Nature Reflected Kari Snyder and Helen Webster August 11- September 29
Miami Beach Regional Library, 227 22nd Street, Miami Beach – 305-535-4219 Reception: Wednesday, August 11, 6:30-8:30pm
The exhibition and installation features individual and collaborative artwork by Miami based artists Helen Webster and Kari Snyder. Both share a common fascination with Florida birds, plants, architecture, and domestic environments. The artists combined Webster’s paintings with Snyder’s printmaking to create a fresh series of works on linen, in addition to their individual work on paper, linen, and wood panel. The theme of the work refers to the influence nature has in our interior spaces both physically and subconsciously. The delicate influence of the nature around us, the habitat specific to Miami, and the importance of its balance and preservation is what this exhibition hopes to bring to light.
Kari Snyder and Helen Webster, Sueños de los Cayos, 2010, engraving and acrylic on linen with appliqué
Paredolia Derek Buckner June 24 – September 26, 2010
Main Library, 1st floor exhibition space, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665
New York artist Derek Buckner works obsessively on series of paintings in which he takes on a specific subject (highway, truck, landscape), shown from a birds’ eye perspective, and explores its variation on a theme. This exhibition features one of Buckner’s latest series of oil paintings portraying images of UFOs as the dominant feature; depictions of the cityscape, buildings, and the earth are implied rather than a central figure. The dreamy yet haunting works explore the poetics of the unfamiliar and accentuate the ambiguity and psychological impact of the unknown.
Derek Buckner, detail, UFO Sighting #2, 2009, oil on panel.
Florida Arcane from The Society For The Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time June 24 – September 19, 2010
Main Library, 2nd floor exhibition space, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665 Reception: Thursday, June 24, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
The Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time presents objects overlooked in history's master narrative. This special installation of photographs, archival materials, and objects documenting the odd, arcane and archaic in the State of Florida is curated by SPLTMT’s Executive Director, Solomon Graves, in collaboration with artist Raul Mendez. The exhibition includes displays on Jacqueline Cochran, the Space Coast Polymath; the Archives of Dr. Eugene Birchwood, documenting his involvement with the Godsped Airstream Community; and brand new images of a failed city in the Okefenokee Swamp!
Chancay/Inca Cosmovision Tree, between 800 CE - 1462 CE., Courtesy of the Society for the Preservation of Lost Things and Missing Time.
Driftwood Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza June 10 – September 7, 2010
Main Library, Auditorium, 101 W. Flagler Street, Miami – 305-375-2665 Reception: Thursday, June 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Artists Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza propose that Miami's salvage yards serve as a kind of diagram for shifts in the city. Discoveries of objects discarded in mass quantities, like analog televisions, pink toilets, and neon ceramic tile reveal changes in the culture, values, functions and aesthetics of a place. Moreno and Oroza will create a flat, graphic environment in the civic space of Main Library's auditorium exploring the "urban process in which things designed for one particular function are used for another." A special tabloid produced for the exhibition functions as patterned wallpaper, space demarcation, and as a vehicle for materials that in some way expand or question the conceptual scope of the exhibition.
Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno, research images, 2010, digital files.
Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection of theMiami-Dade Public Library System May 20 –December 22
North Dade Regional Library, 2455 NW 183 Street, Miami – 305-625-6424
The Library’s permanent art collection focuses on works on paper, photographs, and artists’ books, multiples, and publications. Much of the work references language, literature, or Miami life and history. This exhibition highlights new additions to the collection from 2006 to the present, including work by Christian Marclay, Gary Moore, Mickey Smith, Tauba Auerbach, Julieta Aranda, Michelle Weinberg, and many others.
Christian Marclay, detail, Untitled (The Coasters, Janet Jackson, Soul Asylum, You Can Go and Three Mix Tapes), 2008, unique cyanotype. Image courtesy of Graphicstudio/USF - photo by Will Lytch.
Gleason W. Romer from the Permanent Art Collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System May 13 - December 20
West Dade Regional, 9445 Coral Way, Miami - 305-553-1134
Gleason Waite Romer (1887-1971) photographed people, events, and places throughout South Florida from 1925 until the early 1950s. The black and white photographs, reference prints, and advertisement postcards in this exhibit highlight the architecture and design of residential homes, beach hotels, storefronts and public buildings of early Miami.
Gleason W. Romer, detail, Essex House Hotel (lobby), ca. 1939, photograph, Permanent Collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System
The Miami-Dade Public Library System’s Art Services and Exhibitions Department curates a year-round program of exhibitions, performances, lectures, panel discussions, and community art projects. All of these are free and open to the public.
We also maintain a special collection of over 2,200 works of art. The collection includes works on paper, photographs, artists’ books, and small sculptures, with a focus on African American, Latino, and Miami artists. Additionally, the Vasari Project is an archive that documents the development of the visual arts in Miami-Dade County since 1945. It contains correspondence, press clippings, photographs, oral histories and other materials. The public may access both of these collections for research and reference.
For more information, contact Art Services at 305-375-5048 or art@mdpls.org, and contact the Vasari Project at 305-375-1550 or vasari@mdpls.org
