Art Week 2024: the Miami P&PR Guide

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There’s a LOT to see during Miami Art Week — something for everyone, for sure. If you want to make time for the work that will be on view from the artists and collaborators we work with here at the studio, you’re in luck: This blog post is your friend. Save the link, share it with your pals, and maybe refresh it once or twice. If we have anything to add to the list from our community, you’ll find it here.

 

Where to see Miami P&PR during art week:

 

At the studio:

  • Miami Paper & Printing Museum Open House (Sunday Dec. 1, 4-6PM) Explore the museum, enjoy light refreshments, and make plans for Art Week with friends.

  • Visit the Museum by appointment only during art week by emailing info@isprojectsfl.com. (Mon, Dec. 2-Sun, Dec. 8) Please give us at least 24 hours to process your request.

 
 
 

Where to see work by current staff and residents:

 

Feria Clandestina (Party Thurs. 6-10PM, Fair Thurs, Dec 5 - Sat, Dec 7)

There are friends of the studio in many of the rooms (see who else is showing here!), but Room 224 has the most direct and abundant connections to the Miami Paper & Printing Museum.

Curated by Luna Goldberg (who was an O, Papermill Fellow at the studio last spring), Room 224 features the following artists, who have been in a critique group together for several years:

  • Harumi Abe

  • Jen Clay (Existent Books Artist — Nearing)

  • Jenna Efrein

  • Christian Feneck (Existent Books Artist — The Unmade Room)

  • Brooke Frank (Miami P&PR Education & Artist Relations Manager)

  • Donna Haynes

  • Luke Jenkins (In Bloom Studio — Fabrication collaborator for Existent Books and other studio projects)

  • Ingrid Schindall (Miami P&PR Founder & Director)

Additionally, Room 226 is a duo-show featuring work from Loren Santiesteban and Mary Larsen. Mary Larsen is one of a handful of Miami-based book artists whose work we represent for sale in our studio and when we travel to fairs. Her one-of-a-kind hand-painted artists’ books are some of our all-time favorite altered books and one-on-one artists’ books, and we can’t wait to sneak over to 226 to see what she’s brought while we’re watching over 224.

 

Unveiling Power: Examining Influence at Green Space Miami (Wed, Dec. 4 - Sun, Dec. 8, 12-6PM)

Current Key Holder resident Ọmọlará Williams McCallister is one of ten recipients of the 2024 Green Space Miami Open Call Award, all of whom are featured in this exhibition, and some of whom have worked with us on a project or two at some point.

 

Spectrum Miami (Party Wed., Dec. 4, Fair Thurs. Dec. 5-Sun. Dec. 8)

Current Key Holder resident Chee Bravo and her husband, painter Juan Bravo have booth 809 to themselves. The Bravos have got the hook up for Collector Passes, too. You can claim your pass for free by clicking through to the event here! The pass also gets you into 9 Miami Museums.

 

Also not to be missed:

Jennifer Basile, Loop Road, 2023, color reduction print on Japanese rice paper (edition of 1 + 1 AP) 78.5 x 131 inches.

Pinta Miami (Thurs. Dec. 5-Sun, Dec. 8)

Jennifer Basile’s massive one-of-one four-panel reduction woodcut prints can be found in LnS Gallery’s booth (B2) at Pinta Miami. These wildly ambitious, prints were pulled at the studio with a little help from us!

Each tightly registered layer of these prints was a labor of love. This work involved carefully applied opaque and transparent inks, and a couple of highly strategic blend rolls. Reminder: this is a reduction print. After printing each layer, Basile carved into that same woodblock to create the image to be printed in the next layer. There’s no going back and there’s no room for error, and in this case, there’s only one print and one artist’s proof of each panel. This serene image was a high-wire act to produce.

 

Untitled Art Fair (Wed. Dec. 4-Sun, Dec. 8)

Jen Clay’s work will be prominently featured in Emerson Dorsch’s booth (C52) at Untitled Art Fair.

Clay has been a dear friend of the studio for a long time, and her first artists’ book, Nearing, was published with us through the Existent Books project in conjunction with her interdisciplinary textile and performance-based project of the same name that year.

Clay has been working with Emerson Dorsch and last year’s booth was bangin

 

Our own Amber Frank with her relief print on turkish towel, printed via steamroller at SPF. Amber is standing in front of a print on Fabric by Jacoub Reyes.

Beach Towel Art Show (Sat. Dec. 7, 2-5PM)

Brian Butler has tipped us off — BYO Art Beach Towel and hang out with friends in the sand. This is open to all, free to attend, and guaranteed to be good vibes. Come take a break from the hot mess of the fairs in the warm sand and cool breeze. Make a really cool art towel. Bring it to the beach. Lounge with your pals. Admire the other towels. Enjoy!

 
 

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A Closer Look: Land of Sunshine by Angelica Clyman

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