PUREHONEY 146

Cover Photo of Afrobeta’s Smurphio by Daniel Sannwald

“The greater the disparity, the greater the despair.”#GreedKills #FlipThePyramid

12/1

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Barclay Crenshaw

THE PARKER: Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Creole Christmas

HILTON WPB: Lazy Sunday Pool Party – Kranz

12/2

THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class

12/3

THE PARKER: David Sedaris

THE PEACH:Sewing Class, Come Paint w Me

12/4

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Tribeca Fest: Makaya McCraven

THE PARKER: Brian Regan

BROWARD CENTER: The Outlaws

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Blues Equation

PROPAGANDA: Acoustic open mic

THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath, Pottery & Palette

12/5

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Tribeca Fest: The Birdcage

NSU ART MUSEUM: Mini Muse Free Art Making

BROWARD CENTER: Levis Kreis

SUBCULTURE DELRAY: No Hard Feelings, Pure Magnolia, Machina

PROPAGANDA: Respect the Vibe Showcase

THE PEACH: Sewing Class, Tiny Doors Craft Workshops

12/6

REVOLUTION LIVE: JJ Grey & Mofro

PROPAGANDA: Electro Sonic Showcase ft

Smooth Jazz Johnny, babygorilla, LAMINA//0, Cryptic Dive, Ates Isildak, DJ Furious Rod

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Tribeca Fest: Magdelena Bay

ARTS GARAGE: Art of Laughter w Mike E. Winfield

THE PARKER: Sheng Wang

BROWARD CENTER: Ryan Sickler

FILLMORE MB: Ha*Ash

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: The Flyers

GUANABANAS: Funk You

THE PEACH: Gallery Show

12/7

KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE GALLERY: Rebecca Brodskis “Echos of Now”, DJ Medley

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Tribeca Fest: Camila

Cabello, Soul in the Horn ft. Leduja Luna

REVOLUTION LIVE: Rock & Roll Playhouse

RESPECTABLE STREET: Disco Never Dies

THE PEACH: Art Walk

BOYNTON BEACH: Rock the Block w Making Faces

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Road To Nowhere

MAGIC 13 BREWING: Blood Moon Mafia

ARTS GARAGE: Alan Broadbent Trio ft Harvie S

BROWARD CENTER: Christmas w C.S Lewis ft David Payne

GUANABANAS: Surf Rock Christmas, Waist to Chest

PROPAGANDA: Hellwitch, Caveman Cult, Mutilated Savior, Amenorrhea

12/8

TARPON RIVER: Dan Hosker Music Continuum 12 ft Neptune B, One Dog’s Opinion, Trapped by Mormons, The Brand, Armageddon Man, Shark Valley Sisters, Pill Magnet, Shaved Hamster/Betty at the Station, Last Stan

Standing/Stan Still Dance Band, Black Janet, Charlie Picket & the Eggs, Forget the Name, Livid Kittens, Dore Soul, I Don’t Know/Humbert V1.o, Quit, Myron & the 2Wotz

REVOLUTION LIVE: Peezy, Icewear Vezzo

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Action Bronson

HILTON WPB: Lazy Sunday Pool Party – Medley

ARTS GARAGE: Chicago Blues w Wayne Baker Brooks

THE PARKER: Lewis Black

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S:Brown Eyed Women

BROWARD CENTER: One Vision of Queen ft Marc Martel

GUANABANAS: Adonis (Guavatron), Victoria Leigh

12/9

THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Open Mic, Drawing & Acrylics Class

12/10

THE PARKER: The Alan Parson Live Project BROWARD CENTER: Whiskey Myers

THE PEACH: Sewing Class Ages 7-13, Come Paint w Me

12/11

UNCOMMON PATH BREWING: Creative Ladies Night, Laura Atria + ShangriLa Collective

THE PARKER : The Musical Box – Genesis

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Danielle Nicole

THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath, Pottery & Palette

12/12

BANYAN LIVE: LiveKill, Open Nerve, D.F.X

THE PARKER: Mark Tremonti Sings Frank Sinatra

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Live Feed

THE PEACH: Sewing Class, Tiny Doors Craft Workshops

12/13

RESPECTABLE STREET: Goblin King Ball

BOYNTON BEACH: Holiday Boat Parade

CULTURE ROOM: Black Flag, The Queers

GUANABANAS: Toubab Krewe

BANYAN LIVE: Green Jello

ARTS GARAGE: Dick Lowenthal’s Big Band w Lisanne Lyons

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Soul Of Motown

THE PARKER: Debbie Gibson

PROPAGANDA: Yuletide Horror w Shinkaz, The World I see, Face Eater, Death of a Deity

THE PEACH: Previously Loved Remix: Creative Fashion Up-cycling

12/14

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Starlight Jazz w Jon Cowherd, Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Nicholas Payton

RESPECTABLE STREET: Mega Rave

LINCOLN’S BEARD: Underground Bass DJs

CULTURE ROOM: Morbid Angel

GUANABANAS: Bryce Allyn Band

ARTS GARAGE: Doobie Brothers Tribute

BROWARD CENTER: Ben Brainard

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Melinda Elena & Stronger Than Me: Tribute To Amy Winehouse

THE PEACH: Sewing Class

EL SEGUNDO: Bryant Del Toro

12/15

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Florida Chamber

BANYAN LIVE: Hunks the Show

ARTS GARAGE: Mr. Yunioshi by J. Elijah Cho as Mickey Rooney

BROWARD CENTER: Matt Fraser

FILLMORE MB: Sarit Hadad

GUANABANAS: Mike Garulli, Johnny Debt

PROPAGANDA: Tikki Tangle

CRAZY UNCLE

12/16

THE

Guataca Latin

12/17

THE PEACH: Sewing Class, Come Paint w Me

12/18

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Jose Rafael Guzman

BANYAN LIVE: Face Value Phil Collins Tribute

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Lee Boys & Melody Trucks

THE PEACH: Artist Talk & Critique, Creative Corner, Pattern Making 101, Dye Bath, Pottery & Palette

12/19

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: North Beach

Social: Afrobeta Cosmic Constellation

RESPECTABLE STREET: Broot McCoy

OLD SCHOOL SQUARE: No Doubt/Blondie Tribute

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Face Value: Phil Collins Tribute

THE PEACH: Sewing Class, Tiny Doors Craft Workshops

12/20

TW FINE ART: “Let Them Lead the Way”

REVOLUTION LIVE: Schism, Not Nine Inch Nails, Humanity Gone

GUANABANAS: Tand

ARTS GARAGE: Otis Cadillac: Home For The Holidays

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Start Me Up: Rolling Stones Tribute

BROWARD CENTER: Pinky Patel

PROPAGANDA: Punk Rock X-Mas Party

THE PEACH: Paint & Sip, Previously Loved Remix: Creative Fashion Up-cycling

12/21

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Caramelos de Cianuro

CULTURE ROOM: Perpetual Groove

GUANABANAS: Noche Latina, Electric Piquete, Cortadito

CANYON AMP: FAU Band

ARTS GARAGE: Anthony Nunziata – My Italian Christmas

BANYAN LIVE: Big Bubble Rave

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: 56 Ace

PROPAGANDA: Kinky Nerdy Social Experiment Cosplay

THE PEACH: Sewing Class

SEGUNDO: Eric Xarles

12/22

GUANABANAS: Brian Bolen, Ben Childs

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Marcus Johnson

12/26

JOHNNIE BROWNS: Blood Moon Mafia

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Evening of Billy Joel w Andrew Klein

12/27

RESPECTABLE STREET: The Nightmare Before Curemas performed by Lovesong

BROWARD CENTER: Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros ft Wolfpack

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Southern Blood

GUANABANAS: Fat Spliffs

PROPAGANDA: Day Lily, Shy Blossom, Mad Melllow, Curly Q, Vicious Cycle

THE PEACH: Previously Loved Remix: Creative Fashion Up-cycling

12/28

RESPECTABLE STREET: LITMAS 9 – Tropical Breakdown

GUANABANAS: Funkin’ Grateful, DuBBle James

BANYAN LIVE: Emo Night Florida

ARTS GARAGE: Elvis In Person

PROPAGANDA: Scum Comedy

THE PEACH: Sewing Class, Bike Night (motorcycles)

12/29

THE PARKER: Zebra

MIAMI BEACH BANDSHELL: Matisyahu

GUANABANAS: Cheyenne Leah, Casey Turner

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: Andy Frasco & The U.N.

12/30

THE PEACH: Comedy Workshop, Drawing & Acrylics

12/31

RESPECTABLE STREET: A Very Respectable NYE

GUANABANAS: NYE w Drum & Co, DJ Renaissance

CRAZY UNCLE MIKE’S: NYE w Guavatron

PROPAGANDA: Wasteland Awakens DJ Rod Furious

BANYAN LIVE: Brat New Years

LOVESONG

by david rolland

If you have an open-minded sense of what constitutes a Christmas carol and choose to dress in black rather than green and red, the Nightmare Before Curemas might just be the event for you. On one Friday (I’m in love) night in December, The Cure tribute band Lovesong will perform a twoact spectacle at Respectable Street. “Our special production blends the style of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with the music of The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, New Order, Echo & The Bunnymen, and more,” the band tells PureHoney by e-mail.

Orlando-based Lovesong have an untraditional origin story that begins with a band playing ‘80s covers for Norwegian Cruise Line passengers. “During that time, Rusty [Wilmot] began singing ‘Lovesong’ and ‘Just Like Heaven’ by The Cure,” we’re told. “With his ’80s hard rock look (think Nikki Sixx) he didn’t exactly look the part, but one night, a British woman watching him perform in the Baltic Sea told him he looked and sounded like ‘Bobby Smith!’ It was the glimmer of what could be.”

With Wilmot as the incarnation of Robert Smith — unruly mane, eyeliner, aching voice — Lovesong try to do more than just bang out a set list of favorites. “In the world of tribute bands, there’s a distinct difference between simply playing songs and creating an experience that truly honors the original artists,” they say. “For us, it’s essential to be in the latter category. Like Brit Floyd (Pink Floyd), Rain (The Beatles), Nirvanna (Nirvana), and The Rocket Man Show (Elton John), we strive not only to recreate the music but to capture the look, feel, and energy that makes the essence of The Cure come alive on stage.”

Some Cure tracks can be tricky to replicate. “‘Disintegration’ is one of the hardest,” the band says. “The lyrics are constantly changing, with no repeating lines, making it challenging to keep up.” They count “The Lovecats” as another test, with its jazzy, vamping gait. It is “unlike anything else in The Cure’s catalog,” the band says, “and that’s part of why we love performing it!”

Lovesong presents The Nightmare Before Curemas 7pm Friday, December 27 at Respectable Street in West Palm Beach. thecuretribute.com

Rock the Rock the

JJ GREY & MOFRO

by olivia feldman

When people bring up “Florida Man,” they’re usually talking about scraggly dudes perpetrating insane crimes or other harebrained schemes that end in calamity and a mug shot. (Thank you, Florida Sunshine Law.) But here at PureHoney our ideal Florida Man is a cat like JJ Grey, the born-and-bred Jacksonvillean who’s brought attention of the good kind to the Sunshine State with his gritty swamp-rock music.

Back in the ’90s, Grey was working for an air conditioning company while playing in various Jacksonville bands. The one that sent him on his way was Mofro, whose slangy name captured the group’s essence: a down-home blend of funk, soul, blues and Southern rock. Through lineup changes, multiple albums and a name adjustment putting Grey on the masthead, JJ Grey & Mofro are now an eight-piece with horns and back-up singers, and a well-earned reputation for must-see live shows. Grey — at the helm on vocals, guitars, keyboards and harmonica — sings like a shot of Van Morrison with a chaser of Dr. John and has the raconteur’s touch, entertaining audiences with his songs’ origin stories.

Their latest full-length, 2024’s Olustee, is the first Grey/Mofro album in nine years and a heartfelt homage to Grey’s home state. His love for Florida especially shines through in his recording of “Seminole Wind,” a lament for the shrinking Florida Everglades written and first released in 1992 by country singer (and fellow Floridian) John Anderson.

Named for one of the state’s most storied Native American tribes, the Olustee version opens with a piano solo by Grey and unfolds with a litany of Seminole references, from Okeechobee to Micanopy to Osceola, in a musical tale of a paradise lost: “Progress came and took its toll / And in the name of flood control / They made they plans to drain the land / Now the ‘glades is going dry.” The title track evokes the 1998 Florida wildfires that consumed 500,000 acres during four hellish months. But even when he’s not singing expressly about Florida, Grey is representing for a place he knows well.

JJ Grey & Mofro with special guests Juke play 8pm Friday, December 6 at Revolution Live in Fort Lauderdale. jjgrey.com

COSMIC CONSTELLATION

by david rolland

Has it already been a year since the last holiday edition of the North Beach Social? Last year Suénalo headlined the December monthly musical meet-up presented by South Florida’s Rhythm Foundation The Miami Beach Bandshell was filled up with partygoers ready to dance the early part of the night away in the balmy outdoor venue. This year another local favorite, the electro duo Afrobeta, will be the main attraction.

Formed in 2006 by singer Cuci Amador and multiinstrumentalist Smurphio, Afrobeta have played and packed just about every South Florida venue from botanical gardens to open air markets in their nearly two decades of existence. For this show they will play in an installation they’ve dubbed The Cosmic Craft Constellation, a magical snow globe meant to harken to the galaxies above and beyond. Local artist Karelle Levy will have a pom-pom sculpture on display, inspired by sacred geometry, and created by all kinds of pom-pom makers in community gatherings across the city. Mariana Mendoza will project video art during the performance, so all the audiences’ senses will have something to feast on. Miami based composer and multi-instrumentalist Vania Junco will serve as the musical opener.

The main attraction is the danceable beats of Afrobeta. The band knows the Bandshell stage intimately, having played a previous North Beach Social back in April 2023, an album release party, and even a audience-free livestream during the dark days of Covid social distancing. Doing a show without a crowd to feed off of felt antithetical to a duo that prides itself on audience interaction, Amador told this writer back in 2020. “Not being able to interact with the audience will be different: You won’t see anybody dancing, but you also won’t see anyone leaving to go to the bathroom. I’ve been thinking about what I can do differently for this. Maybe I’ll leave the stage for a while so [Smurphio] can go solo.”Thankfully, we can now get within six feet of each other, to dance and sing the night away as we count down the days until Santa Claus fills up our stockings.

Afrobeta presents The Cosmic Craft Constellation, 7pm Thursday, December 19 at Miami Beach Bandshell. afrobeta.com

DANIEL SANNWALD

ELECTRO SONIC

by abel folgar

Working in the room, the garage, even a rented studio – if the money is available –is a great way to refine skills and gel as a musician. But the real way of getting those chops up to par and ready for the road or recording studio is performing live. And there’s been no better place in South Florida to do so than the Electro Sonic Workshop at The Library speakeasy in Lake Worth.

The Workshop is held on the last Wednesday of each month and is known for a relaxed, encouraging atmosphere. (A companion event for DJs, Wax on Wax Off, happens regularly at The Library and Revelry in Pompano Beach.) The event’s creator and host, Rod Furious, tells PureHoney that Electro Sonic is “a space where musicians can feel free to improvise, collaborate, try out a new piece of gear or new music pieces. In short, he says, they’re “a place to hone your sound and performance.”

And now they’re a step toward something new: the Electro Sonic Showcase concert at Propaganda in Lake Worth. “This will be a ticketed event with longer sets, a stage, full sound system, visuals, DJs, and some other surprises,” Furious says. “The Showcase is going to be where performers bring their best ideas from the Workshop and present them as a fully realized set.”

Furious, who’ll perform as DJ Furious Rod, plans to do a Showcase quarterly. For the inaugural concert he has picked a lineup of “acts that blend well together, offer a varied musical experience, and were available on the Showcase date.” The first edition also includes Ates Isildak, Cryptic Dive, LAMINA//0, babygorilla, and Smooth Jazz Johnny. Furious promises an eclectic set featuring everything from ’60s Italian pop to modern electronic instrumentals.

“The Showcase event allows itself to be flexible and open to adding and/or subtracting different ideas and concepts,” he adds. “Each one will be different and hopefully people that can’t make the Wednesday night Workshops can check out the Showcase events since they will be on weekend nights.”

The Electro Sonic Showcase, 8pm Friday, December 6 at Propaganda in Lake Worth. instagram.com/electrosonicwrkshp_waxonwaxoff

DHMC 12: REUNIONS

by tim moffatt

“Support your scene!” is the battle cry for everyone who appreciates the musicians in their midst, the creative locals that work to make their corner of the world more livable. Rob Elba remembers the scene he stepped into South Florida in the late ’80s, after playing in bands in New York and Boston, as an assemblage of “freaks and outliers” united not by a particular sound or genre, like Seattle or Athens, but by location.

“The thing with South Florida was just that it was so isolated from the rest of the country,” Elba tells PureHoney. In this geographical bubble, Elba marveled “that anyone had the balls to play original music as opposed to covers.” Yet that’s what was going on from the late ‘70s onward — punks like Elba, metalheads, noise churners and rockers of every stripe doing their own thing for audiences off the radar of many national tours.

Singer-guitarist Elba and his former Boston bandmate, multi-instrumentalist Dan Hosker, jumped right in. Their comradeship in bands including the Holy Terrors lasted into the new century, and came to a devastating end with Hosker’s death in 2012 after a car accident. Elba saw to it that Hosker’s influence would live on by founding the Dan Hosker Music Continuum, a scholarship fund for high school students pursuing the arts. The centerpiece of DHMC is an annual fundraising (but free-admission) concert in South Florida that celebrates the ragtag, unsinkable, sonically all-over-the-map scene, with Hosker as one of its truest supporters and sustainers — a prolific, roving player in countless bands and projects. “Everybody fucking loved him,” Elba says.

Elba made one rule for DHMC 12 on December 8 at Tarpon River Bend in Fort Lauderdale: It has to be a band reunion; no current groups or ones that never broke up need apply. “Before I knew it, we had 18 bands,” Elba says. Seventeen are playing, making the reunions-only version of DHMC the event’s biggest to date. It’s a CVS receipt of bands that defy genre, space and time all the way back to the late 1970s.

There’s Forget the Name, who formed in 1984 and had a breakthrough of sorts to everyday South Florida when they featured in an advertisement for the now-defunct Burdines department store chain. There’s Charlie Pickett & the Eggs, the roots-punk combo that was championed by Peter Buck of REM and gained a cult following that persists. There’s Livid Kittens, tri-county mainstays in the 1990s fronted by the vixenish Paige Harvey. Their song “Flying” landed on a CMJ magazine list of 1000 Greatest Indie Rock Songs of All Time in 2004.

Friends of the Kittens, Pillmagnet are also on board. Featuring previous members of Jack off Jill and Morbid Opera, Pillmagnet played their first show in 1996 at Churchill’s in Miami and put out a cassette-only release produced by Mark O’Toole of Trapped by Mormons, loud, fun garage punkers who will also at DHMC 12.

I Don’t Know/Humbert V1.0, really the official band of Hialeah, are regrouping, as are punk scorchers Neptune B, fire-breathing swamp rockers One Dog’s Opinion, indie pop combo The Brand, dystopian destructors Armageddon Man, and alt-rock princes Dore Soul

There’s Myron & the 2Wotz, from the restless brain of noise-rock maestro Rat Bastard. There’s QUIT, whose skate-punk tracks hit hard 30 years later. Last Stan Standing/Stan Still Dance Band harken back to the scene’s earliest days, while Shaved Hamster/Betty At The Station and Black Janet feature stalwarts of the scene, some still jamming in other outfits. Finally, there’s Shark Valley Sisters, Elba’s post-Terrors outfit with Load drummer Fausto Figueredo

Every scene has an ebb and flow that sees new people enter and others step away to tend to life’s responsibilities. Elba lives in Los Angeles and counts himself “happily retired” from band life (DHMC gigs excepted). Some of his peers and forbears are no longer with us, their absences lending to the mythos of bands that are talked about today with high praise and tall tales of good times. “When you’re in it, you’re don’t appreciate how special our scene was,” Elba says. “I’ve never met a more interesting cast of characters.”

Dan Hosker Music Continuum 12 runs 11am-9pm Sunday, December 8th at Tarpon River Brewing in Fort Lauderdale. Admission is a free, all ages welcome. facebook. com/DanHoskerMusicContinuum

DAN HOSKER

BJORN JENSEN

THE HOLY TERRORS

THE LIVID KITTENS

QUIT

A TALE OF TWO GALLERIES

by kelli bodle

Located in West Palm Beach, TW Fine Art and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery are literal next-door neighbors in a row of spruced-up warehouse properties on Florida Avenue. The two galleries share an ivory-colored deco entryway with rounded stairs and a levitating canopy, and both enjoy reputations for topflight exhibitions. On December 20, they’ll combine forces for a shared event: the evening opening reception for a new group show at TW Fine Art alongside an ongoing exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde, the latter anchored by the work of Paris-based painter Rebecca Brodskis.

At TW Fine Art, gallery director Sienna Berritto tells PureHoney to expect a “twisted sense of proportion and character” from a group of artists that blend “illustrative whimsicality with high-brow, fine art.” The exhibition includes Richmond, Virginia-based artist Kevin Sabo, a recent PureHoney artist of the month known for his vibrant, offbeat paintings of drag divas and male corporate titans as poles of gender (non)conformity.

Sabo is one of three artists who will be at TW Fine Art in person for the December 20th reception, says Berritto. The other artists with works on display there will be Hampton Boyer, Mary Fleming, Rachel Hayden, Jack Kenna, Larissa Lockshin, Samuel Richardson, Josh Stover, and Bradd Young a.k.a. SALUT. “Each artist’s fine-tuned stylistic approach to illustration conveys how they translate playful imagery into thoughtful, mind-bending or even socially relevant works that connect to the web of emerging talent today,” Berritto says.

“What makes these artists exceptional is their ability to tackle weighty topics like waste sustainability and the fraught social and political climate through works that draw you in with charm, only to linger with a thought-provoking impact,” Berritto says. “The layered ideas within this collection don’t just convey who these artists are; they reflect a nuanced commentary on life in the 2020s, bridging personal expression with broader societal insight.”

Next door at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, the centerpiece of a winter exhibition that begins on December 7 and 8 with receptions and appearances by Brodskis is the artist’s new project, Echoes of Now. James Clark, the gallery’s director, describes Echoes of Now as “an exploration of the essence of love and touch as a universal language.”

Whereas Brodskis’ portrait-like subjects usually spring from her imagination, we’re told these latest paintings are based on photographs of dancers performing earlier this year at the Bastille Design Center in Paris, in a collaboration between Brodskis and dancer Lilach Pnina Livne. “In part, they are an attempt to reconnect and commemorate that moment, which Brodskis cites as a turning point in her practice,” Clark says, “but they also transcend the performance to take on a life of their own.”

Brodskis lives and works in France and Morocco, a split existence that might resonate with admirers of another French artist: Henri Matisse. Twentieth Century avant-garde titan Matisse spent time in Morocco in 1912-1913 and illustrated his travels in several canvasses. “His bold use of color and light are techniques that Brodskis has embraced and I’m pretty sure will appeal to the West Palm Beach crowd,” Clark says.

Brodskis will be on hand to chat informally with visitors on the 7th and 8th of December, and Clark is hopeful that some of the other painters also showing at Kristin Hjellegjerde beginning that weekend — Lotte Keijzer, Anders Meisner, Carolina Mazzolari, and Ken Nwadiogbu — can also attend in person.

South Florida’s art fair season will be in full swing, with Art Basel in Miami Beach happening Dec. 6-8 and New Wave Art Wknd at multiple venues in West Palm Beach also helping to kick off December. “Last year we had a hugely successful exhibit over Art Basel weekend when we showed Nigerian artist Nengi Omuku,”says Clark. “The Norton Museum of Art even acquired one of her pieces from that exhibition.“

It’s a good, buzzy time for viewers and collectors alike to put the TW Fine Art/Kristin Hjellegjerde combine on their calendars. Clark says pairing up with TW Fine Art gives people further away “even more reasons to make the trip.”

TW Fine Art and Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery present a shared exhibition 6pm Friday, December 20 at their Florida Avenue galleries in West Palm Beach. Rebecca Brodskis’ Echoes of Now opens December 7 & 8. tw-fineart.com kristinhjellegjerde.com

KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE GALLERY

HAMPTON BOYER

REBECCA BRODSKIS