Artists in Miami

ARTMIAMI.TV Recognizes Young Talent: Tabrizi Karimi

By JOSH LEWIS

Young artists often inquire about the Miami art scene, wanting to know whether their work is ready to debut and sell. Tabrizi Karimi was surprisingly different. She wasn’t concerned about Miami or external opinions about her art, making her journey notably distinct.

Laelanie Larach

Laelanie Larach Nieves, a self-taught artist who at 15 made her first masterpiece (Mysterious Forrest), was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. As the years went by, she began changing her style of painting and opted to fuse two of her passions: photography with abstract painting and the surreal style. Each of her works has a different concept.

Cory Hunter

Cory Hunter is an artist from Miami, Florida who works at the intersection of art and science. He studied material engineering and non-western art history at the University of Florida, now using his experience with the physical sciences in his artwork. In his current project he uses high-voltage electricity in his paintings, burning organic patterns.

Humberto Castro

Humberto Castro was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1957. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. He works in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and installations. In his early years, he also delved into performance art, especially using it as a vehicle for social criticism.

Enrique Martinez Celaya

Enrique Martínez Celaya is an artist with a highly literate and non-aligned approach to art making. His practice spans a broad range of media and disciplines often embodied in the multi-faceted projects he creates for art venues as well as for environments not traditionally associated with the visual arts.

Savago Lome

Since childhood, Savago Lome has paid attention to dreams. Dreams are usually different, sometimes they repeat, and in them one can sing, run, fly, or shift perspectives. Navigating these subconscious themes plays a central role in the artistic process.

Peter Vigil

Peter Vigil uses bold colors to abstractly depict everyday or provocative, social and cultural themes that promote divergent perspectives and that transcend collective principles. He uses the resounding vibrancy of the hues, especially the red hues, to provide a sense of a physical existence to his subjects and underscore the complexity of intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics.

Rose Kong at Art Asia

By ALLISON NADING

With tightly clasped hands and a small smile, the petite form lingering in a corner might at first go unperceived by many wandering the exhibits of Art Asia. Quite the opposite is true, however, in regards to the vibrantly-hued canvases created by those same clasped hands.

Jennifer Louise Martin on the Quest for Beauty

By LAURA RODRIGUEZ

The theme of women’s constant search for beauty and society’s unrealistic expectations has always been a popular one in the modern art scene. At Verge, the London-based artist, Jennifer Louise Martin, exhibited portraits of high-fashion models and retro beauties with mascara-stained faces and an intense look in their eyes.

The Peter Tunney Experiment

“I should have been dead ten times,” said Peter Tunney in an interview with the New York Observer. At his exhibition, The Peter Tunney Experiment, visitors encounter an artist combining creative expression with dynamic energy during Art Basel.

Kalunda Hilton

Brilliantly observant, nature adoring and camera toting, Kalunda J. Hilton is a native Miami artist whose senses are attuned to the hierarchy of design, texture and structure. Inspired by myriad art forms, this multi-dimensional, multi-media artist of uncanny vision has a breadth of work that spans a continuum from lush pastels to penetrating pen drawings.

Saintas Frankel

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saintas Franckel is an artist, writer and poet. Throughout his childhood, he had a passion for drawing portraits, capturing the likenesses of those around him. During his teenage years, Franckel developed a deeper passion for visual arts.

Emilio Garcia

Emilio Garcia was born in the winter of 1981 near Barcelona, Spain. He has a long career trajectory as a freelance art director and visual artist. Since 1999, he has worked with well-known international companies, specializing in motion graphics and multimedia artwork.

SELECT an Art Basel Miami Imperative

A man-sized chrome skull illuminates the entrance of the Catalina Hotel. At the SELECT fair, visitors are drawn into an immersive world of contemporary art and creative liberty.

Martin Kreloff Comes Home

By BRENDA MABBITT

Thirty-five years ago, Martin Kreloff gathered a hundred people and embarked on an ambitious project: photograph each person individually saying the word “art”. The subjects included Gloria Vanderbilt, Margarita Cano, Jeanne Wolfe and Arnold Lehman, among others. Thirty of these photographs were rendered into elegant line drawings.