Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2019 Curators: Hansen Mulford and Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Avenue, Orlando, FL 32803 May 31, 2019 - August 18, 2019 omart.org
ARTFIELDS The R.O.B., 245 South Church Street, Lake City, South Carolina, 29560 April 26, 2019 - May 4, 2019 artfieldssc.org/about/
An annual, nine-day art competition and exhibition in Lake City, South Carolina. Cannibale Desire Curators: Jean-Marc Hunt & Marie Vickles Little Haiti Cultural Center, 212 NE 59th Terrace, Miami, Florida 33137 March 16, 2019 - April 17, 2019 tout-monde-festival.com/2019-program/
Cannibale Desire responds to the powerful pulsions, longings, and fantasies of a violence from another time. In this project, the dimension of power defines an ambition, which aims at multiplying new sensations and experiences, free of any rule and form of control. The impetus of cannibal desire thus becomes a state of consciousness, a way to consider the world. The Cannibal Desire exhibition is composed of 11 Caribbean artists, who share an emerging artistic international journey. Through some selected paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and performances, the curator Jean-Marc Hunt, tries to explore a poetic state of transe, similar to an unlimited fantasy with all sorts of possibilities.
Your silence will not protect you Curator: Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell School 33 Art Center, 1427 Light Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230 December 7, 2018 - February 2, 2019 school33.org
“Your silence will not protect you.” presents five black womyn artists from across the country: Akea Brionne Brown, Alex Callender, Vickie Pierre, LaNia Sproles and Gracie Xavier in a group show about black womyn’s experiences in America—past, present and future. The title references Audre Lorde’s seminal essay on activism, “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” “Your silence will not protect you.” addresses many silences, both historic and contemporary. This multimedia exhibition explores subtle variances and correlations across a broad spectrum of experience for black womyn today. Considering contemporary tropes concerning black womyn’s bodies, the commercialization of blackness and the continued haunting of the American past, the five artists presented content with the status quo both in broad social terms, but also within hierarchical art world structures. Here, past is more than present—it is consciousness.
Center to Center Curator, Laura Marsh Art and Culture Center / Hollywood, 1650 Harrison Street, Hollywood, Florida 33020 November 9, 2018 - January 6, 2019 artandculturecenter.org/center-to-center
South Florida’s ever-growing community of artists working across counties is connected through longstanding institutions that adopt strategies to support artistic production and cultivate new dialogues. This group exhibition focuses on artists who are alumni of ArtCenter / South Florida and committed to continued production that supports other artists and social practice in both Broward and Miami-Dade Counties.
Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom takes as its point of departure an extraordinary — and now lost — historical artifact: a “Book of Paintings” created by José Antonio Aponte.Aponte was a free black carpenter, artist, and former soldier who was also the leader of an ambitious antislavery movement in Cuba during the Age of Revolution. During his trial, Aponte was forced to provide testimony describing each of the pictures in his book, which portrayed a wide array of subjects, from Biblical scenes to landscapes to episodes in the history of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Using those descriptions, contemporary artists working in painting, drawing, sculpture, video, mixed media, and textile have reimagined Aponte’s book for our present and future.