MIAMI - An idea born in Texas and developed in New York City is taking shape in the Miami Design District and appears to be catching on with emerging artists worldwide.
Six months ago Tony Wynn reopened Serious Studios, an emerging-artist gallery in the design district. Eight artists agreed last December during Art Basel Miami to be stared at for four days straight in suite 7 of 1 NE 40th Street. Almost 50 artists from an abstract painter from Australia to stone sculptors from Zimbabwe have shown their work at Serious Studios since. Next month Urgency Emerging Emergency expands to include up to 10 more artists in Suite 4 of 1 NE 40th Street.
The project has developed into a monthly design-district venue where artists share the cost for gallery space to show their work and in the event of a sale keep 100-percent of the gallery commission.
Tony first opened Serious Studios five years ago in the art district on Galveston Island, Texas. About a year into the gallery business, Tony was compelled to paint and his art sold, almost immediately. By the end of his second year as a gallery owner and a year as a painter, he moved to New York City, the way every starry-eyed artist dreams of. In New York, he established NYCStreetArtist.com for emerging artists showing their art around the streets of Soho. "A success kit," is how Tony explains the philosophy behind Urgency Emerging Emergency. One of the major issues artists grieve over is finding a gallery to show in. Once that issue is solved, what next?  Wynn said he’s finding that many artists don’t know the answer to that question.
Serious Studios provides artists a place to find those answers. One day Tony woke amid an emergency. He discovered his own artistry. With the discovery came the question of what to do next, his answer has been to treat his new-found world with the urgency of an emergency.
 "And in the day before yesterday my star came to me and unfolded my imagination like a gallery in the capital of an undiscovered country," his artist statement reads.