Miami Art walk guide: October – Biscayne Corridor

Wynwood Art District ©Leticia del Monte

With the Wynwood Art Fair scheduled for the end of month, October should serve as a dry run for Art Basel as the intimidating winter extravaganza draws nigh. Meanwhile, galleries in Wynwood and Design District will be limbering up this week with exhibition openings in time for that other beloved-behated Miami art affair: Second Saturday Art Walk.

As usual, we’ve got you covered with a guide to all the new shows we could find. As unusual, we will be taking part in Art Walk proper ourselves this month. Look out for our setup among the food trucks in the Wynwood Market, where we will be getting the word out about Sketchy Pink, a project to raise money for breast cancer research during October. Update: All the food trucks in the Wynwood Market will have donation jars for Sketchy Pink!

You can check out the Pink portrait series at sketchymiami.com/pink. (RSVP for our Oct. 23 Pink Party at The Betsy-South Beach). Without further ado, deep fried Beanie Babies.

Deep Fried Beanie Babies! @ Robert Fontaine Gallery

Beyond disclosing its artist — Scott Snyder — the gallery’s website doesn’t offer any elaboration on this tantalizingly titled exhibition, so I went to the source. Here’s an edited blurb from Snyder’s website, culturalcoroner.com, about his Deep Fried and Ingot series:

I have taught, curated, and worked as an artist. From these three occupational vantage points, I see the beauty and absurdity of culture and the art market. I play with the notion of low art versus high art through the use of kitsch items deemed by some to be collectable … Much like candy and junk food that permeate our consumer culture, there are parallels of popular consumer culture to fine art or object collecting. For some, consumption and collection is purely dictated by (perceived or impulsive) need. For others, collecting is based on research and speculation of a “market” (i.e. beanie baby or abstract expressionists). Yet for others, ownership gives self-worth and legacy within their caste, whether it be acquisition of a ‘millennium bear’ or a de Kooning.

Read more at Beached Miami’s October Art Walk Guide.  

via miamiherald.com