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PULSE Miami Beach is pleased to announce Héctor Arce-Espasas as the recipient of this year's PROJECTS Special Commission. Visitors to the fair's South Tent will be greeted by Arce-Espasas’ sculptural installation Ode to Paradise (Dancers), a series of his iconic ceramics positioned within a new environment created specifically for PULSE. The ceramic vessels featured in Ode to Paradise (Dancers) are reminiscent of the overflowing fruit bowls popular in 17th century Europe, which served as symbols of wealth and social class. Here, ripe fruit and tropical imagery coalesce with the body to create a visual meditation on the idea of the tropical paradise, encouraging visitors to imagine new realities, or rather, new fantasies.

PERSPECTIVES is a platform for the exploration of themes and issues within the contemporary art market. For the Miami Beach 2017 edition, PULSE partnered with the New York Film Academy in Miami Beach to present the PERSPECTIVES of three PULSE participants. In this installment, we visit the studio of artist Donna Ruff, whose work will be presented by Rick Wester Fine Art at PULSE.

PERSPECTIVES is a platform for the exploration of themes and issues within the contemporary art market. For the Miami Beach 2017 edition, PULSE partnered with the New York Film Academy in Miami Beach to present the PERSPECTIVES of three PULSE participants. In this installment, we the National YoungArts Foundation in Miami, FL and hear from its President and CEO, Carolina García Jayaram and the booth YoungArts will present at PULSE.

We are thrilled to announce the works selected for PLAY Miami Beach 2017. Each of the nine works chosen by curators Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol relates to this edition’s theme of POWER, a theme the curators chose to define in a broad sense, inviting artists to explore the multiple iterations of the word, it’s definitions, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. 

PLAY Miami Beach 2017 Selections Bolo, Carousel Delphine Fawundu, "the cleanse" Andy Fernandez, MIRIAM Bang Geul Han, How to Remember the Black Book in Seoul Melvin Harper, 3017 Amy Khoshbin, Protest Surabhi Sharaf, Intensities Rodrigo Valenzuela, El Sisifo Ventiko, 꿈을 깨어 (Waking Dream)

“By the time it reached its half-life, the year 2017 had witnessed the gamut of powerful events, powerful people, powerful movements, and powerful paradigm shifts. In feeling the impact of overwhelming examples of social, political, ecological, civil, economic, and even personal power (or lack thereof), we decided to address these moments through the PULSE PLAY program,” say curators Wahi and Jampol.

“The nine videos that we picked include works that contend with the stripping away of power through the lens of the oppressed or expose the dynamics of political dominance through the perspective of the spectator. Others intend to ameliorate the negative impacts of history, validate the power of personal achievement or emphasize the crippling impact of cultural power paradigms on the masses. Each of the videos selected are intended to illicit a visceral response and may be difficult to watch; a few may make you weep, gasp in shock, laugh with an unexplained sense of victory, or sigh with relief. It is our hope that this collection stirs you, and that you feel the full impact of our idea of power.”

The selected works will be shown at PULSE Miami Beach 2017 as well as in a pre-fair, month-long exhibition at Project For Empty Space. Join us in celebrating the artists at the opening at Project For Empty Space on Tuesday October 10 from 5pm - 7pm. 

\We are delighted to announce the exhibitors for the 13th edition of PULSE Miami Beach! The fair returns this December to its oceanfront home at Indian Beach Park, opening on Thursday, December 7 and closing on Sunday, December 10, 2017. PULSE will present over 70 galleries and 200 artists from around the world across its two spacious tents. By mixing returning galleries with new exhibitors from countries such as Peru, France, and The Netherlands, PULSE continues to provide a dynamic overview of the contemporary art being produced today.

You can find the full list of PULSE Miami Beach 2017 exhibitors below and learn more about them on our website. In the coming weeks we will be updating you with more information about our special projects and programming. For live updates, follow us @PULSEArtFair and we look forward to seeing you in December!

PULSE Miami Beach 2017 Exhibitors 

ANTONIO COLOMBO ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Milan, Italy ART LEXING, Miami, FL BEERS LONDON, London, UK Bernarducci Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY Black & White Gallery / Project Space, Brooklyn, NY Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, NY CEDE GALERIA, Lima, Peru CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London, UK Christopher Moller Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY ClampArt, New York, NY Danziger Gallery, New York, NY David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR FIUMANO CLASE, London, UK Flowers Gallery, New York, NY & London, UK Frantic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt am Main, Germany GALLERY MoMo, Tokyo, Japan Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark Garis & Hahn, Venice, CA Ginsberg Galeria, Lima, Peru HATHAWAY, Atlanta, GA Honey Ramka, Brooklyn, NY Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA JHB Gallery, New York, NY JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans, LA Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Kahn Gallery, London, UK Kallenbach Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Litvak Contemporary, Tel-Aviv, Israel Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands LPH, London, UK Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, CA Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Canada NIL GALLERY, Paris, France NL=US Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Project for Empty Space, Newark, NY Project: ARTspace, New York, NY Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY robert henry contemporary, Brooklyn, NY Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SVA Galleries, New York, NY taubert contemporary, Berlin, Germany TRAYWICK CONTEMPORARY, Berkeley, CA Uprise Art, New York, NY VICTORI + MO, Brooklyn, NY VIVIANEART, Calgary, Canada Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin, Germany William Baczek Fine Arts, Northhampton, MA Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY & Seattle, WA YoungArts, Miami, FL

PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is thrilled to announce an open call for submissions for PLAY at Miami Beach 2017. PLAY is PULSE’s dedicated showcase for video and new media, serving as a platform at the fair to encourage discovery within the digital realm. Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Co-Founders and Directors of Project For Empty Space, will return as this year's curators. In October, Wahi and Jampol will host a month-long collaborative exhibition at Project for Empty Space showcasing the 2017 PLAY selections. This exhibition underscores PULSE’s longstanding commitment to exploration both inside and beyond the fair setting, and creates an additional platform from which the selected works can be viewed.

As selected by the curators, the theme for PLAY 2017 is “POWER," wherein artists are invited to explore the multiple iterations of the word, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power. The curators have determined to use the following definition of power as a jumping point of inquiry into this complex topic;

POWER

pow·er \ˈpau̇(-ə)r\

noun

1. the ability to do something or act in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality.

2. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

3. physical strength and force exerted by something or someone.

4. energy that is produced by mechanical, electrical, or other means and used to operate a device

5. (mathematics) the number of times a certain number is to be multiplied by itself

verb

1. (a device) with mechanical or electrical energy.

2. move or travel with great speed or force.

Submissions for PLAY are now being accepted through Submittable. All submissions must include one video or new media piece running no longer than 15 minutes. Submissions should also include the artist’s bio and/or CV, an artwork statement, a supporting still of the submitted work, and the $50 application fee. All entries are due by August 2, 2017 and final selections will be announced in September. Selections will be shown onsite for the duration of PULSE Miami Beach 2017, in an exhibition in October at Project For Empty Space, and will enjoy additional promotion through PULSE's website and social media.