backyard paradise

• swampspace gallery is nonchalant when presenting: 'Backyard Paradise' Opens Fri. Sept.13. 6-11pm Dogan Arslanoglu Bhakti Baxter Justin Cooper Giles Neale Gustavo Oviedo Johnny Robles Johnny Laderer Rachel Rossin George Sanchez Calderon When we say “leisure,” we mean “quality of life.” We mean BBQs and sports—relaxation, because Everybody’s working for the weekend. After WWII, when the American economy boomed, tract housing erupted in sprawls of demi-castles, each with its very own back yard. At the same time, the beginning of the twentieth century saw work-week hours reduced from 60.1 to 47 hours per week. The world of work is intimately linked to our time for contemplation and observation; and for an appreciation of the psychology of space. Today, however, Americans work more than any other industrialized nation. We enjoy far less leisure time. Situationist International identified leisure in a capitalist society as illusory; not free time, but rather a commodity sold back to the individual. Compartmentalizing lives is a farce. Constant work, society is convinced, creates to more time for leisure. Time available for leisure varies from one society to the next, although anthropologists have found that early man and hunter-gatherer societies had significantly more leisure time than people in more complex (modern) societies. Europeans on arrival to America saw natives as lazy. Today American society has taken it one step further with increasingly less time for leisure than their European counterparts. In many ways, the backyard and leisure go hand-in-hand to the point of interchangeability. Functioning as spaces for more personalized and often kitschy expressions of an idealized paradise, the manicured façade for the world in the front yard occasions private expression in the backyard, or, as they say: “Business in the front, party in the back.” Backyard Paradise presents artists whose lives and work seem to blend seamlessly. Whatever their passions or interpretations of leisure may be, their efforts to live life holistically are reflected herein. Their work examines the relationship between the backyard and everything that might appear on a postcard: sailing, reading, gardening, fishing, BBQing, surfing, golfing, swimming, sunbathing, playing tennis, or swinging in a hammock. “You visit; we live it!” 150 NE 42 St. MiamiDesignDistrict swampstyle@gmail.com

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Eye of Kubiat Nnamdie

Swampspace is spellbound in presenting 

Surface Layers Evolved 

by Kubiat Nnamdie

Opening July 26th  7-11 pm

Kuby's solo show of photography alludes to the metaphysical distillation processes occurring in disparate areas of modern life.  Curated by Jane Hart, the selection of photographs elucidates distinct events of the transformation process as experienced by this young Nigerian artist living in America.

As if to sip an Iowaska brew or gulp on DMT giving way to deep trance meditation, Surface Layers Evolved attempts to convey a dimensional collapse defined by ambiguity of focus to reveal new horizons for the subconscious. In this imagery, individual perception is warped and ordinary objects take on an anthropomorphic quality.  Nnamdie's photography erases the programed reality typified by Weegee and Cindy Sherman to skillfully intuit a chaotic spiritual energy that is at once cleansing and obliterating; taking us beyond our comfort zone.

Kubiat Nnamdie - Miami, Florida  A multidisciplinary artist working with video, photography, sculpture, and painting. Current work addresses issues related to spiritual and psychological events in contemporary society.   Interested in occult systems,  real-time interconnectivity of systems, and the effect of these systems on individuals. Works with mysticism, ancient technology and ritual practice. Presented at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Sofia Design Week and Milan Image Art Fair.  Co-authored split-book with Talkinass, Italian publishing house.

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Miami Design District

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another Southernmost Situation

It's Thespian Month!

 

Swampspace is pleased to host 

La Noche i.Delicatissima

by Southernmost Situations

An adaptation of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Liz Ferrer and Sebastian Duncan­Portuondo, la noche i.delicatissima features a cast of local artists, dancers, and musicians, moving the play from its original 1940s Mexican setting to a dreamlike 1960s Cuba.

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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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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.

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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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