Lowe Art Museum - Miami
Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente
What many of us do through art is cultural marronage
My attitude may seem aggressive, because my discourse works like a manifesto against racism. Beyond the social condition or the skin color of a man, I am interested in the integration of human [...]
I come to the garden alone
While the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear falling on my ear
The Son of God discloses.
And He walks with me, and He talks with me,
And He tells me I am His own;
And the joy we share as we tarry there,
None other has ever known.
He [...]
Shadow Roses Shadows
Ingeborg Bachmann
1956
Shadows roses shadows
Under a strange sky
Shadows roses shadows
In a strange land
Between roses and shadows
In a strange water
My shadow
(From: Dara Friedman, Dichter (2017), four-channel HD color video transferred from 16-millimeter film)
“Perfect Stranger,” Dara Friedman’s mid-career survey at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), is the Miami-based German artist’s most comprehensive show [...]
By Heike Dempster
How do we interact with the space around us? How do we inform the city and how does the city inform us? What are the structures of cities and life in the future? Miguel Chevalier reaches for a technological, futuristic and seemingly abstract register to describe the city and urbanism and [...]
National YoungArts Foundation - Miami
Curated by Robert Chambers
By Heike Dempster
Envisioned as a “feast of aesthetics in the visual arts” by curator Robert Chambers, the exhibition “MouthWater” metaphorically stands for and conceptually examines works of art as an outcome of the hunger, drive and determination it takes to create new work as an artist. [...]
Pérez Art Museum Miami
By Heike Dempster
With “Doris Salcedo,“ Pérez Art Museum Miami presents three decades of the artist’s sculptures and installations. The first retrospective of the work of the renowned Colombian artist is organized by the MCA Chicago and covers the artist’s penchant for fusing post-minimalist forms with cultural concerns. Deeply rooted in [...]
Artist Nari Ward, born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963, moved to the U.S. at age 12, where he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and received his Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College and Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College.
Ward’s artistic investigations reference urban space, performance, the dynamics of [...]
By Heike Dempster
“According to What?” the Jasper Johns-inspired title of Ai Weiwei’s exhibition currently on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami, is a question that runs threadlike through the artist’s work. The thought processes set in motion by this question provide a point of departure for the analysis and understanding of not [...]
Juan Ruiz Gallery - Miami
By Heike Dempster
The term ‘eden’ comes from Hebrew and refers to a ‘mental garden.’ Patricio Reig’s “Eden” is based upon this concept and therefore reflects not just on the physical place depicted in his work but also a state of mind and a quest for spiritual peace.
Reig’s work centers [...]
101/exbibit - Los Angeles
By Heike Dempster
An artist’s oeuvre represents the story of his life, evolution and process of exploration. The work of Jason Shawn Alexander has changed and moved to new, uncharted territory without a safety net. He has incorporated new techniques into his approach, and for the first time he displayed his [...]
