New Zealand artist Henrietta Harris marks her United States solo debut with “The Hum” at the Robert Fontaine Gallery May 9 during Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk. Using watercolor and sometimes ballpoint pen, she creates near-photoreal portraits that are seemingly incomplete, veering towards the surreal. Oftentimes her subjects faces are distorted, dislocated or even erased altogether. With her portraits’ deliberate glitches set against voided backgrounds, her paintings calls for deeper examination of her subjects. It’s as if they’ve been momentarily transported to a borderless landscape where […]
Posts tagged: Robert Fontaine Gallery
Miami’s art world is starting to buzz as Art Basel draws closer to the horizon, and Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walk always brings a slew of fresh new shows. Saturday night, Philadelphia-based artist and craftsman James McNabb’s solo show “Metros” opened at the Robert Fontaine Gallery. While I had every intention of making an appearance at this month’s Art Walk for the show, it just wasn’t in the cards. Instead, I swung by Robert’s gallery mid-week to have a […]
Nothing like starting a new weekly column dependent on photography, then buying a new camera and computer and taking off on a whirlwind month of travel, often with limited WiFi. Needless to say, I’ve fallen behind on my Pic of the Week postings, but I still have some cool pictures and travel stories to share with you all, so without further adieu, here’s five weeks (five weeks!) of my favorite pictures. Week of September 22 – Visit Florida Shoot at […]
Whether scrawled on the side of a building or on a massive canvas, the work of London-born, Berlin-based artist David Walker makes one pause for closer study. His medium is exclusively spray paint and his masterpieces are made without the aid of stencils, brushes or a projector, creating hyper-realistic, multi-layered portraits in a rainbow of dripping spray paint colors. Women are almost always his subjects, and it’s the juxtaposition between classical and modern, beauty and ugliness where he finds an […]
The walls of Wynwood are dripping with street-art murals, and on Saturday, March 8, the walls inside Robert Fontaine Gallery will showcase the works of some of the world’s most iconic street artists. While one might not envision the works of Banksy, Shepard Fairey or Paul Insect inside a gallery, that’s exactly what Fontaine is exhibiting with his Insiders group show. “There’s an understanding through collectors that street art hasn’t transformed itself into the gallery setting,” says Fontaine. “These artists need […]
Nov 5
2013
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RYCA hits REFRESH
For East London artist RYCA, you could say all the world is his toy chest. Drawing inspiration from Pop Art and London’s street and stencil art movement, he’s managed to create a playful, light-hearted world revolving around a few of his favorite things, comic books, sci-fi movies and most importantly, Star Wars. Embracing the Digital Age’s devaluation of original works due to the easily reproduced and proliferated nature of imagery on the Internet, RYCA’s work riffs on iconic pop culture images, […]
May 10
2013
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Anthony Lister, ‘Do As Thou Wilt’
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 […]
Apr 23
2013
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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
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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 […]
