PRESS RELEASE: For immediate Release

Bridge Miami Beach
Location: The Catalina Hotel, 1732 Collins Avenue
Date: December 4–7, 2008
First look preview: December 4, 11am–6pm
Opening-night reception: December 4, 6pm

Bridge Miami Wynwood
Location: NE 1st Avenue and NW 34th Street
Date: December 2–7, 2008
First look preview: December 2, 11am–6pm
Opening-night reception: December 2, 6pm

Bridge Miami Beach
Following its enormous critical and commercial successes in 2006 and 2007, Bridge is pleased to announce our third installment in Miami Beach. Held at the Catalina Hotel, Bridge Miami leads the South Beach satellite art market, located a mere two blocks from Art Basel. Visitors can browse nearly 80 rooms of the freshest and most innovative works in international emerging and contemporary art.

Bridge Miami Wynwood
Building on two highly successful years in Miami Beach, Bridge is pleased to announce our inaugural Bridge Miami Wynwood, a boutique-style fair featuring galleries and artists’ projects presented in a modular, museum-grade exhibition space, built on a 60,000-square-foot development in midtown Miami, immediately adjacent to Art Miami, Photo Miami and AIPAD, and centrally located between Scope, Pulse and Aqua.

Taking place concurrently with Bridge Miami Beach, Bridge Miami Wynwood marks a significant expansion of Bridge’s presence at the global art fair market that converges in Miami every December. In addition to a spectacular booth fair, Bridge Miami Wynwood will also showcase an outdoor sculpture project, video, performance and several special events.

BRIDGE MIAMI BEACH 2008 EXHIBITORS

BRIDGE MIAMI WYNWOOD 2008 EXHIBITORS

Introducing Accomplice Projects

Accomplice Projects is an initiative of the Bridge Art Fair that will afford a select group of artists the opportunity to utilize the broad organizational resources of an art fair. This includes a powerful marketing apparatus, shipping and installation services, and the benefit of a collector base cultivated out of expositions in London, Berlin, Miami and New York. Accomplice will primarily feature a small number of young artists from Chicago, whose work will be solely represented by Accomplice. The initiative provides artists from underserved or underrepresented markets a way to defy local economies and participate on a global level.

BRIDGE MIAMI BEACH FAIR HOURS:

BRIDGE MIAMI WYNWOOD FAIR HOURS:

Peregrine Honig, Twin Fawns, Taxidermed unborn twin fawns, blown glass vitrine, velvet, enamel, wood.
Courtesy Accomplice Projects, Chicago, IL

Katrin Bahrs, Weder Fisch noch Fleisch (neither fish nor fowl), Inkjet Print, 2008, 59,4x42cm
Courtesy Durstewitz Sapre Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

Carolyn Monastra, Sandcastle, digital C-print, 16 x 20 inches, 2000 Courtesy Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

Melanie Authier, Stringer, Acrylic on Canvas, 2008, 36 x 48 in.
Courtesy Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada

Aileen Boyce,  Destiny, 2007, Oil on Canvas, 27' x 34"
Courtesy, Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, New York, NY

Brian Sorg, Used Car Lot (from American Dandy series), archival inkjet print, 1/6, 18"x24", 2006
Courtesy Orleans Street Gallery, Chicago IL

Download map (pdf file)

BRIDGE 2008 SEASON
PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

Public Media Lounge Sponsor: MyArtSpace.com

Myartspace.com, Mexico Tourism Board, Re-title.com, Orbitz, Aesthetica Magazine, Art In America, Artfacts.net, Artinfo.com, Art Review, Artlog, Artnowonline, Bidoun magazine, Gallery Guide, JAS Shipping, TheDolceVitaGroup, M The New York Art World, Magazine Artes en Santo Domingo, Miami New Times, Modern Painters, New World Symphony, Nonstarving Artists, Style Monte Carlo magazine, Wynwood magazine, South Beach Hotel Group

ADMISSION
Bridge Miami Wynwood: $10 opening night party and general admission
Bridge Miami Beach: Free admission to party and fair

COMPLIMENTARY SHUTTLE SERVICE
Bridge will provide complimentary shuttle service. A PDF map of the shuttle route, drop-off, and pick-up locations will be available for download at: http://www.bridgeartfair.com/miamivisitors.html

For more information about Bridge Miami Beach and Miami Wynwood please visit: www.bridgeartfair.com or call (312) 421-2227.

MEDIA CONTACT

For more information or for interviews, contact Brenda Schumacher at (312) 421-2227 (office), (847) 691-2301 (cell), or e-mail at bschumacher@bridgeartfair.com. To register for press credentials, please go to: http://bridgeartfair.com/press.html

2008/2009 BRIDGE ART FAIR SCHEDULE
Bridge Miami Beach,
The Catalina Hotel, December 4–7, 2008
Bridge Miami Wynwood,
December 2–7, 2008
Bridge New York,
The Waterfront, March 5–8, 2009
Bridge London,
Dates and Location TBA, 2009
Bridge Berlin,
Dates and Location TBA, 2009

BRIDGE 2008 SEASON
PARTNERS AND SPONSORS