#miami art

[risingingemini]

If I could be an artwork it would be a Hiroshi Nagai painting

[starlet-sky]

The sun was so bright I couldn’t even open my eyes for these ❤️‍🔥😆❤️‍🔥 Had fun at Art Basel 🫧

[acrylicalchemy]

This exhibition at OMSA in South Florida is absolute fire! Big, massive things coming soon. Join us on this journey. We are just getting started.

[swaamp-studio]

The Future of Teaching Others

Our predecessor Waavy Studio set the blueprint in our beautiful space for teaching others and finding joy despite everyday challenges — and in that fashion, we try to embody the communal spirit that she brought to our beautiful bungalow before she departed across the pond to Spain.

We toyed with the idea of teaching classes again, and many former students of Waavy Studio asked us on multiple occasions if we’d open up again to the public. We’d love to do that once we’re accustomed to it ourselves (as we are mostly novices and even newer to teaching!).

That’s why it was so exciting to have our first class this past weekend with a dear friend of ours and her mother. We set the stage, intentions, and good vibes for a beautiful evening of clay crafting.

Sara, who also goes by Sarita, giving a demo on the wheel!

By the end of it, we had several beautiful pieces. At once point, both of their pieces flew off the wheel and smacked together in the middle. I wasn’t there to witness it, but Sara showed me how they decided to mesh together the two smushed pieces into an adorable puzzle-piece sculpture.

Community is all that we have in times of darkness. It’s during these moments that we lean on each other and create our own light on gloomy days. Glow on, fireflies! — in true “swaamp” fashion, we have to shine our lights and connect in our beautiful constellation of community.

[greenwallflower]

[artbyalessi]

body study from 2 years ago. i miss figure drawing.

[harrisx28]

Ninja Turtle mural at Wynwood Walls in Miami, Florida🐢

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @zastera Alexander Zastera (Florida, USA). Section of The Swamp Lovers, 2021-2023, acrylic paint, watercolor, glitter, colored pencil, silver and gold leaf on canvas, 8 x 8 feet. The threatened panther is but one of the symbolic challenges to the environment of south Florida.

[miamiartscene]

ArtistSpotlight —> South Florida visual artist Elena Kaplan creates magnificent contemporary portraits, she is best known for her beautiful paintings of faces and figurative works. “I have always had a deep inner need and desire to create. I want to capture beauty, and my preferred subject is the human face. I could draw or paint a thousand faces and never get bored,” said the artist. “My medium of choice is oil paint, it’s luminous and alive, with endless possibilities, and knowing the masters have painted in oil for hundreds of years, makes it feel special, like an age-old ritual.”

[zman80]

Miami Postcard

[acrylicalchemy]

I've been spending a lot of time in the studio lately. This is "Floating In The Forever Of Evermore."

[swaamp-studio]

Reclaiming and Living

Clay is quasi-living—it has “memory” and follows the shape of your hands. In the lifespan of a clay blob, it can either become a beautiful piece of artwork… or maybe it ends up being another folded mess on the wheel. But discarded clay can rebirth through a process of rehydrating and re-wedging it into its former malleable shape.

Recently, we took on the challenge of reclaiming all our used clay on a beautiful sunny day.

We mashed up the clay, preparing it for its new life.

Mia spread the clay across a canvas board, evenly distributing it. She signed a heart shape and gave good intentions for the reborn clay to continue helping us continue our ceramics journey.

Reclaiming takes time. It takes energy and effort to reshape, remold, and sometimes it looks different. Whether it’s reclaiming clay or reclaiming your life’s story, anything will take love, compassion, and persistence.

It’s not a secret nor philosophically novel, but we gift ourselves these reminders as we push towards our dreams and goals. In a world that’s pushed by profit and productivity, it can seem like a waste of time to indulge in the stillness. That’s something we’re always trying to unlearn in our studio—to give ourselves grace to simply live.

Be still, be gentle, and—more importantly—be kind with yourselves. You’re doing great.

[greenwallflower]

[mirensiart]

lyrics from the first two verses of this Green Day song :-)

I drew this in a frenzy in like 2 hours, so please take it 🤲🏻

[liminal-x-wave]

𝙿 𝚕 𝚊 𝚝 𝚒 𝚗 𝚞 𝚖 𝙷 𝚞 𝚎

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @jeanpaulmallozzi Jean-Paul Mallozzi (Miami, Florida, USA, b. Flushing, Queens, USA, 1982-). No Beans, Hard Construction, 2024. Oil and Wood on Panel, 12 x 9 in. I am a fan of this instance of feline representation. Thanks to @billarningexhibitions for the tip.