MIAMI – April 19, 2018 – This April, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) kicks off its third year of Inside|Out, a program funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which brings high-quality reproductions of art from the museum’s permanent collection to the community. PAMM issued a call to participants to host this year’s Inside|Out program and received numerous applications from communities all over Miami-Dade County. Five communities were chosen for this year’s round of installations that kick off this spring in the Village of Pinecrest, and Miami Ironside. Over the summer, the reproductions will be presented in the City of Doral, throughout Little Haiti, and in Miller Drive Park.

From Robert Rauschenberg to Vik Muniz, 50 artists from PAMM’s permanent collection will be featured in each season of Inside|Out. Exact locations of each reproduction will be featured on maps available at host locations and at pamm.org/insideout.  

Miami is the fourth city to host Inside|Out, a program conceived by the Detroit Institute of Arts in 2010. It proved so successful in Detroit, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is providing $2 million over three years to expand Inside|Out to communities across the country, including Charlotte, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Akron, Ohio.

Spring Communities (April-May 2018)

Ironside | Situated in Miami's Upper Eastside, a hidden gem in the Palm Grove Historic District, Ironside is a vibrant, mixed-use urban center with over 60 showrooms and shops, galleries and gardens, fitness studios, and pop-up spaces as well as a cafe and restaurant. 15 replicas are visible throughout the Ironside walking district.

Village of Pinecrest | 20 replicas are featured throughout the Pinecrest Gardens, a Village of Pinecrest publicly owned and operated outdoor recreation area acquired in part with funds from the Florida Communities Trust Preservation 2000 Program. Works are also found at the Pinecrest Community Center, Public Library, and the Village of Pinecrest City Hall.

Summer Communities (June-August 2018)

City of Doral | Doral is a thriving city in Miami-Dade County, home to a growing number of industries and diverse communities. We are excited to install 14 works from the Inside|Out collection throughout prominent locations throughout the City of Doral this summer.

Little Haiti | The cultural heart for the Haitian Diaspora in Miami, Inside|Out will display 20 works throughout the neighborhood. Known for its creative global restaurants, colorful street murals, and fruit stands, Little Haiti has a flourishing art scene centered around independent galleries. Complete with record stores and quirky dive bars, Little Haiti is the perfect place to enjoy the collection.

Miller Drive Park | Home to Raices Hispanic Heritage Arts and Culture Center, a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary arts center founded in May of 1996. The center provides art education services and cultural activities to the community, in addition to cultivating, promoting, celebrating and preserving the traditions found in Latin-American and Caribbean countries, and embracing South Florida’s cultural diversity. A total of 8 replicas will be on view this summer throughout the park.

A calendar of related events and programs can be found at pamm.org/insideout. Residents are encouraged to share their Inside|Out experiences on social media with #PAMMInsideOut and #InsideOutUSA and follow PAMM for updates on Facebook (/perezartmuseummiami), Twitter (@pamm) and Instagram (@pamm). 

Organization and Support
PAMM Inside|Out is organized by Pérez Art Museum Miami and is generously supported by Knight Foundation. Inside|Out is a national program that launched in 2010 at Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), and has since expanded to Akron Art Museum, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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About PAMM
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. 

For media inquiries, please contact:
Patty Jimenez, Rock Orange | pamm@rockorange.com | 305 731 2462
Alexa Ferra | aferra@pamm.org | 786 345 5619

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

PAMM celebrates its newest exhibition, william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy, with smoke-filled show

WHAT: On Tuesday, April 24, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will celebrate the anticipated opening of its newest exhibition, william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy, by releasing smoke signals from the museum’s rooftop.

This unique and smoke-filled art installation, titled smoke signals (12.29, cinco en sombra de la tarde, reté fo), is brought to life by celebrated Miami-based artist william cordova. Referencing rituals and ancient forms of communication, the work is meant to illustrate purification, transformation, energy, and healing.

As the kick-off to the opening weekend of his eponymous exhibition, cordova will release the signals from the top of the building at 11:30am.

Opening celebrations for the exhibition will continue throughout the week, and include an art talk with william cordova, artist Leslie Hewitt, and PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz on Thursday, April 26 at 7pm. The group will speak on the various intersecting narratives Cordova's works is informed by such as architecture, cinema, literature and music.

About william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy
william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy is the first extensive museum survey of cultural practitioner william cordova (b. 1969, Lima; lives in Miami, Lima, and New York). It presents a selection of works embodying the three main themes that have inspired the work of this celebrated Miami artist for decades: transmission, alchemy, and transcendence. In his nationally and internationally recognized drawings, sculptures, installations, and collaborative projects, cordova collapses linear concepts of time and history to address contemporary notions of displacement. He extensively researches symbols and artifacts from different cultures and times, ignoring the boundaries between the past and the present. Then, he uses ephemeral and precarious materials to create elegant works that challenge traditional Western typologies. Striving to create a flexible and critical space for the understanding of our contemporary moment, he builds bridges between separate narratives, such as architecture, cinema, literature, and music. This exhibition will be accompanied by the artist’s museum catalogue, available for purchase at PAMM Shop.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 24, 11:30am to 12pm

WHERE: Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FL 33132
Guests can view the event from the museum’s surrounding areas.

INTERVIEW AND PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Photo and video opportunities of smoke signals (12.29, cinco en sombra de la tarde, reté fo) are available. Interview requests facilitated by Alexa Ferra aferra@pamm.org or 786 345 5619 in advance.

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – May 15, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has named Douglas C. Evans to the executive team as the museum’s first Chief Development Officer. Evans’ dedication and passion for the arts, along with his developmental leadership experience across the U.S. make him an incredible asset to the museum. A key new position within the organization, Evans will be responsible for overseeing the museum’s fundraising efforts.

"I'm excited to join the team at PAMM during a very dynamic time for the cultural community,” said Evans. “The chance to utilize my years of operational and management experience in not only Miami, but the South Florida region, will benefit the organization overall as we work together to grow PAMM."

Prior to this appointment, Evans was Executive Director of the Stamford Center for the Arts in Stamford, Connecticut. Evans has also served in leadership positions across the United States including most recently the Fashion Scholarship Fund in New York City, President of the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook and Chairman of the World Affairs Council in Palm Beach. He was the Founding President of Classical South Florida, 89.7FM, 90.7FM, 101.9FM in the Palm Beaches and 88.7FM in Naples, Marco Island and Ft. Myers. Evans held the position of Chief Operating Officer of Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment and President of Broadway China Ventures, a division of the Nederlander Organization charged with opening offices in Beijing and Shanghai and creating a network of 25 theaters nationwide in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.

In addition to his work with major foundations including the Heinz and Wallace, Evans formerly a registered lobbyist in the state of Connecticut is considered to be a leader in government relations for support of the arts and has successfully secured arts funding from both federal and state government. He is a Founding Director of the Connecticut Arts Alliance, past Governor and member of the Executive Committee of the League of American Theatres and Producers, a Tony Awards Voter, a founding member of the Independent Presenters Network and a former Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Evans was presented with a Renaissance Award from the Greater Hartford Chamber of Commerce Downtown Council for his efforts in working towards the revival of downtown Hartford.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI – May 21, 2018 – On Monday, May 28, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will host its annual Memorial Day BBQ on the terrace overlooking Biscayne Bay. From 1-4pm, enjoy live music by garage rock band SunGhosts, barbecue food and refreshments for sale on the terrace, complimentary popcorn with museum admission, art-making with PAMM teaching artists, and a special appearance by Coast Guard Air Station Miami. Inside the iconic museum, explore newly opened exhibitions by Meiro Koizumi: Battlelands, The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy, and more.

The lively daytime celebration will kick off PAMM’s third year of participation in Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The national summer initiative compliments PAMM’s year-round policy of extending free admission to U.S. military with identification. With this program, PAMM is able to give complimentary admission to active duty military personnel, veterans and family members.

PAMM’s Memorial Day BBQ is open to the public. Entry to PAMM’s terrace is free. BBQ and refreshments available for purchase. Complimentary popcorn with museum admission and for active duty military personnel and veterans.

Museum gallery admission is $16 for adults. Free for PAMM members, active duty military personnel, veterans, and active duty military personnel and veterans’ family members. Galleries close at 6pm. Admission does not include food/drink. Coolers and chairs are prohibited.

The museum will remain open from 10am–6pm, with live entertainment and barbecue from 1-4pm. On-site parking rates are $8 for the first hour and $4 for each additional hour. PAMM is directly adjacent to the Miami-Dade Metromover, Museum Park station. Take the Omni Loop train to Museum Park station, and arrive steps from the museum entrance For more information, visit pamm.org/parking.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
​Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces. For more information, visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

About Blue Star Museums
Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America. The program runs from the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, May 26, 2018 through Labor Day, September 3, 2018.

The free admission program is available for those currently serving in the United States Military - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard as well as Active Duty and Reservists, National Guardsman (regardless of status), U.S. Public Health Commissioned Corps, NOAA Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members. Qualified members must show a Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), DD Form 1173 ID card (dependent ID), or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card for entrance into a participating Blue Star Museum.

Follow Blue Star Museums on Twitter @NEAarts and @BlueStarFamily, #bluestarmuseums.

Media Contact: Alexa Ferra | aferra@pamm.org | 786 345 5619

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

New York, 1983: Christo in his studio working on a preparatory drawing for Surrounded Islands. Photo: Wolfgang Volz

MIAMI – May 29, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83: A Documentary Exhibition, an exhibition of archival materials and artworks around the renowned artists’ site-specific 1983 installation, Surrounded Islands, in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. On view from October 5, 2018 through February 17, 2019, the exhibition commemorates the 35^th anniversary of Surrounded Islands—an anniversary that also coincides with the founding of PAMM’s predecessor institution, Center for Fine Arts. The history of Surrounded Islands is inseparable from PAMM’s origins, and the exhibition reinforces the idea that the museum’s evolution is inextricable from the development of Miami as both a city and an artistic hub.

In May of 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled 11 uninhabited islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of floating, pink, woven polypropylene fabric. For two weeks, the results harmonized with water, sky, and foliage, creating a stunning chromatic medley in blue, green, pink, and turquoise. Despite its short duration, Surrounded Islands made a lasting impact on the city’s cultural history, marking the birth of Miami’s international artistic profile while serving as inspiration for untold numbers of people across the entire spectrum of the South Florida community.

Surrounded Islands was an endeavor of epic ambition, and the upcoming exhibition will present the entertaining and inspiring history by which this project became a reality. It is a narrative of empowerment, exemplifying the idea that lone individuals are capable of marshaling large civic forces to bring their dreams to fruition—that with determination, willpower, and compelling vision, anything is possible.

“All of our projects are like expeditions,” said Christo. “The story of each is unique. The Pérez Art Museum Miami exhibition will include drawings, collages, photographs and other components of Surrounded Islands that provide a window into the project—from its conception to realization.”

The exhibition at PAMM is an adaptation of an earlier exhibition focused on Surrounded Islands, which traveled through Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan between 1984 and 1991. Like its precursor, the show will be of sweeping depth and breadth, comprising approximately 50 drawings and collages, a large-scale model of the bay and its islands, hundreds of photographs and documents, several photomurals, and physical components of the project. This extensive cache of materials attests to the profound challenges that the artist duo encountered over the course of three years (1980-1983) as they worked to realize their epic vision, overcoming formidable logistical and governmental obstacles with the help of hundreds of paid workers. The iteration at PAMM seeks to go beyond simply commemorating the original Surrounded Islands project and serve as a time capsule that captures and evokes a consequential time in Miami’s history.

Surrounded Islands had a strong impact on Miami, stimulating the growth of the local art community and encouraging the city to recognize the ways in which Miami could become a significant center for contemporary art. In a broader sense, the project had a unifying effect on the city as a whole, prompting residents to come together in celebration of the natural beauty that surrounds them. The project exemplifies art’s potential in fostering civic unity, an idea that Miami remains intensely invested in—an idea upon which PAMM is largely premised.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

Liliana Porter, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves – Venecia 2017 (Man with an axe and other brief situations – Venice 2017), 2017. Figurines, objects, and wooden base. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez. Image courtesy the artist.

MIAMI, FL – June 4, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (2014/2017), a large-scale installation by Argentine-born, New York-based artist Liliana Porter. Featuring hundreds of objects and fragments of various scales—from tiny figures and miniature train sets to a life-size piano that has been broken into pieces—the work is the most ambitious installation by the artist to date. A form of “retrospective” of Porter’s work, it includes characters and scenes that have reappeared within the artist’s prints, paintings, photos, installations, and films throughout the last several decades. Originally produced in 2014 and reinstalled for the 2017 Venice Biennial, this piece was recently acquired by PAMM and will be adapted specifically for one of the museum’s project galleries, where it will remain on view from June 8 to September 29, 2018.

A pivotal artist within the history of Argentinian conceptual art, Porter has been creating works since the 1960s that deconstruct our understanding of representation. Expanding upon notions of the multiple, her practice has included prints, photographs, assemblages, installations, films, and recently several theater productions. Porter’s work often explores the concept of time and how the line between reality and imagination can become blurred or fragile as memories mix with everyday experiences. She sees the imprint of time recorded not just in our memories but also within the physical objects, images, and books that feature in her work. Using toys and other found objects sourced from popular culture and domestic contexts, Porter engages humor and presents playful situations that draw her viewers into deeper conversations about meaning and representation.

Spread across multiple white bases of varying levels, El hombre con el hacha y otras situaciones breves (The man with the axe and other brief situations) presents numerous vignettes involving figures, toys, broken furniture, amongst other textured materials and objects. The dramatic difference in scale between certain elements, which range from the miniscule to the gigantic, plays with perspective and perception in unusual ways, inviting the viewer to walk around the piece and closely examine the kaleidoscope of objects on display.

The piece’s title, “The man with the axe and other brief situations”, refers to a tiny plastic figurine of a man wielding an axe that is positioned prominently near the front-center of the installation. Within the scene, his tiny axe appears to have created a deep cut in the white ground beneath him and a large pile of broken materials. This “brief situation” is one of many that appear throughout the installation, creating a landscape of mini-narrative scenes across this expansive stage-structure that are at once humorous, odd, and philosophical.

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. A nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI, FL – June 26, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Pablo Picasso’s (1881-1973)Femme à la montre (1932), a portrait of one of the most revered subjects in the artist’s paintings—his muse and lover Marie-Therese Walter. The work is a classic example of the Modern Master’s highly prized works from 1932, a particularly fruitful and pivotal year for the artist that was marked by his first major retrospective at the Galeries Georges Petit, Paris.

“We are pleased to bring this extraordinary painting to Miami where it will be a highlight for viewers throughout the summer,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “We are grateful for the opportunity from lender Emily Fisher Landau to present this important painting. In 1985, when the museum was in its infancy, as the Center for Fine Arts, we hosted an exhibition of works by Picasso. In line with our coming 35^th Anniversary, this important work by Picasso is also a reminder of our past exhibition history.”

On view at PAMM from July 4 to October 16, 2018, the Miami community will have a unique opportunity to engage with the work of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, which is part of the museum’s commitment to presenting modern art to its audience.

Born in Malaga, Spain, Picasso created a distinctive look and line within his paintings and drawings during the early 1900s while living in Barcelona and later in Paris, where he settled for good in 1904. From the beginning of the 20th century until his death in 1973, the artist continued to appropriate and invent new styles. In the true spirit of Modernism, he constantly challenged himself and his contemporaries to create something new. Influenced by African art that he encountered in Paris, Picasso paved the way to the birth of Cubism and played an integral role in the foundation of Surrealism, while always working from a representational image—something tangible or recognizable.

The voluptuous and sensual images of Walter that Picasso created between 1927 and 1937 mark a departure from his Cubist phase, in which images of figures were contorted as if seen from several angles at once. While Femme à la montre portrays the sitter frontal and more or less clothed—unlike many of his other nude depictions of her—the exposed breast hints at the characteristically sensual quality of many of his other portraits of Walter, also known as his “Golden Muse.” The softness of her figure and the hardness of the chair in which she sits are synthesized into one full image, while the unmistakably clear eye that gazes out at the viewer suggest the inner life of a sitter who was also the artist’s lover and muse.

Picasso’s Femme à la montre (1932) is on Loan from Emily Fisher Landau.

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

For media inquiries, please contact:
RockOrange | pamm@rockorange.com
Meg Huckaby, FITZ & CO | mhuckaby@fitzandco.art | 646 589 0928
Yun Lee, FITZ & CO | ylee@fitzandco.art | 646 589 0920                                                           

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

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MIAMI, FL – July 24, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman, a collection of approximately 25 paintings by Miami-based artist Lynne Golob Gelfman. The most comprehensive show by Gelfman to date, the exhibition will showcase paintings the artist has produced over the last two decades, as well as examples of early works from the late 1960s and early 70s—the majority of which have never been seen publicly before. Interested in exploring various forms of mark-making and patterning techniques, Gelfman produces in series, using oil, acrylic and flash paint on both canvas and wood. Examples from five of her series will be on view as part of the exhibition from September 15, 2018 to April 21, 2019.

One of Miami’s most esteemed abstract artists, Gelfman utilizes methods that play with surfaces in diverse ways, with certain series involving staining into the canvas, others creating reflections in gold and silver, others channeling drips of paint in angular lines down the front of her paintings. A self-described trickster, Gelfman is trained in traditional modernist aesthetics, which she honors in her work but consistently subverts with the intention to disobey rules and conventions. The most visible example of this is her decision to paint the backs of her canvases. This allows the established grid pattern she creates to become disrupted—distorted —as the paint bleeds through fabric and appears on the front of the canvas.

Gelfman credits her move to Miami in 1972 as the motivation for this technique. Longing for New York City, she came to the realization that the dark, urban settings of her previous paintings felt out of place in the tropical light of Miami. Following a fortuitous accident upon which she looked at the back of a grid painting and observed a resulting “bleached-out light” effect—an effect much more in line with her new Miami surroundings—Gelfman began consciously turning the back to the front.

Since then Miami's unique environment has continually influenced Gelfman's work: the patterns and details of its tropical flora and fauna, the textures of the sea and bleaching effects of sunlight, and in several series elements taken from its urban infrastructure and architecture. For example, her oil and sand series references the curling, linear metal work used in many working-class neighborhoods in Miami to secure windows and gates. Meanwhile, her between paintings transform the grid of chain-link fences, often used to aggressively divide urban spaces into shimmering, transparent patterns that recall the movement of sunlight on the sea.

Gelfman’s work is also reflective of her time spent in Colombia, where she has lived and worked periodically throughout her career, and during where she has investigated indigenous textile and basket weaving techniques. Series that evidence these influences include lines, where invisible horizontal markings interact with applications of dripping paint that move vertically down the surface, creating a patterning that recalls the irregular grids of textiles. The thru series additionally recalls weaving patterns, through its use of repeating triangle and square forms. She began this series in the 1970s but has returned to it in recent years, producing works at varying scales and formats.

Gelfman’s alterations of the grid show this geometric and rational form as quite vulnerable, as easily susceptible to dissolution and manipulation. The artist has described this aspect of her work as referencing the rapid disintegrations and manipulations of values and ethics within our contemporary society.

A Miami resident since 1972, Gelfman has had more than 40 solo shows. Her first solo show was a prize awarded by Miami’s Metropolitan Museum and Art Center in 1974, then under the leadership of Arnold Lehman. Since then, Gelfman has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. Her work is also a part of many public and private collections, including Pérez Art Museum Miami. For the last 15 years, she has developed art projects with inner-city children at the Barnyard, Coconut Grove.

Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.

Related Programming and Events

Celebrating the opening of Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman
Saturday, September 15, 3-6pm
Celebrate the opening of Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman with a walk through of the exhibition with artist Lynne Golob Gelfman and PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. Following the walk through guests can join in a toast to the artist on the Joy Terrace with complimentary bites and beverages.

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit http://www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

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MIAMI, FL – August 17, 2018 – The highly-anticipated Eleventh Annual Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Corporate Luncheon, presented by STARR Catering Group, will take place on Wednesday, September 26, from 11am–2pm, when the museum will open its doors to hundreds of South Florida’s most influential business leaders in honor of their vital support of the arts. PAMM Corporate Honors will be awarded to Funding Arts Network and Goya Foods of Florida, with the event’s main program highlighting the intersection of art and fashion in Miami’s growing economy. All funds from the luncheon will be donated to the museum’s art and education outreach programs. Reservations can be made online at pamm.org/CL11.

“This major fundraiser gives us a chance to shine a light on the community’s influential change-makers and business leaders, and acknowledge their unwavering support of our institution and acknowledgment of our commitment to arts education for all,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “With the coming of our 35th anniversary, this year we are excited to honor a great corporation with deep ties to the community, Goya Foods of Florida, alongside a fellow nonprofit, the Funding Arts Network, which provides funds to arts organizations in our community.”

This year’s honorees have both played a fundamental role in the community. Funding Arts Network, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and enhancing visual and performing arts programs offered throughout Miami-Dade County, provides grants to arts providers, capacity-building workshops for grant applicants, and forums for members which foster arts involvement, appreciation, and awareness. Funding Arts Network has been involved with PAMM since 1998, helping the museum bring world class exhibitions to the community. Goya Foods of Florida, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, proudly supports nearly 300 charitable endeavors, programs, scholarships, and events that promote culture and benefit overall community wellness. Since 2015, Goya Foods of Florida has supported PAMM’s Spanish-language tours, providing free guided tours to visitors.

This year’s lunch reception will feature delicious cuisine by STARR Catering Group in collaboration with Goya, where attendees will have the opportunity to network, explore the museum’s newest exhibitions, and view a short film focused on the intersection of art and fashion in Miami’s growing economy, highlighting Mi9 Retail, Naeem Khan, Oscar Carvallo, René Ruiz, Style Mafia, and The Webster.

The PAMM Corporate Luncheon raises funds for the museum’s education programs. PAMM is the largest provider of art education outside of Miami-Dade County Schools System, reaching more than 215,000 children since opening in December 2013. Corporate support has made many of these free programs possible, which include: free family activities every second Saturday; Art Detectives, an arts education program that promotes critical and timely dialogue between community youth and police; Brick x Brick, a program for at-risk teens which takes place at community centers in underserved areas throughout Miami-Dade, and focuses on architecture, design and community planning; PAMM in the Neighborhood, a summer camp program for underserved youth; and more.

Presenting Sponsor & Corporate Sponsorships
The presenting sponsor of the PAMM Corporate Luncheon is STARR Catering Group. Sponsorship opportunities are available, ranging from $20,000 diamond-level sponsorships, which include 20 tickets, to $2,500 silver-level sponsorships, which include five tickets. Individual tickets are available for $500. For sponsorship levels and benefits, or to make reservations online, visit pamm.org/CL11. For event and ticket information, contact Christopher Pastor at 786 345 5633 or cpastor@pamm.org.

Luncheon Committee
The Eleventh Annual PAMM Corporate Luncheon event chair is Laura Kaplan of U.S. Trust, Bank of America. Luncheon host committee includes: Jose Almeida, Eddy Arriola, Fred Bredemeyer, Brian L. Bilzin, Susanne Birbrahger, Adelee Cabrera, Camila Cote, Angel Ferrer, Bernardo Fort-Brescia, Adrian Jones, Brenda Freeman, Charles Gonzalez, Jose Ignacio Gonzalez, Charles Kaplan, Deborah Koch, Nick Korniloff, Simon Levine, Manny Machado,

Jorge M. Pérez, Aaron Podhurst, Stefanie B. Reed, Oti Roberts, Jose Sirven, and Oscar Suarez.

Sponsors
Platinum sponsors | Brightline
Gold sponsors | Deutsche Bank Wealth Management, Park One, Podhurst Orseck, PA, Tory Burch, and Related Group
Silver sponsors | Apollo Bank, Art Basel, Arquitectonica, Art Miami, Context, Bizlin Sumberg, BrightView, CCOM Group, Citi, EY, Fortune International Group, Goldman Sachs, Holland & Knight, J.P. Morgan, Liaisons, Magic Leap, Mi9 Retail, South Florida Business Journal, Trax, and U.S. Trust  

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved. 

MIAMI – September 4, 2018 – This fall, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) will present a dynamic lineup of exhibitions that highlight the institution’s history as a leading international modern and contemporary art museum for its 35^th anniversary in January 2019. “From a documentary exhibition commemorating the 35^th anniversary of Surrounded Islands—a site-specific installation in Miami by renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude—to a special selection of gifts made to the museum since its beginning as a collecting institution to solo exhibitions of work by Lynne Golob Gelfman and Ebony G. Patterson, the upcoming season takes a look back on the history of the museum while looking forward to the next 35 years,” said Franklin Sirmans, PAMM’s director. A key highlight of the season will be The Gift of Art, an exhibition opening in October of 2018 that will bring together approximately 60 artworks from the museum’s permanent collection—from modern masterpieces by Milton Avery, Adolph Gottlieb, Joaquín Torres-García, and Wifredo Lam to contemporary works by artists such as Carmen Herrera, Anish Kapoor, Wangechi Mutu, Zilia Sánchez, and many more.

Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman
September 15, 2018–April 21, 2019
September 15, 2018, 3–6pm: Lynne Golob Gelfman Opening

This exhibition presents a selection of approximately 25 paintings by Miami-based artist Lynne Golob Gelfman, including several works from PAMM’s permanent collection and examples from as early as the 1960s. Gelfman produces in series, using paint on both canvas and wood. Miami’s natural environment, the textures of the sea, and bleaching effects of sunlight are strong influences for the artist, as are textiles and weavings from various contexts, including Colombia where the artist has lived and worked periodically throughout her career.

Grids: A Selection of Paintings by Lynne Golob Gelfman is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.

The Gift of Art: Permanent Collection Exhibition
Opening October 1, 2018

The museum’s permanent collection is a lasting manifestation of its belief in preserving and sharing art with both current audiences and future generations. In the lead-up to PAMM’s 35th anniversary in January 2019, The Gift of Art celebrates this understanding of art as a gift to the community while also paying tribute to the many significant donations that have been made to the museum since it first became a collecting institution in 1994. The exhibition will feature outstanding examples of the now more than 2,500 works of art gifted to the museum throughout the last several decades, including works by Lynda Benglis, Sam Gilliam, Carmen Herrera, Anish Kapoor, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Joan Mitchell, Oscar Murillo, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Rauschenberg, Zilia Sánchez, Frank Stella, Joaquín Torres García, Kara Walker, and Akram Zaatari among many others.

The Gift of Art is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83: A Documentary Exhibition
October 4, 2018–February 17, 2019
October 4, 2018, 7pm: PAMM Free Community Night with Artist Lecture and Book Signing
December 4, 2018: Artist Lecture and Book Signing

This exhibition of archival materials and artworks tied to the renowned artists’ site-specific 1983 installation in Miami’s Biscayne Bay, Surrounded Islands, commemorates the 35^th anniversary of the project—an anniversary that also coincides with the founding of PAMM’s predecessor institution, the Center for Fine Arts, the following year. The original project was organized by Jan Van Der Marck, the museum’s founding director. The exhibition reinforces the idea that the museum’s evolution is inextricable from the development of Miami as both a city and an artistic hub.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83: A Documentary Exhibition is curated by Josy Kraft and coordinated at Pérez Art Museum Miami by PAMM Curator René Morales. This exhibition is presented by Citi.

Lead individual support from Camille and Patrick McDowell together with additional support from Maria Bechily and Scott Hodes, Patricia and William Kleh, Linda and David Frankel, Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst, Jaleh and Patrick Peyton, Nedra and Mark Oren, Gloria Scharlin, and from an anonymous donor is gratefully acknowledged.

Additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Funding Arts Network, Duty Free Americas, and JW Marriot Marquis Miami is also gratefully acknowledged.

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .
November 9, 2018–May 5, 2019
November 9, 2018, 7pm: Opening Conversation

This exhibition presents the work of Kingston-born artist Ebony G. Patterson. The most significant presentation of the artist’s work to date, the project includes examples of her artistic output over the last five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a garden at night. Known for her drawings, tapestries, videos, sculptures, and installations that involve surfaces layered with flowers, glitter, lace, and beads, Patterson creates works that investigate forms of embellishment as they relate to youth culture within disenfranchised communities. Her neo-baroque works address violence, masculinity, “bling,” visibility, and invisibility within the post-colonial context of her native Jamaica and within black youth culture globally. This exhibition focuses on the role that gardens have played in her practice, referenced as spaces of both beauty and burial; environments filled with fleeting aesthetics and mourning.

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . .  is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. This exhibition is presented by Christian Louboutin with support from the International Women’s Forum. Lead individual support received from Nedra and Mark Oren, and Linda Paresky in honor of Mark Paresky, are gratefully acknowledged.

PAMM Presents: Pink Party
December 6, 2018, 9pm–midnight

PAMM kicks off of its 35^th anniversary year with its signature Thursday night Miami Art Week event. Taking over PAMM’s terrace overlooking Biscayne Bay, enjoy an unforgettable night, featuring live music, libations, and more. 

By invitation only: Open to PAMM Sustaining and above level members, Art Miami and Art Basel in Miami Beach VIP cardholders.

For a full list of this season’s exhibitions, visit pamm.org/exhibitions.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit http://www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

MIAMI, FL – September 28, 2018 – For the first time, an art museum is teaming up with a coding school. Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is joining forces with Ironhack, Florida’s #1 student-rated coding and design bootcamp, to award a travel and design fellowship that will send one lucky recipient to one of Ironhack’s eight international locations (Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Mexico City, or Sao Paulo.) The recipient will also receive a 50% covered tuition to Ironhack’s UX/UI Design bootcamp, so they can learn new skills that marry technology, art, and psychology. One fellowship will be given out to someone to enroll in one of Ironhack’s UX/UI Design bootcamps this year.

“We see art as an incentive for genuine human interaction, communication, and exchange. As technology continues to evolve and disrupt industries, we are attracted to Ironhack’s global UX/UI program for the same reasons we believe in art,” said PAMM Director of Corporate Relations Jaime Bayo, MPA. “Design combined with ideas has power and is a tool that people can use to turn ideas into reality. We’re happy to make this learning opportunity accessible to our community members who are looking to launch careers in design.”

Rated the #2 coding school in the world this year by national rating site CourseReport, Ironhack is located in the heart of downtown Brickell at Building.co, Miami's shared workspace for tech companies and startups. The school, which opened in Miami more than three years ago has an 83% job placement rate within three months for its full time and part-time graduates.

“It’s awesome to partner with PAMM for the first time and open up our global technology programs to more than the usual suspects,” said Ironhack Miami General Manager Alia Poonawala. “In a period of accelerating change, we really value the people who come to Ironhack from differing backgrounds like architecture, hospitality, teaching, arts, customer service, etc. They tend to bring a wealth of special and distinct experiences that inform their design processes and the companies they ultimately work with.”

The process to apply for the PAMM Design Fellowship is as follows:

1. Interested applicants should read this document to learn more details about the scholarship opportunity.
2. To apply, users can click on the “apply now” button in the document to fill out their information and explain their interest in the fellowship.
3. Applications must be received by 11:59 PM EST on Friday, October 5, 2018.
4. Suitable candidates will be contacted for first-round interviews.
5. Winners will be announced on Friday, October 12, 2018.

For more information about the event or the design fellowship, contact Ironhack at (305) 907-7086 or mia@ironhack.com.

About PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit http://www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

About Ironhack
Ironhack is a global school offering full time and part time courses in Web Development and UX/UI design. Ironhack was ranked as the #2 student-rated coding and design bootcamp in the world by national rating site CourseReport. Since 2013, Ironhack has graduated over 1,500+ students who are building their careers at local South Florida companies such as Magic Leap, CareCloud, and JetSmarter, as well as at global companies, including Google, Visa, and Twitter.

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

— Now On View Through February 17, 2019 —

New York, 1983: Christo in his studio working on a preparatory drawing for Surrounded Islands. Photo: Wolfgang Volz

(MIAMI, FL – October 5, 2018)– Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83 | A Documentary Exhibition, an exhibition of archival materials and artworks that sheds light on the renowned artists’ site-specific 1983 installation, Surrounded Islands, in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. On view now through February 17, 2019, the exhibition commemorates the 35th anniversary of Surrounded Islands—an anniversary that also coincides with the founding of PAMM’s predecessor institution, Center for the Fine Arts. The history of Surrounded Islands is inseparable from PAMM’s origin story, and the exhibition reinforces the idea that the museum’s evolution is inextricable from the development of Miami as both a city and an artistic hub.

In May of 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled 11 manmade uninhabited islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of floating, pink, woven polypropylene fabric. For just under two weeks, the results harmonized with water, sky, and foliage, creating a vivid composition in blue, green, pink, and turquoise. Despite its short duration, Surrounded Islands made a lasting impact on the city’s cultural history, marking the birth of Miami’s international artistic profile while anticipating its rise as a hub for contemporary art.

Surrounded Islands was an endeavor of epic ambition, and the upcoming exhibition will present the entertaining and inspiring history by which this project became a reality. It is a narrative of empowerment, exemplifying the idea that lone individuals are capable of marshaling large civic forces to bring their dreams to fruition—that with determination, willpower, and compelling vision, anything is possible.

The exhibition at PAMM is an adaptation of an earlier exhibition focused on Surrounded Islands, which traveled through Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan between 1984 and 1991. Like its precursor, the exhibition at PAMM will be of sweeping depth and breadth, comprising approximately 50 drawings and collages, a large-scale model of the bay and its islands, hundreds of photographs and documents, several photomurals, and physical components of the project. This extensive cache of materials attests to the profound challenges that the artist duo encountered over the course of three years (1980-1983) as they worked to realize their epic vision, overcoming formidable logistical and governmental obstacles with the help of hundreds of paid workers. The iteration at PAMM seeks to go beyond simply commemorating the original Surrounded Islands project and serve as a time capsule that captures and evokes a consequential time in Miami’s history.

Surrounded Islands had a strong impact on Miami, stimulating the growth of the local art community and encouraging the city to recognize the ways in which Miami could become a significant center for contemporary art. In a broader sense, the project had a unifying effect on the city as a whole, prompting residents to come together in celebration of the natural beauty that surrounds them. It exemplifies art’s potential as a catalyst for fostering civic unity, an idea that Miami remains intensely invested in—an idea deeply imbedded in PAMM’s institutional mission.

On November 17, PAMM will host a screening of four films on the work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude by Albert and David Maysles, celebrated practitioners of cinéma vérité: Valley Curtain (1974), Running Fence (1978), Islands (1986), and Christo in Paris (1990). More information here.

The museum will also host an Art Talk with Christo on December 4. The wide-ranging conversation will touch on his life’s work, and the intricacies of his collaborative process with his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, followed by a book and poster signing by the artist. More information here.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

Featuring Carmen Herrera, José Bedia, Leonardo Drew, Joan Mitchell, and Anish Kapoor

— Now On View —

(MIAMI, FL – October 9, 2018) – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is proud to present The Gift of Art: Permanent Collection Exhibition, featuring approximately 60 works that represent a diverse collection of artworks that have been gifted to the museum. At the core of PAMM’s care, collection, and presentation of artworks is a belief that art is a special language, a particular human gift, and one that should be valued and shared. The museum’s permanent collection is a lasting manifestation of its dedication to preserving and sharing this gift with future generations on the eve of PAMM’s 35th year anniversary.

The Gift of Art includes artworks by Milton Avery, John Baldessari, José Bedia, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Francesco Clemente, Gene Davis, Sam Doyle, Leonardo Drew, Marcel Duchamp, Nancy Graves, Sam Gilliam, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Joaquín Torres García, Adolph Gottlieb, Sheila Hicks*, Carmen Herrera, Jasper Johns*, Anish Kapoor, Guillermo Kuitca*, Wilfredo Lam, Sol LeWitt, Morris Louis, Teresa Margolles*, Marisol, Roberto Matta, Joan Mitchell, Oscar Murillo*, Wangechi Mutu, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Amelia Peláez, Lucio Pozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Faith Ringgold, James Rosenquist*, David Salle, Zilia Sánchez, Lorna Simpson, Frank Stella, Tunga, Kara Walker*, Nari Ward*, Tom Wesselmann, Aubrey Williams, Hale Woodruff, and Akram Zaatari.

*Artists work will be on view starting October 25.

The exhibition highlights the museum’s unique history as a collecting institution with a longstanding commitment to diversity, presenting art from historically underrepresented groups, including the U.S. Latinx experience, the African diaspora, Latin America, and the Caribbean. On display are works that speak to the a plurality of voices and experiences that would otherwise be underrepresented in the artworld. Such artists in this collection include José Bedia (Cuba), Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Cuba), Carmen Herrera (Cuba), Anish Kapoor (Mumbai), Guillermo Kuitca (Buenos Aires), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Roberto Matta (Chile), Oscar Murillo (Colombia),  Amelia Peláez (Cuba), Zilia Sánchez (Cuba), Tunga (Brazil) and Nari Ward (Jamaica).

Particular to the collection is an abstract painting by Cuban artist Carmen Herrera, in which raw canvas replaces one of the two color planes; a sculpture made of cigarette butts, barbed wire, plastic, and iron by Jamaican artist Nari Ward; and a four-panel minimalist painting by Italian artist Lucio Pozzi that was a donation courtesy of Jan van der Marck, the first director of CFA. Several works were gifted to the museum on the specific occasion of its 35th anniversary, including a triptych by Joan Mitchell, a large-scale installation by Leonardo Drew, and a photographic work by Akram Zaatari. The exhibition demonstrates PAMM’s dedication to celebrating Miami’s diverse community, featuring works by artists with a special connection to Miami such as José Bedia, who currently lives and works in the city.

Carmen Herrera. Alba, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 72 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by PAMM's Collectors Council. © Carmen Herrera. Image courtesy Lisson Gallery.

Founded in 1984, PAMM first became a collecting institution ten years later. 1994 marked a moment of change and a tumultuous reevaluation of the canon, as demands for multiculturalism and globalism grew incredibly pronounced. PAMM has always strived as an institution to be at the forefront of acknowledging cultural shifts in Miami and beyond, set on showcasing plural narratives and concurrent art historical developments. Since that period, the museum has continued to champion artists representing different backgrounds and art historical narratives. The upcoming exhibition arranges works that are important to PAMM and demonstrate its history together in new contexts, considering not only the influential relationships between seminal artists of the last century, but also the momentous gifts that changed the face of the museum’s collection.

Leonardo Drew. Number 130, 2009. Wood and mixed media, 134 x 132 x 20 3/4 inches. Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, gift of Beatriz and Claudio Giardinella. © Leonardo Drew. Image courtesy Sikemma Jenkins & Co., New York

The Gift of Art is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

Opening Week Celebrations Culminated with a Book Signing and Art Talk by Christo

On View October 4, 2018—February 17, 2019

 

Hundreds gather at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) on Thursday, Oct. 4 for a book signing and art talk by internationally-renowned artist Christo to celebrate the opening of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands. Photo: World Red Eye

MIAMI – Oct. 9, 2018 – Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) celebrated the opening of its newest exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980-83 | A Documentary Exhibition, with a full week of previews and exclusive events that culminated on Thursday night (Oct. 4)  with an opening celebration that featured a book signing and art talk by internationally-renowned artist Christo.

The evening program commenced with a signing, during which Christo signed books, posters, and personal photographs for the thousands in attendance. Following, guests gathered on bayfront steps for the art talk portion of the evening. To rousing applause, Christo walked guests through a slideshow of the projects he and Jeanne-Claude worked on over six decades. The artist then opened the floor to questions, during which he imparted personal insights into the fascinating story behind Surrounded Islands, 1980–1983, and addressed questions about his projects, process, and monumental career.  

On view now through February 17, 2019, Surrounded Islands is an exhibition of archival materials and artworks around the renowned artists’ site-specific 1983 installation, in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. The exhibition also commemorates the 35th anniversary of Surrounded Islands—an anniversary that also coincides with the founding of PAMM’s predecessor institution, Center for Fine Arts. The history of Surrounded Islands is inseparable from PAMM’s origins, and the exhibition reinforces the idea that the museum’s evolution is inextricable from the development of Miami as both a city and an artistic hub.

In May of 1983, Christo and Jeanne-Claude encircled 11 manmade uninhabited islands in Miami’s Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of floating, pink, woven polypropylene fabric. For just under two weeks, the results harmonized with water, sky, and foliage, creating a vivid composition in blue, green, pink, and turquoise. Despite its short duration, Surrounded Islands made a lasting impact on the city’s cultural history, marking the birth of Miami’s international artistic profile while anticipating its rise as a hub for contemporary art.

In addition to Thursday’s opening celebrations, PAMM celebrated the monumental exhibition with various events throughout the week.

The night prior, Museum Circle members were treated to an exclusive preview of the show during the Museum Circle Opening Reception (Wednesday, Oct. 3), where guests were treated to live entertainment by Fellows of New World Symphony, cocktails, and light bites. After the preview, select guests were invited to a private dinner celebrating the opening of the exhibition with Christo at the beautiful Star Island home of Linda and David Frankel.

The next day (Friday, Oct. 5), members of the International Women’s Committee attended an exclusive afternoon reception honoring Jeanne-Claude with guest speaker and art historian Dr. Carol Damian. The former director of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and chairperson of Florida International University’s department of art and art history, Dr. Damian is a strong fixture in Miami’s arts community, and a nationally recognized art historian.

The exhibition at PAMM is an adaptation of an earlier exhibition focused on Surrounded Islands, which traveled through Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and Japan between 1984 and 1991. Like its precursor, the presentation at PAMM is of sweeping depth and breadth, comprising approximately 50 drawings and collages, a large-scale model of the bay and its islands, hundreds of photographs and documents, several photomurals, and physical components of the project. This extensive cache of materials attests to the profound challenges that the artist duo encountered over the course of three years (1980-1983) as they worked to realize their epic vision, overcoming formidable logistical and governmental obstacles with the help of hundreds of paid workers. The iteration at PAMM seeks to go beyond simply commemorating the original Surrounded Islands project and serve as a time capsule that captures and evokes a consequential time in Miami’s history.

Surrounded Islands had a strong impact on Miami, stimulating the growth of the local art community and encouraging the city to recognize the ways in which Miami could become a significant center for contemporary art. In a broader sense, the project had a unifying effect on the city as a whole, prompting residents to come together in celebration of the natural beauty that surrounds them. The project exemplifies art’s potential in fostering civic unity, an idea that Miami remains intensely invested in—an idea upon which PAMM is largely premised.

To learn more, please visit: pamm.org/surroundedislands.

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Caption: [Name] celebrate the opening of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s (PAMM) newest exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands.

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Organization and Support

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida, 1980–83 | A Documentary Exhibition is on loan from Christo, curated by Josy Kraft with the assistance of Lorenza Giovanelli and Jonathan Henery, and coordinated at Pérez Art Museum Miami by PAMM Curator René Morales. All photographs are by Wolfgang Volz.

This exhibition is presented by Citi. Lead individual support from Camille and Patrick McDowell together with additional support from María Bechily and Scott Hodes, Patricia and William Kleh, Linda and David Frankel, Dorothy and Aaron Podhurst, Jaleh and Patrick Peyton, Nedra and Mark Oren, Betty and Joe Fleming, Gloria Scharlin, and an anonymous donor is gratefully acknowledged. Additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Funding Arts Network, Duty Free Americas, and JW Marriott Marquis Miami is also gratefully acknowledged.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit www.pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

November 9, 2018—May 5, 2019

Ebony G. Patterson. Untitled Species VIII (Ruff) . . . , 2012. Mixed media on paper, 65 3/4 x 50 inches. Collection of Monique Meloche and Evan Boris, Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.

(MIAMI, FL — October 24, 2018) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to present ...while the dew is still on the roses…, an immersive exhibition from mixed media artist Ebony G. Patterson. A survey of the artist’s recent work is situated within a visually dense environment designed to recall an overgrown, decadent “night garden.” This site-specific installation—replete with twilight-colored cloth wallpaper, vegetal growths sprouting from the walls and silk leaves, flowers, and vines falling from the ceiling and framing paintings—augments thirteen of the artist’s large-scale works that include videos, drawings, and tapestries, six of which were created for the show.

“For almost five years I’ve been exploring the idea of the garden as both real as imagined, acknowledging its relationship to post-colonial spaces. I am interested in how gardens operate as sites of social demarcation. I investigate their relationship to beauty, dress, class, race, the body, land, and death,” explains Ebony G. Patterson.

Within the individual works, Patterson puts the black body in direct dialogue with the iconography of the garden, from sites of wild, uncultivated nature to artificially domesticated forms of decorative gardens, and, finally, the idea of the garden as an Edenic primordial space existing outside of culture. The artist sees gardens as sites of splendor, danger, and burial, deftly sifting through the iconography to present floral fields as sites for creating both viability and invisibility, for exploring gender, and as signs of self-respect and protection.

Executed in diverse mediums, these artworks articulate protest and outrage, and act as a critical lament regarding violence perpetrated against these bodies globally. Yet their ire is tempered by the artist’s use of floral patterning to bestow honor and dignity on her subjects, shrouding them in beauty. The references to Carnival in Patterson’s use of beads, plastic ornaments, and reflective materials reflect her interest in mining international aesthetics in a practice that is a race against time, as Patterson captures, mourns, and glorifies the passing of too many lives.

Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . . is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. This exhibition is presented by Christian Louboutin with support from the International Women’s Forum. Lead individual support received from Nedra and Mark Oren, and Linda Paresky in honor of Mark Paresky, are gratefully acknowledged.

Ebony G. Patterson. . . . a wailing black horse . . . for those who bear/bare witness, 2018 (detail). Hand cut jacquard photo tapestry with glitter, appliques, pins, embellishments, fabric, tassels, brooches, acrylic, glass pearls, beads, hand cast embellished heliconias, shelf, embellished resin owl, and artist-designed fabric wallpaper (not pictured). Collection of Monique Meloche and Evan Boris, Chicago. Courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago.

On Thursday, November 8, PAMM will host an Art Talk with Ebony G. Patterson to celebrate the artist and the opening of her most significant presentation of work to date as she speaks in conversation with LeRonn P. Brooks, PhD and PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. The panel will discuss how Patterson’s work investigates forms of embellishment as they relate to youth culture within disenfranchised communities and break down themes of violence, masculinity, visibility and invisibility within black youth culture globally. Ebony G. Patterson . . . while the dew is still on the roses . . . includes work Patterson has produced over the past five years, embedded within a new installation environment that references a night garden. Patterson’s work will be on view through May 5, 2019.

Organization and Support

Ebony G. Patterson: …while the dew is still on the roses… is organized by PAMM Chief Curator Tobias Ostrander. This exhibition is presented by Christian Louboutin with support from TILA Studios. Lead individual support received from Nedra and Mark Oren, and from an anonymous donor, is gratefully acknowledged.

About Ebony G. Patterson

Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981 in Kingston, Jamaica; lives and works in Kingston and Lexington, KY) received her BFA from Edna Manley College, Kingston, Jamaica (2004) and MFA from Sam Fox College of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (2006). Patterson has had solo exhibitions and projects at many US institutions including The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2016); Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art, GA (2016); and SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2016). Dead Treez, Patterson’s large-scale solo show, originated at the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (2015) and traveled to Museum of Art and Design, NY (2015); Boston University Art Galleries, MA (2016); and UB Art Galleries, University at Buffalo, NY (2017). Her work was included in the 32nd São Paulo Bienal: Live Uncertainty (2016); the 12th Havana Biennial: Between the Idea and the Experience, Cuba (2015); Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans (2014), and the Jamaica Biennial 2014, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston.  She was a 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Rauschenberg Foundation, a 2015 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Art Grant, and her work is included in a number of public collections, including The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; Museum of Art and Design, NY; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; 21c Museum Hotels; and the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston. Patterson served on the Artistic Director’s Council for Prospect.4, New Orleans (2017), and will present solo exhibitions at Pérez Art Museum, Miami and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago in 2018.

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

(MIAMI, FL — November 9, 2018) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund, a new affiliate group created to support exhibitions and programming at PAMM for Latin American and Latinx artists. The group will launch on November 13, and be followed by Latinx Art Sessions, a two-day program led by PAMM and ArtCenter/South Florida, which will take place January 24-25, 2019. The program is organized by María Elena Ortiz, associate curator, PAMM; Naiomy Guerrero, DAMLI curatorial fellow, PAMM; and Natalia Zuluaga, Director, [NAME] Publications.

The Latin American and Latinx Art Fund, as well as the upcoming Latinx Art Sessions, reflect the museum’s ongoing commitment to diversity and presenting art from historically underrepresented communities, including the African diaspora, the Caribbean, Latin America and US Latinx. In addition to the fund, a series of public programs, including the Latinx Art Sessions will connect artists with art industry leaders to advance the Latinx art dialogue in Miami, and enhance the visibility of US Latinx artists in public exhibitions, public art spaces, private, and institutional collections and academia.

“PAMM is uniquely positioned for the 21st century—we are a growing institution in a young city that stands at the crossroads of the Americas,” said Franklin Sirmans, PAMM Director.

The fund’s goal is to support the exhibitions and programming that PAMM has already become known for, including exhibitions on artists such as Firelei Baez, Carlos Motta, Doris Salcedo, Julio LeParc and upcoming exhibitions of Beatriz Gonzalez and Teresita Fernandez, among others. Membership dues, with expanding levels of support to be added as the program grows in the coming years, will also go to the fund. Once funded, the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund will underwrite a major exhibition at PAMM each year.

“Miami artists are making important contributions to the body of Latinx art. We’re delighted to bring them together with artists from across the nation for an important conversation that we hope raises the visibility of these artists and their practice,” said Dennis Scholl, CEO of ArtCenter/South Florida, which is presenting Latinx Art Sessions in January.

On Tuesday, November 13, PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans and the host committee will kick off the Latin American and Latinx Art Fund with music, drinks, and mingling in advance of a special program with Tobias Ostrander, PAMM chief curator, and Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, program officer, Creativity and Free Expression, Ford Foundation, that will share what PAMM has already accomplished in this arena of the arts, and what is on the horizon for Latin American and Latinx Art at the museum. Host committee members include María Bechily, Madeleine Conway, Lorena and Evelio Gómez, Laura Kaplan, Aida Levitan, Rafael Miyar, Darlene and Jorge M. Pérez, Silvia Ríos Fortun, Susie and Walid Wahab.

The new initiatives will further the museum’s already substantial engagement with Latin American culture and artists. This December, for example, will see the opening of a solo exhibition by José Carlos Martinat, and Portuguese-born artist Pedro Neves Marques, whose work addresses political and biological issues related to Brazil and Latin America. One of Peru’s most famous artists, Martinat will present American Echo Chamber, an exhibition of large-scale light sculptures inspired by symbols of both American and Peruvian cultures, ranging from historical images such as the political cartoon “Join, or Die” attributed to founding father Benjamin Franklin to popular internet memes. Filmmaker and artist Pedro Neves Marques’ first-ever solo museum presentation will include the premiere of two horror and sci-fi inspired short films about the Zika virus based on research completed in a genetically modified mosquito factory in São Paulo. Both exhibitions open at PAMM on December 4, 2018. In April, the museum will also show the first large-scale US retrospective of Bogotá-based artist Beatriz González, featuring approximately 150 works from the 1960s to the present, all of which embody the full scope of González’s oeuvre.

The museum’s dedication to Latin American and Latinx artists is also apparent in The Gift of Art, an exhibition highlighting key works from the museum’s permanent collection that is currently on view at PAMM, as the museum’s 35th anniversary approaches. Speaking to the plurality of voices and experiences largely underrepresented in the art world, artists featured in the exhibition include José Bedia (Cuba), Carmen Herrera (Cuba), Teresa Margolles (Mexico), Roberto Matta (Chile), Oscar Murillo (Colombia),  Amelia Peláez (Cuba), Zilia Sánchez (Cuba), Tunga (Brazil) and Wifredo Lam (Cuba).

ABOUT PÉREZ MUSEUM MIAMI
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

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MIAMI– November 15, 2018– Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has named ​Sharon Holm to the executive team as the museum’s Deputy Director of Marketing and Public Engagement​​. In this role, Holm oversees the marketing and communications team and public engagement department to include visitor services and retail operations, a critical vertical in PAMM’s mission that most directly interfaces with the public it serves.

Holm relocated to Miami from Charlotte, NC, where she was most recently the VP of Marketing and Communications at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. There, she led the development and implementation of all marketing and communication efforts, served as the face of the museum in the Charlotte community, and cultivated collaborative partnerships and initiatives with local organizations. 

Notable accomplishments include leading the Inside|Out initiative, a national community activated art project generously sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the first partnership between two arts institutions, including the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, the Levine Center for the Arts Branding Committee which built awareness for the Levine Center for the Arts (LCA) brand while fostering continued collaboration among the four LCA cultural institutions which included the Mint Museum, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Gantt Center and Blumenthal Performing Arts, and restructuring the Bechtler Museum’s marketing and communications department, implementing initiatives which resulted in a 12% increase in attendance for museum programs and exhibitions.  

With more than 20 years of global marketing and communications experience, Holm has a proven track record of driving business results through innovative campaigns. Her work includes crafting, directing and executing strategies, developing branding, programming and event management, media/public relations, and advertising. A cross-cultural expert, Holm has devoted her career to developing strategic partnerships and engaging communities across diverse global markets, such as Hong Kong, China, Malaga, Spain, and Copenhagen, Denmark.

“I am thrilled to join the team at PAMM during such a pivotal time, as the institution celebrates its 35th anniversary,” said Holm. “I look forward to supporting PAMM’s international art exhibitions program, community outreach, visitor experiences and advancing a number of initiatives that aim to​ provide a variety of resources to the South Florida community and the international community​.”

Her experience includes leadership roles at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, Thomson/Reuters and Artcoustic International Ltd., and is a participating member in philanthropic, PR, and art empowering committees. She is an ambassador for the arts, and looks forward to continuing to spearhead game-changing initiatives at PAMM to promote artistic excellence and global diversity and inclusion. 

About Pérez Art Museum Miami

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

José Carlos Martinat. American Echo Chamber, 2018. Motors, LEDs, microcontroller, and radio module. Dimensions variable. © José Carlos Martinat. Courtesy PAMM, the artist and Revolver Galería.

(MIAMI, FL — November 19, 2018) — Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to present American Echo Chamber, a solo exhibition specially commissioned by the museum with José Carlos Martinat, one of the most internationally exhibited Peruvian artists of his generation. The exhibition investigates how ideologies are amplified and reinforced in the current social and political landscape.

Curated by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz, she mentions, “José Carlos Martinat created an impressive new work for our museum, which brings the streets of Lima into our Miami gallery, while commenting on politics as spectacle. Emphasizing our commitment to cutting-edge Latin American contemporary art, it marks an exciting development in his practice that will captivate our audiences.”

Located in PAMM’s unique double-height gallery, American Echo Chamber is comprised of 15 kinetic light sculptures, and additional LED screens, that explore the current state of our political and cultural landscape. By portraying symbols of popular culture that relate to our current state of affairs, the artist uses the language of light and the pop of neon to highlight how serious issues have been reduced to entertainment. Inspired by the popular tradition of pyrotechnic parks in Peru, the artist adopts this medium of social amusement to tell a story about the breakdown of public discourse in both his original and adopted culture. These symbols range from historical images such as the political cartoon “Join, or Die” attributed to founding father Benjamin Franklin, to popular internet memes. Martinat is continually recontextualizing symbols of violence, manipulation, racism, and migration as signs we “consume” everyday as citizens.

By creating a space that amplifies the consumption of these symbols and information, Martinat compares the contemporary political scene to an echo chamber, emphasizing a dynamic in which people seek media outlets that reinforce their beliefs as an unconscious exercise of validation and prejudice. Martinat’s practice highlights society’s complex dynamics and intersections of technology, politics, and virtual social spaces.

This year-long installation reflects PAMM’s engagement with the contemporary moment via the commissioning of new works, and further shows the museum’s ongoing commitment to presenting art from historically underrepresented communities, including the African diaspora, the Caribbean, Latin America, and US Latinx.

José Carlos Martinat: American Echo Chamber is organized by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortíz with support provided by Revolver Galería. Ongoing support for PAMM’s Project Galleries from Knight Foundation is also gratefully acknowledged.

ABOUT JOSÉ CARLOS MARTINAT

José Carlos Martinat (b. 1974, Lima) has had solo exhibitions at Revolver Galería, Buenos Aires; Galeria Leme, São Paulo; Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas; Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago; and Galeria Baginski, Lisbon. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico; Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Havana Biennial; Gervasuti Foundation, Venice; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Saatchi Gallery, London; Museo de arte de Lima; Tate Modern, London; Shanghai Biennial; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; and the Centro Cultural de España, Lima. His work is included in the collections of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo; Museo de Arte de Lima; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Tate Britain, London.

ABOUT PÉREZ MUSEUM MIAMI

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.

— December 4, 2018–July 28, 2019 —

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(Miami, FL — November 20, 2018) — The Pérez Art Museum Miami is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by the Portuguese artist, filmmaker, and writer Pedro Neves Marques. The exhibition, Pedro Neves Marques: A Mordida, will be on view from December 4, 2018 through July 28, 2019.

A Mordida, or “The Bite,” is Neves Marques’ first solo museum presentation in the United States. Presented as an audio-visual installation, it features the premiere of new films commissioned by PAMM, digital animations, and a musical piece by London-based musician Fraencis. This exhibition is a fitting introduction for US audiences to Neves Marques’ work, bringing together explorations that address clashes among politics of nature, technology, and gender. In his practice, science fiction and speculative storytelling are employed as key tools used to examine the history of colonization as well as the possibility of non-Western futures.

The new films, which are based on a research completed at a genetically modified mosquito factory in São Paulo, Brazil, include both fictional and documentary elements, veering between the present and an imagined future. The biological epidemic of the Zika virus, being combatted partly through the use of the mutated mosquitoes, becomes an analogue to the rise of reactionary conservatism in Brazilian politics, which reached a new zenith with the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro. We follow the protagonists—a man, a woman, and a transgender woman—of these films through these two crises, drawing lines between psychological and bodily horrors, political and medical crises, the sterile heteronormativity of the lab and the assault on reproductive autonomy in the halls of power. While all these tensions express themselves in personal relations—as a retreat or a refuge from the crisis—the films nonetheless point to intimacy and care as possible futures beyond the constraints of a binary mentality.

Pedro Neves Marques: A Mordida is organized by PAMM Assistant Curator Jennifer Inacio. The exhibition is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

ABOUT PEDRO NEVES MARQUES

Pedro Neves Marques (b. 1984, Lisbon) received an MA in Art and Politics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a BA in Fine Arts from Universidade de Lisboa. He has had solo presentations of his work at Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon; e-flux, New York (with Mariana Silva); and EDP Foundation, Lisbon (with André Romão). His work has been presented in group presentations including 2018 New Museum Triennial, SculptureCenter, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Anthology Film Archives (all in New York); Jeu de Paume, and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; Tate Modern, London; V-A-C Foundation, and PAV, Italy; Casa do Povo, São Paulo; Sursock Art Museum, Beirut; Times Museum, Guangzhou; Fondación Botín, Spain; and Serralves Museum for Contemporary Art, and MAAT, Lisbon, and Oporto.

Neves Marques is the editor of The Forest and the School: Where to Sit at the Dinner Table? (2015), an anthology on Brazilian Antropofagia from an anthropological perspective, and author of two short story collections, most recently Morrer na América (2017). He is cofounder of www.inhabitants-tv.org, an online channel for exploratory video and documentary reporting. Neves Marques lives and works in New York.

ABOUT PÉREZ MUSEUM MIAMI

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. Led by Director Franklin Sirmans, the nearly 35-year-old South Florida institution formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), Pérez Art Museum Miami opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, in Downtown Miami’s Museum Park on December 4, 2013. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab and classroom spaces. For more information, please visit pamm.org, find us on Facebook (facebook.com/perezartmuseummiami), or follow us on Instagram/Twitter (@pamm).

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Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Support is provided by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners. Additional support is provided by the City of Miami and the Miami OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency (OMNI CRA). Pérez Art Museum Miami is an accessible facility. All contents ©Pérez Art Museum Miami. All rights reserved.