North Miami

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 exhibition brings together paintings by Victor (1948–2015) and Ekaterina Khromin. Residents of Miami, the Russian-born husband and wife chart an artistic territory quite their own, painting on bas-reliefs that are, in fact, collages of found objects. Their works reveal pioneering approaches to art-making created by the synergy with the technologies of art conservation.  Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE … +

Writer Kirsty Bell will present a new talk, “The massive scale of sameness makes everything completely different,” on the work of renowned German Pop artist Thomas Bayrle. This lecture will look at how Bayrle’s train of thought draws a line linking Gothic architecture, Fordian production lines, organized religion and the rise of the highway as the ultimate superstructure. Since his beginnings as … +

Exhibition Dancing in the Spinning Top’s House by Cuban artist Humberto Diaz aims to turn the everyday familiar to strange. The artist establishes a constant exercise of looking into a mirror that changes or distorts reality, working in between the “real” and the “simulated”. For him, art is a point of view where the object is not an end in itself, but … +

Conceived by Cuban-born guitarist/composer Eddy Balzola, Oriente’ signature sound features funky, guitar driven tumbaos, blazing harmonic brass, and explosive Afro-Latin percussion. Their first New Orleans concert at world famous Snug Harbor Jazz Club created a major buzz, attracting local musicians and world class audiences excited by their new Cuban roots fusion. All full time artists, Oriente’s band members have played, recorded and … +

Exhibition One Day on Success Street is a major survey and first American museum presentation dedicated to the renowned German artist Thomas Bayrle. The exhibition traces Bayrle’s exploration of the complex impact of technology on humans and their environments over the course of his nearly 50-year career and across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, collage, and installation. A centerpiece … +

The Comet and the Glacier is a video opera and immersive installation by artist Alexis Gideon. Originally trained as a musician and composer, Gideon is best known for his animated live video operas and related multidisciplinary artworks. A multi-media work combining music, video, performance, animation, clay reliefs, and paintings on glass. The show is accompanied by a publication specially designed by the … +

The exhibition The Other Dimension: Contemporary art practice as the existence of higher dimensions presents new works by Cuban-born Miami artist Antuan Rodriguez. Curated by Jorge Luis Gutierrez, this show presents the experience of an artist coming from a peripheral country (Cuba), who became a stranger to a historical Europe and pragmatic USA. This way his uprootedness has contributed to the building … +

A dónde va la furia? is a solo show by artist Graciela Sacco exploring poetry behind frustration and desintegration. Sacco is both a distinguished professor of theoretical issues in 20th century Latin-American art and an artist who has literally worked in the streets. She has done installations, mixed media (including sound and video), urban interferences, and postal actions. Manipulating light and shadow, … +

Toda percepción. . . is a retrospective look from the viewpoint of contemporary issues of art, culture, politics and economics. Including 39 artists from Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection the show is curated by Eugenio Valdés Figueroa & Katrin Steffen. It seeks to reflect on the successive reconfigurations of the art map in the last few decades, from Paris to New York, from Venice … +

One Day on Success Street is the first American museum presentation dedicated to the renowned German artist Thomas Bayrle. It traces Bayrle’s exploration of the complex impact of technology on humans and their environments over the course of his nearly 50-year career and across a range of mediums including painting, sculpture, video, collage, and installation. Featuring some 75 works from 1960s through … +

Trumpet player, arranger, composer, producer, and educator, Melton has performed with some of the top names in jazz including the Count Basie Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, Bobby Watson, Jaco Pastorius, George Cables, John Hicks, Charlie Mingus Dynasty, and Gunther Schuller, among many others. Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami 770 NE 125th Street (Joan Lehman Building) North … +

MOCA North Miami holds the events An Evening with Rolando Peña: Creativity, Resistance and the Latin American Vanguard and Performance of “Fuego Sagrado/Sacred Fire” (Rolando Peña; Press Cartoonist Rayma Suprani; Emmy Award winner Jorge Heilpern) These will be host by Curator Jorge Luis Gutiérrez. This will be the closing day for Black Gold exhibition by Peña, considered an homage to the citizens … +

The Exhibition Series Uprooting Architecture reaches its end after a three-year program, with the site-specific project by Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández. The artist will present her installation 1i011 along with a selection of her moving drawings and paintings, staging an environment that discusses the way thru which natural and artificial landscapes are perceived. Uprooting Architectures is the first on-going exhibition series shown … +

Graciela Sacco is an Argentinian photographer, video and installation artist. The artist’s strong socio-political photographic images serve as metaphors for some of the most acute problems of contemporary society such as famine, homelessness, authoritarianism, poor education, corrupt governments and officials, gun violence and crime, among others. Born in Argentina in 1956. Sacco is graduated from Fine Arts, University of Rosario, Argentina. Sacco … +

As part of the Art + Research Center’s pilot semester, “New Social Abstractions,” arts theorist Evan Calder Williams will deliver a public lecture on analogy.This talk suggests a different history of analogy, seeing it not only as an abstraction used to think about historical breaks and continuities but also as a real structure materially constructed around us over recent centuries: that diffuse … +

ICA Miami and O Cinema present the South Florida premiere of Call Her Applebroog, a 2016 documentary film by Beth B about her mother, renowned painter, sculptor, and filmmaker Ida Applebroog. Through a series of intimate interviews and memories culled from journals, Applebroog reflects on her career defined by a fearless investigation of power, gender, politics, and mass media, as well as … +

In this exhibition, Peña explores oil as a substance that has marked the destiny of modern and contemporary life. The way in which black gold has infiltrated every area of modern life is expressed not only through dance, theater, cinema, video, photography, installation, architecture, and design, but also through interaction with viewers. Rolando Peña is a Venezuelan artist (b.1943)Considered one of the … +

Miami artist Antonia Wright’s immersive installation inverts day and night, surrounding the viewer with a maze of suspended Night Blooming Jasmine plants. During the day, the dark, jasmine-scented gallery will create a natural screening room for a video work featuring the artist falling through a frozen lake. As the day draws to an end, a timer will activate the lighting, deactivate the … +

Locust Projects is pleased to announce its fourth year of Locust Talks, a lecture series that hosts visiting directors and curators from innovative institutions across the country and internationally for public lectures at the gallery space followed by individual studio visits with local artists. In this occasion Mary Ceruti, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Sculpturecenter from New York is invited. She … +

The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) presents its annual exhibit featuring the awarded artists of this year’s Grants & Commissions Program. Representing five different countries the artists included are: Elena Damiani (Peru), Óscar Farfán (Mexico), Fidel García (Cuba), Felipe Meres (Brazil), Sandra Nakamura (Peru) and Fabián Peña (Cuba). In this edition, Colombia is well represented through the Mid-Career awarded artists; Jorge Julian … +