2019
KC TOIMIL
A MURDER
August 23 – September 19, 2019
A MURDER
August 23 – September 19, 2019
Artist Statement
This project started earlier this year out of a manic episode. The pieces are a reflection of how I feel about mental illness and the stigmas behind it. The piece consists of the pages of over 40 journals spanning 15 years of my life. All the stupid shit, lists, calendars, drawings, journal entries exposed covering the walls and a 10 ft umbrella I made out of pieces of a bed frame, to reveal being one ... in the millions of people who suffer, are misunderstood, and feel alone. Also, with this I hope, to resonate with its audience the familiarity that the stress in striving for the american dream, or as my title suggests, a murder, can lead to mental stress and possibly illness. #justbeinghonest
In the time these journal pages were written I had no intention or idea that I would be sharing my notes with anyone … ever!! That being said I do admit a sort of shame for some of the things that I said, I want to shed that shame I carry over my head. For none of us should be ashamed for what goes on in our heads; but once aware, we are responsible for our thoughts and how those thoughts carry themselves out into actions.My actions with these pieces are to share my embarrassing reality of having mental diseases and to shed light on the fact that many of us share this problem but hide behind a curtain of fear and shame. These people, myself included, feel hurt and forever alone running the risk to never becoming fully aware and continuing their addictive and hurtful actions; to themselves and or in turn to others. This piece was difficult for me to start and to finish. Six months of categorizing these thoughts and repetitions of words. . . I hope that in letting go of my embarrassment and shame we can all let go of the stigmas and stress behind mental illness.
And not just the stigma behind mental illness, but the stress of living the perfect american dream, a cause of illness, a distraction from recovery.
Why are we repeating hateful actions we know are wrong like our forefathers did. Subconscious fear stemming from dreams, onto paper, I see the repetitions in my writing; how much I hate myself, different people, and systems. Full blown it enters my life as fear and I see how we all let it distract us.
We fear racism, slavery, homelessness, poverty, famine, all the injustices that we hate but we turn on each other, hating each other. Why can’t we face our fears and fight for what's right again. I love that Space Mountain is on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd because he is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. Taking the hate, turning it into a dream, fighting together and not each other. The american dream is a distraction and murder causing the nightmare we live in today, or that's what I believe. But I also believe in us the people just like King that we can get through this, together.
This project started earlier this year out of a manic episode. The pieces are a reflection of how I feel about mental illness and the stigmas behind it. The piece consists of the pages of over 40 journals spanning 15 years of my life. All the stupid shit, lists, calendars, drawings, journal entries exposed covering the walls and a 10 ft umbrella I made out of pieces of a bed frame, to reveal being one ... in the millions of people who suffer, are misunderstood, and feel alone. Also, with this I hope, to resonate with its audience the familiarity that the stress in striving for the american dream, or as my title suggests, a murder, can lead to mental stress and possibly illness. #justbeinghonest
In the time these journal pages were written I had no intention or idea that I would be sharing my notes with anyone … ever!! That being said I do admit a sort of shame for some of the things that I said, I want to shed that shame I carry over my head. For none of us should be ashamed for what goes on in our heads; but once aware, we are responsible for our thoughts and how those thoughts carry themselves out into actions.My actions with these pieces are to share my embarrassing reality of having mental diseases and to shed light on the fact that many of us share this problem but hide behind a curtain of fear and shame. These people, myself included, feel hurt and forever alone running the risk to never becoming fully aware and continuing their addictive and hurtful actions; to themselves and or in turn to others. This piece was difficult for me to start and to finish. Six months of categorizing these thoughts and repetitions of words. . . I hope that in letting go of my embarrassment and shame we can all let go of the stigmas and stress behind mental illness.
And not just the stigma behind mental illness, but the stress of living the perfect american dream, a cause of illness, a distraction from recovery.
Why are we repeating hateful actions we know are wrong like our forefathers did. Subconscious fear stemming from dreams, onto paper, I see the repetitions in my writing; how much I hate myself, different people, and systems. Full blown it enters my life as fear and I see how we all let it distract us.
We fear racism, slavery, homelessness, poverty, famine, all the injustices that we hate but we turn on each other, hating each other. Why can’t we face our fears and fight for what's right again. I love that Space Mountain is on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd because he is the perfect example of what I'm talking about. Taking the hate, turning it into a dream, fighting together and not each other. The american dream is a distraction and murder causing the nightmare we live in today, or that's what I believe. But I also believe in us the people just like King that we can get through this, together.
THE CHURCH OF THE COSMIC CUNT
Presented by the Cosmic Cunt Conference
Curated by Sarah Penello and Frida Future
Wednesday, May 8th 2019 – Monday May 27th 2019
The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a living sacred space. Inside, we’re curating phenomenal art from diverse artists and offering programming from consent educators, tantrikas, mask dancers, drag queens, musicians, and more. We are building a Church to reclaim symbols that have been used to instill shame and fear, and rewriting old stories into ones that are balanced, sensitive, conscious, consensual and reintegrated. The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a radically inclusive space for discovering, honoring, and integrating the divine feminine as it moves through all of us.
What we’re creating and amplifying is nothing less than the Queendom of Heaven. We’re going back to the Garden of Eden to create it afresh: without shame, brimming with forgiveness and compassion, and the awareness that we are all Adam AND Eve, God, the snake, AND the Tree of Knowledge itself, all at once. This is faith in the paradox of both unity and radical personal sovereignty, and trust that all beings are capable of divining that balance for themselves. We’re doing it NOW, and playing with the matrix as it stands in 2019. We’re at play, integrating and alchemizing the wounds we felt under the patriarchy in a pussy playground where we can shed painful stories and expectations foisted on us by history. The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a place for that healing.
Our radical, sex-positive, femme-celebrating cummunity space will serve Miami and the world for three weeks as we host daily free or donation-based workshops, classes, and events. Many of these events will be live streamed, making them available to the public at large.
The cuntainer for this month-long activation will be held by priestesses and volunteers, teachers, sex workers, activists, drag performers, healing practitioners, and artists, amongst others. We range in age from 21 to 70, and we’re from all over the cuntry.
The artists and practitioners participating in the creation of the Church were handpicked and personally invited by Sarah Penello and Frida Future because of the way their work re-sanctifies the "profane", celebrates the divine union of spirit and flesh, and amplifies the feminine while rejecting the rigidity of gender binaries. The works in this show span a variety of mediums: paint, photography, ceramics, polymer, soft sculpture, fiber arts, tattoo, performance and more.
Daily programming will include yoga classes, breathwork and meditation, as well as workshops and circles on topics including gender, sex-positivity, kink, ethical pornography, consent, the de-stigmatization of sex work, pleasure, plant sex, and more.
Featuring
The works of over a dozen artists, including:
Anna Cone, Sam Kelly, MadElement, Divine Fem, High Femme Goods, Feisty Ink, Sarah Hakani, Libbie Allen, Grandma Connie, Claire,
Molly Burgess, Jane Clarke, Tiger Kelly, Bethani Zeller, Sarah Brujita, and Frida Future
Daily and Weekly Healings, Teachings and Happenings w/ Workshops and Events throughout the month.
This is a living sacred space, full of activity throughout most days and expanding throughout the month.
*Unless noted otherwise, activities are donation-based - no one turned away for lack of funds*
Miami New Times, A Trippy Festival of Sex Positivity Lands in Miami
Presented by the Cosmic Cunt Conference
Curated by Sarah Penello and Frida Future
Wednesday, May 8th 2019 – Monday May 27th 2019
The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a living sacred space. Inside, we’re curating phenomenal art from diverse artists and offering programming from consent educators, tantrikas, mask dancers, drag queens, musicians, and more. We are building a Church to reclaim symbols that have been used to instill shame and fear, and rewriting old stories into ones that are balanced, sensitive, conscious, consensual and reintegrated. The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a radically inclusive space for discovering, honoring, and integrating the divine feminine as it moves through all of us.
What we’re creating and amplifying is nothing less than the Queendom of Heaven. We’re going back to the Garden of Eden to create it afresh: without shame, brimming with forgiveness and compassion, and the awareness that we are all Adam AND Eve, God, the snake, AND the Tree of Knowledge itself, all at once. This is faith in the paradox of both unity and radical personal sovereignty, and trust that all beings are capable of divining that balance for themselves. We’re doing it NOW, and playing with the matrix as it stands in 2019. We’re at play, integrating and alchemizing the wounds we felt under the patriarchy in a pussy playground where we can shed painful stories and expectations foisted on us by history. The Church of the Cosmic Cunt is a place for that healing.
Our radical, sex-positive, femme-celebrating cummunity space will serve Miami and the world for three weeks as we host daily free or donation-based workshops, classes, and events. Many of these events will be live streamed, making them available to the public at large.
The cuntainer for this month-long activation will be held by priestesses and volunteers, teachers, sex workers, activists, drag performers, healing practitioners, and artists, amongst others. We range in age from 21 to 70, and we’re from all over the cuntry.
The artists and practitioners participating in the creation of the Church were handpicked and personally invited by Sarah Penello and Frida Future because of the way their work re-sanctifies the "profane", celebrates the divine union of spirit and flesh, and amplifies the feminine while rejecting the rigidity of gender binaries. The works in this show span a variety of mediums: paint, photography, ceramics, polymer, soft sculpture, fiber arts, tattoo, performance and more.
Daily programming will include yoga classes, breathwork and meditation, as well as workshops and circles on topics including gender, sex-positivity, kink, ethical pornography, consent, the de-stigmatization of sex work, pleasure, plant sex, and more.
Featuring
The works of over a dozen artists, including:
Anna Cone, Sam Kelly, MadElement, Divine Fem, High Femme Goods, Feisty Ink, Sarah Hakani, Libbie Allen, Grandma Connie, Claire,
Molly Burgess, Jane Clarke, Tiger Kelly, Bethani Zeller, Sarah Brujita, and Frida Future
Daily and Weekly Healings, Teachings and Happenings w/ Workshops and Events throughout the month.
This is a living sacred space, full of activity throughout most days and expanding throughout the month.
*Unless noted otherwise, activities are donation-based - no one turned away for lack of funds*
Miami New Times, A Trippy Festival of Sex Positivity Lands in Miami
Co-hosted by Miami Safer Spaces
Miami Safer Spaces is a coalition-building initiative to address sexual violence in the Miami music and culture scenes. Sexual violence is a normalized part of scene culture. Many of the current ways people are addressing this don’t help the person harmed, and sometimes create further harm. We envision a culture where consent is normalized and everyone has options for accountability and healing. We resist rape culture through education, support, and healing. We employ strategies of restorative and transformative justice, and community accountability.
“Just as you would inquire about touching a piece at a gallery do the same with one another and remember we are all works of art. Some, shy, to be seen and not touched; Some, outgoing, and wanting total interaction. We, as art, are all different. With a little more communication, education, and an open mind we hope we can all have a consensual future.” Words by KC Toimil, Member of the Miami Safer Spaces Initiative
“Just as you would inquire about touching a piece at a gallery do the same with one another and remember we are all works of art. Some, shy, to be seen and not touched; Some, outgoing, and wanting total interaction. We, as art, are all different. With a little more communication, education, and an open mind we hope we can all have a consensual future.” Words by KC Toimil, Member of the Miami Safer Spaces Initiative
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SARAH HAKANI
Selected Works 2013-2018
On view April 5 through May 2, 2019
The show offers collages from three series of work produced by Sarah Hakani between 2013 and 2018. Exploring internal juxtapositions, constructing oneness from duality, and reconciling self-identity in a world of multidirectional pressure, Sarah's work makes sense of her lived realities and contrasts as a Muslim woman.
Deconstructed Femininity (2013)
understanding the hijab as a continuation of the female body and an extension of anatomy, of our very bones, just like anything else we put on and decorate our bodies with. if we own our body, we own the ways that it folds and curves and is decorated. but can we control the ways in which we were constructed, and the dichotomy between our anatomy and how we choose to cover it? how forced is our uncovered and covered womanhood?
Radical Mysticism (2015)
who is God without a creation that can refer to Her as God? delving into Sufism allowed for a reconciliation of interpersonal splits and the colonial and imperial roots of what it means for me to be Muslim. i am unlearning the bodily aspect of a spiritual being to find interconnectedness, understanding righteous revolt, idealizing non-binary versions of faith, unpacking the duality of God and woman: to know one another is to know our Creator. inspired by Flying Lotus.
Angry Indian Goddess (2017-2018)
an exploration of feminine acts of resistance to our dismemberment by the world and our environments. how do we resist and persist? how often are women making themselves uncomfortable in a way that goes unnoticed? how often is our pain normalized, even beautified? i will glorify and find the divinity in righteous anger from our continuous revolt, our daily resistance to maintain our autonomy and humanity.
About the Artist
Sarah Hakani is a South-Asian, Shia Ismaili Muslim from Atlanta. Her work focuses on de/reconstruction of identity in the context of unlearning intergenerational trauma and reclaiming the self as independent of the structures and systems that possess it. She has a background in Neuroscience, which she applies to better understanding spiritual life along with her interpersonal relationships. She works through her relationships with the divine through ethnographic, literary, and artistic research coupled with mixed-media creation. Her pieces are the physical manifestations of her journeys through faith, womanhood, caregiving, and resilience. After graduating with her Masters in Technology and Innovation from Harvard, Sarah works as an educator and technologist, learning how creation can serve as a tool for learning and and unlearning for marginalized learners.
https://www.sarahhakani.com
@sarah.zarina
Selected Works 2013-2018
On view April 5 through May 2, 2019
The show offers collages from three series of work produced by Sarah Hakani between 2013 and 2018. Exploring internal juxtapositions, constructing oneness from duality, and reconciling self-identity in a world of multidirectional pressure, Sarah's work makes sense of her lived realities and contrasts as a Muslim woman.
Deconstructed Femininity (2013)
understanding the hijab as a continuation of the female body and an extension of anatomy, of our very bones, just like anything else we put on and decorate our bodies with. if we own our body, we own the ways that it folds and curves and is decorated. but can we control the ways in which we were constructed, and the dichotomy between our anatomy and how we choose to cover it? how forced is our uncovered and covered womanhood?
Radical Mysticism (2015)
who is God without a creation that can refer to Her as God? delving into Sufism allowed for a reconciliation of interpersonal splits and the colonial and imperial roots of what it means for me to be Muslim. i am unlearning the bodily aspect of a spiritual being to find interconnectedness, understanding righteous revolt, idealizing non-binary versions of faith, unpacking the duality of God and woman: to know one another is to know our Creator. inspired by Flying Lotus.
Angry Indian Goddess (2017-2018)
an exploration of feminine acts of resistance to our dismemberment by the world and our environments. how do we resist and persist? how often are women making themselves uncomfortable in a way that goes unnoticed? how often is our pain normalized, even beautified? i will glorify and find the divinity in righteous anger from our continuous revolt, our daily resistance to maintain our autonomy and humanity.
About the Artist
Sarah Hakani is a South-Asian, Shia Ismaili Muslim from Atlanta. Her work focuses on de/reconstruction of identity in the context of unlearning intergenerational trauma and reclaiming the self as independent of the structures and systems that possess it. She has a background in Neuroscience, which she applies to better understanding spiritual life along with her interpersonal relationships. She works through her relationships with the divine through ethnographic, literary, and artistic research coupled with mixed-media creation. Her pieces are the physical manifestations of her journeys through faith, womanhood, caregiving, and resilience. After graduating with her Masters in Technology and Innovation from Harvard, Sarah works as an educator and technologist, learning how creation can serve as a tool for learning and and unlearning for marginalized learners.
https://www.sarahhakani.com
@sarah.zarina
Carolina Souto Presents
WORKS BY ISAAC MAURICE HOFFMAN, COLETTE MIGLIORI AND LEIA PONSIGLIONE
Sunday, April 14, 2019
On view 4:30 to 5:30 pm
Mr. Isaac Maurice Hoffman was born in Philadelphia, and has a really strong bond with Philly culture, like loving the eagles and... loving the eagles. He's loved both film and music since a young age, and really, really, really, really likes Nicolas Cage. He wouldn't say he deals with "themes." Isaac is influenced by all his favorite artists (but who isn't), and also bases his works on his life (but again, who doesn't). This show's theme might've come together accidentally, but there's a really strong subtext throughout the set about people being Extremely Online.
"As someone who is myself Extremely Online, I often feel strongly about social media, the internet (especially it's early days), and its effect on things like politics, youths, etc."
"As someone who is myself Extremely Online, I often feel strongly about social media, the internet (especially it's early days), and its effect on things like politics, youths, etc."
Colette Migliori is a 12-year-old girl that currently attends Miami Arts Charter where she studies visual art. Colette was born in Cancun, Mexico but lives in Miami with her mom, dad, and sister. She began to grow her love for art in the 4th grade and took a few classes for a couple months. Since then, she has continued to grow as an artist. Paleontology, horseback riding, and guitar are other hobbies and subjects the young artist has an ardor for. Colette’s work in the exhibition expresses the beauty of her passions.
Leia Ponsiglione moved to Miami from Buenos Aires, Argentina, when she was seven years old. She started exploring art when she heard about her current art school, Miami Arts Charter (MAC). She had always been interested in art, but to audition for the school she started taking lessons. Since being accepted to MAC, she has continued to grow as visual artist, from drawing and painting to design. She recently started taking music lessons, and combined these two passions for this project. In this exhibition, Leia explores three influential musicians through visual images.
Fempower Presents
BELOVED
February 12 through February 20, 2019
”In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard.” - Toni Morrison
Beloved is a black feminist visual art exhibition presented by (F)empower artists in honor of Black herstory month. The exhibition will feature South Florida-based artists Mumbi O'Brien, Mars, Helen Peña, Niki Franco and Margo Hannah. As daughters of the diaspora, the artists meditate on survival, spirituality, and sisterhood through their work.
Join us on for opening night this Wednesday 7:30-9:30pm as we celebrate Black love and sisterhood. Featuring special Black herstory month muse readings by @santasabel and a vinyl set by @monicugh. The show will be up until Feb 20th from 3-6pm for view.
BELOVED
February 12 through February 20, 2019
”In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard.” - Toni Morrison
Beloved is a black feminist visual art exhibition presented by (F)empower artists in honor of Black herstory month. The exhibition will feature South Florida-based artists Mumbi O'Brien, Mars, Helen Peña, Niki Franco and Margo Hannah. As daughters of the diaspora, the artists meditate on survival, spirituality, and sisterhood through their work.
Join us on for opening night this Wednesday 7:30-9:30pm as we celebrate Black love and sisterhood. Featuring special Black herstory month muse readings by @santasabel and a vinyl set by @monicugh. The show will be up until Feb 20th from 3-6pm for view.
2018
Space Mountain Miami Presents
PRECIOUS CHILD'S
DIVINITY
An Audiovisual Installation
December 7 - January 18, 2019
Experimental musical and video artist Precious Child will be unveiling their gallery installation DIVINITY during Art Basel/Miami Art Week.
Prompted by the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings, DIVINITY reflects on Precious Child’s experiences of and contemplations on abuse - the many ways it can be inflicted, experienced and re-experienced as it goes from secret to public. So often abuse is reacted to with distancing and marginalization, and approached as sensational entertainment or an impersonal platform by the public and media. Incorporating sculpture, audio and video elements, the installation aims to remind observers no one is truly free of implication.
ABOUT PRECIOUS CHILD:
Los Angeles-based artist Precious creates audiovisual and performance works exploring the many layers of identity and the individual perception of reality. Their music draws inspiration from multiple experimental genres, glossy mainstream pop, and metal. Also a prolific video artist, they often work in close collaboration with multimedia artist Cade, recalling sci-fi psychedelia and surrealist film. Arresting and often confrontational, their work has been praised across cultural media with their debut collaboration with Cade, the video "My Little Problem" being selected for film festivals including Tempt Fest, Desert Rocks Film Festival, COAX17 and Video!Video! Chicago. Their additional recent work includes compositionfor film, notably a soundtrack composed for the Neil Gaiman biopic "Dream Dangerously,” making music videos for artists MRKlovesyou and Vancorvid, video album “just a body”, short film “It Wants to Become”, and the re-interpretation album HALLOW expanding on their recent album, WHOLLOHW.
As the live act Precious Child, they have spent 2018 touring throughout North America, presenting their musical and video work in art galleries, music venues and DIY spaces around the country across more than 100 days (June-Present). As they continue this focus on presenting their work within the immediate context of performance, Precious plans to remove their work from public streaming services at the close of 2018. Instead, all new art and music will be released via a direct email club, to disassociate their art from the the shallow sensationalism, arbitrary censorship, rampant politicization, and fractiousness inherent to today’s internet culture.
"A fascinating (NSFW) exploration of body dysphoria and the abstraction of gender identity...[pulling] sonic inspiration from industrial, [...] mainstream pop, and metal genres" - Paper Magazine
“Ominous, dark...mysterious and strange” - Brutal Resonance
"Moody, richly atmospheric, and lushly cinematic" - Bloody Disgusting
PRECIOUS CHILD'S
DIVINITY
An Audiovisual Installation
December 7 - January 18, 2019
Experimental musical and video artist Precious Child will be unveiling their gallery installation DIVINITY during Art Basel/Miami Art Week.
Prompted by the recent Supreme Court confirmation hearings, DIVINITY reflects on Precious Child’s experiences of and contemplations on abuse - the many ways it can be inflicted, experienced and re-experienced as it goes from secret to public. So often abuse is reacted to with distancing and marginalization, and approached as sensational entertainment or an impersonal platform by the public and media. Incorporating sculpture, audio and video elements, the installation aims to remind observers no one is truly free of implication.
ABOUT PRECIOUS CHILD:
Los Angeles-based artist Precious creates audiovisual and performance works exploring the many layers of identity and the individual perception of reality. Their music draws inspiration from multiple experimental genres, glossy mainstream pop, and metal. Also a prolific video artist, they often work in close collaboration with multimedia artist Cade, recalling sci-fi psychedelia and surrealist film. Arresting and often confrontational, their work has been praised across cultural media with their debut collaboration with Cade, the video "My Little Problem" being selected for film festivals including Tempt Fest, Desert Rocks Film Festival, COAX17 and Video!Video! Chicago. Their additional recent work includes compositionfor film, notably a soundtrack composed for the Neil Gaiman biopic "Dream Dangerously,” making music videos for artists MRKlovesyou and Vancorvid, video album “just a body”, short film “It Wants to Become”, and the re-interpretation album HALLOW expanding on their recent album, WHOLLOHW.
As the live act Precious Child, they have spent 2018 touring throughout North America, presenting their musical and video work in art galleries, music venues and DIY spaces around the country across more than 100 days (June-Present). As they continue this focus on presenting their work within the immediate context of performance, Precious plans to remove their work from public streaming services at the close of 2018. Instead, all new art and music will be released via a direct email club, to disassociate their art from the the shallow sensationalism, arbitrary censorship, rampant politicization, and fractiousness inherent to today’s internet culture.
"A fascinating (NSFW) exploration of body dysphoria and the abstraction of gender identity...[pulling] sonic inspiration from industrial, [...] mainstream pop, and metal genres" - Paper Magazine
“Ominous, dark...mysterious and strange” - Brutal Resonance
"Moody, richly atmospheric, and lushly cinematic" - Bloody Disgusting
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February 22 - March 16, 2018
OSKAR'S AT SPACE
PRESENTS
BRIDGES AND CLOUDS: MEDITATIONS ON IMMIGRANT LIFE
Opening and Performances: February 22, 2018
Bridges and Clouds: Meditations on Immigrant Life is a personal meditation on identity: a child immigrant and as an adult who has come to see the US as their home.
PROJECT CONCEPTION
Bridges and Clouds: Mediations on Immigrant Life is comprised of a night of original music specifically written for this project, accompanied by a three-week gallery show. The project was conceived by Diego Melgar, a Jazz guitarist and composer and soon-to-be graduate of the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Diego immigrated to the United States from Peru at the age of five.
Diego composed original music for this project, which will be performed at the Opening on February 22, 2018. #diegounchained
VISUAL ARTISTS
German Ruiz
My parents fled Nicaragua with me when I was only 2 years old. Though I have spent a great majority of my life in America I have never known what it means to feel American. I also don't know what it means to belong because my native country is just as foreign to me as any other place I've never been to.
I have never felt quite at home anywhere. My work deals with this sense of displacement through the constants in my life. Family keeps me grounded as well as the traditions and drives they have instilled. These photographs are an exploration of work, ritual, and uncertainty. They help me gain an understanding of my fractured identity."
Instagram: germanruiz.gallery
Yamel Molerio
I left Cuba when I was nine years old and this has influenced me in creating these paintings. Most of my memories of Cuba are from old black and white photographs. I have not been back to my homeland since 1980 and the only way I have seen the Cuba of today has been in images from the internet. Just like photographs get old and fade, these memories will also one day disappear.
My artwork is figurative with a strong sense of narration. My paintings incorporate overlapping components of different size papers, canvas pieces, fabric, and wood. The process reminds me of old clothes and objects patched up and utilized instead of discarding them. This is the reality of the Cuban people; due to their harsh economic situation they are forced to restore. It also symbolizes how different events shape your life. The stapling in some of the pieces represent stitches and the scars of the past. The background of my paintings are filled with holes, peeling paint, cracks, and different shades of gray and white. This is a reminder of the deplorable shape Cuba is in. The distressed walls show pain and abandonment. If walls could talk, they would also tell a story."
Website: http://yamelmolerio.com
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
Bridges and Clouds: Mediations on Immigrant Life
Composed by Diego Melgar
Fernando Ferrarone: Trumpet
Chris Thompson-Taylor: Tenor Saxophone
Justine Noel Garcia: Vocals
Sean Hannon: Upright Bass
Zander Ambrose: Drums,
Arturo Garcia: Percussion
Diego Melgar: Guitar
With
Chama (Based in NYC)
Leonor Falcón: Violin, Viola
Juanma Trujillo: Guitar
Arturo García: Drums
Leonor, Juanma and Arturo first started as young musicians in Caracas/Venezuela who migrated and reunited 15 years later in the US.
https://chamaband.bandcamp.com/album/chama
OSKAR'S AT SPACE
PRESENTS
BRIDGES AND CLOUDS: MEDITATIONS ON IMMIGRANT LIFE
Opening and Performances: February 22, 2018
Bridges and Clouds: Meditations on Immigrant Life is a personal meditation on identity: a child immigrant and as an adult who has come to see the US as their home.
PROJECT CONCEPTION
Bridges and Clouds: Mediations on Immigrant Life is comprised of a night of original music specifically written for this project, accompanied by a three-week gallery show. The project was conceived by Diego Melgar, a Jazz guitarist and composer and soon-to-be graduate of the University of Miami Frost School of Music. Diego immigrated to the United States from Peru at the age of five.
Diego composed original music for this project, which will be performed at the Opening on February 22, 2018. #diegounchained
VISUAL ARTISTS
German Ruiz
My parents fled Nicaragua with me when I was only 2 years old. Though I have spent a great majority of my life in America I have never known what it means to feel American. I also don't know what it means to belong because my native country is just as foreign to me as any other place I've never been to.
I have never felt quite at home anywhere. My work deals with this sense of displacement through the constants in my life. Family keeps me grounded as well as the traditions and drives they have instilled. These photographs are an exploration of work, ritual, and uncertainty. They help me gain an understanding of my fractured identity."
Instagram: germanruiz.gallery
Yamel Molerio
I left Cuba when I was nine years old and this has influenced me in creating these paintings. Most of my memories of Cuba are from old black and white photographs. I have not been back to my homeland since 1980 and the only way I have seen the Cuba of today has been in images from the internet. Just like photographs get old and fade, these memories will also one day disappear.
My artwork is figurative with a strong sense of narration. My paintings incorporate overlapping components of different size papers, canvas pieces, fabric, and wood. The process reminds me of old clothes and objects patched up and utilized instead of discarding them. This is the reality of the Cuban people; due to their harsh economic situation they are forced to restore. It also symbolizes how different events shape your life. The stapling in some of the pieces represent stitches and the scars of the past. The background of my paintings are filled with holes, peeling paint, cracks, and different shades of gray and white. This is a reminder of the deplorable shape Cuba is in. The distressed walls show pain and abandonment. If walls could talk, they would also tell a story."
Website: http://yamelmolerio.com
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS
Bridges and Clouds: Mediations on Immigrant Life
Composed by Diego Melgar
Fernando Ferrarone: Trumpet
Chris Thompson-Taylor: Tenor Saxophone
Justine Noel Garcia: Vocals
Sean Hannon: Upright Bass
Zander Ambrose: Drums,
Arturo Garcia: Percussion
Diego Melgar: Guitar
With
Chama (Based in NYC)
Leonor Falcón: Violin, Viola
Juanma Trujillo: Guitar
Arturo García: Drums
Leonor, Juanma and Arturo first started as young musicians in Caracas/Venezuela who migrated and reunited 15 years later in the US.
https://chamaband.bandcamp.com/album/chama
January 11 through February 11, 2018
AN EXORCISM OF
THE DOMESTICATED WILDFLOWERS
A Multi-Media Installation by Lilumnia and Widow
Opening Reception with Installation Performance by Lilumnia & Widow
How ruthless the honesty we must behold to conjure the magic of deep committed compassion, for this is a space only accessible when we can face all of the horrors we have both committed and experienced without judgment and with true love.
An Exorcism of the Domesticated Wildflowers is a multimedia exploration into the realms of compassion, shadow femininity and what it means to have an unrelenting commitment to facing the truth of how trauma has impacted us, where it comes from and how to heal from it in the pursuit of embodying liberation within these lifetimes. The artists, Lilumnia and Widow, ask us to dive deep with them into finding our own inner sources of divine feminine power outside as well as deeply embedded and hidden within the heteronormative, patriarchal power structures we have been domesticated into. We hear the channelings of blue stained satin found on the ground as the voice of the goddess forced into service of Christian religion, we see visions of the historical, socio-economic experiences within western civilization of the rose and horse, and we meet with who Mary, Mother of God truly is behind her veil as symbol of ultimate feminine purity. What happens when Mary gives to herself, her sisters and her own mother first? What happens when holy whores are only for themselves?
This exploration is a collaboration of Lilumnia and Widow. Lilumnia is an Avant Garde Feminist-Mystic Theorist, Performance Artist, Writer, Musician and Visual Artist who lives in New Orlean’s Louisiana. Widow is a sound/movement/conceptual artist, intuitive, & hypnotherapist currently based in Los Angeles. Their studies and practice of mysticism and radical feminist healing manifest in their installations as altars, performance as ritual, songs as spells.
Project Documentation: Installation soundwork by Widow may be found online at: https://exorcism.church
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=960542144122028
AN EXORCISM OF
THE DOMESTICATED WILDFLOWERS
A Multi-Media Installation by Lilumnia and Widow
Opening Reception with Installation Performance by Lilumnia & Widow
How ruthless the honesty we must behold to conjure the magic of deep committed compassion, for this is a space only accessible when we can face all of the horrors we have both committed and experienced without judgment and with true love.
An Exorcism of the Domesticated Wildflowers is a multimedia exploration into the realms of compassion, shadow femininity and what it means to have an unrelenting commitment to facing the truth of how trauma has impacted us, where it comes from and how to heal from it in the pursuit of embodying liberation within these lifetimes. The artists, Lilumnia and Widow, ask us to dive deep with them into finding our own inner sources of divine feminine power outside as well as deeply embedded and hidden within the heteronormative, patriarchal power structures we have been domesticated into. We hear the channelings of blue stained satin found on the ground as the voice of the goddess forced into service of Christian religion, we see visions of the historical, socio-economic experiences within western civilization of the rose and horse, and we meet with who Mary, Mother of God truly is behind her veil as symbol of ultimate feminine purity. What happens when Mary gives to herself, her sisters and her own mother first? What happens when holy whores are only for themselves?
This exploration is a collaboration of Lilumnia and Widow. Lilumnia is an Avant Garde Feminist-Mystic Theorist, Performance Artist, Writer, Musician and Visual Artist who lives in New Orlean’s Louisiana. Widow is a sound/movement/conceptual artist, intuitive, & hypnotherapist currently based in Los Angeles. Their studies and practice of mysticism and radical feminist healing manifest in their installations as altars, performance as ritual, songs as spells.
Project Documentation: Installation soundwork by Widow may be found online at: https://exorcism.church
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=960542144122028
2017
December 22 through December 31, 2017
DASH CLASS OF 2007 REUNION SHOW
Graduates of the Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) Class of 2007 are celebrating their 10th reunion with a group show of their work.
Private Viewing
December 22, 2017
Open to the Public
December 23 through December 31, 2017
Image: Marc Newson
DASH CLASS OF 2007 REUNION SHOW
Graduates of the Design and Architecture Senior High (DASH) Class of 2007 are celebrating their 10th reunion with a group show of their work.
Private Viewing
December 22, 2017
Open to the Public
December 23 through December 31, 2017
Image: Marc Newson
December 2 through December 31, 2017
In the Project Room
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=934173903425519
December 6th
Opening Reception @ 7 pm
Musical Performances @9 pm
with Dean Cercone (NYC), King Demon (MIA) & INPA (MIA)
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/t-magazine/arrington-de-dionyso-trance-dancers-saint-laurent.html
http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/an-outsider-artist-takes-on-the-trolls/
Arrington de Dionyso gives us so much in any single work that we often feel drunk while viewing them, which is entirely fitting because Dionysus is the god of wine and reverie. The thing that always gets me about Arrington de Dionyso’s paintings is their overabundance: their generosity, their imagination.
Artist Bio
Arrington de Dionyso (born Chicago, IL) is an artist and experimental musician (Old Time Religun, Malaikat dan Singa, This Saxophone Kills Fascists) living in Olympia, WA. For the past two decades, his work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at The Smell (Los Angeles, CA), The Department of Safety (Anacortes, WA), Las Cruxes Gallery (Austin, TX), Comet Pizza and Ping Pong (Washington, DC), Septima Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Fabrica Fluxus (Bari, Italy), Atelier Cardenas Bellanger (Paris France), Festival Invisible (Brest, France), and in Portland, OR, at Disjecta and Work/Sound. His designs were featured prominently on prints and embroideries in Saint Laurent's Psych Rock Collection for Spring/Summer 2015.
About the Work
Beings gather in Dionyso’s world to celebrate and evoke other spirits, other feelings, cosmic feelings, but not to mock or disturb. Like Paul Klee’s toy world of puppets, occult gardens, and crepuscular fish tanks, Dionyso’s cosmos is free flowing and boundless. Anything and everything can happen, and anything usually does happen so long as it’s not too spooky or an affront to The Spirits.
What makes Dionyso’s work modern is his technique. Animal bodies, human forms, plants, antlers, wings, faces and space itself are reduced to their essentials. The beings are elaborately designed, but there’s no fussiness; the forms themselves and their invention are more important than minute details, like cave paintings, or the characters in a Minoan fresco. The space is limitless because it’s in our mind. There’s no need for atmospheric, illusory depth, or even perspective here because everything’s already right there. We fill in the blanks with our imagination, more evidence of Dionyso’s generosity.
But what makes Dionyso contemporary is a feeling of being lost and found, neither here nor there: things becoming other things either through biological morphosis, faerie magick, or by putting on a mask or another creature’s head. It looks like the distant past, yet it also could be from a post-technological future. Specific, yet nonspecific, it’s all totally “right here,” but it’s also sort of elusive, like chasing a mirage, The Spirits laughing at us, inviting us to play, yet always just out of reach, like a pagan sunset made of millions of spiderwebs.
Excerpt - Lawrence Pearce’s Introduction to Arrington de Dionyso’s book of concert poster work, Lost & Found.
In the Project Room
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=934173903425519
December 6th
Opening Reception @ 7 pm
Musical Performances @9 pm
with Dean Cercone (NYC), King Demon (MIA) & INPA (MIA)
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/t-magazine/arrington-de-dionyso-trance-dancers-saint-laurent.html
http://www.seattleweekly.com/music/an-outsider-artist-takes-on-the-trolls/
Arrington de Dionyso gives us so much in any single work that we often feel drunk while viewing them, which is entirely fitting because Dionysus is the god of wine and reverie. The thing that always gets me about Arrington de Dionyso’s paintings is their overabundance: their generosity, their imagination.
Artist Bio
Arrington de Dionyso (born Chicago, IL) is an artist and experimental musician (Old Time Religun, Malaikat dan Singa, This Saxophone Kills Fascists) living in Olympia, WA. For the past two decades, his work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at The Smell (Los Angeles, CA), The Department of Safety (Anacortes, WA), Las Cruxes Gallery (Austin, TX), Comet Pizza and Ping Pong (Washington, DC), Septima Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Fabrica Fluxus (Bari, Italy), Atelier Cardenas Bellanger (Paris France), Festival Invisible (Brest, France), and in Portland, OR, at Disjecta and Work/Sound. His designs were featured prominently on prints and embroideries in Saint Laurent's Psych Rock Collection for Spring/Summer 2015.
About the Work
Beings gather in Dionyso’s world to celebrate and evoke other spirits, other feelings, cosmic feelings, but not to mock or disturb. Like Paul Klee’s toy world of puppets, occult gardens, and crepuscular fish tanks, Dionyso’s cosmos is free flowing and boundless. Anything and everything can happen, and anything usually does happen so long as it’s not too spooky or an affront to The Spirits.
What makes Dionyso’s work modern is his technique. Animal bodies, human forms, plants, antlers, wings, faces and space itself are reduced to their essentials. The beings are elaborately designed, but there’s no fussiness; the forms themselves and their invention are more important than minute details, like cave paintings, or the characters in a Minoan fresco. The space is limitless because it’s in our mind. There’s no need for atmospheric, illusory depth, or even perspective here because everything’s already right there. We fill in the blanks with our imagination, more evidence of Dionyso’s generosity.
But what makes Dionyso contemporary is a feeling of being lost and found, neither here nor there: things becoming other things either through biological morphosis, faerie magick, or by putting on a mask or another creature’s head. It looks like the distant past, yet it also could be from a post-technological future. Specific, yet nonspecific, it’s all totally “right here,” but it’s also sort of elusive, like chasing a mirage, The Spirits laughing at us, inviting us to play, yet always just out of reach, like a pagan sunset made of millions of spiderwebs.
Excerpt - Lawrence Pearce’s Introduction to Arrington de Dionyso’s book of concert poster work, Lost & Found.
November 30 through December 20, 2017
HOPE & REALITY
A collaboration of Tony Chirinos and Baker
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=934187943424115
Opening Reception December 2
6 pm to 10 pm
The peace of mind in knowing, or at least thinking there is an afterlife and it's all guaranteed, or so you think. Showing loyalty to your saints or gods. The Hope: that this loyalty will grant you an eternal afterlife of happiness. The truth is death does not discriminate. The Reality: death is the only guarantee we have in life, we all have to go sometime.
“Nobody wants to talk about death, everyone wants to live forever especially in Miami where we live in this plastic world…”
Two photographers intertwine their creative forces to visualize the vulnerability of life, and the inevitable coming of death. Tony Chirinos and Baker come together to show their projects “Requiescat in Pace” and “God Boxes” to create a visual narrative that illustrates spiritualism and the possible afterlife.
https://tropicult.com/2017/11/hope-reality/
Artist Bios
Tony Chirinos received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. Trained as a Bio-medical photographer in 1985 at Miami Children’s Hospital and in 1989, he created the Medical photography department at Baptist Health Systems. Chirinos is a fellow of the South Florida Cultural Consortium. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has participated in the III Bronx Latin American Art Biennial. His series Cocks was featured in www.finitefoto.com Issue seventeen: Vice. Chirinos was among 100 photographers that participated in Review Santa Fe 2012. His work is in the collections of Candela Collection, CPW, Light Work, Photographic Center Northwest, Enfoco, and Mount Sinai Medical Center.
www.tonychirinos.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chirinostony/
Twitter https://twitter.com/chirinostony1
Baker was born and raised in Miami, Florida and has been photographing for the past 11 years. When Baker is not taking care of the darkrooms at Miami Dade College, Kendall campus or grooming dogs, you can find him skateboarding, playing drums, drawing or hosting his monthly special on Jolt radio called The Pepe Timbales Show.
HOPE & REALITY
A collaboration of Tony Chirinos and Baker
Images: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=934187943424115
Opening Reception December 2
6 pm to 10 pm
The peace of mind in knowing, or at least thinking there is an afterlife and it's all guaranteed, or so you think. Showing loyalty to your saints or gods. The Hope: that this loyalty will grant you an eternal afterlife of happiness. The truth is death does not discriminate. The Reality: death is the only guarantee we have in life, we all have to go sometime.
“Nobody wants to talk about death, everyone wants to live forever especially in Miami where we live in this plastic world…”
Two photographers intertwine their creative forces to visualize the vulnerability of life, and the inevitable coming of death. Tony Chirinos and Baker come together to show their projects “Requiescat in Pace” and “God Boxes” to create a visual narrative that illustrates spiritualism and the possible afterlife.
https://tropicult.com/2017/11/hope-reality/
Artist Bios
Tony Chirinos received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. Trained as a Bio-medical photographer in 1985 at Miami Children’s Hospital and in 1989, he created the Medical photography department at Baptist Health Systems. Chirinos is a fellow of the South Florida Cultural Consortium. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He has participated in the III Bronx Latin American Art Biennial. His series Cocks was featured in www.finitefoto.com Issue seventeen: Vice. Chirinos was among 100 photographers that participated in Review Santa Fe 2012. His work is in the collections of Candela Collection, CPW, Light Work, Photographic Center Northwest, Enfoco, and Mount Sinai Medical Center.
www.tonychirinos.com
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/chirinostony/
Twitter https://twitter.com/chirinostony1
Baker was born and raised in Miami, Florida and has been photographing for the past 11 years. When Baker is not taking care of the darkrooms at Miami Dade College, Kendall campus or grooming dogs, you can find him skateboarding, playing drums, drawing or hosting his monthly special on Jolt radio called The Pepe Timbales Show.
October 20 Through November 19, 2017
REINAS DEL AZUCAR
Helen Maurene Cooper & Rosemarie Romero
Reinas Del Azucar is a collaborative series of photographs by Chicago artist Helen Maurene Cooper, known for her photographic tableaux and portraits of Chi-town's Nail Art Culture, and Miami Artist & Nail Tech Rosemarie Romero of Porn Nail$, known for her mobile nail salon installations, camp performances, and colorful nail designs.
With images of manicured hands against pastel backgrounds, featuring candy-themed nail art inspired by the flamboyant colors, swirls, and textures of sweets from Mexico, Latin America and the United States, Cooper and Romero draw parallels between dulces and lacquered nails. Azúcar!, Celia Cruz's most famous catchphrase inspired by her beloved cafecito, is both a battle cry for Latinx POC and the pursuit of pleasure. These colorful and bold nails celebrate and reclaim chusmeria- a derogatory term of 'being too loud, too sexual, too latinx, too queer,' as a model of resistance against conformity, machismo, cultural puritanism.
Reinas Del Azucar is a tribute to Nail Art as symbols of feminine excess, exotic-otherness, pleasure, and cultural exchange combined with the fierce attitude of those who wear it by embracing Miami Rococo Aesthetics and the embodiment of radical chusmeria. The exhibit also highlights the deep friendships created by nail artists and their patrons. Both give and receive pleasure, and share their triumphs and darkest secrets. Nail art functions as an escape from the harsh realities of life. The role of the nail artist is to sweeten the world with sugar and heal psychic wounds.
Accompanying the photographs is the installation of the Porn Nail$ Salon by artist Rosemarie Romero, which embodies the spirit of radical chusmeria. A Porn Nail$ Salon will be open for the duration of the exhibit. Porn Nail$ is a mobile queer-feminist nail salon that infiltrates public space with spectacles of latinx excess. Clients are provided with manicures and friendship in exchange for gossip about love, sex, and work. Employing camp performances and Miami kitsch aesthetics, Romero constructs humorous social encounters and cultural exchanges that critically celebrates latinx identity and sexuality, while exploring the aesthetic politics of gender, race, and class by wielding humor, nail polish, glitter, and flamboyant color. As an artist and licensed manicurist, she uses the healing powers of touch, beauty, laughter, and empathy as tools for human connection. Porn Nail$ is a political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria, as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
Artist Bios
Helen Maurene Cooper
Helen Maurene Cooper's work is driven by personal connection and building relationships with community. She is an artist who uses numerous photographic processes along with installation and publication to connect and build relationships, explore feminism, entrepreneurship, small economies, the power of adornment, and intimacy.
Since 2008, her worked has been focused on place- based exploration, specifically within beauty- centered communities in Chicago. Subjects have included custom made prom dresses, drag queen culture, and the specialty minority-owned nail businesses of Chicago’s west side.
She has received funding for exhibitions through the University of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Council of Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her work has been reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, New City, International Forum for Contemporary Visual Arts, New York Photo review, Temporary Art Review and Bust.com.
Her monograph, Paint & Polish, Cultural Economy and Visual Culture from the West Side, Onomatopee, Eindhoven Netherlands, debuts in 2017 with an accompanying exhibition in the Netherlands in May.
http://hmcooper.com/home.html
Rosemarie Romero
Rosemarie Romero fuses tropi-camp performances, Miami kitsch, and performative paintings to critically celebrate Latinx identity, gender fluidity, sexuality, and feminine excess. Her current project, Porn Nail$™, is an interactive installation & performance project that functions as a mobile queer-feminist nail salon.. She constructs interactive spectacles and cultural exchanges that explore the aesthetic politics of gender, race, class, women's work and sexuality by wielding humor, nail polish, glitter, and flamboyant color. Clients are provided with manicures, gossip, intimacy, and friendship in exchange for juicy conversations about sex, love, and work specific to their locality. Using nail lacquer, embellishments, and collage elements, these nails function as a code for flaunting exotic-otherness, cultural hybridity, and shared assimilation into queerness through flamboyant color. Porn Nail$™ is a political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria - being too loud, too sexual, too queer - as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
http://www.rosemarieromero.com
Saloon Conversation on Miami Rococo Aesthetics
and Reinas Del Azucar with Artists Q&A
October 21, 2017
A conversation about Miami Rococo Aesthetics and Reinas Del Azucar celebrating the political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria - being too loud, too sexual, too queer - as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
Jillian Hernandez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California–San Diego, independent curator, and community arts worker. Her transdisciplinary research investigates questions regarding processes of racialization, sexualities, embodiment, girlhood, and the politics of cultural production ranging from underground and mainstream hip hop to visual and performance art. She is currently working on a book about the Miami aesthetic and Rococo.
REINAS DEL AZUCAR
Helen Maurene Cooper & Rosemarie Romero
Reinas Del Azucar is a collaborative series of photographs by Chicago artist Helen Maurene Cooper, known for her photographic tableaux and portraits of Chi-town's Nail Art Culture, and Miami Artist & Nail Tech Rosemarie Romero of Porn Nail$, known for her mobile nail salon installations, camp performances, and colorful nail designs.
With images of manicured hands against pastel backgrounds, featuring candy-themed nail art inspired by the flamboyant colors, swirls, and textures of sweets from Mexico, Latin America and the United States, Cooper and Romero draw parallels between dulces and lacquered nails. Azúcar!, Celia Cruz's most famous catchphrase inspired by her beloved cafecito, is both a battle cry for Latinx POC and the pursuit of pleasure. These colorful and bold nails celebrate and reclaim chusmeria- a derogatory term of 'being too loud, too sexual, too latinx, too queer,' as a model of resistance against conformity, machismo, cultural puritanism.
Reinas Del Azucar is a tribute to Nail Art as symbols of feminine excess, exotic-otherness, pleasure, and cultural exchange combined with the fierce attitude of those who wear it by embracing Miami Rococo Aesthetics and the embodiment of radical chusmeria. The exhibit also highlights the deep friendships created by nail artists and their patrons. Both give and receive pleasure, and share their triumphs and darkest secrets. Nail art functions as an escape from the harsh realities of life. The role of the nail artist is to sweeten the world with sugar and heal psychic wounds.
Accompanying the photographs is the installation of the Porn Nail$ Salon by artist Rosemarie Romero, which embodies the spirit of radical chusmeria. A Porn Nail$ Salon will be open for the duration of the exhibit. Porn Nail$ is a mobile queer-feminist nail salon that infiltrates public space with spectacles of latinx excess. Clients are provided with manicures and friendship in exchange for gossip about love, sex, and work. Employing camp performances and Miami kitsch aesthetics, Romero constructs humorous social encounters and cultural exchanges that critically celebrates latinx identity and sexuality, while exploring the aesthetic politics of gender, race, and class by wielding humor, nail polish, glitter, and flamboyant color. As an artist and licensed manicurist, she uses the healing powers of touch, beauty, laughter, and empathy as tools for human connection. Porn Nail$ is a political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria, as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
Artist Bios
Helen Maurene Cooper
Helen Maurene Cooper's work is driven by personal connection and building relationships with community. She is an artist who uses numerous photographic processes along with installation and publication to connect and build relationships, explore feminism, entrepreneurship, small economies, the power of adornment, and intimacy.
Since 2008, her worked has been focused on place- based exploration, specifically within beauty- centered communities in Chicago. Subjects have included custom made prom dresses, drag queen culture, and the specialty minority-owned nail businesses of Chicago’s west side.
She has received funding for exhibitions through the University of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Council of Eindhoven, Netherlands. Her work has been reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, New City, International Forum for Contemporary Visual Arts, New York Photo review, Temporary Art Review and Bust.com.
Her monograph, Paint & Polish, Cultural Economy and Visual Culture from the West Side, Onomatopee, Eindhoven Netherlands, debuts in 2017 with an accompanying exhibition in the Netherlands in May.
http://hmcooper.com/home.html
Rosemarie Romero
Rosemarie Romero fuses tropi-camp performances, Miami kitsch, and performative paintings to critically celebrate Latinx identity, gender fluidity, sexuality, and feminine excess. Her current project, Porn Nail$™, is an interactive installation & performance project that functions as a mobile queer-feminist nail salon.. She constructs interactive spectacles and cultural exchanges that explore the aesthetic politics of gender, race, class, women's work and sexuality by wielding humor, nail polish, glitter, and flamboyant color. Clients are provided with manicures, gossip, intimacy, and friendship in exchange for juicy conversations about sex, love, and work specific to their locality. Using nail lacquer, embellishments, and collage elements, these nails function as a code for flaunting exotic-otherness, cultural hybridity, and shared assimilation into queerness through flamboyant color. Porn Nail$™ is a political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria - being too loud, too sexual, too queer - as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
http://www.rosemarieromero.com
Saloon Conversation on Miami Rococo Aesthetics
and Reinas Del Azucar with Artists Q&A
October 21, 2017
A conversation about Miami Rococo Aesthetics and Reinas Del Azucar celebrating the political-aesthetic expression of radical chusmeria - being too loud, too sexual, too queer - as a model for pleasure, empowerment, and feminist resistance.
Jillian Hernandez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department and Critical Gender Studies Program at the University of California–San Diego, independent curator, and community arts worker. Her transdisciplinary research investigates questions regarding processes of racialization, sexualities, embodiment, girlhood, and the politics of cultural production ranging from underground and mainstream hip hop to visual and performance art. She is currently working on a book about the Miami aesthetic and Rococo.
August 25, 2017 - September 29, 2017
CUATRO DESEOS
A Collaboration of
Katiana Elena, Alejandra Abad, Ana Parra and Melanie Wu
Space is excited to present CUARTO DESEOS, a collaborative installation by Borsch Corp fellows and interns Alejandra Abad, Katiana Elena, Melanie Wu and Ana Parra. Together they are creating a living forest that serves as a setting for each artist’s video work. Projected onto floating sculptures and the ground of the forest, the series of video feature unique and symbolic visual stories of the realm of the tangible and the realm of wishes. We invite the audience to experience this physical representation of a collective dream state.
FOLD
Alejandra Abad
Song credit: Koala Collage
Voices feeding the unknown
And if you are looking for something, somewhere you'll face it in time
If you're looking for something you'll find pieces of sky, Stella
If you're looking for something, you'll find pieces of everything
Stella, fold into pieces, Stella, fold into four
Visual images of form and movement emerge through minimalistic elements that become complex as the layers mesh together. The poetic basis for the lyrics concerns understanding patterns, looking for meaning in the geometry of the universe, and not knowing how we came to be.
777 (You Can Only Dream With Your Eyes closed)
Katiana Elena
I live in a world full of color, familiar and unfamiliar faces. I explore life without all the optic nerves you probably have, so how do I dream safely? Nature takes me to a moment where only my thoughts matter. My videos are inspired by my current feels; I see myself moving forward in a very visual time, surrounded by passion and watching eyes.
Fruit-filled
Melanie Wu
Humans instinctively crave for fruit. Fruit is sweet. Fruit has an appealing aroma. Humans instinctively crave for relationships. Specifically sweet relationships that emit an appealing aroma. However, with time fruit rot similar to the rotting of a relationship, but humans still find a way to stop the rotting by finding a seed and replanting it.
Not Here
Ana Parra
spaces around me
fresh and run down
are all the same at one point
trying to constantly find comfort in places that don’t exist
trying to make a home for myself in the void
where can i go next?
During Miami’s current renaissance, I’m eager to find a place for myself to flourish but I feel out of place almost anywhere. Going through this repetitive process over and over again and deciding that’ll I’ll just make one for myself whether it be in physically or mentally. You can come too.
Artist Info
Alejandra Abad
web: http://alejandraabad.com/ /
instagram: @4le_art
Katiana Elena
Site: http://www.katianaelena/com
instagram: @k.a.t.elena
Melanie Wu
instagram: @melaniewuu
Ana Parra
web: http://anacparra.weebly/com
instagram: @sifriiina
CUATRO DESEOS
A Collaboration of
Katiana Elena, Alejandra Abad, Ana Parra and Melanie Wu
Space is excited to present CUARTO DESEOS, a collaborative installation by Borsch Corp fellows and interns Alejandra Abad, Katiana Elena, Melanie Wu and Ana Parra. Together they are creating a living forest that serves as a setting for each artist’s video work. Projected onto floating sculptures and the ground of the forest, the series of video feature unique and symbolic visual stories of the realm of the tangible and the realm of wishes. We invite the audience to experience this physical representation of a collective dream state.
FOLD
Alejandra Abad
Song credit: Koala Collage
Voices feeding the unknown
And if you are looking for something, somewhere you'll face it in time
If you're looking for something you'll find pieces of sky, Stella
If you're looking for something, you'll find pieces of everything
Stella, fold into pieces, Stella, fold into four
Visual images of form and movement emerge through minimalistic elements that become complex as the layers mesh together. The poetic basis for the lyrics concerns understanding patterns, looking for meaning in the geometry of the universe, and not knowing how we came to be.
777 (You Can Only Dream With Your Eyes closed)
Katiana Elena
I live in a world full of color, familiar and unfamiliar faces. I explore life without all the optic nerves you probably have, so how do I dream safely? Nature takes me to a moment where only my thoughts matter. My videos are inspired by my current feels; I see myself moving forward in a very visual time, surrounded by passion and watching eyes.
Fruit-filled
Melanie Wu
Humans instinctively crave for fruit. Fruit is sweet. Fruit has an appealing aroma. Humans instinctively crave for relationships. Specifically sweet relationships that emit an appealing aroma. However, with time fruit rot similar to the rotting of a relationship, but humans still find a way to stop the rotting by finding a seed and replanting it.
Not Here
Ana Parra
spaces around me
fresh and run down
are all the same at one point
trying to constantly find comfort in places that don’t exist
trying to make a home for myself in the void
where can i go next?
During Miami’s current renaissance, I’m eager to find a place for myself to flourish but I feel out of place almost anywhere. Going through this repetitive process over and over again and deciding that’ll I’ll just make one for myself whether it be in physically or mentally. You can come too.
Artist Info
Alejandra Abad
web: http://alejandraabad.com/ /
instagram: @4le_art
Katiana Elena
Site: http://www.katianaelena/com
instagram: @k.a.t.elena
Melanie Wu
instagram: @melaniewuu
Ana Parra
web: http://anacparra.weebly/com
instagram: @sifriiina
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June 8 - July 5, 2017
A LOOK BACK
Artist Collaborations at Space Mountain - Little River December 2013-February 2015
Between December 2013 and February 2015, Space Mountain called Little River home. During that time, a series of artist collaborations and artist-curated shows took place. This is a look back at the rich and diverse dialogue which took place among these artists.
Artists Represented in Look Back
We invite you to visit our Facebook photo albums to view the pieces in each of these shows.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=albums
Big Deal
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Nicole Mijares
Renata Rojo
Pre-Cray
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Dino Felipe
Certain Sensitivity
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Kyle Chapman
As the King and Pawn Await Dawn
(artist collaboration)
Joel Hernandez
Kris Garcia
No Returns
(artist collaboration)
Joe Locke
Alicia Apfel
Indescribable Thread(s)
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Danny Gonzalez
Amanda Ortega
Let's Talk About Nicki Minaj: A Rococo Side-Show/Salon
(artist collaboration curated by Jillian Hernandez)
Crystal Pearl
Anya Wallace
Jillian Hernandez
Rosemary Romero
AOS Internationale's Folding the Black Flag
( artist collaboration)
Kalan Sherrard
James Concannon
Handelsman-The Musical
( artist collaboration)
Jason Handlesman
A LOOK BACK
Artist Collaborations at Space Mountain - Little River December 2013-February 2015
Between December 2013 and February 2015, Space Mountain called Little River home. During that time, a series of artist collaborations and artist-curated shows took place. This is a look back at the rich and diverse dialogue which took place among these artists.
Artists Represented in Look Back
We invite you to visit our Facebook photo albums to view the pieces in each of these shows.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=albums
Big Deal
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Nicole Mijares
Renata Rojo
Pre-Cray
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Dino Felipe
Certain Sensitivity
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Kyle Chapman
As the King and Pawn Await Dawn
(artist collaboration)
Joel Hernandez
Kris Garcia
No Returns
(artist collaboration)
Joe Locke
Alicia Apfel
Indescribable Thread(s)
(curated by Autumn Casey)
Danny Gonzalez
Amanda Ortega
Let's Talk About Nicki Minaj: A Rococo Side-Show/Salon
(artist collaboration curated by Jillian Hernandez)
Crystal Pearl
Anya Wallace
Jillian Hernandez
Rosemary Romero
AOS Internationale's Folding the Black Flag
( artist collaboration)
Kalan Sherrard
James Concannon
Handelsman-The Musical
( artist collaboration)
Jason Handlesman
DREAM SMALL
OPENING CEREMONY
with performance by Interloper
April 8 @ 8 pm
Dream Small, an exhibition, aims to build a narrative through environmental story telling as a means to reflect a downtrodden social-political landscape one can see the United States morphing and oozing into.
The Dream Small exhibition events
April 8th: Opening ceremony with performance by Interloper
April 15th: Noise composition work shop and a musical performance by Fir //Sloth(Gulf Coast)
//Human Fluid Rot //Two Coin afterwards.
April 20th: Kram Magazine workshop, self preservation through self publishing.
April 21th: Movie screening of three short films by Clifton Childree
April 28th: Miami Grrl workshop, 98 Seconds: The Every Day American Story/ dismantling American R*pe Culture
April 29th: Heavy Day’s spring release and No Locals Show, music by non-miami bands
The Water Colors/Ian Iachimoe/KVT1
OPENING CEREMONY
with performance by Interloper
April 8 @ 8 pm
Dream Small, an exhibition, aims to build a narrative through environmental story telling as a means to reflect a downtrodden social-political landscape one can see the United States morphing and oozing into.
The Dream Small exhibition events
April 8th: Opening ceremony with performance by Interloper
April 15th: Noise composition work shop and a musical performance by Fir //Sloth(Gulf Coast)
//Human Fluid Rot //Two Coin afterwards.
April 20th: Kram Magazine workshop, self preservation through self publishing.
April 21th: Movie screening of three short films by Clifton Childree
April 28th: Miami Grrl workshop, 98 Seconds: The Every Day American Story/ dismantling American R*pe Culture
April 29th: Heavy Day’s spring release and No Locals Show, music by non-miami bands
The Water Colors/Ian Iachimoe/KVT1
March 16 through April 7, 2017
MIXED CONNECTIONS
Camilla Montoya
Richard Verges
Alicia Hancock Apfel
Images
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=842089105967333
MIXED CONNECTIONS
Camilla Montoya
Richard Verges
Alicia Hancock Apfel
Images
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=842089105967333
2016
December 2, 2016 through February 17, 2017
IGNORANCE IS THE WEAPON OF MASS INSTRUCTION
Jon Konkol (OH/NYC)
Jacquenette Arnette (TX)
Andre Leon Gray (NC)
Kurt Nahar (SURINAME)
Most appreciate a shade tree, but rarely look at it. One could pass a tree every day and have no idea it was a lynching tree still alive.
And many live on blue islands and fly over a red sea. They may have never dipped a toe in that sea.
http://artisabout.com/2016/12/03/ignorance-weapon-mass-instruction-2/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=740420642800847
IGNORANCE IS THE WEAPON OF MASS INSTRUCTION
Jon Konkol (OH/NYC)
Jacquenette Arnette (TX)
Andre Leon Gray (NC)
Kurt Nahar (SURINAME)
Most appreciate a shade tree, but rarely look at it. One could pass a tree every day and have no idea it was a lynching tree still alive.
And many live on blue islands and fly over a red sea. They may have never dipped a toe in that sea.
http://artisabout.com/2016/12/03/ignorance-weapon-mass-instruction-2/
https://www.facebook.com/pg/spacemountainmia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=740420642800847
2015
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Last Months of Space at its old location 8363 NE 2nd Avenue
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February 14 through February 21, 2015
HANDELSMAN-The Musical
Jason Handelsman
HANDELSMAN-The Musical, a multi-media experience, will take place at Space Mountain on the evening of Valentine’s Day from 6 to 9 pm (Saturday, February 14, 2015) with an installation remaining in the galleries through February 21st.
The walls of the gallery room will be festooned with site-specific objects, including panels of different sizes with various patterns of colored pieces of beautiful foam attached. The purpose of the foam is to absorb the HANDELSMANTRA, which will be performed in 3 parts, with a live movement installation choreographed by Sandra Portal-Andreu and performed by Belaxis Buil, Vanessa Rubio and Connie Fernandez. The HANDELSMANTRA is a repetition of Jason Handelsman’s last name accompanied by a harmonium. The site-specific pieces will be available for acquisition following the performance.
The birth of the HANDELSMANTRA will be acknowledged through the offer of Filmmaker David Lynch’s Signature Cup Organic Coffee during HANDELSMAN-The Musical, personally donated by the filmmaker. Jason’s interview with David Lynch about his love of coffee led to Lynch’s arrangement of a Lynch Foundation scholarship for Jason to study and practice Transcendental Meditation. From Jason’s study and practice, the HANDELSMANTRA arose.
A recording of one of three 40-minute phone calls Jason held with Lynch will be played in Space’s smaller gallery. Also, as part of the exhibit in the small gallery, there will be a projection of a recent two hour interview that Jason did with King Buzzo of the Melvins, titled: Life Lessons with King Buzzo.
Space congratulates Jason on his 2015 ARTLURKER’s Miami Writer’s Prize. Jason's entry describes the evolution of the HANDELSMANTRA.
http://www.artlurker.com/2015/01/announcing-the-winner-of-miami-writers-prize-2014/
HANDELSMAN-The Musical
Jason Handelsman
HANDELSMAN-The Musical, a multi-media experience, will take place at Space Mountain on the evening of Valentine’s Day from 6 to 9 pm (Saturday, February 14, 2015) with an installation remaining in the galleries through February 21st.
The walls of the gallery room will be festooned with site-specific objects, including panels of different sizes with various patterns of colored pieces of beautiful foam attached. The purpose of the foam is to absorb the HANDELSMANTRA, which will be performed in 3 parts, with a live movement installation choreographed by Sandra Portal-Andreu and performed by Belaxis Buil, Vanessa Rubio and Connie Fernandez. The HANDELSMANTRA is a repetition of Jason Handelsman’s last name accompanied by a harmonium. The site-specific pieces will be available for acquisition following the performance.
The birth of the HANDELSMANTRA will be acknowledged through the offer of Filmmaker David Lynch’s Signature Cup Organic Coffee during HANDELSMAN-The Musical, personally donated by the filmmaker. Jason’s interview with David Lynch about his love of coffee led to Lynch’s arrangement of a Lynch Foundation scholarship for Jason to study and practice Transcendental Meditation. From Jason’s study and practice, the HANDELSMANTRA arose.
A recording of one of three 40-minute phone calls Jason held with Lynch will be played in Space’s smaller gallery. Also, as part of the exhibit in the small gallery, there will be a projection of a recent two hour interview that Jason did with King Buzzo of the Melvins, titled: Life Lessons with King Buzzo.
Space congratulates Jason on his 2015 ARTLURKER’s Miami Writer’s Prize. Jason's entry describes the evolution of the HANDELSMANTRA.
http://www.artlurker.com/2015/01/announcing-the-winner-of-miami-writers-prize-2014/
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December 2, 2014 Through February 4, 2015
AOS Internationale's "Folding The Black Flag,"
an entre into Revolutionary Nihilist Pataphysics.
The exposition features an historical 'Folding' of Dadaist, Anarchist, and Post-Deconstructionist Non-Philosophies. Bodies in varying states of medical dissonance and decay (More Dead White Men) stand as analog reflections of capitalist collapse paradigms, a series of Death Marches through the organs of the beast, the construction and installation of hypertextualized totems throughout the urban landscape, a serialized Noise Opera. The paintings, intervened items, text assemblages and combines of the polycephalous AOS body simultaneously desacralize and reify the crumbling detritus of self-cannibalizing refuse-culture into a phoenix of asocial third gender euphoria. Anti-Object, Anti-Art, Anti-AOS.
A collaboration of James Concannon and Kalan Sherrard with site-specific installations, impromptu evening/night gatherings and a series of performance interventions throughout Miami proper and its art markets.
https://www.facebook.com/kalan.sherrard/media_set?set=a.10155442172335355.1073741835.814945354&type=3
http://www.jamesconcannonart.com/folding-the-black-flag/
AOS Internationale's "Folding The Black Flag,"
an entre into Revolutionary Nihilist Pataphysics.
The exposition features an historical 'Folding' of Dadaist, Anarchist, and Post-Deconstructionist Non-Philosophies. Bodies in varying states of medical dissonance and decay (More Dead White Men) stand as analog reflections of capitalist collapse paradigms, a series of Death Marches through the organs of the beast, the construction and installation of hypertextualized totems throughout the urban landscape, a serialized Noise Opera. The paintings, intervened items, text assemblages and combines of the polycephalous AOS body simultaneously desacralize and reify the crumbling detritus of self-cannibalizing refuse-culture into a phoenix of asocial third gender euphoria. Anti-Object, Anti-Art, Anti-AOS.
A collaboration of James Concannon and Kalan Sherrard with site-specific installations, impromptu evening/night gatherings and a series of performance interventions throughout Miami proper and its art markets.
https://www.facebook.com/kalan.sherrard/media_set?set=a.10155442172335355.1073741835.814945354&type=3
http://www.jamesconcannonart.com/folding-the-black-flag/
2014
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October 18 - November 6th, 2014
BACK BURNERS
Featuring work by
Nick Gilmore
Andrew Horton
Gardner Cole Miller
Kristen O'Niel
Yasmin Khalaf
Joe Locke
and
Lorna Ruth Galloway.
FIU MBA Graduates
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.375944805915101.1073741848.231741240335459&
BACK BURNERS
Featuring work by
Nick Gilmore
Andrew Horton
Gardner Cole Miller
Kristen O'Niel
Yasmin Khalaf
Joe Locke
and
Lorna Ruth Galloway.
FIU MBA Graduates
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.375944805915101.1073741848.231741240335459&
Gallery as Studio
Month of September 2014
Installation
September 28 - October 5, 2014
HUMAN RESOURCES
Collaborative Installation
Adrienne Tabet + Xatherine Gonzalez
Human Resources is a collaboration between Adrienne Tabet and Xatherin Lizette exploring elements of their gendered, racialized and commoditized bodies. Against the backdrop of a stifling white cube, sculpture, video and installation is used to bring together human remains with a discourse of resource and exchange.
The body is a site of departure. The subject conceptualizes and curates through a constant state of enter and exit roaming in and out of its form.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.372057639637151.1073741846.231741240335459&
Month of September 2014
Installation
September 28 - October 5, 2014
HUMAN RESOURCES
Collaborative Installation
Adrienne Tabet + Xatherine Gonzalez
Human Resources is a collaboration between Adrienne Tabet and Xatherin Lizette exploring elements of their gendered, racialized and commoditized bodies. Against the backdrop of a stifling white cube, sculpture, video and installation is used to bring together human remains with a discourse of resource and exchange.
The body is a site of departure. The subject conceptualizes and curates through a constant state of enter and exit roaming in and out of its form.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.372057639637151.1073741846.231741240335459&
July 24, 2014
LET'S TALK ABOUT NICKI MINAJ: A ROCOCO SIDE-SHOW/SALON
Jillian Hernandez
Rosemarie Romero
Anya Wallace
Crystal Pearl
This interactive performance happening by Professor Jillian Hernandez is inspired by her research on the race, gender, and body politics of Nicki Minaj. What began as an academic cultural studies research project became a personal obsession with the rapper and reflection into girlhood and aesthetics of rococo excess.
Are you obsessed with Nicki too?
The rococo side-show salon blends superficial thinking with deep play to open up a spontaneous exchange with those who participate on issues like gender and sexuality in hip hop, fetishism, race and authenticity, capitalism and style.
Let's talk. Eat cake. Be decadent.
The salon features a performance/discussion with Jillian Hernandez, a rococo and Minaj-inspired presentation of Rosemarie Romero's Porn Nail$, an interactive project of performing custom nail art, images by Anya Wallace and Crystal Pearl, and cake.
Curated by Jillian Hernandez
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.328918397284409.1073741843.231741240335459&
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https://www.facebook.com/jillian.hernandez1/media_set?set=a.10152588242812250.1073741831.795692249&
LET'S TALK ABOUT NICKI MINAJ: A ROCOCO SIDE-SHOW/SALON
Jillian Hernandez
Rosemarie Romero
Anya Wallace
Crystal Pearl
This interactive performance happening by Professor Jillian Hernandez is inspired by her research on the race, gender, and body politics of Nicki Minaj. What began as an academic cultural studies research project became a personal obsession with the rapper and reflection into girlhood and aesthetics of rococo excess.
Are you obsessed with Nicki too?
The rococo side-show salon blends superficial thinking with deep play to open up a spontaneous exchange with those who participate on issues like gender and sexuality in hip hop, fetishism, race and authenticity, capitalism and style.
Let's talk. Eat cake. Be decadent.
The salon features a performance/discussion with Jillian Hernandez, a rococo and Minaj-inspired presentation of Rosemarie Romero's Porn Nail$, an interactive project of performing custom nail art, images by Anya Wallace and Crystal Pearl, and cake.
Curated by Jillian Hernandez
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.328918397284409.1073741843.231741240335459&
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https://www.facebook.com/jillian.hernandez1/media_set?set=a.10152588242812250.1073741831.795692249&
July 17 - August 15, 2014
Opening of
INDESCRIBABLE THREAD(S)
Danny Gonzalez
Barbara Lemothe
Amanda Ortega
Jessie Riggins
Vinnie Smith
~what~ links us together - or sets one apart - spontaneous instances that capture truth through vision- these 5 young photographers approach their everyday with a new sense of magic realism, underground scenes imbued with poetic weirdness, mystery, and sex.
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.328123384030577.1073741842.231741240335459&
Opening of
INDESCRIBABLE THREAD(S)
Danny Gonzalez
Barbara Lemothe
Amanda Ortega
Jessie Riggins
Vinnie Smith
~what~ links us together - or sets one apart - spontaneous instances that capture truth through vision- these 5 young photographers approach their everyday with a new sense of magic realism, underground scenes imbued with poetic weirdness, mystery, and sex.
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.328123384030577.1073741842.231741240335459&
June 14 - July 12, 2014
NO RETURNS
Joe Locke + Alicia Hancock Apfel
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NO RETURNS
Joe Locke + Alicia Hancock Apfel
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.306632416179674.1073741841.231741240335459&
APRIL 21 - MAY 16, 2014
AS THE KING AND PAWN AWAIT DAWN
A collaborative installation by
Kris Garcia and Joel Hernandez
As the king and pawn await dawn is an allegorical interpretation of systems and rituals that constitute contemporary and historical society. Interpreted in the series of 2 dimensional works and sculptures constructed from found and recycled material depicting functionality and purpose between church and state.
Focusing on the religious doctrine of the threefold office and the hierarchy of society, both works conjure a sensibility that in the game of chess both the king and pawn return to the same box. End.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.280829072093342.1073741839.231741240335459&
http://youtu.be/mBDKruDDB4Q
AS THE KING AND PAWN AWAIT DAWN
A collaborative installation by
Kris Garcia and Joel Hernandez
As the king and pawn await dawn is an allegorical interpretation of systems and rituals that constitute contemporary and historical society. Interpreted in the series of 2 dimensional works and sculptures constructed from found and recycled material depicting functionality and purpose between church and state.
Focusing on the religious doctrine of the threefold office and the hierarchy of society, both works conjure a sensibility that in the game of chess both the king and pawn return to the same box. End.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.280829072093342.1073741839.231741240335459&
http://youtu.be/mBDKruDDB4Q
THAW OUT
MARCH 22 - APRIL 11, 2014
A compilation of works in a variety of media by graduating members of the 2014 FIU BFA Class
Katty Aoun
Angie Arbelaez
Natalia Burgos
Amanda Covach
Christopher Fagundo
Kat Fernandez
Phillip Karp
Barbara Lamothe
Mily Llanos
Marilyn Loddi
Alex Maldonado
Angel Marin
Michelle Martinez
Lisa Montalbano
Michelle Polissaint
Daniel Taveras
Esmeylin Tejeda
Opening Night Performances:
Artist Performance by:
Marilyn Loddi, Guided Eggplantian Spring Meditation
Music Performances by:
gg mozart band experiment
Phantasman
Forest of Time
Claws
juju sigh
roover hook
Dracula
Condom Sex
thawout.tumblr.com
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.271407609702155.1073741836.231741240335459&
MARCH 22 - APRIL 11, 2014
A compilation of works in a variety of media by graduating members of the 2014 FIU BFA Class
Katty Aoun
Angie Arbelaez
Natalia Burgos
Amanda Covach
Christopher Fagundo
Kat Fernandez
Phillip Karp
Barbara Lamothe
Mily Llanos
Marilyn Loddi
Alex Maldonado
Angel Marin
Michelle Martinez
Lisa Montalbano
Michelle Polissaint
Daniel Taveras
Esmeylin Tejeda
Opening Night Performances:
Artist Performance by:
Marilyn Loddi, Guided Eggplantian Spring Meditation
Music Performances by:
gg mozart band experiment
Phantasman
Forest of Time
Claws
juju sigh
roover hook
Dracula
Condom Sex
thawout.tumblr.com
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.271407609702155.1073741836.231741240335459&
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March 6 - 20, 2014
CERTAIN SENSITIVITY
Works by
Kyle Chapman, Sebastian Duncan Portuondo, Reno Reeves
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.269169639925952.1073741835.231741240335459&
CERTAIN SENSITIVITY
Works by
Kyle Chapman, Sebastian Duncan Portuondo, Reno Reeves
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.269169639925952.1073741835.231741240335459&
February 3 - 27 2014
PRE-CRAY
(Exhibit and Performances - 2014 International Noise Conference)
Works by
Sleeper
Ded Cooter
Domingo Castillo
Rick Fantasies
Dino Felipe
Viking Funeral
Max Kane
Nick Klein
Nicholas Klein
Nicholas Ruiz
Maitejosune Urrechaga
Performances by
Jeff
Awkward Kisser
Dion Keith Kerr IV
Dino Felipe
Viking Funeral
Dennis B Fuller
Snakehole
Manny Mangos
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.253880458121537.1073741829.231741240335459&
PRE-CRAY
(Exhibit and Performances - 2014 International Noise Conference)
Works by
Sleeper
Ded Cooter
Domingo Castillo
Rick Fantasies
Dino Felipe
Viking Funeral
Max Kane
Nick Klein
Nicholas Klein
Nicholas Ruiz
Maitejosune Urrechaga
Performances by
Jeff
Awkward Kisser
Dion Keith Kerr IV
Dino Felipe
Viking Funeral
Dennis B Fuller
Snakehole
Manny Mangos
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.253880458121537.1073741829.231741240335459&
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January 24, 2014
PAST TRAUMAS COMIC BOOK RELEASE
&
Works by
Eddy Alvarez and Drew Dakesian
Performances by
Del Vinieel (Atl)
The Jellyfish Brothers
Haochi Waves
& DJ Rat Bastard
PAST TRAUMAS COMIC BOOK RELEASE
&
Works by
Eddy Alvarez and Drew Dakesian
Performances by
Del Vinieel (Atl)
The Jellyfish Brothers
Haochi Waves
& DJ Rat Bastard
December 5 - January 9, 2014
BIG DEAL
Works by
Sara Abruna
Dorys Bello
Serena Dominguez
Nina Hartmann
Sarah Hersey
Jessie Laino
Katie Lasley
Nicole Mijares
Beatriz Monteavaro
Renata Rojo
Veronica Shalom
Simone Thorton
Opening Night Performances By:
Kyle Ryland Bryce Chapman
Rooverhook
For the Virgin Mary
Autrax
Testokra
Sharlyn Evertsz
Bag Hag
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.231762503666666.1073741828.231741240335459&
BIG DEAL
Works by
Sara Abruna
Dorys Bello
Serena Dominguez
Nina Hartmann
Sarah Hersey
Jessie Laino
Katie Lasley
Nicole Mijares
Beatriz Monteavaro
Renata Rojo
Veronica Shalom
Simone Thorton
Opening Night Performances By:
Kyle Ryland Bryce Chapman
Rooverhook
For the Virgin Mary
Autrax
Testokra
Sharlyn Evertsz
Bag Hag
Curated by Autumn Casey
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.231762503666666.1073741828.231741240335459&