On the Rise: Galleries Move Up and Out

MIAMI’S GALLERY DIET VENTURES INTO NEW TERRITORY
Gallery Diet opened in Miami’s Wynwood arts district in 2007 and quickly made a name for itself there. The brainchild of Nina Johnson-Milewski (above), the gallery showed young and cutting-edge artists (as well as some more tried-and-true ones) before venturing into the world of design with the work of Emmett Moore. Last December Johnson-Milewski became the first Miami-based gallerist to participate in Design Miami, showing off some of Moore’s highly original work.

Johnson-Milewski is nothing if not a pioneer, however. She and her artist-musician husband, Daniel Milewski, opened a now-closed bar-newsstand-café in Wynwood called Lester’s, which had a three-year reign of high popularity. But change comes fast in Miami where real estate prices rise overnight.

In November Johnson-Milewski relocated Gallery Diet to a new neighborhood at the crossroads of the city’s Little Haiti and Little River districts (it is regarded by many as the next up-and-coming arts destination.) She hired the New York firm of Charlap Hyman and Herrero—who recently designed the new Freeman Alley Space for New York’s Salon 94—and opened with a show that mixes art and design. Trees in Oolite, installed in the gallery’s courtyard, is a group offering featuring furniture, lighting, and more from Mimi Jung, Jonathan Nesci, Emmett Moore, Katie Stout, June14, Snarkitecture, Jim Drain, and Jonathan Gonzalez. gallerydiet.com