July 2nd, 2010
In Search of Fine Art in Miami
Looking for quality fine art can be a daunting task in Miami, galleries are in abundance, but the Bettcher Gallery , embraces the artist who challenges conventional expectation in concept or design, and yet excels in technical expertise, formality, originality and craftsmanship. You will find a superb array of contemporary works in a diversity of art forms on display, including sculptures, photographs, paintings, and mixed media. Located at their brand-new location, 4525 Collins Avenue.
Bettcher Gallery is committed to facilitating, advocating and nurturing the achievements and evolution of emerging, mid-career, and established contemporary artists, such as the detailed porcelain clay sculptures of Trica Cline; Toc Fetch’s ‘Kids of Lower Utopia Vol. 6 No3 Letters from the Front Lines’, which is a series of images drawn sequentially, each page measures 30″ x 50″, and are all done with a .3 mec-pencil on 200# paper; Paintings by Marc Dennis who has created a light-handed narrative and metaphor with lucid objectivity and technical proficiency; Nereida Garcia Ferraz, whose photography captures appropriations of gestures, open notes, family albums, and Spanish cards, which she offers as a soul baring personal history of a Cuban-American; Susan Jamison’s egg tempera paintings incorporate naturalistic imagery from the world of plants and animals with feminine cultural symbols and everyday objects in order to explore archetypes from fairy tales; Caul Lofgren, twists and contorts an impenetrable ideal of supermodels and athletes; and paintings by Vanessa McKnight, who uses a ‘cinematic photo-realism’ style that blends the everyday physical life with what’s in her mind, perception and dreams.
Gallery hours: Sunday through Thursday – 12pm to 7pm, Friday and Saturday – 12pm to 10pm. Keep checking the website for exhibitions and openings. Bring your wallet, because you won’t walk away empty handed, if you do, it’s only because you’re having the art piece shipped home, because you’re visiting and staying at one of the Miami luxury hotels .
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