LegalArt Presents: Private Eye

About Private Eye

Brought to you by LegalArt, Private Eye, is the inaugural event and auction to launch LegalArt’s Residency Building together with its current residents and Miami’s established artists and art aficionados.

After 8 years spent supporting Miami’s art community, LegalArt together with artist, Daniel Arsham, opened its doors in 2010 launching the innovative Residency Program for local, national and international artists and visiting curators and writers.

Come and enjoy our housewarming event and auction with Lolo and DJ Hottpants spinning, performance artist Clifton Childree and over 25 of Miami’s most esteemed artists.

LegalArt Building
1035 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL 33136

Google Maps »

Limited Edition Pieces

Daniel Arsham

Daniel Arsham

In Arsham’s strangely beautiful, hypothetical world objects have lost their physical domination, but not their aesthetic power. The guts and visceral engines of industry are imagined away, buried in his aesthetic transmutation. Remaining is a resplendent stylistic modality and a beautifully forced end to be contemplated. Daniel Arsham is represented by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami/ Paris. He has taken part in a number of well-received group and solo-expositions in the States and in Europe. His work has been included in a range of high-profile collections such as that of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami and the LVMH Collection and he has collaborated with visionaries such as Merce Cunningham and Hedi Slimane.

Julia Blaukopf

Julia Blankopf

Julia Blaukopf has worked as a photographer and creative partner with organizations and businesses in Copenhagen, Kenya, Ghana, Lithuania, Montreal, and throughout the U.S. In 2005, Blaukopf worked with a community-run tree reforestation project in Kenya. A year later, she traveled to Ghana to photograph for Women in Progress, a women’s empowerment organization. In the summer of 2009, Julia traveled to Lithuania to photograph for the Summer Literary Seminars, a two week writing workshop. Most recently, Julia photographed creatives at work throughout Germany where she was awarded a visiting artist fellowship at Franz Mayer of Munich in Germany. Her images of intimate moments between families, strangers in the city and local workers are aimed at creating an alternative documentary.

Alfio Demestre

Alfio Demestre

Alfio Demestre lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Alfio works in different media–with sculpture, drawing and photography. He began working on installations 10 years ago when he and a group of four other artists founded the collective Oligatega Numeric. Since 1999 they have been working on installations, videos, texts, sculptures, music, and performances.

Pachi Giustinian

Pachi Giustinian

Pachi Giustinian is not only captivated by features of composition of light that are detectable by humans, but she is particularly interested in the ways that colors relate to sensations, feelings, sound and time. Her work is created with found objects that draw her attention through the color and shape they restrain. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects, materials and light sources, based on their physical properties such as light absorption, reflection, or emission spectra.

Laura Hita

Laura Hita

Laura Hita is a multi-disciplinary artist who is guided by her images. A lover of the natural and animal world, she investigates the relationship between color, form, and texture. Her intention is to create a spring of beauty and well-being out of her paintings taking inspiration from dark nights, humid forests and winged animals.

Jiae Hwang

Jiae Hwang

Jiae Hwang is an interdisciplinary artist dealing in a broad spectrum of media from traditional drawings to digital animation which seek to create new ways to engage with viewers. For the past 7 years her work has investigated places that we inhabit in our mind as well as worlds beyond our perception. Inspired by the ideas of string theory and parallel universes, she contemplates our physical existence in the world while playing at romanticizing it’s infinite possibilities.

Manny Prieres

Manny Prieres

Every collision leaves a trace behind: debris, a trail of residue that marks the site where violence took place. The work of Manny Prieres is that sort of remnant, the product of the clash between a traditional, temperamental heritage, and an intense, idiosyncratic counterculture. During the process of this convergence, a series of artifacts are created. They stand at the threshold of a new folklore: they are the iconography of a new tradition.

TM Sisters

TM Sisters (work in progress)

Tasha Lopez De Victoria, 26, and Monica Lopez De Victoria, 28, grew up in Miami and collaborate under the name TM Sisters. They work in the mediums of video, digital video performance, VJing, collage, social experiments, zines, clothing, installations, and interactive video created along with their brother Samuel. Their do-it-yourself ethic started by being home schooled together by their parents. They were raised with intense psychological and spiritual discussions regarding behavior, relationships, creativity, and truth.

Viking Funeral

Viking Funeral

Under the collaborative name Viking Funeral Juan Gonzalez and Carlos Ascurra collaboratively explore the constructs of DIY music subcultures. Through the use of sculpture, collage, sound, and performance they examine the self-governed parameters, identities, and propaganda formed by annexed groups of people. Their work occasionally attempts to deconstruct or confuse vernacular via fictitious flyers for shows, and fanzines.