Artevivo

Artevivo describes itself as a gallery that goes beyond four walls, and its space inside The Plaza Coral Gables on Palermo Avenue reflects that ambition. Founded by Karla Canavan and Rosana Alatorre, the gallery focuses on living artists, combining traditional exhibition space with fashion collaborations and experiential events rather than sticking to a conventional white cube gallery format. The founders have built the business around the idea that contemporary art should feel connected to everyday life and culture rather than roped off behind gallery formality.

That philosophy shows up in how Artevivo operates day to day. Alongside curated exhibitions of original paintings and prints, the gallery organizes events that blend art with fashion and lifestyle programming, and its mission includes a stated commitment to supporting social and environmental causes through the art it shows and sells. For a relatively young gallery in a neighborhood full of decades old, established businesses, Artevivo brings a noticeably different energy, aimed at a collector who may be newer to buying art and wants an entry point that feels current rather than intimidating.

Being located inside The Plaza Coral Gables gives Artevivo a different footprint than the standalone storefronts along Ponce de Leon Boulevard. The mixed use setting, combined with genuinely long weekend hours that stretch into the evening, makes the gallery accessible to people who might be running errands or grabbing dinner in the plaza and wander in without planning a dedicated gallery visit. That kind of casual foot traffic is harder to come by for the more traditional, appointment leaning galleries elsewhere in the neighborhood.

Canavan and Alatorre’s backgrounds and stated mission suggest a gallery built to grow alongside a newer generation of Miami area collectors, one that treats art buying as part of a broader lifestyle rather than a separate, formal category of purchase. That does not mean the art itself is any less serious, original works and limited editions from living artists still anchor the space, but the presentation and programming around that art is distinctly its own.

For visitors exploring Coral Gables’ gallery scene who want to see how a newer, founder led business is trying to reach a different kind of collector than the boulevard’s legacy galleries, Artevivo offers a useful contrast, and its location inside The Plaza makes it an easy addition to a day that also includes shopping or a meal in the same complex, especially given how late the gallery stays open on weekends compared to its neighbors.