Letter from South Beach: PDX at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008

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SOUTH BEACH, MIAMI, FLORIDA
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Art Basel Miami Beach
Chris Johanson
Elizabeth Leach, Quality Pictures, and PDX Gallery
Aqua Wynwood
Butters Gallery
Anna Fidler
Matthew Picton
Eugenia Pardue
Todji Kurtzman
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Chris Johanson painting at Art Basel Miami Beach
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Matthew Picton (right) with Brian Dettmer (left) in front of Bridge Art Fair on Collins Ave.
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Jeff Butters and Kristina Butters at Red Dot art fair.
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Eugenia Pardue in front of her paintings at The Artist Fair.
Portland Art Now
Dan Attoe
Michel Demeo
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Neon sculpture ("There Is Electricity In Your Head) by Dan Attoe at "Portland Art Now" in Miami's design district.
Liz Obert
Kelly Kerwick
Heidi McBride
Mark Woolley
Chuck Close
Takashi Murakami
Marilyn Manson
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Painter Kelly Kerwick, gallery owner Mark Woolley, gallery owner Heidi McBride, painter Vanessa Calvert.
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Photographer and installation artist Liz Obert.
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Quality Pictures owner/director Erik Schneider.
How were sales?
In general, the fairs also shied away from more conceptually challenging fare, favoring tried-and-true eye candy by established artists.
the field of design is arguably overtaking the visual arts in innovation.
Also, let us stick a fork in and declare done any multimedia piece incorporating cigarette butts, skull imagery, or chandeliers;
drizzle-shriveled Portlanders will always jump at the chance to exchange dreary December rain for sunny, sexy, South Beach.
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Jill Guild, gallery assistant (left) and Jane Beebe, owner/director of PDX Contemporary Art (right) in front of a painting by Adam Sorensen at Aqua Wynwood.
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Elizabeth Leach (right) with unidentified client at Aqua Wynwood.
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Artwork ("Victorian Holiday") by Anna Fidler at Johansson Projects, Aqua Wynwood.
All photos by Vanessa Calvert.

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