South Florida Artist Amauri Torezan: A Distinctive Vision of Geometric Abstraction and Retro-Futurism

Brazilian-born contemporary artist Amauri Torezan explores the intersection of geometric abstraction, organic form, and retro-futuristic design. His paintings bring together sharply defined shapes, fluid contours, and carefully orchestrated color relationships, creating compositions that seem to extend beyond the canvas. Through an interplay of depth, balance, and visual movement, Torezan transforms familiar geometric elements into dynamic environments that invite viewers to explore the space between structure and imagination.

Artist Amauri Torezan

A defining characteristic of Torezan’s work is the sense of movement within an otherwise carefully structured composition. Contrasting colors, layered forms, and precise arrangements create optical depth, giving the impression that individual elements are floating, intersecting, and shifting in relation to one another. This interplay of order and fluidity gives his paintings a distinctive visual rhythm, encouraging viewers to experience each composition as an evolving relationship between color, geometry, and perception.

Parallax Effect, 69 × 76 inches (175 × 193 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

Torezan’s artistic language draws inspiration from the pioneers of abstract art, Brazilian modernism, and the clean lines and forward-looking sensibilities of mid-20th-century design. His influences extend beyond painting to architecture and landscape design, including the work of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx. These references inform a visual vocabulary that brings together structural precision, organic movement, and a distinctly retro-futuristic sensibility.

Cloud Nine, 36 × 75 inches (91 × 190 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

At the heart of Torezan’s practice is an exploration of how geometric and organic forms can coexist in a carefully constructed visual environment. His compositions often evoke the aesthetics of imagined futures, drawing on the optimism and experimental design language associated with the mid-20th century while maintaining a contemporary perspective. The resulting works balance order and spontaneity, inviting viewers to consider how color, shape, and spatial relationships can transform a two-dimensional surface into an immersive visual experience.

Tondolandia 03, 36 × 36 inches (91.4 × 91.4 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

Torezan’s professional history includes participation in exhibitions, art fairs, public art initiatives, and collaborative projects. He participated in the Conception Art Fair and was invited by sculptor Gino Miles and curator Rachel Wilkins Blum to contribute to the Global Code Project, a traveling exhibition using artist-painted sculptures to explore the evolution of communication and introduce these ideas to younger audiences. He also took part in a live-painting event for a second sculpture associated with the project at Art Wynwood in Miami.

Thalassophile, 60 × 60 inches (152 × 152 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

His work has been presented internationally and throughout South Florida, including at the Parallax Art Fair in Chelsea, London, and through public-art initiatives in West Palm Beach’s Northwood neighborhood. His public-art practice also includes a rooftop mural installation at The Dalmar Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, alongside other public-art projects. Torezan’s work is also represented in numerous corporate collections, reflecting its presence in professional and architectural environments beyond traditional gallery settings. Together, these projects and collections demonstrate the breadth of his practice across exhibitions, public spaces, and corporate environments.

Magic City, 60 × 60 inches (152 × 152 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

Torezan’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as The Baker Museum, Coral Springs Museum of Art, and Cornell Art Museum, alongside presentations in galleries and international art fairs. These exhibition experiences provide further context for his exploration of geometric abstraction, color relationships, and the interplay between structure and movement.

Eudaimonia, 72 × 72 inches (183 × 183 cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

By bringing together the visual clarity of hard-edged abstraction and the atmospheric qualities of floating forms, Amauri Torezan creates compositions that reward close observation. His work offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary geometric painting, grounded in the legacy of modernist experimentation while continuing to explore the possibilities of color, space, and visual perception.


For more information visit: www.amauritorezanart.com

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Tondolandia 16, 36 × 36 inches (91.4cm x 91.4cm), acrylic and oil on canvas

The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines Fall Exhibitions: ‘Hyphenated Encounters’ & ‘Discord and Serenity’

 

The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines presents two new exhibition projects opening September 17, 2026: Hyphenated Encounters, a collaborative presentation with Deering Estate featuring the work of Cuban American artist Lilian Garcia-Roig, and Discord and Serenity, curated by RemiJin Camping and featuring works by Barry University MFA students Joy Johnson and Bruna Marcon Weber. Hyphenated Encounters brings together two interconnected curatorial projects—Lilian Garcia-Roig: A Practice of Place, curated by Sophie Bonet, Chief Curator of The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, and Deering Estate Residency: Lilian Garcia-Roig, Site, and the Labor of Belonging, curated by Liliam Dominguez, Head Curator of Deering Estate. Together, these presentations offer audiences an expansive exploration of place, identity, memory, perception, and the complex inner and outer worlds explored through contemporary art.

Art lovers and aficionados enjoyed the Opening Reception for these new exhibitions on Thursday, September 17th from 6 – 9pm at The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, was an evening of art, conversation, and exploration. Light refreshments were served, and the event was free and open to the public. The Frank is located at 601 City Center Way in Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025. Opening that evening, Hyphenated Encounters brings together two interconnected curatorial projects presented in collaboration with Deering Estate, while Discord and Serenity will be presented separately in The Frank Third Space. Together, these exhibitions offer audiences an opportunity to explore questions of place, identity, memory, perception, emotion, and the complex relationship between what is seen and what remains hidden.

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Palm Strangler, 2024. Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Hyphenated Encounters: A Practice of Place

Spanning more than three decades of artistic practice, Lilian Garcia-Roig: A Practice of Place brings together a selection of paintings and mixed-media works by Cuban American artist Lilian Garcia-Roig. The exhibition traces the evolution of her sustained engagement with landscape, revealing how close observation, material experimentation, and lived experience have shaped a practice rooted in place. From the subtropical environments of South Florida to the limestone valleys of Cuba, Garcia-Roig’s work invites viewers to experience landscape as something inhabited rather than simply observed.

Image Courtesy of Deering Estate. Photo: Jorge Gonzalez Graupera

A recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Garcia-Roig is recognized as one of the leading voices in contemporary landscape painting. Together, the works on view offer a compelling survey of an artistic practice that continues to evolve while remaining deeply connected to the environments that inspire it. Curated by Sophie Bonet, Chief Curator, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery. Hyphenated Encounters will be on view at The Frank in the Main Gallery from September 17, 2026, through January 17, 2027. Admission is free and open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm.

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Fluid Perception: Banyan as Metaphor, 2022. Oil on canvas, 168 x 240 in. Courtesy of the artist.

Deering Estate Residency: Lilian Garcia-Roig, Site, and the Labor of Belonging

Part of the Deering Estate AT program, this exhibition features Lilian Garcia-Roig, who is widely recognized as an on-site painter, though the term only begins to describe her practice. Rather than painting a landscape from a distance, Garcia-Roig paints directly with it, treating each location as a living field of negotiation between memory, perception, and presence. Over time, the tropical landscape has become essential to her visual language. Florida’s banyans, mangroves, sabal palms, and strangler figs offer a natural vocabulary that speaks to her Cuban heritage, one built on entanglement rather than hierarchy, and on lateral growth and survival rather than singular dominance.

Lilian Garcia-Roig, Hyphenated Nature: Two Rocks of Geographic Significance to Me (Skykomish River in WA & El Morro in Havana Harbor), 2020. Oil on canvas (left) & Acrylic with Cuban dirt pigment on canvas (right), 36 x 70 in. Courtesy of the artist.

During her 2024 residency at the Deering Estate, Garcia-Roig immersed herself in the property’s own tangled terrain, working directly on-site. The resulting body of work reflects a sustained, site-specific engagement, continuing her long practice of letting the landscape shape the painting rather than the other way around. Complementing Garcia-Roig’s work, an exclusive short film created by fellow Artist-in-Residence Jorge Gonzalez Graupera deepens the viewer’s connection to these themes. Curated by Liliam Dominguez, Head Curator, Deering Estate.

Bruna Marcon Weber

Discord and Serenity

Discord and Serenity brings together the work of Joy Johnson and Bruna Marcon Weber, two Barry University MFA students whose analog photographic practices explore the complex interior worlds that exist beneath the surface of everyday life. Working through staged environments, personal objects, domestic spaces, and analog processes, Johnson and Marcon Weber consider how emotions and desires are internalized, concealed, and ultimately expressed. Their photographs transform familiar spaces and objects into sites of psychological inquiry, revealing the tensions between what is visible and what remains hidden, between composure and release, and between the identities we inhabit publicly and the experiences we carry within. In What Can the Space in a Room Hold?, Johnson approaches the subconscious as an interior space—one populated by objects, memories, associations, and aspects of the self that may be revealed or kept behind a closed door. Through personal objects and environments, her photographs invite viewers to consider what their own internal spaces might contain.

Joy Johnson

Marcon Weber’s Rare Opportunities to Be Alone turns toward the domestic sphere, examining suppressed anger, emotional restraint, and the often-unseen pressures associated with caregiving, family life, and reproductive and domestic labor. Using staged color photographs made on 120 film, she reimagines familiar rooms and household objects as expressions of emotions that are ordinarily contained. Together, the two bodies of work create a dialogue between discord and serenity, asking what happens when private emotions enter visible space—and what photography can reveal about the parts of ourselves that are difficult to articulate. Curated by RemiJin Camping. Discord and Serenity will be presented in The Frank Third Space from September 17, 2026, through January 17, 2027. Admission is free and open to the public Wednesday through Sunday from 11am to 5pm.

The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines

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🍁 FALL * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

 

Title:  FALL * $1,800.00 Innovate Grants for Art + Photo

Deadline: December 15, 2026 11:59pm PST

FALL 2026 OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS — Innovate Grant awards (2) $1,800.00 grants each quarter, to one Visual Artist and one Photographer. In addition, (18) honorable mentions (9 in art and 9 in photo), will be featured on our platform and join a growing creative community of esteemed artists. Learn more and apply at https://innovateartistgrants.org

Innovate Grant awards:

+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Visual Artist

+ 1 x $1,800.00 Grant to a Photographer

+ 18 x Honorable Mentions

We've simplified the grant process, so that artists and photographers can focus their valuable time on making their innovative work. The work should speak for itself and our application reflects that. 

Explore the work of Past Innovate Grant recipients and read their interviews at https://innovateartistgrants.org

How to Apply: Visual Artists and Photographers 18 years and older, from all around the world, are eligible to apply. All media and genres are accepted. All applicants retain the right to the work they submit. Apply today at https://innovateartistgrants.org

Category: Multiple disciplines and genres accepted
Deadline:  Tuesday, December 15, 2026 – Submit by 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time
Region: US & International
Awards: 2 x $1,800.00 USD Grants // 18 x Honorable Mentions

Apply Online Today
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#CallToArtists: Professional Visual Artists Seeking Exhibition Opportunities During Art Basel Miami Beach Week 2026

 

If you are a professional visual artist interested in exhibiting your work during Art Basel Miami Beach Week, Miami Art Scene (MAS) has access to a variety of exhibition opportunities available for artist projects taking place during art week December 1 - 6, 2026. 

The main event, Art Basel Miami Beach, takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 3 - 6, set to feature over 200 of the world's leading art galleries from around the globe. The most prestigious art show in the North Americas featuring artworks by over 4,000 artists, including paintings, sculptures, installations, photography, film, video, and digital art. 

Visitors to Miami Beach for art week enjoy numerous satellite art fairs taking place, along with countless art events, pop ups, roof top parties and exciting happenings during Miami Art Week. From top art fairs to the hottest hotel showcases, Wynwood pop-ups and more, Miami Art Scene has access to a variety of exhibition opportunities taking place during art week.

Call is open to all styles, mediums & genres from all local, national and international visual artists. Serious inquiries only; please Email: miamiartscene@gmail.com - include 5-7 images of your recent work along with a link to your professional website and kindly provide your contact information / Attn: Kat Wagner. 

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Must-See Exhibition: 'Bump in the Night' now on view at Collective 62

Explore the work of Miami Artist Alex Nuñez at Collective 62 in the group exhibition "Bump in the Night" featuring 33 artists

Photos from the opening reception of Bump in the Night. Featuring 33 artists, the exhibition moves through the night, magic, sorcery, spirits, tarot, astrology, and the cosmos. This show will be on view through November 15th, by appointment only. Save the date for the Halloween Bonfire on October 29th from 7 -9:30pm. Costumes encouraged. Collective 62 is located at 901 NW 62nd Street, Miami, FL.

ArtGal.Online — Tsika Dzedu 2026

Introducing Tsika Dzedu 2026

Our Culture. Our Traditions. Our Art

ArtGal.Online: On 12th September the first exhibition and competition was held in Domboshava with a total of 37 aspiring artists. The turn out was so great that we doubled the prizes and gave each 2 prizes for the first, second and third places. 5 prizes of special recognition were given, one from each judge, one from the organizers and one from Mr. Raphael Chikukwa, the Executive Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Read all about it here!

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From left to right - Keith Zenda, Dennis Ruf and Raphael Chikukwa

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New Open Call For Art! SaveArtSpace: As Above, So Below Curator: Marlon Pruz Location: Miami, FL Open call ends: October 19, 2026 SaveArtSpace is proud to present As Above, So Below, a public art exhibition on bus shelter ad space during Miami Art Week in Miami, FL, opening November 27, 2026, curated by Marlon Pruz. As Above, So Below explores the idea that the patterns of the universe are reflected within us, and that the inner world is inseparable from the outer one. The theme considers the relationship between the cosmic to the earthly and the microscopic to the infinite. Similar to how electrons orbiting an atomic nucleus mimics the planets orbiting the sun, the golden ratio and other recurring patterns found throughout nature further suggest an underlying order connecting all forms of life. "As curator, I will be looking for work that creates a strong visual or conceptual dialogue between these realms, imagery that connects the body to nature, humanity to the cosmos, consciousness to environment, and the intimate to the infinite." —Marlon Pruz. Artists of all ages and talents are invited to submit their artwork between September 23 and October 19, 2026 in order to be considered for the exhibition. This is an opportunity to have your work placed on bus shelter ad space in Miami, FL, during the biggest art event of the year. Learn more: https://www.saveartspace.org/miami26