Tomorrow night during Second Saturdays Gallery Walk there is a TON of cool stuff going on. Here are three events that are sure to be worthwhile:
At the De La Cruz Gallery (23 NE 41st St.), Psychic Youth, Inc. present the third installment of their TRI installation series. Federico Nessi, Ana Mendez and Aja Albertson will inhabit the space from 7-10pm. Afterward, head over to Bar (28 NE 14th St.) for Psychic Second Saturdays with DJs Nuit, R3K+ and Richard V. spinning dark yet danceable post-punk and beyond.
At the Cafeina Gallery (297 NW 23rd St.), check out the opening night of the CRYSTAL MONOLITHS group show! The reception is from 8-12 and the show features work by Francesco LoCastro, Santiago Rubino and more. Full info here.
Last but certainly not least, make your way over to Eazy Street Gallery (3501 NW 2nd Ave.) to BELIEVE THE HYPE! It’s the second installment of a group show that happened at the Bold Hype Gallery in Orlando last September. This massive Miami version is curated by Dustin Orlando (Objex!) and features an array of “urban contemporary, pop surrealist, mixed media and kill or be killed street artists from around the world.”
Your 10 bucks at the door includes free cocktails all night, giveaways, tunes by DJ Keen One, andANR will be playing a special Sweatstock warm-up set! Watch the promo video below and don’t miss the awesomeness all around us this Saturday night.
Now firmly settled into our permanent space, we are proud to present the first of what we plan to be many official in-store art exhibits by some of the myriad local talents we are blessed with here in South Florida.
For Art Basel week 2009 Sweat Records is proud to team up with the incredible people at Ft. Lauderdale’s Iron Forge Press! Their show “First Five Years” will be on display at the store though January 31, 2010 and features over 40 of the insanely awesome hand-pulled silk-screen concert posters they’ve done for shows in South Florida. The amount of detail in each one is amazing in real life, but take a digital peek:
IronForge made our Iggy shirts and we can’t recommend them highly enough for any poster, printing, graphic or t-shirt job (note to Miami bands: make more t-shirts!). Read more about IronForge and co-founders Chuck and Ian who seriously f*%king rock on their website and blog.
We’re having the opening reception in the shop tomorrow night from 7-10pm and we’ll be serving free cocktails and playing great music. Stop by then head over to The Vagabond for more of IronForge’s work and a special live set by NYC’s Telepathe!
You ask, you receive! Here’s the run-down of everything we’re presenting or a part of during this year’s Art Basel week festivities:
Thursday, December 3rd: For the first time in Miami, (((SHAKE))) presents a live New Orleans Bounce performance by Big Freedia with DJs Rusty Lazer and Brooklyn’s Dirty Finger! Be the first to get the 2010 Miami’s Finest Calendar and display your Major League Dreidel skills! RSVP to shake305@gmail.com for free admission until midnight!
Friday, December 4th: It’s the opening night for our big in-store exhibit – Sweat Records is proud to present “First Five Years” by Iron Forge Press! We’ll post the full run-down on this later but the reception is at the store from 7-10pm with music, complimentary cocktails and many of the prints will be available to take home for cheap!
Then later at Fridays at The Vagabond, we’re extremely excited to present a live performance by NYC electro duo TELEPATHE!!!! These girl’s snythy electro jams have had our heads nodding around Sweat HQ for a while so we are super psyched to present them live. Click the pic to listen, read more, and come out Friday – it’s only $5 before 11pm and we’ve still got our $1 beers until midnight!
Saturday, December 5th: After a quick set at the Miami Independent Thinkers space, I’ll be DJing at Art Is For Everyone at The Awarehouse. This Converse-sponsored show features live performances by Kinky and Mala Rodriguez and an art installation by German street art collective Mentalgassi. It’s FREE, 21+ (sorry young’uns), and you have to RSVP at conversepresents.com. Starts at 9pm at 550 NW 29th St.
Tomorrow evening scoot your pretty selves over to the Beach for the opening night of Miami artist/curator extraordinaire Francesco LoCastro‘s new art show 305//NEON LIFE! “Discover, through this riveting collection of work, what lies beneath the sunny veneer of a city still haunted by its checkered past…” The opening is from 6-8 at the Kid Robot store on South Beach and there will be 305-centric music and a special appearance by Krelwear‘s DiscGlo girls! If you can’t make the show don’t worry, it’s up through December 9th.
At the show we’ll be giving out wristbands so you can hop back across the bridge and get in free for the official after-party at (((SHAKE)))! This Thursday the Que Pasa M.I.A. fam welcome Tel Aviv’s sick hip hop crew SOULICO as part of their Exotic on the Speaker Tour! (more…)
Some of you may have seen a man in a red suit with a 7-foot-tall yellow balloon head popping up at The Vagabond, the streets of South Beach, the Iggy party many other places… He’s been studying us Miamians intently and you’ll get his perspective Saturday night, we’ve seen some of the pics and they’re incredible. Btw, if his work seems familiar it’s because Andrew did the covers for all the Girl Talk albums!
Watch the video below and check out the show on your Gallery Walk!
“Bad Brilliance in Miami Featuring the Faces of the People He Met There” opens Saturday night, 7-10pm at the Bas Fisher Invitational, 180 NE 39th St. Suite 210
Before or after watching the TM Sisters Crash Whirl Go!, you must stop next door for the opening of Manny Prieres‘ solo exhibition What we do is SECRET at the Spinello Gallery. Manny has been a fixture of the Miami art scene for over 10 years and was a founder of it’s first influential alternative art space called the BOX. He will feature his intricately detailed graphite and watercolor pieces on paper and sculpture. Go here to hear about his inspiration and see the master at work in his studio, courtesy of the Wet Heat Project.
The opening is from 7-10 at the Spinello Gallery located at 155 NE 38 ST, Suite 101 in the Design District, and will be showing through September 26th. For more info email info@spinellogallery.com. Here’s an example of what to expect this evening…
Tonight at Locust Projects, Miami artist duo, Sweat muralists and Death Print stars the TM Sisters debut their most ambitious show to date – Whirl Crash Go! We hear rumors of a massive indoor swimming pool, roller skates, and “a kaleidoscope of light, sound and action.”
(They are actual sisters despite popular disbelief)
This show is in collaboration with Karelle Levy of Krelwear and Mr. Otto Von Schirach so expect amazing costumes and sick beats too!
Locust Projects is located at 155 NE 38th St. in the Design District. There is one performance at 8pm, another at 10 and seating is limited so don’t be all running on Miami time tonight. See you there!
Don’t miss this one-night-only event featuring a holy heap of Miami’s best artists all mixed up in each other’s business. We hear it’s going to be awesome, and with all those names involved, we don’t have a doubt about it…
See you there, and stop by Sweat for an espresso on your way over!
