Gallery Interview at SCOPE | Miami Art Week

Artist Dana Blickensderfer of Provoke Art talks with Nicole Sharp from Long-Sharp Gallery at SCOPE during Miami Art Week 2015.

Nicole and Dana discuss the type of art scene in Miami as well as highlight artists that the gallery currently represents. Nicole notes the interaction between the artwork she displays and its viewer, as well as gives advice for those interested in curating an exhibit space of their own.

About The Gallery
With modern and contemporary fine art clients on 6 continents, Long-Sharp Gallery (LSG) is located in Indianapolis, Indiana. LSG specializes in works on paper, multiples and drawings by modern masters including: Picasso, Miro, Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Indiana, and Lichtenstein.. In addition, LSG is dedicated to a contemporary program that incorporates paintings, photography and sculpture, as well as conceptual and multimedia art by a growing roster of regional and international artists, including Gino Miles, Thalen & Thalen, Chris Bracey, David Spiller, Jason Myers, Russell Young, David Kramer, Wayne Warren, Dale Enochs, and William John Kennedy.

Long-Sharp Gallery has placed works in important museums, corporations, and in public and private collections. The gallery was named one of the top 500 Art Galleries in the world by Modern Painters Magazine (Blouin Art Info) in 2015. It has been named Indianapolis' "Best Gallery" by Indianapolis Monthly Magazine in both of the magazine's most recent gallery selections.

About Dana Blickensderfer
An artist mainly working in painting and drawing, Dana Blickensderfer is also the founder of Provoke Art and the co-founder of iBoss Advertising. Based between New York and Tampa (Florida), Blickensderfer draws her inspiration from her personal biography relating to her family legacy: The Blickensderfers. Her most recent series of oil paintings are constructed images portraying the actual typewriter the Blickensderfer from the 1900s. She intertwines images from the actual object, the original advertising and posters of the era creating a kaleidoscope of colors; shifting between figuration and gestural abstraction. Blickensderfer becomes the bridge between the past and the present, the private and the public, the personal and the universal.

About Provoke Art
In 2010, provoke art was founded and developed in hopes to make meaningful contributions to the art world, integrating artists’ inspirations of the past and present.