The following alphabetical listing is under no circumstances an entire listing of the multitude of gallery exhibitions you can see throughout Miami Art Week.
Bonnier Gallery
The Bonnier Gallery presents “Green Creek,” a solo exhibition of sculpture, oil work, and works on paper by Kathleen Jacobs. The American artist was impressed to create the works on this exhibition after studying a poem by eighth-century Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei through which the reflection of bushes in a creek exemplifies the tranquil vastness of nature. Many of the works comprising “Green Creek” have been shaped in direct communication with nature, specifically bushes. Jacobs wrapped linen canvases round tree trunks — generally for as much as three years — and likewise utilized clay and porcelain to tree trunks. What resulted from this distinctive course of is a sequence of work and sculptures whose dreamlike traces and curves — direct imprints from the bushes with which the supplies communed — evoke clouds within the sky or waves on the ocean, reminding viewers of the wonder present throughout them. On view till February 4, 2023, at 3408 NW Seventh Ave., Miami; thebonniergallery.com.
Dimensions Variable
Miami-based artist Clara Varas presents “Between Memory and Desire” in Dimensions Variable, an exploration of each the artist’s private historical past and the precarity of the human situation. Varas migrated to the U.S. and counts herself among the many one-and-a-half era who got here of age within the U.S. and she or he makes use of private home items, discovered objects, and industrial supplies as an instance the experiences of Miami’s Latinx, Caribbean, and immigrant populations. “The Commonplace of Things” is a solo venture from New York City- and Miami-based artist Marcos Valella that mixes on a regular basis objects like fishing lures, pushpins, and mattress sheets with open-source, drip portray methods to create hooded, dealt with work that elevate the query of the place’s the road between artwork and different stuff you buy. On view via January 10, 2023, at 101 NW 79th St., Miami; dimensionsvariable.web.
Emerson Dorsch
Emerson Dorsch Gallery presents the opening of “Be Wild. Bewilder,” the place artist Paula Wilson explores themes of each fragmentation and regeneration. Wilson, who lives in Carrizozo, New Mexico, incorporates her life within the excessive desert into her works, typically weaving in parts of female energy, pure life techniques, and art-making itself. On view via January 21, 2023, at 5900 NW Second Ave., Miami; emersondorsch.com.
Homework
Cuban-American artist Richard Vergez combines mixed-media collages with installations of trains in “Trains of Thought.” The assortment of works could encourage both awe or bitterness from these dwelling within the Magic City, a sprawling metropolis whose public transit system may benefit from funding in rail journey. Vergez can also be the founding father of Noir Age, an alternate music label that releases limited-edition albums from experimental artists throughout the globe. He’s scored modern dance performances for Cuban choreographer Ana Mendez, and he is one half of Za Za, an avant-garde group, with fellow sound artist Mónica Mesa. On view via December 3, at 7411 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; homework.gallery.
Locust Projects
Before making the transfer to Little River subsequent 12 months, Locust Projects presents three last exhibitions at its present location within the Design District. “Ule ole allez” is an set up highlighting worldwide migration and the ever-changing rulebook immigrants are made to observe, and it makes use of motion present in sports activities to inform that story in an sudden, immersive approach. In “Room for the dwelling/Room for the useless,” T. Eliott Mansa incorporates West African nkisi nkondi and bocio sculptures and the aesthetic of roadside memorials to reimagine a Seventies sunken front room as an area for gathering in each instances of pleasure and when honoring those that have handed. “Portals of Introspection” is a bunch exhibition highlighting that which connects people and their surroundings, visitor curated by Donnamarie Baptiste and that includes video works from Paul Ward, Duke Riley, Mikey Please, and Dimitry Saïd Chamy. On view via February 4, 2023, at 3852 N. Miami Ave., Miami, locustprojects.org.
Nina Johnson
Nina Johnson presents the opening of three solo exhibitions. Raúl de Nieves’ “The Book” showcases 18 multimedia, wall-based works, in addition to the artist’s signature beaded sculptures and ceramic items, in a dialog about course of and transformation. In the gallery’s newly renovated Exhibition Library, Korean artist and designer Minjae Kim presents “IYKYK.” Twelve items of totally purposeful furnishings and objets d’artwork carry conventional Korean aesthetics, but they could learn as summary artwork to American eyes. Thus Kim’s work illuminates the cultural erasure that occurs daily within the Westernized world. “Eyelash within the Unknown” is a group of work and clear-cast glass sculptures from Tunisia-born, Brooklyn-based artist Nadia Ayari. With her intricate, time-intensive methodology of making goopy, oil-based canvases that change into sculptures, Ayari creates immersive works that draw viewers shut sufficient to virtually contact. On view till January 7, 2023, at 6315 NW Second Ave., Miami; ninajohnson.com.
Pan American Art Projects
Pan American Art Projects presents “The Life of Meanings,” a group of drawn works by Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Carlos Estevez so intricate they seem as fantastical maps or a metropolis planner’s blueprints — in the event that they have been dreaming after they drafted them up that’s. The exhibition is accompanied by a listing that includes a principal textual content by PAMM Assistant Curator Maritza Lacayo and textual content from Pan American Art Projects Director Janda Wetherington. On view till December 3, at 274 NE 67th St., Miami; panamericanart.com.
Spinello Projects
Spinello Projects presents a trio of exhibitions to have a good time Miami Art Week. On the primary ground, “Back to Basics” is the Miami gallery debut of Vienna-based French-Senegalese artist Alexandre Diop. Using on a regular basis supplies like metallic, rope, outdated automobile components, rust, books, metallic, and wooden, Diop explores each composition and decomposition to precise themes of existence and commentary. “Nightfall” is the primary U.S. solo exhibition of Puerto Rican artist Esaà Alfredo. Inspired partially by the 1941 Isaac Asimov brief story of the identical title, “Nightfall” depicts the adventures of a queer couple who change into shut lovers as they examine a mysterious, weeklong photo voltaic eclipse shrouding a Caribbean island in darkness. Richie Nath’s first U.S. solo exhibition, “This Too Shall Pass,” facilities on the queer male physique in works combining Hindu, Buddhist, and Greco-Roman mythologies to depict the artist’s journey being exiled from his native Myanmar amid civil struggle. Spinello Projects can also be presenting at this 12 months’s Art Basel the work of Miami native Reginald O’Neal and Afro-Latinx artist Juana Valdés. On view till January 14, 2023, at 2930 NW Seventh Ave., Miami; spinelloprojects.com.