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Hispanic Heritage Month
Celebrating Cuban Art Expressions
In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Miramar Cultural Center in collaboration with Roselle Gallery presents the exhibition ¨Celebrating Cuban Art Expressions.¨
The exhibition brings together works by five contemporary Cuban artists, Alicia de la Campa Pak, Arturo Montoto, Esteban Machado Díaz, Miguel Ángel Couret and Sinecio Cuétara Menecia who explore various aspects of Cuban identity, culture and history through their paintings.
Roselle Gallery has selected works that reflect the diversity and richness of contemporary Cuban art, as well as its connection to the roots and traditions of an island that has left a permanent mark on South Florida. The works of the great master Esteban Machado Díaz from his collection "Frida, a Caribbean dream" stand out in this exhibition, which pays tribute to the figure of Frida Kahlo through a philosophical language, where the landscape and figures blend two cultures with a longstanding cultural exchange.
Celebrating Cuban Art Expressions is a unique opportunity to appreciate and immerse yourself in vibrant Cuban artistic expressions that portray the depth of the island's rich historical culture, which for decades was known as the "pearl of the Caribbean" and has long since ceased to show the world their spirit, optimism and artistic voice.
CURATED BY: ROSELLE GALLERY
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In Celebration of Caribbean-American Heritage Month
VERNACULAR SPECTACULAR
Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Diaspora
Charo Oquet, Corrine Stevie, Dudley Alexis, Francisco Maso, Herve Sabin, Jaime Grant, Jessica Gispert, Mark Delmont, Nyugen Smith, Serge Toussaint, Sonia Baez-Hernandez, Warren Bailey, Yanira Collado
Vernacular Spectacular: Art of the Contemporary Caribbean Diaspora celebrates the aesthetics of Caribbean art and culture through a collection of works by artists across geographies and generations. This exhibition seeks to explore the diverse range of artistic productions that are rooted and have evolved through shared histories of colonization, ecology, and resilience. Furthermore, the project chronicles events that bring together this unique region that holds within it an undefinable juxtaposition of bounty and disparity and the compactness of lands interplaying with a vast ocean expanse. The constant of a shared fluidity and sense of adaptability is often expressed through creative means that include, architecture, culinary arts, music, literature, fashion, and the visual arts. These are alchemic productions that defy any set of standard rules and disrupt the status quo.
Black History Exhibit -
From Embarrassment to Pride
January 11 - March 1, 2023
Artist Guylaine Conquet explores black hair history as it relates to her own experience and transition to natural. Black people have been conditioned to think of their hair as a tiresome, time-consuming burden. Many people don’t perceive black hair as a positive attribute and European hair textures are still seen as a standard of beauty. The messages conveyed in her work are the pleasures of being naturally beautiful, being yourself, embracing your difference. Information on The Crown Act is incorporated in this exhibition.
2022
Roots of Irma
May 18 to May 29, 2022
Photo artist Ryan Fitzroy focuses on unearthed roots which symbolize the uprooted lives of those affected by Hurricane Irma.
2022
Human/Nature -
A Series of Soft Sculpture Portraits
March 14, 2022 - May 6, 2022
Human/Nature displayed ten soft sculpture portraits by Amanda Madrigal that explore our delicate relationship with the earth that sustains us. Using materials sourced from her extensive collection of donated and found textiles, Amanda takes the audience through a lush landscape of installed pieces that aim to evoke the same feelings of harmony and balance that are found only in nature. A synthesis between human forms and those inspired by the natural world create moments of surrender by the figures that inhabit them. Figures that express what it means to be fully present. Button up shirts, domestic objects, and various textiles are taken apart and put back together in ways that transcend into the metaphysical and describe the realization that we are all part of the same thread, that of the earth.
Manifested with alluring intricacy and an abundance of repurposed materials, Human/Nature comments on society’s current practice of over-consumption and calls for a more sustainable alternative. One that promises a future in which all living things thrive.
“Only through this process of repeatedly taking things apart and putting them back together a new, am I able to navigate the human experience in a way that makes sense to me. Every stitch is a cathartic and tangible expression of my collaboration with life.
Through this process, I find peace.”