Art and Culture Center/Hollywood's 2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’

Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents ‘2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’. As the title implies, a multi-media approach is revealed in the practices of artmaking by the participating artists. From traditional portraiture to recycled materials, the exhibition seeks to reveal a rawness that evokes our current times and experiences. Juried by Ylva Rouse, Senior Curator at MOCA Jacksonville; Organized by the Center’s Curator Meaghan Kent, Curator of Exhibitions; and Joanna Ruiz, Arts Aspire Curatorial AssistantAs Rouse states, “Overall, the sense I get is an exploration of our place, in/with nature and in society right now, with a dominant strain of what I want to call magic realism, as well as an overall developed sense of materiality.” The exhibition is on view October 15, 2022 through Sunday, February 5, 2023.

Dana Donaty's Ecosystem 1, 34" x 28" x 21"

South Florida Contemporary Artist Dana Donaty is one of the artists featured in the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood presents ‘2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality and Magic Realism’. Donaty's work explores ideas about identity, memory, and domestic and sociological trauma through the lens of play. In a series of Ecosystems, I set the stage for objects hallowed by their historical associations to be considered in a new context. 

Participating Artists:
Javier Barrera (Miami Beach), Bella Cardim (Key Biscayne), Christopher Clark (Jacksonville), Elaine Defibaugh (Miami), Dana Marie Donaty (Boynton Beach), Christian Feneck (Fort Lauderdale), Brendhan Garland (Gainesville), Bonney Goldstein (Fort Lauderdale), Sheila Goloborotko (Jacksonville),Anna Joan Goraczko (North Miami Beach), Jeanne Jaffe (Boynton Beach), Sophia Lacroix (Hollywood), Cynthia Mason (St. Petersburg), Cheryl Maeder (Lake Worth), Raymond Olivero (Mount Dora), Kerry Phillips (Miami), Vickie Pierre (Miami), Evelyn Politzer (Miami), Galal Ramadan (Fort Lauderdale), Alette Simmons-Jimenez (Miami), Aida Tejada (Miami), Cornelius Tulloch (Miami), Jackeuline Walters (Aventura), Zaplaflora (Jesús F Torres) (Hialeah).