Tuesday, May 10, 2011
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Sagamore, the Art Hotel announces the second ART-Talk event featuring Award-winning Miami Artist, Maria Martinez-Cañas. Hosted by Cricket Taplin, Art-Talk offers a unique opportunity to understand and explore an artist’s means of expression and inspiration. From meticulously assembled “Totem” works inspired by Latin American Modernism to performative photograms created on the floor of a former tobacco factory, Cañas will discuss how much of her work is linked to her identity as a Cuban born American with deep roots in Latin American culture.
The Sagamore’s upcoming ART-Talk will feature a conversation between María Martínez-Cañas and Julie Saul, her gallery representative in New York. Together, they will present an overview of her work, from the 1980s to present day, followed by an informal discussion with Saul and questions from the audience. Following the talk, guests are invited to enjoy cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with the artist.
WHERE: Sagamore, The Art Hotel
1671 Collins Avenue // Miami Beach, FL
Cañas is a photo-based artist who has explored and experimented with a multiplicity of techniques and materials in her more than twenty-five years as an exhibiting artist. In addition to her gallery representative in New York, Martinez– Cañas is also represented by the Fred Snitzer Gallery in Miami. Cañas has received many awards and honors, most recently the 2010 grant of $10,000 from the “New Strings Foundation.” Also in that year Cañas had a major exhibition entitled Tetralogy at The Freedom Tower of Miami-Dade College. A unique work from that show comprised of 25 prints which combine portrait imagery of Cañas and her father Untitled: John Doe + Richard Roe, is currently on exhibition at the New York Public Library as part of a recent acquisitions show. Cañas’ work is included in more than fifty public and corporate collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and virtually all of the public collections in the Miami area.
Cañas was born in Havana in 1960 and almost immediately left Cuba with her family and grew up in Puerto Rico, later attending college at the Philadelphia College of Art (BFA 1982) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA 1984). She has lived and worked in Miami since 1986 where she maintains her studio and has taught since 1996 at The New World School of the Arts where she is a full time faculty member. For more information on the artist visit: www.mariamartinez-canas.com