Ferrin Gallery @ Art Miami 2011

November 29 - December 4, 2011

 show overview

Known as Miami's premiere anchor fair, Art Miami kicks off the opening day of Art Week — the first week of December when thousands of collectors, dealers, curators, and artists descend upon Miami. World-famous for its stylish gallery-like decor, its extraordinary variety and outstanding quality, Art Miami showcases the best in modern and contemporary art from 100 international art galleries and prominent art institutions and will showcase 700 artists from 70 countries around the world. Exhibitions at the fair will include modern and contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and prints from Europe, Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East and the United States.

For more information : http://www.art-miami.com/

VIP Preview: Tuesday, November 29th
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Lotus House Benefit Cocktail Reception, 25 USD donation upon entry
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Preview for Art Miami VIP cardholders and press

Art Miami General Admission:
November 30 - December 3 | Wednesday – Saturday | 11am – 7pm
December 4 | Sunday – 11am – 6pm

Where: Booth C38
Art Miami Pavilion
The Miami Midtown Arts District
Midtown Blvd (NE 1st Avenue) between NE 32nd & NE 31st Street

CHRIS ANTEMANN was the 2010 First Place Winner of the Virginia A. Groot Grant, a prestigious award to artists working in 3D to allow them time to further their work. The grant provided support enabling Antemann to build major large scale, multi figure sculptures subsequently shown in an installation with photography presented in the BAM Biennial at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA and Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR and currently onview in Fresh Figurines, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA and Meissen, artCampus, Spinnerei-Galerien, Leipzig, Germany. Antemann is currently artist - in - residence at the Meissen artCampus, Meissen, Germany.

Her most recent sculpture, An Occasional Craving features over a dozen figural "guests". Photographs drawn from details in the sculpture are produced in collaboration with photographer, KENDRICK MOHOLT and will be shown along with the porcelain figures.

Inspired by 18th C. porcelain figurines, Chris Antemann parodies male and female relationship roles. Characters, themes and incidents build upon each other, effectively forming their own language that speaks about domestic rites, social etiquette, and taboos. Antemann earned her M.F.A. the University of Minnesota and her B.F.A. in ceramics & painting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her work can be found in many private and public collections, including the Museum of Arts and Design, The 21 C. Hotel Museum, The Kamm Teapot Foundation, The Archie Bray Foundation, and the Foshan Ceramic, Museum in China.

"Currently I am delving into the darker side of relationships and domestic rites: twisted tales of master and servant, the innocence of the floral-clad maid, the dominance of patriarchal desire. Tricked out in frilly camouflage, these characters disregard tradition, exposing society's cistern of unmentionables."

MOLLY HATCH is exhibiting selected works from her recent series, Mon Plaisir at Art Miami 2011. Receiving her BFA in 2000 from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts and MFA in 2008 from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Molly Hatch is one of the youngest artists now represented by Ferrin Gallery.

For Mon Plaisir Hatch appropriates imagery from a historic architectural engraving of a garden plan. Blurring the line between two and three dimensions, Hatch explores the relationship of painting to object by rendering the figures from each of the compositions in porcelain and presenting them in the foreground of the painted paper backdrop. By contrasting silhouette shadows in her the drawings, to three dimensional figural sculptures, Hatch isolates the figures in the garden scene and focuses attention on the underlying social narrative. Through the use of negative and positive, cropping, scale shifts and an updated color palette, the series offers a contemporary interpretation of an historic genre. Her series of drawings and sculpture presented together create the overall installation Mon Plaisir via triptychs, diptychs and related individual scenes.

Living and working in Western Massachusetts, Hatch exhibits throughout the US and regularly with Ferrin Gallery, most recently in the summer exhibition, Pursuit of Porcelain. Her career combines gallery exhibitions, teaching, workshops, artist residencies as well as a product designer for the women's clothier Anthropoligie.

"I am attracted to the aesthetic qualities of familiar domestic patterns and appropriate them into my work from both historical and contemporary sources. I crop original s, play with scale, re-mix and alter imagery with a contemporary palette. It is in this way that I aim to make contemporary patterns relate to their historic counterparts—resulting in a wall that is both new and familiar."

SERGEI ISUPOV's recent sculpture from his Humanimals series will be presented at Art Miami. Often called an erotic Surrealist for his daring representations of sexuality, relationships, and human encounter, Isupov takes narrative subject matter and merges it with ceramic sculptural form. Drawing on personal experience, and human observation, he creates works that integrate autobiography with universal narrative. Born in Stravapole, Ukraine, the bold color palette, heavily tattooed faces, and textured surfaces relate these works to the aesthetics of traditional Russian art, as well as to contemporary styles of illustration.

In her feature essay for the catalogue "Androgyny" Sonya Bekkerman states, "Sergei Isupov was born in the '60s, a decade in which Russian artists began to actively question and defy the prescribed artistic ideology dictated by the Soviet Union, and he left in 1983, just before the turbulent artistic breakthroughs incited by Gorbachev's perestroika in 1987. […] Like many of his contemporaries who sought to express their individuality away from party control, Isupov emigrated to the United States, where he has never stopped looking inward and revealing truths, free associations, and sheer id, no matter how cryptic, filtered through an American and Russian lens."