Nicole Martinez

Supplement Projects is a communal home and a studio, alternative art space & community meeting point. The project explores ideas of domesticity with the urban landscape. As a place of comfort, communication, gathering and rest, it offers a provocative alternative to the often commercialized, hyperreal spaces of art galleries and institutions.
The space is run by Miami/Berlin based artist and arts organizer GeoVanna Gonzalez and represents artists Mahogany L. Browne (NYC), Lizania Cruz (NYC), ...

Fempower takes us inside its art slash fashion show exploring the future for black and brown people in a transforming world
The year is 2040. The world’s largest economic powers failed to heed the UN’s warning, in 2018, that we had 12 years to mitigate a climate change catastrophe. The atmosphere has warmed by 1.4 degrees Celsius, and in Miami, the effects are devastating. Heat and humidity have swelled to unbearable temperatures. Ninety per cent of the city’s vibrant coral reefs have vanishe...

At a panel discussion during ULI’s Fort Lauderdale Emerges conference in February, Mike Jackson, longtime chief executive officer of AutoNation, was joined by Vinnie Viola, chairman and owner of the NHL’s Florida Panthers and chairman emeritus of Virtu Financial, to discuss Fort Lauderdale’s place among America’s most important business communities.
With moderator Bob Swindell, president and CEO of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance, the pair discussed the appeal and consistent challenges f...

Cuba’s highly anticipated biennial, which kicks off this week, explores the future amid a turbulent present
Salvadoran performance artist and activist Alexia Miranda spent several weeks in Havana, weaving large, looming nets out of gauze and inviting seamstresses, artists, and even tourists to join her throughout the process. The socially engaged installation, titled Tejido Colectivo and shown at the Centro Contemporaneo Wilfredo Lam, was just one of the works produced specifically for the 13...

Independent artists groups plan to put Cuba's controversial Decree 349 to the test
A group of Cuban artist-activists plan to stage another alternative event during the run of the official Havana Biennial, which is due to open on 12 April after a year’s delay. The independent project is being organised in protest at a recently passed law known as Decree 349, which requires artists to receive approval from the Cuban government before their projects are mounted.
Under the title Bienal Sin 349/Bi...

Works on view draw on themes of collaboration and agency, at the same time the government seeks to control what art can be shown on the island
The sweeping Havana skyline—with its Modernist towers and colonial buildings coloured golden yellow, bubblegum pink and lime green—is strung together by the Malecón, the city’s expansive esplanade and seawall. In its northernmost corner, Cuban artist Jorge Otero has positioned dozens of vintage chairs, sourced from neighbours and friends, like a bandst...

With so many highfliers dropping some serious dough for a piece of downtown real estate in recent years, Miami’s condo market seemed a sure bet for developers.
But market volatility in Europe and Latin American, where many deep-pocketed buyers came from, has caused a sudden drop in condo resale prices since last year, local real estate analysts say.
After five years of double-digit increases, condo prices in the greater downtown dipped 4 percent in the first six months of 2016, according to a...

Dealers mount work that responds to political tensions while noting art is a 'difficult business' in Havana
The Havana Biennial opens on 12 April after its last edition was cancelled due to Hurricane Irma. In that time, the city’s gallery scene has weathered significant change since the show’s launch in 2015.
“A lot of new spaces popped up with President Obama’s announcement [to normalise US and Cuba relations in 2014],” Lida Lilian Sigas Nieto, the director of Havana’s El Apartamento gallery...

Works at mid-tier price points are moving quickly at the 16th edition of the Mexico City fair, according to exhibitors
Despite challenging political and economic developments in Mexico recently, dealers were mostly positive on the opening day of the 16th edition of Zona Maco (6-10 February), the seminal Mexico City art fair that has helped bolster the capital’s art market growth. As the afternoon wore on, dealers were busy greeting familiar faces while engaging new international collectors ap...

MIAMI — Inside the Pérez Art Museum Miami auditorium, Joshua Takano-Chambers Letson, an associate professor of performance studies at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, opens his presentation during the Latinx Art Sessions conference with a single image. Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s 1988 work, “Untitled (Madrid 1971)” flashes onto the screen, revealing a fading, sepia-toned portrait of the late artist as a child, juxtaposed with an unnamed statue honoring a colonial hero in Madrid....

In a strip of untamed wilderness lining one of the most affluent neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, the Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo led a group of collectors to his monumental public installation Perspective of Absence. After trodding down a shoddy wooden dock for nearly half an hour, his guests arrived to what felt like the edge of the earth, where a giant revolving door loomed over a blue horizon. If any of those guests stepped through the portal, they would have fallen into another realm...

The floor of Zona Maco buzzed with excitement during its opening preview, kicking off the 16th edition of a fair that has officially cemented Mexico City’s place on the global art world map. As Latin America’s largest and most distinguished fair, over 70 galleries have turned up to showcase an array of emerging and established artists, with most hailing from the region. At first glance, it would appear that the recent election of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has done little to temper...