Visual Arts

Women in Focus Festival, happening at Leica Store Miami
Wed Jul 24, 2019 - Sat Jul 27, 2019

Women in Focus, brought to you by Leica Store Miami, is a photography exhibition and weekend festival dedicated to bringing visibility to leading women in the photographic industry who shoot with Leica. Through photography presentations, panel talks, image review, and a women’s-only workshop, this multi-day event will provide an outlet for photographers to discuss and empower women and their advocates within the … +

Visual Arts

FIU: Lisa Haque on Artist Talk
Thu Jul 18, 2019

Have you ever wondered how paper can be made into art? Miami-based artist Lisa Haque at Books & Books Coral Gables, hold an intimate conversation about her work and papermaking process. Haque was a Studio Collaborator and the Production Manager at Dieu Donné in Manhattan, where she worked with artists in residence to create new bodies of work. Prior to that, she … +

Visual Arts

Gustavo Matamoros’ Social Commentary at Dimension Variable
Through Thu Aug 1, 2019

For his solo project at Dimensions Variable, Gustavo Matamoros will produce the first in a collection of works titled Social Commentary that explore sensitive issues of interest to artists, curators, critics, collectors, installation designers, art educators, art administrators, philanthropists, government funding agencies, and those who enjoy reading about art; issues as diverse as Academic Freedom, Abortion, Adoption, Advertising to children, Affirmative Action, Ageism, AIDS/HIV, … +

Visual Arts

Dimensions Variable exhibits artist Juan Pablo Garza
Through Thu Aug 1, 2019

For his solo project at Dimensions Variable, Juan Pablo Garza will be showing a body of work that consists of collecting, intervening, modifying, and organizing objects. Responding to the objects he collects, the process of altering them, their relationship to the space and each other, Garza will make a single installation piece using the entire gallery. Garza is interested in his relationship … +

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Artist Luz Carabaño’s work at Dimensions Variable
Through Thu Aug 1, 2019

For his solo project at Dimensions Variable, Luz Carabaño presents Ni Aquí, Ni Allá, a selection of her work which showcases the in-between space her paintings inhabit. Displacement plays a central role in these images. They stand between our world in their naturalistic renderings and another in abstract ambiguous fields. The paintings are always rooted in something seen, yet they are distant from … +

Visual Arts

Carlotta Corpron’ Photography at Center for Visual Communication
Through Thu Aug 1, 2019

Carlotta Corpron’s groundbreaking light experiments pushed photography in new directions. Her skill as a designer, her nuanced sensitivity as an educator, and her inquisitive independence drove her exploration of new ways to use the medium as an expressive tool. Corpron’s photographic work of the late 1930’s and early 1940’s anticipated what was to become one of the most important movements in 20th … +

Visual Arts

David Castillo Gallery exhibits New Mythologies
Thu Jul 11, 2019 - Sat Aug 31, 2019

New Mythologies, an exhibition by Artists Pepe Mar, Jillian Mayer, and Asser Saint-Val New Mythologies explores three case studies in which the invention of a belief system emerges as both the foundation and consequence of art-making. In their respective practices, Mar, Mayer, and Saint-Val each treat the internal logic of their works as stable narratives with recurring themes, characters, or ideologies which speculate … +

Visual Arts

Miami Institute of Photography: Saving a Life
Through Sat Aug 3, 2019

The Miami Institute of Photography presents Miquel Salom’s “Saving a Life”. Photographer Miquel Salom is the first Spanish artist to use ‘Wet Plate Collodion’ technique for philanthropic purposes. Miquel often partners with international and local foundations pro humanity. In this opportunity he associates with the Más is More Foundation, presided by Venezuelan artist, Rayma Suprani. A selection of these unique images will be … +

Visual Arts

Photographer Vivianne Peckham comes to Leica Store
Sat Jul 27, 2019

Join Leica Store Miami in the Leica Lounge invites documentary photographer Vivianne Peckham. This Leica Lounge is coordinating with the Women in Focus festival weekend going on from July 24th – 28th. More events include a panel discussion, workshop with Maggie Steber, a brunch edition Leica Lounge and Photo-Slam. Currently living in Washington, DC, Vivianne was born in Belgium and has lived … +

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Abstract Diversity in Painting at Art Space Virginia Miller Galleries
Through Tue Jul 30, 2019

Highly accomplished artists with different visions of abstract painting are being exhibited in “Abstract Diversity in Painting”. For its spring show Virginia Miller, owner and director of Greater Miami’s longest-established contemporary fine art gallery, selected three of the gallery’s leading artists: Florian Depenthal, Ned Evans and Linda Touby. “These artists have been painting for decades and have now reached the mature phase … +

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Subversive Suburbia exhibited at Mindy Solomon Gallery
Through Sat Jul 27, 2019

Mindy Solomon Gallery exhibits Subversive Suburbia, in both its art spaces. Artist featured: GAS (Generic Art Solutions), Jeremy Chandler & Shawn Cheatham, Kate Macdowell and Scot Sothern. From Film to Photography to Sculpture, this exhibition features a wide arrange of media about many contemporary and society-focus issues. Shawn Cheatham and Jeremy Chandler will present the experimental documentary film: Invasive Species. Striking cinematography and a … +

Visual Arts

de la Cruz Collection exhibits MORE/LESS
Tue Jun 25, 2019

De la Cruz Collection reopens on Jun 25, 2019 exhibiting More/Less. Featured artists: Kathryn Andrews, Tauba Auerbach, Hernan Bas, Walead Beshty, Beshty/Walker, Mark Bradford, Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Martin Creed, Aaron Curry,  Salvador Dalí, Peter Doig, Isa Genzken, Félix González-Torres, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Guyton/Walker, Rachel Harrison, Arturo Herrera, Jim Hodges, Evan Holloway, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Israel/Smith, Rashid Johnson, Alex Katz, … +

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Whitney Humphreys at Locust Projects’ Room
Mon Jun 17, 2019 - Sat Jul 27, 2019

Locust Projects presents The Command Center by Whitney Humphreys, a current dual MFA degree-seeking student at San Francisco Art Institute. She is the sixth student featured in our summer LAB MFA open call since 2013. The installation in Locust Projects Project Room allows visitors to enter an alternate plane of reality, where a distant and mysterious machine known as the Rocket with Hoopskirt is in … +

Museums

Observing Life… at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Aug 4, 2019

Observing Life: Intersections Among Art, Medicine, and Health comprises photography and works on paper, dating from the 19thcentury to the present. These works address diverse ideas relating to the fields of medicine and health.  Featured artists include Bill Brandt, Manuel Carrillo, Marina Font, Quisqueya Henriquez, Eadweard Muybridge, and Ruth Orkin, among others. Many of the works in the exhibition have rarely been … +

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Purvis Young’s art at Rubell Family Collection
Through Sat Jun 29, 2019

Upset with the injustices he witnessed daily, and emboldened by civil rights activists, anti-war protesters and art activists, Purvis Young (American,1943-2010) began, in the early 1970s, to create his own form of protest: a large-scale mural composed of paintings on found scraps of wood and metal that he nailed to a stretch of abandoned buildings spanning a city block near downtown Miami. … +

Visual Arts

Rubell Family Collection exhibits “New Acquisitions”

 Through June 22, 2019 New Acquisitions presents paintings, sculptures, and installations by 20 artists; all of the works were acquired in the last two years. Each artist featured is represented by multiple works, exhibited in individual rooms throughout the second floor. The exhibition includes new, large-scale paintings by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, the foundation’s 2018 artist-in-residence. Artists Included: Miriam Cahn / Jonathan Lyndon … +

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Candies: Homage to Félix González-Torres. José Manuel Fors on view at Panamerican Art Projects
Through Sat May 4, 2019

Aa tribute, through the piece “Candies. Homage to Félix González Torres. “, to the work of one of the Cuban artists of greater international impact, and with him, to a whole generation that ended up being separated by the circumstances of their time. Fors’s work is deeply self-referential. He is an artist who uses the family environment in order to find meaning … +

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Lines of Fracture on view at David Castillo Gallery
Through Sat Apr 13, 2019

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Lines of Fracture, an exhibition of works on paper, painting, fabric, and video by Sanford Biggers, Kate Gilmore, Adler Guerrier, Quisqueya Henriquez, and Glexis Novoa. The represented works are marked by the language of fragmentation; punctuated in breaches between lines on paper; in splits between materials and meanings; and in the hewn surfaces from which … +

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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 … +

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A Decade of Realism: Paintings by Renato Meziat at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries
Friday, Nov. 2nd, 2018. 6:00 to 10:00 p.m.

“Meziat shares the ability of the best hyperrealists to render ordinary objects in such exquisite detail as to make each so precious that we look at it in a different, more appreciative manner, transcending actuality,” notes Virginia Miller, owner and director of greater Miami’s longest-established contemporary fine art gallery. Along with still lifes, the artist’s favorite subjects include “windows” with thin curtains … +

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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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LORIS CECCHINI | DIRK SALZ at Diana Lowenstein Gallery
Fri Nov 2, 2018 - Wed Jan 2, 2019

In the work of LORIS CECCHINI (born in Milan, 1969), photography, drawing, sculpture and installation combine to form a unified poetics, the cardinal element of which is transfiguration. Incorporating elements from various interdisciplinary fields from chemistry to new technologies, his work playfully challenges limits of creation in an ever changing fashion. Cecchini has continuously use the concept “organic” as a central element … +