Visual Arts

Judy Chicago: A Reckoning at the Institute of Contemporary Art
Tue Dec 4, 2018 - Sun Apr 21, 2019

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami presents “Judy Chicago: A Reckoning,” a major survey of works by the pioneering feminist artist. This exhibition highlights Chicago’s iconographic transition from abstraction to figuration, and explores the ways in which the artist’s strong feminist voice transforms our understanding of modernism and its traditions. Representing the female voice in a male-dominated world, Chicago explores important narratives … +

Visual Arts

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 … +

Visual Arts

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 … +

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 … +

Visual Arts

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 … +

Visual Arts

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 … +

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  … +

Cinema

SMDCAC’ Indie Flicks: Dark Money
Fri Sep 14, 2018

SMDCAC in Indie Flicks: Independent Film Series will screen the Documentary Film: Dark Money. Just in time for the midterm elections, this political documentary thriller examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy; the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. A gripping story, Dark Money uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections … +

Visual Arts

ICA exhibits Louise Bourgeois’ iconic fabric/clothing Sculptures
Through Sun Jan 6, 2019

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 … +

Visual Arts

ICA’ Special Exhibition “Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on”
Through Sun Nov 4, 2018

“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 … +

Visual Arts

BAC exhibits Still Lives
Thu Jul 19, 2018 - Sat Aug 4, 2018

To coincide with the recent feminist uproar, we see femininity and feminism are reshaping themselves through the gaze of society, consumerism and marketing.  Nevertheless, we are still constantly faced with of mutilation, alienation and rejection in relation to our own bodies, which brings many different readings on how women perceive themselves. Throughout history, women have had a complex relationship with their bodies … +

Visual Arts

 Exhibition BLUEPRINT’ Opening reception at Bakehouse Art Complex
Thu Jul 19, 2018 - Fri Aug 3, 2018

The Bakehouse Art Complex is pleased to present BLUEPRINT, a group exhibition featuring works by Maria Theresa Barbist, Amanda Bradley, Gabriela Garcia, Nathan Harris, Sarah Henderson, and Gianna Riccardi. The works featured in the exhibition reimagine the photograph as a blueprint for sculptural intervention rather than a finite imprint of the past. In their individual practices, the artists question what occurs when … +

Visual Arts

Deana Haggag from United States Artists in a Locust Projects Talks
Wed Sep 12, 2018

At USA, Haggag leads the organization’s national fellowship program for innovative artists. Prior to joining the organization in February 2017, she was executive director of The Contemporary, a nomadic and non-collecting art museum in Baltimore. In addition to her leadership roles, Haggag lectures extensively and has taught at institutions such as Towson University and Johns Hopkins University. She is on the boards … +

Visual Arts

ArtCenter/South Florida: 1st Residency Art in Public Life
Through Wed May 1, 2019

ArtCenter/South Florida and the City of Miami Beach have named their first Art in Public Life resident, who will provide a fresh perspective in helping the city address the challenge of sea level rise and improve its overall resiliency. Our first Art in Public Life resident, Misael Soto, will provide that perspective, spending a year embedded in the city to both develop … +

Visual Arts

Climate issues and Cultural Production at ICA’s A+RC’s 2nd Summer Intensive
Mon Jul 23, 2018 - Sat Jul 28, 2018

A+RC’s second Summer Intensive addresses ways in which urgent climate issues and anthropogenic effects apply pressure to contemporary cultural production. Seminars range from discussions related to Miami’s immediate conditions to more abstract probing around what it means to think and produce art on a planet that is rapidly changing. With guests as Jason W. Moore and Rozalinda Borcila. Jason W. Moore is an environmental … +

Visual Arts

ICA Exhibitions / Walter Darby Bannard: 1959–1962
Through Sat Sep 22, 2018

“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 … +

Opportunities

Course “Intro to Screen Printing on Paper” by ArtCenter/South Florida
Fri Jul 13, 2018

Long celebrated for its use by iconic artists such as Andy Warhol, screenprinting is an easy crowd favorite capable of producing fine art quality results. Introduction to Screen Printing on Paper is the ideal course for beginners to learn the basic tools and technique necessary for understanding the silk screening process. In this course, students will learn how to coat a silkscreen … +

Visual Arts

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood exhibits Dual Roles
Fri Jun 8, 2018 - Sun Aug 19, 2018

How can we change the perception that having kids is career impediment? Also, how can we relate to the intriguing worlds of small people and how they see the world in their formative years? Dual Roles captures the South Florida artist community, where artists bring their kids to openings, run spaces, and start initiatives. Summer is also a hectic time for booking … +

Visual Arts

RCS 1-50 Exhibit Curated by BABA Collective at BAC
Thu Jun 7, 2018 - Fri Jun 22, 2018

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 … +

Visual Arts

Exhibition Urban Steeling at Swenson Gallery (BAC)
Through Sun Jun 24, 2018

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 … +

Visual Arts

Art and Culture Center of Hollywood holds Dual Roles, Artists as Parents
Fri Jun 8, 2018 - Sun Aug 19, 2018

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 … +

Announcements

Performance Happy Hour at Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
Friday, May 18, 2018. From 5:30 to 7:00 pm

The Art and Culture Center/Hollywood invites you to join us for our first Performance Happy Hour on Friday, May 18, 2018 from 5:30 to 7 pm. The event will feature appearances by artists Pip and Duane James Brant. The event is a social for the exhibitions Habitat, Origin and Plush, and will feature a donation bar and refreshments. Curated by Center Curator … +

Visual Arts

Blue Fades To Brown Fades To Violet by artist Alette Simmons-Jimenez at ArtCenter/South Florida
Through Sun 3 Jun, 2018

Alette Simmons-Jimenez’s work is motivated by the dynamic relationships between shapes, form, and color resulting from a spontaneous integration of the known and the unknown. Beginning with layering, overlapping, and binding things together, Simmons-Jimenez then physically tears her work apart to see what abstractions are revealed. Her approach uses the traditional elements of color, composition, line, and form to consider human vulnerability … +