This week, I decided to diverge from my usual lunch routine of GoGo and Icebox on the beach, and make the trip across the bridge to Wynwood to meet fellow writer Carla Torres at Zak the Baker’s fresh new digs. While he’s long baked up loaves in Hialeah and supplied many local restaurants with his creations, this is his first cafe and bakery, which opened this summer. The menu consists of toast topped with fresh ingredients–like the avocado spread that […]
Posts tagged: Wynwood
Whether scrawled on the side of a building or on a massive canvas, the work of London-born, Berlin-based artist David Walker makes one pause for closer study. His medium is exclusively spray paint and his masterpieces are made without the aid of stencils, brushes or a projector, creating hyper-realistic, multi-layered portraits in a rainbow of dripping spray paint colors. Women are almost always his subjects, and it’s the juxtaposition between classical and modern, beauty and ugliness where he finds an […]
May 10
2013
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Anthony Lister, ‘Do As Thou Wilt’
Inside Robert Fontaine Gallery’s pristine white showroom in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, ballerinas are twirling and leaping around the walls. Their diaphanous tutus are saturated with color splashing like splattered paint and dripping from their bodies. They’re dressed in red, yellow, purple, blue, black, and pink. Their skeletons are sometimes exposed, like an x-ray, offering a peek at the fine-tuning and muscular mechanics behind their fluid motion. These are the works of Australian street artist Anthony Lister, a man who […]
Apr 22
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Nick Gentry’s XCHANGE: Man or Machine?
Studying one of Nick Gentry’s portraits, a pair of steely eyes look back at you with a stoic, unsmiling, sometimes stunned, expression. The face is decidedly beautiful–almost too beautiful–with perfect proportions and symmetry, hair smooth and sleek, often slicked away from the face to further show off large, luscious lips, an attractive jawline, a delicate collarbone. The London-based artist paints these large scale portraits onto a canvas of used floppy disks. His newest works are light box portraits composed of […]
