Jun 14
One of the foremost contemporary Cuban artists, Carlos Luna is part of a generation of artists who embrace their strong Cuban heritage and traditions but have reinvented themselves along the way.
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Apr 11
Opening reception: April 15 Â 6 – 9 pm
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art MuseumThe Honors College at FIU presents Aesthetics & Values, its annual student organized and curated exhibition. This year’s exhibition features works in a wide variety of media by nine South Florida based artists: Julie Davidow, Christian Duran, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Aramis Gutierrez, Alette Simmons-Jimenez, Ruben Torres Llorca, Pepe Mar, Yolanda Sanchez, and Robert Thiele. This exhibition is the culmination of the Honors College seminar; in which student from all disciplines examine the role that visual arts play in the social and cultural dialogue of contemporary issues. Come see this dynamic collaboration between artists and students at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. The opening reception is free and open to the public.
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Jun 9
School of Night features works on paper by artist Arturo RodrÃguez. The drawings are inspired by the personal experience of the artist, who feels that between mid-night and dawn his surroundings acquire different dimensions. The School of Night project is actually a collaboration with nine poets whose verses are based in his drawings and together form a book, which will be launched with the exhibition. Curated by Juan A. MartÃnez.
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Jan 22
If you know AgustÃn Fernández’s artwork only from its star turn in Brian DePalma’s 1980 movieDressed to Kill, a new exhibition of the Cuban master’s drawings at the Frost Art Museum offers a more nuanced take on his working method and subject matter.
Fernández’s appearance in an erotic crime thriller is hardly an unexpected pairing. Adept at painting, sculpture and printmaking, he portrayed human sexuality in a way that was both seductive and threatening.
Jan 7
Frost Art Museum
Cuban-American artist AgustÃn Fernández (1928-2006) ranks as one of Surrealism’s most discerning interpreters and is considered to be one of the masters of modern Cuban art.
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Jul 12
Shared Threads: Maria Lino’s Portrait of a Shipibo Healer July 18, 2012 – September 30, 2012
Shared Threads is a collaborative experience where two artists from vastly different cultures and artistic traditions came together in the Amazon region of Pucallpa, Peru. The results are an extraordinary multi-media integration of tradition, design and technique in a soulful exchange of knowledge.
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Oct 12
Florida International University, University Park
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami, FL 33199
Cuban-American artist Humberto Calzada, one of the most renowned artists of his generation, will present an exhibition of recent works on the idea of Fire. In The Fire Next Time, Calzada launches into a new artistic and formal language deviating from his hard-edged approach to a more unpredictable painting style. Calzada seemingly poses an open question between the personal and historical past and the promise of its future.
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Apr 29
South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition
The recent works of the recipients of the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship are presented. […] This exhibit is an essential feature of the fellowship program and enables artists to be shown in a flagship visual arts institution of the region. The artists included in this exhibit are Cooper, Michael Genovese, Francie Bishop Good, Nolan Haan, Sibel Kocabasi, Beatriz Monteavaro, Glexis Novoa, Jonathan Rockford, Bert Rodriguez, FriendsWithYou, TM Sisters and Tonietta Walters.
