Photos: Miami Art Walk September 2011

By Jordan Melnick | September 11th, 2011 | 2 Comments

At a certain point Saturday night, Wynwood was overrun by the largest crowd I’ve ever seen at an Art Walk. I heard from a source within the Knight Foundation that the monthly event draws 30,000 people to the gallery district. The number is no longer hard to believe after a night when breathing room in the open air of N.W. Second Avenue was hard to come by. In these photos we captured a handful or two of those 30,000 human beings, at least one sterling instance of human folly, and an avian enemy of the distended male bladder.

Miami does Rodin.

This happened.

These shots contained an American-made vodka. For that reason, their pusher was pitching them as “for 9/11″. If that weren’t dubiously commemorative enough, he also had on his table …

… a skull filled with blue lemonade vodka. For 9/11. Caveat: I seem to recall him saying something about a charity, which is nice but doesn’t, to my mind, fully excuse the egregious faux pas.

Artist Brian Butler, a regular on sketchymiami.com, bringing his Ice Cream People to the street

Of the thousand shows I previewed in this month’s Art Walk guide, my favorite exhibition was Cheryl Pope’s Matter of Fact, at Dorsch Gallery, which featured this carpet of shattered plates, a video piece called “Stacks”, a room of large spinning tops beautifully constructed of ceramic ware, and a stack of plates rolling back and forth across the wall and making a terrible noise that you somehow come to tune out. Dorsch is showing Matter of Fact through October 1. Wear shoes.

Robby spotted this creature on the men’s room wall at Lester’s. Needless to say he got stage fright. (We are hosting Sketchy Workshop #1 at Lester’s on Wednesday, Sept. 21. You’re invited!)

She was walking around clothed in body paint and nothing else. In so doing, she largely made up for the men wrapped in purple tape and little else.

All photos by Robby Campbell

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