MIAMI, FL.- Photographers, digital media artists, painters, sculptors, online DJs, and performance artists, presented by 90 U.S. and international galleries and partners, will be featured at the 9th edition of PULSE Miami, opening on December 5th at The Ice Palace Studios.

"Our visitors will notice several big changes the moment they walk in the grounds, from a new layout in the garden and a new floor plan inside the Ice Palace, to spectacular new PULSE Projects and dynamic new partners. We have overhauled the exhibition from top to bottom to engage our visitors with the best art experience in Miami - again making PULSE Miami a mustsee event,” notes Fair Director Cornell DeWitt. “This year our PULSE Projects are more diverse than ever with socially-engaged performances, sound art, large-scale installations and sculptures, videos, and interactive works. As always, we give our galleries and their artists the opportunity to put on ambitious, non-commercial projects that enhance the unique atmosphere of PULSE,” continues DeWitt.

PULSE PLAY
PULSE welcomes the noted editor Hunter Braithwaite, and publisher Nina Johnson Milweski, of The Miami Rail, to curate PULSE PLAY>, the fair's ongoing video series. Through the Window, featuring a group of Miami-based artists, will highlight the moving landscape, and the moving, transient spirit of the Rail. This is the first exhibition presented by The Miami Rail.

“We chose to work with PULSE because they are one of the longest running fairs in Miami and have a history of supporting alternative and non-profit spaces. I also love the architecture of the fair. They do a great job of creating a welcoming atmosphere,” comments publisher, Nina Johnson-Milweski.

PULSE PROJECTS
PULSE Projects showcase a curated roster of ten art works that encourage visitor interaction throughout The Ice Palace Studios.

Commissioned by Miami-based Cannonball, Chicago’s Bad at Sports (B@S) will operate an internet radio station out of PULSE’s restrooms, conducting live interviews and commentary, alongside a booth of limited-edition posters by Chicago and Miami artists. Adrian Esparza (taubert contemporary, Berlin)–who will have a new installation featured concurrently at the newly constructed Pérez Art Museum Miami–will present a large-scale, geometric wall installation based on serapes, traditional Mexican blankets or capes. Matthew McCaslin (New Art Projects, London) continues his work of the last 25 years using electricity as the central material in Some Where Some What, 2013, which mixes basic metal shelving and electrical hardware. For Nails Across America, Breanne Trammell (Mixed Greens, New York) has transformed a 1968 Shasta Travel Trailer into a mobile nail salon to create an intimate platform to share ideas. She will document these exchanges with audio recordings and photography to create a web-based project archive. In the garden, Sputnik Returned, 2013 by Brandon Vickerd (Art Mûr, Montreal) is a replica of the first manmade satellite to orbit the earth, Sputnik, installed as if it has fallen from its orbit and has crashed back to earth. Tim Biskup (Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles), who describes his work as Baroque Modernism, brings an interactive installation, Head in the Hole, 2013, which has roots in animation, illustration, and toy design. Other PULSE Projects include Robert Montgomery’s massive banner, Sometimes You Are Carried Aloft (Flag), (C24 Gallery, New York); Heike Mutter & Ulrich Genth, Untitled, (taubert contemporary, Berlin); Ragnar Helgi Olafsson, THE TRAGEDY OF OUR INFINITE IMAGINATION AND OUR LIMITED LIVES (AND OTHER STORIES), (Dimensions Variable, Miami); and LULL, 2013, an outdoor sound installation curated by Taylor Deupree.

PULSE EXHIBITORS
“Curators and collectors flock to PULSE every year for the opportunity to discover fresh new talents and to explore their favorite artists and galleries in more depth,” continues DeWitt. “From Asia, across the United States, and throughout Europe, we bring together a depth and diversity of galleries not seen at any other Miami fair.” Many of the artists exhibited in the main section of the fair are currently experiencing the success of major museum exhibitions, awards, and sold out gallery shows. Yancey Richardson (New York) will feature portraits from South African photographer, Zanele Muholi, winner of the 2013 Carnegie International Fine Prize. LA based ROSEGALLERY is bringing a selection of William Eggleston dye transfer prints from his new series, Chromes, which is currently on view at the Tate Modern in London. Other highlights from ROSEGALLERY include Jo Ann Callis’s pigment prints (the subject of a 2014 Aperture monograph) and Manfred Muller who has a forthcoming show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Thomas Witte’s papercut artworks, which are causing a stir at Grand Central Station in New York, will be a main part of Davidson Contemporary’s (New York) booth. James Danziger (New York) will bring the rare Corinne Day, Kate Moss (9x) photograph – the only other print is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Following the success of Tim Youd’s live performance at PULSE New York, Coagula Curatorial (Los Angeles) will premier the artist’s video “Retyping Stranger Than Paradise,” featuring, and filmed at the loft of, Richard Edson, the breakout star of Jim Jarmusch’s film, Stranger than Paradise.

Digital media always has a visible presence at PULSE. MA2 Gallery (Tokyo) will showcase acclaimed Japanese video artist Ken Matsubara. Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York), who leads the field in promoting the work of digital-based artists, will present new works by Airan Kang and Alan Rath. Galerie Michael Sturm (Stuttgart) will feature prominent Chilean video artist Gianfranco Foschino, who is widely collected in South America.

New international galleries contribute to the strong list of exhibitors at PULSE Miami 2013. VERTICE GALLERY (Peru) will highlight Peruvian artists such as Macarena Rojas, Alessandra Rebagliati, and Ana Cecilia Farah. ADN Galería (Barcelona) will present Moroccan multi-media artist Mounit Fatmi. Turkey is represented by SANATORIUM (Istanbul), which will exhibit large-scale canvases by Emin Mete Erodgan and watercolors by Ahmet Dogu Ipek. Zemack Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv) will feature the figurative art of internationally recognized Israeli artists. With a focus on artists from throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim, Tyler Rollins Fine Art will feature new works by Australian artist Tracey Moffatt. A highlight of the booth of Cologne gallerist Stefan Rope will be a work by Montenegrin-born, Brooklyn-based artist Aleksandar Duravcevic entitled “Room no 1” (2013), an installation including ornate wooden wall panels, charred to black.

Additional highlights include NF (Madrid) (formerly Galeria Nieves Fernandez), exhibiting Mateo Mate, who is opening shows at three Madrid museums in November: the Lazaro Galdiano, the National Library and the Cerralbo. The Fine Art Society Contemporary (London) will premiere– newly released and never before seen in the US–work by duo Rob and Nick Carter. Diana Lowenstein Fine Art (Miami), will present a Loris Cecchini wall installation. Long-time exhibitor, Von Lintel Gallery (New York) will feature artists new to the gallery including Klea McKenna, Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier and Gundi Falk. Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago) returns with new works by Michael Robinson, as well as by Andrew Holmquist, fresh off his recently sold-out gallery show.

IMPULSE
The eleven galleries exhibiting in IMPULSE will feature solo projects from rising young artists. Highlights include photographs from Cristina de Middel’s critically acclaimed series, Afronauts, at Black Ship (New York); selections from Anja Hitzenberger’s Taken: Chinese Fast Food photographed at a Beijing food court at Michael Steinberg Fine Art (New York); Scott Schuman, “The Sartorialist”, who has emerged over the last few years as an internet sensation with his fashion-centric street photography will be at Danziger Gallery (New York); M2A - Gallery for Contemporary Art (Dresden) returns to PULSE with the figurative paintings of Michael Klipphahn. Newcomers Galerie Sturm (Nuremberg) will present Tobias Buckel’s abstract paintings, and LA galería - Arte contemporáneo (Bogotá) features sculptures by young Columbian artist Carlos Castro. Other IMPULSE exhibitors include David Spriggs at Art Mûr (Montreal), Ruth Gomez at La New Gallery (Madrid), Michal Macku at PACI CONTEMPORARY (Brescia), Francesco Sena at Eduardo Secci Contemporary (Florence),

NON-PROFIT PARTNERS
In collaboration with Miami based artist Kerry Phillips, Girls’ Club will present a site specific installation and interactive performance at PULSE. Phillips’ project invites the public to engage in an experiment in bartering and collecting, where objects will be collected, exhibited, and traded on site. Dimensions Variable, an artist run exhibitions space committed to advancing artistic discourse in Miami, will exhibit a “hidden” group installation of prominent Miami-based artists, including Christina Lei Rodriguez, Christy Gast, Bhakti Baxter, and others. Hamburg-based blinkvideo.de, a professional website for research of video art, performance, and multimedia installations, will feature a rotating series of curated video programs, including a selection of recent prize winners from European video festivals, never before seen in the US.