© 2013 Tatiana Parcero 1

Whiskey and Rye

Janice Sloane, Thunder, 2010, 26″x20″, Archival digital giclée print

The Nightclub invites you to Whiskey and Rye, the eleventh of twelve events involving a network of artists, producers, and art students. Its aim is to create dialogue within a diversity of art practice through curated exhibitions showcased in a one—night venue.

Whiskey and Rye

Curator | Amalia Caputo

Participant Artists | Mora Barber, Ángela Bonadies, María Cristina Carbonell, Marina Font, Moira Holohan, Elisabet Mabres, Rhonda Mitrani, Tatiana Parcero, Patricia Schnall-Gutiérrez, Janice Sloane

February 15, 7-11 pm
Address: 3841 NE Second Ave. Suite 103. Miami FL 33137

“Whiskey and Rye” presents works by ten artists, which will hopefully unfold like endless, interweaving stories or bits of their life. The works selected for this one night exhibition will highlight the connection between the ideas of “the fable”, “intoxication” and the “night” under the umbrella of the ephemeral of it all, be it a night, a four hour opening, a fable, or an intoxication itself. Fable in this case, refers to an open fictitious narrative or statement, often a legendary story of supernatural happenings, or maybe a narration intended to enforce a useful truth or fiction. The context of the ephemeral night will encapsulate their private world at its most unique and subtle moment, and the notion of intoxication can permeate as suggested de-variations of reality.

Whiskey and Rye, is a modest but engaging group show that wishes to highlight the work being created by the subjects of their history. The show carries a wide variety of media, as painting, photography, installation, and video.

About the artists:

Mora Barber (Bariloche, Argentina 1971), began her career in the arts as a gallerist in hometown and progressively became interested in art making. Her fabric and intricate mixed media large format collages speak about the notions of change, memory and the woods, as part of personal narratives. She currently studies Painting and Silkscreen at Florida International University.

Ángela Bonadies (Caracas, Venezuela, 1970), Her photographic work is based on memory, the archive, identity and urban space. Her work has been showed in México, Dubai, USA, Argentina and native Caracas. In 2009 she showcased a solo show Las personas y las cosas at Periférico Caracas and at The Private Space in Barcelona. Since 2010 she collaborates with artist Juan José Olavarria in the multidisciplinary project La Torre de David, researching about the abandoned financial building that was invaded by slums and has been giving attention internationally, they have been awarded with the Best Architecture and Landscape Projects award 2011, by Polis magazine and the DomusWeb Best of Architecture 2011.

María Cristina Carbonell (Puerto Rico, USA, 1964), is a multidisciplinary and versatile artist who works and masters different mediums to express her ideas through drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation and video art. She studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1982 to 1984, and at the Art Student League from 1986 to 1987. Carbonell obtained her BA in Fashion Design from The Fashion Institute of Technology, F.I.T., New York, in 1987. Since 1989 she has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Caracas, Barcelona, Sao Paolo, Madrid, México D.F, London, New York, Miami, Taipei, Basel, to name a few. Lives and works in Miami since 2010.

Marina Font (Córdoba, Argentina 1970), studied design, sculpture, and photography at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martin Malharro, Argentina. She moved to the United States in 1996. In the summer of 1998 she studied photography at Speos Ecole de la Photographie in Paris. She earned a MFA in Photography from Barry University, 2009. She has been part of several group shows at museums and cultural institutions such as: The Boca Raton Museum, The Appleton Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Museum of Florida Art, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Girls Club Collection of Contemporary Art, and Centro Cultural Español Miami. She was awarded “Best in Show” at Biennial Six – Museum of Florida Art, 2012 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Grant Finalist and Photoclucida’s Critical Mass Finalist, 2012. Marina lives and works in Miami Beach.

Moira Holohan (New York, NY, 1976), is currently part of the New Work Miami 2013 exhibition at the Miami Art Museum. Holohan’s work has been exhibited in Miami: MoCA North Miami; Art and Cultural Center of Hollywood; Art Center South Florida; de la Cruz Collection and General Practice. In New York: Greene County Council on the Arts, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, AC Institute. Moira Holohan’s practice includes sculpture, video animation and works on paper. The driving force behind her work is the romance and myth of labor, the instruments employed and the objects made within these narratives. In Holohan’s video animation process, she manipulates original video footage through digital editing; labor intensive hand mark making on each video still, and a final reanimation.

Elisabet Mabres (Barcelona, Spain, 1958), is a multidisciplinary artists and a visual educator since 1983. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona and Etching in the Arts and Crafts School LLotja, also in Barcelona. Her work has been shown extensively in Spain, Japan, Santo Domingo, France, New York and Berlin, to name a few. An important solo exhibition of her work was organized by the Art Ginza Museum in Nagoya, Japan in 1992. Since 2001 one of her main focus of work has been oriented towards the production and direction of shortcuts and films which she combines with sculptures and paintings, mostly surrounding the notion of cartography, mapping and feminine identity.

Rhonda Mitrani (Miami, FL) began her career at Miramax Films and edited for independent films and television in New York. Her work has broadcast on Showtime, PBS, Oxygen and IFP Channel. In Miami she worked with MTV Networks Latin America and co-founded a socially conscious film festival called the Florida Room Documentary Film Festival. Rhonda made her first documentary, Cuba Mia, which premiered at the Miami International Film Festival. The film later aired on PBS. In 2002, Rhonda began to explore video art as digital technology became more accessible and allowed her to shoot and edit her work in different formats. As a video artist she also an active member of RPM Project, a multi-media installation-based collaborative. Rhonda focuses on telling socially conscious and inspiring visual stories as both a video artist and as a filmmaker. She currently lives in Miami.

Tatiana Parcero (Mexico, DF. 1967), completed a M.A. in photography at the New York University and the International Center of Photography NYU/ICP (1992-1995). Her photography career commenced in 1985, focused on the body and self-portraits; she blends various techniques and visual media, including black and white and color photographs, digital images and video. In her work she explores the corporeal as a map where she can relate to concepts as different as identity, memory, territory and time. Her work is in the permanent collection of the following Museums: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Miami Dade University Art Galleries, Kendall Campus, Lowe Art Museum, Miami. FL, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA, Buhl Studio Inc., New York, The Museum of Latin American Art, (MoLAA ), Long Beach, CA, USA; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León MUSAC, Centro Damián Bayón de Santa Fé, Granada, CAB Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMbA), Argentina and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina since 2003.

Patricia Schnall-Gutiérrez (Buffalo, NY) grew up on the doorsteps of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and was influenced by such fellow women Buffalo artists as Susan Rothenberg and Cindy Sherman. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from SUNY Buffalo and shortly thereafter became active in the Buffalo art scene. Marriage and family began early for Gutierrez with many responsibilities and restraints, challenging her conflicting passions. A move to New York City and as her family and work matured, it was understandable that she dealt exclusively with the feminine character and the stereotypical roles of women. 2007 brought Gutierrez to live and work in Wynwood: Miami’s art epicenter. Her mixed media work and installations have recently been exhibited in, the Naples Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Museum of Florida Art, Lowe Art Museum, as well as University Exhibitions in and outside of Florida.

Janice Sloane (New York, NY, 1964), studied at School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union Saturday Program. She works in a variety of different mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing, and video. Janice’s work is included in several private collections in the US and abroad and has been exhibited in Europe, Mexico, the USA and Israel. She works with themes of impermanence while relating them to women’s issues regarding aging, “ideal beauty”, sexuality, eternal youth, and cosmetic surgery. She is also inspired by African sculpture, ritual objects and painting references. Is planning a solo exhibition at Wilkerson Space this year. Important group exhibitions includeSalem2Salem at the Neuen Museum in Germany, Enmscaradas at the Centro de la Imagen, andSkin at the Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece, to name a few.

About the curator:

Amalia Caputo (Caracas, Venezuela, 1964), is a photo and video based artist and art historian. Her work deals with issues of time and memory, the body, domesticity and the feminine. She has a BA in Art History from Universidad Central de Venezuela and completed her MA from New York University and the International Center of Photography in the fields of Art Theory and Photography. Recent solo shows include Transferencias at La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao, in 2012 and at Galería Artepuy, currently on view in Caracas. Since 1989 her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Bienal de Cuenca in Ecuador, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami, Museum of Latin American Art in California, the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, Scope in London and New York, Primavera Fotográfica in Barcelona, Miami Art Museum, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico DF, Fundación Banco Mercantil in Caracas, and Ela-Asia Art Taipei in Taiwan, to name a few. Her work is represented in various public and private collections including those of the Galería de Arte Nacional in Caracas Venezuela, Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California, the Fundación Banco Mercantil Collection and the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection in Miami, among others. Her range of professional experience within the art world includes working at museums, art institutions, coordination of exhibitions and publications, curating exhibitions, editing for art publications, writing and lecturing.

The Nightclub is a collaborative art endeavor that initiates and supports critical exchange of ideas in art and cultural practice and the active development of artists, in-situ exhibitions and talks.

Artistic Director Angela Valella in collaboration with Odalis Valdivieso

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