Yes, of course, we’ll be at Art Basel. However, there’s so much more to Miami Art Week than the big fairs pushing big name artists and throwing parties. Art Week in Miami also consists of dozens of smaller fairs showcasing emerging, mid-career, and straight-up famous artists from all over the world. We’re looking to take our talents beyond South Beach and explore any and all fairs with New England connections. Yes, it’s an audacious task, but we think we can pull it off. Here’s our plan

UNTITLED, Art
Dec. 6 – 10

“Untitled, Art is an international, curated art fair founded in 2012 that focuses on curatorial balance and integrity across all disciplines of contemporary art. Untitled, Art innovates the standard fair model by selecting a curatorial team to identify, and curate a selection of galleries, artist-run exhibition spaces, and non-profit institutions and organizations, in dialogue with an architecturally designed venue.”

Hot New Englander(s) on-site: Kim Faler & Joseph Wardell, both represented by LaMontagne Gallery.

INK Miami
Dec. 6 – 10

“The Ink Miami Art Fair transforms the historic Suites of Dorchester Hotel into distinctive art galleries, surrounded by a verdant and tranquil courtyard. Visitors are invited to explore our main galleries offering a wide range of works on paper including new and noteworthy editions.”

Hot New Englander(s) on-site: Childs Gallery, which will have its whole booth transformed into an immersive print environment by multimedia artist Sara Zielinski.

Adam’s Nest at Art Gasel 3
Hotel Gathering
Dec 6 – 10

“Adam’s Nest is an idea that has been brewing for ages and the universe provided an opportunity to grab a retail space in Provincetown’s east end. The physical shop opened its doors in June 2016. We are located right next to Wired Puppy coffee and feature art, apparel, jewelry, and whatnot! We select items that appeal to our unique sense of humor, values and our lifestyle. We seek out artists and items through friends, our travels and various social media avenues and are always on the lookout for something interesting to share.”

NADA Miami 2017
Dec. 7 – 10

Mrs. Gallery out of Maspeth, New York, will be presenting varied works from Portland, Maine artist Elizabeth Atterbury.

Tanja Hollander at Art Basel

We’ll be visiting the Maine-born, Facebook-famous photographer Tanja Hollander at the Art Basel Collectors’ Lounge where Hollander will be signing copies of her new book Are Your Really My Friend, which is a collection of photographs that originally appeared in her installation of the same name at MASS MoCA this year.

PULSE Miami
Dec. 7 – 10

“Founded in 2005, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is an established part of the annual art calendar and is recognized for providing its international community of emerging and established galleries with a dynamic platform for connecting with a global audience. PULSE offers visitors an engaging environment in which to discover and collect the most compelling contemporary art being produced today.”

Hot New Englander(s) on-site: William Baczek Fine Arts from Northampton, Massachusetts

This is just a few of the artists, fairs and galleries we plan to check on over the next week. Come back to our website everyday for more Art Week Miami updates and follow us on social for up-to-the-minute coverage.

Top photo courtesy PULSE Miami

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Ramiro Davaro-Comas already took a group of visual artists to Art Basel last year as a part of the Dripped On The Road artist residency he co-directs. Now, he’s road tripping with these artists again, camping in New York and Vermont, and painting murals in New England cities with local artists along the way.

We asked him to explain a bit more about the inspiration behind Dripped On The Road, how he got to collaborate with the prolific Merkthose and what’s in the works for this year’s POW! WOW! Worcester.

Take: Help us understand Dripped On The Road.
RDC: We invite artists to join us on the road to make work and collaborate with local artists along the way. This collaboration with local artists in each place is what’s important for us. If we can’t fit 10 artists into an RV, then at least we can fit two and collaborate with five more on the way.

I had done a couple of trips in buses and RVs before. I also directed an artist residency program that was a part of The Arts Students League of New York for three years, and most of those programs did not value illustrators, graphic designers, graffiti writers, street artists, muralists—no one like that. [These residencies] were really only supporting artists that went to a school. The more we expand the more people we can support, but for now these are our people.

T: Explain a bit more about the structure of the residency and what other elements of the Dripped On The Road make it different.

RDC: Most residencies are usually in a fixed location and are created for artists and creatives to get out of their typical day-to-day and be put into an environment where they can create for a specific period of time. There’s a couple [mobile residencies]—Amtrak had a writers residency—but there’s nothing in the US, Europe or anywhere else that I’ve heard of that is a residency program like this for visual artists.

Another thing that sets us apart is we pay our artists. We provide a stipend so they can live on the road, pay for most of their food and all their art materials. We also attempt to get them involved in other professional development opportunities when they’re available to us. At the end of this trip, we’re going to paint at Electric Zoo and we’re inviting our resident artist to do this with us. It’s another paid opportunity he gets by being a part of the residency program.

I wanted to provide something for these kinds of artists who weren’t getting served not only with a studio but with other opportunities; professional development, guest lecturing stuff that people in that world don’t often get to do.

T: How did you meet Merkthose and what’s the plan once you get to Boston?

RDC: It might just be all grafitti. I met him painting in Miami at Art Basel. We were painting and kinda just hanging out at this party, an event with some live painting going on. We left the party and there was all this traffic: no cars could move and there’s all these people walking with us; it was probably midnight. And he just started writing, took out a can and started painting on the bank right there. Then, 18 or 20 other kids who saw him doing that were like oh it’s on and started doing it too. This wall just got destroyed in two seconds!

T: Why bring the project to New England?
RDC: Worcester is the first city we moved to when we emigrated from Argentina. Also, POW! WOW! is a big reason we’re coming here. I’ve always wanted to do these kind of projects up here. It’s just a little harder than it is in the New York City since people are usually exposed to this kind of artwork—it’s usually a quick yes or no. In New England, there’s a lot more conversation with people about planning, budgeting, and letting them know what’s going on, letting people know that this is a legitimate visual arts and public arts program.

T: What’s your plan for POW WOW?
RDC: We’ve already submitted our sketch and we’re painting at Electric Haze, where the opening party of POW! WOW! is. All three of us will be painting. We’re each going to do a character, with the background being a faded graffiti wall. We’re going to write some graffiti on the wall, then cover it and write a little bit more, then cover it again. It’s going to say things like “Worcester,” “Wormtown,” “Welcome to The Woo,” and all kinds of Worcester-y names and sayings like that. There’s almost no murals in the POW! WOW! collection that have that kind of stuff, so we really wanted to bring a little bit of that aspect to it. It also matches a lot of the work that I’ve been doing lately—putting graffiti in the background and covering it. It’s not going to be a raw graph. It’ll be very design-y.

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