This week: The third of our NADA shows from Miami. This time Amanda and Duncan talk to Brendan Fowler and Paul Gabrielli.

Brendan Fowler
(born 24 March 1978 in Berkeley, California) is a musician, best known for his
work under the moniker BARR, based in Los Angeles. He is a regular performer at
The Smell, a DIY music venue. He also co-runs Doggpony Records and is a
co-editor of ANP (Artist Network Program) Quarterly - an Orange County based
arts and culture publication funded by RVCA. He has recently played at the New
York performance space, The Kitchen, and has been featured in Artforum
Magazine. In 2006 Fowler curated a show at David Kordansky gallery in Los
Angeles. New England Roses, a band consisting of Fowler, Sarah Shapiro, and Le
Tigre's JD Samson, released their debut, Face Time With Son, in 2005. His new
electronic-folk-pop band, Car Clutch, with Ethan Swan, had their debut
performance in fall of 2006.


New York-based
artist Paul Gabrielli offers work of quiet maximalism. He approaches sculpture
as an act of appropriation, assimilating other media into one comprehensive
system. While Gabrielli's practice can be seen as a continuation of his
minimalist lineage, his specific objects are infused with a thwarted eroticism
of both desire and restraint.



Gabrielli's works
straddle the boundaries of sculpture, photography, work on paper and video,
experiments in form designed to encapsulate the physical manifestation of a
single thought, with all its lyricism and paradox, desire and restraint. His
pieces represent both interior visions and the very real destruction of the
well-defined and corporeal.