As an artist, Lloyd Goradesky thinks big, not just in scale – as in his football-field-sized Gator in the Bay work – but also in how he documents and presents his work with photos, books, and in tabletop-sized editions as with the heart weathervane.

His Hollywood home studio is jammed with his artwork, it lines up against the walls in the living room, fills a guest room, and decorates his spacious waterfall pool. He has stacks of boxed “Let LOVE Guide Your Way” in his office, already for sale on his website.

When he was asked to contribute to the Kinetic show he was initially given a drawing of hearts that stood up in a pattern on thin rods. It wasn’t all that visually interesting so Goradesky came up with a better idea.

So how come a weathervane?

“A weathervane is a device used to measure wind direction.  A weathervane is also a metaphoric expression to describe people who change their views frequently.  In a chaotic world, when faced with a dilemma, let love guide your way!” he says.

The art piece is free-standing at 16-foot tall and features a 15.5-foot rotating-circumference kinetic wind vane or Cupid’s Arrow.  The weathervane freely rotates on three precision-quality stainless steel rotating bearing gears. The metallic red paint on aluminum gives the work a deeper glint.  The front end of the Cupid’s Arrow is a 36-inch cut-out heart-shape.  The opposite side of the Cupid’s Arrow is a 4- inch solid heart-shape that captures the wind.  The large heart-shapes are attached together with an 11-foot steel beam.  The stanchion’s heart-shaped top plate and heart-shaped base plate are supported using four 10-feet curved steel plates each with 6 heart-shaped cut-outs.  The cut-outs allow for heart-shaped reflections during daylight allowing the piece to look different upon every viewing.  Using ‘scrap’ from the cut-outs, there are 9 random hearts attached to the stanchion.  For additional support, half-inch steel rods create an ‘X’ on each side that represents the loving ‘kiss’.  The heart-shape points of the top plate and base plate point due North to measure wind direction.

” … it truly is a beautiful, unique piece with a tremendously important message.” Says Trip Barrett, Director of Tourism.

According to Goradesky “Let LOVE guide your way” is the universal color of LOVE, bright red.  The art is covered with gold speckles which reflect in sunlight and then coated with a clear UV protectant that maintains the bright red color and protects the surface from all elements. The art illuminates an ambience of Love using LED lighting that enhances the heart-shapes on the Cupid’s Arrow.  The stanchion and the Cupid’s Arrow are assembled and moved in two pieces.  The piece is created with recycled structural steel.  The total weight of the piece is 1850 pounds.”

“There is interpretation with every aspect of the Art,” he continues. “The weathervane has two main components: the base and the arrow. The base represents a singular human form which represents the ‘Act of Kindness’ in the singular art message: to be Kind, Compassionate & Tolerant for each other. The message to be Kind is an individual thought.

If the human condition is not mindful of Kindness, it will not be Kind. To be Kind is a conscious thought. There are 4 stations on the base which point North, East, South, and West which represent our world. The top and bottom heart-shapes point North to give the functioning weathervane a point of reference. There are heart-shaped cut-outs in groups of three which represent family. The number 3 has the meaning of Family & LOVE. Multiples of the number 3 have meaning in all cultures & religions. There are 24 total heart-shaped cut-outs that represent our World. The arrow is ‘Cupid’s Arrow’ which represents Universal LOVE. Although Cupid is known to be a prankster, this is a ‘golden arrow’ meaning LOVE in mythological stories. The large oversized arrow with hearts on either end encourages the viewer to think of Kindness & LOVE.”

As a public artist, Lloyd Goradesky’s projects have received wide media coverage. The Gator in the Bay  – a multi-media work made of floating tiles, photo-screened gator feet, and a head with moveable jaws – was featured in over 30 foreign newspapers.
A rare occurrence in the sky led to a series of photos of rainbow clouds that he turned into collectible prints and a book.

While Goradesky’s work is extremely diverse, the purpose is always to raise awareness while showing the beauty of our natural surroundings.

“Let Love Guide Your Way” will be on display at the 2021 5^th Biennial Kinetic Art Exhibit presented by the City of Boynton Beach Art in Public Places on Saturday, March 6^th – Sunday, March 7^th, 2021, and beyond in #DowntownBoynton.

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Lloyd Goradesky’s nature-inspired art

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The idea of viewers participating in art in a new way has been steadily growing for years. Galleries are not always large enough to really make these visions come to life. Artechouse in Miami Beach has been a hit in a small gutted hotel with multiple installations. Yayoi Kusama’s small Infinity Rooms have proven so popular – with crowds lining up for hours to spend just a few minutes in the mirrored, mind-blowing reflective atmosphere – that expansion was inevitable.

Superblue is taking this to a huge new level as the groundbreaking new enterprise launches with Every Wall Is a Door, showcasing large-scale installations created by three of the world’s leading experiential artists. The inaugural program features a new immersive environment by Es Devlin, a transcendent digital experience created by teamLab, and an enveloping light-based Ganzfeld work by James Turrell, all of which will be on long-term view through 2022.

“The artists inaugurating Superblue’s first experiential art center offer a glimpse into the breadth of the experiential art movement and the extraordinary possibilities for the public to engage with and activate these kinds of works,” said Superblue Cofounder and Chief Executive Officer Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst. “Each of these artists provokes us to see our relationship to the world and each other in completely new ways—from James Turrell’s work with light and space to Es Devlin’s performative and multi-disciplinary practice to teamLab, a collective that has continuously sought to transcend boundaries of perception through innovations in technology. Collectively they reflect the arc of experiential art as a movement and the remarkable ways that artists are innovating with emerging mediums and placing audiences at the center of their work. We’re looking forward to opening our doors this December and welcoming the public to become a part of the amazing new worlds these artists create.”

The newest Miami art district, Allapattah which is west of Wynwood, was jump started a few years ago by the Rubell Museum and Jorge Perez’ El Espacio 23. Across the street from Rubell, Superblue Miami has taken over an unused 50,000 square foot industrial building that last year housed a pop-up luxe Dior fashion show. Featuring more than 30,000 square feet of flexible installation space, Superblue Miami includes a 5,000-square-foot flexible programming and events space to support year-round programs with talks, performances, workshops, family programs, event rentals; a shop featuring artist-inspired items; and an outdoor cafe.

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“Not only does Superblue Miami add a new dimension to the arts and culture landscape in our region, but it has been conceived as a cultural hub that will be deeply rooted in and integrated with the community,” said Shantelle Rodriguez, Director of Superblue Miami. “In planning our launch and year-round program, it’s been very exciting to collaborate with local cultural and civic groups and begin the process of forging meaningful partnerships. Our goal is to create resources, events, and other programs that support our community, and bring to the fore the pressing issues and perspectives that the artists engage with through their work.”

Created for the debut at Superblue Miami, Es Devlin’s Forest of Us is an immersive environment that takes viewers on a journey rooted in the human respiratory process. She uses video, mirrored surfaces, sculptural and performative elements, to create a massive mirrored maze that resembles bronchial lung structures with a short film that depicts the mathematics of human respiration and how it mimics the geometry of trees. Walking along the maze’s pathways, mirrored walls reflect every turn.

Reflective of Devlin’s large-scale sculptures and environments that explore human identity and perspective, the work illuminates similarities between the breathing, living networks within bodies, and the ones in nature.

TeamLab: Between Life and Non-Life

A suite of interconnected artworks takes viewers on a journey between living and non-living states of being and the relationship between humanity and the natural world. teamLab is an interdisciplinary collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects that work to transcend boundaries of perception and explore the relationship between the inner self and the outer world. The audience interactions result in one-time-only visual effects never to be replicated. The installation includes:

Life Survives by the Power of Life, a new 8K single-channel monitor work that renders the Japanese character for life, 生 (sei), in 3D space to express the depth, speed, and power of the brushstroke.

Universe of Water Particles, Transcending Boundaries, a responsive, interactive installation where visitors are surrounded by a digital continuum of water particles that appear flattened in what teamLab calls “ultrasubjective space.”

Flowers and People, Cannot be Controlled but Live Together. This computer-generated, real-time rendering is of a seasonal year of flowers growing, blooming, withering, and decaying – a cycle repeating in perpetuity. Flowers that are stepped on, result in scattered petals; flowers that are observed in stillness grow abundantly.

James Turrell: Ganzfeld

Turrell’s Ganzfeld shows the effects of light and space on the mechanics of vision through conscious and unconscious modes of seeing. Taking its name from the German phrase for “complete field,” the large-scale installation immerses viewers in a room of monochrome lighting, where the dimensions of space are sensed before light dissolves. Turrell has been creating light field installations for years in museums and has 6 permanent ones at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach.

For more information about Superblue, visit superblue.com, or follow @superblue.art on Instagram.

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Superblue: Large-scale experiential art coming to Miami

Superblue: Large-scale experiential art coming to Miami

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The signs are all there, but maybe art can save the day… and the world.

Two initiatives by Florida groups are working to get the word out in creative ways.

“The one we fear the most is the one we can’t live without,” says Bobby “Radical” Monroe, an artist who spends his spare time diving with sharks and wrestling pythons. “A few years ago I saw a documentary called Sharkwater by Rob Stewart about the killing of millions of sharks. The Chinese are the worst offenders. Already 90% of the world’s shark populations have been annihilated. Once caught on long lines they are brought on board, their fins are cut off and the sharks are thrown back into the water still alive where they suffer an agonizing death by suffocation. They use the fins for soup, a status dish in Asian countries, where its use can be traced back to an emperor from the Song Dynasty (960-1279) who is thought to have invented the dish to show off his power and wealth.”

“Shark finning is a multi-billion-dollar industry. It corrupts governments worldwide and is only second to the illegal drug and gun trade. Sharks are a keystone species, meaning that the world cannot survive without them. Sharks have been on this planet for 450 million years. Without sharks policing the oceans, the world’s largest ecosystem will collapse. Sharks eat many species of marine life to a proportionate number so that those prey species don’t cause harm to the ecosystem by becoming too populous.”

Stewart died while making another film on the shark finning industry, and Monroe felt he needed to pick up where he left off and get the word out but this time, he is targeting a younger generation.

“If we get to kids and make them realize Shark Fin Soup is uncool then that gets the ball rolling to stop this. As a result, the kids in China will emulate the kids in America and will pressure their parents into not buying Shark Fin Soup. Bam! By eliminating the demand, this will cut the link. It would be like mommy making a pot of Bambi or Mickey Mouse soup, the kids would be appalled. It is this mindset that will save our seas and our planet from mass extinction.”

He spent almost a year developing Eco Sharks Rescue, a non-profit that has a series of comic books, a water park in development, a line of toys and is developing a script for a full-length animated feature film with the same name. The water park will be the tallest in the world and will feature an educational theater and Eco Sharks gift shop.

“The sole purpose of Eco Sharks Rescue is to educate the world on why we need sharks. Sharks have been portrayed as a villain in movies, like Jaws and Sharknado, and they have been sensationalized in the media. Astonishingly, soda machines have caused more deaths annually than sharks. Our toys are presently in the prototype phase of production, with 12 characters in all. The comics have full-blown stories of the characters and how they are protecting and saving the world.”

When asked how he can dive with Mako sharks and capture 10-foot pythons in the Everglades with his bare hands Monroe smiles and says “Fear is a lack of faith.” Join the pack at Eco Sharks Rescue.

The 1000 Mermaids Artificial Reef Project & Gallery is a public EcoArt project in the form of an artificial reef installation with mermaids cast from real women. After many months of planning and creating, the first 18 mermaid reefs were sunk into the ocean off South Florida in late August.

What began as a simple idea of turning models into mermaids by artists Ernest Vasquez and Sierra Rasberry turned into a larger project 3 years ago when Evan Snow of Choose954 met the duo at an event in FAT Village. He got the idea to create reef modules to attach the mermaids to and sink them to form artificial reefs.

“The artists just want to make the art but all this takes planning, permits, and money,” says Snow so he formed a foundation that eventually involved volunteers, businesses, organizations, environmental agencies, local and federal government involvement, and even the Army Corps of Engineers.

They set a goal to create 1000 body sculptures made-up of sustainable concrete which allows infant coral to adhere to it and restore Florida’s living coral reef population. Each cast is individually handcrafted by the artists that make up Miami Body Cast in collaboration with their reef-building partner Chris O’Hare of Reef Cells. Not only does this project promote eco-friendly awareness and support for the ocean, but it will also become the undersea stage for a world-renowned diving destination. The artists place plaster-soaked cloths over the models to form the shapes then cast them in concrete. The mermaid is attached to a reef formation and plaques as well as poetry are attached as well.

Thanks to the help of Palm Beach County’s Department of Environmental Resources Management (who sponsored the $13,000 cost of the barge/transportation through the use of vessel license fees and their forward-thinking programs) along with McCulley Marine Services (who provided the barge for a smooth deployment) the group successfully placed their first 18 mermaids in late August.

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Fish are already seen darting in and out of the reef forms, while lobsters hide underneath and stingrays swim lazily by. The sea life approves, now bring on the coral.

To find out more about his project, visit 1000Mermaids.com and ecosharksrescue.org

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1000 Mermaids Helping to Save the Ocean

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Renda Writer’s “Love Wall” are also seen in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and Lake Worth and is a handwritten art describing his own subgenre of art that combines elements of typography, poetry, graffiti, and public art.

Writer believes firmly in the power of the Gandhi quote, “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” He seems to be inspiring people to spread what the world needs—a message of love!

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The “Love Wall” by Renda Writer Keeps Inspiring People

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The colossal 19-foot-high sculpture upends the conventional relationship between viewer and subject, taking visitors to a short journey through Oldenburg’s early interpretations of the typewriter eraser, a subject that has inspired him since the late 1960s.

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Typewriter Eraser, Scale X: a Monumental Art Installation

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