Visual Arts

10—A Decade at Dimensions Variable
Sat, Sep 28, 2019 / 6-10 pm

It’s been ten years since Dimensions Variable (DV) officially opened in the Miami Design District in September of 2009. Since then, many artists have come through leaving their indelible mark with inspiring projects. We went from an unfunded upstart to a community voice for championing projects of up-and-coming and under-recognized artists with well-respected work—all while under the leadership of artists. With our … +

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Concrete Jungle: Narrative of Presence at Bridge Red Studios
Sep 8th - Nov 10th, 2019

The exhibit includes South Florida artist Adrienne Chadwick’s numerous fragile and intimate ceramic dwellings. Meditating on community, resources and accessibility. Late Miami/New York artist, Duane Hanson’s rare Polaroid highlighting the value in the “everyday” individual. South Florida artist, Ralph Provisero’s expansive geometric earth works speak to our contemporary situation not limited to Florida’s changing landscape. Los Angeles based artist, Sofia Cordova’s, no … +

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Mindy Solomon Gallery exhibits MIMESIS
Through Sat Oct 19, 2019

Mindy Solomon presents the first solo exhibition in Miami of California artist Jay Kvapil. Inspired by topography, Jay creates surfaces that can only be achieved after years of making. Dedicated to hard work as both an artist and University educator, the fruits of his labor are clearly evident in his oeuvre. Kvapil writes: “Most of the recent pieces allude to landscape, intentionally … +

Museums

Curator’s Tour for Exhibition South Beach. . . at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Tue Sep 10, 2019

Join Maryanna Ramirez and special guest Susan Gladstone, Director of the Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, for a special tour of the exhibition South Beach, 1977-1986. This exhibition presents a series of photographs by Gary Monroe, who embarked on a decade-long project to photograph the aging Jewish community in South Beach. Following the tour, please join us in the Members’ Lounge for snacks and … +

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Leica Store Miami’ Opening Exhibition of John Botte & muse Elicia Ho
Thu Sep 12, 2019

A fine-art photography collection by the much-praised author of Aftermath, One Woman is an inspired collaboration between photographer and muse. Through John Botte’s masterful eye, Elicia Ho, a former ballerina, has realized a lyrical, visual diary of her becoming. Botte’s richly toned and beautifully lit signature images are reminiscent of the golden age of sumptuous portraiture à la Studio Harcourt and Cecil … +

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Locust Projects exhibits Borders of Freedom
Sat Sep 14, 2019 - Sat Oct 12, 2019

Borders of Freedom features six artists living in El Salvador and its diaspora, whose work addresses the concept of freedom from different perspectives, connecting it with intimacy, spirituality, gender, migration and sociopolitical context. Curated by Patricio Majano, four artworks from artists Alexia Miranda, Abigail Reyes, Crack Rodríguez and Fredy Solan were selected. Adding to this selection, Majano selected works by Sayre Quevedo and Guadalupe Maravilla. Collectively, the works … +

Museums

Art after Stonewall (1969-1989) at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Sat Sep 14, 2019 - Sun Jan 5, 2020

Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, this groundbreaking survey features more than 200 works of art and related visual materials that explore the profound impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. The exhibition focuses on both the work of openly LGBTQ artists as well as the practices of artists engaged … +

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Julien Graizely’s Overexposure | Miami at Waltman Ortega Fine Art
August 31, 2019 | 12 - 4 p.m.

Overexposure | Miami is a solo exhibition by French artist Julien Graizely. This body of work is a result of WOFA Artist-in-Residence Program that the gallery launched this summer where Graizely is its first participant. The exhibition is comprised of mixed media paintings and drawings. “Overexposure | Miami” is a reflection of South Florida through the eyes of a French artist: his … +

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Paulo Nazareth: Melee on view at ICA Miami
Through Sun Oct 6, 2019

ICA Miami presents “Melee,” the first solo US museum exhibition for Paulo Nazareth. An artist who works across mediums, Nazareth uses performance and sculpture—monumental and ephemeral—to critique the colonial experience in Brazil and the Americas. His durational performances and installations draw from his joint African and Indigenous heritage to highlight marginalized historical legacies, non-Western cosmovisions, and potential methods of nonexploitative living and … +

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Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
Through Sun Aug 25, 2019

Spheres of Meaning: An Exhibition of Artists’ Books presents a range of artists’ books from manipulated texts to new narrative forms and books presented as sculpture. These “spheres” present philosophical inquiries, personal reflections, and ruminations on complex and often related notions such as nurture and nature. Moreover, this exhibition celebrates the rich and varied talent of artists living in Miami or artists who once … +

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Art and Culture Center/Hollywood exhibits Onajide Shabaka: Floridian Lacunae
September 14 - October 27, 2019

Onajide Shabaka is a South Florida-based artist whose “studio” occupies a metaphorical space of a walk or a hike within the built urban environment. His walking practice takes him by many unkempt edges and along undeveloped or disused lots, habitats that are often overlooked or considered “weed”-infested or “vacant.” His work comprises drawings, watercolors, photographs, video and installation as it weaves plants, … +

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Teresita Fernández: Elemental at PAMM
Fri Oct 18, 2019

The retrospective will introduce visitors to the artist’s large-scale sculptures, installations, and mixed media works that merge formal and conceptual aspects of her practice through the use of natural materials and the historic genre of landscape to reinterpret relationships between nature, history, and identity. The exhibition will also showcase the artist’s most recent body of work, in which she contrasts the sublime … +

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Amalia Caputo: Transferences 2.0 at Art and Culture Center/Hollywood
September 14 - October 27, 2019

Artist Amalia Caputo will install Transferences 2.0, a project for which she has photographed more than 1,700 personal objects from her collection. The image archive is mounted to the wall, and a “living archive” of the actual objects is displayed in the gallery. During the course of the exhibition, objects will be distributed to gallery visitors. Transferences activates our relationship with the … +

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Artist Hank Willis Thomas’ Unbranded at ICA
Through Sun Nov 24, 2019

Probing the intersection of identity, race, class, and media and popular culture, Thomas appropriates images from historical advertisements in order to highlight their subliminal structures of racial prejudice. “In recent years, I have approached my art practice assuming the role of a visual culture archaeologist, “I am interested in the ways that popular imagery informs how people perceive themselves and others around … +

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Mindy Solomon Gallery presents A Mass on Foreign Ground
Tue Aug 20, 2019 - Tue Sep 3, 2019

Mindy Solomon Gallery presents A Mass on Foreign Ground, an exhibition of six recent New World School of the Arts graduates curated by Miami-based artist and gallery owner Eddie Negron. An opening reception with the artists will take place Saturday, August 20th, from 7-9pm. The exhibition will remain on view through September 3rd. In this exhibition featuring Ani Gonzalez, Joshua Veasey, Elizabeth Newberry, … +

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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 … +

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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 … +

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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 … +

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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 … +

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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 … +