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Thursday, April 3, 2025
NSU Art Museum Teen Art Council Exhibition Opening Thursday, April 3rd
Sunday, March 30, 2025
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) is pleased to present ‘Julie Peppito Chooses Hope’, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Julie Peppito, Opening April 11th
The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) is pleased to present Julie Peppito Chooses Hope, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Julie Peppito, with an Opening Reception on Friday, April 11th from 6 – 9pm. This event is free and open to the public, RSVP HERE. Julie Peppito Chooses Hope offers a roadmap for navigating chaos through layered compositions of fiber, paint, and found objects. Exploring the tension between expectation and reality, Peppito transforms everyday materials into intricate works that embrace movement, ambiguity, and growth. The exhibition invites viewers to step beyond uncertainty and into possibility—where hope is both a choice and an ever-expanding horizon. The exhibition is on view April 11 – May 10, 2025.
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| Holding Pattern, 2021. Reclaimed textiles, beads, thread, gouache, acrylic, fabric paint, thread, canvas. 36 x 48 x 4 in. |
For over 30 years, Peppito has transformed cultural waste into sculptures, tapestries, and installations that explore connection, environmental repair, and the human condition. She holds an MFA from Alfred University and a BFA from The Cooper Union. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Kentler International Drawing Space, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum. Her work has also been featured in The New York Times, on CBS Sunday Morning, and NY1. She has created public art for parks across Brooklyn.
The solo exhibition, Julie Peppito Chooses Hope, suggests a guide on how to navigate life through mixed mediums of fiber, paint, found objects and her own innate belief in preserving the positive. Peppito tackles the daily distractions of life by creating multilayered works exploring where she is in the present as a means of establishing order in a life that is chaotic. Chaos can be found in any segment of life where reality clashes with self imposed expectations, where time flies uncontrollably out of ones’s grasp, and much more. Peeling back life as we cross the social landscape, Peppito responds to the world she inhabits by offering hope. Coming into her own in an ever changing art world and practice, Peppito spends a great deal of time with not only the work that evolves, often from one object, but also with her thoughts on the piece. Her thoughts can travel through the everyday and mundane, through her own life, and through the climate she encounters. This multifaceted looking around her is clearly seen in works such as; Growth 1 & 2 (2025). The works offer the concept of growth in many ways. For example, it can be seen as two unequal stages of growth, two direction for growth—or a limit to growth because of the different sizes. But in both there lies hope, simply because the works are bordered by a literal blank canvas, thereby giving one the freedom to move out of the work and into a new stage.
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| Growth 1 & 2, 2024. Reclaimed objects and fiber, embroidery floss, string, canvas, acrylic paint. 34 x 38 x 4 in. |
Peppito often creates a tableaux both overflowing with action and thought, but also one open and dependent on interpretation. Dividing for example, Holding Pattern (2025) into two sections, one is able to skip through the left portion only to attentively explore the right side. The piece is divided by color, historical references, the artist, and elements of culture. Once you travel through the labyrinths Peppito creates, you may enter into the unformed, the unknown. The work holds an intentionally ambiguous landscape, one with a shadowy figure lurking in the window, an empty chair, and less—but even through this almost ‘void,’ Peppito places her bird, a muse, a symbol of the imagination—fully formed, fully identifiable—showing that come what may, there is always hope and some things can never be erased. This is the key in Peppito’s philosophy —there is always hope, and we can all work towards the beautiful tomorrow of our imagination.
In all of Peppito’s work one can witness her artistic practice as her search for materials rises from both conscious choices to something that catches her eye. This ‘eye-catching’ object is usually the idea of a work in its moment of becoming, akin to an unconscious stage, but as more than one idea holds space in anyone’s mind—new ideas often come hurdling towards her, calling her to listen to the ideas, and thus one idea evolves into many. These ‘many’ are then masterfully composed by Peppito to tell the story that she wishes to tell, as well as to listen to the stories that come from her works when viewed. Her work stands on the precipice of optimism forever leaning towards hope. The hope lies in the future, what she likes to envision for a ‘beautiful tomorrow,’ and the hope that her work stimulates, awakens and leads into conversations and connections bound in the hope for caring connections amongst all. –Statement and curation by Melanie Prapopoulos, gallery founder and director.
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| The CAMP Gallery 791-793 NE 125th Street in North Miami, Florida 33161 |
Art lovers and collectors are cordially invited to The Contemporary Art Modern Project (CAMP) for the Opening Reception of Julie Peppito Chooses Hope, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Julie Peppito, on Friday, April 11th from 6 – 9pm. The exhibition is on view April 11 – May 10, 2025. The CAMP Gallery is located at 791-793 NE 125th Street in North Miami, Florida 33161. The CAMP Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday, from 11am to 5pm. Private tours can be scheduled by emailing hello@thecampgallery.com or calling 786-953-8807. For more information contact Maria Gabriela Di Giammarco, Assistant Director of The Contemporary Art Modern Project, email: maria@thecampgallery.com
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Must-See Exhibitions at The Frank Gallery in Pembroke Pines! Guests will experience a compelling exploration of memory, perception, and the vanishing horizons of South Florida.
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The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines presents two new art exhibitions running from March 13 – June 7, 2025. ‘Adventum Floridana: Witnessing the Layers of a Vanishing Horizon’, a solo exhibition by Andrés Cabrera-Garcia curated by Sophie Bonet, examining the fragile beauty of South Florida’s landscapes in a state of flux, offering viewers an opportunity to engage with the region’s shifting horizons through Cabrera-Garcia’s compelling works. And ‘Of Seeing and Being’, featuring works by Deering Estate Artists-in-Residence Giannina Dwin and Tony Fernandez, who explore themes of presence, absence, and the interplay between the visible and hidden. Curated by Liliam Dominguez, Head Curator and Museum and Collections Manager at Deering Estate.
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
Cabrera-Garcia’s practice captures the tensions between nature and human intervention, translating ephemeral moments of light, texture, and urban transformation into dynamic visual narratives. His expressive brushstrokes evoke the sensory experience of South Florida—dense humidity, fading light, and the ever-present hum of development—immersing viewers in the visceral realities of a landscape in transition. Central to the exhibition is a monumental polyptych, a “Platonic Ridge,” embodying the fragmentation and cohesion of South Florida’s evolving terrain. Complemented by an array of found objects and construction debris, the gallery becomes an archaeological site, immersing visitors in the dual forces of destruction and renewal.
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
Cabrera-Garcia’s practice captures the tensions between nature and human intervention, translating ephemeral moments of light, texture, and urban transformation into dynamic visual narratives. His expressive brushstrokes evoke the sensory experience of South Florida—dense humidity, fading light, and the ever-present hum of development—immersing viewers in the visceral realities of a landscape in transition. Central to the exhibition is a monumental polyptych, a “Platonic Ridge,” embodying the fragmentation and cohesion of South Florida’s evolving terrain. Complemented by an array of found objects and construction debris, the gallery becomes an archaeological site, immersing visitors in the dual forces of destruction and renewal.
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
Curator Sophie Bonet approaches Adventum Floridana through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, emphasizing the active, embodied nature of perception. “This exhibition is not just about observing Cabrera-Garcia’s work,” Bonet explains. “It is about experiencing these landscapes as extensions of ourselves—an entanglement of memory, materiality, and transformation.” The result is an exhibition that challenges viewers to witness and reflect upon the tenuous beauty of South Florida’s environment and its precarious future. Cabrera-Garcia’s works are not merely representations but invitations to participate in the ongoing dialogue between nature and humanity.
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| Giannina Dwin (2025), Untitled, Salt Installation, dimensions variable |
The Deering Estate, in collaboration with The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, is proud to present Of Seeing and Being, an evocative exhibition featuring works by Deering Estate Artists-in-Residence Giannina Dwin and Tony Fernandez. curated by Liliam Dominguez, Head Curator and Museum and Collections Manager at Deering Estate. This exhibition is part of the Deering Estate at The Frank program, a partnership that brings Deering Estate Artists-in-Residence to new audiences by showcasing their work in dynamic, collaborative venues beyond the Estate.
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| Tony Fernandez (2024), Large Black Mangrove, pigment ink-print on aluminum printmount, 36″ x 54″ |
Of Seeing and Being delves into profound questions of presence, absence, and the interplay between the visible and the hidden. Drawing inspiration from Martin Heidegger’s concepts of Dasein (“Being there”) and Poiesis (the creative act of bringing forth Being), the exhibition offers a thought-provoking exploration of identity, temporality, and the human relationship with the environment. Giannina Dwin’s practice incorporates ephemeral materials such as salt to symbolize the delicate balance between durability and impermanence. Her sculptures, inspired by mangrove roots and seeds, and her depictions of the female form in ceramic works evoke themes of memory, transformation, and resistance.
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Tony Fernandez’s photographic abstractions present a poetic and cinematic interpretation of the Deering Estate’s natural landscapes. His depictions of mangroves and banyan roots transcend mere documentation, blurring the line between the seen and unseen, and inviting viewers to engage deeply with their surroundings. Complementing the exhibition are two short films created by fellow Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence Jorge Gonzalez Graupera, offering a unique lens into the practices of Dwin and Fernandez.
‘Penumbra Brew Quartet‘, an exhibition featuring Studio 18 Art Complex resident artist Carlos Solorzano, where the canvas becomes a psychological theater—a liminal space where memory, culture, and the subconscious collide. This showcase of four airbrushed acrylic works—abstract yet evocative—stand as the surviving fragments of an intense creative process, remnants of an attempt to distill the ineffable. Here, the artist functions as both alchemist and medium, transforming a turbulent inner landscape into an atmospheric brew of earthy tones and spectral imagery. This exhibition is on view from March 13th through June 7th, 2025.
The community can learn more about the City of Pembroke Pines’ latest Events by subscribing to Pembroke Pines Media on YouTube, to NewsFlash, a twice a month digital newsletter at www.ppines.com/Newsflash, by reading the city’s digital newspaper City Connect and website via www.ppines.com, checking the city’s digital signage, or by visiting the City’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cityofpembrokepines, and @cityofppines for Twitter and Instagram. Residents with Comcast can view Pembroke Pines Media programming on Channel 78.
For more information visit www.thefrankgallery.org
Follow The Frank Gallery on Instagram @thefrankpembrokepines
Friday, March 14, 2025
Explore the Art of Fashion Icon & Portrait Artist Brandusa Niro at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) Art Fair March 20-23, 2025 with Avant Gallery Booth #G3
Art Collectors and aficionados are invited to experience the ethereal portraits of Brandusa Niro, lifelong painter and fashion media titan, in a fine art exhibition with Avant Gallery Booth #G3 at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) March 20 – 23, 2025. The fair takes place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, where guests will enjoy the VIP Preview on Thursday, March 20th from 5pm – 9pm. Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary is South Florida’s premier and most prestigious winter art fair, it will coincide with the world-renowned Palm Beach International Boat Show in Downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.
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| Brandusa Niro, ‘Jacqueline and her pheasant, Louis’ (2025), Acrylic and Flashe on Canvas, 48″ x 36″ This painting will be showcased at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary |
Brandusa Niro, a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist based in Palm Beach and New York, traces her artistic lineage back to her upbringing in Romania. Immersed in a family of creatives, her aunt Geta Caragiu renowned as a sculptor and her uncle Toma Caragiu a famous actor in both film and theatre, Niro’s artistic journey started very early. Brandusa began garnering recognition by winning Romanian National art competitions and captivating audiences on the silver screen, starring in the biggest blockbuster Romanian film “Uncle Marin, the Billionaire,” Niro’s talents shone brightly.
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| Brandusa Niro, ‘Jacqueline in the Winter Garden’ (2025), Acrylic and Flashe on Canvas, 48″ x 36″ This painting will be showcased at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary |
Relocating to the United States, Niro became a titan in the media and publishing worlds eventually becoming Senior Vice President at IMG Media. In 2002, she laid the foundation for her legacy by founding the esteemed American Fashion industry publication, The Daily Front Row, where she remains as Editor-in-Chief today. Throughout these years, Brandusa Niro continued to create artwork and is now making a full return to her greatest passion that never left. Represented by Avant Gallery, her work has been shown at art fairs such as Art Palm Beach.
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| Avant Gallery 1111 Lincoln Road – Miami Beach, Florida |
In Brandusa Niro’s 2024 series, Models, her inspiration pays homage to the extraordinary women who have graced Niro’s life and career. With each portraits’ brushstroke, Niro conjures visions of ethereal beauty, infusing her canvases with a great use of bright colors and evoking a range of emotions and moods. A blend of realism and impressionism, Brandusa’s muses are elongated and graceful with luminous eyes that pierce the soul, while their oversized heads and unfinished hands imbue them with an otherworldly allure. The Models series evokes senses of sexiness and sensuality yet an eerie, almost haunting, quality, inviting viewers to contemplate the transient nature of beauty itself. Niro is introducing her new 2025 series, About a Girl, presented this month at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C).
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| Brandusa Niro, ‘A Chair at the Beach’ (2023), 24″ x 24″, Acrylic on Canvas |
“My muses’ stories begin with their eyes, they go on through the languorous movement of their bodies, their endless limbs, the mood behind the strands of hairs caressing their long necks… and from there on they ask their viewer to continue the story with their own imagination.” –Brandusa Niro.
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| Brandusa Niro, ‘Model Sunbathing’ (2024), Acrylic on Canvas, 48″ x 36″ |
Niro’s subjects, with their elongated forms and radiant eyes, exude a quiet strength and allure, their oversized heads and unfinished hands adding an ethereal, almost surreal dimension to the works. The series evokes a sense of sensuality and mystery, prompting viewers to reflect on the fleeting and fragile nature of beauty itself.
Collectors and art aficionados are invited to preview new works by Brandusa Niro represented by Avant Gallery in a presentation at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C) March 20-23, 2025 in Booth #G3 at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, 650 Okeechobee Blvd, West Palm Beach, FL 33401.
Visit www.avantgallery.com/collections/brandusa-niro
Follow Brandusa Niro on Instagram @brandusaniro
FAIR HOURS
Thursday, March 20, 2025
VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Access for PBM+C VIP Passholders & Press, benefiting the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens
GENERAL ADMISSION
Friday, March 21 from 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 22 from 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 23 from 11am – 6pm
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Returns for Its 8th Edition this Weekend March 20-23, 2025
Experience the Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Thursday, March 20th through Sunday, March 23rd! South Florida’s premier and most prestigious winter art fair, taking place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center. Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary (PBM+C), presented by Art Miami, returns for its eighth edition opening with an exclusive invitation-only VIP Preview on Thursday, March 20th from 5pm – 9pm. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.
PBM+C is the most important fair each winter as it brings a world-class, internationally respected group of galleries and their artists to the discerning and ever growing high net worth audience that has migrated South.
The Fair will coincide with the world-renowned Palm Beach International Boat Show, located along the waterfront and Flagler Drive in Downtown West Palm Beach, FL. The show will feature more than $1.2 billion worth of yachts and accessories, including hundreds of boats ranging from 8-foot inflatables to super yachts nearly 200 feet in length.
FAIR HOURS
Thursday, March 20, 2025
VIP Preview: 5pm – 9pm
Access for PBM+C VIP Passholders & Press, benefiting the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens
GENERAL ADMISSION
Friday, March 21 11am – 7pm
Saturday, March 22 11am – 7pm
Sunday, March 23 11am – 6pm
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery presents Two New Exhibitions, ‘Adventum Floridana: Witnessing the Layers of a Vanishing Horizon’ & ‘Of Being and Seeing’ Opening March 13th
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
Curator Sophie Bonet approaches Adventum Floridana through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, emphasizing the active, embodied nature of perception. “This exhibition is not just about observing Cabrera-Garcia’s work,” Bonet explains. “It is about experiencing these landscapes as extensions of ourselves—an entanglement of memory, materiality, and transformation.” The result is an exhibition that challenges viewers to witness and reflect upon the tenuous beauty of South Florida’s environment and its precarious future. Cabrera-Garcia’s works are not merely representations but invitations to participate in the ongoing dialogue between nature and humanity.
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| Andrés Cabrera-Garcia |
The Deering Estate, in collaboration with The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, is proud to present Of Seeing and Being, an evocative exhibition featuring works by Deering Estate Artists-in-Residence Giannina Dwin and Tony Fernandez. curated by Liliam Dominguez, Head Curator and Museum and Collections Manager at Deering Estate. This exhibition is part of the Deering Estate at The Frank program, a partnership that brings Deering Estate Artists-in-Residence to new audiences by showcasing their work in dynamic, collaborative venues beyond the Estate.
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| Giannina Dwin (2025), Untitled, Salt Installation, dimensions variable |
Of Seeing and Being delves into profound questions of presence, absence, and the interplay between the visible and the hidden. Drawing inspiration from Martin Heidegger’s concepts of Dasein (“Being there”) and Poiesis (the creative act of bringing forth Being), the exhibition offers a thought-provoking exploration of identity, temporality, and the human relationship with the environment. Giannina Dwin’s practice incorporates ephemeral materials such as salt to symbolize the delicate balance between durability and impermanence. Her sculptures, inspired by mangrove roots and seeds, and her depictions of the female form in ceramic works evoke themes of memory, transformation, and resistance.
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| Tony Fernandez (2024), Large Black Mangrove, pigment ink-print on aluminum printmount, 36″ x 54″ |
Tony Fernandez’s photographic abstractions present a poetic and cinematic interpretation of the Deering Estate’s natural landscapes. His depictions of mangroves and banyan roots transcend mere documentation, blurring the line between the seen and unseen, and inviting viewers to engage deeply with their surroundings. Complementing the exhibition are two short films created by fellow Deering Estate Artist-in-Residence Jorge Gonzalez Graupera, offering a unique lens into the practices of Dwin and Fernandez.
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| Giannina Dwin, 'Waves at Free!', Salt Installation, dimensions variable, Photo by Diana Larrea |
The community can learn more about the City of Pembroke Pines’ latest Events by subscribing to Pembroke Pines Media on YouTube, to NewsFlash, a twice a month digital newsletter at www.ppines.com/Newsflash, by reading the city’s digital newspaper City Connect and website via www.ppines.com, checking the city’s digital signage, or by visiting the City’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/cityofpembrokepines, and @cityofppines for Twitter and Instagram. Residents with Comcast can view Pembroke Pines Media programming on Channel 78.
For more information visit www.thefrankgallery.org
Follow The Frank Gallery on Instagram @thefrankpembrokepines