Sagamore, The Art Hotel presents wetheat.tv on Channel 55

Sagamore, The Art Hotel and the Cricket Taplin Collection of contemporary art presents exclusive in-room TV programming on Channel 55 from wetheat.tv, Miami's online contemporary art documentary film network.

The 2 ½ hours of unique Miami contemporary art programming listed below premiered on Channel 55 during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.

Films produced by Grela Orihuela and directed and edited by Bill Bilowit.
http://www.wetheatproject.com/about/index.html

Artists of the Cricket Taplin Collection Short films capture Miami artists from the Cricket Taplin Collection at work in their studios, from the "Studio Drive-By" and "That Happened" wetheat.tv documentary series.

Loriel Beltran
Pouring, coating, mixing, dripping, slicing, spraying and tamping; no idle moments for Loriel Beltran on a stifling hot overnight shift of manipulating time, gravity, chemistry and categories.

For more info:
→ http://www.lorielbeltran.com/

Carlos Betancourt
Carlos Betancourt brings together his closest friends and family to stage and photograph a large-scale, collaborative vision of his "The (LAST) Supper" at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts.

For more info:
→ http://www.carlosbetancourt.com/

Pablo Cano
On a hot July night, a small form takes shape on Pablo Cano's worktable, its found-object limbs and carved head awaiting the gift of kinetic life as a marionette in "The Blue Ribbon".

For more info:
→ http://www.canoart.com/

Robert Chambers
In a warehouse-bay studio on a stormy summer afternoon, conceptual artist and sculptor Robert Chambers commands his custom-built, laser-targetting automaton to create abstract sculptural paintings on a tight deadline for an upcoming show in Switzerland.

For more info:
→ http://www.robertchambers.com/Work.html

FriendsWithYou
A world of playful and sometimes fierce spiritual totems-as-toys, dream-like parades, immersive installations, mass merchandising, silkscreen, and traditional paint on canvas altogether expands the art of FriendsWithYou (collaborators Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III) beyond the niche confines of a gallery setting.

For more info:
→ http://www.friendswithyou.com/

Enrique Gomez de Molina
With skills acquired as a professional taxidermist, sculptor Enrique Gomez de Molina fashions dream-like tableaus of impossible animals in fanciful moments of imagined narratives.

For more info:
→ http://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/

Lee Materazzi
One particularly hot July afternoon, Lee Materazzi staged a sculpturally-inclined photo shoot integrating a live, high-heeled and steadfast model (conceptual artist Tatiana Vahan) and an "everyday" object, pursuing the perfect shot.

For more info:
→ http://www.leematerazzi.com/

Gavin Perry
In a studio crowded with sculptural work in various stages of near-completion, Gavin Perry moves from piece to piece, wielding power tools and mixing resins, to meet a days-away deadline for a major solo show.

For more info:
→ http://snitzer.com/page11/page25/index.html

Manny Prieres
With acute, elaborate details, Manny Prieres' intricate pencil techniques render the icons, objects and emblems of a proud family mythology on a life-size scale in the large-scale work on paper, "Mother".

For more info:
→ http://spinelloprojects.com/artist/manny-prieres/

Jen Stark
Jen Stark makes precise and incremental cuts following her exact predetermined measurements on hundreds of sheets of colored paper to create intricately layered sculptural "explosions" of vivid color and form.

For more info:
→ http://www.jenstark.com/

Mette Tommerup
From thumbnail images encountered during random internet searching, Mette Tommerup paints intimately-scaled provocative moments, moving from canvas to canvas in her small corner studio in a quintessential tree-shrouded 1920s Coconut Grove house.

For more info:
→ http://www.mettetommerup.com/index.html

Agustina Woodgate
Overflow onlookers pressed against the street-front window of Spinello Gallery as Agustina Woodgate spun a transcendent fairy tale of captivity, commitment, and the (literal) threads of humanity that connect artist, participant and viewer.

For more info:
→ http://agustinawoodgate.com/

The Stairwell Project Under the aegis of proprietor and collector Cricket Taplin, six students from Miami's famed New World School of the Arts produced a unique connected mural the entire length and breadth of the interior stairwell at The Sagamore Hotel main building on Miami Beach. Selected to participate by the school's Dean of Visual Arts, Maggy Cuesta, each emerging young artist conceived and produced a large-scale, finely detailed work of personal and aesthetic expression.

5 Stories Tall Jose Felix Perez, a graduating visual arts senior from Miami's acclaimed New World School of the Arts, is commissioned to create a large scale mural for one of Miami's most iconic and strongly-rooted corporations, Greenberg Traurig, as the firm opens its new location in a downtown skyscraper.

For more info:
→ http://www.josefelixperez.com/
→ http://www.gtlaw.com/NewsEvents/Newsroom/

An Opening: Redux Last year, the exclusive Channel 55 premiere of our documentary film captured the final 100-hour rush to open a new contemporary art gallery in the heart of Miami's downtown business district. This new abridged version features a compelling epilogue: nine months later we find the dedicated gallerist Chris Miro and burgeoning conceptual artist Tatiana Vahan at critical, diverging points in their careers.

Chris Miro is the gallerist.
Tatiana Vahan is the artist.

That Happened   The exclusive premiere of five short films from our wetheat.tv series capturing the impromptu action and interaction of ephemeral art performance / installation events in Miami.

sleeper   Strips of black covering peeled away to reveal the multi-disciplinary artist sleeper's glowing tableaux within an empty storefront, its restricted views revealing silhouetted young night denizens engaged in an exclusive - and untouchable - social scene.

For more info:
→ http://www.biscaynetimes.com/index.php?id=590:the-future-is-here
→ http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-12-02/culture/
→ http://www.youtube.com/user/sleeperspeaks
→ http://www.hotbedmiami.com/2010/scrapbook2010/sl.html

Pope   Viewers of Cheryl Pope's "Balancing Stacks" at a Dorsch Gallery pop-up space from DACRA kept a wary distance from accumulating piles and teetering towers of plates, dishes, cups and saucers, as their pulses quickened in anticipation of the inevitable.

For more info:
→ http://www.cherylpope.net/HOME.html
→ http://dorschgallery.com/exhibition?ex_id=150
→ http://www.dorschgallery.com/

Cortada   Painter and conceptual artist Xavier Cortada created a project that designed an actual strand of DNA, as visitors to his exhibition randomly "donated" a symbolic nucleotide in return for which each received a segment of the artist's large-scale work on paper.

For more info:
→ http://www.cortada.com/
→ http://www.reclamationproject.net/?page=artist
→ http://greenmuseum.org/artist_index.php?artist_id=144

Rifas   Opening night at a Bernice Steinbaum Gallery exhibition, visitors made their way through, between and around the intricate, macrocosmic string arrays of Karen Rifas, encountering spirited young dancers intertwined in a performance of fluid gestures and alignments. (NWSA student dancers directed by Dale Andree)

For more info:
→ http://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/artists/rifas/index_rifas.html
→ http://whatsupmiami.blogspot.com/2010/07/karen-rifas
→ http://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/artists/rifas/index_rifas.html
→ http://nwsa.mdc.edu/hs_artdep_-_dance/overview/overview.html
→ http://floridawaterwaysdanceproject.com/

Guerrier   The first of several "Weird Miami Bus Tours" from the creative minds at Bas-Fisher Invitational took riders on a freeform journey of culture, commerce, and a delectable series of iconic Miami meals, conducted by multi-disciplinary artist Adler Guerrier.

For more info:
→ http://dig.thenextfewhours.com/
→ http://www.davidcastillogallery.com/adler-guerrier/
→ http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/cultist/2011/02/adler_guerrier.php
→ http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/

miamiHeights: Hernan Bas Excerpt scene from our feature documentary film about the renowned young Miami painter Hernan Bas, the story of a balancing act between the relentless demands of a global art market and the enduring desire to create something important.

For a full list of on-camera participants, more film excerpts and DVD info:
http://visitmiamiheights.com/

making sh*t up Preview of our feature documentary film on the rise of conceptual artist Bert Rodriguez. After its world premiere as an official selection of the 2011 Miami International Film Festival, the film was a curated screening at the Core Club in New York, Soho House in Los Angeles, and as a special presentation by the Los Angeles Art Association at the new West Hollywood Library.

Appearing in this preview: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Jerry Saltz, Fred Snitzer, Amy Cappellazzo, Steven Henry Madoff, Bert Rodriguez, and Bert's dog Wilson.

For a full list of on-camera participants and more film excerpts:
http://www.makingshitup-themovie.com/