This is the third part of a series of interviews with Miami-based arts professionals whose multifaceted practices were once seen as contradictory and now are quite necessary. Naomi Fisher and Jim Drain are both artists and in charge of the Bas Fisher Invitational. In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw...
Michael Radziewicz opened Michael Jon Gallery earlier this month. The gallery is located at 20 NE 41st St., across from the de la Cruz Collection. You’re from Chicago, right? How does that place feel now that you’ve spent a few months down here? I feel like the two cities represent very different Americas, but I...
This is the second part of a series of interviews with Miami-based arts professionals whose multifaceted practices were once seen as contradictory and now are quite necessary. Among other things, Michelle Weinberg is the creative director of the Girls Club in Fort Lauderdale. In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw...
Hayal Pozanti received an MFA from Yale in 2011. Currently, she is preparing for solo exhibition at Silverman Gallery in San Francisco. The show, Co-Real, opens February 10th. 1) Can you talk about your background a bit? Are you from Istanbul? I went last year and totally loved it. I was born and raised in...
In High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture, Isabelle Graw has an interesting passage about the expanding roles of those in the art world. She says: …Every art boom is accompanied by a restructuring of the art system, reflected in expanded demands made on artists and in hybrid identities such as the...
Franklin Melendez is a freelance writer and sometimes curator based on the West Coast. He contributes to a wide range of sites and publication, including Artforum and Vogue Japan. 1. Like the E channel on acid, DIS Magazine is an amazing dystopia of consumerist waste assembled together by a very keen cast of intellectually geared...
Richard Höglund is an American artist. Here, we talk about his new exhibition at Gallery Diet, Hysterical. Sublime., which engages cognitive mapping and pursuing the sublime through repetitive labor. He will have a performance at Dimensions Variable tonight (Thursday, January 5th). Hysterical. Sublime. opens tomorrow. So where were these photos taken? The photos were...
“In Mississippi it is difficult to achieve a vista.” –Barry Hannah “When the links of the signifying chains snap, then we have schizophrenia in the form of a rubble of distinct and unrelated signifiers.” That’s Fredric Jameson, outlining what he calls subjective schizophrenia, one of them postmodern maladies that we keep hearing about. His diagnosis...
As if there wasn’t enough art to buy at Art Basel Miami Beach, this year’s edition marked an unprecedented move into retail. While several artists teamed up with luxury brands for limited edition purses (Anselm Reyle with Dior, Liam Gillick with Pringle of Scotland), Blake Rayne’s understocked exhibition at this gallery, with its three variations...
Thanks to Kevin Arrow, who just sent me a copy of his new zine. Miami decadence reproduced in its entirety below. Also, thanks to Ruba Katrib for writing the essay.
Mauricio Gonzalez’s sculpture is a complete aesthetic response to the state and condition of Florida. By creating his pieces, which are both bodies and sites, out of the physical detritus of the housing crisis, Gonzalez inserts his practice between Modernist social planning and the attempted revival of subjective humanism. Just as Florida is caught in...
The Basel roundup article has become just as much of an institution as the fair. As such, I have little desire to sacrifice any more similes and alliterations to the highly polished throne of the MCH Group. And with Art Basel Miami Beach signing on for another 5 years, there is little rush. So yeah,...
