A platform for diverse galleries to present a progressive blend of renowned and pioneering contemporary artists, alongside an evolving series of original programming. This year's fair is home to 86 galleries, the 'Impulse' section presents solo exhibitions of artist's work created in the past two years.
PULSE Contemporary Art Fair presents PULSE Miami 2012, a leading art fair dedicated to international
contemporary art, from December 6-9, 2012, at The Ice Palace Studios in Miami. Currently in its eighth edition,
PULSE Miami will open on Tuesday, December 4, 2012, with a special preview evening and silent auction,
hosted by artnet Auctions, benefiting the Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Miami. This year’s fair will be home
to eighty-six national and international galleries, presenting exhibitions that span across all media, from works on
paper, paintings, and sculptures, to performances, installations, and video art.
“As one of the longstanding art fairs in Miami and New York to host local and international exhibitors, PULSE is
oftentimes a barometer of the global art market. This year, PULSE Miami will feature a greater number of
international galleries than that of other satellite fairs. We’ve noticed a particularly growing presence of European
galleries that are relying on a strong US market to sustain sales,” comments Cornell DeWitt, Director.
“Headquartered in New York City, we also hope to provide a resurgence for our vital New York galleries suffering
from the aftermath of recent Hurricane Sandy.”
New international exhibitors joining PULSE Miami this season include The Fine Art Society Contemporary
(London), presenting works by Chris Levine, celebrated for his iconic TIME cover portrait of HM Queen
Elizabeth II, and Rob and Nick Carter; Nuova Galleria Morone (Milan), showing legendary Italian conceptual
artist Maria Lai; Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam (Amsterdam) featuring a diverse roster of international
talents; VIGO GALLERY (London) displaying collaborative geometric paintings by Biggs and Collings;
espaivisor – Visor Gallery (Valencia) featuring Columbian artists Miguel Angel Rojas and Alberto Baraya
Gay, as well as British artist Hamish Fulton; Galerie Wittenbrink (Munich) offering pieces by Florian Thomas;
and ALARCON CRIADO (Sevilla) featuring Nicolas Grospierre; amongst others.
Additional highlights include Danziger Gallery (New York), showing photographs by “The Sartorialist” Scott
Schuman, and works by Robert Frank, and Edward Weston; Yossi Milo Gallery (New York), displaying Chris
McCaw’s unique sunburn images, Charles Freger’s Wilder Mann series, as well as works by Matthew Brandt,
Pieter Hugo and Alison Rossiter; Josée Bienvenu Gallery (New York) offering pieces by Julianne Swartz and
Ken Solomon; Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Santa Monica), featuring Smithsonian American Art Museum’s
2012 Contemporary Artist Award winner, Kathy Butterly; NIEVES FERNANDEZ (Madrid) presenting
Japanese installation artist Chiharu Shiota; VON LINTEL GALLERY (New York) bringing a group showing of
works by Marco Breuer, Catherine Howe, Canan Tolon, and others; GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE
(Cologne/Madrid) displaying works from Bulgarian native, Iva Gueorguieva; Rosamund Felsen Gallery (Santa
Monica) featuring a solo painting installation by Kim MacConnel; James Harris Gallery (Seattle) showing
abstract paintings by Karin Davie; Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans), offering vibrant etchings by Tony
Fitzpatrick; LMAKprojects (New York) introducing quilted works by Sabrina Gschwandtner; and Jonathan
LeVine Gallery (New York), launching a solo project by acclaimed French street artist Invader.
PULSE prides itself on its longstanding relationship with many of its core galleries. Such galleries that have
exhibited with PULSE Miami since its earliest days include Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), bitforms (New
York), Freight+Volume (New York), ftc. Berlin (Berlin), Davidson Contemporary (New York), Hilger
modern/contemporary (Vienna), Mixed Greens (New York), Mark Moore Gallery (Culver City), Yancey
Richardson Gallery (New York), GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE (Cologne/Madrid), Julie Saul Gallery (New
York), Schroeder Romero (New York), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), Galeria SENDA (Barcelona),
Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), TORCH (Amsterdam), VON LINTEL GALLERY (New York), and Pavel
Zoubok Gallery (New York).
SPECIAL PROJECTS
The latest edition of PULSE PLAY>, the fair’s ongoing video lounge series, will be home to WATCH SOME
MOVIES by Casey Neistat, an interactive film archive featuring the artist’s works and an “Information Booth”
manned by Casey Neistat himself, where he will field inquiries on proclaimed areas of proficiency including
boxing, Nintendo 64, carpentry, long-distance running, the Second World War, filmmaking, hand guns, Instagram,
cell phones, mountain climbing, B&E, video cameras, snowboarding, parenting, frequent flyer reward programs,
hand stands, Malcolm X, painting, and much more.
The international roster of past PULSE PLAY> curators includes Stanya Kahn, Dossier Journal, Lucie
Fontaine, João Ribas, Marina Fokidis, Magda Gonzalez-Mora, Bill Arning and Christopher Eamon.
PULSE MIAMI 2012 continues its signature series, PULSE PROJECTS, an engaging selection of installations
throughout the fair, proposed by galleries and not-for-profit institutions. PULSE PROJECTS enables the
exploration of artistic practice outside of the confines of a booth, and lends to larger solutions within the context of
the fair. This year’s projects feature Zackary Drucker’s At least you know you exist, 2011, a short film shown
earlier this year at MoMA PS1 (New York), and brought to PULSE by LUIS DE JESUS LOS ANGELES (Los
Angeles); and Carlos Rigau’s mixed materials sculpture Hello Deconstructing Fantasy, 2012, of LMAKprojects
(New York), which has previously been shown at the de la Cruz Collection (Miami). Additional PULSE
PROJECTS include Alan Rath’s sculpture, Absolutely, Positively, 2012, courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt
Gallery (San Francisco/New York) and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York); Nives Widauer’s bronze Dialog
with Analog – Settle (Sculpture), 2011, courtesy of Hilger modern/contemporary (Vienna); David Opdyke’s
Garden of Earthly Delights, 2012, courtesy of the Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York) and the artist; Shantell
Martin’s Continuous Line, 2012, courtesy of Black & White Gallery/ Project Space (Brooklyn); Jenna Spevack
Seeding The City, 2012, courtesy of Jenna Spevack and Mixed Greens (New York); THIS END UP, a traveling
mobile group exhibition by The West Collection (Oaks, PA); Kyle Trowbridge’s Untitled Rant, 2012, courtesy of
Dorsch Gallery (Miami); Venske & Spänle’s lively marble installations, courtesy of the artists and Margaret
Thatcher Projects (New York); Dinh Q. Lê’s The Virgin Mary of Medellin, 2011, courtesy of the artist and
Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland); a special screening of Invader’s Art 4 Space, courtesy of Jonathan LeVine
Gallery (New York); and a collaborative performance by Generic Art Solutions, presented by Jonathan Ferrara
Gallery (New Orleans).
2012 EXHIBITORS, JURY & SELECTION COMMITTEE
The complete list of PULSE MIAMI 2012 exhibitors includes ADAMSON GALLERY (Washington, D.C.), Alex
Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Galerie Anita Beckers (Frankfurt), Benrimon Contemporary (New
York), Josée Bienvenu Gallery (New York), GALERIE ANDREAS BINDER (Munich), bitforms gallery (New
York), Black & White Gallery/ Project Space (Brooklyn), Brancolini Grimaldi (London), CONRADS
(Duesseldorf), Danziger Gallery (New York), Davidson Contemporary (New York), Dorsch Gallery (Miami),
espaivisor – Visor Gallery (Valencia), La Estación Arte Contemporáneo (Chihuahua), Rosamund Felsen
Gallery (Santa Monica), NIEVES FERNANDEZ (Madrid), Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans), The Fine
Art Society Contemporary (London), Freight+Volume (New York), ftc. Berlin (Berlin), Nohra Haime Gallery
(New York), James Harris Gallery (Seattle), Patrick Heide Contemporary Art (London), Hilger
modern/contemporary (Vienna), Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco/New York), Kuckei + Kuckei (Berlin),
GALERIE MARTIN KUDLEK (Cologne), Jonathan LeVine Gallery (New York), Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai),
Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland), LeBasse Projects (Culver City), Joshua Liner Gallery (New York),
LMAKprojects (New York), Galerie Lot 10 (Brussels), Diana Lowenstein Gallery (Miami), LUIS DE JESUS
LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles), M+B (Los Angeles), Man&Eve (London), Ellen Miller Gallery (Boston), Yossi
Milo (New York), Mixed Greens (New York), Mark Moore Gallery (Culver City), Nuova Galleria Morone (Milan),
Pablo’s Birthday (New York), La Galerie Particulière (Paris), Purdy Hicks Gallery (London), Yancey
Richardson Gallery (New York), GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE (Cologne), Tyler Rollins Fine Art (New York),
ROSE GALLERY (Santa Monica), Mary Ryan Gallery (New York), Julie Saul Gallery (New York), Schroeder
Romero (New York), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), Galeria SENDA (Barcelona), Shoshana Wayne Gallery
(Santa Monica), David B. Smith Gallery (Denver), MARC STRAUS (New York), Galerie Michael Sturm
(Stuttgart), Margaret Thatcher Projects (New York), Cristin Tierney Gallery (New York), TOMLINSON KONG
CONTEMPORARY (New York), TORCH (Amsterdam), Fred Torres Collaborations (New York), VIGO
GALLERY (London), VON LINTEL GALLERY (New York), WAGNER + PARTNER (Berlin), Rick Wester Fine
Art (New York), Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York), Miyako Yoshinaga (New York), Jerome Zodo
Contemporary (Milan), Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New York).
IMPULSE MIAMI 2012 exhibitors are Adah Rose Gallery (Kensington), ALARCON CRIADO (Sevilla),
balzerARTprojects (Basel), Black Square Gallery (Miami), Brunnhofer Gallery (Linz), C24 Gallery(New York),
Galleri Jonas Kleerup (Stockholm), AI KOWADA GALLERY (TOKYO), NARWHAL (Toronto), THE
RESIDENCE GALLERY (London), SCARAMOUCHE (New York), WIDMER + THEODORIDIS (Zurich), and
GALERIE WITTENBRINK (Munich).
IMPULSE artists are eligible to receive the PULSE PRIZE, a monetary grant that is awarded to an emerging artist
of distinction, selected by the PULSE Committee, a typically closed jury that will expand for the first time this
season to include art advisor Alistair Hicks of Deutsche Bank AG and esteemed journalist Alexandra Peers. The
2012 PULSE PRIZE winner will be announced on Friday, December 7, 2012. This year’s limited edition PULSE
Miami tote bags were designed by last year’s recipient, Larissa Nowicki.
Nonprofit organizations exhibiting at PULSE Miami 2012 include LegalArt(Miami), Girls’ Club (Fort Lauderdale),
The West Collection (Oaks, PA), Dimensions Variable (Miami), and RENDR (Wheeling, IL).
The PULSE Contemporary Art Fairs selection committee includes galleries NIEVES FERNANDEZ, LUIS DE
JESUS LOS ANGELES, GALERIE STEFAN ROEPKE and VON LINTEL GALLERY. PULSE Miami 2012 is
excited to be partnered with artnet Auctions and Miami Downtown Development Authority, and sponsored in
part by Living Divani, Elizabeth Stevens & Co., Travelers Insurance, Société Perrier, Heineken,
MALIN+GOETZ, 42Below Vodka, and RENDR.
ABOUT LOTUS HOUSE
Lotus House is a unique resource center and residential facility serving homeless women and infants in the heart
of the historic African American district of Overtown, Miami, an area suffering from extreme poverty in one of the
poorest large cities in the United States. Lotus House provides free transitional housing and wrap around support
services with access to a wide range of resources to over 110 women and children daily. With a holistic, gender
specific and innovative format, Lotus House seeks to empower women to improve the quality of their lives on
every level, achieve greater self-sufficiency and transition to permanent homes off the streets.
ABOUT PULSE CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR
Through its annual editions in New York and Miami, PULSE provides a platform for diverse galleries to present a
progressive blend of renowned and pioneering contemporary artists, alongside an evolving series of original
programming. The fair's distinctive commitment to the art community and visitor experience makes PULSE unique
among art fairs, creating a dynamic and inviting art market experience.
For additional information or images, please contact Eunice Kim, Director of Public Relations, GCCS, at 646 753 9061 or ekim@artinfo.com
Preview & Events Agenda
December 4, 7 - 10pm, Private Preview benefiting Lotus House, by invitation only
December 5, 10am - 1pm, Museum Preview Morning, by invitation only
December 6, 10am - 1pm, Press and VIP Brunch, by invitation only
The Ice Palace
1400 North Miami Avenue Miami Beach
Hours:
Thursday December 6 1pm-7pm
Friday December 7 11am–7pm
Saturday December 8 11am–7pm
Sunday December 9 11am–5pm
Admission:
MultiPass (4-day entry) $25
General Admission $20
Students/Seniors with valid ID $15
Group Discount $10