Carol Damian
2020 Art Circuits’ Critic’s Choice art writer
Carol Damian, Ph.D. is an Art Historian and Independent Curator specializing in the Art of Latin America and the Caribbean. She is the former chairperson of the Art and Art History Department and former Director and Chief Curator of the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University.
ART CIRCUITS CRITIC’S CHOICE SEPTEMBER 2020
Welcome back: September begins the season. Yes, it is unusual, but we can still have fun and enjoy art. How time flies – 6 months of inactivity (compared to our usual Miami frenetic art pace) make every opening special. We do the best we can, and creativity will remain our comfort and even virtually, we need the Arts! A few of the museums plan to open, as do galleries, so check artcircuits.com for updates. One-stop with accurate information. The virtual world gets better and better every day so think of what we can see now without the traffic! Here are some ideas, real and virtual.
MUSEUMS:
CORAL GABLES MUSEUM
September 15 - January 7, 2021. The museum is open.
PURSEonality: A Stylish Handbag History
Highlights from the personal collection of Ilene Hochberg Wood. Ranging in style from folk art, to contemporary designer, her collection numbers into the thousands, making it the largest in the U.S., if not the world. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore a timeline of the handbag, representing the trends of each decade.
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART
Mar 24, 2020 - Sep 20, 2020. Museum open with limited hours.
Eye to I
Eye to I is especially appropriate in the age of the “selfie.” Organized and drawn from the collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, this exhibition explores how American artists have portrayed themselves through painting, drawing, photography, and video since the beginning of the 20th century. Artists in the exhibition approach self-representation from realist renderings to alter-egos that can reveal or obfuscate their inner lives.
Welcome to our newest member – all the way from Washington, DC., The Art Museum of the Americas is looking to Miami to expand its audience, with this exhibit that features Cuban artist Geandy Pavon.
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ART MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS | OAS - WASHINGTON, DC
Online Exhibition: September 3, 2020
Geandy Pavón: Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights: Photographic Exploration of life under quarantine.
Curator: Lynette M.F. Bosch
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Geandy+Pavon
Geandy Pavón Quarantine: 40 Days and 40 Nights, is a timely and imaginative photographic exploration of life under quarantine. A weekend visit to his partner Imara López in early March turned into an indefinite lockdown in Buffalo, NY that would dramatically change the course of plans for Pavón and López. These photographs from quarantine chronicle a journey into topics such as the reinterpretations of known works of art, to religious themes, to Classical mythology. Unfolding historical moments have also threaded their way through the narrative
©2020 Geandy Pavón
MDC SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, CUBAN LEGACY GALLERY
Fall 2020 (Opening date to be announced as part of the Phase 2 reopening of Miami Dade College). The exhibition runs through February 28, 2021.
Transformed: Josefina Tarafa, Photographs of the 1970s
A member of a Cuban family prominent in politics and economics, Josefina Tarafa (1907–82) developed an interest in the photographic and audio documentation of Afro-Cuban cultures and in various forms of Cuban popular culture. Exiled in Miami, she witnessed the transformation of the city. During the 1970s, she became a documentarian recording the Cuban traces engraved on Miami, creating one of the most meaningful bodies of images made that picture the transformation of the city during those years.
GALLERIES
LOCUST PROJECTS
Dates: September 12 – October 17, 2020. Open by appointment only
The gallery will showcase 3 exhibitions:
Juana Valdes: Rest Ashore
A new installation of multi-channel video and large-scale sculpture by LatinX, Miami-based artist Juana Valdes, reexamines the Cuban migration experience over the past sixty years and how it relates to the current global refugee crisis.
Raúl Romero: Onomonopoetics of a Puerto Rican Landscape
Explores how people in Miami connect back to their homeland, and for the artist, Puerto Rico. Romero uses his field recordings of the coqui, a small iconic frog native to Puerto Rico to create an acoustic ecology to evoke memories and a sense of place.
PROJECT ROOM: Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy: Tally Saves the Internet
Designed and created by North Carolina-based artists Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy, Tally Saves the Internet is a new, interactive, participatory digital and electronic work that explores Surveillance Capitalism - the recording and monetizing of a user’s online interest and activity - through a web-based game.
THE MARGULIES COLLECTION AT THE WAREHOUSE
September 30, 2020 – May 1, 2021
New exhibitions feature Masters of Contemporary Art as well as the new generation of Emerging Artists. Their ongoing collection of masterworks, photography from the archives, and other remarkable installations never disappoint.
The Margulies Collection will also support a Pop-Up Gallery: Fifty Artworks of photography and painting for sale to benefit Lotus Village Shelter for Homeless Women and Children. 100% of proceeds will go directly to the Shelter.
100 x 137 x 29 in. Collection Martin Z. Margulies
Diana Lowenstein Gallery
September 12th - November 15th, 2020. Gallery open
DANIEL DOMIG: WHERE HOPES INFEST
A solo exhibition of Canadian-born and Vienna-based artist Daniel Domig. curated by Ombretta Agró Andruff, combines his large scale paintings and an architectural installation.
Mindy Solomon Gallery
September 12 – October 17, 2020. Gallery open
GROUP EXHIBITION
This is Where a Line Begins—Donte Hayes, Osamu Kobayashi, and Alina Maria Birkner.
