Featured Artists

In discussing Erik Minter’s artwork, we turn to the writing of Clement Greenberg. In Greenberg’s writing, Avant-Garde and Kitsch, he discusses the duality of these two dichotomies (avant-garde and kitsch)—neither of absolutes, but orbiting on separate ellipses in the art world. We are reminded of this essay while we review Minter’s exploratory background: from working on Matthew Barney's final Cremaster 3 film series and his subsequent Guggenheim retrospective to helping design Paula Hayes’ Silicone planters, and unique experiences like assisting Tom Otterness in his studio, and creating 3-D sculptural processes for some of David Zwirner’s gallery artists. All in a day’s work of a top-notch preparator and designer, but where does the artist role begin and the designer dissolve? These two roles are seen as orbiting around the figure Minter, himself. One needs the other to survive, to flourish and to develop…conflicting manifestations dueling for reins on creative expression. 

Federica Matta reflects on the Two Generations exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary

During the course of our Two Generations exhibition, we’ve discovered many fascinating parallels between Roberto Matta’s and Federica Matta’s art, some of which were unknown until their work was seen side by side.

Oriano Galloni's Tracce di Universo sculptures represent a search for universal centrality.

The Manolo Valdés: Pequeñas Esculturas (Small Sculptures) exhibition displays a curatorial selection of 13 Manolo Valdés sculptures available for acquisition through Rosenbaum Contemporary. 

Paula Rivas and Christian Wloch’s kinetic light sculptures deal with fractions of the world invisible to the naked eye– the atomic particle realm of light and its properties observed in conventional environments through normal human interaction and our circumstantial but limited optic abilities.

St. Regis Bal Harbour, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rosenbaum Contemporary are presenting Breaking Through—Miami, featuring artists Omar Hassan and Helidon Xhixha, on Thursday, December 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the BH Burger Bar at the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in support of the Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (DRI). During the event, Omar Hassan will create a new painting in his Breaking Through series which will be auctioned off to benefit the DRI immediately upon its completion.

Congratulations to artist Helidon Xhixha, one of 11 artists invited to participate in the Syrian Arab Republic Pavilion’s “Origins of Civilization” exhibition at the 56^th Venice Biennale.

As we sat down with Oriano Galloni to work on the catalogue for his exhibition, we learned some interesting details and ideas behind several of his works.

In March, we shine the spotlight on Raphael Mazzucco, artist and photographer extraordinaire.  Much of his mixed media work, which combines photography, paint and collage elements,  is an inspiring celebration of beauty and nature.  Mazzucco is fascinated with the sensuality of the female nude.  He portrays women as ethereal, yet earthly sexy and provocatively alluring.   Mazzucco captures beauty and his point-of-view has captivated viewers from around the world.

Work by fine art photographer Simon Procter that chronicles couture runway shows he photographed for Chanel over a ten-year period is currently on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary’s Miami gallery, which is located in the lobby of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Hotel.  The show opened on March 25, 2014 and will run until the end of April.

In January and February, a work by Bill Beckley, one of the artists represented by Rosenbaum Contemporary, was featured on the covers of BAMbill, the program for the Brooklyn Academy of Music.  BAM is an arts center, located in Brooklyn, New York, that promotes the work of both emerging and modern master artists in all disciplines: visual arts, theater, dance, music, opera and film.  Beckley has donated the work titled I’m Prancin, made in 2013, to be sold to benefit BAM.  It now hangs in BAM’s opera hall.

Robert Indiana and Howard Rosenbaum rang in the new year with a visit at Robert’s home and studio to discuss upcoming projects for 2014 and exchange holiday wishes.