Studio Drive-By

Bhakti Baxter working in his Design District studio

Bhakti Baxter carefully applies paint to a canvas revolving at high-speed on a human-powered spin-table

Loriel Beltran prepares to apply paint to a large-scale work in his warehouse studio on Miami's Upper Eastside

Loriel Beltran's apparatus funnels a changing stream of blended paints to a large-scale work

Carlos Betancourt determining the best position for a mirror behind one of 22 participating subjects for his piece "The (LAST) Supper"

Carlos Betancourt returns to the camera to check positioning of participants and detailed arrangement of referential objects for his "The (LAST) Supper", including edible/non-edible, personal, pop, kitsch, collectible, and contempoary art artifacts

In her Wynwood studio, Trisha Brookbank maintains intense concentration as she paints on her complex drawings (though she might play a sci-fi movie or TV show in the background)

Trisha Brookbank's meticulously painted drawings after she has cut them into sculptural objects that will float on a painted background

In his Wynwood studio, Brian Burkhardt weaves a spider's web of thread and glue onto an umbrella frame

Brian Burkhardt's geodesic dome workspace houses recent work and is equipped with tools passed down from his grandfather; the dome and all its contents will be consigned to an upcoming installation

Pablo Cano works on the mechanics and form of a puppet character for an upcoming show

Pablo Cano's main character puppet takes shape for his 11th annual MoCA North Miami show "The Blue Ribbon"

COOPER works on a suspended sculpture in his former Design District studio

In his former Design District studio, COOPER finishes a layered media piece that he describes more as sculpture than painting

In his Little Haiti studio, Edouard Duval-Carrié describes next steps for a work in a series of paintings that incorporate images of bacteria and microorganisms

Detail of an Edouard Duval-Carrié work utilizing hundreds of images of bacteria and microorganisms

In her Coral Gables studio, Lynne Gelfman utilizes brush, spatula and towel for a work on wooden board

Rebecca Guarda in a ceramics studio at the Miami International University of Art & Design

Rebecca Guarda applies hot red wax to a ceramic mask sculpturen

Jiae Hwang's Wynwood studio includes a refracting telescope

Jiae Hwang works paper into dynamic 3-d geometries as she plans for a large scale multi-media installation

Lee Materazzi on location shooting a sculpturally-inclined photo shoot

Lee Materazzi's model (Tatiana Vahan) maintains strenuous poses with good-natured aplomb

In a downtown Miami studio, Manny Prieres works on an intricately detailed large-scale drawing

Detail of the intensely detailed large-scale Manny Prieres work on paper "Mother"

Ralph Provisero works at a drafting table in his South Miami studio

Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova removes a piece from his Design District studio wall after a test installation

One of Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova's many idea notebooks

Performance artist David Rohn test-assembles a stage and decor for an upcoming public presentation of his "Mr. and Mrs. Candidate" (the weekend before Election Day 2008)

David Rohn with collaborator Danilo de la Torre rehearse the performance piece "Mr. and Mrs. Candidate"

In her Wynwood studio, Jen Stark describes her concept of "paper explosions"

Jen Stark's precise control of a blade as she folds back minuscule sections of a pattern cut in incremental sizes, on many dozens of successive sheets of paper

The TM Sisters (Monica and Tasha Lopez de Victoria) work together on mixed media, collage and video to stimulate social energy and shared experience

Monica Lopez de Victoria creating a work on paper

In her Design District studio, Frances Trombly overcomes camera-shyness to describe a large-scale work for a site-specific installation in New York City

Carlos de Villasante places the hood of a Mustang at waist level to begin painting a traced projection of his photograph

Carlos de Villasante work of graphic improvisation, a projection of one of his photographs traced and painted on a car hood of particular contour