valeria rocchiccioli: undiscarded

m.f.a. exhibition

Valeria Rocchiccioli
Mar
Plastic caps and zip ties

Born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, Valeria uses mass-produced discarded plastic objects as her main medium; Rocchiccioli’s sculptures remind us that ordinary can become extraordinary. This is evident when the artist shifts the material’s original intention of existence by weaving plastic bottles, caps and zip ties into unpredictable forms. The densely patterned and colorful sculptures draw inevitable comparisons to São Paulo’s landscape, large population and diverse society.

Valeria Rocchiccioli received a B.A. in Industrial Design from the School of Architecture and Communications, Universidade Mackenzie, São Paulo. The artist moved to Miami in 2008, later joining the University of Miami as a graduate student and teaching assistant and will receive her MFA in the spring of 2013. Her works are in private collections and she has exhibited in many local galleries.

Valeria was the recipient of the 2012 Juror Best in Show Award for MFA Candidates Exhibition in the Lowe Art Museum. Next month Valeria will participate in two other exhibitions, Sustainotopia in the Miami Convention Center from April 16 to 22 and Blue Sphere in the Wynwood Exhibition Center.

For information about the artist, email valeriarocchiccioli@gmail.com or visit www.valeriarocchiccioli.com

April 8 – 26
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, April 13
2 – 9 p.m.

jose miguel cabrera: RELATIVity
An Experiment In Suspended Storytelling

m.f.a. exhibition

Jose Miguel Cabrera
Lovesong, 2011

It is deeply programmed in human DNA to question and probe in an attempt to make sense of the world that surrounds us. The frozen moments in Jose Miguel Cabrera's photographic series RELATIVity play on this behavior with scenarios that operate on the level of puzzle and invite the viewer to decipher a story.

Cabrera's images work inter-dependently with the viewer to present a story that unfolds inwardly - as opposed to the conventional tale which unfolds linearly and forward through time. The cinematic montaging of his still images provide the subtle arc to a silent narrative that weaves and explores the phenomenon within a viewer's individual reality and secret history to, ultimately, yield an experience of unique personal meaning.

March 4 – 22
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 9
2 – 9 p.m.

printzero studios presents:
selections from the printzero studios exchange #8

an exhibition of prints dcurated from the printzero studios exchange

Monica Wiesblott
Someplace Wonderful

PrintZero Studios presents an international exhibition of printmaking culled from the PrintZero Studios 8th Exchange. The exhibition was juried by David Jones, Director of Anchor Graphics in Chicago, IL.

A unique exhibition, the artwork is selected from a pool of over 275 artists from around the world who participate in the yearly PrintZero Studios Exchange. Artists who participate in the exchange each produce 15 prints, which are traded amongst the other artist participants. Each artist receives a portfolio of 13 artworks back. Two prints from the artist’s edition are kept for archive and exhibition. From these, our juror selected 30 prints for the exhibition.

The exhibition includes work by John Bergmeier, Marie-France Bertrand, Betsy Best-Spadaro, Jessica Christy, Erin Close, Maritza Davila, David Donovan, James Ehlers, Julie Evanoff, Monica Farrar, Amy Foltz, Janette Fu, Diana Hatchitt, Bridget Henry, Matthew Hopson-Walker, Jon Irving, Hyun-Jin Kim, Leigh Leighton-Wallace, Poli Marichal, David Mohallatee, Clarissa Plank, Eileen Rafferty, Andrea Schumacher, Amaryllis Siniossoglou, Susan T. Smith, Catherine Sollman, Jonathan Stewart, Amy Thompson, Linda Whitney, Monica Weisblott. A catalog of the work has been published in conjunction with the exhibition. The catalog was designed by J. Brad Sturm and can be ordered online. Click here to order.

March 5 – 22
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Wednesday, March 6
5 – 9 p.m.

yusmary cortez: storytelling without words

m.f.a. exhibition

Yusmary Cortez
La Misma Piel, 2012
Pencil and Graphite

Cortez's work examines social and cultural behavior as a medium for communication through observations in traditional courtship, and dance as a form of expression. This interest in relationships has led to her most recent work, a sequence of black and white drawings compiled into a picture book, in which the absence of words opens up possibilities to other interpretations. This exhibition explores interpersonal relationships and how human interactions establish a social reality. Storytelling and personal narrative have been employed in a series of hand drawn and digital illustrations, depicting stories of love, affection, and romance, all combined with subjects of self-realization, self-autonomy as well as the awareness of surrounding situations.

February 4 – 22
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, February 9
2 – 9 p.m.

colby katz: of time and beauty

m.f.a. exhibition

jorge camino and jacqueline russo

b.f.a. exhibition

Colby Katz
Marlene, Untitled #1, FL., 2012
Archival Pigment Print

About the Artist

Colby Katz's MFA photography exhibition, Of Time and Beauty, is a reflection of values in an image obsessed world. She unravels the richness and complexities of contemporary American subculture by providing glimpses into worlds that are as inaccessible as they are comprehensible. Drawn to the complexities of womanhood, her most recent work delves into the lives of three women, each with their own unique view of beauty. As both a former child model and pageant contestant, Katz re-examines notions of feminine beauty in the twenty-first century. She looks at how it is defined, challenged, and revered in modern society while employing an unguarded and open perspective.

About the B.F.A.

The BFA is a four year program with 72 credits completed in the Department of Art and Art History, with the balance of the 120 credits being in general education courses, giving students an in depth education in the arts combined with a solid University liberal arts education. Graduates often go directly into careers in graphics, photography, museum or gallery work, while some go on to graduate work or start their careers in the fine arts.

December 5 – 14
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
5 – 8 p.m.

fifth annual cane art fair

featuring work by university of miami m.f.a. students

Leah Brown
The Dreamer and the Dreamed
cnc cut foam, foamcoat, enamel paint, found objects
90" x 40" x 60"

University of Miami Wynwood Art Gallery presents the Fifth Annual Cane Art Fair.

In honor of Art Basel Miami Beach, the Art and Art History Department presents the 5th Annual Cane Fair featuring artwork of UM students earning their Masters in Fine Arts. Works on display include photography, sculpture, ceramics, painting and more. This exhibition will run from December 5, 2012 – January 25, 2013.

Artists featured in this exhibition include Leah Brown (Sculpture), José Miguel Cabrera (Photography), Dan Listwan (Ceramics), Eddy Lopez (Printmaking), Gerardo Olhovich (Painting), Colin Sherrell (Sculpture), and many more.

The MFA program is a 60 credit, three-year program resulting in a terminal degree that both prepares students to enter the professional, studio art world and qualifies them for college teaching.  Entrance in to the program is highly competitive with applicants coming from across the country and internationally as well.

Eddy Lopez
Untitled (Salome IV)
Photo-lithograph
12” x 18”

The Cane Art Fair will be held at the University of Miami Gallery is located inside the Wynwood Building, 2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, December 8 from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m., in conjunction with Art Basel Miami Beach 2012. The will also be a second reception for the artists during January’s Wywnood Art Walk to be held on Saturday, January 12 from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m.. Other viewing times can be arranged by appointment. For more information, call 305-284-3161 or email m.cardoso1@miami.edu

December 5, 2012 – January 25, 2013
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Receptions
Saturday, December 8, 2012
2 – 10 p.m.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
2 – 9 p.m.

lamia khorshid and alex adams
here & there

faculty exhibition

Alex Adams
The Choir Peter Dormer

University of Miami faculty members Lamia Khorshid and Alex Adams showcase recent works at the University of Miami Gallery in Wynwood.

Khorshid, born in the East, educated in the West, will be showing conceptually driven images that explore relationships, religion, the ebb and flow of family dynamics, and the idea of "home" as a transient ever changing space. Khorshid first turned the camera on herself and her displaced domestic settings in 2010 after an uprooting divorce. In the past year, she reconnected with and explored her relationship with her Muslim family in a new series entitled Family Dynamics. These images will be exhibited publicly for the first time, intertwining with her self-portraits in those spaces she has called "home" during her recent travels.

Alex Adams has 20 years of experience working with glass. Although he considers himself a craftsman and a champion of the crafts, he often works with a variety of materials and could be taken for a sculptor or multimedia artist. His recent works include the use of float, crushed, slumped and blown glass, as well as found objects and wood. Some of the materials used, as well as the inspiration for the work, are from a recent visit to the residence of someone suffering from compulsive hoarding.

Lamia Khorshid
Muslim Bride

About the Artists

Lamia Khorshid is an Egyptian born artist, educated in the United States, currently residing in Miami Beach, Florida. She teaches Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Miami. An active exhibiting artist working in the medium of photography and video, Khorshid’s most recent solo show entitled Hotel St Michel was on exhibit at Curator's Voice Art Projects in the Wynwood Arts District in November 2011. She has exhibited in several of the local art fairs, including Art Palm Beach, MIA, and Art Miami. Her work has been most recently published in several exhibition anthologies by Photo Place Gallery in Vermont. She will be presenting a paper at the upcoming 2013 Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Artist Website: www.lamiakhorshid.com

Originally from New England, Alex Adams credits his love of craft and the industrial setting of glass work with his early exposure to the various manufacturing jobs and factory employment during the two years he spent in Ohio after leaving home at age 16. Between earning his BFA from MassArt and his MFA from Tyler School of Art, Alex owned and operated a glass blowing studio in Tucson, AZ. Until recently, he owned and operated a metal fabrication shop in Philadelphia. He now teaches glass blowing and casting and runs the glass studio at the University of Miami. He also maintains a small art studio located in the Bird Road Arts District. Artist Website: www.artistadams.com

November 9 – 23
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 10, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

lani shapton and kyle trowbridge

faculty exhibition

Lani Shapton
Reverberation #1
2012
Mixed Media
12" X 16"

This exhibition features works that explore the relationship of objects to memory and how technology alters the dynamics of relationships. Shapton and Trowbridge examine how we view the past and how technology affects our present, in two contrasting exhibitions at the UM Gallery in the Wynwood art district. Both artists are professors in the Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami.

Shapton’s work deals with memories and objects that all become subject to the processes of immortalization, memorialization, recollection and loss. She feels minds are faulty cameras attempting to preserve our histories, so many people collect objects and photographs as reminders to stave off the loss of memory that occurs as life progresses. As the notions of memory and self converge, a dichotomous relationship is formed between disintegration and preservation.

Trowbridge’s newest paintings are at once abstract geometric paintings and functioning Quick Response (QR) codes. Their appearance, paint handling and palette reference past canons of abstract painting. Once scanned with the proper application, the paintings also generate text written by the artist. In his paintings, the old and new uncomfortably co-exist. The “digital” reading of the paintings and their intrusive words interrupt the impulse to read the paintings art historically, against the aspects of mid-century abstract painting. The confrontational language in Trowbridge’s words re-iterates this.

Kyle Trowbridge
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2012
Acrylic on Canvas
76" x 76"
Courtesy of Dorsch Gallery

About the Artists

Lani Shapton is an artist and educator, currently a lecturer in printmaking at the University of Miami. She received her MFA in Printmaking from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and has exhibited in the 2011 Southern Graphics Print Conference and the 2012 Oso Bay Printmaking Biennial XVII, among others. Lark Books will publish her most recent work in 500 Prints on Clay in 2013.

Kyle Trowbridge is a native Floridian who lives and works in Miami. His work has been exhibited internationally in Rome, Santo Domingo, Varna, San Juan, New York, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and more recently, as a U.S. representative at the Vienna Biennale. He received his BFA from San Diego State University in 1995 and his MFA from the University of Miami in 1999, where he is currently employed full-time as a professor in the Department of Art and Art History.

October 12 – 28
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, October 13, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

mariah hausman and bryan allen moore

faculty exhibition

Mariah Hausman

The Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (UM) is pleased to present an exhibition by Professors Mariah Fox and Bryan Allen Moore at the UM Gallery in the Wynwood art district.

Mariah Fox's Alphabet of Heroes is a reminder that cultural icons have inspired social change since the earliest of times. This colorful compilation celebrates the imprint of historical and popular artists, thinkers, rebels and revolutionaries. From Geronimo to John Lennon, Fox portrays the greatest and most controversial figures of the 20th century by showing them ready for action, in repose, dreaming, alive. Visitors to the exhibit will see playful mixed media displays combining digital prints, paint, clay and texts honoring the power of the written word.

Bryan Allen Moore’s 10 Years of Thoughts on Landscape represents ten years of work with clay as landscape, with reverence for both the genre of painting and the earth itself. While the artist has been engaged in a conversation about the fragility of the Earth as men have tried to claim ownership over it, the work itself is inspired by the expressive beauty of natural materials both out-of-doors as well as in the studio. The abstractions presented are raw and powerful, but there is also an impermanent futility that goes with any application of unfired clay to such a historical format. The notion of physically taking possession of the Earth is man's greatest delusion of grandeur.

Bryan Allen Moore

About the Artists

Mariah Fox, multimedia artist, illustrator, graphic designer and educator has published her work in countless projects, including 23 books. She has exhibited at Art Basel Miami, and her company Ital Art provides creative services for a variety of clients. When not creating art or writing, Fox lectures on graphic design, illustration and digital media at UM.

Bryan Allen Moore is an internationally exhibited and published artist, writer and educator. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Norway, Germany and Japan. His writings about ceramics have been published in the United States, England, and have been translated into German. He teaches ceramics at UM.

September 7 – 28
UM Gallery
2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 8, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

Natalya Kochak
Day Six, 1:27pm
Mixed Media
2012

incoming graduate exhibition

featuring the work of new m.f.a. students

The Art and Art History Department at the University of Miami (UM), presents the work of incoming Master of Fine Arts (MFA) graduate students, August 21 to September 14 at the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery. To celebrate the exhibition’s opening, there will be a reception for the artists from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Friday, August 24. Admission is free and open to the public.

The new students are Devin Caserta (painting), Natalya Kochak (printmaking), Dennis Loucks (ceramics), Skylor Swan (ceramics), Jena Thomas (painting), John Van Beekum (photography)

The MFA program is a 60 credit, three-year program resulting in a terminal degree that both prepares students to enter the professional, studio art world and qualifies them for college teaching. The program is highly competitive, with applicants coming from across the country and around the world.

August 21 – September 14
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Friday, August 24, 2012
5 – 8 p.m.

Asser Saint-Val
Stop There
24 x 48

staff art exhibition

miami art museum staff

As a creative institution, Miami Art Museum (MAM) employs many talented individuals to art to life for thousands of children and adults through a wide roster of exhibitions and related programs. This summer, MAM will present the third MAM Staff Art Exhibition, showcasing the talents of its artistically-inclined staff.

The exhibition will consist of 30 recent works including painting, sculpture, photography, installation and performance by 21 artists. The artists are Raymond Adrian, Michael Balbone, Kyle Barnette, David Brieske, Juan Carballo, Marcos Cherlo, Clifton Childree, José Herazo-Osorio, Kerry Keeler, Dave Kudzma, Sinisa Kukec, Rosa Naday Garmendia, Jay Oré, Bennie Osborne, Jahaira Rios-Galves, Phaedra Robinson, Asser Saint-Val, Colin Sherrell, Isabel Sobrevilla, Misael Soto and Janese Weingarten.

The exhibition is curated by Jay Oré and is supported by University of Miami Gallery. Oré, MAM's chief preparator and curator for this exhibition says, "I am happy that UM is hosting this event for us and I have been a fan of the programing at the gallery for several years."

July 14 – August 24, 2012
University of Miami Gallery
2750 NW Third Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Receptions
Saturday, July 14, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, August 11, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

ceramic league of maimi

62nd annual members exhibition

The University of Miami's College of Arts and Sciences Gallery will host the Ceramic League of Miami's 62nd annual members exhibition. Ceramicist Randy Johnston juried this year's exhibition, which is free and open to the public.

July 6 – 29, 2012
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Friday, July 6, 2012
6 – 9 p.m.

Martin Casuso
The Great Unknown

martin casuso:
of-things-being-what-they-are-not

m.f.a. exhibition

The Department of Art and Art History, in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (UM), is pleased to announce the relocation of its current presence in the historic Wynwood District. After moving into the Wynwood Building at 2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4, the name of the space will change from the Wynwood Project Space to the University of Miami Gallery.

"The University of Miami Gallery offers a prominent collaborative space for the public to access and enjoy the work of our Art and Art History faculty and students," says Dean Leonidas Bachas, of the College of Arts and Sciences. "Innovative venues like the gallery deepen our cultural ties to the community, and help our college to remain at the forefront of creative expression, inquiry and scholarship."

"The department is excited about moving our off campus gallery to the Wynwood Building," says Professor Lise Drost, chair of the Art and Art History Department. "It is headquarters to a number of other galleries and arts-related businesses."

UM originally moved into the Wynwood Project Space on NW 2nd Avenue in 2007 - five years after Art Basel Miami began the mass revival of art in South Florida, and launched the first annual Cane Art Fair at that location. Altogether, four Cane Art Fairs were held in the Wynwood Project Space, coinciding with Art Basel each year. That tradition will continue in the new gallery.

The inaugural exhibition, "of-things-being-what-they-are-not," by Martin Casuso opens June 9, 2012, and features stop-action video and site-specific installations

Casuso's work has its origins in mainstream handiwork and hobby, with a deliberate shift from a traditional application of these crafts. His work involves an ongoing exploration of how gender, sexual preference, materials and processes relate to themes of domesticity. The materials of craft, sometimes made by unseen hands of the past or by the artist himself, are combined with a more industrial palette of hardware supplies or thrift store housewares to make new "old" objects that are not gender specific, but they in turn reflect Casuso's own relationship with domesticity, shifting from being objects of use to objects of contemplation.

June 4 – 22, 2012
University of Miami Gallery
2750 NW Third Avenue, Suite 4
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, June 9, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

Jacqueline Gopie
Football Boyz

jacqueline gopie: full circle

m.f.a. exhibition

The Department of Art and Art History in the UM College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) at presents "Full Circle," an exhibition by artist Jacqueline Gopie.

Her current work explores issues of memory, identity and class struggle in the Post–Colonial Caribbean culture, combining childhood recollections with experiences from a recent trip to Jamaica.

The over-paintings, multiple versions, and cancellations -- like stories told from memory -- reframe each telling of the presented imagery. The resultant reductions of subject matter, combined with a surreal, tropical palette, evoke feelings and impressions – not minute details of an event or circumstance, similar to the feeling that a fading memory brings. Focusing primarily on children, she portrays images of play, rather than the abject poverty and violence that permeate the ghettos of Kingston.

Gopie was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1960, and immigrated with her family to Brooklyn, New York in 1972. After a 22-year career in the U.S. Army, Gopie attended the University of Miami, where she received a Bachelor's of Fine Art in 2005 and returned for graduate studies in 2009.

"Full Circle" is Gopie's solo exhibition for her Master's of Fine Arts and will be on view June 5 to June 22, at the UM CAS Gallery located at the Wesley Foundation Building, 1210 Stanford Drive, on the Coral Gables campus. There will be a opening reception for the artist on Friday, June 15, 5pm to 9pm. The reception is open to the public.

June 5 – 30, 2012
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
Located at the Wesley Foundation
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Friday, June 8, 2012
5 – 8 p.m.

Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole
Director of the Smithsonian National Museum
of African Art

my love affair with art

dr. johnnetta cole

Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole was appointed the Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) in March, 2009. Founded as a small museum on Capitol Hill in 1964, NMAfA became a part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1979, and in 1987 it moved to its current location on the National Mall. The museum's collection of over 10,000 objects represents nearly every area of the continent of Africa and contains a variety of media and art forms. NMAfA also has an extensive education program. Since the mid-1980's, Dr. Cole has worked with a number of Smithsonian programs. She currently serves on the Scholarly Advisory Board for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, the construction of which will be completed on the National Mall by 2015.

Before assuming her current position, Johnnetta Cole had a long and distinguished career as an educator and humanitarian. Through her work as a college president, university professor and through her published works, speeches and community service she has consistently addressed the issues most important to her; creating racial and gender parity and redressing all other forms of inequality.

Dr. Cole served as president of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. She is the only person to have served as president of these two historically Black colleges for women in the United States. She is also Professor Emerita of Emory University from which she retired as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women's Studies and African American Studies. Johnnetta Cole has been awarded 55 honorary degrees and she is the recipient of numerous awards, including the TransAfrica Forum Global Public Service Award, the Radcliffe Medal, the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Medal, the 2001 Alexis de Tocqueville Award for Community Service from United Way of America, The Joseph Prize for Human Rights presented by the Anti-Defamation League, The Uncommon Height Award from the National Council of Negro Women, The John W. Gardner leadership Award from The Independent Sector, the Lenore and George W. Romney Citizen Volunteer Award from the Points of Light Foundation, Ebony magazines most influential 100 in 2010, George Washington Carver award 2011, Benjamin Franklin Creativity Laureate Award and Washingtonian Magazine's 100 most powerful women 2011.

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Friday, March 23, 2012
4:30 pm
Lowe Art Museum
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Anne Leighton Massoni
Image from the Holding series

borrowed people | constructed places

Borrowed People | Constructed Places explores the creation of identity through the use of appropriated familial and found imagery. Anne Leighton Massoni, Libby Rowe and Kris Sanford each create new stories from found photographs, taking something discarded and nearly lost and creating story anew. Rooted in photographic processes, their work takes form in both 2D and 3D pieces.

With the Holding series, Anne Leighton Massoniutilizes created images and found photographs to present a place between truth and fiction. These contrasting images sit side by side with a thin line painted across their surface, drawing imagined connections. The artist combines photographs of empty spaces (once inhabited or currently inhabited, but with no one present) with found photographs of times that no longer exist (images that are empty of personal memory). Appropriated images are stripped of their tone and cropped but nothing else is disturbed in the image (scratches, imperfections, contrast, etc.) where as the "space" images are adjusted as darkroom prints would be.

In (sub)Division, Libby Rowe seeks to create a societal identity through the exploration of the preconceived and perceived intimacy of "the neighborhood" in comparison to the reality of experience lived within planned communities. These fabricated neighborhoods are ideally fashioned to create community, but in practice separate residents with walls from the outside world of imagined security threats. Inside the walls, residents relate to their neighbors through a series of well-manicured facades. While in reality they are further separated by fences, erected for privacy, and streets arranged in rat-like mazes ending in cul-de-sacs, made to create intimacy between those families who are part of the sacred circles. (sub)Division is an installation of found imagery built into three dimensional house structuresarranged in a double-ended cul-de-sac.

In Kris Sanford's Between the Lines, a 1954 diary from a grandfather she never met serves as the inspiration and background in many of the photographs. The figures that emerge from the pages, taken from found photographs, represent the memories contained in the text. The photographs and diaries are personal and detailed, yet hopelessly incomplete at telling thewhole story. Shallow focus reveals small details, while obscuring the larger story. The individuals pictured serve as characters in a search to uncover lost stories of life, family, and love.

Anne Leighton Massoni is a Specialist Professor of Photography at Monmouth University in New Jersey. She holds a MFA in Photography from Ohio University and a BA in Photography and Anthropology from Connecticut College. Her work relates to both real and fabricated memories.

Libby Rowe holds a MFA from Syracuse University and a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa. Her work addresses issues of identity and belonging. Rowe is an Assistant Professor and the head of photography at University of Texas, San Antonio.

Originally from southeast Michigan, Kris Sanford lives in Mt. Pleasant, MI. She received her MFA in photography from Arizona State University in 2005. Sanford has exhibited work nationally and received a Contemporary Forum Artist Grant from the Phoenix Art Museum in 2010. She is a Lecturer at Central Michigan University.

March 5 – 23, 2012
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW Second Avenue
Miami

Opening Reception
Sunday, March 10, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

Edmund Abaka
Cape Coast Castle
Digital Image

slavery to self determination

an exhibition celebrating black history month

The University of Miami's Department of Art & Art History and Africana Studies present "Slavery to Self Determination" an art exhibition celebrating Black History Month. The exhibition, curated by international art curator Ludlow Bailey, is free and open to the public.

The exhibition will include a series of lectures and will feature the works of African-American artists, Loni Johnson and T. Elliot Mensa, Haitian-American artist, Guy Syllien, Ethiopian artist, Merid Tafesse and Ghanaian Photographer and Historian, Edmund Abaka. The show will be in many ways a visual play about the spiritual journey of five African Diaspora Artists in search of enlightenment, authenticity and self determination in a vastly complicated and challenging world.

Ludlow Bailey has curated shows in Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. He is a lifelong student of Global Diaspora Affairs. He holds degrees from both Brown and Columbia Universities. He currently resides on the island of St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

February 8 – March 2, 2012
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Saturday, March 1-, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

Panel Discussion with Artists and Curator
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
6 – 8 p.m.

Jeffrey Stern
Boshanlu, Tokyo, 2010
Inkjet Print

jeffrey stern: legerdemain

m.f.a. exhibition

Legerdemain, a solo exhibition by photographer Jeffrey Stern, features recent work that explores an unseen view of the interaction of people, their environment and the interplay of light. Through a series of 40 photographs, Stern has captured views from everyday life that we all pass by unaware of their existence.

February 6 – 24, 2012
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW Second Avenue
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, February 11, 2012
2 – 9 p.m.

Jacqueline Gopie
Jordan's Girl 2, 2011
Acrylic on canvas

cane fair

featuring artwork by um mfa students

In honor of Art Basel Miami Beach, the College of Arts and Sciences Art and Art History Department presents the 4th Cane Fair featuring artwork of UM students earning their Masters in Fine Arts. Works on display include photography, sculpture, prints, installation, ceramics, painting and more. This exhibition will run from November 29, 2011 to January 27, 2012. Artists featured in this exhibition include Jacqueline Gopie (Painting), Sean Black (Photography), Abraham Camayd (Printmaking), Michelle Roy (Graphic Design), Cynthia Fleischmann (photography), Leah Brown (Sculpture) and many, many more.

November 29, 2011 – January 27, 2012
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW Second Avenue
Miami

Reception
Saturday, January 14, 2012
6 – 10 p.m.

Kyle Trowbridge
Untitled (IL Duce), 2006
Graphite, Tea Stains, Watercolor
on paper

works on paper

featuring artwork by um faculty and students

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery presents its first Works on Paper exhibition at UM Wynwood Project Space. This exhibition will showcase prints and drawings on paper that are not photographic or completely digitally based. This exhibition will run the entire month of September and October. In celebration of the opening there will be a reception on October 8 from 2 p.m. – 9 p.m. Artists in the exhibition include Brian Curtis, Lise Drost, Thomas Engleman, Eddy Lopez, Barbara Scheer, Abraham Camayd, Tom Virgin, Lani Shapton, Kari Snyder, and Kyle Trowbridge.

September 6 – August 28
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW Second Avenue
Miami

Reception
Saturday, October 8
2 – 9 p.m.

Mariah Fox Hausman
27 Club 2011, 2011
Mixed Media

annual faculty exhibition

exhibit of work by um faculty

The Department of Art and Art History offers a wide range of media for the students to study and has been hiring faculty with the specific goal of creating a very diverse range of approaches to both the handling of materials and philosophies towards art-making; this faculty exhibition of full time and part time faculty will show that range of approaches. This year’s faculty exhibition includes work by UM professors Kathleen Staples (painting), Lani Shapton (printmaking), Brian Curtis (drawing), Lamia Khorshid (photography), Kyle Trowbridge (painting), Mariah Fox Hausman (graphic design), and many more. Works on display include photography, sculpture, prints, ceramics, painting, drawing, video, and more.

September 21 – October 28
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
Located at the Wesley Foundation
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Friday, September 23
5 – 9 p.m.

Gallery Hours
Tuesday – Friday, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Other viewing times can be arranged by appointment.

Sean Black (photo)
House of Photographs, 2011

incoming mfa exhibition

annual exhibit features work by new um grads

This exhibition includes work by new gradaute students Leah Brown (sculpture), Sean Black (photography), Carolyn Chema (photography), Cynthia Fleischmann (photography), Eddy Lopez (printmaking), Gerardo Olhovich-Perez (painting), and Colin Sherrell (sculpture).

August 23 – September 16
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Gallery
Located at the Wesley Foundation
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables

Opening Reception
Friday, August 26
5 – 9 p.m.

Other viewing times can be arranged by appointment.

ashley ford: metrouroboros

m.f.a. exhibition

Metrouroboros is the examination of the contemporary non-place. The term, "non-place" as coined by French anthropologist Marc Augé, indicates a kind of place that has a sense of liminality. These are spaces that are common to our everyday lives, that we pass through with frequency yet don't hold enough significance to be regarded as places - highways, public restrooms, airports. Metrouroboros examines the psychological and sociological impact of these places and the interactions we have within them.

July 9 – 29
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW 2nd Avenue
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, July 9
6 – 9 p.m.

ryan farrell: hybridity

m.f.a. exhibition

By definition, "hybridity" refers in its most basic sense to mixture. Our participation in the petroleum cycle and the seemingly disposable lifestyle we have grown accustomed to bring into question the possible consequences environmentally, socially, and politically that our involvement might come to bear. Ryan attempts to communicate his point of view on this whole mess through the manipulation and exploitation of the prime culprit, the automobile.

May 9 – 26
Wynwood Project Space
2200A NW 2nd Avenue
Miami

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 14
6 – 9 p.m.