Meet Kenton Avery, an Emerging Artist from Chicago also known as 'Maze The Artist'

Chicago-based contemporary artist Kenton Avery, also known as 'Maze The Artist', creates very unique work, his pieces have the viewer engaged in solving the intricate mazes embedded within his paintings. A maze is a complicated and confusing system of connected passages, which Kenton equates to life. 

‘Read Between The Lines’, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 36 Inches.

“My art depicts struggle, happiness, and power through layered painting in maze imagery. I believe that each path has a maze, and no matter how difficult, the maze can be conquered. My goal is to create work that integrates representation of different cultures and has the ability to touch everyone,” explained the artist. 

'Hero', Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 16 x 20 Inches.

Kenton is known for his unique paintings and art merchandise, his style is influenced by pop culture, fashion, music and the iconography of the modern popular culture. "Maze" exhibits his work in Chicago, New York, Las Vegas and Miami. He plans to branch out into additional markets this year, expanding his reach and collector-base.

The artist has shown his work during Miami Art Week and plans to have his art showcased again during Art Basel Miami Week 2019. To learn more about this fascinating artist, for sales information, commissions or general inquires, email mazetheartist1@gmail.com and visit www.mazetheartist.com

Miami's Favorite Fair Hops the Bay and Lands on the Sands of South Beach

Emerging contemporary art fair, Superfine!, returns to Miami Art Week from December 5-9, 2018 and moves to the Art Deco Welcome Center. Now on its fourth Miami show and seventh overall edition, Superfine! has proven itself to be the art fair that breaks down barriers. Seamlessly integrating independent artists and galleries under one roof, the fair also opens doors for those who’ve never collected art and want to.

Superfine! Miami Beach will take place from December 5 to 9 within the Art Deco Welcome Center located at 10th street and Ocean Drive. 38 solo artist booths and 11 galleries make up this year’s presentation, and visitors are encouraged to interact with and purchase the art – 75 percent of which is priced affordably from $300 to $5,000. A new collector’s paradise, Superfine! also encourages art lovers to use new tools like Art Money to purchase works with zero interest loans and manageable monthly payments.

Letter from fair Director Alex Mitow:

“It was important to us not to return to Miami Art Week unless we could provide real value for the emerging artists and galleries who make up our exhibitor base, as well as easy access for both local collectors and those visiting from around the globe. With a location on the sand in Miami Beach adjacent to SCOPE and Untitled and a 5 minute Uber or CitiBike from the main Art Basel fair, I can confidently say that we can.

Art should be about experiencing wonder and discovery, being enlightened and excited. Too many fairs and galleries get wrapped up in art world politics and forget their prime duty: to connect the work of talented artists with people who love and appreciate it. That’s the mindset we are seeking (and succeeding) to correct.” 

“We have been – and always will be – the boutique fair to big box fairs like Art Miami and Art Basel. Even as we expand to give our exhibitors room to spread out, we maintain a cap of 40-80 exhibitors and carefully curate each fair as a unique exhibition. So there’s a lot to see, but the visitor can still digest it, and know the work is quality because we pay more attention to that than many of the bigger guys on the block are able to do. Superfine! Miami Beach will heavily leverage the performing arts – both from Miami and around the globe – to create a highly immersive environment that’s a respite from typical art fair fare.

Being on the Beach, this year’s Superfine! will also take an environmental turn with installation art centered around the plastics that continue to pose a problem in our world’s oceans and panel discussions at the intersection of science and art. I quite honestly cannot wait to see how our artists and galleries tackle the urgent issues facing us, and moreover continue to engage collectors at every level with incredible emerging contemporary art.” 

About Superfine!

Superfine! – The Fair was created by an artist, James Miille, and an arts entrepreneur, Alex Mitow, in 2015. The two, partners in life as well as business, started the fair as a reaction to what they saw in the current art market — inflated prices, sluggish sales, and a widening valley between a constantly growing art-appreciating public and an insular art world positioned outside of their price range and comfort zone. Superfine! is an alternative to typical art fairs – a transparent, approachable environment for buying and selling art that maintains the highest curatorial standards in the industry while simultaneously opening up the market to new collectors and emerging gallery programs and artists.

Internationally Collected Visual Artist and Filmmaker Cheryl Maeder is a Pioneer of Art and Technology

Renowned Visual Artist & Filmmaker Cheryl Maeder is at the forefront of art and technology, creating never-been-seen before interactive installations, such as her famous limited edition photograph with video: Les Copines, Awakening, Photograph & Video Installation, 1/5.

Les Copines, Awakening, Photograph & Video Installation, 1/5

One of our favorites is 'Submerge Judith II', a limited edition archival photographic watercolor print, 11 x 17 inches, signed by the Artist on verso. This work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity. This famous image was selected for a Public Art Video Installation by the City of West Palm Beach for Canvas Outdoor Museum Exhibition.

Submerge Judith II, Limited Edition Archival Photographic Watercolor Print

Cheryl Maeder's photographs are in the permanent museum collection of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU/Miami, exhibited internationally - The Musée du Louvre/Paris, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cooper Union/New York and Norton Museum of Art/Palm Beach. Her work is exhibited at major art fairs, such as Art Miami, SCOPE Art Show/NY, Art London and Art Shanghai, among others. Her work is also auctioned at Sotheby's/NY. 

Enchanted, interactive art installation at Cornell Art Museum

Current exhibitions include 'Enchanted', an interactive, multi-media art installation by Artists Cheryl Maeder & Diane Arrieta at Cornell Art Museum at Old School Square in Delray Beach, Florida. This magical exhibition opened March 29th and runs through September 9th, 2018. 

Enchanted multi-media art installation at Cornell Art Museum in Delray Beach, Florida

Enchanted is a Conceptual Interactive Forest Installation by renowned South Florida artists Cheryl Maeder and Diane Arrieta, who combine their works to present a modern fairy tale experience that collides with the realities of our modern world [e.g. extinction and rising waters]. Focusing on the beauty and lessons we as humans can learn from our natural landscapes and inhabitants. By constructing a faux natural environment, based on land and sea, the artists are conveying the need to “slow down and smell the flowers” before it [nature] disappears.

For more information, contact: maeder@maederphotography.com

www.maederphotography.com

Internationally Renowned Public Artist & Photographer Lloyd Goradesky

Born and raised on Miami Beach, Lloyd Goradesky is an internationally recognized artist and photographer known for his iconic Gator In The Bay art installation, bringing attention and awareness to the Florida Everglades.

“Goradesky’s work is compared to Christo & Jean-Claude. Using the Power of Art to bring awareness to our natural surroundings, Goradesky’s art extends from multi-media design to complex material creations.” -Discovery Channel

In addition to his highly acclaimed photography work, Goradesky is famous for his Public Art project in 2012-2013 “Gator in the Bay,” a 33,000-pound alligator the size of a football field that floats. The head is a 3-story steel sculpture built on a self-propelled barge using recycled junkyard materials. The upper jaw attached to the boom of a crane, opens and closes. The body is made of 104 individual boards (called Floating Art Tiles) displaying 3,000 photographs of the Everglades (captured by the artist).

The head/upper jaw was featured during Art Basel Miami-2012; entire piece was featured in Art Basel Miami-2013. Received widespread, international print and broadcast media coverage, including: ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, CNN, Fox News, Yahoo News, Discovery Channel, Huffington Post, The Examiner, Sun Sentinel, Miami New Times and Miami Herald. Project Manager and Artist, Goradesky worked with federal, environmental and local city officials including Homeland Security, Marine Control, U.S. Coast Guard and NASA for approval. Budget $1,000,000. Private funding for this public art project.

Goradesky is extremely active within the local South Florida community and sits on numerous boards for non-profits and environmental organizations. Art Board Affiliations include:

Life is Art Board 2017-2018

Weiner Museum of Decorative Arts, Voluntary Adviser & Instructor, 2018

Artists in Residence in Everglades Board 2016-2017

Education for Tomorrow Advisory 2016-2017

WiseTribe Elder 2016-2017

Love The Everglades Movement Board 2012-2017

Miccosukee Advisory Board 2011-2014

The artist and photographer hosts workshops at various museums and galleries throughout South Florida, such as his recent photography workshop at the Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts (WMODA) in Hollywood, Florida on April 27, 2018 during Museum Week with upcoming sessions TBD.

The renowned public artist and photographer is known for his cutting-edge projects and site-specific installations throughout South Florida. For inquiries on how to commission a piece or start a project, private or group photography lessons, wedding or event packages, contact Goradesky at (305)915-2691, or email Lloyd@Lloydsite.com more information visit http://innovativepublicartgroup.com/lloyd-goradesky/ or http://www.lloydsite.com