Artists

This exhibition is inspired by an artist residency commemorating the National Parks Service Centennial in 2016. These paintings in oil, pastel and acrylic capture very personal impressions of the landscapes of Big Cypress, Fort Jefferson, Biscayne and Everglades National Parks created during this coveted residency. In the gallery, the viewer can also experience a raw-footage video of the artist’s multiple visits to … +

Textiles are inherently connected to the domestic environment. In the U.S., fiber art has often been mislabeled as craft or “women’s work.” However, in many countries, textile is considered men’s labor. Artists in this exhibition are Alissa Alfonso, Mora Barber, Tanja Boukal, Chiachio & Giannone, Jen Clay, John O’Donnell, Aurora Molina, Norma Minkowitz, Valerie Molnar, Sophia Narrett, and David Rohn Some of … +

Toba Khedoori explores the artist’s nuanced and powerful body of work. Born in Sydney, Australia in 1964, Khedoori has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1990. Her early works are notable for their precise draftsmanship and for their use of negative space—often at a very large scale. Khedoori frequently depicts architectural forms from distanced perspectives, rendering commonplace objects and spaces familiar … +

Drawing from his personal pantheon of artist heroes, López’s work evokes the powerful imagery of 19th-century master portrait photographers like Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon) and Julia Margaret Cameron. The series exemplifies Lopez’s acute interest in the continuation of formal photographic processes through carbon printing, which produces very beautiful, high-quality images that are rich in pigment and outstanding in visual resolution; a quality … +

Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, Florida) creates works born of literary intrigue and tinged with nihilistic romanticism and old world imagery. Influenced by the Aesthetic and Decadent writers of the 19th century, in particular Oscar Wilde and Joris-Karl Huysman, Bas’s works weave together stories of adolescent adventures and the paranormal with classical poetry, religious stories, mythology and literature. His work is part … +

OUTSIDE IN, curated by Laura Marsh and Jill Weisberg includes site specific installations, sketches, and objects that attempt to define the parameters between painting and sculpture, graffiti, street art, and public art. The aim is to further define the importance of constructing dialogues between urban walls and activating everyday spaces. It includes the artists Andrew Antonaccio, Jay Bellicchi, Diana Contreras, Filio Galvez, … +

The exhibition Letter from the Unknown by artist Angela Valella examines what might be referred to as arcane or archaic modes of communication and technologies. It comprises a collection of first found written literary work and drawings by a writer whose work was never published together with the artist sculptures, installation, collages and video. Letter from Unknown (Woman) is a 1922 novel … +

Bass Museum of Art’ Adult Program explore topics, techniques and themes in art through a series of engaging films and art making workshops offered on a rotating basis. This STUDIO session will present 3D paper sculptures and text-based art. Bass Museum of Art 2100 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, 33139 www.bassmuseum.org

Artist Emilio Sanchez (1921-1999) left his native Cuba in 1932 to study in America, inspired by mid-century New York realists he was drawn to landscapes, both urban and rural, as well as genre scenes. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, Sanchez established himself as one of the premier painters of daily life in the Caribbean. After 1959 Sanchez shifted his focus to other … +

Larval Acceleration is the first collaboration between Israeli husband-and-wife duo Rotem Tamir and Omri Zin. Provoked by the repetitive choreography of motors and other kinds of autonomous systems, the artists will power two self-contained, modular factories with their own movements, transforming Locust Projects into a playground for production. This exhibition will be on view through April 15, 2017. Rotem Tamir (b. 1981, … +

On the Making is a room-scale sculptural installation by artist Mauricio Gonzalez. Combining found materials and the artist’s daily painting practice, the project considers reuse, recycling and the potentials of art as a functional tool within society. This exhibition will be on view through April 15, 2017. Mauricio Gonzalez (b. 1978, Havana, Cuba) is a painter and sculptor trained at the New … +

If Defined, Then Undefine by artist Jamilah Sabur is an exhibition created specifically for Dimensions Variable. Sabur’s work goes across various disciplines including performance, video, and installation. This exhibition will be on view through August 5, 2017. Jamilah Sabur was born in Jamaica, lives and works in Miami. Sabur received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture from Maryland Institute College of Art in … +

FAKE NEWS is a new installation of resin-coated illustrations by Miami-based artist Kelly Breez. Using the aesthetics of serial publications like newspapers and tabloid magazines, Breez has produced a series of work responding to the influx of ‘fake news’ articles that were being circulated during the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. FAKE NEWS calls attention to the inaccuracies of news reporting in a … +

I NEED AMERICA NEEDS ME is the fourth solo exhibition of Sinisa Kukec at the gallery. It features a body of wall works using raw materials; red oak, maple, walnut, epoxy, and acrylic mirrors. These new variations of Kukec’s ongoing trajectory of work under the umbrella concept of GRAVITYWELL, explores physical and metaphysical models of gravitational, magnetic, and resonance fields surrounding the … +

Tomás Esson has been considered one of the most significant artists to have emerged in Cuba since the 1980s. Creator of provocative works, and something of a controversial figure himself in the Cuban context, his body of work comprises painting, drawing and installation. He studied at the National Academy of Arts “San Alejandro” in Havana and University of the Arts (ISA) in … +

Theorist and professor Sven Lütticken will deliver the public lecture, “Producing Facts: Notes on the Politics of Concrete Abstraction.” As fake news and “alternative facts” triumph, the complexity of facticity is denied. However, ritualistic “fact checking” is in itself not a solution as the performativity of social media goes into overdrive. What is the potential of aesthetic and artifactual practices in this … +

Exhibition Defiant by Neha Vedpathak presents the artist’s recent work. Different materials such as acrylic, polymer, plexiglass, handmade paper, mirror and organic substances like turmeric, flowers, leaves and clay comprise Nera’s body of work. Her work is minimalist and simple where using different techniques she tries to reinvent herself while using painting as a means of expression and interaction to reach spirituality. … +

Exhibition Dating Jungle: Meet the Artist by artist Claudia Chanhoi goes around women in modern dating world. Chanhoi explores the objectification of women’s bodies and how it affects relationships in the modern world. Chanhoi graduated from London College of Communication (University of Arts London). She has recently exhibited in Brick Lane, London; her work has been featured on Urban Contest (Milan), Selfish … +

Nina Johnson Gallery exhibits carbon fiber and terra-cotta bas-relief works by artist Nicolas Lobo. Each has a rectilinear substrate made of carbon fiber that supports irregularly shaped wads and disks of terra cotta. The disks are marred with the indentations of different types of mechanically produced food: Onion rings, crinkle-cut French fries, M&Ms, breakfast cereal. The wads carry impressions of the interface … +

UNBOUND, New World School of the Arts’ 2017 BFA final visual arts is a group exhibition highlighting a variety of works from 23 visual artists of divergent disciplines, professionally curated by NWSA dean of the visual arts program, Maggy Cuesta and gallerist Fredric Snitzer. It explores hybridity in various ways. Participating NWSA BFA college students include: Lady S. Abanto, Cindy Becerra, Thomas … +

The 100 Years Show tells the remarkable story of Cuban-American artist Carmen Herrera, a pioneering abstract painter in the ‘40s and ‘50s who only found recognition as she approached her 100th birthday. Herrera’s work, Alba, 2014, juxtaposes bright-green acrylic paint with the off-white of raw canvas and creates a dynamic composition that evokes movement and depth. Alba can be found on view … +