THE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA Ms. Perla Tabares Hantman, Chair Dr. Lawrence S. Feldman, Vice-Chair Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall Ms. Susie V. Castillo Dr. Wilbert “Tee” Holloway Dr. Martin S. Karp Ms. Lubby Navarro Dr. Marta Pérez Ms. Raquel A. Regalado Ms. Krisna Maddy Student Advisor
The 2015 Artistic License show location is sponsored by DACRA, Miami Design District in collaboration withTiffany Chesler, Manager and Curator for the Craig Robins Collection, Miami Design District. The Artistic License catalogue is published in conjunction with an exhibition by the same title. It is organized by M-DCPS Visual Arts Department and the Dade Art Educators Association, Inc. We acknowledge the invaluable input by the presiding judges for this show Tiffany Chesler and Stacey de la Grana. We are honored to have Ray Azcuy, Edouard Duval-Carrié-,Ivonne Ferrer, and Aldo Mendendez as our invited guests. EXHIBITING ARTISTS Ray Azcuy Patricia Cummins
Superintendent of Schools Alberto M. Carvalho Ms. Mabel Morales District Supervisor, Visual Arts Division of Academic Support Ms. Alina Rodriguez Curriculum Support Specialist Division of Academic Support Miami-Dade County Public Schools Division of Academic Support Visual & Performing Arts 1501 Biscayne Boulevard Suite 316 Miami, Florida 33132 305-995-1930 Website: http://divisionoflifeskills.dadeschools.net
Edouard Duval-Carrié Ivonne Ferrer Charles Gaffney Charles E. Humes, Jr.- Best in Show-Painting William Kidd- Best in Show- Clay Shelly McCoy Aldo Menendez Ernesto Montes Linda Oldenburg Julie Orsini-Shakher Brian Reedy-Best in Show-Printmaking Alexander Richard Carbonell Catherine Rivera Alina Rojo Carlos Sanjurjo- Honorable Mention
ARTISTIC LICENSE As we celebrate the artistic talents of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools’ (M-DCPS) Art Educators and guest artists, we also celebrate support of the arts in our city, community, and school district. The Florida Legislature has been supporting the arts through Artistic License for twenty years. For the past five years, Artistic License has sustained the Summer Art Workshops sponsored by the Division of Academic Support, Visual Arts Education Program, Florida Art Education Association, and the Dade Art Educators Association. Through these professional development course sessions, M-DCPS art educators engage in collaborative opportunities with prominent visual artists in our community such as: Ray Azcuy, Edouard Duval Carrie, Ivonne Ferrer, and Aldo Menendez. The gracious funding from the Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Office has impacted over 1,000 Art Educators from the tri-county, including art educators from the Pinellas, Hillsborough, Lake, and Orange counties as well. The judging of this exhibition was officiated by Tiffany Chesler, Manager and Curator for the Craig Robins Collection and Stacey de la Grana, Director, Ocean Bank Educational Center. Thirteen finalists were selected based on their cohesive bodies of work. Their artwork exhibited originality, consistency, and a sense of risk taking in their use of materials, technique, and subject matter. These artists like many of our M-DCPS art educators, never cease the exploration of their innate talents. They continuously develop their skills, activating their talent, inspiring their personal learning and that of others, through artistic engagement with their students and the public. Miami-Dade County Public Schools, along with the patrons of the second Artistic License Exhibition will continue the forward momentum in delivering high-quality professional development opportunities and exhibition programming engaging art educators in life-long learning. We thank Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs for their continued sponsorship and support of our vision in creating studio based professional development opportunities for our art educators. We would be remiss in not recognizing Aldo Menendez and Ivonne Ferrer for their contributions to the catalogue and collaboration on this project. We are indebted to DACRA, Miami Design District, for generously providing the artists with gallery space to exhibit these works of art. We are grateful to our patrons for their continued support as together we champion the talents of our artists. Congratulations to all exhibiting, the invited guest artists, and to our artistic community as well! Mabel Morales District Supervisor, Visual Arts Miami-Dade County Public Schools
A contribution and an ongoing challenge Having taught art workshops and after having precided as judge over competitive expositions for art teachers in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, (M-DCPS), I get the selfish feeling that I have been the main beneficiary of these encounters—in other words, I have been the one who has benefitted the most by becoming closely acquainted with their personal creative work and the wonderful job they carry out as instructors. The 2013 exhibition Artistic License at the Coral Gables Museum gave me the opportunity to gauge their art—in my role as art critic as well—and to appreciate from the onset the fine execution and progressive style present in their works. The name Artistic License comes from a scholarship awarded by the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Office to assist in putting together workshops for teachers, with instructors and prominent local artists collaborating and exchanging ideas, as is the case with Edouard Duval-Carrié and Ray Azcuy, the guests for 2015. If something should be pointed out about prior editions of this event is that the presentations by the various artists stand out for their relevance and for keeping abreast of the latest happenings in the visual arts through experimental propositions that come accompanied by a robust individual poetics, uninhibited but humanist and hopeful in their vision. Many of the contestants could very well become full-time professionals—and enjoy great success—as painters, graphic artists, sculptors or photographers. Ken Arguinzoni, Meme Ferre, Leslie McKinley, Shelly McCoy, Alina Rojo, Catherine Rivera, Stephen Mack, Abdiel Acosta, and Scott McKinley, among others, create pieces that are on par with works exhibited in the best galleries, art fairs and biennials around the world, in spite of the fact that these visual artists work Monday through Friday, eight hours a day teaching at public schools. Some of them, like Carlos Sanjurjo and Alexander Carbonell also teach at the Junior College, teaching classes to prepare adult students and workers. The average age of Artistic License 2015 participants is between 40 and 55 years old, although Charles Gaffney grabs the spot of senior member at 64 years of age. Meanwhile, Brian Reedy is a young and prolific artist who executes engravings in wood or rare metals at great speed. In the midrange age-wise are 43-year old Ernesto Montes and Alexander Carbonell, the latter a professor who, like Charles E. Humes Jr. and William Kidd, has a long trajectory as an artist and enjoys wide public recognition, in addition to a career in the teaching profession; this is the case with 2013 guest artists Pablo Cano and Ray Azcuy as well. This new award goes again to Charles E. Humes, Jr., who won first place in 2013 and who is awarded the prize today as best painter in the show. Another repeat performance is Carlos Sanjurjo’s, who receives this time his second mention of honor. Both represent extreme naturalism, Humes in the avant-garde American tradition and Sanjurjo in the post-avant-garde magical realism style. In sculpture, the title for excellence goes to William Kidd, an experienced ceramicist with a pleasant ornamental style that could benefit from a more transgressive bend. Lastly, Brian Reedy took the prize as the best in engraving. His work—in my opinion—is more attractive when he emphasizes illustration, especially in some propositions where he comes close to the aesthetic style of the comics, at times Marvel-Manga fusion, or when the prerogatives of Anime blend with classical American illustration. Having become an admirer and follower of these talents, I discover this time that new names have been included in the list of participants—at least new for me: Julie Orsini Shakher, Linda Oldenburg and Patricia Cummins,
for each of whom the nomination is in fact a great incentive. If there is something that I would like to commend is the work spirit that motivates the organizers, something I have been able to confirm only too well when I see their enthusiasm in coordinating these complex activities with such great attention to detail, either looking for the most adequate location or envisioning and designing the catalog. This care, as displayed by Alina Rodríguez, Curriculum Support Specialist, is fundamental because it preserves and gathers the history of an effective community mechanism of support and growth under the direction of Mabel Morales, District Supervisor, Visual Arts, of Dr. David Moore, District Director, of Marie Izquierdo, Chief Academic Officer, Office of Innovation and Accountability, and of Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent. I have witnessed Alina’s efforts in putting together juries composed of curators and artists who reaffirm with their presence the goal of setting the bar very high. I believe I also speak on behalf of the rest of those invited to exhibit in 2015, Duval-Carrié, Ray Azcuy and Ivonne Ferrer, by acknowledging the satisfaction we derive from knowing we are part of an effort, a program, that is so important and of such high caliber. The space where the works will be exhibited beginning February 2015 is a privileged location among the Dior and Prada fashion and design galleries in the Miami Design District (91 NE 40th St. M. FL. 33137). The space has been generously provided by DACRA, which has collaborated extensively with the school district together with Tiffany Chesler, Manager and Curator for the Craig Robins Collection, Miami Design District. I believe that the school district’s fundamental commitment should always be in line with an Art that speaks in the present tense, one that sets aside old and subservient academic doctrines, art that is free of traditional models and sterile technical bravura, one that is at the level of the 21st century and makes possible looking at past art history as an open field from which to expropriate, but always presenting the expropriated ideas in an innovative manner. Aldo Menéndez, Painter, curator and art critic for El Nuevo Herald, Art Districts and Art on Cuba, among other publications.
Aporte y desafío permanente Ahora que he pasado por la experiencia de impartir talleres y servir como jurado en un salón competitivo de profesores de arte de secundaria, escuelas intermedias (M-DCPS), e incluso escuelas elementales, siento egoístamente que he sido yo el principal beneficiado de esos contactos, o sea, quien mas provecho sacó al conocer de cerca la obra creativa personal y la maravillosa labor docente que realizan. En el 2013, la exposición Licencia Artística, en el Museo de Coral Gables, me permitió tomarle el pulso a su arte –también como crítico que soy-, revelándose de entrada su buena factura y estilística avanzada. El nombre Licencia Artística, proviene de una beca otorgada por el Miami Dade Cultural Affairs Office, que ayuda a realizar talleres para maestros, en los cuales profesores y destacados artistas locales colaboran e intercambian ideas, como es el caso de los invitados del 2015, Duval Carrie y Ray Azcuy.
Si algo habría que puntualizar de las pasadas ediciones, es que lo aportado por numerosos concursantes sobresale por su actualidad, por estar al tanto de lo último que se cuece en las artes visuales, con planteamientos experimentales, acompañados de una sólida poética individual, desenfadada y de visión ilusionada y humanista. Muchos de ellos podrían dedicarse profesionalmente a tiempo completo -con enorme éxito- a pintar, grabar, esculpir o hacer fotos, Ken Arguinzoni, Meme Ferre, Leslie McKinley, Shelly McCoy, Alina Rojo, Catherine Rivera, Stephen Mack, Melissa Maxfield, Abdiel Acosta y Scott McKinley, entre otros, son autores de piezas que están a la altura de lo que presentan las mejores galerías, ferias de arte y bienales en cualquier país, aun cuando estos maestros visuales de las escuelas públicas trabajan de lunes a viernes ocho horas diarias. Algunos como Carlos Sanjurjo y Alexander Carbonell también enseñan en Junior College impartiendo clases de formación a estudiantes y trabajadores adultos. El promedio de sus edades –en Artistic License 2015- va de los 40 a los 55, aunque la figura de Charles Gaffney se alza como decano del grupo a sus 64 años de edad. Mientras Brian Reedy, califica de joven y prolífero artista que desarrolla con rapidez vertiginosa grabados en madera o en materiales poco comunes. Entre los de edad promedio aparecen con 43 años Ernesto Montes y Alexander Carbonell, este último junto con Charles E. Humes Jr. y William Kidd, son profesores que además de llevar bastante tiempo entregados a enseñar, se significan como artistas con largas trayectorias y amplio reconocimiento público, lo mismo que los artistas invitados Pablo Cano y Ray Azcuy. Esta nueva premiación vuelve a recaer sobre el propio Charles E. Humes Jr., que obtuvo el primer lugar en el 2013 y que hoy recibe el título al mejor pintor del show. Otro que repite, es Carlos Sanjurjo que con esta acumula su segunda mención de honor. Ambos exponentes de extremos de la figuración naturalista, Humes dentro de la tradición norteamericana vanguardista y Sanjurjo asociado a un realismo mágico de corte post vanguardista. En escultura el título de excelencia recae en William Kidd, avezado ceramista, afiliado a una expresión complaciente y ornamental en la que podría aplicar conceptos más transgresores. Por último Brian Reedy se alza como el mejor en grabado. Su trabajo -a mi juicio- llama más la atención cuando hace énfasis en lo ilustrativo, especialmente en ciertas propuestas donde se acerca a un tipo de estética cómics, a veces fusión Marvel-Manga, o cuando las prerrogativas del Animee se mezclan con la clásica ilustración norteamericana. Convertido en admirador y seguidor de estos talentos, esta vez en la lista de participantes descubro la incorporación de nuevos nombres –por lo menos, nuevos para mí-, Julie Orsini Shakher, Linda Oldenburg y Patricia Cummins que reciben de hecho un gran estímulo al estar entre los seleccionados. Si algo deseo celebrar es el espíritu de trabajo que anima a los organizadores, algo que he podido constatar sobradamente al contemplar el entusiasmo que despliegan coordinando estas complejas actividades, con un mimo que se refleja en los detalle. Lo mismo al buscar la locación mas apropiada, que concibiendo y diseñando el catálogo. Este cuidado que despliega Alina Rodríguez, Curriculum Support Specialist, es fundamental por cuanto preserva y recoge la historia de un efectivo mecanismo comunitario de apoyo y superación, dirigido por Mabel Morales, District Supervisor, Visual Arts, Dr. David Moore, District Director, Marie Izquierdo, Chief Academic Officer, Office of Innovation and Accountability, y Alberto M. Carvalho, Superintendent. He visto en Alina su preocupación por reunir jurados compuestos por curadores y artistas que vienen a reafirmar con su presencia la intención de poner bien alto el listón. Creo hablar también por los demás invitados a exponer del año 2015, Duval-Carrié, Ray Azcuy e Ivonne Ferrer, cuando reconozco la satisfacción
Aldo Menendez Suturate, 2005 Mixed media canvas 38” H x 38”
que produce sentirnos parte de un esfuerzo, de un programa, tan importante y de tan alto nivel. La sala en que se despliegan las obras a partir de febrero del 2015, está situada en un emplazamiento privilegiado, entre galerías de diseño Dior y Prada, en Miami Design District (91 NE 40 th St. M. FL. 33137). Espacio cedido generosamente por DACRA que junto a Tiffany Chesler directora de artes culturales del Miami Design District ha colaborado repetidamente con el distrito escolar. Considero que la apuesta fundamental del Distrito Escolar debe estar siempre en consonancia con un Arte que hable en presente, poniendo a un lado las viejas y serviles doctrinas académicas, un arte despojado de cánones tradicionales y estériles virtuosismos técnicos, a la altura del siglo XXI, cuando es posible mirar al pasado de la historia del arte, como un campo abierto, donde apropiarse de esto o aquello, pero poniéndolo siempre en términos novedosos. Aldo Menéndez Pintor, curador y crítico de arte de El Nuevo Herald, Art Districts y Art on Cuba entre otras publicaciones.
BEST IN SHOW Brian Reedy New Era, 2014 Linocut 28” H x 22” W
Left: BEST IN SHOW: PRINTMAKING. Brian Reedy, New Era, 2014, Linocut, 28” H x 22” W Top: BEST IN SHOW: PAINTING. Charles E. Humes, Jr., Homage to the Chairman, Mixed Media, 18” x 24”
Edouard Duval-Carrié Makandal, 2014 Mixed Media on Aluminum 48” Diameter
Ivonne Ferrer Violada y abducida, 2014 Mixed media on canvas 24” X 35”
BEST IN SHOW- CLAY William Kidd Garden of Unearthly Delights, 2014 Clay Left: Shelly McCoy Sheer Deceit, 2015 Cement, collage, colored pencil 67” H x 18” W x 12”
35” W x 15” D x 18” H
Ernesto Montes Matter in Motion #12 & 15, 2014 Mixed media 32” H X 32” W
Left: Ray Azcuy Untitled (Mirror, Mirror), 2013 Watercolor on cotton paper 41” H x 30” W
Charles Gaffney Mady at Matheson, 2013 Infrared Photography 20” H x 25” W
Catherine Rivera Swept Away, 2014
Pendant : Silver, fused glass, freshwat pearls 36” H x 36” W
Alexander Richard Carbonell The Egg in the Nest, 2014 Mixed Media on Canvas 59” H x 73” W
HONORABLE MENTION Carlos Sanjurjo Las Vecinas Series, 2014 Mixed Media 36” H x 36” W
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Julie Orsini-Shakher
Patricia Cummins
Entwined No 1, 2013 Silver Point on gessoed Board
Fossil Hills Twilight, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument Residency, Nebraska, 2014
40” H x 60” W
Pastel on wood 35 1/2” H x 12” W
Linda Oldenburg Cormorants in a Barrel (Diptych), 2014 Acrylic and Pastel painted on a plastic barrel 33” H x 11 ½” D x 22” W
Alina Rojo Cut Up, 2015 Mixed Media, fabric, handmade tinted paper, machine embroidery, and India Inks 75� H x 45� W
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“Artistic License is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of Commissioners.�
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