Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

The SPAM ALLSTARS

Tommy — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 17:47:36 +0000

Jazz at MOCA 8 pm

Tracey Emin

Tommy — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:37:25 +0000

Tracey Emin

Opening December 4, 2013, Tracey Emin: Angel Without You Showcases Neon Works by Acclaimed British Artist, Including a New Work Created Especially for MOCA’s Exhibition Part of MOCA’s Knight Exhibition Series

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami will kick off Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 with the opening of Tracey Emin: Angel Without You, the first American museum exhibition dedicated to the acclaimed British artist Tracey Emin.

On view from December 4, 2013 through March 9, 2014, this is the first-ever exhibition to focus predominantly on Emin’s use of neon, an important material in the artist’s practice, beginning with her iconic The Tracey Emin Museum (1995), which will open the show. The exhibition will explore how Emin’s neons played an essential role in the development of her work, marking a shift from her early diaristic and confessional style to a more cryptic, multifaceted form of expression.

Organized by MOCA as part of the Knight Exhibition Series and curated by the museum’s Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater, Tracey Emin: Angel Without You comprises more than 60 works that span the past two decades. The exhibition title is drawn from a new large-scale neon work Emin is creating in MOCA’s courtyard for the exhibition. Tracey Emin: Angel Without You highlights the culmination of the artist’s longstanding relationship with MOCA, which was the first American museum to purchase one of her works when it acquired her seminal film Why I Never Became a Dancer in 1998. This film—which depicts scenes of Emin’s childhood home, the British seaside resort, Margate, replete with vintage neon signs—explores the story of Emin’s own tumultuous adolescence and loss of innocence. Why I Never Became a Dancer (1995) will be included in the exhibition, which will also feature several of Emin’s most notable neon works, such as Sorry Flowers Die (1999) and I can feel your smile (2005). Many of these works consist of epigrams that have been transcribed into neon from Emin’s own handwriting by neon studios working under the artist’s supervision.MOCA’s exhibition will examine the importance of writing and calligraphic line in Emin’s freefloating neon works. “As a towering figure in Britain’s contemporary art community—and arguably one of the most significant female artists of her generation—Tracey Emin is long overdue for a solo museum exhibition in the United States,” said Clearwater. “As an early supporter of Tracey’s work, we’re thrilled to mount this unprecedented exploration of her neon sculptures—a medium that is not only appropriate to the neon-rich cityscape of South Florida, but has its origins in Emin’s hometown as captured in the film Why I Never Became a Dancer.” Widely regarded for their universality of message, Emin’s works are frequently inspired by the subject of love and the artist’s search for it, in all its poignant and sometimes painful complexity. Emin often substitutes pronouns for individual names in such works as Love is What You Want (2011) or You Forgot to Kiss My Soul (2001), so that the phrases can be read as an instance of Emin addressing herself, her viewer, her lover, or even God. Others, such as Emin’s 2012 Nothing is Real, are figurative sculpture created from contiguous neon tubing. In tandem with MOCA’s exhibition, Skira Rizzoli is publishing a comprehensive book on Emin’s neons, also titled Angel Without You, which considers this body of work in relation to the artist’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, embroideries, neons, and video stills as well as her own writing. Compiled in close collaboration with Emin, the book will include an essay by Clearwater about Emin’s development, work, artistic influences, and spiritual and poetic inspirations, especially the thirteenth-century Persian mystic poet Rumi as well as an essay by the contemporary artist and writer Gary Indiana. It will be released in late November 2013.

About Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin (b. 1963, London) is internationally recognized for the blunt and revealing style that
pervades her work. Drawing from personal experiences, Emin reveals emotional situations with
brutal honesty and humor in a wide variety of media, including painting, drawing, embroidery,
neon, installation, sculpture, and film. Raised in the seaside town of Margate on the English coast, Emin studied printmaking at
Maidstone College of Art, Kent, and continued her studies at Royal College of Arts, London,
where she earned a Master’s degree in painting. Emin’s first commercial gallery exhibition was
held at London’s White Cube Gallery in 1993. In 1999, Lehmann Maupin presented Tracey
Emin’s first solo gallery exhibition in the United States, Every Part of Me’s Bleeding. Emin
subsequently exhibited her infamous installation “My Bed” at the Tate Gallery, for which she
was shortlisted for the Turner Prize. In 2007, she was chosen to represent Great Britain at the
Venice Biennale, becoming the second female artist to ever do so. That same year, Emin was
made a Royal Academician and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College
of Art, a Doctor of Letters from the University of Kent and a Doctor of Philosophy from London
Metropolitan University. In January 2013, Queen Elizabeth II appointed Emin a Commander of
the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for her contributions to the visual arts.

Emin is represented by Lehmann Maupin in New York and White Cube in London. From May 2 to June 22, 2013, Lehmann Maupin will present Emin’s fifth solo gallery show in New York. Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun features a series of new bronze sculptures, paintings and drawings, embroideries, and a short film. In addition to MOCA North Miami’s collection, Emin’s work can be found in many of the world’s most prestigious public collections, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; British Museum, London; Camden Arts Center, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Denver Art Museum; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture,Moscow; Hara Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Saatchi Collection, London; San Francisco Museum of Art; Tate Gallery, London; and Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis.

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Aaron Lebos Reality

Tommy — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 17:46:06 +0000

Pablo Gil

Tommy — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 16:44:22 +0000

Optic Nerve

Tommy — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:39:02 +0000

CALL TO ARTISTS WORLDWIDE

Museum of Contemporary Art’s OPTIC NERVE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

EARLY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 16, 2013

FINAL DEADLINE: JULY 7, 2013

PUBLIC SCREENING: FRIDAY, AUGUST 23 at MOCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is seeking short film and video submissions for the 15th
edition of Optic Nerve, the museum’s film and video showcase for emerging artists. This year Optic Nerve
goes international with submissions from artists worldwide.

“MOCA’s Optic Nerve program is designed to provide emerging artists with an important venue
for screening new works. This year MOCA takes Optic Nerve international, inviting innovative and
experimental artists worldwide to submit new short films for review by our prestigious panel of
international film and art professionals. Encouraging new work is an important part of our mission,” said
MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater.

Submissions will be reviewed by a jury of film and art professionals and selected
films will be screened at MOCA (770 NE 125th Street, North Miami, Florida, USA
33161) on Friday, August 23, 2013.

Due to the high volume of entries expected this year we are capping submissions
at 225.

One of the films will be purchased for the museum’s permanent collection.

Additional screenings will be presented at partnering institutions.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

All submissions must contain original material and must have been created within the last two years.
Entries must have a complete running time of no longer than 5 minutes (strictly enforced).

Entries are limited to two per person.

Click Here to Apply

For more information, please contact Janice Angel, Programs Director at 305-893- 6211 ext. 29 or e-mail: jangel@mocanomi.org

50% discount on entry fee for MOCA Members. To join MOCA click here. http://mocanomi.org/membership/

Adults Happy Hour Figure Drawing with Dr. Sketchy’s

Tommy — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:36:08 +0000

Wednesdays, August 14, 21, 28 from 7-9 p.m.

Free for Members; $20 for non-members

Help build a creative community while enjoying an evening of art making, experimentation, and exploration.

Adults Open MIC Presented by Women on the Rise!

Tommy — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:10:50 +0000

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 from 7- 9PM

Free with Museum Admission

OPEN MIC will feature participants from Women on the Rise! workshops

July 26/ROLANDO GROOSCORS

Tommy — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:43:01 +0000

Teen Summer Institute

Tommy — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:25:34 +0000

MOCA’s Summer Journalism/ Photojournalism and Summer Studio

Summer Journalism Institute—June 17^th through July 5^th (no class on July 4^th)

Summer Photojournalism Institute—July 8^th through July 26^th

Summer Studio –July 29^th through August 16^th

Creative Arts Summer Program

Tommy — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:42:34 +0000

Summer Camp Registration

All students must complete the form linked below in order to be registered, then pay for your selected session by clicking on the To Purchase link to process your payment.

Registration Form