Dorsch Gallery - Miami
By Bryan Barcena
The rise of Internet socialization has entrenched our generation in the most significant sexual and interpersonal revolution since that of the 1960s. The current generation is the first that has gained the ability to establish and arguably experience the de-personification and increased ephemerality of intimate relationships. The Internet revolution ushered [...]
FIFI Projects - New York
By Bryan Barcena
In the post-financial meltdown, credit crisis or great recession era, the narrative of American greed and consumerism has become not only a cliché, but also an inescapable self-fulfilling prophecy. The American populace is, at this point, fully aware of its propensity to consume and the vilification that is thrust upon [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami
March 25 - May 10, 2009
By Bryan Barcena
Presented with the concept of an exhibition focusing on abstract cinema, one might expect a museum full of large black cubic theatres, projecting images akin to the kind you would find on your computer’s desktop screensaver; frigid mechanical op-art that would seem [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami
December 3, 2008 - March 1, 2009
By Bryan Barcena
Debuting during Art Basel 2009, the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami brings to the United States the first major museum showing for Albanian multi-media artist, Anri Sala. Known primarily for his video pieces invoking the communicative properties inherent in light and [...]
By Bryan Barcena
The visual arts have throughout their existence served the subtle yet necessary function as cathartic vessels into which the conflicts of the mind are poured. Media and vehicles for the expression of psychosomatic trauma are frequently manifested as complex and nuanced regurgitations of the past. The icons and symbols that represent troubling experiences [...]
Locust Projects, Wynwood Art District - Miami
September 13 - October 31, 2008
By Bryan Barcena
It is always refreshing to encounter the work of artists who truly understand and exploit the metamorphic qualities inherent in the white walls of a gallery. Viewers who chose to dive head first into Clifton Childree’s latest exhibition at Locust Projects, found [...]
By Bryan Barcena
As the twentieth century reached its final hours, many artists felt that art based on critical theory was on the way out. The conceptual frameworks, which had propelled art along during the past hundred years, were beginning to seem feeble. The strategy became one of refusing to criticize or to become an antithesis [...]
By Bryan Barcena
It can be argued that the figurative weight of the Miami art world falls squarely on the shoulders of the soon-to-be-constructed Museum Park Complex in downtown Miami. This stunningly-designed Herzog & de Meuron edifice hopes to provide residents with the kind of cultural institution that the city has been deprived of for so [...]
By Bryan Barcena
Bert Rodriguez’s brand of performance art has in some ways set the tone for the group of young artists emanating from Miami. Rodriguez’s pieces can at times reek of irony and sarcasm but more often than not they are an attempt to re-connect viewers with positive and perhaps lost aspects of their own [...]
By Bryan Barcena
The global Art Fair machine continues its global sojourn across North America, Asia and Europe as it makes its next stop October 16-19 in Regents Park London for the 2008 Frieze Art Fair. Marking the fair’s fifth year of operation and third year with primary sponsor, Deutsche Bank, fair organizers have assembled a [...]
