21 Best Art Galleries in Miami to Browse, Shop and Gather

Touting itself as a place for all arts to coexist and intermingle, Futurama 1637 is a melting pot for art lovers. This influential Argentinian gallery made its new home in Miami in 2013. Since then, the husband and wife-led outfit has aimed to become an epicenter for modern and contemporary Latin American Art in the city. Indeed, the sprawling, technicolor MAMAN Fine Art warehouse in Allapattah is also a hub for curator meetings, artist talks, community events and more. Since 2007, Avant Gallery has been defined by its exciting and forward thinking program.

Exhibitions

• You’ll find provocative exhibits and out-of-the-box exhibits here, including works from artists like Emmett Moore, Nicolas Lobo and Bhakti Baxter.
• The collage presents viewers with an updated Adam and Eve (a body-builder and a burlesque dancer) surrounded by all the conveniences modern life provided, including a vacuum cleaner, canned ham, and a television.
• The Lowe boasts an impressive collection spanning 5,000 years of human creativity.
• The gallery represents a core group of Miami artists in every stage of their career, making it a true piece of Miami’s art history.

Robert Rauschenberg’s “combines” mixed traditional painting techniques with found objects, often creating 3D artworks that blurred the lines between painting and sculpture. Pop art takes influences from a wide variety of styles and is not united by a single technique. Andy Warhol’s screenprints of Marilyn Munroe or the Cambel Soup Cans are some of the most recognizable examples of Pop art.

Pop Art often appropriates imagery and techniques from other art forms found in popular and commercial culture. Mixed media and collage were popular formats amongst Pop Art artists, who often used a mixture of painting, photography, and collage in a single artwork. When it emerged on the scene, Pop art was not a popular style, as the name might suggest. Instead, the movement takes its name from the subject matters which inspired it. Pop Art is an art movement focused on rejecting the traditional rules of art at the time, instead choosing to look at modern advertising and popular culture for inspiration. It came primarily from the UK and USA, with smaller movements elsewhere.

Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator

Using images cut from American magazines the collage illustrates the new, contemporary Adam and Eve, within the confines of a home that worships consumerism. Claes Oldenburg (1929-) was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and moved to Chicago at the age of seven, where his father worked as a Swedish diplomat. The artist is best known for taking everyday objects and turning them into gigantic sculptures, with a sense of fun. His work can be found around the world, in United States, Europe and Asia.

Snow White goes Greek in this modern day interpretation of the fairytale classic, where Amanda moves into a house with seven dorks—see what they did there? Despite appearing staged and perfectly framed, Nicolas says many of his photos are unplanned and “captured spontaneously as I explore Singapore”. One of the most important, ground-breaking galleries in Los Angeles, which quickly garnered a considerable reputation with collectors, galleries, and artists around the world and gave birth to a genre of California art that would come to be known as Lowbrow.

The museum’s collection spans from ancient Americas to contemporary art, with a special focus on American art and African art. A gallery for collectors, Oliver Cole covers its walls in young, up-and-coming talents just waiting to be discovered. Find pop art and contemporary works, plus photography, sculpture and various other mediums.

Olomouc Museum of Art

Lichtenstein often took a pre-existing comic panel and cropped it; SPACE FOUR ZERO doing this removed the original image from its original context and allowed him to make something new (in art, this is called appropriation). The results are often parodic, biting, and almost unnervingly familiar. We mentioned a couple of the known Pop Art artists from the UK, but the majority of the most well known artists are from the USA. One of these was his Radiant Baby, which to him was one of the purest and most positive human experiences. It became a recurring visual idiom of Haring’s throughout the years and is now considered the artist’s signature tag. Although they were inspired by similar subject matter, British pop is often seen as distinctive from American pop.

Greater Miami & Miami Beach’s independent art galleries are a vibrant part of the destination’s thriving arts scene. They’re on the vanguard of contemporary art, showing new works by emerging local, national and international artists, as well as mid-career and blue chip masters. Back in Wynwood’s past (specifically the aughts), a collective group of artists would get together and paint murals.

As with the rest of Pop Art, it is often unclear whether Lichtenstein is applauding the comic book image, and the general cultural sphere to which it belongs, or critiquing it, leaving interpretation up to the viewer. But in Drowning Girl, the ridicule of the woman’s situation (as is made clear by her ridiculous statement) is evident. Lichtenstein used oil and Magna paint in his best known works, such as Drowning Girl (1963), which was appropriated from the lead story in DC Comics’ Secret Hearts #83. (Drowning Girl is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.)30 His work features thick outlines, bold colors and Ben-Day dots to represent certain colors, as if created by photographic reproduction. Many pop artists took images either from photography or print and incorporated them directly into their works. Artists like Lichtenstein would take illustrations from comic books and books, while only slightly re-imagining them.

This type of Pop-inspired fascination for the power of ordinary words was never more clear than in his LOVE artworks. It was originally conceived as a Christmas card for The Museum of Modern Art in 1965. Since then, LOVE has taken the shape of prints, paintings, sculptures, banners, rings, tapestries, and stamps. Perhaps the most famous and notable Pop artist, Warhol fittingly began his career in advertising before moving into visual arts. Warhol was interested in fame and money – not just making it for himself (although that too!) – but also in looking at the nature of celebrity culture and consumerism in contemporary society. The French artist has turned everyday scenes from Singapore into highly stylised, pastel-washed images where detail is reduced, colour is king and sharp, simple lines are celebrated.

Liliana has exhibited at many venues in Tampa, Puerto Rico, and  Miami, namely the Annual UN Exhibit for local artists in Puerto Rico, as  well as three UNESCO sponsored competition/exhibitions at the Art  League of San Juan. Opened in 2012, Central Fine is another hidden gem on Miami Beach’s sleepier shores in Normandy Isles. Located steps from Jupiter Contemporary, this artist-run gallery presents an impressive roster of emerging and mid-career multidisciplinary artists, including Loriel Beltran, Tomm El-Saieh and Kenyan postwar and contemporary painter Chemu Ng’ok. In 2000, this gallery, which was one of Wynwood’s first, pioneered bringing local artists to the Wynwood area. The gallery represents a core group of Miami artists in every stage of their career, making it a true piece of Miami’s art history. The museum’s collection spans from ancient artifacts to contemporary masterpieces.