Art Season Preview 2006-2007

By Mary Damiano

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood
1650 Harrison St. Hollywood, FL. 33020

Geometric, Why Not?  Geometric painting and sculpture by international artists.

All-Media Juried Biennial, Florida artists. April 6-May 20

Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
1799 SE 17th St. Fort Lauderdale

29th Annual Faculty Show, displays the work of faculty and staff. September 3-October 10

Art Center/South Florida
800 Lincoln Rd. Miami Beach, FL. 33139

Episode.  September 16-October 15

Post No Bills, rock posters by Charlie Calderin, Kristen Thiele, Thomas Scott, Nick Butcher, Seripop, Tara McPherson, Mat Daly, Leia Bell and others.  October 21-November 19

We'll Make a Lover of You: local and national Lowbrow artists, including Francesco LoCastro, Shepard Fairey, Todd Schorr, Dalek, Jim Houser, Miss Van, Camille Rose Garcia, Jonathan Weiner, Jeff Soto, Sas Christian, Colin Christian and others.   Nov. 25-Jan. 7

There Goes the Neighborhood, urban works by Tom Virgin, Leila Leder-Kremer, Robert Huff and Jenny Brillhart.  Jan. 13-Feb. 18

Bakehouse Art Complex
561 NW 32nd St. Miami, FL. 33127-3749
Get to Know Us, features works by gallery members    Sept. 10 -Oct. 14

Barbara Gillman Gallery
4141 NE Second Ave. 200 B Miami Design District, FL. 33137

Weft: Lorena Cabrera.  Sept. 9-Nov. 4

Chip Sullivan: Garden of Optical Delights.  Nov. 11-Dec. 1

Lorena Cabrera: Weft.  Jan. 13-Feb. 6

Food for Thought.  Feb. 10-March 6.

Bill Leech: New Work.  March 10-April 10

The Show's the Thing!  April 14-May 8

Celia Cruz, the subject of an exhibit this season at the Bass Museum

Bass Museum
2121 Park Ave. (in Collins Park) Miami Beach, FL. 33139-1729

Twentieth Century Tapestries.  Aug. 25, 2006-Oct. 31

Made in Miami: Herve Di Rosa's Around the World/12th Stage, paintings, drawings and sculpture. Aug. 11-Oct. 29

Constructing New Berlin, painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, video, sound and performance by 16 Berlin-based artists. Nov. 3-Jan. 21

Azucar! The Life and Music of Celia Cruz, photographs, personal documents, costumes, videos, music and more from the late Cuban-born singer. Feb. 9-Apr.30

Beaux Arts Collections
2451 Brickell Ave., Main Floor Miami, FL.

Carbonell New Bronzes, Important Collection of Maquettes to Monumental.  Sept. 1-Jan. 31

Paintings and Sculptures, by Mauro Arbiza-Fernandez.  Sept. 1-Jan. 31

Berniece Steinbaum Gallery
3550 N. Miami Ave. Wynwood, FL. 33127

Los Caprichos: Maria Brito Sept. 9-Oct. 7

Angelika Rienhoffer: Projects Room  Sept. 9-Oct. 7

Brian Burkhardt, mixed-media installation; Carol Prusa, mixed media, Wanxin Zhang, sculpture.  Oct. 14-Nov. 2

A Timely Response, group exhibit of gallery artists, mixed media.  Dec. 7-Dec. 11

Marilyn Monroe, whose status as an iconic legend will be examined in an exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

Boca Raton Museum of Art
501 Plaza Real Boca Raton, FL. 33432

Masters of Latin America: Selections from the Joan & Milton Bagley Collection paintings and sculptures from 20th century.  Sept. 6-Nov. 26

Purvis Young: Paintings from the Street, 30-year retrospective of the self-taught Miami painter;  Sept. 6-Nov. 26

Latin American Art from the Museum's Collection, sculpture and paintings by 20th century Latin American artists. Sept. 6-Nov. 26

Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe, more than 260 works by famed artists capturing the image of the movie icon;

Graham Flint: Portrait of America-Florida Images from the Gigapxl Project, large-format photographs from the inventor of the Hubble Space Telescope.  Dec. 6-April 1

Broward Community College
3501 S. Davie Rd. Fort Lauderdale, FL. 33314

Fresh Produce: Crate Labels of Florida and Beyond.  Sept. 28, through Oct. 24

Contemporary Latin American Art IX. Aug. 31-Oct. 20

Red Colors of Disillusion: Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton, photographs of contemporary Russia. Nov. 2-Dec.13

Eye Candy: Annual Faculty Exhibition, sculpture, painting, video installations and conceptual art. Jan. 18-Feb. 6

Got Big Paintings; Seek Exhibition, art car and large paintings by the Florida self-taught artist. Feb. 15-March 20

Chutes and Ladder: Annual Juried Student Exhibition. March 29-April 24

May 10-June 5 -- BCC Potters Guild Exhibition. BCC.

Coral Springs Museum of Art
2855 Coral Springs Dr. Coral Springs, FL. 33065

International Woodturners: Fine Art of Woodturning; Sept. 8-Nov. 18 

Deborah Fletcher: Gilded Memories, paintings;  Sept. 8-Nov. 18

Klawdia Proia: Ceramics;  Sept. 8-Nov. 18

John Walley: In New Light-Drawings and Paintings, through November 18

Tin Ly: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture; Bob Bagley: Sculpture in Focus. Dec. 1-Feb. 17

International Sculpture Symposium Part II: Perez Celis/South America & Yoshin Ogata/Asia. Jan. 6-Jan. 31

Pablo Cano: Marionette Workshops and Performances. March 2-May 19

Cornell Museum of Art and History at Old School Square
51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach, 561-243-7922.

Fine Focus '06, a traveling juried show of 50 small format art quilts; Palm Beach

Watercolor Society Annual Exhibition, 100 still life, landscape and portrait works by Society members. To Oct. 29

Abataka: quilts, sculptures and fiber art from the West Palm Beach author and AIDS activist; Women in the Visual Arts, works in varied media.  Nov. 2-Jan. 14

Gerry Gersten: Face to Face, illustrations by the American caricaturist; Gathering of Kuumba, works in varied media by 20 regional African-American, Haitian, Caribbean artists.  Jan. 18-March 18

Blending the Old and the New: Quilts from the Paul Pilgrim Collection; Florida Chapter of the National Association of Women Artists, works in a variety of media by Chapter members.  March 22-June 2

David Castillo Modern Comtemporary Art
2234 NW Second Ave. Wynwood

Beth Reisman solo show.  Sept. 9-Oct. 31

Chris Byrd project room. Sept. 9-Oct. 31

Flagler Museum
One Whitehall Way, Palm Beach, 561-655-2833.

The Blue God and the Silver King: The Origins of Sportfishing on Florida's Southeast Coast.  To Dec. 10 

Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor of the Guilded Age.  Jan. 16-April 15

The Frost Art Museum
11200 SW Eighth St. Miami

A Room of One's Own: Teresita Fernandez, Maria Elena Gonzalez, Quisqueya Henriquez & Maria Martinez-Canas   Sept. 15-Dec. 10

Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach, 305-672-5044.

Bonim: Jewish Developers Building Florida and Building Community.  To March 11

Poetry of Six Edges Zipora Rafaelov, weavings, small wooden sculpture and light by the Israeli artist.  Jan. 4-April 11

Photos of Cuban Jews by Randy Sidman Moore, photo-documentary exhibit of contemporary South Florida's Cuban Jewish community.  April 26-July 22 

Lowe Art Museum
University of Miami, 1301 Stanford Dr. Coral Gables

Flowers for the Earth Lord: Guatemalan Textiles from the Lowe Art Museum. through Nov. 12

Humberto Calzada: In Dreams Awake, a retrospective of the Miami painter.  Dec. 2-Jan. 28

Arctic Spirit: Inuit Art from the Albrecht Collection at the Heard Museum, traditional and contemporary wall hangings, prints, drawings, sculptures, carved ivories, masks and decorated clothing from 250 B.C. to the 21st century; Art of the People: Inuit Sculpture from the Permanent Collection.  Feb. 10-April 1

UM Students/MFA; UM Faculty: William Carlson. April 14-May 27

Miami Art Central
5960 SW 57th Ave. South Miami, FL. 33143

Video: An Art, a History, 1965-2005: New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou
Sept. 20-Dec. 10

Peter Friedl: Works 1964-2006, video works, installations and sculptures by the Austrian-born artist. Jan. 11-April 8

MiamiArt Museum
101 W. Flagler St. Miami

Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler: House with Pool   Aug. 15-Oct. 29

Lorna Simpson large-scale photographs and text works. Oct. 5-Jan. 21

MAM Video Gallery- Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler  Aug. 15-Oct. 29

Mark Dion, installation.  Oct. 26-Jan. 14

The Machine, the Body and the City -- Modern Photographs from the Charles Cowles Collection.  Nov. 17-April 15

LeWitt x 2, drawings, gouaches, sculptures and maquettes by Sol LeWitt.  Feb. 9-May 28

Collectors Council Acquisitions, newly acquired works by Nathan Carter, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Anna Gaskell, Arturo Herrera, Sarah Morris, Wangechi Mutu, Raymond Pettibone and Lorna Simpson.  March 2-July 1

Power of Ten: Gifts in Honor of Miami Art Museum's 10th Anniversary, donated art works.  May 4-Oct. 28

MoCA's Tenth Anniversary Collection, large-scale installations, film and other major donations to the museum. Goldman. March 11-June 3

Miami-Dade College Art Gallery
A Martin & Pat Fine Center for the Arts Kendall
Well Kept Secret: 40 Years of Collecting at MDC.  Sept. 27–Nov. 3

Miami Museum of Science and Planetarium
3280 S. Miami Ave. Miami, FL. 33129

Wondrous Cold.  Sept. 24- Dec. 15

The Moore Space
4040 NE Second Ave., Second floor Miami

Room: Tracy + the Plastics and Fawn Frieger. Sept. 9-Nov.

Twilight Town: videos by Sean Dack   Sept. 9-Nov. 1

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale
1 E. Las Olas Blvd. Fort Lauderdale

Platonic Solids-An Installation by Matthew Schreiber   through Oct. 16

Highwaymen Newton & Hair: The American Dream in the Sunshine State.  to Nov. 1

Karel Appel: In Memoriam  June 1-Nov.1

Target Presents Chicano Visions: American Painters on the Verge, 80 works by Chicano artists.  Nov. 18-May 1

Through the Lens of the Camera: Environments   June 1-Nov. 1

Cradle of Christianity: Jewish and Christian Treasures from the Holy Land, Biblical-era artifacts from Jerusalem's Israel Museum.  Dec. 7- April 15

Inspired by China: Contemporary Furniture Makers Explore Chinese Traditions.  May-August

Museum of Comteporary Art
404 NW 26th St. Wynwood, FL.

Christian Holstad: The Terms of Endearment  Llarge-scale installation of drawings, soft sculptures and a jukebox. Sept. 9-Nov. 5

Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works With Light, fluorescent light environments. Oct. 28-Dec. 23

Pablo Cano: City Beneath the Sea, theatrical production and exhibition of marionettes. MoCA.

Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part 1, a large-scale community project honoring the life and work of the avant-garde choreographer.  Jan. 26-April 29

MoCA's Tenth Anniversary Collection, large-scale installations, film and other major donations to the museum.  Goldman Warehouse   March 11-June 3.

Merce Cunningham: Dancing on the Cutting Edge Part II, sets and costumes from the new original dance by the avant-garde choreographer with Miami artist Daniel Asham and composer Daniel Behrman. Goldman warehouse  April 22-June 25

Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, paintings, video, installation and music by three generations of European and American artists.  May 11-July 15

Museum of Science and Discovery
Aliens: Worlds of Possibilities, interactive exhibit featuring telescopes, meteorites and robotics.  To Oct. 31

Aviation Station, hands on, simulated flights; Eternal Egypt Kiosk, multimedia presentation of artifacts, people and places of ancient Egypt; Florida Ecoscapes, bi-level ecology exhibits with living and replicated plants, animals, habitats and a live coral reef.  Oct. 7-ongoing

MarsQuest, an interactive exhibit about the red planet.  Dec. 1-April 30

Dino-Might!, animatronic dinosaurs and displays.  May 26-Sept. 9

Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Ave. West Palm Beach

Mary Cassatt: Pastels and Drawings   through Oct. 29

Before the Camera: Remaking Reality, orchestrated photographic artworks. Oct. 14-Jan. 7

William Wegman: Funney/Strange, signature Polaroids, black-and-white photographs, paintings, drawings, collages, artist books, videos and film.  Nov. 4-Jan. 28

Collecting the Impressionists: Masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 12 paintings by Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Manet and Degas. Jan. 20-March 11

Georgia O'Keeffe: Circling Around Abstraction, more than 40 works by the American modernist. Feb. 10-May 6

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, whose personal memorabilia will be on exhibit at the Old Fort Lauderdale Village and Museum at the New River Inn

Old Fort Lauderdale Village and Museum at the New River Inn
219 SW Second Ave., Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-4431

History Among the Highrises: Rediscovered Treasures from the Photography Collection, 30 historical photographs of Greater Fort Lauderdale, from late 19th century to recent past. To Nov. 12

Digging Up the Past: An Archaeological Excavation of the second Stranahan Store, an installation of artifacts uncovered in the 1996-1997 Stranahan Trading Post dig. To Feb. 11

Marjory Stoneman Douglas: One Woman, The Everglades and the Rest is History, photographs, personal artifacts and books belonging to the preservationist and author. To Feb. 16

South Florida Historical Museum
101 W. Flagler St., Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, 305-375-1492.

Haitian Community Arts: Images by Iris PhotoCollective, 50 color photographs of the traditions of South Florida's Haitian community.   through Jan. 14

Miami Beach: America's Tropical Resort, film, souvenirs, vintage bathing suits, photographs and more.  through  Jan. 27

Port Royal, Jamaica. Rare books, maps, prints, photographs, video footage and artifacts from this partially sunken city.  Feb. 15-June 3

Miami Bungalow: Lobby Exhibition, drawings, photographs and models from the early 20th century of the popular house type.  May 17-Sep. 9

Young at Art Children’s Museum
11584 W. State Road 84, Davie
La Casa de Dora, A tiled roof house, rooms, courtyard, family portraits and photo albums with bilingual elements based on Dora the Explorer.   through Dec. 31 

Art Basel
Dec. 6- Dec. 9 -- Art Basel, international art show and special exhibitions by noted galleries and artists. Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach,
305-674-1292.

Art Miami
Jan. 5-Jan. 8 -- Art Miami, master paintings, photography, sculpture and other museum-quality works from 130 galleries from around the world. Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, 305-573-1388 or 866-727-7953.