MOCA North Miami Announces 2024 Art On The Plaza Artists

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami Announces 2024 Art On The Plaza Artists Three South Florida artists presenting temporary public art installations on MOCA’s Plaza L-R: Yanira Collado, Christopher Mitchell, and Nicole Salcedo Courtesy of the artists. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) is pleased to announce the 2024 Art On The Plaza Artists: Yanira Collado, Christopher Mitchell, and Nicole Salcedo. This annual program, inaugurated in 2020, provides an opportunity for South Florida artists to engage with the museum and its community, employing MOCA’s front plaza as a platform to elevate their site-specific, temporary public art installations. “As part of our mission, we’re dedicated to showcasing the creative breadth and scholarship of Miami’s local artists while also providing opportunities for the community to access and engage with our city's vibrant arts scene,” said Chana Sheldon, MOCA Executive Director. “Over the years, MOCA has steadfastly supported local artists and fostered community engagement through accessible, free programming. Offering programs like Art on the Plaza is a core tenet to that ongoing commitment.” The three installations will be sequentially displayed at MOCA throughout the year, offering visitors an opportunity to engage with a variety of themes, such as cultural identity and heritage, mythology and spirituality, nature and environment, and transformation through reflection.

Miami New Media Festival 2021

 

The Doral Contemporary Art Museum (DORCAM), together with Arts Connection Foundation, presents the XVI edition of the Miami New Media Festival.

After an open call earlier this year, twenty-six artists were selected to present work in Miami, plus five guests artists were invited to participate. A total of thirty-one video-art pieces will be presented to the public to reflect on and enjoy! 

For this festival edition, artists were invited to reflect on 'New Media Art and the Pandemic.'  The artists that were selected to present work in Miami are: Linda Phillips (Bogota), Maria Luisa Sanin Peña (Bogota), Patricia Rodriguez (Ibarra), Santiago Carlini (Madrid), Carmen Isasi (Madrid), Jean-Michell Rolland (Marseille), Jérémy Griffaud / Julien Griffaud (Nice), Isabel Pérez del Pulgar (Douarnenez), Gil Zablodovsky / Lali Tsipi Michaeli (Tel Aviv), Silvia De Gennaro (Rome), Ionee Waterhouse (Agrigento), David Fernandez Rocha / Francis Muñoz (Lisbon and Caracas), Matteo Campulla (Milan), Juan Carlos García-Sampedro (Madrid), Hakan Libdo (Stockholm), Alydia Wever (Amsterdam), Sophia Fernandez (Homestead), Sandra Portal-Andreu / Mateo Serna Zapata (Miami), Francis Almendarez /Anthony Almendarez (Houston), Miguel Antonio Contreras Hincapie (Caracas), Elizabeth Cemborain (Caracas), Eliseo Solís Mora (Upata), Thomas Noya (London), Carla Forte (Miami), Ricardo Arispe (Caracas) and Adonis Ferro (Havana).

The Arts Connection jury was composed by Adriana Barrios, Gerardo Zavarce, Adriana Meneses, Jimmy Yáñez, Marinellys Tremamunno and Andreína Fuentes Angarita. For the Italian open call, Federica Piras, Francesca Anedda, and Valentina Salzillo, members of the Nextus collective, participated in the jury.

There are also six special guests artists invited, presenting five new works created during the pandemic time of 2020 and 2021: Muu Blanco, Cheryl Maeder, Jorge Andrés Castillo, Xavier Cortada, Pioneer Winter Collective / White Elephant Group Films. 

The Miami New Media Festival promotes art by exploring new technologies and their interactive narratives, with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Mayor, and the Board of County Commissioners of Miami-Dade.

"We take this opportunity to congratulate Arts Connection Foundation for its fifteenth anniversary and the uninterrupted realization of sixteen editions of the Miami New Media Festival. This edition will be the fourth year that DORCAM partners with Arts Connection Foundation to realize the Miami chapter of the festival. This year the festival will also count with presentations in Italy, Holland, Aruba, Curacao, Colombia, Spain, and Venezuela." -DORCAM.

To follow the festival's international calendar of events, visit www.miaminewmediafestival.com.

DORCAM - the museum has taken the Pledge of Excellence! American Alliance of Museums.

About the Museum

The Doral Contemporary Art Museum (DORCAM) is a catalyst for learning, creativity, and community building. We accomplish this mission through the integration of an art + industry approach comprised of contemporary art exhibitions, educational programs, and community partnerships.

DORCAM inquires and adapts to the developing definitions of art. We propose a museum in an industrial setting, like no other in South Florida; an inspiring and innovative audience-centered facility. We aim to be an essential site for lifelong dialogue and exchange, establishing innovative ways to engage the public.

Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces New Acquisitions by Thirteen Artists for Permanent Collection

 

PAMM's Collection Expands with Artworks by Hélio Oiticica, Bisa Butler, Tania Bruguera, Coco Fusco, Karon Davis, Sonia Gomes, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and More

Hélio Oiticica. Macaléia, 1978. Installation with stainless steel, wire mesh, gravel, asphalt, bricks, plants, planters. Cube: 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 x 86 1/2 inches. © Hélio Oiticica. Courtesy Lisson Gallery

(MIAMI, FL — August 17, 2021) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce significant acquisitions of works by diverse artists for the museum's permanent collection, including artists of Cuban and Brazilian origin as well as eleven women artists. Several of the artists are entering the museum's collection for the first time, including Karon Davis, Kenturah Davis, Bisa Butler, and Christine Sun Kim. Among the new acquisitions are Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica's Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable) from 1978—purchased with funds from Jorge M. Pérez—a walk-in installation inspired by the favela communities of Rio de Janeiro; Coco Fusco's The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, a series of photographs purchased by PAMM's International Women's Committee Endowment; and Karon Davis' Bobby Seale and The People's Free Food Program, a major installation purchased with funds from PAMM's Collectors Council and various patrons that features a life-size sculpture of Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party.  "The collection is not only a reflection of who we are but who we aspire to be. In addition to the Oiticica, which is truly a masterwork of experiential and conceptual art, we added two more Brazilian artists, in Leda Catunda and Sonia Gomes, whose work is currently on view in Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. "Tania Bruguera, like Oiticica, is vitally important to our collection's focal points, and this particular piece is one of the artist-activist's most documented and well known examples of her sculptural and performative artworks. We are fortunate to have resources and patrons who are engaged with the growth of the collection in a way that furthers our view of art as a catalyst for meaningful conversations in society."  The new acquisitions underscore PAMM's longstanding commitment to highlighting underrepresented artists from the U.S. Latinx experience, the African diaspora, Latin America and the Caribbean. These thirteen works also exemplify the museum's dedication to displaying a collection in constant dialogue with the most pressing issues of the present. Works purchased by PAMM's Collector Council: Bisa Butler's Black is King, a newly created portrait from a series inspired by contemporary individuals shaping the discourse of race around the world. Karon Davis' Bobby Seale and The People's Free Food Program, a major installation of plaster sculptures from Davis' recent exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch in New York City that examined the life of Bobby Seale. The figure of Seale is surrounded by sculpted grocery bags of food, representing the Black Panther Party's initiatives to combat food insecurity in the 1970s. Works purchased by PAMM's International Women's Committee Endowment: Coco Fusco's The Undiscovered Amerindians Tour, a series of photographs documenting a satirical performance by Fusco and Guillermo Gomez-Pena  from 1992-94 commenting on the quincentennial anniversary of Christopher Columbus' "discovery."  Kenturah Davis' Black As the Most Exquisite Color, a large portrait of a young woman consisting of the repeated phrase "black as the most exquisite color" rendered in rubber stamped lettering. Gifts and museum purchases: Liset Castillo's large-scale photographic print Pain Is Universal but So Is Hope, which depicts a fictional city made up of diverse cultural, historical, and geographic symbols.   Sonia Gomes' Untitled from the series Torções (Twists), a textile work made by knotting and twisting pieces of fabric that deals with decolonizing the past and reclaiming the present.  Leda Catunda's Dedinhos (Little Fingers), a multilayered composition of finger-like shapes with nails painted in gold acrylic. Tania Bruguera's 1994 installation Tabla de salvación (Table of Salvation), which commemorates  the untold numbers of people who lost their lives in the Florida Straits during the Cuban raft exodus of the mid 1990s. Hélio Oiticica's Penetrável Macaléia (Malaceia Penetrable), a walk-in installation that immerses the viewer/participant in color while evoking and celebrating the favela communities of Rio de Janeiro. Christine Sun Kim's Close Readings, a satirical video work in which the artist invited deaf collaborators to create new captions for five different films.  Thania Petersen's Of Birds and Trees and Flowers and Bees, a tapestry that takes the form of a Muslim prayer mat, which comprises the most intimate space of the Islamic faith.  Montserrat-born Veronica Ryan's Bundle 1, a handcrafted sculpture made of paper and crochet that engages the artist's Afro-Caribbean heritage. Nathaniel Mary Quinn's The Worry, a striking collage portrait using a combination of materials including charcoal, gouache, pastel, oil stick, and oil paint on paper.  ABOUT PAMM Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The 37-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami's Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. ### Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sSponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

NSU Art Museum: Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day

NSU Art Museum presents Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day on Saturday, July 27th and Sunday, July 28th from 11am-5pm. Enjoy a family day at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, the museum has designated the last Saturday and Sunday of this month as Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day, which provides free admission to Fort Lauderdale residents on the designated dates. See link for details. 

In addition to free Museum admission, Fort Lauderdale residents will receive a 10% discount on catalogues published by NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and sold in the Museum Store. For free admission, residents will need to show a photo ID, driver’s license, or residential utility bill that lists a Fort Lauderdale address.

Contemporary Glass Artist Abby Modell

Abby Modell creates exquisite, hand blown, contemporary art glass, striving to create a harmonious interaction and reaction between color and glass. 

Modell’s style is recognized around the world with works in private homes and corporate collections throughout the United States, including the world headquarters of Morgan Stanley in New York, New York and in the permanent collection at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach. And most recently the Royal Caribbean, Symphony of the Seas, Sculpture collection. She has also been exhibiting in several tradeshows and galleries.

You can experience Modell's current exhibit in Philadelphia at the National Liberty Museum's 'SpaceLab: An Interstellar Exhibit of Glass Art' - the exhibition opened July 6th and on view through September 7th, 2018.

The exhibition features Abby Modell's 'Galaxy Collection' showcasing her three dimensional wall art and large sculptural objects. Focusing on transparencies and refracted light, Modell creates work that is inspired by the natural swirling formations of the stars, planets and the infinite dimension of the night sky.GALLERY 

EDUCATION:

2006 Michael Davis Glass Studio, New York, NY (current)

1976 Syracuse University and Parsons School of Design, BFA

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