You Are Here

The phrase “You Are Here” is commonly seen on directional signs in commercial buildings, indicating your current location in the surrounding architecture and urban design. However, in this particular case, we want to be present in place. The artists in this exhibition are both conscious of the here and now by simply working here, but also by the historical mark they left—they’re still here. They inhabit this place and commit to it, leaving behind a network of connections both current and in the past. You Are Here is curated in conjunction with Making [...]

You Are Here2023-12-13T03:22:03+00:00

Who Kills Ai Weiwei

Dimensions Variable (DV) presents a solo project titled Who Kills Ai Weiwei by Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Francisco Masó. The exhibition opens on June 25 and runs through September 10, 2022 in the Main Gallery. What happens when a dissident artwork is owned by the regime it criticizes? How do you avoid the use of your work as part of government political propaganda? Is it possible to legally frame the dynamics of reception, consumption, and circulation of your practice? Taking these questions as a point of departure, Masó reflects on the ethical sense of political art through [...]

Who Kills Ai Weiwei2023-09-22T00:49:36+00:00

Cicatrices. Marks that Remain

Cicatrices, the scars of healed wounds, are suggested in works about cyclical abuses of power, the resiliency of people, as well as signs and symbols across cultures and centuries. Works featured in Cicatrices demonstrate how personal and collective histories can yield traumas that never fully heal. Several artists in the exhibition evoke symbols and aesthetic approaches of centuries past and chart new contexts for these historic frameworks. Artists Charo Oquet and Francisco Masó create new visual languages that re-work colonial tropes to comment on contemporary issues. Natalia Arbelaez mines both colonial and ancient forms to create dynamic ceramics. Her practice proposes a [...]

Cicatrices. Marks that Remain2022-07-26T14:15:29+00:00

Where There is Power

The timing of this exhibition coincides with a profoundly disorienting phase in our national history. It is a time out of whack. The teleological narratives that have guided the operations of state power since the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st have crumbled, leaving behind ideological vacuums of monstrous proportions. But while the game has been disrupted, we have yet to understand whether or how the rules have changed. It is a time of great opportunity and a time of great risk. If the [...]

Where There is Power2022-07-26T13:53:46+00:00

Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?

During two months, visual artist Francisco Maso lends nine (9) photographs from participating artists Elia Alba, Lola Flash, Alicia Grullon, Tina La Porta, Peggy Levison Nolan, Sue Montoya, Labkhand Olfatmanesh, Anne Vetter, and Antonia Wright to individuals in Miami-Dade County who borrow one for a 15-day exhibition in their home. This art-on-loan program seeks to maintain a physical experience with the artwork while broadening the discussion around the exhibition as an in-progress, open-ended system of relationships. Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? emerged in the summer of 2020 in the context of the pandemic and social [...]

Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?2021-09-14T04:44:19+00:00

Local Global

The Global / Borderless Caribbean celebrates the 12th anniversary of this exhibition series with Local Global, a contemporary art exhibition. Local Global focuses on the specificity of Miami as a central point of geographic interest and confluence in the Global South. This exhibition features a selection of Miami-based artists that represent the multiplicity of histories and nationalities that define the region and connect it to the Caribbean. The locality of Miami and South Florida is the guiding thematic that forms the thread of connection and inspires the work produced by the selected artists of Afro-Caribbean and African descent. In [...]

Local Global2021-09-14T14:55:09+00:00

Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?

During a two-month period in partnership with Dimensions Variable (DV), visual artist Francisco Maso will loan five photographs from the Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies series to interested individuals in Miami-Dade County who request one for display in their home. Through this art on-loan program, he wants to provide an avenue for the public to experience a physical interaction with the selected artwork while broadening the discussion around the exhibition as an in-progress, open-ended system of relationships. Posing the question Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? Maso asks the borrowers to identify a location in their [...]

Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?2020-09-16T01:02:41+00:00

10—A Decade

Dimensions Variable (DV) is pleased to present 10—A Decade, a group exhibition bringing together five past DV artists with five new ones from September 28—December 30, 2019, in celebration of our tenth anniversary. Felice Grodin, Fabian Peña, Jamilah Sabur, Tom Scicluna, and Agustina Woodgate all represent artists who had solo/two-person projects at DV in the past. Nathalie Alfonso, Yanira Collado, GeoVanna Gonzalez, Francisco Maso, and Christina Pettersson are all artists we’ve been wanting to work with. This group is bound together by our respect for their work and the diverse themes present in their [...]

10—A Decade2020-07-15T05:15:31+00:00

Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest

“It is enough for the poet to be the bad conscience of his age," stated Saint-John Perse in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Something similar could be said when art­ists address the vicissitudes of society. We should not ask or measurable political action when their role is to point out, to render evident, to shake us from indifference. Art may not provide answers, but most of the time it interro­gates, proposes uncomfortable issues, almost like rubbing salt in a wound. Artists are seldom celebratory, nor do they usually provide solutions-art's potency lays in the symbolic efficacy of the actions [...]

Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest2020-06-26T23:22:31+00:00

Concrete Jungle: Narrative of Presence

Concrete Jungle: Narrative of Presence is a group exhibition curated by William Cordova focusing on economy of materials as a form of contextualizing the narrative of the quotidian landscape. Accessible materials; plaster, concrete, wood, cardboard, textiles, and other reclaimed ephemera capture the visual poetics of each artists idiosyncratic interpretation of the world around us. The exhibit includes South Florida artist Adrienne Chadwick's numerous fragile and intimate ceramic dwellings. Meditating on community, resources, and accessibility. Late Miami/New York artist, Duane Hanson's rare Polaroid highlighting the value in the "everyday" individual. South Florida [...]

Concrete Jungle: Narrative of Presence2020-06-26T20:22:09+00:00
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