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{CTS} creative thriftshop is proud to present on behalf of Dam, Stuhltrager / Frants Gallery during the -scope Miami 10th edition of its global art fair from December 2nd through December 6th 2009. As the art world completes its rounds of fall events from Shanghai to Moscow, London to Paris, we at CTS have prepared an exciting group show of nine international emerging artist under the inspiration of our partner gallery's amazing new program The East West Project where we hope to engage in an international exchange, where the art on view will prove in stone, that good taste and timeless work speaks a dominant international language.

As the generational gap closes, so does the geographical gap of the art world. Undimmed and bright eyed galleries and art fairs who have been calculating the gloomy net impact of subscribing to a single location or a simple brick and mortar situation find them sleeves in the most advantageous positions.

Marking one spot on the map with a shiny beckon that reads "art mecca" is simply not conducive to art, and especially not healthy for the longevity of culture. The grand pilgrimage is no longer a physical one, nor a solo one, but one of global hands coming together from all folds (yes, with a lot of help from a little something called goggle maps, frequent flyer miles, and freight shipping), but over the last ten years the world has become much small and we have been busy working on knitting the fabric of a much larger and better support system; where important art will be seen, heard and circulated for the great benefit of nearly 7 billion. This is a good thing, a very good thing. And while we galleriest may have to bow down to our combined failing economies for inducing this global initiative, our artwork certainty will not.

Front and center on display is our dear Anna Frank, a female multi media artist from Russia who has just returned from the Moscow Biennial. Ryan Wolfe joins us from the west coast of the USA. He is best know for his contradictory cyborgish organic installations and will introduce a new video installation that is sure to entice. Vitaly Pushnitsky and Jeremy Dean both newcomers to the American market working with ready made materials they speak to us through social commentary and insist we listen. Eric Doeringer and Jack Balas both poke fun at the market structure of the art world but do so in completely different ways. Eric the infamous bootlegger mocks the market by re-creating tiny bite size copies of the most well known contemporary work at an eighth of the cost, while Jack gingerly and perhaps a bit sarcastic takes liberties by replacing his own works for those of the established in wonderful pen and ink loose copies of art world advertisements.

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about the gallery: Dam, Stuhltrager / Frants Gallery is known as an incubator for emerging artists and for groundbreaking exhibitions that incorporate technology or utilize mediums in a new, fresh way.

about the gallery: CTS is quality art on the move. Championing provocative content driven work by local and international mid-career, underrepresented, and emerging artists in all media. Our goal is to build an infrastructure that knows no boundaries, one that carries the torch of modernism acting as a vehicle for dreamers, a cultural meeting place for great minds, an international community of interconnectivity and expandability.

about fair: From the beginning, SCOPE's core mission has always been the creation of a flexible and fluid platform for both artists and dealers alike, which shapes rather than responds to market demand. Given that the fair model continues to be the most comprehensive way to ensure that our patrons receive a total survey of contemporary art as it occurs in real time, the need for a focused, innovative curatorial team is more than self-evident. In fact, it's absolutely necessary to ensure SCOPE's continued dominance in an ever-more crowded field of fairs and collateral exhibitions.

transportation: Shuttle buses run every fifteen minutes to the SCOPE and ART ASIA pavilions, December 2 - 6. Take the North Loop Shuttle in front of the Fillmore Miami Beach at The Jackie Gleason Theater on the NW corner of Washington Avenue and 17th Street, one block from the Miami Beach Convention Center.