Out-of-Site: Young Art in Miami

Art Basel Miami Beach is as blue-chip as an American art fair gets. In the past few years, even NADA has moved upscale. But in a less than blue-chip year, we look at the young art galleries presenting exhibitions off-site, many of them in the less than prosperous Design District.



Felix Larreta, "Spherescent"
A project that combines trigonometry and linguistics into 3-D spherical images. An ambitious show to shame nay-sayers about intellectual discourse in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach.
Terri and Donna,153 NW 36th St, By Appointment Only. On December 4 at at 8 PM, Washed Out play. The curators, New York transplants Clayton Deutsch and Diego Caro de Briature, explain the decision to have the band play as a matter of politics:
"Feeling priced out of Art Basel (and certainly left off the VIP guest lists) where awesome bands like the Gossip play, we thought we should try to throw an even better concert for all the people who can't get into the exclusive VIP parties. But it has to be such an amazing band that all the VIP turds will be wanting to come to our event."



"If You Can't Find a Partner, Use a Wooden Chair"
A project cryptically named for the Elvis song, "Jailhose Rock," and including the artists Celeste Dupuy-Spencer, Richard Haden, Jamie Isenstein, Alex Kalman, Josh Kline, Zak Kitnick, Erik Lindman, Win McCarthy,  Martin Oppel, Anna Rosen, Paul Salveson, John Seal, Viking Funeral. The project is the brainchild of Miami-based artist-curators Win McCarthy and Lola Sinreich, and re-employs many of the themes of a show he previously put togther, "Cutting-Edge Frames," which involved merging the studio and the gallery.
American Donut, 3825 NE 1st Ct. Open December 2–8, 12–3 PM.



"Mine But Not Mine"
25 NE 25th St, December 2–6, 11 AM–7 PM.
Curated by young artists Grear Patterson and Gabe Ferrari, "Mine But Not Me" is an exhibition of photography from the past century, tracing a period during which the medium went from bastard son to real life sellable artform, to be curated and exhibited outside a major fair. The show includes the work of the young curators, but also artists ranging in age and career stage from David Benjamin Sherry and Roe Ethridge to Laurie Simmons and Walker Evans.




"It Ain't Fair 2009"
As is their wont, Aaron Bondaroff, Al Moran and OHWOW present a smatering of New York artists in Miami, among them Rita Ackermann, Tim Barber, Lizzy Bougatsos, Nate Lowman and David Benjamin Sherry. A collaborative art project featuring Danger Mouse and David Lynch is also on view.
OHWOW, 3100 NW & Avenue, December 2–January 9. Opens December 2 at 8 PM, with a performance by Cyprien Gaillard and Koudlam