MM magazine by Kayla Gonzalez

2014

Jan

Volume

Issue

ALEXA//SHEILA

MArch - april

good stuff

the

Living in a Contemporary World Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a year long flourishing international cultural destination.

Milk: what will you make of me?

Paint contoured the body, milk released it, Alexa captured this incredible chemistr y.

An utterly distinctive and unforgettable one, that can play as important a role in her songs as any other musical detail.

boutique

Featured

Ellie Goulding comes to Miami

KORE

Get your Gallery Diet Daniel Milewski explores the life in Miami’s artiest neighborhood in his solo show “The Umpire.”

Miami's Revolutionary Art Scene

2925 Biscayne Blvd

Artists from ever y aspect have started to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and enchanting. This is where you can indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses.

EDITORIAL

editor managing editor arts director food editor music editor fashion editor staff writers

ART

editorial administrator regional art director assistant art director photographer

PRODUCTION

production manager assistant production manager advertising art director production artists head graphic designer social media manager

ADVERTISING

director of marketing and sales director of events and promotions

Violet Monroe Tonia Marley Adrienne Lopez Samantha Pena Kevin Heart Josphine Torres Josie Perez, Michelle Landsberg, Katrina Brown Gabriela Perez Camille Jeanie Christina Lays Rebecca Alonso Alexandra Lima Ryan Ports Liliana Whilchtz Angelina Swithertz Kayla Gonzalez Carlos Suave Alex Brown Nestor Polaris

For retail advertising 305.285.1722 For classified advertising 305.284.8244 MM Broward- Palm Beach county 954.325.6795 For national advertising 305.724.9034

SUBSCRIPTIONS

Rowan Newton

Studio &Gallery moasgallery AbigailMOA

Coming this December www.moasgallery.com

Domestic subscriptions may be purchased for $120 yearly. Delivery may take one week. Postmaster: send address changes to MM, P.O. Box 01151, Miami, FL 33101-1591 MM mailing address: P.O. Box 01151, Miami, FL 33101- 1591 Street Address: 1500 Biscayne blvd. Suite 600, Miami, FL 33137 For General Information: 305.740.8456

Between 20th St & 36 th St, NW 2nd Ave to NE 2nd Ave Hours are from 7pm to 11pm

World World

| Art Stories |

Living in a Contemporary

Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on Midtown Miami and the Wynwood Arts District as a year long flourishing international cultural destination. wrtten by Carlos Pena, photographed by Jazmin Marz

Art Wynwood 2014 will showcase 70 international galleries featuring emerging, cutting edge, contemporary and modern works that will have its very own distinct identity as well as design. A unique feature will be the highlight of street art, murals, pop surrealism and other genres from the contemporary underground movement. Art Wynwood is perfectly positioned to further the growing world wide

Art Wynwood provides the

enthusiast and seasoned art world traveler alike a distinctive opportunity to explore, learn and collect what is fast becoming the most significant

art movement of our times.

recognition of this movement by

opportunity to meet and service a new

providing the enthusiast and seasoned

group of international collectors during

art world traveler alike a distinctive

the busiest holiday weekend in Miami.

opportunity to explore, learn and

The inaugural edition of Art Wynwood

collect what is fast becoming the most

attracted more than 23,500 v5,100

significant art movement of our times.

collectors and art enthusiasts attending

Art Wynwood 2014 will continue to

the Opening Night VIP Private Preview.

coincide with the 25th edition of the

The fair showcased a diverse range of

prestigious Miami International Yacht

fresh and edgy works by established,

& Brokerage Show (located less than

mid-career and emerging international

five miles from the Art Miami Pavilion),

contemporary and urban street artists

which transforms Collins Avenue into

from around the globe.

a multimillion dollar presentation of

Art Wynwood shined a spotlight on

yachts and super yachts. The Yacht

Midtown Miami and the Wynwood

and Brokerage show is known to attract

Arts District as a year long flourishing

qualified buyers from all over the U.S. as

international cultural destination.

well as France, Brazil, China, Colombia,

The Fair will continue to distinguish

Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Italy and

the Wynwood Arts District as Miamiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Sweden. This alignment will provide

epicenter where art, fashion, design

Art

and the culinary arts intersect.

Wynwood

dealers

with

the

MM |007

MILK what will you make of me?

Paint contoured the body, milk released it, Alexa captured this incredible chemistry. cover story, Violet Monroe

008

| Art Stories |

lexa Meade and Sheila Vand have collaborated on a body of work that explores the fluidity of form in relation to time and space. By stripping the subject of depth and dimension, a displacement of identity ensues, demonstrating the power of context over content. Meade’s signature style of painting portraits on the body is submerged in a canvas of milk, where Vand’s performance is dictated by the opposing forces of fixed shadows and fluid space.

Together, the artists compose an expressive identity for each image, but as the milk interacts with the pre-arranged pose, a new identity is formed that must be constantly re-imagined and re-shaped in the moment. As the paint seeps away into the milk, Vand’s performance must continually shift to accommodate its new context and form while Meade’s photography must capture the ephemeral moments before they de-materialize. The result is an ever-evolving, time-based portrait that includes every layer of the process within each consecutive frame. Each new visual identity is a product of the versions that came before. The surface of the milk intersects Vand’s body at an uneven and unusual plane, creating a sense of movement and depth beneath her compressed form. This play on dimensionality in the picture plane evokes an optical illusion that activates the viewer’s experience by challenging their common perceptions. The identifiable becomes ineffable, giving the flat photography of the painted three-dimensional space an unsettling tone. By blending the borders between the subject and its surroundings, identity is muted and we’re left with the distilled nuances that shape the space.

MM |009

S L R I G VS

boys

a rockin musical March

1-18

Adrienne Artch Center With show times of 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, 4 p.m. Sundays, and an additional 3 p.m. show Saturday, Mar. 3, at the Arshtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carnival Studio Theater, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-949-6722; arshtcenter.org. Tickets cost $35.

TELL THEM ABOUT ME AND Receive

10% your entire meal! 1800 Biscayne Blvd 786-235-7575 RSVP

Valid until DEC 31,2013 2 004 B i sc ayn e Blvd | 305 76 4 3130 | www.cityha llthe re s ta ura nt.co m

free

| Art Stories |

young wild&

free

The city that has completely changed because of the ambition in our youth.

Miami Sure,

JAMES HERNANDEZ

have

dispensing grants, real estate and media exposure with a fervor that would’ve

hurricanes and heat

made even the Medici blush. But common sense, slow growth and clear-headed

but we also have the

moderation have never been notions popular among Miamians. Go big or go

Hurricanes and the Heat.

home! That’s not to say this burg has fully transformed itself into the New Art City

And we think all New Yorkers

its cultural boosters envision. Post-market crash, there are still too few collectors

secretly want to move down

with empty walls and unholstered checkbooks. And those freshly arrived New

her, I mean who doesn’t? In

Yorkers have been towing an awful lot of conceptual baggage in their wake,

most places, as time marches on,

adding a layer of theoretical clutter to what was previously an almost deliriously

people get older. This does not exist

accessible, and viscerally inviting, visual arts scene. Moreover, several of Miami’s

in Miami Beach, where, perhaps due to

standard bearers, such as sculptor Daniel Arsham and painter Hernan Bas, don’t

its proximity to Ponce de León’s fountain

even live in Miami anymore. However, though a few notable tyros may have

of youth, the population is steadily getting

packed their bags, a host of veteran artists like Carol Brown, Robert Chambers,

younger and we’re not just talking about Botox and implants. Don’t believe us? Take a look at the figures provided by the United States Census Bureau: In 1980 the median age in Miami Beach was 65. Three

Barbara Neijna and Robert Thiele, just for starters, continue to produce transcendent work that demands attention. Discerning gallery owners like David Castillo, Brook Dorsch, Carol Jazzar, Nina Johnson and Fredric Snitzer are

decades later, the 2010 census tells us the median age is 40. Some may say

supporting new talent in the way that matters most

that our fair city’s beauty attracts the young and restless, but we at MM can’t

by offering them exhibition space. And after much

rule out the possibility that at least some of the people who call Miami Beach

drama, that new Miami Art Museum might just

home are aging backward. It would explain why so many folks here not only

get built after all. Indeed, for all its growing

look so good, but also seem capable of partying until dawn on a regular basis

pains and premature sense of grandeur,

with little evident consequence.

Miami’s art whirl remains one of the most

Miami

Nearly a decade after the annual Art Basel fair first arrived on Miami Beach,

vibrant of such milieus in the country.

the local art scene is anything but underground, and far more entrenched

If you can avoid choking to death

than merely a one week a year phenomenon. Indeed, instead of leaving town

from the exhaust of Wynwood’s

for greener pastures in New York, Miami artists are increasingly bumping into

swarming food trucks, it’s still

transplanted New Yorkers hoping to kick-start their art careers in Wynwood.

the best show in town.

Can you blame them? Our local mandarins seem to have gone art crazy,

Left Photo Credit Johnny Walker, Right Photo Credit to Jim Jones

MM |0011

Ellie Goulding

| Music |

An utterly distinctive and unforgettable one, that can play as important a role in her songs as any other musical detail. Photo Credit Alexander Childs Art Directon Kayla Gonzalez Clothes Christina Maimo MakeUp David Shinholster Written Cara Shins

012

ever likely to be one of those singers who is content just to turn up, lay down a main vocal part and leave, Ellie’s approach to writing and recording is, she admits, borderline obsessive – but then, anything less, she says, would be a waste of time. As her debut album, Lights, made so thrillingly clear, Ellie Goulding uses her voice as a texture in much the same way that a skilled instrumentalist would. It is a sound – in Ellie’s case, an utterly distinctive and unforgettable one – that can play as important a role in her songs as any other musical detail. The new record Halcyon describes a journey out of heartache and towards hope. It is almost as if you can hear Ellie’s psyche shrinking and then renewing, rebooting itself after two-and-a-half tumultuous years in her life: a Brit award, the release of Lights, love, loss, writer’s block, a new relationship, singing at the White House and at a certain spring wedding, a number one pop record that has done over 3m in America, confronting her doubts and fears, digging deep and locating her artistry again, returning to the countryside she grew up in and, in a converted barn, making a record that confirms her as one of this country’s most singular and compelling songwriters. Two such fans are a young couple who, in April 2011, were married in London and, for one of the few private moments the world allowed them on the day, approached Ellie and asked her to sing at the party they were holding following the wedding reception. It isn’t every day, of course, that a musician will stand on a stage as a pair of giant doors open, and watch pretty much the entire Royal Family advance into the room, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at their head, ready to be entertained. But that is exactly what happened to Ellie and her band at Buckingham Palace when, after months of secret negotiations during which Ellie was sworn to – and

“

Loneliness

has been the biggest influence on this record; I feel like what I do is lonely, I still feel like there is this force, pushing me to do this,

maintained – her silence, she sang a selection of her own songs and cover versions (including tracks by Michael Jackson, Tina Turner and, inevitably, Elton John’s Your Song) for the newlywed royals, and afterwards mingled with their guests. Ellie’s success in America – her single, Lights, is still an immovable fixture in the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, after 35 weeks – has been another experience she finds it hard to describe. America has clearly got under her skin. “They embrace everything,” Ellie says. “They’ll take your biggest fault and turn it into something positive. And the work ethic in music over there isn’t like anything I’ve ever known. You get back to your hotel at one in the morning and someone will contact you and go, ‘Do you want to come over to the studio?’. So over you go, and there’s Swedish House Mafia and Skrillex there, and will.I.am in the nextdoor studio. Everyone’s just hanging out, making music.” Capturing a period of profound change and transition in Ellie’s life, Halcyon is, despite the mournful nature of much of its inspiration, ultimately a redemptive album. Above all, it communicates the sense of a young musician poised on the cusp of new adventures, the war won, and lessons learned. When she says, “Loneliness has been the biggest influence on this record; I feel like what I do is lonely”, you want to give her a reassuring hug. But then Ellie will follow this with: “I still feel like there’s this force, pushing me to do this.” And you are reminded of precisely what it is that makes her so special: honest and self-aware enough to endure and acknowledge her propensity for what she herself calls “over-thinking”; brave enough to confront this and go into battle again; and possessed of a talent, and a voice, of such extraordinary power that, for all her vulnerability, you sense that, deep down, Ellie Goulding knows she is impregnable.

101/ e x h i b i t presents

C OLI N C HI LLAG

PORTRAITS J A N 1 9 .2 0 1 3 - M A R 0 9 .2 0 1 3

101exhibit 101exhibit

101 NE 40 Street Miami FL, 33137 P. 305.573.2101 info@101exhibit.com

Soul

| Food |

Feed Your

Jessica Whiler

ell Well Amir Ben Zion has teamed up with Philly native Amaris

Jones to launch South Street, a neo soul restaurant & bar at the former Sra. Martinez space in the Design District at 40th Street and 2nd Ave. South Street ’s neo soul menu will feature Amaris’ family recipes infused with the innovative creation that is come to expect from a Ben Zion venture. They ser ve lunch, dinner and brunch on the weekends. They ’re signature dishes are Deviled Eggs, South Fried Corn, Philly Cheesesteaks, and on Sundays, they have excellent Brunch dishes including their famous Chicken & Waffles, Fish Fr y and Hoecakes (pancakes) to name a few. Classic favorites like fried chicken, cornbread muffins and shrimp & grits will be staples on her menu along side some newly conceived standards. A full cocktail menu features homemade spiked teas and an array of specialty & old fashion cocktails designed by Bar Lab. Bottle ser vice and an extensive wine and cognac selection are also available. South Street ’s upper level lounge floods the room with live music from DJs and impromptu per formers on the house keys. The soundtrack pairs a dash of Billie, a pinch of Badu and a side of Simone, to a main dish of Motown classics, blues, & boom-bap hip-hop. This neo funk twist of a restaurant will comfort your ears, palate and soul with its contemporar y direction on a down home idea. The atmosphere is ver y contemporar y, the dishes are simply delicious. South Street has definitely filled the empty spot of southern hospitality and food that was missing in Miami ’s city streets.

014

| Art Stories | | Street Art |

900 S Miami Ave Miami, FL 33130 (305) 415-0077

boutique

Monday - Saturday from 11 a.m. - 11 p.m. Second Saturday of the Month (Wynwood Artwalk) from 11 a.m. - midnight Sunday from noon - 6 p.m.

Mon - Sat 11:00a - 6:30p

r so

February 2nd, 2013

Fieldhouse at the Bank United Center

University of Miami, 1245 Dauer Dr Miami, FL, 33146

JOIN THE NATION MM |0015

Every firs t Frid ay Of the Month

s tarting @ 5p

Showc asing over 50 art galleries Lincoln Road Mall • Miami Beach, FL • firstfridaylincoln.org

a j i e R e e L Int n o t i K e r r u u t s t u y s Fu iid a y F d a r F r F ing c u d ro

Bar Room

Indie Rock Progressive RAY MILIAN GRACE JONES . SWEETSWIRL

Dance Room

30 Northeast 14th Street Downtown Miami, FL, 33132 305.379.0508

The Garden

Soul . RnB . Mod . Garage Motown . GirlGroups ACTION PAT . BLACK JESUS

bond

™

Deep House . Electro . Nu-Disco . Boogie SANTIAGO CABALLERO & Friends

aga The V

ALCHEMIST

LINCOLN ROAD ART WALK

$1 PBR + $5 Vodka till Midnight $3 PBR + $5 PB&J All Night (PBR + Jager or Jack Shot)

| Art Stories |

As complicated as a crazy spectacle but the circumstances often go unnoticed.

Gallery Diet Carlos Suarez De Jesus

At Galler y Diet, Daniel Milewski continues to explore the life in Miami’s artiest neighborhood in his solo show “The Umpire.” The exhibit includes photography, collages, and sculptures of the riffing on “banality ” of ever ything from clothing to photography to memor y. “ What most interests me are the circumstances or things hidden in the mundane,” Milewski says. “That this can be as complicated as a crazy spectacle, but the circumstances often go unnoticed.” The collection, created in 2012, has also reflected his experiences of the vagaries of daily life while running to Lester ’s, his bar/coffeehouse/art space just down the block from Diet. On view is a sculpture that looks like a pair of stilts draped in tie-dyed T-shirts, a sepia-tinged portrait of Henr y Flagler, and a photo collage depicting smooching punk rockers sporting porcupine Mohawks. “I like the idea of the ‘Umpire’ because he’s like a governor watching over a game,” Milewski adds. “The umpire

makes the rules but doesn’t determine the outcome of what happens in the game,” are found objects or at least reflect the impulse to reposition. Mostly banal in their object hood and process, “the works endeavor to highlight micro spaces that have the capability for more complexity. Structures create distortions and mutations, governed by our own positioning and disturbed by our fragmented experiences as they take on seemingly natural and rational qualities,” explains Daniel Milewski. Galler y Diet is pleased to announce The Umpire, a solo exhibition by Daniel Milewski. This will be Daniel’s second solo exhibition at Galler y Diet, he has participated in numerous group exhibitions at the galler y including a three person exhibit with Marcos Valella and Bhakti Baxter, and a solo exhibition at Dimensions Variable. This exhibition is an exciting experieces to those who like tapping into an artists perspective and seeing it through.

MM |0017

| Art Stories |

W Miami's Revolutionary

A rt Scene W

Miami has always been known to offer beautiful beaches, great looking people, awesome weather, a charming nightlife. Today, for the lcoals it is not enough. This cultivating new generation has joined with this city and ovver time has changed the meaning of Miami. This city has hustled night and day to bring out this explosion of creativity. Spilling all over the streets of the newly developed city of Wynwood and Art district. Through the innovative form of expressing in many ways. Art galleries are

Artists from every aspect have started to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and enchanting. This is where you can indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses. Violet Monroe

0018

blossoming out of every corner of Midtown, as well as new and hip restaurants serving flavors of succulent foods across the country, also fashion has started making a new stand. Dancing through the arts as musical and ballets direct themselves at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Along with the biggest music concerts and insomniatic nightlife Miami of fers. This city is forever expanding into much more everyday. Every month there is something new amplifying itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way to new heights. The Art Culture is revolutionizing Miamiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scene, artists from every aspect have started to set this city to be viewed as creative, innovative, bold, and an enchanting spot to indulge in the one life that we are given to explore all of our senses. Miami has become a place that the adventurous and experiencers can come to explore the creative and wild events of fered to the public. So if your here just for vacation, a business trip, or just a local, looking for the best thing to hit up, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be scared, get out and enjoy this magnificent island. Have dinner at SouthStreet before you go to Wynwood Artwalk, or watch a Boys vs Girls at the Artsh Center. And if your ready for more, Midtowns bars have a stir waiting for you.

ART BATTLE Text LOVEME to 24666 and wait to see if you are chosen to participate in this EXCLUSIVE event

Wynwood ART Secret Society

â&#x201E;˘ presents

SETTHE WORLD ON

FIRE TOUR

MARCH 28 at thE AA Arena Special Guest