Dzine Rolls Blinged Out Bikes into Miami

Dzine at Miami's Bass Museum of Art
Dzine at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art
Dzine at Miami's Bass Museum of Art
Dzine at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art
Dzine at Miami's Bass Museum of Art
Dzine at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art
A Ghost Bike-Inspired Piece by Dzine at Miami's Bass Museum of Art
A Ghost Bike-Inspired Piece by Dzine at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art


Covered in Swarovski crystals, gold and neon lights, Dzine’s latest exhibition shines at Miami’s Bass Museum of Art. The Chicago-based artist, a former graffiti writer, is showing a collection of work appropriating and mixing elements of pop culture, Chicano “lowrider” culture and gaudy design. On display are a series of crystal-studded installations and objects that include turntables, chandeliers, lowrider bikes and even a ghost bike-inspired tricycle tricked out with all sorts expensive accoutrements that would get stolen within the hour. |The Art Collectors|

“Dzine,” October 3, 2009 – February 21, 2010, Bass Museum of Art, Miami

By on December 15, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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Lance Armstrong ‘Stages’ Cancer Benefit Art Show

Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »

By on July 24, 2009 at 6:42 pm
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