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 an aesthetic experience, it includes artworks by Andreas Von Gehr, Carla Fache, Claudia Lopez-Diez, Howard Hersh, Maureen Meyer, Mike Carney, Scott Massey, Susan Meyer, Tadasuke Jinno, Tomas Valdivieso, and Victor Mahana. Exhibition on view through Sep 15, 2017 Alfa Gallery 1627 Brickell Ave suite 1607 Miami FL 33129 305.804.8685...

Painter, sculptor, teacher and writer, Fernando De Szyszlo (1925) entered in 1944 in Escuela de Artes de la Pontificia Universidad Católica. In 1947 he founded -with the poet Emilio Adolfo Westphalen- the cultural magazine Las Moradas. After 1949 he lived in Paris, getting to know Octavio Paz and André Breton. He becomes acquainted with informalist trends, particularly with the abstraction and neoplasticism. The paintings of those years show a tendency towards an abstract poetics with surreal appearance, achieved by the lyricism of color, the use of textures and control of a unique light that characterizes his later works. His works are present in different museums and collections, among which are: Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (Lima, Perú); Museum of Fine Arts (Dallas, USA); Museo de Bellas Artes (Caracas); The Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York, USA); Casa de las Américas (La Habana, Cuba); Musée national d’art moderne, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France) and Pérez Simón Collection (México DF, México). Exhibition on view through Aug 2017 Durban Segnini Gallery 3072 SW 38 AVE. Miami, FL 33146 305.774.7740...

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 imagery, sea level rise modeling, and social media with artists that include: Priscilla Aleman, Archival Feedback- Thom Wheeler Castillo & Emile Milgrim, Dan Alvarez, Willie Avendano, John William Bailly, Frida Baranek, O’Neal Bardin III, Xavier Cortada, Mark Diamond, Ediel Dominguez, Maxwell Hartley, Valerie LeBlanc & Daniele H. Dugas, Home Eleven -Nelly Bonilla & Oscar Luna, Ian Honore, Peter Hosfeld, Carol Jazzar, Charles Lindsay, Richard Medlock, Luciano Rabuske, Gretchen Scharnagl, Skip Snow, Kyle Trowbridge, Freda Tschumy, Keith Waddington. Deering Estate at Cutler 16701 SW 72nd Avenue Miami, FL 33157 305.235.1668...

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 Wright and Bunny Yeager. It illuminates the fetishized ideas of Miami and its manufactured histories, proposing moments that are marked by both nostalgia and absence. Here those moments also address topics like rapid neighborhood redevelopment or gentrification. Eddie Arroyo’s paintings document the vibrant facades of Little Haiti by serially depicting them as they become obsolete. Cara Despain’s sound installation, Sea Unseen, is a soundtrack to a world overcome by water. Mere Façade is a survey of creative production while signifying our recent past, drastic present, and possible futures. Exhibition on view through Aug 5, 2017 Spinello Projects 2930 NW 7th Ave Miami, FL 33127...

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 portrait from Wang Limin. Others artists included are the celebrated American Richard Lytle, Lew Wilson, Argentine artist Mario Segundo Perez among others. Exhibition on view through Jun 30, 2017 ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries 169 Madeira Avenue Coral Gables Florida, 33134 305 444 4493...

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 digressing nature of historical narrative as the malleable material of contemporary interpretation, able to be revisited, remembered and redefined through individual and collective reference. French philosopher Paul Valéry cautioned towards the susceptibility of history saying “History is the most dangerous product that the chemistry of the intellect has invented… History can justify anything(…)” Exhibition on view through Aug 31, 2017 David Castillo Gallery 420 Lincoln Road Miami Beach, Florida 33139 305.573.8110...

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 focus collaborates with musicians, designers, dancers, and other artists to create a sense of exuberance and optimism, while critically exploring the politics of free speech, equal rights, and freedom of expression. avaf works in a vast array of media–painting, drawing, installations, video, sculpture, neons, wallpaper, and decals–to produce large-scale works that push the experiential possibilities of art. Fredric Snitzer Gallery 2249 NW 1st PL Miami, FL 33127 305.448.8976...

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 work is as enigmatic as he is. Born in Texas and raised in Mexico, Ray is a Spanish-speaking New Yorker, with the air of a Texas cattle rancher. His work draws from Spanish Modernists and Surrealists, and materializes in a variety of media, often through a stream of consciousness approach. Smith is a painter, sculptor, installation artist and social experimenter. Exhibition on view through Jul 29, 2017 Nina Johnson Gallery 6315 NW 2nd Ave Miami FL 33150 3035712288...

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 and the relationship to one’s body. The essence of his art resides in the exploration of the absurd, tragic, and contradictory nature of living that humor can uniquely portray from multiple yet equal tangents. Friedman produces sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and performances. Exhibition on view through Aug 20, 2017 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood 1650 Harrison Street Hollywood FL 33020 954.921.3274...

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 image making taken from cinema, television, and digital media. For the museum he is creating a new series of works inspired by a painting he created in 1984-1985, titled #212(Vice). This painting presents highly saturated blues and yellows that were drawn from similarly strong colors used in the 1980s TV series Miami Vice. Reed has made a “remake” of this earlier painting in the form of 4 new large-scale paintings, which play with the scale and proportions of the architecture of the museum gallery in which they are exhibited. Exhibition on view through May 21, 2017 Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.375.3000...

Climate Sync by artist Tom Scicluna is part of SEA LEVEL RISE: a series of site-specific temporary public art interventions exploring the topic of rising seas and its impact in South Florida. Climate Sync is an inverted yet fully operational alternating time and temperature display unit which critically invokes geographic, social and economic conditions at play concerning the given South Florida environment. Tom Scicluna is a Miami-based artist. Selected exhibitions include: Some Aesthetic Decisions: Centennial Celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL (forthcoming); New Work Miami 2013, Miami Art Museum, FL; Night Shift, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; and Rendez-Vous 08, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France. ArtCenter/South Florida 924 Lincoln Road, Suite 205 Miami Beach, FL 33139 305.674.8278...

This group exhibition features resident artists from the MFU: New York Studio & Teaching Program. The interdisciplinary show includes works created by the artists Nina Behrle, Jesse Chun, Kentaro Ikegami, Pastiche Lumumba and Andrew Ross. Parafiction is loosely defined by art historian Carrie Lambert-Beatty as an emergent genre of artwork that plays between fact and fiction. In a climate of “alternative facts” and “post-truths,” these works have all either directly or indirectly synthesized today’s politics into engagements with data interpretation, unreliable narration, mistranslation, historical revisionism, and speculations about future identities and intimacy. This exhibition will be on view through May 21, 2017. ArtCenter/South Florida 924 Lincoln Road, Suite 205 Miami Beach, FL 33139 305.674.8278...

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 the sites and inspiring haikus that accompany some of the works. Roch offers a sketchbook for the public to write their own pieces of literature in conjunction with the show. This exhibition will be on view through Apr 24, 2017. Bakehouse Art Complex 561 NW 32nd Street Miami, FL 33127 305.576.2828...

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 the works in this exhibition explore traditional sewing and hand techniques, while others explore non-conventional sculptural methods. It explores anthropomorphism, body politics, class, morphing landscapes, multigenerational lineage, and popular culture. This exhibition will be on view through Jun 4, 2017. Art and Culture Center of Hollywood 1650 Harrison Street Hollywood FL 33020 954.921.3274...

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 yet decontextualized. In recent years, she has transitioned from paper to canvas, producing smaller­-scale works that hover between representation and abstraction. Khedoori remains committed to the silent, slow, and exacting process of working by hand. The exhibition is the first major museum presentation of Khedoori’s new paintings and her first survey in fifteen years. On View through Sep 24, 2017 Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.375.3000...

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 easily confused with modern-day digital technology. The portrait series signals time and space, windows to the development of the photographic process past and present, a lens focused on the intense and exact moment, when through the eyes, we are confronted with the soul. On view through Sep 17, 2017 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, FL 33124 305.284.3535...

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 of the permanent collections of New York’s Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art; as well as the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The artist lives and works in Detroit, Michigan. Miami Design District Palm Court ICA Miami 4040 NE 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33137 305.901.5272...

High Anxiety: New Acquisitions presents selections of artworks from 32 artists acquired since 2014, many of whom explore polarizing social and political concerns through a broad spectrum of contemporary artistic practices. In gauging the output and energies of these artists we find creative currents that speak to our shared state of uncertainty, nervousness and pessimism. On view through Aug 25, 2017 Rubell Family Collection 95 NW 29th St Miami, FL 33127 305.573.6090...

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 by Stephan Sweig that was the basis of the 1948 movie by the same name. This exhibition explores the encounter between written text and the digital age-of forms of that represent a material desire for the past and our present means of communication. On view until Apr 28, 2017 Centro Cultural Espanol 1490 Biscayne Boulevard Miami FL 33132 305.448.9677...

Inspired by the Rubells’ extensive research trips to Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, New Shamans/Novos Xamãs occupies the Foundation’s entire ground floor. Through installations, paintings, photographs, and sculptures, 12 emerging and mid-career artists address universal environmental, social and political concerns. On view through Aug 25, 2017 Rubell Family Collection 95 NW 29th St Miami, FL 33127 305.573.6090...

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...

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 islands in the Caribbean as well as countries in Latin America and even Morocco. This exhibition brings together stellar examples of this under-appreciated artist’s remarkable oeuvre, which have never before been shown together. Collectively they represent nearly six decades of the artist’s professional career and shed new light on this prolific Cuban-American artist, whose work was last highlighted in a monographic show in Miami more than a decade ago. On View through May 21, 2017 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami 1301 Stanford Drive Coral Gables, FL 33124 305.284.3535...

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, Haifa, Israel) is a sculptor and currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of sculpture at Florida State University. Omri Zin (b. 1979, Haifa, Israel) works in sculpture and recently served as Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Art History, University of Florida. Locust Projects 3852 North Miami Avenue, Miami Fl 33127 305.576.8570...

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 2009 and an MFA from University of California San Diego in 2014. Recent exhibition and screening venues include REDCAT, Los Angeles; MomaPs1, NY; Armory Art Center, Palm Beach; and History Miami Museum. Opening Reception May 25, 2017, 6 PM Dimensions Variable 100 NE 11th Street Miami, FL 33132 305.607.5527...

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 post-Trump era using dark humor and biting criticism. This exhibition will be on view through April 15, 2017. Locust Projects 3852 North Miami Avenue, Miami Fl 33127 305.576.8570...

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 invisible forces created by the cosmos. The methodology behind the work reflects experience; intuition observational musings of irregularities and the acceptance of chance are the “thinking tools” (a term coined by Daniel Dennett). This exploration is the metaphoric “terrain” of the so-called construct of the human species within and alongside the greater universe. Kukec invites his viewers to engage in a simple gesture of perception and/or reflection. The question becomes: are you Echo or Narcissus? This exhibition will be on view through April 15, 2017. Spinello Projects 2930 NW 7th Ave Miami, FL 33127...

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 situation? Sven Lütticken (b. 1971, Germany) studied art history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches art history at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and theory at the Dutch Art Institute. Lütticken publishes regularly in journals and magazines such as New Left Review, Texte fur Kunst, e-flux journal, Grey Room and Afterall, and contributes to catalogues and exhibitions as writer or guest curator. ICA Miami 4040 NE 2nd Ave Miami, FL 33137 305.901.5272...

Spoken Soul Festival 2017 Kick-Off Event SWAN Community Program: “Speak Your Soul” Every year SSF has chosen a community organization that would benefit from arts programming as part of the Spoken Soul Festival SWAN Community Program. Past organizations include ASPIRA Muchachos & Muchahcas Conference, Boys & Girls Club, DASH Film Club, Miami Art Studio & Artoconecto, SafeSpace, and Little Haiti Cultural Center’s After School Program. To mark the 10th year of SSF, this year’s Community Program will serve the entire city. We invite Miami to speak from their soul. Upon arriving to the SWAN Community Program, attendees will be ushered along an artistic, enclosed trail, which will include: 4 interactive art exhibits that are built to challenge our perception of one another and provide Miami’s multicultural and diverse community with a much needed platform to create a dialogue about people’s similarities versus their differences. Installations include: “The Ballot Box”, an exploration of commonalities through opinion and age. Results revealed with an arts installation composed of oversized emojis and colorful pins. “Freedom of Speech”, an invitation to 60 seconds free of judgement and uninterrupted speech.  Performing artist Monica Lynne will compassionately listen to participants vent about whatever issue they currently are worried about, a la and in homage to Marina Abramovic “The Artist Is Present”. “What’s Your Hash Tag”, a fun interactive photo booth with props where one is invited to share on social media their thoughts on the importance of the arts. “Think it, Feel it, Draw it, Post-it”, guests are asked to draw or write on a Post-It note what their thoughts are regarding the importance of women, art, and women artists to our world community. These Post-It notes will then become the feathers of our SWAN Day mural. Upon exiting the exhibits...

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. Originally from India, Nera currently resides in Chicago, IL. N’Namdi Contemporary Fine Art 177 NW 23rd St. Miami, Fl 33127 786.332.4736...

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 Bils, Amanda Bradley, Emma del Rey, Lorena Diez, Daniel Espinosa, Bryce Fayaz, Victor M. Gerald, Angelica Gonzalez, Rachel Lee, Tania Mayorga, Jon C. Millan, Lanai Nassar, Andrea Ortiz, Ema Ri, Beatriz Rodriguez, Rafael Rodriguez, Gianna Richard, Gabrielle Rivera, Alejandra Suarez, Alejandro Valencia, Monica Vida. Opening Reception Fri Mar 24, 2017, 7 PM CIFO Art Space 1018 North Miami Ave Miami, Florida 33136 305 455 3333...

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 in PAMM’s Routes of Influence exhibition. The 100 Years Show was directed by Alison Klayman and produced by Julie Goldman and Brett Ratner. Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.375.3000...

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 rather the illusion that it causes. Humberto Diaz (b. 1975 in Cienfuegos, Cuba) Resides and works in Havana, he is graduated from Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). He has exhibited at The Cornerstone, Liverpool Hope University. Liverpool, UK; Gallery Nina Menocal; Gallery knoerle&baettig Contemporary, Winterthur, Switzerland; CDAV, Havana, Cuba; The Bronx Museum and Andrew Freedman Home, New York, USA; among others. Opening Reception Feb 4, 2017, 6 PM Diana Lowenstein 2043 North Miami Avenue Miami FL 33127 305.576.1804...