Visual Arts

Atmospheres. Judy Chicago at Nina Johnson
Sun Nov 18, 2018 - Tue Jan 1, 2019

Nina Johnson exhibits never before seen photo prints documenting Judy Chicago’s Atmospheres series — the artist’s early landscape installations and performances staged between 1968-1974, and on a larger scale, beginning in 2012. This photographic exhibition coincides with a major survey of works exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, by the pioneering feminist artist that highlights Chicago’s iconographic transition from abstraction … +

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Xaviera Simmons: Sundown at David Castillo Gallery
Sat Nov 17, 2018

Sundown, Xaviera Simmons’ fifth solo exhibition with the gallery features all new text paintings, photography, and sculpture. The works assembled in Sundown draw from the multitude of threads which form the foundations of the contemporary American narrative- slavery, colonial America, the Antebellum South, the Jim Crow era, Black reconstruction, Black migration, and the Civil Rights era. Simmons engages with historical imagery, layering … +

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Manuel Solano: I Don’t Wanna Wait For Our Lives To Be Over at ICA Miami
Tue Dec 4, 2018 - Sun Apr 14, 2019

“I Don’t Wanna Wait for Our Lives to Be Over” marks the first solo museum exhibition in the United States for Manuel Solano. Working across mediums, Solano explores issues of identity and its formation by drawing from their personal life, memories, and popular culture. That art and images are central to the construction of our perception and to our lives is crucial … +

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The Art of the Lithograph at Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU
Wed Nov 7, 2018 - Mon Mar 4, 2019

The scope of the exhibit will explore the history of the lithography process, taking the visitor from lithography stones to off-set and computer-to-plate printing. The exhibition will feature prints from Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Jim Dine, Don Eddy, R.B. Kitaj, Lee Krasner, Roy Lichtenstein, Camille Pissarro and Robert Rauschenberg to name a few. The prints are striking lithographs that are not only … +

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Larry Bell: Time Machines Special Exhibitionat ICA Miami
Sun Mar 10, 2019 - Sun Mar 10, 2019

“Larry Bell: Time Machines” is the first comprehensive American museum survey of the artist’s work in nearly two decades. The exhibition features major bodies of Bell’s work, from the his early Cube series to his large-scale color-glass installations. At ICA Miami, “Larry Bell: Time Machines” focuses attention on Bell’s innovative explorations of experiences generated by architectural space, as well as his little-known … +

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PAMM: Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .
Nov. 9, 2018 – May 5, 2019

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . . presents the work of Kingston-born artist Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981). The most significant presentation of the artist’s work to date, the project includes examples of the artist’s work produced over the last five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a night garden. … +

Events

First Fridays at ICA
Fri Nov 2, 2018

First Fridays is a neighborhood-wide initiative celebrating art and performance in the Miami Design District. Explore ICA Miami’s exhibitions after dark, and enjoy activities for guests of all ages—film screenings, exhibition tours, performances, and more. Museum guests are encouraged to explore various after-hours activations throughout the Miami Design District, including world-class public art installations by Sol LeWitt, Urs Fischer, and Buckminster Fuller, among … +

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Daniel Chimowitz: Walking Canvases at Jewish Museum of Florida
Wed Oct 3, 2018 - Sun Feb 3, 2019

Daniel Chimowitz is an internationally renowned artist and fashion designer. He creates walking canvases of painted images on hand-sewn as well as up-cycled clothing, essentially combining fine art with the excitement of the fashion industry. Chimowitz has shown his designs in Paris, London, Beijing, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Miami and worked with famed designer Patricia Field. In … +

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Jewish Museum of Florida exhibits The Sexuality Spectrum
Through Sun Oct 7, 2018

The Sexuality Spectrum offers a groundbreaking exploration of sexual orientation through the creativity of over fifty international contemporary artists. Artists including Judy Chicago, Joan Snyder, Arthur Tress, Archie Rand, Albert Winn, Trix Rosen, Joan Roth, and Mark Podwal explore a broad range of subjects: the evolving social and religious attitudes toward sexuality; issues of alienation, marginalization, and inclusion; the impact on the … +

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Audiotheque 2.0 at ArtCenter/South Florida
Thu Sep 13, 2018 - Sat Dec 15, 2018

In December 2017, SFCA [isaw+subtropics] received a Knight Arts Challenge matching grant to produce AUDIOTHEQUE 2.0.  Knight Foundation chose the project as a catalyst for the advancement of experimental music and sound art in our community. Audiotheque 2.0 features a 30-channel sound system, a new order of sound art installation environment created by artist Gustavo Matamoros. This new multi-channel sound system is organized … +

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The Wolfsonian exhibits Art of Labor
Through Sun Aug 11, 2019

American artists produced a flood of depictions of working men and women during the 1930s, a time of mass unemployment and union organizing. In doing so, they created art that only partly captured how the industrial revolution and the growth of the service economy had transformed the nature of work over the past half-century. The paintings and sculptures in this installation will … +

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NEW ART 2018 at FAU Galleries
Sat Sep 15, 2018 - Sat Oct 27, 2018

Each year, the South Florida Cultural Consortium awards twelve Visual and Media Arts Fellowships. Artists residing in Florida’s five southeastern counties are eligible to compete for this nationally significant individual artist award which means the “Consortium” fellowship is hotly contested each year by the region’s best visual and media artists. The exhibition presents recent work by the 12 artists awarded a 2018 … +

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“Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art” at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Sep 30, 2018

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 … +

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Locust Projects’ TALKS: HEIDI ZUCKERMAN
Wed Oct 17, 2018

Locust Projects and ArtCenter/South Florida host a conversation with Heidi Zuckerman, Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and director, Aspen Art Museum. During her tenure with the museum, Zuckerman has boosted its stature from local art gallery to internationally-recognized institution. She successfully spearheaded a capital campaign to fund the museum’s new Shigeru Ban–designed building, raised more than $120 million and increased its endowment … +

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Closing Reception of “Swamp Reclaims the Pool” at the Deering Estate
Wed Sep 12, 2018

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” … +

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Frank Brangwyn: Bringing the Empire Home at The Wolfsonian
Through Mon May 27, 2019

Frank Brangwyn: Bringing the Empire Home spotlights the life and career of Frank Brangwyn (British, b. Belgium, 1867–1956), a versatile artist and designer working in the first half of the twentieth century. His murals, architectural plans, luxury interiors, and furniture vividly capture the many dimensions of Britain’s role as a colonial power and global trade giant. In his diverse works, Brangwyn harnessed the … +

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The 2018 Florida Biennial happens at Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
Fri Sep 14, 2018 - Sun Oct 21, 2018

The 2018 Florida Biennial features 66 works by 31 artists who were selected by juror Sarah Fritchey from entries submitted to the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood. The exhibition opens with a reception from 6-9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14 with the announcement of awards for the Juror’s Pick and Honorable Mention. This ninth edition of the Center’s Juried Biennial received applications from … +

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The Writing on the Wall, exhibition at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Wed Aug 29, 2018 - Sun Dec 9, 2018

A collaborative installation, The Writing on the Wall: Hank Willis Thomas and Dr. Baz Dreisinger  presents essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, and notes written by individuals in prison around the world, from the United States and Australia to Brazil, Norway and Uganda. During her years teaching in US and international prisons, Professor Dreisinger actively collected the hand-written and typed pieces. The Writing on the Wall calls attention to the … +

Opportunities

ICA Miami: Several Opportunities for Interns
Tue Aug 21, 2018

ICA  Internship  Descriptions The  Institute  of  Contemporary  Art,  Miami  (ICA  Miami)  is  dedicated  to  promoting  continuous experimentation  in  contemporary  art,  and  to  the  exchange  of  art  and  ideas  throughout  the  Miami region  and  internationally.  Launched  in  2014, The ICA  Miami  opened  its  new  permanent  home  in  Miami’s  Design  District  in  2017. The  ICA’s  internship  program  is  awarded  on  a  bi-annual  basis  and  … +

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Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman at PAMM
Sat Sep 15, 2018

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 … +

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Ernesto García Sánchez: We are like Parallel Lines at Mindy Solomon Gallery
Sat Sep 8, 2018 - Sat Oct 13, 2018

For Ernesto García Sánchez -Painting- brings the idea of the essential, the relationship between the elements of the pictorial medium with synthesis, with pigmentation in its simplest form. The pictorial elements comprise the greatness of their formal simplicity but at the same time, they also have philosophical connotations. Is it not the act of painting, a celebration of the present, an affirmation … +

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Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, the Message is Death at PAMM
Thu Aug 30, 2018 - Sun Apr 21, 2019

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 … +

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Exhibition Opening: Rivane Neuenschwander’ Quarta-Feira de Cinzas/Epilogue at PAMM
Thu Aug 9, 2018

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 … +