Artformz 2010-2011

artformz

2010 - 2011

Scattered along the dusty, often barren streets of the Wynwood Arts District sit a multitude of quite oasis.

Open any door and what you’ll find inside is something quite refreshing.

More than 60 art galleries, studios and alternative spaces fill the renovated warehouses lining the streets of this once forgotten neighborhood.

When you enter Artformz you will be one of the fortunate people who get to experience the amazingly talented work produced by the artists of this collective group.

installation: Natasha Duwin and paintings: Henning Haupt

paintings: Sibel Kocabasi and video: Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Artformz is an artist collective with a exhibiting members selected by a jury of their peers. It is Artformz mission to allow artists room to create without pressures of market, trend, or establishment pressures. Artformz cultivates a spirit of professional collaboration that seeks to open doors and foster creative exchange and intellectual dialogue.

2010-2011 ARTISTS Rosario Bond Randy Burman Natasha Duwin Donna Haynes Mary Larsen Rossella Ramanzini Sara Rytteke Alette Simmons-Jimenez Maxine Spector

171 NW 23rd Street, Wynwood Arts District, Miami, Florida, 33127, USA - 305.572.0040 - www.artformz.net

Rosario Bond

Rosario Bond is originally from the Dominican Republic but acquired definite international influences from long residences abroad. Bond’s paintings profile iconic characters as products of our society. The paintings are collections of personal mythologies combined with critical imagery, posed over disrupted settings and dislocated compositions inhabited by eerie beings. Bond’s work proposes a complex women’s imagery that shapes a dense portrayal of womanhood in our contemporary societies. She satirizes her figures through sarcastic allusions to fashion, consumerism, and the woman’s social and cultural demands. Her site-specific installations deal with environmental concerns and how we are succeeding in breaking down our urban landscape.

Studies: Interior Design: University Pedro Henriquez Urena, Dominican Republic Academy de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France Camden Art Center, London, England Exhibits: Art Aqua, Miami, FL Hot Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Latin American Pavilion, Art Shanghai, China Curator’s Voice, Inaugural Exhibit, Miami, FL Galerie Adler, “Wishful Thinking”, Paris, France Varelli Art Gallery, “Dramatic Events”, Dominican Republic

Randy Burman

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Burman studied as a painter, then moved into the graphic design field and ultimately today returns to the realm of fine arts. The artist currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. The bulk of Burman’s work is assemblages. The first step of his process is to collect and fill the studio with objects that he finds or is attracted to. The finished works become travelers set in a self-defined narrative landscape. They are expressions of Burman’s observations on the human condition and pose questions relevant to his on-going search for meaning. The artist states that primarily, the wheels and castors of recent work suggest progress, motion and transition. The assemblages raise incisive and perplexing questions concerning metaphysical states of being. What are they? What are we? Where are we? What are we confronting? Where are we going?

Studies: Baltimore Junior College, Baltimore, Maryland Maryland Institute of Fine Arts, Baltimore, Maryland Exhibits: Baltimore Museum of Art Regional Painting Show, Baltimore, Maryland University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus, Maryland 12345 West Dixie Gallery, North Miami, FL Small Wonders Art Salon, Artformz, Miami, FL

Natasha Duwin

Natasha Duwin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently lives and works in Miami, Florida. For Duwin weaving, embroidery, needlework, tapestry, quilting, lace, textiles in general, paper work, and traditional women’s work, have long been relegated to the worlds of labor and craft, and they are usually described as weak, ineffectual, feminized mediums. Her pieces resonate with themes and ideas that have preoccupied women since the dawn of time: the connection between memory and identity, the effect of place on the spirit, the essence of self, the role of family and community in creating a persona, and the dichotomies of body and soul, emotion and intellect, self, and the other. Duwin’s work is held in several public and private collections including at Miami-Dade College; the Samuel P. Harn Museum, in Gainesville, Florida; the Museum of Modern Art, in Manhattan; and the Wifredo Lam Art Center, in Havana, Cuba.

Studies: Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Florida International University, Miami, FL Bachelor of Fine Arts, Barry University, Miami, FL Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina Exhibits: Pinta London, Earls Court Exhibition Center at Brompton Hall, London, England Scope Fair, New York, NY “By and About Women”, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, NY Art Aqua, Miami, FL 57th Annual All Florida Juried Competition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL “Agua” The Europe, Killarney, Ireland Art Encounter 2008, The Von Liebig Center, Naples, FL Extended Boundary, IBD Cultural Center, Washington, DC

Donna Haynes

Donna Haynes lives and works in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Her works intricately weave personal narratives into visual creations. Haynes’ work tells of people she has met in her journeys and about her own personal experiences in life. Key to the artist’s oeuvre is the method through which a story is conveyed.

Incorporating various layers of text and images, the type and font, the pages, the book cover, pen & ink, or desk and chair: all are icons of contemporary story telling. The artist’s work is an extension of each documented or recalled story. Each piece is a record of a point in time, a conversation, a story passed down from generation to generation.

Studies: Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA Post Baccalaureate Program, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Maryville College, Maryville, TN Exhibits: “The Red Eye” Artserve Gallery Space, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, “SHOWTEL” Site-Specific Installations, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL, “Art Aqua Fair” Wynwood Arts District, Miami, FL “Green Art Fair” Art Basel Week, Miami FL “Horte 44,” Broward Art Guild, Ft. Lauderdale, FL The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Winners at the The Cue Gallery, New York, NY “Five Into One” Philadelphia Sculptors Group Show, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA

Mary Larsen

Mary Larsen currently lives and works in North Miami. Her approach to painting is intuitive; an expressive reflection of her inner self. Working in mixed media, her work combines painterly abstraction with figurative elements and found images, transcending the confines of artistic language to create her own personal vision. Raised in NYC, Mary has exhibited in NYC, Washington, DC, San Juan, PR, San Francisco and Miami where she now resides. Her work is in corporate and private collections in New York, Miami and San Juan.

Studies: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Florida International University Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, NY Hampshire College, Amherst, MA Exhibits: Gallery ID, Miami, FL Dot 51 Gallery, “Eco Art Exhibit” Miami, FL Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL Galería Luiggi Marrozzini, San Juan, PR Sarah Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY Museo de Ponce, Ponce, PR

Rossella Ramanzini

Rossella Ramanzini was born in Brescia, Italy, and continues to live and work in Italy. She graduated in technical studies and began painting as self-taught, following the footsteps of her uncle Vittorio Trainini a renown painter from the city of Brescia. Working alone without formal guidance she began a personal exploration of work attributed to the range of Neo-Pop and Optical Art. The resulting visual impact is highly poetic and often suggests the cascading lines of a musical score. In Ramanzini’s work, forms are perceptually well defined yet the observer sees a visual play of patterns that camouflage a clear path.

Viewers can appreciate the artist’s ease at creating surprising compositions that are the result of a studied and precise balance, nothing is improvised.

Studies: Self-Taught Exhibits: “Summer Colors”, La Tana degli Elfi, Brescia, Italy “Summer Time”, Giudecca 795 Gallery, Venice, Italy “Molto Personale”, Lo Scultore, Brescia, Italy “Op Art”, Lloyd Gill Gallery, Weston Super Mare, England “Playful One”, Gallery 24, Berlin, Germany “La danza dei colori”, La Tana degli Elfi, Brescia, Italy Palazzo Brunati, Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Italy

Sara Rytteke

Artist Sara Rytteke grew up in Växjö, Sweden. She has received several important awards for her work exploring the issue of female identity and the influence from mass media and popular western cultural ideas. From the Black and White close-up self portraits in 1994 to the 1998- 2002 series “On Art, Beauty and Persuasion” and the recent “Standards of Beauty” the viewer observes the intelligent yet witty portrayals. Rytteke rigorously continues her exploration that has taken several forms: magazine covers, paper dolls, postcards as well as the recent series relating to the “Barbie” doll.

Studies: Masters of Fine Arts, University of Houston, Houston, TX Bachelor of Fine Arts, Arizona State University Exhibits: Andy Gato Gallery, Barry University, Miami Shores, FL Galleriet, Italienska Palatset, Växjö, Sweden SRO Photo Gallery, TTU School of Art, Lubbock, TX STUDIO 728, Florida Atlantic University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL Gallery 1101, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX

Alette Simmons-Jimenez

Born in the USA artist Simmons-Jimenez has lived in numerous countries. Exposure to many cultures led to an interest in the identity of humanity, and man often paradoxical relationship to nature. Her interest in human behavior addresses in particular, issues of gender, greed, beauty, sexuality, death, and decay.

Organic elements are paired with components suggesting the presence of man: cages, labyrinths, hooks, and pulleys. The artist’s work is further inspired by the use of unusual materials and their ability to create a totally original expression. Her works in video, animation, painting or installation can be composed with silk, tar, gold-leaf toilet paper, fire, cardboard, broken glass, resin, insects, or decaying flowers. SimmonsJimenez has received several international awards and distinctions. She has held 22 solo shows and many group exhibits in museums and galleries.

Studies: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sofie Newcomb College of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA Exhibits: The Appleton Museum, Biennial: Florida Installation Art, Ocala, FL Art Shanghai, Latin-American Pavilion, New Media Lounge, Shanghai, China Espacio Iniciarte, Seville, Spain Chelsea Art Museum, “Video Art In The Age Of The Internet”, New York, NY Museum Of Contemporary Art, “Optic Nerve III & V”, North Miami, FL Palm Beach Institute Of Contemporary Art, New Media Lounge, Lake Worth, FL “Stop/Motion”, Art Gallery/Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C. “The Figure: More Than You Have Ever Seen”, Creative Resource Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Circa 06, Convention Center, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Maxine Spector

Maxine Spector was born in West Palm Beach where she currently lives and works. This native Florida artist explores themes of everyday life. Her work depicts the people and places, flora and fauna that she is so familiar with. Her poetic and painterly style allows a balanced portion of sarcasm, humor, and warmth, to interpret the idiosyncratic elements that inhabit the Florida scene. Spector states that her work is the response to the world around me. And that her ideas transform these things, that I see every day, into works of art.

Exhibits: “Undertow, A survey of South Florida Contemporary Art” MSGSU, Faculty of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey Mary Woerner Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, FL “Mix Works” Lake Park, FL “The Open Air Exhbition”Lake Worth, FL Baldwin’s Mills United Church, Coaticook, Quebec, Canada

graphic design: Alette Simmons-Jimenez Š Artformz, LLC 2010

Under the direction and curation of artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Artformz annual programing has presented approximately 45 artist’s exhibitions on site since 2004.

Along with these regularly scheduled exhibitions Artformz has also developed innovative projects for the Miami community and abroad.

artformz projects 2004-2010

ArtistaInvitaArtista International Cultural Exchange Exhibition Miami - Valencia

Small Wonders (art) Salon Invitational: 65 Artists Wynwood Arts District

Art Aqua Fair Wynwood Arts District

Arteamericas: Latin American Art Fair Miami Beach Convention Center

Giants in the City 2008 Knight Arts Challenge Award Recipient Premier at BayFront Park, Miami Arteamericas Fair 2009 Sleepless Nights 2009

Miami! EXPOSED Juried South Florida Artists Miami Design District

Deviant Behavior National Juried Exhibit Miami Design District

Capture Burn & Blow Up Miami Design District In Conjunction With: Photography and the Worlds of Contemporary Art�

The 44th National Conference of the Society of Photographic Educators.

The Visitor From Venezuela Invitational: 7 Artists from Venezuela Miami Design District