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Rocking Chair Sessions

Rocking Chair Sessionswww.rockingchairsessions.com
Rocking Chair Sessions was created by Elysa D. Batista and Maria Theresa Barbist as a hybrid between an artist talk and a therapy session. South Florida based artists and creatives are invited to share their lives and artistic process while sitting in a rocking chair.
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RCS vol. 61 | Scott Brennan

Scott Brennan, a visual artist, photographer, and writer, lives in Miami. Florida. A resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, his work has been shown at the Diana Lowenstein Fine Art Gallery, the Audrey Love Gallery, the Swenson Gallery, Luna Star, The Brattleboro Museum of Art, B. Florentine, and The Taplin Gallery. https://www.instagram.com/scottbrennan6/

Jun 11, 201853 min

RCS vol. 60 | Morel Doucet

"Through our dreams, we make contact with a vast, yet elusive side of ourselves." - Morel Doucet https://www.moreldoucet.com/

Jun 05, 201854 min

RCS vol. 59 | Jacqueline Gopie

My paintings, often portraying children and the seashore, may at first glance appear prosaic. But, beneath their joyful sun-drenched surfaces, my paintings are intentionally subversive. By presenting positive images of black and brown people my work challenges the negative, racist images with which the media constantly bombards us while simultaneously confronting the homogeneity of the fine art canon and its representations of race and identity. http://www.jacquelinegopie.com/

May 29, 201855 min

RCS vol. 58 | Gianna Riccardi

Gianna Riccardi is a contemporary photo-based artist born and raised in Miami, Florida. She grew up heavily influenced by her background of Haitian, Italian, and Lebanese roots. Being from a mixed cultural background in a vastly diverse city, she likes to encourage integration of people through creativity and the fostering of an inclusive environment. https://www.gianna-riccardi.art/

May 22, 201853 min

RCS vol. 57 | Anja Marais

Here is my confession: I am less interested in the theoretical and institutionalized questions of the contemporary art world than I am in interpreting direct experiences that contradict our conditioning. With first-hand experience we don’t see things as they are, but how we see them as we are. https://www.anjamarais.com/

May 15, 201851 min

RCS vol. 56 | Amalia Caputo

Amalia Caputo is a photo and video based artist, independent curator and art writer with an extensive exhibition and publication list. Recent exhibitions include Fantastical Vizcaya (2015) at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Instacorrespondences (2015) in La Plataforma Barcelona, Belonging (2015) at the Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, and Obra Abierta.Ejes de libertad (2015) in Centro de Arte El Hatillo, Caracas, Transferencias (2012) at La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao in Caracas, Venezuela,...

May 08, 201851 min

RCS vol. 55 | Sri Prabha

I synthesize the possibilities across ecology, geology, and science in general. I travel the world to conduct research connecting geological identities, man’s drive for scientific exploration, and humanities connection to The Universe. Where are we going and how will we get there? Conscious and subconscious connections are visualized and expressed through art as a conduit to the interconnected cosmos. http://www.sriprabha.com/

May 01, 201855 min

RCS vol. 54 | David Rohn

I've been interested in the ways of social and personal issues intersect and collide. The socio / political environment is diverse and contradictory in ways that are interesting to examine and to de-construct, and may lead to better understanding why it can be so difficult to feel connected to the larger whole or, even to oneself. The scale and complexity of the social and political constructs are held together and split apart through an ever wider range of communication platforms, which seem, p...

Apr 24, 201858 min

RCS vol. 53 | Roxana Barba

Roxana Barba is Miami-based performer and dance maker whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of dance, film and video. She pursued undergraduate visual arts studies in her native Perú prior to receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Art (Miam, Florida). Working across performance, installation, dance on camera and experimental forms, her work references spiritual dislocation, turbulent beauty and the hidden. https://www.roxanabarba.com/

Apr 17, 20181 hr

RCS vol. 52 | Judith Berk King

As an artist, I focus on the creation and display of curious zoological and botanical structures. The objects constructed may live somewhere in the present or may exist in the future. The style of the work may be contemporary or recall the work of scientific illustrators of the past, transcending time. Through re-imagination and distortion, I invite the viewer to examine and interpret the ambiguous and sometimes disquieting forms that inhabit these works. http://www.judithberkking.com/

Apr 08, 201855 min

RCS vol. 51 | Alette Simmons-Jimenez

I am a multidisciplinary artist. My work varies from painting, drawing, and collage; to photography, video, sound, sculptural objects, and installation. I design and build everything by hand. Running parallel to my studio practice is also a back-end production of projects that seek to create a dialogue, to connect, and to involve the broader community. http://www.alettesimmonsjimenez.com/

Apr 03, 201859 min

RCS vol. 50 | Nathalie Alfonso

Nathalie Alfonso (b. 1987, Bogota, Colombia) holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Florida International University. Her work investigates the value of manual labor, the degeneration of the body, and notions of impermanence through drawing, installation, and video. Her necessity to merge the practice of cleaning and art making is utilize to observe her constant obsession with cleanliness and this is manifested in the impermanent installations done with the repetitive movements use to apply and remo...

Mar 26, 201851 min

RCS vol. 49 | Laura Marsh

VOL 49. LAURA MARSH Laura Marsh is a textile artist with a social practice. She defines installations for viewer participation at institutions. Marsh believes that immersive environments are needed in academic cultures to reflect upon a world that is becoming increasingly moderated by technology and social media competition. She has relocated several times, and her installations reflect the artist’s experience with relocation. Her desire to define spaces that are place makers for others is a dir...

Mar 20, 201855 min

RCS vol. 48 | Onajide Shabaka

My art practice comes into being as a metaphor for deciphering the multivalent relationships of cultures, peoples and histories while using ethnobotany and the performative as aesthetic vehicles for an art that references geology, ethnobotany, archeology, fiction writing with traditional art making. http://www.art3st.com/ http://onajide.com/

Mar 17, 201851 min

RCS vol. 47 | Lissette Schaeffler

Lissette Schaeffler is a Cuban born photographer whose work deals with the exploration of identity. Whether documenting or digitally manipulating photographs of family, friends, environments or herself, Lissette’s underlying meaning has always remained consistent. Lissette received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2004. She has exhibited in solo and collective shows nationally and internationally. She is an alumni from ArtCenter/South Florida, where she spent 6 y...

Mar 06, 201852 min

RCS vol. 46 | Jean Paul Mallozzi

Jean-Paul Mallozzi was born and raised in Queens NYC, and received a scholarship to attend the Rhode Island School Of Design (RISD). He graduated with a BFA in Illustration. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally including Los Angeles, New York, and London. http://www.jeanpaulmallozzi.com/

Feb 27, 201858 min

RCS vol. 45 | Adler Guerrier

Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary f...

Feb 19, 201857 min

RCS vol. 44 | Bianca Pratorius

Bianca Pratorius was born in Cologne, Germany in 1969. She started her formal training at the Holzfachschule, Köln and subsequently moved to Miami where she attended International Fine Arts College. She now lives and works in the Miami area. http://www.biancapratorius.com/

Feb 13, 201856 min

RCS vol. 43 | Ingrid Schindall

Ingrid Schindall is a passionate and productive printmaker and book artist based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. She has a methodical yet experimental studio practice. Her prints and artist books have been exhibited internationally and throughout the east coast. She is devoted to her writing practice and has produced several artist books throughout her career. http://www.ingridschindall.com/ http://www.isprojectsfl.com/ https://www.nocturnal.press/

Feb 06, 201851 min

RCS vol. 42 | Michelle Lisa Polissaint

Michelle Lisa is currently completing a Master of Arts in Museum Studies & Non-Profit Management at Johns Hopkins University. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Florida International University in Photography & Fiber Based Painting. Her most recent work moves from a previous series of self-portraits, Dancing With Myself, which explored her relationship with herself away from the guidance of her parents, into a new body of work documenting trips and interactions with her parents ...

Jan 30, 20181 hr

RCS vol. 41 | Bernice Steinbaum

The art world’s Queen of Arts, Bernice Steinbaum, is no BS. An incredibly vibrant character, she stands no more than 5 feet 2 inches, is as distinguished as she is colorful, and just as big in presence as she is small in stature. But to know BS, the legendary art collector who has always advocated for women and people of color, is to see that she is showing few signs of slowing down. https://www.bernicesteinbaumgallery.com/

Jan 22, 201849 min

RCS vol. 40 | Terence Price II

Terence Price II was born in Carol City Florida and is a graduate of Miramar High School. His use of street photography is a form of documentation which seizes on the highs and the lows of family life and the surrounding community. While roaming the streets of Miami he aims to “capture” moments that move him deeply and invites the viewer to share in this experience. http://mxlawkii.com/

Jan 16, 201855 min

RCS vol. 39 | Monique Lazard

“My formal studies began as an undergraduate at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. I received my BA degree from the California College of Art, and my graduate studies were pursued at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. My aim is to paint the light and pieces of color that describes what I see. When I paint I am reacting to the excitement I feel when I see something that registers as beautiful to me. My focus is on the magic!” http://www.moniquelazard.com/

Jan 08, 201854 min

RCS vol. 38 | Michael Williams

Michael Williams combines contemporary realism with a minimalist sensibility, using an overwhelming sense of light to deconstruct figural landscapes. He develops stark yet delicate depictions of the human figure, leading to the scrutiny of candid and often amusing observations that provide a dialogue on social identity and self-awareness. This obsessive scrutiny, deconstructed throughout his work, is broken by implied lines and ambiguous shapes, which fill the entirety of the implicit space. htt...

Jan 01, 201854 min

RCS vol. 37 | Kristen Thiele

My imagery is derived from the motion pictures of the 1930s through the 50s. I’m particularly interested in this era of film and how it aligns with the concept of artifice via opulent and escapist themes. The subjects of my paintings are about the fleeting, the missing, and the unattainable, however as paintings they become the very antithesis of the ephemeral. http://www.kristenthiele.com/

Dec 25, 201754 min

RCS vol. 36 | Patricia Schnall Gutierrez

The multidisciplinary work of Patricia Schnall Gutierrez (including painting, drawing, sculptural objects, performance, and installation) draws its inspiration from a self-referential account of personal memories, situations, and emotions. Using distinct choices of mediums, household objects and materials, she creates an autobiographical account of the every day, drawing the viewer into an intimate dialogue that often probes questions of gender and sexuality. Through her personal stories, she sh...

Dec 18, 201756 min

RCS vol. 35 | Sarah MK Moody

Sarah Margaret Knox Moody (SMKM) is a Photographer, an Artist, a Curator, a Collaborator and Community Voice based in Erie, Pennsylvania. “I document the world and I document my family. I enjoy images because they are tangible memories, ones that you can hold, the smell and scene comes alive in your hand. I document what pulls me, what grabs my attention.” http://www.sarahmkmoody.com/

Dec 11, 201751 min

RCS vol. 34 | Troy Simmons

“I tell my life story through concrete, color fields and organic abstract forms. They help express my thoughts and beliefs, serving as a narrator for my day to day experiences. Through my current work, I explore social behavior, depression, relationships, aging and prosperity. My personal experience with these topics help fuel my passion to create art that exposes the stable coexistence of different entities.” http://www.troysimmonsstudio.com/news.html

Dec 04, 201757 min

RCS vol. 33 | Alexander Zastera

Alexander Zastera produces vibrating planetary portals, swirling masses of denim, dark urban landscapes, and tropical “grotesquery” in response to the dynamic and bizarre environments he calls home. Currently based in Miami, his work has been featured in Deep Space, & Gallery, Locust Projects, the Young Arts Gallery, the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, and Superfine! Art Fair: NYC. https://www.alexzastera.com/

Nov 27, 201755 min

RCS vol. 32 | Ananda DeMello

Born in Rio de Janeiro, DeMello developed Art Habit, a social business aimed to help artists find supplemental income in the events industry while working to fortify their artistic practices. Ananda has worked in several art sectors in Miami. From artist run spaces, nonprofit, commercial art fairs, cultural production, as a consultant for artists and galleries, the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and was the gallery director at Spinello Projects and assisted during the production of the first edition...

Nov 20, 201753 min
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