Miami art fairs: Day -2

The worst part about doing an art fair (other than the brutal costs) are the unloading and packing up process.

The unloading this year was accidentally super easy.

Yesterday morning I was dropping off the gallery intern (the super hardworking and talented Audrey Wilson, whose work we will also be showing as one of the perks of being an intern at Alida Anderson Art Projects). When I say "dropping off" I mean at the Aqua Hotel in Miami Beach, where the art fair will be taking place starting Wednesday for VIPs.

The official unload time starts at 5PM, and yet, someone there was nice enough to say, "Since you are already here, you can go ahead and unload."

And in less than 20 minutes we had unloaded.

Nightmare number one avoided: a long-assed wait to unload among the heavy traffic of Collins Avenue in Miami Beach on Sunday night or Monday morning.

This morning we started hanging, and we're about 50% done.

Afterwards, I headed back to Hollywood Beach for a walk on the boardwalk, some pizza and a pitcher of beer ... cough... cough ice tea with the family.

While I was gone, Little Junes and his mom were exploring the best thing about Florida other than Cuban food...

Aqua on top

Just checked the results of the poll on the Best Emerging Art Fair in Miami, which New American Paintings magazine ran around the elections earlier this month, and (as I suspected) the Aqua Art Fair in Miami Beach --- where we kicked ass last year and where we're returning to this year in room 116 --- is at the top, by a really wide margin, which is more than I can say about the recent Presidential elections. 

 See you at the fair starting next Wednesday!

Jewish Spiderman will be at Aqua later this week!

This is "Look Out Spidermun!" a new acrylic on board by the highly talented and intelligent DMV area artist Jeannette Lilith Herrera. This piece and several others from her work on superheros will be part of the "Superheros and Super Villains" exhibition at Aqua Art Fair in Miami Beach next week - room 116!

Airborne

The kid is heading to Miami Beach for the Aqua Art Fair - if you are heading South as well and need some passes to the fair, send me a note and come see me in room 116.

Santa and then Reagan

First a visit to Santa...

Then out to Reagan National Airport for the trip down South - I'll be at the Aqua Art Fair in Miami Beach - room 116 - and Dr. Anderson will be doing some research with some Hialeah school children for one of her research lines.

WaPo on Ficker

This is a very cool WaPo story on my good friend and uberheckler Robin Ficker... read it here. 

This is the man who brought the art of heckling to an art! (and that's why he's being discussed in an art blog!)... I call his art movement Hecklerism!

Go Robin!

Good bye Big E!

Tomorrow a powerful and storied gray lady of the sea, USS Enterprise (the real one, not the Star Trek one of the future) will retire after multiple decades of service.

Fair winds and following seas!