Vizcaya Museum & Gardens presents Vizcaya Village

 

Sunday, July 27th from 11 – 11:30am discover local history and explore the historic village of the Vizcaya estate. If you’ve visited Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, you may be surprised to learn that the estate comes complete with its own historic farm and village on the east side of South Miami Avenue, directly across the street from the Main House and formal gardens. Choose from select dates / PURCHASE TICKETS HERE.

The Village was built in 1914 alongside the rest of the estate. You can now take a guided tour of Vizcaya Village and learn about its history as well as the restoration plans currently underway. These 30-minute tours are available at 11:00 a.m. every Sunday.

 

Adults, ages 13+ | $6
Children, ages 12 and under | FREE
Vizcaya Members | FREE with membership card; no tickets needed
Online registration is required. Tour tickets do not include admission to the Main House and gardens portion of the estate.

Donations | Consider making an online donation when you register for the tour. Every dollar supports the continued preservation of this National Historic Landmark.

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The Shop X Female Alchemy presented by A1A & Studio AF on view through May 19th at The Bass

THE SHOP X FEMALE ALCHEMY PRESENTED BY A1A & STUDIO AF ON VIEW THROUGH MAY 19  Miami-based ceramic artist Tatiana Cardona is the founder of Female Alchemy, a body of work devoted to exploring the emotional and spiritual essence of womanhood. On view at The Shop at The Bass through May 19th. Her ceramics are deeply informed by her Colombian heritage, her upbringing, and the enduring influence of the women who have shaped her life. Through her hands, clay becomes a language—an intimate storytelling tool that allows the artist to reconnect with her inner child, honoring her culture, and giving shape to memory and feeling. Each piece is intentionally one-of-a-kind, never replicated, and serves as a physical embodiment of a person or moment that has left a mark on Cardona—be it someone she has loved, briefly encountered, or quietly observed. These sculptural forms are not just functional objects, but vessels of experience: moody, emotional, and evocative of the complex emotional terrain of girlhood, femininity, and human connection. With Female Alchemy, Tatiana creates more than ceramics—she creates a world. A world where softness is power, individuality is sacred, and art becomes a form of healing. Explore Cardona's intimate world during The Shop x Female Alchemy Pop Up on view through May 19, only at The Bass. Presented by A1A and Studio AF. Follow @female.alchemy on Instagram at the link below. Images courtesy of Tatiana Cardona and The Bass, Miami Beach.

TONIGHT! New Exhibitions Opening at Mindy Solomon Gallery Friday, May 16th!

 

TONIGHT! New Exhibitions Opening Friday, May 16!

Osamu Kobayashi: Jungle Politics

May 16 – July 13, 2025

Opening May 16, 6-8:30pm

— Osamu Kobayashi, Jungle Politics I, 2025, Oil on canvas, 48" x 50" (121.92 x 127 cm)

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to present Jungle Politics, Kobayashi's fourth exhibition with the gallery since his representation began in 2013. A fastidious painter with a unique style that includes meticulous brush work, Kobayashi continues to investigate a common leit motif for this exhibition. "Eyes are a recurring theme in my work. The paintings in this show are all looking clockwise around the room and at each other. A standoff ensues where each painting is waiting on the movement of the one beside it to decide their own direction. However, this moment of tension is one of reservation: an awareness of the other while contemplating the self. It's neither instigative nor passive, but rather it's outward looking as well as inward." Introspection and self-reflection permeate the paintings in this series. Shown as two separate groupings, one 48" x 50" in scale, the other 16" x 18", each painting appears to radiate out from the center "eye". Soft vibrational colors applied in a circular fashion that emphasize the center of each painting, like a spiritual mandala. Vibrant oranges, hazy greens, floating blues; each image is a transcendental experience into an unknown realm while the all-knowing eye watches. With this newest exhibition, Kobayashi continues to prove why he is one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation. With gentle persistence he continues to pursue truth through brush mark.

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Eduardo Cardozo: Primero fue el gesto (First was the gesture)

May 16 – July 13, 2025

Opening May 16, 6-8:30pm

— Eduardo Cardozo, Formas, 2009, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 43.7" x 37.4"

Mindy Solomon is pleased to present a collaborative exhibition with AppArt Paris to showcase Uruguayan artist and 2025 Venice Biennale representative Eduardo Cardozo. For his first solo show in Miami, Cardozo will feature seminal works from 2009-2024. Crafting works that speak to art history, materiality and time, Cardozo brings a warmth and subtlety to his surfaces. Whether it is a large-scale canvas that breathes through an unprimed surface of warm tones and soft saturated colors, or a textile work remade from scraps of canvas, each piece is a fragment of time. In works such as Péndulo, 2009 Cardozo creates a sense of delicately floating objects leaving a distinct slick or residue as they move through space. Gentle wisps of line tether form and leave the viewer entranced with the nebulous nature of the image. Íntimo, 2021 is a small work but extremely impactful. Utilizing his signature style of oil on layered canvas, he creates a work that is reminiscent of his studio walls and the plaster surfaces of historic old master paintings. In his magnificent presentation at the Venice Biennale, Cardozo created a space of contemplation in a sea of deeply political and challenging pavilions. Drawing reference to Old Master Tintoretto, he created a project called Latent, an immersive installation that seeks to create a relational act between two painters at a distance: the Uruguayan Cardozo and the Venetian Tintoretto. This dialogue consists of three moments: the nude, the wall of Cardozo's studio, transferred to Venice using the stacco technique; the vestment, an interpretation that the Uruguayan artist makes of one of the sketches of Tintoretto's Paradise; and the veil, a cloth sewn from the scraps of gauze used to move the walls of the studio. This generates a counterpoint between Uruguay and Italy, south and north, between Cardozo's work and his reinterpretation of Tintoretto's painting. Cardozo is focused on the notion of "meticulous reflection" regarding material resources and the challenges of creating a painting that reflects a representation of "mental space". His imagery is informed by the modernist works of Paul Klee, Francis Picabia, Wassily Kandinsky, and Hans Arp. The series of works selected correspond to this research. Throughout the exhibition, the pictorial space is marked by the tempo of manual techniques to which the slow and shaky gesture of the brushstroke and the frequent voids and interruptions of the visual discourse can be seen and experienced. In this space Cardozo shares the process of creation with all of us.

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Ricardo Alcaide: Brightest Light

May 16 – July 13, 2025

Opening May 16, 6-8:30pm

— Sunset-Sun, 2025, mdf and industrial lacquer, 26.25" x 26.25" x 3"

Mindy Solomon is pleased to present Venezuelan born; Antwerp based artist Ricardo Alcaide in his first solo exhibition in the gallery. There is a quiet tension in Ricardo Alcaide's work—an insistence that what we often overlook has weight, memory, and meaning. In Brightest Light, he presents a new body of work that distills years of lived experience into a material language that is both ordered and unruly. Alcaide's compositions begin with the logic of construction: bars of aluminum or MDF, aligned with near-clinical precision, marked by repetition and control. But he never lets them settle. Paint spills beyond the lines, edges are scuffed or left raw, and bricks are inserted where they can't perform their function. In works such as Silence and Visible, the works appear sharp and clean from the front, even minimalist. But take a step to the side, and their skin peels back. Imperfection reveals itself as a method. Mess becomes the message. For the first time, Alcaide turns to aluminum—a reflective, industrial material he had long resisted. In these new wall-mounted reliefs, the aluminum's smoothness contrasts sharply with the rawness of embedded bricks and the rough brushwork along the edges. These aren't just aesthetic choices but acts of resistance: against polish, against pretense. If the surface remains smooth, it does so, bearing inner scars. In one of his recent works, Alcaide found himself unexpectedly echoing Venezuelan modernist Alejandro Otero. Like Otero's Color hythm series, his vertical compositions pulse with rhythm and modularity. But what Otero sought in purity and optical harmony, Alcaide interrupts with bricks and intentional sloppiness. His is not a celebration of order but a slow unraveling of it. What stays is tactile and restless, a structure marked by the evidence of its own making. The brick, recurring throughout the exhibition, first entered Alcaide's vocabulary while living in São Paulo. There, he encountered bricks everywhere throughout his walks in the mega-metropolis—stacked on sidewalks, tucked into windows, and left abandoned on street corners. To him, they became a symbol of the city's informal architecture, its unfinished edges, and its capacity to hold weight without fanfare. Alongside MDF—a material he came to know intimately while working as a handyman in London—the brick embodies Alcaide's ongoing commitment to what is often dismissed or covered up. Both are materials that usually live behind the wall. Here, he gives them visibility—foregrounding their presence rather than concealing it. In this, Alcaide's impulse recalls Hélio Oiticica's embrace of the marginal as a social position and a creative force. The use of brick, MDF, and other industrial materials is not simply to represent the everyday but to create from it.[1] Despite the material heft of aluminum and brick, lightness permeates the exhibition—conceptually and chromatically. The show's title and orientation take inspiration from the sun, light, and Alcaide's emotional response to Miami's brightness. A sequence Alcaide calls his "rainbow of chaos" derived from a graffiti he once saw in downtown Miami that read, "We live in the rainbow of chaos." These personalized rainbows evoke joy and spiritual charge layered over the grid's rigidity. At once intuitive and formal, this palette reflects Alcaide's desire to channel sensation through geometry—translating emotional landscapes into structural terms. Taken together, the works in Brightest Light offer a sensorially rich meditation on what lies beneath appearances. If modernism once promised clarity through order, Alcaide answers with aesthetic friction—embracing the residue, the error, the humble. His practice evokes what curator Mari Carmen Ramírez called the 'fractured utopias' of Latin American modernity, where formal purity often collided with the social realities it sought to transcend. [2] Yet Alcaide's work is not a didactic language—but one of intuition, memory, and personal reinvention. Having lived between Venezuela, Brazil, the UK, and now Belgium, his work remains rooted in displacement, reassembled through a careful choreography of material, memory, and mark making. In Miami, it comes full circle—an encounter with light again. Written by Jennifer Inacio, Curator, Pérez Art Museum Miami — [1] Hélio Oiticica, "Appearance of the Super-Sensorial," in Hélio Oiticica, ed. Guy Brett (Lon- don: Tate Publishing, 2007), pp. 114–118. [2] Mari Carmen Ramírez, "Blueprint Circuits: Conceptual Art and Politics in Latin America," in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s–1980s, ed. Luis Camnitzer, Jane Farver, and Rachel Weiss (Queens Museum of Art, 1999), pp. 54–61.

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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

 

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.

Art lovers and aficionados are cordially invited to enjoy the Opening Reception for both exhibitions on Thursday, March 13th from 6 – 9pm at The Frank Gallery for an evening of art, conversation, and exploration. Light refreshments will be served; this event is free & open to the public. The Frank Gallery is located at 601 City Center Way in Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025. Guests will experience a compelling exploration of memory, perception, and the vanishing horizons of South Florida. Together, these two exhibitions create a dynamic dialogue celebrating South Florida’s rich cultural and ecological landscapes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Giannina Dwin, 'Waves at Free!', Salt Installation, dimensions variable, Photo by Diana Larrea

‘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.

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Miami Design District Public Art Tour

 

Saturday, January 11th from 11am – 12pm join the Miami Design District for a walking tour of the district, explore the history of the art and architecture that characterize the neighborhood. Visit outdoor installations and murals including Buckminster Fuller Fly’s Eye Dome, Nicole Nomsa Moyo’s Pearl Jam, Virgil Abloh’s Dollar a Gallon, Alteronce Gumby’s Living the Dream, and more.

Meet in front of the Fly’s Eye Dome on the first floor of Palm Court (enter at 140 NE 39th Street). This Event is Free & Open to the Public. RSVP HERE.

PAMM Presents HOMECOMING curated by Grace Ladoja TONIGHT Thursday, December 5, from 8–11pm

 

Pérez Art Museum Miami celebrates Miami Art Week with its signature Thursday night event, featuring the global platform HOMECOMING curated by Grace Ladoja with an international lineup of Amaarae, DJ Tunez, and Dare Balogun, complimented with DJ sets by Miami's very own music makers SATURNSARii, Kumi, and Lumin. Join us for drinks and dancing on the museum's waterfront terrace. Inside the museum, explore PAMM's galleries including its newest exhibition, José Parlá: Homecoming presented by Citi.

Experience 'Ebb & Flow: Exploring the Womanhood Continuum', a dynamic exhibition running from November 21, 2024, to February 22, 2025, at The Frank C. Ortis Gallery in the City of Pembroke Pines

 

The exhibition offers a space for reflection and empowerment, highlighting the complexities and diversity of feminine experiences across cultures and time.

Ebb & Flow: Exploring the Womanhood Continuum is a dynamic exhibition running from November 21, 2024, to February 22, 2025, at The Frank C. Ortis Gallery in the City of Pembroke Pines. Curated by Sophie Bonet and Pamela Zee Lopez, the exhibition features nine artists exploring the fluid and evolving nature of womanhood. Through a variety of mediums, the artists engage with themes of memory, resilience, the body, and identity, challenging societal constructs of femininity while celebrating its transformative power.

The exhibition offers a space for reflection and empowerment, highlighting the complexities and diversity of feminine experiences across cultures and time. All ages are welcome to attend an Opening Reception on Thursday, November 21st from 6 – 9pm, which will feature free entry, live music, complimentary refreshments, and hors d’oeuvres at The Frank Gallery, located at 601 City Center Way in the City of Pembroke Pines, Florida 33025. This Event is Free & Open to the Public.

The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery is a two story art gallery named after Pembroke Pines Mayor Frank C. Ortis for his decades-long commitment to the cultural arts. Lovingly known as ‘The Frank,’ this contemporary art gallery showcases multidisciplinary inclusive exhibitions that foster connections, facilitate collaborations and initiate cultural change. The gallery’s exhibition and learning space serves as a site of convergence for artists, performers, thought leaders and community members.

Located on the first floor, The Frank’s spacious galleries reflect the works of regional, national and international artists in a robust exhibition program that changes throughout the year. The Frank features two additional exhibition spaces in the form of The Frank Aisles lobby gallery and the Third Space Gallery on the second floor. The Third Space connects to a sun-filled classroom designed to host workshops and lectures in support of social engagement and artistic innovation.

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.

The Frank Pembroke Pines presents The Crossings Movement Workshop on September 28th from 11am – 2pm

 

The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in Pembroke Pines presents “The Crossings Movement Workshop” on Saturday, September 28th from 11am – 2pm. Move with choreographer Damaris Ferrer as she tells the story of “The Crossings”, and lead participants through their movement.

This workshop is part of “The Crossings: A Global Movement Experience”, a spectacular fall exhibition from September 12, 2024, through November 7, 2024 at the Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery in the City of Pembroke Pines. Amidst the constraints of physical and metaphysical borders, “The Crossings: A Global Movement Experience” transcends these limitations. Conceived by the visionary choreographer Damaris Ferrer, this project unfolds as a dynamic narrative that transcends traditional dance and performance, redefining the essence of communal storytelling through movement.

Coral Springs Museum of Art presents an Art Talk with KX2 | Art + Sustainability: A Conversation

 

KX2 Installation view of Near the Rivers There are Many Large Springs, Coral Springs Museum of Art

Coral Springs Museum of Art presents an Art Talk with KX2 | Art + Sustainability: A Conversation on Thursday, June 27th from 6:30 – 7:30pm. Experience an enlightening conversation on ‘Art and Sustainability’ as part of the museum’s Happy Hour Mix series with KX2, artist duo (sisters) Ruth Avra and Dana Kleinman, at the Coral Springs Museum of Art. This artist talk is in conjunction with KX2’s current exhibition “Near the Rivers There are Many Large Springs”, a group show featuring KX2, Milena Arango, and Donna Ruff. The exhibition is on view from April 11 through July 20, 2024. 

Along with fellow exhibiting artist, Milena Arango, KX2 will be joined by Andrea Lemaitre, the city’s sustainability manager. Together, the group will delve into the intersection of art and sustainability, discussing how we as artists integrate sustainable practices into our creative processes. Don’t miss this engaging dialogue that explores innovative approaches to art-making while considering environmental impacts and sustainable solutions. This Event is FREE & Open to the Public/ RSVP HERE.