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Miami Art Week 2015: PULSE Miami Beach Recap

Yesterday, we brought you our highlights of UNTITLED art fair, SCOPE Miami Beach, Miami Project and Art on Paper. Today, we continue our coverage with one of the most popular fairs during the jam-packed Miami Art Week- PULSE Miami Beach. Despite the dreary Miami weather, PULSE was in high attendance and notable for its engaging and interactive installations in collaboration with Target that attracted art lovers of every age. Designed as a platform for new video and media art, "Target Too" combined items sold at Target with art- though some blasted it as a commercial "sell-out", we couldn't help but smile at some of the works on display like Daniel Rozin's Insta-worthy "Troll Mirror", a mirror made of hundreds of pink and green treasure trolls that reflected your silhouette as you moved around the piece. Take a look at more of our highlights from PULSE Miami Beach after the jump!


Daniel Rozin’s “Troll Mirror”

Yesterday, we brought you our highlights of UNTITLED art fair, SCOPE Miami Beach, Miami Project and Art on Paper. Today, we continue our coverage with one of the most popular fairs during the jam-packed Miami Art Week- PULSE Miami Beach. Despite the dreary Miami weather, PULSE was in high attendance and notable for its engaging and interactive installations in collaboration with Target that attracted art lovers of every age. Designed as a platform for new video and media art, “Target Too” combined items sold at Target with art- though some blasted it as a commercial “sell-out”, we couldn’t help but smile at some of the works on display like Daniel Rozin’s Insta-worthy “Troll Mirror”, a mirror made of hundreds of pink and green treasure trolls that reflected your silhouette as you moved around the piece.


Daniel Rozin’s interactive “Troll Mirror” at PULSE Miami Beach was created using hundreds of Treasure Troll dolls.

This year’s fair, now in its 11th edition, featured a diversity of expressions from oil and acrylic painting, paper works, vinyl on canvas, and sculptures made by terracotta, plaster and aluminum. Visitors walking inside the main tent at Indian Beach Park were first greeted by several large scale works by Chris Jones, covered here on our blog, who works with abandoned materials like old magazines, books, and even trash to create his bustling collage-like paintings.


New work by HF Vol. 37 cover artist Jean-Pierre Roy at Gallery Poulsen’s booth.

We also found a lot of stunning new works at Gallery Poulsen’s booth, including over twenty pieces by Christian Rex van Minnen, (HF Vol. 25), Jean-Pierre Roy (HF Vol. 37 cover artist, HF Vol. 18), Mi Ju, Mu Pan, Nicola Verlato (HF Vol. 3), William Powhida and the wild paintings of Aaron Johnson. Their booth also won brownie points for having issues of Hi-Fructose available for visitors, as several of their artists have been featured in our pages.


William Baczek Fine Arts featured a large selection of new paintings by HF Vol. 32 cover artist Travis Louie.

Another notable booth was Milan gallery Antonio Colombo’s, which had a 2-person exhibition by artists El Gato Chimeny and the Clayton Brothers on display. Though Chimney delves into various spiritual traditions, he does so with a sense of humor. His absurdist imagery on worn paper, which portrayed characters like flaming phoenixes and hybrid animals draped in luxurious robes, seemed to allude to a forgotten time that never truly existed. The Clayton Brothers presented a series of assemblages and works on paper, including a large and explosive still life of fruit. Over at William Baczek Fine Arts, Travis Louie (HF Vol. 32 cover artist) had several new acrylic on board paintings on display, featuring his usual cast of old-timey creatures like monkey-professors and goblins in their Sunday best. Take a look at our highlights of PULSE below, and stay tuned for reports from more Miami Art Week fairs.


Travis Louie


Travis Louie


Cristina Cordova


The Clayton Brothers


The Clayton Brothers


El Gato Chimney


Chris Jones


Chris Jones (detail)


Anthony Goiclea


Nicola Verlato


Aaron Johnson


Christian Rex Van Minnen


Mu Pan


Mu Pan (detail)


Cayce Zavaglia


Cayce Zavaglia


Cayce Zavaglia (detail)


Fahamu Pecou


James Riek


Zachari Logan


Kim Keever


Ruud van Empel


Robert Currie


Robert Currie (detail)


Zadok Ben-David


Lauren Fensterstock


Lauren Fensterstock (detail)

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