“As the National Small Business Association (www.nsba.biz) is working hard to support, represent, and inform small businesses, Stacy Conde, and Conde Contemporary is showing the strength and perseverance emblematic of the entrepreneurial spirit each brave business owner must have. Stuck in quarantine, she never stopped working and fearlessly took a look at where her heart and source of income intersect. Then she made the bold decision to move and innovate. Because she could. That is what is needed at this time for all of us.”
“We still see the value in brick and mortar but are no longer willing to pay the astronomical premium of doing business in Miami,” Conde said. “We really can live where we want, reduce our overhead and … invest in a community we love and assist in its recovery by utilizing the power of art as a socioeconomic driver.”
“On a recent Thursday night, the Conde Contemporary Gallery on Miracle Mile held the opening for its new show, “Idols of the Tribe,” a collection of symbolic and magical realism works mostly by Cuban and Latin American painters and sculptors. If the gallery scene in the Gables is dead, no one bothered to tell the more than 400 people who came through the gallery that night.”
“Conde Contemporary is that rare combination of tradition and freshness so needed in the contemporary art world. Her selection of artists and how she presents her program is engaging, immersive and so beautifully leaves room for personal narrative. As a bonus, Stacy embraces the special relationship between fine art and design that should envelope our surroundings and daily lives. ”
“...his {Andres Conde} figurative pieces of pre-revolutionary Cuba evoke both a wistful sense of time’s past and a tempest of violence on the horizon.”
“Natasha Kertes masterfully mixes contemporary mediums and references with classic subjects. In her photographs...the viewer’s eye is subtly challenged when neat figures posing in the fashion of academic portraits wear every-day-use elements as part of their customs, or maybe –not without a great sense of humor– a fly has landed on the chin of an impeccable face (Arrangement in White, 2013).”
“Which is to say that Ardavin, like many artists Conde represents, is a Modernist in the truest sense of the word. He seeks to blaze a path into the future while keeping an eye on artistic traditions.”