Laundromat Art Space
185 NE 59th St
Miami, FL
Accessibility: ADA Compliant
Parking: Street Parking
Public Transportation: 9 and 10 Metrobus run on NE 2nd Ave, the closet stop is on NE 59th Street
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Laundromatartspace.com
Laundromat Art Space is an artist-run studio and exhibition complex which focuses on the development of local artists and provides innovative curatorial opportunities and artistic programming for the community. Founded in 2015 by a group of artist friends, all finishing up residencies at other organizations, with the idea of launching their own space. Today, LAS makes it’s home in a reclaimed laundromat turned into a studio space located in the neighborhood of Little Haiti in Miami, FL.
The 4,500 sq ft venue houses 11 studios and a gallery. LAS holds contemporary art exhibitions showcasing local, national and international work. Resident artists have the unique opportunity to be part of an environment which fosters collaboration between multidisciplinary artists.
Laundromat Art Space is 100% artist-run and independent under the direction of
Ronald Sánchez. Exhibition and curatorial strategy are overseen by Sánchez. In addition to in-house curation, resident artists are invited to propose shows. Laundromat also actively invites guest curators and encourages collaborations with independent curators and artist-run spaces, via resident artist connections and/or via solicited open calls for proposals.
Claudio Marcotulli
b. 1973 Caracas, Venezuela
Initially trained as Aeronautical Engineer, Claudio Marcotulli received his B.F.A from Emerson College in Boston and M.F.A from the Miami International University of Art and Design in 2005. Since then, his work has been exhibited internationally and has received support from The Knight Foundation, Live Arts Miami and South Florida PBS.
Claudio Marcotulli uses media, sculpture and performance to create works that investigate his interest in technology and nature by illuminating existential questions around these subjects. His projects range from sculpture and performance installations to film and digital imagery that often reference memory, natural elements and issues of climate change with a surrealistic approach.
Marcotulli also explores principles of aerodynamics that reveal the science and poetry behind the mechanics of flight.
http://www.claudiomarcotulli.com/
Denise Treizman
Denise Treizman is an artist born and raised in Chile, who has an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She creates sculptures and installation-based works, combining found objects with drawings, weavings and ceramics. Her work questions pervasive consumer culture, waste and excess by re- appropriating overlooked and underutilized materials into playful works of art. Guided by intuition, she explores material relationships, chance and resourcefulness. For Denise, the city is the ultimate creative source, providing her with an unending supply of eclectic and everyday objects. Working both on the street and the studio, she examines how worthless fragments can be transformed into unexpected art experiences. Her process is at once an act of artistic ownership over her materials as well as an exploration of the infinite possibilities that they afford her.
Treizman has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center Residency receiving the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation fellowship award for Latin American Artists (Johnson, VT), Ox-Bow Residency (Saugatuck, MI), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), ACRE Residency (Steuben, WI), Triangle Workshop (Salem, NY) and MASS MoCA Assets for the Artists Residency. (North Adams, MA). She was a fellow at the Bronx’s Museum Artist in the Marketplace program (AIM program) Between 2015-2018,she was a studio resident at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York City. Treizman has had solo exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery (New York, NY), Wave Hill’s Sunroom Project Space (Bronx, NY), Soho20 Gallery +/- Project Space (Brooklyn, NY) Proto Gallery (Hoboken, NJ) and at Proto Gomez Gallery (New York, NY)
www.denisetreizman.com
Devora Perez
Devora Perez lives and works in Miami. She received her bachelor’s degree from New World School of the Arts, and is currently an MFA candidate at Florida International University. Perez is interested in the
domestic setting and its influence on gender, race, and class in society. In her work she challenges domesticity through the use of everyday materials such as caulk, cement, plastic, and wood, and uses them in unconventional ways. Through formal and minimal design, Perez emphasizes color, texture, and
even the industrial material itself. While some pieces may seem fragile and light others are heavy and dense both visually and physically. These discrepancies in weight between the works and the use of
shadows are meant to construct divisions and separate spaces.
devoraperez.com
Donna Ruff
Donna Ruff grew up in Miami Beach and has relocated there after years in New York and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA from Rutgers University, where she focused on printmaking and installation. She has been chosen to create site-specific installations at the Eldridge Street Project on the Lower East Side of New York, PS 122, and for ArtSPACE in New Haven, Connecticut. Exhibitions include Speaking Volumes at the Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin; Fireworks at the Hunterdon Museum in New Jersey; Paper[space] at the Philadelphia Art Alliance; 4th International Graphic Triennialein Prague; Feedback: Artist to Artist at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, and All the News That’s Fit to Print, at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, which she co-curated. She has been included in numerous gallery exhibitions and her work is in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Morgan Library, New Mexico Museum of Art, Library of Congress, Yale Art Museum, and Smith College, as well as other public and private collections. Publications that have featured her work include American Craft Magazine, New American Paintings, and Book Art: Iconic Sculptures and Installations Made from Books, published by Gestalten. She is represented by Rick Wester Fine Art in New York.
www.donnaruffstudio.com
Juan Henriquez
Juan Henriquez started his studies in art in 1995 at Julio Arraga Art School and then at Neptalí Rincón Superior Art Academy, both in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He continues with experimentation workshops in graphic arts, art restoration, photography, cultural promotion, acting and art direction for cinema. He was a co-founder member of La Tintota Art Collective developing public art projects, art labs and collective exhibitions with the support and mentoring of art masters José Ramón Sánchez and Victor Fuenmayor. His work has been featured in national and international art exhibitions, solo art shows in Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the Dutch Caribbean and the United States. In 2002 he received the “Young Artist” award at the 27th National Art Salon of Aragua, Maracay. He is currently a represented artist of D’Museo, featuring his work in International Art Fairs such as Art Lima in Peru and Barcú in Colombia.
Julia Zurilla
Julia belongs to the generation of Venezuelan artists from the late nineties, whose proposals use contemporary experimental languages. The written word, photographic imagery, contextual art and the interdisciplinary research of the art methods are the central columns of her work and her intellectual development. Julia Zurilla is an artist recognized for her experience with video and technological media, transforming written narratives into visual images.
Her work has been exhibited at international museums, art biennales, institutions and galleries such as: Coral Gables Museum in Miami, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC Lima in Perú; Americas Society Art Gallery in New York; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO in Miami, Theâtre La Colonie in Paris, Cinemateca Distrital in Bogotá, Biennal of Contemporary Art in Mérida, FIA Caracas, Galería de Arte Nacional, Museo de Bellas Artes and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Sziget Festival in Budapest, Galería Carmen Araujo in Caracas, Galería Odalys in Madrid. Since 2017 lives and works in Miami, FL.
Jose Luis Garcia
Jose Luis Garcia lives and works in Hialeah, FL. Garcia earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art from New World School of the Arts/University of Florida and their Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from Florida International University. Garcia is a Photo-Based Artist, who works throughout the gamut of the photographic medium and often uses family archives as the source of their work. Selected Solo exhibitions include “Family Aggregate” at the Photography Gallery at FIU Biscayne Bay Campus, “Forget Me Not”, and “In My Mind’s Eye” at the Miami Beach Urban Studios. Selected group exhibitions include “CAP Lab: Overload” at the Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, “End to End” at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, and “Body + Memory + City” with PhotoAlicante Photography Festival in partnership with Doral Contemporary Art Museum (DORCAM), in Alicante, Spain. Garcia has taught various K-12 educational residencies as a Teaching Artist with Arts for Learning Miami, led workshops with Miami Dade Public Libraries’ The Vasari Project, is an Adjunct Professor at Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus, Broward College North Campus, and teaches Photography at New World School of the Arts in the Highschool Division.
www.avantgarci.com
Laura Villarreal
American, born Mexico (1971). Works and lives in Miami, FL.
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.
Villarreal holds a MA in Analysis and Management of Contemporary Art from the
University of Barcelona, Spain. She studied at the University of North Carolina, the New York School of Visual Arts, and the Art Students League in New York. Select individual exhibitions include the Instituto Cultural de Mexico in Miami, the Coral Gables Museum, the Embassy of Chile in Washington D.C., the Centro Cultural Fatima in Mexico, and the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles. She participated in Parc Lima, Chaco Chile, and Pinta Miami. She has curated for the Mexican Cultural Institute in Miami, part of the Consulate dedicated to the promotion of Mexican artists in the US, and currently directs art education programs for young audiences in the city of Key Biscayne, Florida.
www.lauravillareal.com
Lisu Vega
Lisu Vega is an artist which turned out into fashion designer. Her degree in Experimental Graphic gave her the right tools to explore stamping from the paper to the fabrics. From 2010 her collections are a reflection of the exploration of all aspects and techniques in the art world. She creates versatile pieces that can be mixed and combined with a very strong graphic DNA, product of her research and art background.
www.lisuvega.com
Nick Mahshie
Nick Mahshie was born in Southwest Miami-Dade County, Florida and lives and works in Miami, Florida. Mahshie received a Masters of Design degree in Fashion, Body & Garment in 2017 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. Shifting freely between Art & Design practices, his work makes clear reference to the visual language of saturated Miami culture while challenging the seductive palette of both our landscape and
our sartorial inclinations. His background in Painting, Fashion, and Print Design coalesce in the immersive installations, wearable sculpture and designed objects he creates. Selected Exhibitions include “No Vacancy Miami Beach” (2021) The International Inn, Miami Beach, Florida, “Exile Books + Printed Matter” (2021) NADA Art Fair, Miami, Florida, “Diverse Networks” (2020) Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, Florida. Mahshie has been invited as an artist-in-residence at AGA Lab, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019),
Residencia Corazón, La Plata, Argentina (2008), and as the Printmaking Artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, Florida (2018-22).
Pablo Contrisciani
Pablo Constriciani is an Argentinean artist residing in Miami since 1998. He earned his Masters in Painting at the National University of Fine Arts of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has recently participated in exhibitions at Arch Gallery & Karpio-Facchini Gallery, Miami; Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; Light Contemporary, London; Mackey Gallery, Houston; Solar Art Gallery, East Hampton and Art Center South Florida, Miami. He has exhibited also in the Art Fairs: Scope London; Scope New York and Scope Miami; Art Toronto; Fiac Paris; Art Miami and Arte Americas, His work has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America; Art Nexus; Arte al Dia; New Times and Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald. Pablo Contrisciani’s works are held by public and corporate collectors from USA, Latin America and Europe. www.pablocontrisciani.com
Roscoè B. Thické III
(b. 1981) was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After graduating high school Thické enlisted in the US Army to embark on a journey of exploration and transformation. The army provided Thické with the opportunity to see the world via his travels, but it would be a volunteer based photography class in South Korea, that would take Thické from amateur explorer of culture and customs, to the intentional, stirring, and impressive images we see of his work today. Roscoè pursued his passion for visual arts by studying photography and design at Broward College. Thické’s work is centered around the resilience of spirit, affliction of memory, and the art in “seeing”. Roscoè is an Oolite Arts Residency allum and was awarded a residency at the African American Research Library of Fort Lauderdale in 2021. During the pandemic, The Bass museum called upon Roscoè and other local artists to create work for their Work from Home series. Artists were asked to explore their everyday lives as it pertains to the diaspora while addressing climate change. Roscoè’s contribution to “Work from Home” included photographs of family in black and white featured along Miami Beach’s boardwalk pathway between The Bass and Lincoln Road. Thické’s work was on view at the Art and Culture center in Hollywood, Fl, for the exhibition Introspective a Reckoning of the Soul; a collaborative exhibition where he showcased four 16×20 still images collectively titled “The box is a trap”. Roscoè was nominated and granted the opportunity to be apart of the Atlantic Center of the Arts/Oolite Arts, artist development residency, in New Smyrna beach (ACA Home and Away), and recently spoke on a panel about art and activism through a partnership with the Broward County Library. Roscoè B. Thické III will expand his scope of work through his recent achievement, the 2021 Ellie Schneiderman Creator award (The Ellies).
Roxana Barba
Roxana Barba, born in Lima, Peru, is a Miami-based artist, whose practice incorporates interdisciplinary uses of performance, video art, installation and mixed media. At times minimalistic and meditative, and at times layered with multi-sensory storytelling, her artwork gestures towards personal and cosmic paradigms. Roxana often seeks to disarm power structures by drawing connections between healing rituals and delicate atmospheres that strive to use poetry as a gesture of denunciation.
Her interest in cross-disciplinary collaborations and improvisational practices in the development of site-specific works have received support from The Knight Foundation and South Florida PBS, as well as commissions from Miami Light Project, PAXy and Foundation for Emerging Arts and Technologies and invitations to present at the Perez Art Museum Miami and Miami Performance Festival. Her films have also screened and toured internationally.
She is currently working on her new piece Amaru en los Cielos, to be presented in October, 2021 as part of Miami Light Project’s Here & Now Festival 2021 and Kanay, a cross disciplinary performance in collaboration with artist Claudio Marcotulli, set to premiere in 2022. Both works are part of her current artistic research into Andean indigenous cosmovision and iconography.
Roxana pursued undergraduate visual arts studies in her native Perú prior to receiving her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts (Miami, Florida). She has been in residency at Cucalorus Film Festival (North Carolina, US) and Correlacion Contemporanea (Peru) and became a resident artist at Laundromat Art Space in May, 2021.
Juan Henriquez
Juan Henriquez started his studies in art in 1995 at Julio Arraga Art School and then at Neptalí Rincón Superior Art Academy, both in Maracaibo, Venezuela. He continues with experimentation workshops in graphic arts, art restoration, photography, cultural promotion, acting and art direction for cinema. He was a co-founder member of La Tintota Art Collective developing public art projects, art labs and collective exhibitions with the support and mentoring of art masters José Ramón Sánchez and Victor Fuenmayor. His work has been featured in national and international art exhibitions, solo art shows in Belgium, Romania, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, the Dutch Caribbean and the United States. In 2002 he received the “Young Artist” award at the 27th National Art Salon of Aragua, Maracay. He is currently a represented artist of D’Museo, featuring his work in International Art Fairs such as Art Lima in Peru and Barcú in Colombia.
Past Resident Artists:
Jay Bellicchi
Geraldine Bello
Jorge Chirinos
Paul Fentress
Jose Luis Garcia
Marina Gonella*
Anna Goraczko
Gabi Gutwirth
Jean Paul Mallozzi*
Dre Martinez*
David McCauley*
Christin Paige Minnotte*
Rosa Naday Garmendia
Lily Noches
David Olivera
Reginald O’Neal
Luna Palazzolo
Barbara Percorelli
Erin Parish
Bianca Pratorius*
Sarah Rifkin
Fereshteh Toosi
Michael Williams*
