RELIANCE by Maurice Mboa
opa projects is delighted to invite you to a private opening cocktail for the opening.
Private Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 26, 2025, 7-9 PM
Be among the first to discover the artist’s first US solo exhibition: a powerful series exploring spiritual connection, transformation, and the invisible energies that link us across borders.
Location: opa projects, 7622 NE 4th Ct, Miami 33138
Opa projects brings together artists with distinct approaches to question our perception of the everyday and the ability of art to transcend the obvious.
Opa projects artists:
Susanne Zagorni
Susanne Zagorni creates emotive, abstract compositions exploring memory, gesture, and the psychological resonance of color.
Emma Stone-Johnson
Emma Stone-Johnson works at the intersection of painting and installation, using layered materials to examine identity, intimacy, and shifting states of perception.
Frank Stella
Frank Stella, a pioneer of Minimalism and post-painterly abstraction, is known for his bold geometric forms, shaped canvases, and the continual reinvention of the pictorial plane.
Adam Parker Smith
Adam Parker Smith produces humorous yet philosophically charged sculptures that blend pop aesthetics with classical references, playing with desire, vanity, and material excess.
Alexander James
Alexander James explores light, shadow, and sensuality through photography and painting, often using ethereal atmospheres and dreamlike narratives.
Anner Cohen
Anner Cohen’s work weaves abstraction and figuration, focusing on gesture and texture to evoke emotional and spatial tension.
Karel Appel
Karel Appel, a leading figure of CoBrA, created expressive, energetic works marked by vivid color, raw spontaneity, and unrestrained experimentation.
Zoe Walsh
Zoe Walsh investigates visual perception through highly saturated, optical paintings rooted in queer gaze, architecture, and digital fragmentation.
Nicolas Shake
Nicolas Shake elevates discarded objects into sculptural forms, exploring impermanence, transformation, and the overlooked poetry of everyday urban debris.
Kenny Scharf
Kenny Scharf blends pop culture, graffiti, and surreal futurism in vibrant compositions that celebrate joy while critiquing consumer culture.
Jessica Taylor Bellamy
Jessica Taylor Bellamy’s multimedia work examines language, symbolism, and social power structures through richly layered imagery.
Emily Ferguson
Emily Ferguson creates atmospheric paintings where gesture and translucency dissolve the boundary between landscape and emotional states.
Kour Pour
Kour Pour reimagines cultural motifs—especially carpets and textile patterns—through labor-intensive painting techniques that question authenticity and global exchange.
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha blends text, landscape, and conceptual clarity in works that capture the poetic, ironic, and cinematic spirit of American culture.
Cleon Peterson
Cleon Peterson’s stark figurative scenes explore power, violence, and morality through high-contrast compositions reminiscent of ancient myth and modern conflict.
Ho Jae Kim
Ho Jae Kim merges abstraction and figuration through fluid, layered brushwork that reflects emotional memory and psychological landscapes.
Tyrrell Winston
Tyrrell Winston transforms found objects—like basketball nets and cigarette stubs—into sculptural meditations on nostalgia, urban life, and American iconography.
Maurice Mboa
Maurice Mboa works across sculpture and mixed media, exploring identity, displacement, and cultural heritage through expressive, tactile forms.
Ben Arpéa
Ben Arpéa creates minimalist, Mediterranean-inspired compositions marked by serene geometry, soft color palettes, and architectural clarity.
Sofia Nifora
Sofia Nifora blends fantasy, mythology, and personal narrative in ethereal works that explore femininity and psychological transformation.
Aglaé Bassens
Aglaé Bassens paints atmospheric, contemplative scenes that reflect on everyday moments with quiet emotional intensity and cinematic sensitivity.
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder, a master of kinetic art, revolutionized sculpture with his mobiles and stabiles—playful constructions that balance movement, form, and visual rhythm.
Fabien Conti
Fabien Conti uses photography and installation to investigate memory, illusion, and the relationship between time, space, and perception.
Camilla Marie Dahl
Camilla Marie Dahl explores nostalgia, rural identity, and the American landscape through sculpture and painting grounded in material sensitivity.
Pauline Guerrier
Pauline Guerrier works with sculpture and textile forms to explore ritual, cosmology, and the poetic tension between fragility and strength.
Ryan Schneider
Ryan Schneider creates vivid, tactile paintings and carved wooden sculptures inspired by desert landscapes, mysticism, and mythic storytelling.
Ryan Schneider (b. 1980, Indianapolis, USA) was born in Indianapolis, IN and holds a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art. He creates vibrant, expressionist paintings and sculptures infused with the mysticism of the natural world. Living in Joshua Tree, California, his practice draws from tree spirit mythology and German Expressionism, resulting in bold, textured works that celebrate primal energy.
