SANTIAGO CALATRAVA: Small Scale Works

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Marlborough Gallery just signed architect Santiago Calatrava up for representation, and on April 24 his smaller scale works—sculptures of bronze, wood, and alabaster, and also ceramics and drawings—debuted at the Midtown gallery. This is his first representation by a major international gallery, although Calatrava has previously shown in New York’s Museum of Modern Art.

ATELIER COURBET: New Designs in Textiles by ANNA KARLIN

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On May 18th, Interior Design Magazine, which had done a cover on Anna Karlin stools, arranged for a presentation of Anna's new designs in fabrics, being executed by the prestigious Hosoo of Kyoto, and what better place to do it in, than at that den of luxury, Atelier Courbet, which carries other lines of the Hosoo output among its treasures.

Anna Karlin stools

THE ECLECTIC EYE: Barry Friedman's Collection. Auction Preview

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

When Barry Friedman, the Manhattan based art dealer decided to retire, a diversity of works, drawn from his homes and from his stock, were presented at Christie’s under the banner ‘The Eclectic Eye’. A preview of the items took place on April 24 which has been arranged as a series of four sales that will provide a review of the many spheres in which he has made his mark.

NEW YORK SPACES Celebrates Summer at MICHAEL DAWKINS HOME

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

The advent of Summer was the excuse for a bubbly celebration arranged by NEW YORK SPACES Magazine at Michael Dawkins' showroom on June 11, but the real treat was to feast one's eyes on the gorgeous home goodies that are a testament to his Zen taste in house appointments.

Michael Dawkins not only designs for the home, but does jewelry as well

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Ancient and Non Western Art and Antiques

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc.

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited

WINTER ANTIQUES DIAMOND JUBILEE SHOW - Jewelry

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Didier Ltd.

This is one of a multiple parts photo essay of the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory to benefit the East Side House Settlement. It took place from January 24 to February 2. This year it celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (60th Anniversary.)

Wartski

GRINDHOUSE: JOHNNY ROMEO Art Exhibit

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

The Third gallery I visited February 21st in Chelsea after Clampart and PACE (Click on the names to go to their article) was porter/contemporary Gallery, showcasing GRINDHOUSE, a most enjoyable exhibit of the art of Australian Johnny Romeo

MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ: AFTER MAGRITTE - Photo Recreations of Magritte's Paintings

ARTIST: Miguel Dominguez

Threatening Weather

The Large Family

KEVIN McHUGH Art Exhibit

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

With an opening party on November 30th at The Out NYC Hotel, Artist Kevin McHugh unveiled his new Pucci-inspired sculpture collection of fish and shark sculptures adorned with Swarovski crystals.This new collection, a six sculpture assemblage, pays homage to McHugh’s other muse: the world of fashion. McHugh, along with Patricia Field and Danny Tenaglia, hosted

The collection debuted in New York City in an exhibition with the support of SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS and Avant Gallery. It remained on display at The Out NYC Hotel, located at 510 West 42nd Street, from November 30th to December 2nd and was open to the public, after which it went to be showcased at the Avant Gallery in Miami for an Art Basel presentation.

Kevin McHugh on the right with his publicist Coury Hay 

MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ: Variations on the Mona Lisa

ARTIST: Miguel Dominguez

Mona Lisa #12

Cuban born Miguel Dominguez graduated from the High School of Art and Design, and the Fashion Institute of Technology, majoring in photography at both institutions.

In 1992, with the advent of digital graphic technology, Miguel began to manipulate photographic images using Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, creating an extensive portfolio of photo illustrations on various subjects, one of these being a series of variations on the Mona Lisa.

Mona Lisa #10

LARRY CLARK STUFF Art Happening

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Larry Clark Stuff, Boo-Hooray‘s exhibition drawn from Larry’s personal collection of skateboard decks, skater t-shirts and related posters, stickers, photographs and stuff had it's New York opening in the Chelsea art district of New York on March 6th.

MIGUEL DOMINGUEZ: TAROT CARDS - work in progress

ARTIST: Miguel Dominguez

Major Arcana #1 - The Wizard

Major Arcana #3 -  The Empress

Major Arcana #6 - The Lovers

Major Arcana #7 - The Chariot

Cuban born Miguel Dominguez majored in photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

After graduation, he began to work in the field of commercial photography, first assisting well established advertising photographers who specialized in tabletop still life, fashion and beauty, architectural, and location photography. Throughout the latter part of this period, he developed an interest in the art of photomontage, creating a large body of work in the subject of erotic fantasy.

After several years of this type of on the job training, he started out photographing architectural interiors, then publicity events and celebrity coverage.

In 1992, with the advent of digital graphic technology, Miguel decided to change careers and become a photo illustrator and graphic designer. Within one year, he stablished himself as a successful freelance photo manipulator and graphic designer with a very wide publishing and advertising clientele.

SCOOTER LaFORGE Art Exhibit

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Scooter LaForge with Munch

On October 26th at the Munch Gallery, Scooter LaForge had his one man show. His popularity and reputation, greatly enhanced by his hand painted T-shirts and other fashion accessories, which are carried by the Patricia Field Boutique are such, there was as much of a crowd out on the sidewalk as there was inside the gallery.

Even though I was having loads of fun, It was kind of difficult for me to get good photos of his art on the walls, with such a large crowd blocking the view. To see more of his art, click on his name link above and also on his portfolio page at the Munch Gallery web site.

BEFORE WE WERE QUEER Art Exhibit

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Hugh Ryan, founding Director of The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History

The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art had the opening reception on August 11 of the multimedia community installation "Before We Were Queer", presented by The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History.

DAVID LEDDICK/DAVID VANCE Double Book Signing at Rizzoli

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

The two Davids, Leddick and Vance,
each one holding on to their books

June 12th at Rizzoli NY, was the place for art lovers of the Homoerotic genre to be. It was there that two legends in the field of Gay Art, David Leddick and David Vance, gathered with friends to promote and sign their newly published books, Leddick's Gorgeous Gallery and Vance's Jungle Fever.

Jungle Fever

Gorgeous Gallery - Bruce Sargeant (1880-1938),
"Wrestler and Boy in Jacket"

GEORGE TOWNE: Portraits & Landscapes

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On June 1st, the Michael Mut Gallery presented the solo exhibition, “George Towne: Portraits & Landscapes”, Towne’s second show at the gallery.  The exhibition featured a selection of his oil paintings, as well as Gouache Watercolors and Drawings.

DAVID JARRETT's Seminal Art Collection

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

David Jarrett

David Jarrett’s collection of male figurative art, must be described as museum quality. The only other collection I would consider its equal, is located at the Leslie Lohman Museum. No wonder David Jarrett had been chairman of the advisory committee, which was dissolved in the spring of 2009, at the former Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation. He’s got the eye of a professional curator. He also writes articles on male-figurative art for the Leslie Lohman Museum's Archive quarterly journal and occasionally exhibits some of his photography in their premises.

Joe Radoccia's NAVIGATION

ART + SIN: The Black Party Posters 1981-2012

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

On March 8, at The LGBT Center, a cocktail party took place to showcase the scandalous Saint-At-Large celebration of sensuality, sin and everything in between with a one-day-only erotic art exhibition displaying rarely seen Black Party Posters from 1981-2012.

WARNING! Explicit Nude images after page break

THE PIERS: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Curator Darren Jones, art historian and scholar of Queer Studies Jonathan D. Katz, curator Jonathan Weinberg and Charles leslie of the Leslie Lohman Museum

As the first gay and lesbian art museum in the world, the mission of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (LLMoGLA) is to exhibit, preserve and foster the creation of gay and lesbian art and artists which speak directly to all facets of the gay and lesbian experience, such as political, historical, romantic and social imagery. The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront exhibit, which opened on April 3rd, met most of the criteria above in one of the most popular exhibitions The former Leslie-Lohman Foundation ever had.

KLAUS ENRIQUE Photo Homage to Renaissance Surreal Portraitist Arcimbaldo

reporter: Miguel Dominguez

Klaus Enrique with his "Arcimbaldo" photo series

Born in 1975, Klaus Enrique grew up in Mexico City. Having studied Genetics at the University of Nottingham, England, and receiving an MBA from Columbia Business School in the City of New York, his working career was spent as a freelance IT consultant before Enrique turned to photography, which he studied at Parsons and at the School of Visual Arts. In 2007 when his portrait of “Mother & Daughter” was short listed for the Photographic Portrait Prize at London’s National Portrait Gallery, he began to receive worldwide attention. Klaus also has been short listed for other works by the Newspace Center for Photography, National Geographic Traveler, the Photography Masters Cup, and the Art of Photography Show among others. In 2011, Klaus Enrique was the winner of the prestigious Curator Award/Emerging Artist of the Year for Still Photography, by Photo District News. His work is collected by a growing number of public institutions and private collections. Enrique is represented here in New York by Robert Burge, Twentieth Century Photographs, LTD. and currently lives in Mexico City.