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Opening Reception for BY HAND
Wednesday, August 15, 6:00 – 10:00 pm (Exhibition on view August 11 – September 23)
ArtCenter/South Florida’s Richard Shack Gallery, 800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
305.674.8278 or www.artcentersf.org
BY HAND invites Viewers to Touch, Read, Examine, Question and Soak Up the Details
MIAMI BEACH, FL — ArtCenter/South Florida presents BY HAND with works by Jenny Brillhart, Rosemarie
Chiarlone, Robin Griffiths, Hugo Moro, Lea Nickless, Evan Robarts, Victoria Skinner and Tom Virgin, an exhibition
that initiates a dialogue between the work and its viewers inviting them to touch, read, examine, question and soak up
details. Each artist creates with an intense and time consuming method of production that is obvious in the final product,
yet the works are held together conceptually by their ability to intimately engage their viewers. The opening reception,
which is free and open to the public, will be held on August 15, 2012 at 6:00 pm at ArtCenter/South Florida’s Richard
Shack Gallery located at 800 Lincoln Road at Meridian Avenue in Miami Beach. BY HAND will be on view through
September 23, 2012. For more information, please call 305.674.8278 or visit www.artcentersf.org.
Robin Griffiths, a draftsman and tradesman turned sculptor and mathematician, creates technically sophisticated
installations that provide a visible history of his process of creation. Ultimately, the art, science, technology and ideas
embedded in the sculpture in BY HAND are released only through curious, kinetic interaction...better known as play.
Evan Robarts’ work also addresses the interplay between science and art, looking for new relationships with material,
form and identity. With an emphasis on various non-traditional materials and found objects, Robarts’ explores these
constructs and interfaces them with the surrounding world.
ArtCenter alumni Jenny Brillhart creates a dialogue between made and found spaces and forms, and their relationship to
place, structure and organization. Her formation of objects and materials in works from the series “Constructs” reveals a
process of adding and subtracting, in an attempt to balance or level ideas of beauty, form, representation, structure and
narrative. ArtCenter resident artist Hugo Moro’s work addresses the humans within structures and spaces. His work
responds to social issues ranging from gender to religion to the economy using a wide range of media. Moro’s work may
take on a classical form or use pop art language or even feature assemblages of found objects.
Philadelphia native Rosemarie Chiarlone presents works from her series, “Silhouette,” a collaboration with poet Susan
Weiner. Chiarlone’s work explores the tension between visual image and text in an intricate form created with cut-outs
and perforated text. The words are teased out of substrates of paper and fabric as negative space surrounded by white
space. The evocative quality of Weiner’s poetic language is enhanced by Chiarlone’s deliberate and elegant method of
slowing down the reading process. Born and raised in the Midwest, Miami artist Tom Virgin also merges stories and
image in his woodcut prints, artist’s books and public artworks. Virgin shows works created in response to a residency at
Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, OR. Virgin forgoes words in this exhibition, telling his story through an
installation of images in several media.
Lea Nickless, who is also a freelance curator, collection manager, and educational consultant, works predominantly with
watercolors and book arts. For BY HAND, Nickless will present an intricate installation created with mixed media on
paper. Lake Worth artist Victoria Skinner works with collage in microscopic form blurring boundaries; between human
and animal, science and art, imagination and knowledge. The exhibition features an installation of works from Skinner’s
“Chimera 2D” series that will capture any viewers’ eye.
About ArtCenter/South Florida
Established in 1984, ArtCenter/South Florida (located at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach) is a non-profit 501(C)(3)
organization that provides subsidized studio and exhibition space as well as teaching opportunities for emerging and career artists in
their facilities at 800, 810 and 924 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach. The mission of the ArtCenter is to advance the knowledge and practice
of contemporary visual arts and culture in South Florida while providing affordable programming and work-space for professional
artists. ArtCenter/South Florida’s main gallery is open Tuesday through Thursday from 12:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. and Friday through
Sunday from 12:00 p.m. until 11:00 p.m. For further information, please call 305.674.8278 or visit the website at www.artcentersf.org.
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