Maitejosune Urrechaga May 11

Swampspace 

is at a loss for words in

presenting 

Presque Vu 

by

Maitejosune Urrechaga

Opening May 11   3 - 10 pm

Yes, No or I Don't Know Why, are common responses to questions. When the answer is " On the Tip of the Tongue", some call it "Presque Vu" or almost seen.   To experience the work of Maitejosune Urrechaga is similar in character to these psycholinguistic phenomenon.   For her solo show, Maitejosune explores through portraiture the universal experience of unconscious thoughts and impulses as yet unexplained by science or spirituality.

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The A/V Show

Swampspace presents

The A/V Show - Analog in Formaldehyde

Premier Opening April 13  7-11pm 

Featured participants are a selection of multi-disciplinary artists focused on the expression and analysis of audio-visual history.

Cristy Alma

Kevin Arrow

Gina Cunningham

Juan Maristany

Coral Morphologic

David Rohn

Barron Sherer

Carmen Tiffany

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 In recognition of burgeoning spring,  The A/V Show effectively transforms Swampspace into a mythical environment conveying ideals of analog and digital in an attempt to renew understanding of established developments in electronic media through the filter of trans-generational sensibility.  The A/V Show reconsiders the progression of technology in order to formulate a discussion of innovation, its likelihood and the ever increasing pace of obsolescence.

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150 NE 42 St. Miami Design District

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House of Desire

Swampspace is desirous in presenting 

La Maison du Désir

Opening Reception February 9  6-11 pm

Miami Design District

House of Desire

150 NE 42 Street

Artists Lea Nickless and Conrad Hamather will present "La Maison du Désir/The House of Desire," a collaborative installation featuring a pop-up boutique and objects which reference the luxury goods industry. Atelier garment collections, monoprints and a video time-lapse drawing continue the dialogue between the digital and the body. The exhibition also debuts an atmospheric pop-up floor designed by Keith Frutiger, Atlanta-based design guru.

Conrad Hamather has been creating sculpture and installation work with a discourse on body and architecture for the last two decades. A faculty member at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Hamather teaches in the Department of Fashion Design. 

Artist and curator Lea Nickless is interested in the unseen, the subliminal, with what is beneath the surface. Her monoprints and a time-lapse video feature layers of pigment, shape and text.

Free Parking for Repeat Offenders

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Pataphysical Endings

Swampspace 

is saddened to announce 

Closing Reception

Pataphysics Show

January 12, 2013 6-9pm

Join the swampspace community for your final chance to learn all about the science of imaginary solutions.

150 NE 42 Street Miami Design District

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popUPwindGAP

Swampspace is pleased to host the windGAP,  another visiting artists situation installation.

the windGAP:
A Pop-up Situation

Miami, Florida, November 30, 2012 – Artist Frank Traynor, founder of
Brooklyn’s celebrated Perfect Nothing Catalog, has teamed up with
curator Claudia Eve Beauchesne to present the windGAP, a pop-up
situation taking place in Miami on December 3-9, 2012.

Last summer, Traynor opened The Perfect Nothing Catalog, a temporary
shop in a shack in a garden in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The experience of
walking through a lush urban garden and into a repurposed icehouse to
find a shop full of hand-crafted design objects made the project unique,
and it was featured in New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Nylon
and Daily Candy, and included in the installation Ikea Disobedients at
MoMA PS1.

Meanwhile, Beauchesne was curating The Picture Show, a photography
exhibition taking place in the unapologetically kitsch lobby of the Brooklyn
Heights Cinema, a movie theater that will soon be demolished to make
way for condos. The historically and politically charged location was an
essential part of the group show, which became an L Magazine editors’
pick.

Traynor and Beauchesne bonded over their shared desire to subvert
conventional retail and exhibition practices, and decided to collaborate.
They envision the windGAP as a new chapter in the history of The Perfect
Nothing Catalog, with more temporary installations and joint ventures in
the coming months.

Traynor came up with the title for the project while hiking on the
Appalachian Trail: “I kept reading about these things, wind gaps, and
they struck my imagination. A wind gap is a geological formation created
when a river dries up but the earth keeps its shape. I like the idea that
what used to be about water is now about wind, which is a kind of perfect
nothing.”

the windGAP will take place under a parachute installed outside of
swampspace, a project space run by local artist Oliver Sanchez in Miami’s
Design District. The pop-up situation will feature an eclectic mix of one-of-
a-kind objects by emerging designers, artists, craftsmen and collectors,
among them Carson Fisk-Vittori, Hayden Dunham, Chen Chen & Kai
Williams, Garrett Young, Michael Bauer and Tori Kudo (aka Maher Shalal
Hash Baz).

The WindGAP
150 N.E. 41 Street, Miami, FL
December 3-9, 2012, 12-9 pm
http://theperfectnothingcatalog.com/
Facebook.com/perfectnothingcatalog

For more information, contact:

Frank Traynor: francisxaviertraynor@gmail.com

the 100 Years Show

Visit Swampspace

Tonight Dec 1 Grand Opening

 Thurs Dec 6 Design District VIP Night

see Live Camels !

Remember November

Art conquers many things.  Like clockwork, art brings throngs of gawkers and grinders to the swamp every December.

With all the art on display at ABMB and at the myriad of satellite fairs you hope no one will notice that the sea level has indeed risen. 

But ask any of the thousands of residents from the low lying areas and the verdict is in.  The sky may be blue but so are the streets in much of South Florida.

Some say water is everything, indeed it is everywhere these days.  Certainly some clever artists will float ideas and projects based on the effects of H2 ohoh...

But Miami is still in its infancy. there is sufficient space to sprawl and or go tall.  Problem is it is mostly soggy swamp. 

No matter. Art must go on as the explosion of cultural revitalization kabooms with creativity and cash.

You know art is not the only allure here. People, mostly europeans and such from coooool places, come here for the flesh and bones of our bordello bodega ways.

And so it is that trees are planted, shops are opened, drinks are free so where you be?

I love Miami. I live the peeps and the streets. There is an I don't know what here that works overtime because people want certain things real bad.  They want 305 pride.  There is not a dry eye in the house.

But dry blight is what much art typifies, particularly publicly funded art that must jump through  flaming hoops of bureaucracy to get made so a few lowly artist can get decent food, housing and art supplies.

The power structure knows there is only so much that money can buy.  How much you are  loved by others is everyone's game.  It is the true measure of success.

Who does not love the sound of Cash.

Who does not beat heart for art.

Whoever paid big bucks for this wall sculpture has a message for you...

He and She who lives, breaths eats and shits art is probably happy on inside and out.

Art is the most powerful force.  Just ask any longtime resident of Wynwood.

Art is both big commodity and worthless mulch.

Art is a multi-disciplinary mastodon.

Art is whatever, eek.

Art is the La Rive Gauche of the swamp.

ABMB is an anthropological reality carnaval.

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