terra Mater: Burn to Bloom was presented in Art Santa Fe (2022) as a continuation of her ongoing Elementa series. Solo exhibitions include "Let There Be Light (2020), and Seven Fires (2019) both presented in the Miami Design District. Gloria was a selected artist for the Urbanism Summit’s Impermanence Initiative (Art Week 2021), Artefacto’s Tappo Arts benefiting Baptist Health Cancer Institute, as well as Miami Marine Stadium’s If Seats Could Talk project. Her work has been exhibited in various group shows such as Aqua Art Miami, the KIPS Bay Decorator Showhouse, Wirtz Gallery of South Miami, and the Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series at N’namdi Gallery.