Inside Robert Fontaine Gallery’s pristine white showroom in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, ballerinas are twirling and leaping around the walls. Their diaphanous tutus are saturated with color splashing like splattered paint and dripping from their bodies. They’re dressed in red, yellow, purple, blue, black, and pink. Their skeletons are sometimes exposed, like an x-ray, offering a peek at the fine-tuning and muscular mechanics behind their fluid motion. These are the works of Australian street artist Anthony Lister, a man who […]
Posts categorized: Miami
Apr 23
2013
2013
A Miamian’s Guide To Key West
Thanks to an invitation from Robert Fontaine of the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, I spent last weekend in Key West. Along with a group of about 20 people, we were there to celebrate the opening of Nick Gentry’s solo show XCHANGE–running now through May 4. Having lived in Key West for about four years before moving to Miami, it was sort of like two worlds colliding. We spent much of the long, leisurely weekend relaxing around […]
Apr 22
2013
2013
Nick Gentry’s XCHANGE: Man or Machine?
Studying one of Nick Gentry’s portraits, a pair of steely eyes look back at you with a stoic, unsmiling, sometimes stunned, expression. The face is decidedly beautiful–almost too beautiful–with perfect proportions and symmetry, hair smooth and sleek, often slicked away from the face to further show off large, luscious lips, an attractive jawline, a delicate collarbone. The London-based artist paints these large scale portraits onto a canvas of used floppy disks. His newest works are light box portraits composed of […]
One of the reasons I’ve loved living in South Florida for the better part of the last seven years is the beauty in the sky–the spectrum of colors that wash across it, thanks to the sunset, sunrise, a thunder storm, cloud formations, the full moon (or just a sliver); its reflection dancing upon the water. The sky in Miami has a way of continually catching you off guard and awestruck by the beautiful, unexpected ways that it changes. I took […]
Mar 18
2013
2013
UMF: Leave The World Behind
So, I went to Ultra Music Festival this weekend. It was the 15th anniversary. Here’s a few pictures and highlights. Day 1 Friday night was all about Swedish House Mafia closing out the Main Stage. I would love to say that the girl in the picture on someone’s shoulders is me, but I don’t know how that’s possible, considering I’m pretty sure I took this picture. Although, I did scale a few different shoulders during their set. SHM is my favorite […]
Feb 25
2013
2013
Wine & Food (& Boats) In South Beach
This time of year in Miami, everyone’s favorite thing to do is complain about how busy we are. We talk of that thing called “season” and how we haven’t had a moment’s rest since Art Basel. And it seems February has reached the fever pitch. Within about two weeks time, we’ve had the Miami International Boat Show, Art Wynwood, Social Media Week, and The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. We find ourselves saying ridiculous things like, “OMG, […]
This was the most last minute party planning for New Year’s Eve I’ve done in years. It wasn’t until Saturday afternoon that I confirmed my partners in crime and bought my party tickets. I found my awesome day-glo yellow BCBG dress the morning of and couldn’t figure out dinner reservations in time, so instead opted for a decadent lunch at the Cheesecake Factory at the Aventura Mall (complete with a Veuve split, of course) with my good friend Betsy. I guzzled […]
Dec 31
2012
2012
The Tale Of The Traveling New Year’s Club
It all started on a kibbutz in the Negev Desert at the brink of a New Year. I was a college girl from the University of Georgia exploring the Holy Land on winter break with Birthright Israel. Little did I know that on those long bus rides from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea and Tel Aviv to Tzvat, sitting next to my new friend Lisa, I was sparking a friendship that would stand the test of time for over a […]
