THE FRANK C. ORTIS GALLERY
LO QUE ME HABITA / THAT WHICH INHABITS ME (Front Gallery) By Lisu Vega
THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS (Main Gallery) By Sibel Kocabasi
OUR LOVING WORLD (Aisles Gallery & Third Space) By Stephanie McMillan
October 16, 2025 – January 10, 2026
601 City Center Way, Pembroke Pines, FL 33025
This fall, The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery presents three compelling exhibitions that explore memory, heritage, and belonging through immersive installations and vibrant storytelling. Audiences are invited to the Opening Reception on Thursday, October 16, from 6:00–9:00 PM, a festive, free event featuring artist meet-and-greets, refreshments, and access to all three exhibitions at The Frank C. Ortis Art Gallery, 601 City Center Way.
Exhibition Details The 2025 Fall Exhibition Series features new presentations by Lisu Vega (Lo Que Me Habita / That Which Inhabits Me), Sibel Kocabasi (The Silence That Remains), and Stephanie McMillan (Our Loving World). Together, their works transform the gallery into spaces of reflection, resilience, and joy.
Featured Exhibitions
LO QUE ME HABITA / THAT WHICH INHABITS ME (Front Gallery) By Lisu Vega | Curated by Sophie Bonet In Lo Que Me Habita (That Which Inhabits Me), multidisciplinary artist Lisu Vega interlaces memory, language, and material into immersive installations that explore belonging, displacement, and transformation. Drawing from her Wayuu heritage and diasporic archives, Vega works with textiles, oxidized fibers, photographic fragments, and multilingual poetry to create sensorial landscapes where personal history becomes collective memory. Her practice, rooted in sustainability and ritual, transforms discarded traces into living matter, insisting that even absence carries presence. Through gesture, poetry, and woven forms, Vega invites visitors to inhabit memory as something fragile yet resilient, embodied yet shared.
THE SILENCE THAT REMAINS (Main Gallery) By Sibel Kocabasi | Curated by Sophie BonetIn The Silence That Remains, Turkish-born, South Florida–based artist Sibel Kocabasi transforms textiles of survival and inheritance into contemplative spaces of resilience and care. Combining heirloom kilims, emergency blankets, embroidery, and crochet, Kocabasi creates sculptural environments that speak to migration, memory, and the quiet strength of repair. Her works shimmer with paradox—fragile yet protective, luminous yet intimate—inviting viewers into a meditative terrain rather than a confrontational one. By layering the domestic with the precarious, she reimagines home as something carried within the body, folded into fabric, and sustained through ritual. The exhibition asks how acts of making and mending can transform rupture into continuity and silence into a shared space of reflection.
OUR LOVING WORLD (Aisles Gallery & Third Space) By Stephanie McMillan | Organized by The Frank’s Education Department Ft. Lauderdale native Stephanie McMillan brings joy and color to the gallery with playful works that “cute-ify” South Florida’s plants and animals. Anthropomorphized flora and fauna—with bright faces and cartoon charm—celebrate the region’s edible and medicinal species, offering a whimsical lens for audiences of all ages to rediscover their environment.