Giannina Coppiano Dwin lives and works in South Florida. She has been the recipient of grants and awards such as the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists funded in part by the National Endowment for the Art, the Women in the Visual Arts Award; as well as, several sponsorships and grants including research in Spain and Brazil. Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions as part of solo and group shows. Some of her more nota...
Sep 09, 2019•52 min
My work has always had an organic, visceral aspect which I consider to be part of my concern with life issues, like vulnerability, passion, and the uncanny. Drawing in notebooks is my lifeline to my work. I keep one handy at all times and my hand goes where it wants in these visual journals. After I complete one, I reconnoiter, selecting and tearing out what might be used for inspiration. http://www.sarastites.com/
Sep 02, 2019•55 min
Rafael Rangel was born in New York in 1978. Lives and works in Miami, Florida. He graduates with honors in Visual Arts at Pratt Institute in 2001. That same year, he works as an assistant for Matthew Barney and starts his exhibiting career. From then, has participated in group shows in Germany, Canada, Spain, United States and Venezuela. In 2013 he had a mayor solo exhibition at the museum Centro de Bellas Artes de Maracaibo, Venezuela. His works has been exhibited in Venezuela at the most impor...
Aug 26, 2019•56 min
I grew up on a small blueberry farm in the middle of nowhere Georgia. I got immense satisfaction roaming the woods, gathering materials for little sculptures, and creating stories for myself, but the desire to connect with people, to explore, to learn was pervasive. After graduating at the top of my class, I caught the first ride to Athens, Georgia where I fought doubt and questions relentlessly to get my BFA at the University of Georgia. Clay became my conduit for processing my experience in th...
Aug 19, 2019•50 min
Photographer Manny Hernandez has captured Miami's flash and moments of pizzazz in decades worth of candid images. His photographs chronicle the Magic City's celebrity-driven tipping point of the late 1980s and 1990s. https://www.wynwoodbooks.com/
Aug 12, 2019•58 min
Agustina Woodgate creates art across multiple disciplines, her primary focus being the interplay between human beings and their surroundings. Born in Buenos Aires, Woodgate moved to Miami in 2004, where she gained recognition for covertly stitching labels inscribed with poems into thrift-store clothing (“poetry bombing,”) and for her work made with human hair. Today, her practice ranges from objects—human hair sculptures and kaleidoscopic rugs assembled with the pelts of recycled stuffed animals...
Aug 05, 2019•56 min
Timothy R. Rodgers, PhD, is the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. Rodgers, who joined the Museum in July 2020, has nearly 20 years of museum-leadership experience, including 11 years as a museum director. Prior to joining the Museum, he served as director of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, where he oversaw the creation and implementation of a new strategic plan and expansion for The Wolfsonian’s future.
Jul 28, 2019•52 min
Born in 1967 in Chicago, while still an undergraduate, Tina La Porta developed a body of work photographing the Pro-Choice movement in Chicago, Milwakee, Waashington D.C. and New York City. In 1992 Ms. La Porta moved to New York's East Village to persue her Masters of Fine Arts Degree at The School of Visual Arts where she studied with Lisa Spellman, Sarah Charlesworth and Nan Goldin. During that time she interned at Pace/McGill Gallery and for Historian, Naomi Rosemblum while she wrote her book...
Jul 22, 2019•51 min
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Jul 15, 2019•54 min
Derek Hunter b. 1988 | New York, NY is an entirely self-taught painter, sculptor and muralist. His work explores the language of architecture and crystallography as a means to challenge expectations around site-specificity and urban construction, questioning how architectural spaces interacting with and designed in the likes of the natural world directly impacts our well-being and informs our sense of self. Hunter works and resides in South Florida. http://derekhunterart.com/
Jul 08, 2019•51 min
After studying woodwork and design in Sweden he escaped the dark winters for the sunny tropical world of Florida where he currently lives and works. In his studio, he focuses on designing and the fabrication of unique modern furniture. He combines the clean, simple lines of Scandinavian sensibility with that of Caribbean warmth and function. His custom woodwork connects the unique desires of his customers with the soul of the design itself. https://rudirepenning.com/
Jul 04, 2019•55 min
Santos art education is worldly, and his work has been seen around the globe, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sicily, Italy and the Beijing museum in China to Chelsea, New York. Santos studied at Miami Dade College, where he earned his Associate in Arts degree in 2003. He then attended the New World School of the Arts and, just before graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, he dropped out to study abroad and to amplify his understanding of art. In 2006, he completed the Angel Academy of ...
Jun 24, 2019•49 min
For more than thirty years, Miami-based artist Karen Rifas has amassed a body of work that endeavors to understand and re-imagine space. Well known for her minimal cord and leaf installations, and precise, methodical line drawings, in 2016, Rifas began a focused exploration into the constructive possibilities of color. Employing densely hued shapes and irregular lines, Rifas creates spaces that oscillate between the two- and three-dimensional. Deceptive Constructions surveys this recent body of ...
Jun 16, 2019•51 min
Monique Lassooij was born and raised in The Netherlands and moved several years ago to Miami, Florida. In The Netherlands the artist started out as an abstract painter but over the years she developed a passion for figurative painting. She attended the Royal Academy for Fine Arts in The Hague and has gone on to receive several commissions and can be found in public places such as the Town Hall of the city of Scheveningen in The Netherlands as well as in numerous private collections all over the ...
Jun 09, 2019•54 min
Gianna DiBartolomeo was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She currently exhibits her work throughout the United States. Gianna studied Fine Arts at Florida International University in Miami, Florida where she obtained her Bachelors of Fine Arts. She had the privilege of studying under Professor Emeritus Clive King from the United Kingdom and internationally acclaimed artist Jacek Kolasinski from Krakow, Poland. https://www.giannadibartolomeo.com/
Apr 22, 2019•52 min
Nina Surel is a multidisciplinary artist whose work is best described as an ongoing exploration of the deepest recesses of our collective unconscious, from a decidedly feminist standpoint. http://ninasurel.com/
Apr 15, 2019•57 min
Rafael Vargas Bernard utilizes performance, sound, programming, sculpture, video, painting, humor, and drawing in his creative practice. He employs readily accessible materials and technologies, found objects, and a utilitarian esthetic. https://montane.bandcamp.com/track/j-bazzo-jar
Apr 08, 2019•53 min
Miami Beach artist Pamela Palma has been working with textiles since she was four years old. By 13 she was designing, sewing and knitting her own personal wardrobe as well as creating functional and decorative accessories. Weaving came later and accidentally – as a requirement for her degree in Design. The art and technique of hand weaving came so naturally that it changed her life. The limitless possibilities of designing woven fabrics as art and functional pieces reflects upon the timeless con...
Mar 29, 2019•52 min
Since 1991 and the dazzling days of an emerging South Beach, Adora has graced Miami’s performance landscape. The alter ego of Danilo De La Torre, this famous drag queen combines camp with glam and humor. (current.miami) https://www.instagram.com/adoradrag/
Mar 25, 2019•56 min
Asser Saint-Val is a painter, sculptor and installation artist. His quasi-figurative images, by turns humorous and grotesque, bring together ideas, people and incidents central to modern debates about the definition and valence of Neuromalanin. Rendered in a blend of traditional art mediums and a wide range of unconventional, organic materials—coffee, chocolate, ginger, tea and chocolate among them—his pictures, objects and environments are a surreal fantasia on such loosely linked themes as und...
Mar 18, 2019•50 min
Director of the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Dr. Jordana Pomeroy served for more than 15 years at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, rising to Chief Curator after being the museum’s Curator of Painting and Sculpture Before 1900. Prior to the Frost Art Museum, Pomeroy served as Executive Director of the Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge. Pomeroy earned her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, and her Ph.D. i...
Mar 18, 2019•52 min
Best known for the IG handle, Sofas of Little Havana, Sharif has been photographing discarded furniture as a chronicler in the greater interest of ethereal materialism. His quirky visions of our cast away sofas are a sober reminder of our fleeting comfort and temporariness of art in a spinning cycle of usage and abandonment. https://www.instagram.com/sofasoflittlehavana/
Mar 04, 2019•51 min
Born on Lesbos, Greece, Eurydice is a multimedia artist & writer whose body of work is infused with a consistent ideological & aesthetic study of female marginalization & objectification, & the dualisms of mind vs. body, or repressed vs. uninhibited sexuality on daily life, as these are influenced by history & displacement. https://eurydice.net/
Feb 23, 2019•52 min
My goal is to invite my viewers in to a dimension that goes beyond 2D visual art hanging on a wall; I want to lure viewers into a complex 4D world that includes the typical visual layers, but also has the textual stories, and an exploration of our environment. By doing this, my work can be a forum for dialogues that may find solutions to protecting the natural environment, which is precious for human survival. https://www.elainedefibaugh.com/
Feb 17, 2019•52 min
Ian Fichman was born in Miami, Florida in 1978. With an outlook that defies the familiar, Ian renounces the regularly scheduled program. He has always been a weirdo. During his years at Florida State University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Studio Art in 2002, he was introduced to metalwork. Given the freedom to explore the possibilities of the medium, Ian found fulfillment working with his hands. In 2010, after a brief venture into the digital arts, he returned to sculpture...
Feb 11, 2019•54 min
Marina is a mixed media artist born in Chicago, she moved with her family to Buenos Aires, Argentina at an early age. She is now living and working in Florida. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts Pridiliano Pueyrredón (Buenos Aires) with a degree in painting and attended classes at IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Las Artes, Buenos Aires), pursuing a MFA. http://marinagonella.com
Feb 04, 2019•51 min
David’s artwork explores contrasting elements between the natural and the human made. He uses photography, digital painting, and mixed media to depict/re-interpret beauty in nature and artificial objects. http://www.davidgarylloyd.com
Jan 26, 2019•53 min
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Jan 20, 2019•51 min
The use of different materials and techniques such as spray, crayon, acrylic, collage, stencil allows me to explore the richness of the accident. When I agglomerate the pigments, they give me a starting point that comes after the patient observation of the first gesture in the painting, the one that points the way to me, the one that invites or rejects the sum of other stains or elements in the work. https://www.instagram.com/juanjhenriquez/
Jan 13, 2019•49 min
Belaxis Buil is a keen, acute and intuitive artist. She is also a woman and mother. Through years of a seemingly fantasized life by others, Corbusier’s own self, Buil has been hit on the head by the weight and realities of life—making her a hybrid humane human in constant evaluation of herself and human behavior. She builds upon an internal warfare of questioning morals, human rights, abuse and injustices, and wonders why these negative attributes in life have become so accepted and at times gla...
Jan 05, 2019•53 min
