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La Danza Inconsciente: Pintura Automática e Intuición en el Arte

El arte intuitivo como meditación en movimiento.
El arte intuitivo como meditación en movimiento.

La Danza Inconsciente: Pintura Automática e Intuición en el Arte

Pintar lo que se siente, no lo que se ve.

El movimiento de la pintura automática surge como una exploración fascinante de la psique, un intento de liberar la creatividad de las ataduras de la razón y la premeditación. En su núcleo reside la convicción de que la verdadera fuente de la expresión artística emana del inconsciente, manifestándose directamente sobre el lienzo a través de la intuición.

La pintura automática, estrechamente ligada al Surrealismo, buscaba romper con las convenciones artísticas tradicionales, aquellas que dictaban la planificación y el control consciente de la obra. En cambio, proponía un acto creativo más visceral y espontáneo, donde la mano del artista se convierte en un vehículo para las pulsiones internas, los sueños y los pensamientos que fluyen libremente desde las profundidades de la mente.

La técnica en sí varía, pero la esencia radica en la ausencia de una guía intelectual predefinida. Un artista practicando la pintura automática podría comenzar con una línea, una mancha de color, dejando que la siguiente acción sea dictada por la respuesta visual a lo que ya existe en la superficie. Es un diálogo entre el artista y el material, una conversación que se desarrolla sin un guion previo. Se permite que surjan formas inesperadas, texturas imprevistas y composiciones que escapan a la lógica consciente.

La intuición juega un papel central en este proceso. Es la brújula interna que guía la mano del artista, la voz silenciosa que señala el siguiente movimiento, el color a elegir, la dirección de una línea. En la pintura automática, la intuición no es vista como algo misterioso o irracional, sino como una forma válida y poderosa de conocimiento, una conexión directa con una sabiduría que reside más allá del pensamiento lógico.

Artistas como André Masson fueron pioneros en la exploración de estas técnicas, permitiendo que el azar y el flujo libre de la energía guiaran sus composiciones. Sus obras a menudo presentan una sensación de dinamismo y una cualidad orgánica, como si hubieran brotado directamente de un paisaje onírico. Otros surrealistas también experimentaron con diversas formas de automatismo, buscando desvelar las ricas imágenes que yacían ocultas en el subconsciente.

La belleza de la pintura automática reside precisamente en su imprevisibilidad. Cada obra se convierte en un registro único de un momento de flujo intuitivo, una ventana a un paisaje interior que de otra manera permanecería inaccesible. Nos invita a contemplar formas que no necesariamente “representan” algo concreto, sino que evocan sensaciones, atmósferas y quizás incluso vislumbres de nuestro propio inconsciente.

¿Qué te parece esta idea de dejar que la intuición guíe tu mano en el arte? ¿Alguna vez has experimentado esa sensación de crear sin una planificación consciente? ¿Qué surgió de ello?

Where Form Meets Feeling: Is Architecture Art?

Is Architecture Art?
Is Architecture Art?

Where Form Meets Feeling: Is Architecture Art? & Miami’s Unique Palette.

Where Form Meets Feeling: Is Architecture Art? & Miami’s Unique Palette

The age-old question of whether architecture is art often sparks debate in gallery openings and academic halls. On one side, pragmatists emphasize architecture’s essential functionality – shelter, utility, and structure. On the other, romantics view buildings as large-scale sculptures, expressions of vision, culture, and emotion. To explore this, let’s consider whether architecture meets key criteria of art: the intentional use of form to evoke an aesthetic or emotional response.

Perez Art Museum PAMM

The architect’s process offers a compelling argument for architecture’s artistic merit. It typically begins with a concept, a feeling, or an abstract idea that evolves into tangible form through sketches, models, and detailed plans. This process mirrors the journey of a painter or sculptor. Architects manipulate space, light, and materials to evoke a response, creating an experience that transcends mere shelter. Consider the soaring grandeur of a Gothic cathedral, designed to inspire awe and spiritual reflection. Or the serene harmony of a Japanese tea house, crafted to foster tranquility and connection with nature. These structures communicate, move us, and tell stories, arguably fulfilling the essence of art.

However, architecture undeniably faces constraints – gravity, budget, and client needs. Does this inherent practicality disqualify it from being considered “pure” art? Perhaps not. Great artists often thrive within limitations, using them as a springboard for innovation. Just as a poet adheres to the structure of a sonnet, architects can find creative freedom within the parameters of their projects. The artistic challenge lies in elevating the functional to the sublime, imbuing necessary structures with artistic intent.

Transitioning from this broader discussion, let’s examine how this artistic intent manifests in the vibrant architectural landscape of Miami. This city serves as a living testament to how architecture can define a place.

Miami’s architectural identity is a dazzling fusion of influences, reflecting its history and tropical environment. The Art Deco of South Beach, with its pastel hues, geometric motifs, and whimsical details, evokes a sense of playful glamour connected to its past. These buildings are more than just places to stay; they are iconic visual statements that contribute significantly to Miami’s cultural identity by representing the glamour of the past.

The “Miami Modern” or MiMo style, emerging in the post-war era, features clean lines, dramatic angles, and integrated lush landscaping. MiMo embraced the subtropical climate with breezeways, jalousie windows, and shaded patios, exuding a sleek, futuristic optimism that reflected the era’s aspirations.

More recently, Miami’s skyline has been punctuated by daring contemporary designs: sleek glass towers defying gravity, organic forms that twist and curve, and bold expressions of color and light. Architects here push boundaries, creating structures that are not only functional but also sculptural elements in the urban landscape, contributing to Miami’s evolving identity as a hub of innovation.

Miami’s architecture compels us because of its embrace of vibrancy and innovation. The city isn’t afraid to be bold, to experiment with form and color, mirroring its thriving contemporary art scene. Architectural designs here transcend mere shelter; they create a visual feast, a unique sense of place reflecting Miami’s energy and spirit.

Ultimately, whether architecture is art may best be answered by experiencing spaces that move us, spark our imagination, and become integral to our cultural identity. Miami’s architecture undeniably achieves this, demonstrating the artistic potential inherent in the very buildings that shape our daily lives.

We invite you to share your thoughts: When you observe the buildings around you, particularly in Miami, do you perceive art? What elements elevate a structure beyond mere functionality? Share your insights in the comments below!

Is Architecture Art?
Is Architecture Art?

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Postcards From the Artist

The Contemporary Art Modern Project
The Contemporary Art Modern Project

Postcards From the Artist

May 23 – June 27, 2025

The CAMP Gallery

791-793 NE 125th St.

North Miami, FL 33161

United States

(786) 953-8807

The Contemporary Art Modern Project announces its May exhibition: Postcards from The Artist with a group exhibition featuring works from: Milton Bowens, Laetitia Adam and Oluwatomisin Olabode. Each of these artists creates work explaining their journeys through life and the art world brimming with lived experience, ancestral and historical experiences inherited. The history of an individual is deeply connected to the stories passed down, the experiences encountered and witnessed and the interpreter of all of the above. Identity is a condition constantly influx, due to not just the external world and its ever revolving revolt of both history and perception, but also due to time, and the experiences that come with time. The optimistic child full of imagination and dreams can often become the bogged down adult witnessing not only the loss of innocence in imagination, but also the burden of an imposed identity. What is left is a quagmire of opinions, voices, disagreements, all swarming to remove the identity one lives, the history one lives. Responding to this, these artists lay before the viewer both history lived and inherited, as evidence of how that history, that postcard from the moment effects the artist and becomes the inspiration behind the work. 

Milton Bowens is an artist and a preservationist of both the history and the present of African Americans. Often using paraphernalia from archives of American history he reminds the viewer, informs the viewer of the treatment, history and experience of people enslaved in the U.S. His focus looks at the beginnings and explores how they still effect the present. Laetitia Adam Rabel exposes her reality as a woman in America, and how her race and ancestry mark her, and give her the ability to navigate, as best as she can, the labyrinth that is modern society. Deeply feminine her works bring forth and shine on her experiences with her life, her body and her artistic voice. Oluwatomisin Olabode based in Lagos, often toys with ideas of the grotesque, not only in his artistic voice, but also in his subject matter. Over stylized subjects confront the viewer usually in a one dimensional depiction, suggesting that the social eye can only perceive what is on the surface.

The art world is overflowing with rules and ideas of what is art, often from the perspective of the financial, which typically results in trends on what is unique, new, and catchy. Naturally this is fine, but it can overlook artists responding from an internal that cannot be limited or ignored by ‘market demand.’ Artists as the above make works that resonate with a myriad of shared aspects of the human condition – where the exact depictions may be different, they all do speak on being human with both lived and inherited history and how we all carry that weight.

Julie Peppito Chooses Hope

Julie Peppito Chooses Hope
Julie Peppito Chooses Hope

Julie Peppito Chooses Hope

April 11 – May 17, 2025

Statement and curation by Melanie Prapopoulos

The CAMP Gallery

791-793 NE 125th St. North Miami, FL 33161

The solo exhibition, Julie Peppito Chooses Hope, suggests a guide on how to navigate life through mixed mediums of fiber, paint, found objects and her own innate belief in preserving the positive. Peppito tackles the daily distractions of life by creating multi layered works exploring where she is in the present as a means of establishing order in a life that is chaotic. Chaos can be found in any segment of life where reality clashes with self imposed expectations, where time flies uncontrollably out of ones’s  grasp, and much more. Peeling back life as we cross the social landscape, Peppito responds to the world she inhabits by offering hope. Coming into her own in an ever  changing art world and practice, Peppito spends a great deal of time with not only  the work that evolves, often from one object, but also with her thoughts on the piece. Her thoughts can travel through the everyday and mundane, through her own life,  and through the climate she encounters. This multifaceted looking around her is clearly seen in works such as; Growth 1 & 2 (2025). The works offer the concept of  growth in many ways. For example, it can be seen as two unequal stages of growth, two direction for growth—or a limit to growth because of the different sizes. But in both  there lies hope, simply because the works are bordered by a literal blank canvas, thereby giving one the freedom to move out of the work and into a new stage. 

Peppito often creates a tableaux both overflowing with action and thought, but also  one open and dependent on interpretation. Dividing for example, Holding Pattern (2025) into two sections, one is able to skip through the left portion only to attentively explore the right side. The piece is divided by color, historical references, the artist, and elements of culture. Once you travel through the labyrinths Peppito creates, you may  enter into the unformed, the unknown. The work holds an intentionally ambiguous landscape, one with a shadowy figure lurking in the window, an empty chair, and less—but even through this almost ‘void,’ Peppito places her bird, a muse, a symbol of the  imagination—fully formed, fully identifiable—showing that come what may, there is  always hope and somethings can never be erased. This is the key in Peppito’s philosophy—there is always hope, and we can all work towards the beautiful  tomorrow of our imagination.  

In all of Peppito’s work one can witness her artistic practice as her search for  materials rises from both conscious choices to something that catches her eye. This ‘eye-catching’ object is usually the idea of a work in its moment of becoming, akin to an unconscious stage, but as more than one idea holds space in anyone’s mind— new ideas often come hurdling towards her, calling her to listen to the ideas, and thus  one idea evolves into many. These ‘many’ are then masterfully composed by Peppito to tell the story that she wishes to tell, as well as to listen to the stories that come from her works when viewed. Her work stands on the precipice of optimism forever leaning towards hope. The hope lies in the future, what she likes to envision for a ‘beautiful  tomorrow,’ and the hope that her work stimulates, awakens and leads into  conversations and connections bound in the hope for caring connections amongst all.  

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation Announces Open Call for 2025-2026 CreARTE Grants Program

CreARTE Grants Program
CreARTE Grants Program

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation Announces Open Call for 2025-2026 CreARTE Grants Program

The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation (the Pérez Family Foundation) is proud to launch the fourth edition of the Pérez CreARTE Grants Program (Pérez CreARTE), awarding over $5 million to arts-first organizations across Miami-Dade County that seek to cultivate a vibrant, connected and engaging arts ecosystem. In celebration of its 10th year of philanthropic impact, the Pérez Family Foundation’s 2025–2026 program will have a renewed focus on Arts Access, Arts Education and Artist Fellowships and Residencies. Applications opened on Tuesday, April 29, with winners announced in the fall. Eligible organizations may apply here.

Current arts-first grantees are invited to apply for renewed funding through a separate but parallel process. The Pérez family remains committed to supporting and strengthening the work of past and current partners while also making space for fresh ideas and new investments. The application window will close on June 13, 2025. All interested applicants should direct their inquiries to Jacki Altman, Community Investments Manager, at [email protected] and Belissa Alvarez, Director of the Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation, at [email protected], who will be managing applications and the awards process. Full guidelines for Pérez CreARTE can be found in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

The Miami Foundation40 NW 3rd Street, Suite 305
Miami, FL 33128 United States


The Art of Stickers by Alexander Martínez and Alejandro Caiazza

Art of Stickers
Art of Stickers

The Art of Stickers by Alexander Martínez and Alejandro Caiazza

Por: José Gregorio Noroño

Alexander Martínez and Alejandro Caiazza, two Venezuelan visual artists based in New York, act as street artists when not exhibiting in closed gallery spaces. They take over the city streets as urban galleries to display their stickers, a form of street art in the context of graffiti. Through their images captured on the United States Postal Service Label 228s, they are able to maintain their creative and exhibition activity, express messages that contain their particular vision of the world, and allude to political, social, and cultural issues.
The recurring image in Martínez’s sticker is a boot, which breaks away from his pictorial compositions to occupy the public spaces of New York City. Its representation transcends its functional meaning as simple footwear to protect the feet. Beyond this, the boot is visually configured with a spiked sole and a toe shaped like a target practice wheel, attributes that imbue it with aggression and violence, perhaps alluding to military regimes and oppression; in short, this image leads us to associate it with lethal weapons.
In Caiazza’s case, his sticker represents the scribbled figure of a cat’s face, an enigmatic creature with a wide range of meanings. For example, for this artist, it symbolizes good luck, nonconformity, and mystery; a stealthy being that escapes all control; it represents independence, rebellion, and resistance to the imposition of the established order. Together with Martínez, Caiazza stealthily walks the streets of New York, displaying his stickers with gesticulating cat faces in public spaces, thus breaking established boundaries.
I take this opportunity to announce that on May 17, 2025, between 6:00 and 8:00 pm, Alexander Martínez, Alejandro Caiazza, Sergio “el Hase” Barrios and Luis Salazar will be exhibiting at the William V. Musto Cultural Center under the title “Heartbeats of the South”.

Bogotá, 2025

Alexander Martínez (izq) Alejandro Caiazza (der) en Buschwick Brooklyn NY junto a sus emblemáticos stickers

Art on the Plaza: Avi Young – Bearing Bonds

Art on the Plaza: Avi Young - Bearing Bonds
Art on the Plaza: Avi Young - Bearing Bonds

Art on the Plaza: Avi Young – Bearing Bonds

Through May 31, 2025

All Day

MOCA’s Art on the Plaza returns with a thought-provoking installation examining the complexities of human connection. Avi Young’s Bearing Bonds, on display through May 31 at MOCA Plaza at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, features two figures—an adolescent and mentor—with arms extended toward each other but unable to touch.

The installation explores themes of separation, whether from physical distance, systemic barriers or emotional divides. Young ingeniously connects the silhouettes with melodic chimes, creating a symbolic bridge of communication despite the inability to physically connect.

As a queer Afro-Latinx artist, Young brings their vibrant cultural heritage and storytelling passion to their work. Their artistic practice often centers on tender portrayals of marginalized communities, celebrating identity while fostering empathy and highlighting the power of connection through textured, intimate narratives.

Young’s artistic journey began at the Design and Architecture Senior High, where they balanced artistic pursuits with STEM studies, including marine biology research at the Frost Science Museum. They later refined their skills at the Kansas City Art Institute, focusing on ceramics and material exploration. Since 2021, Young has been an associate artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, contributing to Miami’s creative landscape.

Bearing Bonds is part of MOCA’s Art on the Plaza series, launched in 2020 to activate the museum’s outdoor space with temporary public art installations. The 2025 series showcases South Florida artists, including Young, Magnus Sodamin and Nathan Justice Moyer, with site-specific works rotating throughout the year to engage and connect the community.

Oolite Arts Presents: Mini Bookmaking Workshop with Wilie Báez

Mini Bookmaking Workshop by artist Wilie Báez
Mini Bookmaking Workshop by artist Wilie Báez

Oolite Arts Presents: Mini Bookmaking Workshop with Wilie Báez

Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 1 – 5 PM
924 Lincoln Road, Studio 201, Miami Beach, FL 33139

Paper crafting enthusiasts and art hobbyists can explore creative bookmaking techniques at this Oolite Arts hands-on workshop led by artist Wilie Báez. The session introduces participants to fundamental bookbinding methods while incorporating various artistic elements to create personalized miniature books.

The Mini Bookmaking Workshop takes place on Saturday, May 10 at Oolite Arts on Miami Beach. Throughout the four-hour session, attendees will transform 12″ x 12″ paper into small handmade books using non-stitching binding techniques, while experimenting with collage, painting, drawing and printmaking to create distinctive page designs.

All necessary materials are provided, though participants are welcome to bring personal items to incorporate into their projects. The workshop is designed for all skill levels, requiring no previous bookmaking experience. By the end of the session, participants will have completed several mini books and gained skills that can be applied to larger bookmaking projects.

The instructor, Willie Báez, is a multidisciplinary artist originally from New York City’s East Village who transitioned from a career in Information Technology to pursue his artistic practice. Báez studied at the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design in the 1990s and has exhibited his work in various locations including New Jersey, New York City, Miami, Puerto Rico and Spain. He currently works part-time at Oolite Arts, where he facilitates printmaking workshops and figure drawing sessions.

Registration requires advance booking, with refunds available up to 24 hours before the workshop begins.

Participants will craft their own personalized mini books, exploring artistic expression through the tactile and narrative possibilities of handmade publications. All materials are included, and the workshop is designed to welcome beginners and experienced makers alike.

Tickets start at $55, and space is limited.

Discover the artistry of bookmaking and leave with a one-of-a-kind creation that tells your story.

Register now at oolitearts.org or contact [email protected] for more information.

Art of Community-Human Chain Moves a Bookstore

Art of Community
Art of Community

Human Chain Moves a Bookstore—And Strengthens a Community

In Chelsea, Michigan, a powerful example of neighborly support unfolded when hundreds of residents came together to help Serendipity Books relocate. The store’s owner, Michelle Tuplin, needed to move her entire inventory of over 9,000 books just a block down the street. Instead of hiring movers, she turned to her community—and they showed up in force.

On April 13, 2025, nearly 300 people formed a human chain stretching 300 feet, passing books hand-to-hand from the old location to the new. The effort, dubbed the “book brigade,” wasn’t just a practical solution—it became a celebration of what makes communities thrive: mutual support, simple acts of kindness, and shared purpose.

The brigade included volunteers of all ages, from children to seniors, and completed the move in under two hours. Books were placed directly onto shelves, alphabetized and ready for customers. It was an efficient solution to a logistical challenge—but more importantly, it reflected how strong communities are built.

Helping neighbors doesn’t always mean grand gestures. It can be as simple as assisting with errands, offering childcare, or just showing up when someone needs a hand. Social connection through events like this strengthens relationships, encourages communication, and fosters a sense of belonging.

The bookstore’s move, which went viral on social media, was timed to coincide with Independent Bookstore Day on April 26, when Serendipity Books reopened in its new space. But what really stood out was not the number of books moved—it was the number of hands that made it possible.

Whether it’s helping a local business, attending a neighborhood event, or simply checking in on a neighbor, small actions like these stitch together the fabric of a resilient, caring community.

Cover photo fromhttps://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2022/10/09/human-book-chain-helps-superior-township-library-move-to-new-location/69546142007/

Mahara+Co Presents: “No Place Is Far Away” by Evelyn Sosa

Evelyn Sosa
Evelyn Sosa

Mahara+Co Presents: “No Place Is Far Away” by Evelyn Sosa

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 6 – 9 PM
224 NW 71st St, Miami, FL 33150 | Little Haiti

Miami, FL — Mahara+Co is proud to present No Place Is Far Away, a powerful solo exhibition by Cuban artist Evelyn Sosa, opening on Saturday, May 10 from 6 to 9 PM in the heart of Little Haiti.

In this moving body of work, Sosa offers an intimate meditation on migration through a series of photographic portraits of objects—keepsakes, tools, fragments—carried across borders. Each object becomes a vessel for memory, rooted in personal histories of displacement, resilience, and longing. The exhibition poetically reflects on identity and the emotional weight of journeys made across time and space.

Through intimate images of personal objects carried by migrants, Sosa explores themes of memory, loss, and resilience. Supported by the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship (ARC + PEN International), this series captures the emotional weight of displacement.

No Place Is Far Away is presented with support from the Cuban Migrant Artists Resilience Fellowship, a program of Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) and PEN International, dedicated to supporting exiled and displaced artists.

Join us for the opening reception as we honor stories of migration and celebrate the power of art to preserve and transform memory.

For more information, visit maharaco.com.

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Biography

Evelyn Sosa was born in 1989 in Havana, Cuba. Sosa is a photographer with preference for intimate and documentary portraiture. Evelyn graduated from the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York where she was awarded with the Director’s Fellowship and the Arnold Newman Scholarship.

She has attended to several photography workshops, among which are the The Eddie Adams Workshop in New York; Chemistry Laboratory of Photography Workshop in the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana; and the Photography Workshops of FotoFest International & Foundation for Culture and Society from Chicago in Havana.

In 2016 Sosa was the winner of the Herman Puig Prize, awarded to the best artist of the Body Photography Salon in Havana and in 2021 she obtained a special mention in the 7th edition of Post-it Cuban Contemporary Art event. During her practice since 2011 Sosa has participated in several group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Europe and Japan where she was invited to Kyotographie Festival in 2019. In 2024, she was awarded the Artist Resilience Fellowship, granted by PEN International and Artists at Risk Connection.

In 2017 Sosa exhibited Strange Birds of Passage, her first personal show in Mariano Rodríguez Gallery in Havana. Her second personal exhibition Havana Intimate was opened in New York in 2019. 

In 2023 she exhibited the duo show You are Everyone Who Tells a Story in Space 776 in New York. 

Sosa is the author of the photo-book Havana Intimate, through the lens of Evelyn Sosa published in New York by Uncommon Beauty Gallery in 2019. 

She lives and works in Miami.

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