Artists

Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art presents the work of twelve Miami-based artists who interrogate varying notions of deconstruction in their work. By taking apart ideas and processes, they create mechanisms through which life, politics, and art can be re-examined. While some of the artists in the exhibition deconstruct current events, personal memory or cultural archetypes, others dismantle norms to suggest alternative … +

The closing reception for the summer Exhibition “Swamp Reclaims the Pool” by Alumni Artists-in-Residence Annie Blazejack and Geddes Levenson will be held on September 12 from 7 PM at the Deering Estate. Through their collaboratively created paintings, the artists reveal their fascination with sci-fi narratives and invite the viewer to encounter unfamiliar back-yard landscapes. In the exhibit, works like “Naming the Mouth” … +

Celebrate the opening of Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman with a walk through of the exhibition with artist Lynne Golob Gelfman and PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. Following the walk through join us for a toast to the artist on the Joy Terrace with complimentary bites and beverages. This exhibition examines the paintings of Miami-based artist Lynne Golob … +

Over the course of more than 30 years, Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) has examined prevailing assumptions about race and identity through an interdisciplinary practice that combines film, installation, sculpture, and performance. His much-celebrated 2016 video Love is the Message, the Message is Death captures the powerful emotions that underlie the African American experience, past and present. Encompassing scenes of heightened … +

Rivane Neuenschwander investigates nature, language, time, and chance in a practice that spans performance, video, painting, and installation. Born and raised in Brazil, her work is informed by the art movements of that country, particularly Neo-Concretism, with its emphasis on collective participation. In her videos, she engages viewers in complex yet understated narratives and scenarios that reference everyday life in Brazil and … +

One of the most important female artists of the twentieth century, Louise Bourgeois (b. 1911, Paris; d. 2010, New York) critically engaged with the topics of gender, sexuality, and domesticity across mediums and tirelessly challenged social power and hierarchies. Especially in the last two decades of her nearly seventy-year career, the artist created numerous emotionally charged fabric works that unravel personal references … +

“Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on” examines the artist’s innovative use of video, media, installation and performance to create powerful narratives that explore the intersection of black identity, digital culture and power. Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, New Jersey) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video, computer-based media and performance to explore the digital abstraction of identity. Her videos and performances … +

Nina Johnson Gallery exhibits The Pink House. This exhibition was designed by Emmett Moore and includes only works on paper by international and local artists: Anna Betbeze, Ann Craven, Jarrett Earnest , Peter Halley, Aranda/Lasch, Matvey Levenstein, Nicolas Lobo, Joel Mesler and Laurinda Spear. On view through July 28, 2018. Nina Johnson Gallery 6315 NW 2nd Ave Miami, Florida 33150 www.ninajohnson.com

Fredric Snitzer Gallery hosts a summer exhibition, featuring local and international artists: Assume vivid astro focus, Cynthia Cruz, Rafael Domenech, Michael John Kelly, Rafael Rodriguez, Ilana Savdie and Hiejin Yoo. Fredric Snitzer Gallery 1540 NE Miami Court, Miami, FL 33132 (305) 448 8976 www.snitzer.com

This exhibition presents a selection of approximately 25 paintings by Miami-based artist Lynne Gelfman. The selection includes several works from PAMM’s permanent collection and examples from as early as the 1970s, while focusing primarily on paintings produced over the last two decades. Interested in exploring various forms of mark-making and patterning techniques, Gelfman produces in series, using acrylic and flash paint on both canvas and … +

For Here or to Go presents a selection from New World School Of The Arts Graduates 2018. Featured Artists will be Valeria Guillén, Stephanie Eti Hadad, Patricia Monclus, Charlisa Montrope, Melanie Sarria and Mateo Serna Zapata. The focus of this group exhibition is to illustrate how the liminal has impacted the substance of our individual practices. By articulating our ideas, we navigate through … +

I See The Spotlight In You: a group exhibition featuring work in various mediums by Miami-based artists and musicians, a blending of painting and performance. I See The Spotlight In You will include work by Kyle Barnette, Chad Barry, David Brieske, Chris Byrd, Robert Chambers, David Quinn Kudsma, Timothy Phillips, Mette Tommerup, and Janese Weingarten. Curated by Clifton Childree. “ Theoretically produced and consumed in … +

Instants is a solo exhibition featuring recents works by Consuelo Castañeda. Occupying both of the gallery’s spaces, the exhibition features new paintings, photography and a video animation work created by the artist specially for the exhibition. Consuelo Castañeda, (Havana, Cuba, 1958), is a multi-disciplinary artist, professor and art critic based in Miami and Havana. Her work includes painting, installations, photography, among others. She … +

In Greek Mythology, Ariadne’s Thread was a tool that helped Theseus make his way through a complex labyrinth guarded by a vicious minotaur. As Theseus entered the maze, he unraveled the red thread given to him by Ariadne, conquered the minotaur, and followed the thread back out to victory. The exhibition Tracing the Red Thread, a large-scale multi-media installation by Mira Lehr will … +

“Walter Darby Bannard: 1959-1962” is a focused presentation of a series of breakthrough paintings the artist produced over a period of several years, during which he abandoned gestural brushwork and developed a pared-down geometric vocabulary. The early works presented have rarely and only recently been exhibited. As was the case for other artists of his generation who aspired to advance abstraction, the … +

They Are Waiting for You presents Laure Prouvost’s absorbing moving image installations in which she conflates reality with fiction and art with everyday life. Often narrated in the artist’s voice, and interspersed with spoken and written instructions that directly address the viewer, her works confound expectations through a rapid-fire succession of moving images and sounds. Combining painting, sculpture, and found objects, Prouvost draws us … +

For more than thirty years, Miami-based artist Karen Rifas has amassed a body of work that endeavors to understand and re-imagine space. Well known for her minimal cord and leaf installations, and precise, methodical line drawings, in 2016, Rifas began a focused exploration into the constructive possibilities of color. Employing densely hued shapes and irregular lines, Rifas creates spaces that oscillate between … +

Sebastian Spreng’s DRESDEN depicts the decimation of this beautiful eastern German city by Allied bombers in February 1945, and is a meditation on mankind’s infinite capacity for both good and evil. Despite the stark messaging of the images in the  DRESDEN project, the 61 works, created on an iPad, have an undeniably lyrical, painterly quality due, in part, to Spreng’s deep knowledge of … +

Sheila Elias’ works in Painted Pixels come in and out of focus, buoyed by waves of colors, as one engages with them. Though abstract, many pay homage to her own body of figurative work as well as favored literary masterpieces that inspire her. Created on the iPad and printed on aluminum, whose luster and reflective qualities echo the effect of an illuminated … +

Bakehouse Art Complex  announces the first of its summer exhibition series, RCS 1-50 Exhibit, curated by BABA Collective. Over the past year BABA Collective, comprised of Elysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist, have engaged in dialog within our art community inquiring artists and cultural producers about their personal narratives and creative processes. This show is a celebration of both the visual … +

Urban Steeling celebrates Miami’s deeply urban, gritty side, the “anti-tropical paradise” look that is rarely brought under the spotlight. Away from the pristine beaches, blue skies and swaying palm trees of Miami Beach, and the glass and steel skyscrapers that give Brickell its futuristic look, Urban Steeling pays homage to a side of Miami that is often ignored and yet is crucial … +