IDEA@thebass Teaceher Training
workshop
October 28, 2011
The Sagamore Hotel Art Collection
1671 Collins Ave., South Beach
Cricket Taplin, Curator
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GET INSPIRED BY THE HEART OF THE ART HOTEL ON MIAMI BEACH, THE SAGAMORE
At the heart of the Sagamore Hotel is the Cricket Taplin Collection of contemporary art.
Cricket and Marty Taplin began collecting art 25 years ago and when they opened the
Sagamore in 2001 they saw the opportunity to share their passion with the public.
There is art everywhere you turn at the Sagamore, quotes by artists line the hallways,
there are murals in the stairwell, videos in the garden and site specific installations
throughout the hotel.
Large scale marionettes by Pablo Cano in the hotel lobby
Pablo Daniel Cano Fernández (born March 11, 1961, in Havana Cuba is a
Miami-based artist. His creates marionettes which he uses in performances
and exhibits as sculptures
Palbo Cano
Lady Liberty
When he's not dumpster-diving or
rifling through the shelves of his
favorite thrift stores, Pablo Cano can
be found in the garage behind his Little
Havana home turning junk into art
while listening to Cole Porter songs, Tin
Pan Alley tunes, and other favorite
ditties. Like the toy maker in Pinocchio,
this conceptual Gepetto creates
enchanting marionettes out of the trash
he collects or the sundry castoffs his
friends from all over the world bring to
his back-yard studio when they visit.
Will Ryman, making a papier
mache sculpture
A native New Yorker, Will
Ryman is internationally
known for his large-scale
figurative sculptures
based on urban scenes and
outsized flora. His work
steadily incorporates a range
of materials
including plaster, fiberglass,
stainless steel, paper
maché, magic sculpt, brass,
copper tubing, and
cast aluminum. A writer
turned artist, Ryman’s work
is also heavily influenced by
the works of
absurdist playwrights and
philosophers.
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Paper Mache figure by Will Ryman in lobby of the
Sagamore Hotel
http://willryman.com/
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy in 1944. Vitali studied photography in London;
he first worked as a photojournalist in the 1970s and then worked later as a movie
camera operator . His more recent work can be considered as fine art photography .
Vitali's chosen perspective for some of his works is from a podium (four or five meters
high), with the use of large-format film cameras which are used to capture highresolution etails over a broad expanse in everyday scenes such as beaches .
Massimo Vitali, Pic Nik 2001, Palais de Luxembiourg Park, Paris
Curator Criket Taplin inside the room where she has installed photographs by
Gary Winograd
Garry Winogrand (14 January 1928, New York City – 19 March 1984,
Tijuana, Mexico) was a street photographerr known for his portrayal of
America in the mid-20th century.
Winogrand studied painting at City College of New York and painting and
photography at Columbia University in New York City in 1948. He also
attended a photojournalism class taught by Alexey Brodovic at The New
School for Social Research in New York City in 1951.
Winogrand was known for his portrayal of American life in the early 1960s.
Many of his photographs depict the social issues of his time and in the role of
media in shaping attitudes. He roamed the streets of New York with his
35mm Leica camera rapidly taking photographs using a prefocused wide
angle lens. His pictures frequently appeared as if they were driven by the
energy of the events he was witnessing. While the style has been much
imitated, Winogrand's eye, his visual style, and his wit, remain unique.
GARRY WINOGRAND (1928-1984)
Women Are Beautiful
New York: RFG Publishing, 1981. 85 gelatin
silver prints; each signed and numbered
'24/80' in pencil (on the verso); each
approximately 8 x 13in. (22.2 x 33cm.) or the
reverse; numbered '24' in ink on (printed end
page); number 24 from an edition of 80, plus
20 artist's proofs; contained in an album with
mylar sleeves and slipcase cover
Untitled, from the portfolio, Women are Beautiful, n.d./1981
Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris, France) is an advertising and
documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of
ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings—the master of the
"decisive moment".
Born in Paris of Jewish-Russian immigrant parents, Erwitt served
as a photographer's assistant in the 1950s in the United States
Army while stationed in France and Germany. Erwitt was
influenced by his meeting the famous photographers, Edward
Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker. Stryker, the former
Director of the Farm Security Administration's photography
department, hired Erwitt to work on a photography project for
the Standard Oil Compay. Erwitt then began a freelance
photographer career and produced work for Collier's, Look, Life
and Holiday magazines. Joining the Magnum Photos agency in
1953 allowed Erwitt to shoot photography projects around the
world
Eliott Erwitt, Paris, France 1989
Doug Hall is an American photographer and media artist who has received national and
international recognition for his work in a range of practices including performance,
installation, video, and photography. He lives in San Francisco, where in addition to his
studio work he has been an influential teacher. From 1981-2008, he was a prominent
member of the New Genres Department faculty at the San Francisco Art Institute After
retiring from the Art Institute in 2008, he joined the Graduate Fine Arts faculty at the
California College of the Arts where he continues to work with students on a limited
basis as a visiting artist.
Emil Lukas's artwork combines simple,
known materials with complex,
unknowable actions. Gravity, light,
chemical reactions, and time are used
by the artist to alter simple materials
like plaster and paper. Lukas often
works on a project not knowing what
the final result will be. Importantly, for
Lukas, it is when these unpredictable
forces exert their influence that a
pivotal moment of process occurs. In
this way, Lukas constantly tests and
expands the parameters of the
materials he uses in his art and
enables, as he explains, "marks to
make themselves." We hope that you
too will discover this exquisite play
between materials and process as you
explore the artworks and art projects
in this exhibition.
Emil Lukas, born in
Pittsburgh, PA, lives and
works in Stockertown, PA. He
holds a BFA from Edinboro
University. Emil Lukas's
artwork combines simple,
known materials with
complex, unknowable
actions. Gravity, light,
chemical reactions, and time
are used by the artist to alter
simple materials like plaster
and paper.
THE STAIRWELL PROJECT: Six contemporary artists from Miami’s New World
School of the Arts came together at the Sagamore hotel to create a vertical-type
gallery. Each artist infused their own unique, innovative energy to create one
collaborative work of art, throughout a six-story stairwell located off the main
gallery. Dubbed “The Stairwell Project,” this group of both, students and recent
graduates, after meeting certain criteria, were selected to participate by New
World School of the Arts’ Dean of Visual Arts, Maggy Cuesta. Their personal
artistic expression in transforming a separate floor of the stairwell ultimately
blends each of their individual works into one harmonious piece of art. “The
Stairwell Project” is the first in the continuing series of creating works within the
hotel’s stairwells.
Through “The Stairwell Project,” the Sagamore has discovered an untapped
space where emerging artists have the opportunity to display their work in this
vertical-type gallery, creating yet another inventive way of immersing Sagamore
guests in the art that envelops them everywhere on the property, through all
spaces within the hotel. Guests who choose to take the stairs instead of the
elevators will be brought closer to art through a cohesive visual experience– even
within a stairwell.
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ch?v=OeIYNBttq4E
http://vimeo.com/6536164
The Stairwell Project
by New World School of the
Arts
10 minute video
Elements of Art
1. Rhythm
2. Space
3. Color
4. Line
5. Pattern
6. Texture
7. Unity
8. Variety
9. Shape
10. Emphasis
11. Balance