Museums

James Prosek: CONTRA NATURUM exhibited at Lowe Art Museum
Through Sun Sep 8, 2019

Deeply invested in both the environment and environmental concerns, James Prosek is a contemporary artist whose creative output explores timeless aspects of humanity and the natural world while also engaging directly with the zeitgeist. These complementary threads are beautifully woven together in his exhibition, James Prosek: Contra Naturam/Against Nature, providing a critical commentary on South Florida’s rapidly changing ecosystem. Artist, writer, naturalist, and … +

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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 … +

Visual Arts

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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JUSTIN H.LONG: HAPPY ENDING, 2019 on the Walgreens Windows
May 8 - Sep 15, 2019

Happy Ending [1] is a two-part exploration of late-night text messages, fantasy encounters, reaching out for help, searching inwards, searching outwards, ocean crossings, marine detritus and being lost in the sea of life. Pre-dating radio, International Code Signal Flags have traditionally been used to signal from one boat to another without any other means of communication between them. Raised as beacons, they … +

Visual Arts

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 … +

Museums

PAMM presents Beatriz González: A Retrospective
Fri Apr 19, 2019 - Sun Sep 1, 2019

Beatriz González: A Retrospective will be the first large-scale U.S. retrospective of the work of Bogotá-based artist Beatriz González (b. 1938, Bucaramanga, Colombia). At 81, González is not only an internationally celebrated Colombian artist but also one of the few extant representatives of the so-called “radical women” generation from Latin America. Despite the fact that it spans over six decades of intensive … +

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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 … +

Events

Lecture with artists Dana Schutz at de la Cruz Collection
Friday, April 12, 2019 | 7:00pm

Dana Schutz (b. 1976, Livonia, Michigan) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Schutz’s paintings depict darkly humorous narratives and hypothetical situations. Vibrant and tactile, Schutz’s oddly compelling images simultaneously engage the unique capabilities of the medium while conjuring a world both urgent and harrowing. Dana will be discussing her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern … +

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SHEILA HICKS: Campo Abierto (Open Field) at the Bass Museum
Sat Apr 13, 2019 - Sun Sep 29, 2019

Grouping works of art from various periods, Campo Abierto (Open Field) explores the formal, social and environmental aspects of landscape that have been present, yet rarely examined, throughout Sheila Hicks’ expansive career. Prompting contemplations on collaboration, dialogue and discussion, the exhibition is rooted in the reconfiguration of Escalade Beyond Chromatic Lands (2016-2017), the artist’s vast installation produced for the Arsenale at the … +

Museums

AARON CURRY Tune Yer Head at the Bass Museum
Through Sun Apr 21, 2019

Tune Yer Head presents new and recent work by Texas born, LA-based artist, Aaron Curry. Though Curry gained early recognition as a sculptor, making a “return” to painting in 2015, his practice is deeply rooted in the painterly. The exhibition at The Bass surveys the diversity of his practice in terms of materiality and form, highlighting the interplay between painting, sculpture and … +

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On view at PAMM: Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .
Through Sun 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. … +

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Liliana Porter: El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves
Through Sun Jun 30, 2019

In its scale and complexity, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia 2017 is one of Liliana Porter’s most ambitious projects to date. The piece serves as a form of retrospective, as it contains many of the characters, groupings, or situations that have appeared repeatedly in Porter’s works over the last three decades. The installation takes its name from … +

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Felice Grodin: Invasive Species at PAMM
Through Sun Jun 30, 2019

Felice Grodin: Invasive Species is a virtually interactive, digital exhibition of commissioned works by Miami-based artist Felice Grodin. The series employs the technology of augmented reality, and is accessible to visitors using iOS devices in PAMM’s outdoor areas and in the Padma and Raj Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum’s first floor. By drawing on her training as an architect, Grodin analyzes … +

News

ENGRAVED: Contemporary Graphic Artworks by Women at Pompano Beach Cultural Center
64058 - Fri Apr 5, 2019

The Pompano Beach Cultural Center is delighted to announce their newest exhibition, Engraved. This collaboration with The Buenos Aires Editing Center in Argentina and the Latin American Art Pavilion Project (LAAP) celebrates the work and artistic development of women in the visual arts field. Forty European and Latin American female artists from Argentina, Austria, Ecuador and Venezuela will present some of their … +

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IMPRESSIONS: THE NEW AESTHETIC honors the legacy of Frederic and Evelyn Bartlett’s artistic creativity and appreciation for art of all genres. Presented by Bonnet House Museum & Gardens and ArtServe, the event is Fort Lauderdale’s preeminent exhibition of modern and contemporary original work from South Florida in a variety of media including painting, photography and mixed media. IMPRESSIONS is an exhibition which … +

Events

Curator Tour: A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs by Nathan Benn
Saturday Mar 2, 2019 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Join photographer Nathan Benn as he recalls his journey across the State of Florida while on assignment for National Geographic. Learn how he embraced color photography before it was considered an acceptable medium for serious documentary. Ticket purchase includes a copy of A Peculiar Paradise by Nathan Benn. Capacity is limited, and advanced registration is required. Books must be claimed in-person. One … +

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 … +

Design

THE HAAS BROTHERS: Ferngully at The Bass Museum
Sun Apr 21, 2019 - Sun Mar 10, 2019

The Haas Brothers, twins Nikolai and Simon Haas, are artists/designers/creative producers based in Los Angeles. Their works of art and objects are situated between the contexts of art and design, frequently departing from the functional, and moving towards the exclusively sculptural. Playful and sometimes irreverent, they create furniture and sculptural objects in the form of anthropomorphic hairy chaises, fantastical beaded chairs and … +

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ODALIS VALDIVIESO shows at Bass Museum’s Walgreens Windows: Performing the self and other selves
Tue Mar 19, 2019 - Sun Mar 10, 2019

Performing the self and other selves is a project by artist Odalis Valdivieso, featuring a new series of works on papers both new and recycled, highlighting the artist’s approach to storefront and public space. Valdivieso’s work is connected to the tradition of printmaking, which she uses in various ways as a trompe-l’œil surprising our understanding of painting, photography, and drawing language. As part … +

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Pedro Neves Marques: A Mordida at PAMM
Dec. 4, 2018 – July 28, 2019

Pedro Neves Marques (b. 1984, Lisbon) is a filmmaker, visual artist, and writer whose research often takes place in Brazil. His work ranges from fictional dramas to theoretical films and writings that address clashes among competing anthropologies and images of nature, technology, and gender. Within his practice, science fiction is a key tool used to examine the history of colonization as well … +

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Paola Pivi: Art with a view at The Bass Museum
Through Sun Mar 10, 2019

Paola Pivi’s artistic practice is diverse and enigmatic. Her oeuvre appears to have been formed through multiple creative minds. Art with a view at The Bass presents new work by the artist, as well as Pivi’s anthropomorphic, feather-covered polar bears; canvases of cascading pearls; video showing fish in flight on a passenger jet; and an 80-piece mattress installation. Each piece poses questions … +

Visual Arts

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 … +