Artists

Focusing on artists who are also organizers and parents, Dual Roles will raise awareness about how American culture perceives parenting in relationship to artistic careers. Leading artist organizations have begun conducting surveys about how artists raise their kids and pursue creative practices simultaneously. In South Florida, many of our community organizers are also parents and bring their kids to openings. The model … +

Linda Lopez creates works that imply familiarity without being specific. Linda Lopez creates spaces. Her works are sculptural vignettes. Each piece corresponds to the other in a kind of object dialog that feels vaguely familiar but at the same time is refreshingly unique. Her works invite touch and exploration that engages the viewer to consider further. In her second solo exhibition at … +

February, February a solo exhibition by Mathew McConnell. The artist finds hidden messages in the depths of black charcoal. By mimicking pattern and repeating textures he creates a conversation that visually stimulates the viewer. The resulting forms vary between what could be mistaken as a facsimile of another artist’s work and an artwork with a source seemingly outside any individual reference. Mathew … +

The South Florida Chapter of the American Liszt Society and Deering Estate present a piano recital on Friday, October 20 at 8:00 p.m. at the Deering Estate. Part of a multi-season Liszt Piano Series, the evening features world-renowned and South Florida-based powerhouse pianist Kemal Gekić with an unforgettable evening of pianistic fireworks. The concert takes place in the historic Stone House Ballroom. … +

The Deering Estate will present an exhibit reception for ‘Mythology and Site,’ a solo show by artist Christina Pettersson, on Wednesday, October 18, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and includes a special performance in collaboration with opera singer Shanna Nolan Gundry at 7:45 p.m. ‘Mythology and Site’ responds to the Deering Estate’s … +

The Multiple Shapes of Air is part of the Baked-In-House series, bringing together the works of three Bakehouse resident artists who push the boundaries of traditional mediums and techniques into new inventions. As important as the materiality of the works are their negative spaces. The plain, quiet and omnipresent air that permeates and surrounds them becomes protagonist when constrained by the “frames” … +

In PlushSpace Laura Marsh reacts to a narrow corridor by activating the vitrine as a participatory site for passage. The experience of walking in a glass enclosure measuring 40 feet long and 2 feet wide makes one aware of one’s own verticality. PlushSpace layers the space with 50 flags spelling out an unfolding narrative above, aquatic lighting bouncing off glass, and 100 … +

Exhibition Irreverent Theatre features a new series of paintings by ArtCenter Alumnus, Mark Osterman. The series is inspired by Hollywood Film Noir of the early 1940s through late 1950s and includes narratives that range from the personal to the irreverent to the socio-political. Osterman explores how the media visually interprets the world differs from the world’s actual condition and believes these images … +

For this year Locust Projects’ LAB MFA exhibition, artist Julian Gilbert-Davis will develop and exhibit his project Neighbors. Approaching the work as an extended research project, Gilbert-Davis will reconstruct elements from his polling place at Rutgers (a local high school) and Locust Projects’ nearest voting location (a neighborhood church). With consideration to the civic ritual of voting, Neighbors investigates the polling place … +

  FLUCTUATIONS evokes a narrative in suspension from two different artists: Flávia Junqueira and George Goodridge. It is frequent in their works the presence of ambiguity of opposing concepts: order and entropy, nature and nurture, restraint and excess, mechanical and organic. Flávia Junqueira and George Goodridge share a particular interest in space, they both bring the concept of Art as an illusion … +

Dialogos Inmateriales is inspired by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando (n.1941). The architect affirms “to change the dwelling is to change the city and to reform society” which is related on how Moran uses the stairs and mazes to cause perception thresholds and social transformation. Moran uses photos of architectural spaces done by Tadao Ando and covers then with translucent sheets. Ronald … +

MARS showcases the work of eleven artists featuring a variety of mediums including: painting, performance, installation, mixed media, audiovisual work, and sculpture. This exhibit invites you to a metaphysical journey to the planet Mars, where artists explore the extrasensory human connection and perception of cosmic energy as symbolized through the “Red Planet.” MARS challenges viewers to explore our deepest human senses through … +

Ray Smith Studio is an exhibition organized by Emmett Moore featuring a series of works produced by Ray Smith in his Brooklyn studio between 2007 – 2012. This period in Ray’s career is defined by inclusivity and collaboration, specifically as it relates to a series of works created alongside his then assistants, Nik Gelormino, and brothers Eamon and Keegan Monaghan. Ray Smith’s … +

Fredric Snitzer Gallery exhibits “Avalanches volcanoes asteroids floods” by Assume vivid astro focus, a “quasi-retrospective” featuring paintings, newly commissioned printed rugs, and “home movie” videos of never-before-seen imagery from the artists’ archives. Founded in New York City in 2001 by Eli Sudbrack (b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1968) and joined by Christophe Hamaide-Pierson (b. Paris, France, 1973) in 2005, Assume vivid astro … +

No burden as heavy is a group exhibition with works by Sanford Biggers, Kate Gilmore, Quisqueya Henriquez, Pepe Mar, Jillian Mayer, Robert Melee, Christina Quarles, Carlos Rolón/ Dzine, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith and Wendy White. It considers the weight of history, invoking the present as a landscape imprinted upon by the gestures, values and practices of the past. The exhibition traces the … +

Two dozen paintings by twelve international mid-career artists featured in ARTvisions International present diverse examples of their technique and subject matter. Highlighting the gallery’s current exhibition are six midcareer contemporary Chinese artists who premiered in previous gallery shows. Dominating their works is a 21-foot triptych by Liao Zhenwu. Other Chinese artists represented include a six-and-a-half foot horizontal painting by Li Bo and … +

Mere Façade is a curated group exhibition consisting of twenty Miami-based artists and cultural producers. The multimedia exhibition includes new, old, and revisited works by Kevin Arrow, Eddie Arroyo, Zack Balber, Franky Cruz, Cara Despain, Nicole Doran, Mauricio Gonzalez, Sinisa Kukec, Angel Garcia , Justin H. Long, Michael Loveland, Nice’n Easy, Jessy Nite, Oliver Sanchez, Tom Scicluna, Serge Toussaint, Agustina Woodgate, Antonia … +

The Deering Spring Contemporary exhibits Platform 450, site-specific works within the historic homes and throughout Deering bay-side landscape. This initiative is hosted on the 450 acres of the Deering Estate, will draw together varied practices that converge on the exploration of scientific data and new technologies as they relate to nature and this historic site. Works on display use virtual reality, microscopic … +

Cuban artist Luis Gomez’ aesthetics explore the tensions around the concept of “canon”. Gomez sees art as an encounter between the spectator and the artwork, so he aims to recreate environments through installation, photography, drawing, painting or video; where the different media contribute to free the spectator from plain rationality and conceptual understanding. Luis Gómez b. 1968 (Havana)Cuba. Graduate in 1991 of … +

PAMM presents David Reed: Vice and Reflection – An Old Painting, New Paintings and Animations. Reed has experimented with methods of painterly abstraction for more than five decades, pushing and expanding material limits, forms, and references. Since the 1970s, his works have drawn upon and critiqued the legacies of Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, while continually responding to new forms of … +

Contemporary visual artist Charley Friedman offers a survey of humorous, family-friendly sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings, and installations. Visitors can create their own works based on exhibition themes in the Interactive Art Room. Charley Friedman was born in Nebraska (1968) Currently lives and works in New York. Friedman is a conceptual artist, where the most prevalent themes in his art are personal identity … +