Collective62 Art Studios
Collective62 Art Studios is an independent art space devoted to creation outside of the traditional circuits of art. Located in Liberty City, Collective 62 also seeks to reverse the growing phenomenon of gentrification through regeneration that derived from creation and community-based workshops.
Artists:
Chantae
Chantae graduated from Hunter College and is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Art from Florida International University.
Her work confronts traditional notions of identity and representation and revolve around themes of disidentification and polymorphism, i.e. otherness existing outside of social norms, reflecting Wright’s own black, queer, female, Caribbean-American identity and struggles.
Sharon Berebichez
Sharon Berebichez is a Mexico City-born visual artist and art educator, currently based in Miami, Florida. She holds a degree in art from Universidad Iberoamericana. Over a 25-year career, Berebichez has explored various mediums, including acrylic and oil painting, ceramics, assemblages, and resin sculptures. Recently, she has focused her practice on fiber art.
Her process-oriented approach emphasizes repetition and pattern creation, serving as a meditative practice that connects her to her identity as a woman and third-generation migrant. Drawing on her Mexican, Guatemalan, and Jewish heritage, her textured and culturally rich works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Notable exhibitions include the Frost Science Museum (2019), the Camp Gallery (2021), the Frank C. Ortis Gallery (2022), and the Mexican and Colombian Consulates in Miami (2022). www.sharonberebichez.com
Pilar Fernandez
Lerda have been working with clay for around 20 years. She employs a broad range of skills:
hand-building
techniques, wheel throwing, glazing and firing processes. Her precision in manipulating clay result in intricate forms and textures on exceptionally high-quality pieces. Pilar’s adept understanding of various firing methods and glazing techniques allows her
to infuse her pieces with captivating depth and color, seamlessly navigating kiln firing to ensure each piece emerges with the intended finish intact. Her work effortlessly combines innovation and tradition, capturing contemporary design while honoring ceramic
art’s heritage.
Marina Font
Marina Font is a photo-based multidisciplinary artist who’s work explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, memory, language and the forces of the unconscious. Marina is also part of the collaborative RPM Projects. www.marinafont.com
Amy Gelb
Amy Gelb is an artist and self-taught photographer, her work explores the female collective conscience and the impact that social norms, aging, the political climate, and both mental and physical health have on identity. www.amygelb.com
Rebeca Lopera
“Rebeca Lopera, a Madrid-born artist, delves into the fragility of personal spaces and the vulnerability of daily lives. Rooted in conceptual art, she explores her experiences transitioning from Madrid to Miami, investigating cultural and personal change. Having earned her BFA from Madrid Complutense University, Lopera’s academic journey laid the foundation for her artistic endeavors. After completing her MFA at Florida International University in Miami, she embraces a diverse range of sculptural materials, from plaster and ceramics to found objects, infusing her pieces with layers of history and identity.
Lopera’s artistic process reflects her emphasis on repetition and multiplicity, inviting viewers into a dialogue about their own relationships with spaces, intimacy, and sensitivity.” www.rebecaloperaartist.com
Nina Surel
Surel practice explores archetypes and questions the logics innate to vital processes part and parcel of womanhood and the passage of time. She interrogates feminism and performance art to establish her own distinctive visual vocabulary, in an over-growing range of techniques, among them video, photography, sculpture, and installation. www.ninasurel.com
Jeanne Jaffe
Jeanne Jaffe is a Professor of Sculpture. Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at such places as Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Mino Washi Museum in Japan, Michener Art Museum, The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland, Museum Rijswijk in Holland, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, London Craft Council Gallery in England, In the New York, Philadelphia area, her work has been exhibited at Marginal Utility, Gallery Joe, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Fleischer Art Memorial. www.jeannejaffe.com
Marcela Marcuzzi
Marcela Marcuzzi is a multi-disciplinary artist. Born in Salta, Argentina, raised in Buenos Aires, and based in Miami, FL, she creates dialogues with wide-ranging threads of history to explore intersections between art, nature, and science.
@marcela.marcuzzi
Veronica Pasman
Verónica Pasman is an argentinian mixed media artist based in Miami. Her work focuses on revealing her primitive energy, abandoning her humanity tied to reasoning. Her paintings (primarily acrylics, ink and gold foil on paper and canvas) feature sparse, nature scribbles often overlapping color stains and expressive brush strokes. Nature and the translucent palette of the ocean is a recurring theme on her work. Her search wishes to express the dialogue between the real and the unconscious yet to be revealed. www.veronicapasman.com
Contact:
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Miami / Buenos Aires +1 305 469 4013
Marcela Marcuzzi
Marcela Marcuzzi is a multi-disciplinary artist. Born in Salta, Argentina, raised in Buenos Aires, and based in Miami, FL, she creates dialogues with wide-ranging threads of history to explore intersections between art, nature, and science.
@marcela.marcuzzi
Deryn Cowdy
Deryn is a visual artist. She was born in London and graduated from Bath Academy of Art.
Her current body of work is based on observations from nature and the wild garden she created as a habitat for the birds, fish and insects who share it with her. @deryncowdy deryncowdy.com
Giannina Coppiano Dwin
Coppiano Dwin an interdisciplinary artist based in South Florida. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, as well as grants to conduct research in Spain and Brazil.
Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions at venues such as Fundación Valdes-Salas in Asturias, Spain; Spinello Projects, Miami; ArtHill, Gallery, London, UK; Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador; Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX.; University Galleries Boca Raton at Florida Atlantic University; the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, Fl.; the Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs; Cornell Museum, Delray Beach; Casa De Espanha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Illegal Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Dwin has completed a public art sculpture at the Broward County Main Library in Ft. Lauderdale and is currently working on the design of a Public Art Work for the City of West Palm Beach. Her curatorial works include exhibitions at Coral Springs Museum, Schmidt Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach among others.
Dwin works on installations, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and performance.
Capucine Safir
Born in Paris, Capucine Safir now lives in Miami.
After working for several years in the movie industry, she decided to change career and earn a degree in interior design in Australia where she lived for 3 years.
Back in Paris, she works for her own firm. In addition, she discovered the art of direct carving in stone in a studio of the 17th district. This form of art is immediately natural.
It is after her second expatriation, in Miami, in 2013, that she becomes a professional artist by extending her practice to other materials and techniques.
Safir integrates a local gallery in the first year.
Since then, her sculptures have been part of numerous private collections and are regularly exhibited in contemporary art galleries and fairs throughout the United States. capucinesafir.com
Marina Gonella
Marina is a mixed media visual artist born in Chicago, raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently living and working in Miami.
The influence of the surroundings and the relationship between place and identity are the focal points of her work.
The overlapping and layering of different elements, the juxtaposition of texture, images and color allows her to reconfigure these places and images, revealing a personal interpretation of them.
Alex Núñez
Born and raised in Miami, Nuñez is a Cuban-American mixed-media painter. She received her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and was awarded the C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship. Solo shows include Marianne Boesky, New York, and Club Gallery, Miami. Her works have been exhibited in El Museo del Barrio, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
Nuñez is the host and producer of the “Sunday Painter” podcast on Jolt Radio, now in its sixth year of production, and a recipient of The Warhol Foundation’s Wavemaker Grant. She has been reviewed and published in The New York Times, Artforum, CNN, Art Nexus, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, W Magazine, and the Observer.
Stephanie Eti Hadad
Stephanie Hadad is the first generation American-Israeli born in Philadelphia, PA (1989). She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Florida, New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Hadad has exhibited her work throughout Miami Dade
College galleries (2013-2018), Art Basel’s CasaLin Breakfast Reception in Miami (2016,2017) and Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami (2018). Stephanie resides and continues her practice in Miami, FL.
Laura Villarreal
Villarreal is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of fiber, painting, and photography. Through the use of embroidery, paint, and textile on paper and canvas, Villarreal creates a transdisciplinary language and poetry inspired by the vivid colors and ancient traditions of her Mexican roots. In the late 1990s, she immigrated to the United States, a process that underscored the economic and social disparities between the two countries. Creating tensions among her multimedia works, Villarreal integrates both environmental geographies in her life, questioning issues of identity, sense of place, longing, and memory. lauravillarreal.com@lauravillarrealstudio
