PINTA MIAMI ART FAIR 2023

SOLO PROJECT | BOOTH D5

MARINA FONT | ADOPTED LANDSCAPES

VIP OPENING WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 6, 6PM

THURSDAY, DEC 7, 11-8

FRIDAY, DEC 8, 12-8

SAT, DEC 9, 12-8

SUN, DEC 10, 12-6

EXHIBITION:

ROBERTO HUARCAYA TRACES (RASTROS)

LES RECONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, ARLES, FRANCE

PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

CROISIÈRE July 3 - Septembre 24, 2023

Curatorial Collaboration with Sarah Michelle Rupert, director of the Girls Club Collection, and Marina Font

Reconstructing Realities

Girls Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale
May 26 - July 31, 2023

Girls’ Club Collection presents Reconstructing Realities, a new exhibition of works that weave together segmented and fragmented realities from the female realm. Pulled from the private collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, works include photography, collage, mixed media and beyond. The exhibit is collaboratively curated by artist Marina Font, gallerist Dina Mitrani and Girls’ Club Director of Collections Sarah Michelle Rupert.

Inspired by recently acquired work from Miami-based artist Marina Font, the exhibit dives into the layered experiences of personal and domestic life through a gendered lens. In her recent series Shifted Narratives, Marina playfully explores found vintage home photo albums, and the numerous possibilities of un-kept recollections and unfinished stories in which those absent memories become abstractions.

Those endless possibilities is what drives Reconstructing Realities: the works build from a diverse range of perspectives, yet each artwork is yearning to retell their story and construct a new reality.

Artists include Ida Applebroog, Sophie Calle, Lee Edwards, Delphine Diallo, Stella Johnson, Sarah Jones, Klara Kristalova, Marina Font, Adriana Lozano, Wangechi Mutu, Peggy Levison Nolan, Onajide Shabaka, Simone Shubuck, Lorna Simpson, Jo Ann Walters, and Paula Wilson

Girls' Club by the River
330 SW 2 Street, Corner Unit 102, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Gallery Hours
Fridays, 1-5pm
Last Sundays, 10am-Noon
and by appointment

Lujan Cándria:

En el amoroso pantano de las hojas secas de otoño

In the loving swamp of dry autumn leaves
Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Butterfly Gallery

Curatorial Collaboration with Marina Font

May 18 - July 18, 2023

Lujan Candria is a Miami-based Argentine artist who uses diverse media to create introspective works about memory and oblivion. She often uses the repetition of images with subtle light variations to create intimate narratives and poetics loaded with nostalgia. She explores the natural landscape, using specific vegetation and foliage as the main subjects of her photo-based, mixed-media works. Candria’s premise is that the work will look familiar – not because we can visually recognize them – but because of the emotional response arises within us, appearing to be linked to landscapes that are signified in our memory.

In the creative process, Candria intervenes the photographic images by juxtaposing, multiplying and fragmenting them. The sharpest images get mixed with the more diffuse ones until they turn into almost imperceptible forms or completely disappear to become a simple plain color. As happens with many of our memories that become blurry over time and then come back to us as incomplete narratives.

Candria graduated in sculpture from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (UNA) and received Associate Degree from Escuela Nacional de Ceramica in Buenos Aires. In addition, she studied Applied Musical Computer Science at Fonorama and Image Editing at Mac Training Center (UNTREF).

She was an artist in residence at Oolites (Art Center SF) Miami. Awarded the ArtReview Residency Prize, Candria was an artist in residence at Casa Wabi, Oaxaca. 2019. In 2020, her work was selected to be included in MIA’s permanent collection. Candria has presented solo exhibitions at international galleries and institutions. Her work has also participated in group shows, art fairs, and festivals in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the United States. Candria was selected to take part in Salon Acme 2023. Mexico City. She is currently an artist in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami.

Marina Gonella: Convergences

Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Butterfly Gallery

Curatorial Collaboration with Marina Font

February 16 - March 24, 2023

Convergences brings together recent mixed media works that are about the relationship between identity and place. Gonella takes photographs of landscapes, cityscapes and objects that surround her daily life and incorporates them into her works. As a mixed media artist, she works with different techniques such as acrylic, photo-transfers and collage.  The work process starts with the manipulation of her own photographs of landscapes and then incorporates them into the work, setting them into or over abstract collages, generating a new space and a new relationship between them. The abstract collage is a way of representing the junction, or convergence, of texture, matter and color of the landscape which are rearranged into a new image.

Marina Gonella was born in Chicago, and moved with her family to Argentina at an early age. Since 2002 she has been living and working in Miami and is currently a resident of the Collective 62 artist studios.  She graduated from the School of Fine Arts Pridiliano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and attended classes at Instituto Universitario Nacional de Las Artes, Buenos Aires, pursuing an MFA before she moved to Miami. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Argentina, Uruguay and United States. Her work is included in private and corporate collections.

BOOK

Colleen Plumb

Thirty Times A Minute

Published by Radius Books

Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the US and Europe to film this behavior, and distilled her footage into a video that weaves together dozens of captive elephants, bearing the weight of an unnatural existence in their small enclosures. She has installed guerrilla public projections of the video in over 100 locations worldwide, constructing photographs of each projection. Thirty Times a Minute (the resting heart rate of an elephant) explores the way animals in captivity function as symbols of persistent colonial thinking, that a striving for human domination over nature has been normalized, and that consumption masks as curiosity. The work sheds light on abnormal behaviors of captive elephants in order to bring attention to implicit values of society as a whole, particularly those that perpetuate power imbalance and tyranny of artifice. The presence of massive, intelligent, far-roaming, emotional animals such as elephants in urban zoos exemplifies contradiction and discordance, and public projections of their image onto urban walls and out-of-context surfaces adds to the layers of incongruity. Aware of the tremendous need to protect native habitat and its residents, this project contributes to the idea that sentient beings are not meant for spectacle or display.

BOOK

Peggy Levison Nolan

Real Pictures: Tales of a Badass Grandma
Published by Daylight Books

Hardcover 
978-1942084570 
130 pages 
10 x 8 inches
$45 US; $58.99 CAN  

Real Pictures is the result of many decades of photographs recording the day- to- day workings of a large family. As Chris Wiley of the New Yorker says “there is a tenderness and a sensitivity in these pictures of family that cannot be faked. Nolan is not embedded with her subjects, she is entwined. As such, the pictures not only show that she has an eye, but also a heart.”

Peggy Nolan got married, raised seven kids, stayed home, started photographing, shoplifted film, went back to college, studied hard, got divorced, got pierced up, worked harder, graduated from college, stole more film, made more pictures, went back to college, graduated from graduate school, kids grew, calmed down, stopped stealing film, started thinking more, shot beer pictures, still thinking, still making pictures.