FTL's Female Artists Art Show
BoConcept Fort Lauderdale celebrates International Women’s Month with Fort Lauderdale’s Most Recognized Female Artists on Wednesday, March 23rd from 6 to 9 PM.
YOU ARE INVITED …
Join artists Jacki Rosen (artist and owner of Rosen Fine Art), Elisa Benedetti (Venezuelan Photographer), Marianela Perez (Visual Artist from Caracas, Venezuela), Ivonne Waissmann (Digital and Physical Mix Media Artist) & Timur Tugberk (Founder - Designing the District) on Wednesday, March 23rd (6:00 to 9:00 pm) at BoConcept Fort Lauderdale’s WOMEN’S MONTH ART SHOW: a celebration of Fort Lauderdale’s leading female artists.
This dynamic event will take place on Wednesday, March 23rd from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at BoConcept Fort Lauderdale (2378 N Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33305). Guests will enjoy delicious nibbles and libations served by VOSA Spirits.
All are welcome to attend! Simply RSVP by either writing design@designingthedistrict.com or by completing the form below.
For the press interested in covering this event, we would like to offer both BoConcept Florida, Global Corporate, and Artists up for interviews and comments.
See you at the Art Show!
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Timur Tugberk - Designing the District
After a decade and a half of experience in Interior Design, Digital & Traditional Marketing Strategy and Communication Development, Public Relations & Policy, Brand & Product Development, Social & Digital Media Consulting, Event Coordination, and Advertising, while working in fast-paced industries with distinct clientele, Timur has mastered the art of managing multiple and complex client accounts, launching and leading deadline-driven marketing programs and campaigns from conception to completion, and identifying and attracting the right target audience by fostering sustainable external and internal relationships through social, digital, and content-based communication. He likes to say, “ at Designing the District, we take a design philosophy to creative problem solving,” which is apparent by the variety of beautifully calculated outcomes created using design principles through his degree in Interior Design and the many subject matters within which he works.
Jacki Rosen
As a museum director and curator of seventeen years and a high-end designer boutique owner for seven, Jacki has been surrounded by art and artists in all mediums, genres, and forms. She has loved art forever but never put a thought into trying it from the other side of the aisle. Four years ago, she picked up her first paintbrush and that’s when her adventure began. She immediately sold her successful business and opened a small art studio in Fort Lauderdale in the span of a few weeks and she never looked back. Now she creates because she has to (“The need is greater than me”). And her focus has never been stronger.
Elisa Benedetti
Elisa was born in Caracas Venezuela. When she was little, her dad who was a lawyer had for hobby of Photography. He had a darkroom where he developed all his photographs. Well, she was helping him every weekend. she used to turn in the lights, turn on and off the clock, add the liquids, and wait to see what will be there printed on those white papers. So her dad every time he bought a new camera, he would buy two, one for her.
So since she was five or less, she was all the time taking photos around her home, neighborhood, etc. She grew around books and books of famous photographers so she started doing courses in Venezuela and when the Digital world appears, she took classes of Digital 1, 2, 3 and did many photography trips in Venezuela with top photographers. In 2018, her father suddenly died and she moved to Miami to live there. And that’s when she decided to take photography seriously as a means of life. She did many many courses in Miami and one day a very good friend of hers told her “Elisa please you have so many beautiful photos why don’t you start selling them”, and well she did. She has sold many photos, but what she likes is that she designs the way they’re mounted. She is a very creative person so she designs how to select the frames everything…
In February of 2020, she received a call from a wonderful Venezuelan art curator to see if she wanted to expose her photos in The Palm Beach Art Basel and she said YES. Her friend sells Venezuelan landscapes and she sells portraits, product photography, street photography, sunrise and sunset photography, and architecture photography. She has a personal Photo Studio in her home and well, she keeps always studying photography and photographers and traveling around And carrying her backpack always with her camera! This is she, a Professional Photographer. A mother of three wonderful boys, twins already working and one boy in his third college year. A smart husband engineer. And a Princess Dog Panda!
Marianela Perez
Marianela is a visual artist who has developed in the area of abstract painting and photography. Exhibiting in groups and individuals in Caracas, Miami, NY, London, Madrid.
Born in Caracas Venezuela, she grew up surrounded by a tropical atmosphere full of color that inspired her from an early age her inclination to color and curiosity about the form made evident her aesthetics and her inclination for art.
She studied commercial art at Endicot College Mass, where he found his passion for painting, graphics, and photography. Upon her return to Venezuela, motivated by her curiosity to want to discover more about her aesthetic instinct, she studied Environmental Design at the Villasmil de Leon School of Design in Caracas. Marianela also continues her painting studies at the art school of the Museum of Art of Boca Raton Florida and photography at the Roberto Mata Photography School in Caracas (RMTF).
She started doing gestural trend painting, where the color spots made reference to the vegetable world. Later I work a lot in digital art, superimposing images as collages. The color was decisive in these images.
Photography has always nurtured her work since he uses it as a tool that allows him to access images that he later undergoes a process of transformation in various ways.
In fact, photography nurtures all the abstract-geometric expression of his painting, since his references come from images he takes of everyday life, of the urban landscape, architecture, traffic and fragments of nature. It decomposes these images, deconstructing their shape, radically simplifying them to bring them to lines and angles.
For this reason, Marianela uses geometric abstraction not as philosophy or mathematics, but as a way of perceiving, thinking, and interpreting reality; a way to give an aesthetic sense to subjectivity.
The geometric abstraction arose in his trajectory from an evolution, let's say, natural. From his first gestural pieces, of spots and colors, through photographic experience and digital work, the steps that triggered this "leap" to geometry were brewing.
Ivonne Waissmann
Ivonne Waissmann is a Miami-based digital and physical mix media artist, born in Venezuela. With an interest in fashion, an eye for detail, and a love of creating things with her hands, Ivonne started making art pieces at a young age.
Her pieces capture the beauty in people, objects and places and are inspired by her own stories. A love of nature and music inspires the use of color and transforms her pieces into tales of modern art. The use of her own photographs, images and objects help create unique pieces of art. Ivonne's artwork has caught the attention of galleries and collectors alike.
She was chosen to participate in a collective "Art Anthology III " showcasing the 100 contemporary artists of 2020, Editorial Guto Ajayu Culture from Spain, Ivonne participated in an International online collective by the name of Ella with "La Trenza" and also in the online project Parallel Visions. In 2020 Ivonne's art was part of a collective at the White Art gallery in Miami.
2021- Participated in a collective auction for the benefit of SOPRE in Caracas Venezuela
2021-Participated in the online 'We are all connected art project ' Art puzzle
2021- Ivonne has been invited to participate at the Art basel collective of Picadillo Gallery
2021- The artist is participating at the Art Basel Weekend; Homestead Live Arts & Culture Festival supported by the Homestead Community Redevelopment Agency, & the Miami Urban Contemporary Experience (MUCE).
About BoConcept Fort Lauderdale
One of BoConcept’s Largest Franchisees to Open Third South Florida Store in October The iconic Danish functional furniture brand’s newest location is at the River Market mall in Fort Lauderdale.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Iconic Danish furniture franchise BoConcept is coming to Fort Lauderdale. In October, Carlos Salamonovitz — one of BoConcept’s largest franchisees — will open his third Florida store and tenth store overall at the River Market mall.
“Our first two Florida locations in Coral Gables and Miami have been huge successes, and we’ve seen so much demand for a store in Fort Lauderdale,” Salamonovitz said. “We couldn’t be more excited to finally meet that demand with the new River Market location.”
Salamonovitz, who currently oversees seven BoConcept stores in Mexico and two in South Florida, with additional locations in the pipeline for both markets, says Florida has proven to be the perfect market for the fast-growing furniture franchise.
“BoConcept is an international brand, and Florida is a very international market. People know us from their home countries, and they know that we offer superior products to just about any other option in the U.S. or abroad,” Salamonovitz said.
“There is also a growing number of first- and second-time home buyers in Florida, which means there is a huge demand for high-end but affordable furniture.”
With the opening of the new Fort Lauderdale location, BoConcept now boasts 16 stores in the U.S. and more than 300 stores in markets across the globe, putting it well on its way to hitting the franchise’s ambitious growth goal of 350 units globally by 2023.
As BoConcept continues to grow, Steen Knigge, the franchise’s director of U.S. marketing, says franchisees like Salamonovitz are critical to the brand’s success.
“We have always been keenly aware of the fact that BoConcept as a franchise is only as strong as its franchisees, so we are always looking for sophisticated, passionate entrepreneurs to help us expand into new markets, and that’s exactly what we have with Carlos,” Knigge said.
“His stores throughout Mexico and Florida demonstrate exactly how successful this model is when run by someone who understands the system and knows how to execute. We know this is just the beginning for Carlos.”
Originally founded in Denmark in 1952 and franchised in Paris in 1993, is dedicated to building successful stores through entrepreneurial franchisees. The functional furniture brand is actively targeting sophisticated retail communities in major cities, including Austin, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix and Scottsdale.
To learn more about franchising with BoConcept, visit https://www.boconcept.com/en-us/franchise.
About BoConcept
Since opening its first franchise in Paris in 1993, BoConcept has become a global leader in the design of bold, stylish furniture, boasting nearly 300 locations in 65 countries around the world. Founded in Denmark in 1952, BoConcept differentiates itself by offering premium quality, modern designs that elevate interior spaces to achieve their full potential. The company remains focused on creating functional furniture for the urban consumer through partnerships with the world’s leading interior designers. Backed by a proven global concept and strong franchise support system, BoConcept’s 16 U.S locations include a flagship store, which opened in December 2017 on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. For more information please visit www.boconcept.com. To inquire about franchise opportunities, please visit https://www.boconcept.
Alongside the colorful array of new Floridians, it is no surprise that iconic design houses, like BoConcept - Denmark’s fully modular, highly customizable, luxury furniture brand, have fully pivoted to respond to the times. Offering convenient programs like Quick Ship & Furniture-for-Now (loaner), which provide design seeking consumers a variety of multi-room solutions that arrive within two weeks of order placement, or a temporary solution when awaiting a longer-lead customized piece (that BoConcept is famous for), answers the supply chain woes experienced by pretty much every other furniture manufacturer globally. It is strategic pivoting, customer-first innovation, and positive consumer response that has contributed to the brand’s explosive expansion in South Florida, opening its first new concept showroom globally in Fort Lauderdale’s River Market shopping district this past November.