On view October 18 through January 4
A Day of Four Sunsets presents a new body of work by Miami-based artist Dennis Scholl, exploring the poetics of space exploration through assemblages of NASA memorabilia. The exhibition takes its title from astronaut John Glenn’s experience of witnessing four sunsets as he orbited Earth in 1962, evoking these of time, memory, and the sublime vastness of the cosmos.
Scholl’s work, rooted in the language of historical artifacts and collective memory, arranges space exploration ephemera into compositions structured by the dodecagon- a recurring motif in his practice that represents cyclical time and cosmic order. Over the past decade, he has meticulously gathered NASA-related materials, including mission patches, declassified documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings, integrating them into intricate assemblages that reframe our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the unknown.
As a filmmaker, Scholl has chronicled untold stories across art, music, and cultural history. His feature documentaries have explored a forgotten 1950s abstract painter, the rise of 1960s soul music in Miami, the vanishing Jewish communities of Miami Beach in the 1970s, a Cuban ballerina’s pursuit of freedom in the 1990s, and the voice of the greatest jazz singer of the 21st century. His films have been showcased at over 100 international film festivals, including Sundance, SXSW, and DOC NYC, earning numerous accolades, including 23 regional Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. His documentary The Last Resort was acquired by Netflix, and his latest film, Naked Ambition, examines the legacy of Miami’s legendary pinup photographer, Bunny Yeager. Scholl’s work—both visual and cinematic—questions how history is archived, remembered, and reframed, offering a conceptual dialogue between past and present. Through the excavation and reconfiguration of historical materials, he constructs a liminal space where personal and collective memory collide, forging new narratives from the remnants of the past.
Dennis Scholl: A Day of Four Sunsets
Miami-based artist Dennis Scholl presents a new body of work exploring the poetics of space exploration. Through assemblages of NASA memorabilia, Scholl reflects on astronaut John Glenn’s 1962 experience of witnessing four sunsets in a single day while orbiting Earth. These works evoke themes of time, memory, and the sublime vastness of the cosmos.
Dennis Scholl is an award-winning documentary filmmaker focusing on arts and culture. His interview subjects have included Robert Redford, Frank Gehry, Wynton Marsalis, Ai Wei Wei, and Tracy Emin.
He also maintains a studio art practice focusing on assemblage of historical objects. He mines archival materials creating unexpected entanglements between memory, artifact and conceptual drawings. Interrogating memory, Dennis uses source materials that reflect his own lived experience, like baseball cards, while also accessing more divergent historical and pop culture resources. His practice questions how we assign memory and value to objects and though it seems to conserve and resuscitate archival materials, it also reimagines its very forum. His work has been exhibited widely across Europe and in New York and Miami.
He is the director of the feature documentary The Last Resort, which won the Miami Jewish Film Festival Audience Choice Award, received a national theatrical release, and screened on Netflix.
His newest documentary, Naked Ambition, tells the story of Bunny Yeager, a pin up model who became America’s greatest pin up photographer. The film debuted at DOC NYC and is currently playing at film festivals around the world.
He previously released Lifeline, the story of 50s Ab Ex Painter, Clyfford Still, which is distributed by Kino Lorber. He also directed and produced Singular, a documentary on Cecile Mclorin Salvant, three-time jazz vocal Grammy winner, which was awarded Best Documentary by the Haiti International Film Festival and it is currently screening in syndication on public television stations across the US, via American Public Television.
His first feature documentary, Deep City – The Birth of the Miami Sound, premiered at the 2014 SXSW International Film Festival.
His second feature documentary, Queen of Thursdays, which he co-wrote and produced with noted Cuban filmmaker Orlando Rojas, had its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival and was named Best Documentary.
He produced and directed Symphony in D, the story of America’s first crowdsourced symphony, performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He also produced Sweet Dillard about the national champion Dillard High School jazz orchestra and their journey to the Essentially Ellington competition at Jazz Lincoln Center.
He has received 23 regional Emmys from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science, all for documentaries on art and artists.
He is the director of Inside My Studio, a series of fifteen short films, exploring the art-making practices of some of the greatest visual artists in the world, including Ai Wei Wei, Wangechi Mutu, Doug Aitken, Vik Muniz, Catherine Opie, Robert Longo, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby.
He is the executive producer of six short films that debuted at the Sundance Film Festiva, including Yearbook, the winner of the 2014 Animated Short category at Sundance. He produced the animated short, The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal, which premiered at Sundance, along with Glove, which also premiered at Sundance and won Best Animated Short at SXSW. He also produced the experimental film Hearts of Palm and was executive producer of Namour and Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window.
His short film, Sunday’s Best, won Best Documentary Short at the South Dakota Film Festival. His film, Dancing with the Trees, won the Audience Choice Award at the Magnolia Film Festival. His film, Everyone has a Place, about Wynton Marsalis’ Abyssinian Mass concert tour, was named Best Documentary Short at the Capital Cities Black Film Festival and is currently screening on public television stations across America.
He is currently working on a documentary film about the relocation and installation of one of Richard Serra’s largest sculptural works of art.
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