SORRY I’M A LADY
Nov 28 – Dec 31, 2025
A film by Jonathan Gonzalez featuring the paintings of Anna Vickers
On view November 28 – December 31, 2025
1212 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
The Galbut Institute is pleased to present Sorry I’m A Lady, a film directed by Jonathan Gonzalez, with architecture and environments by Gonzalez and featuring the paintings of Anna Vickers. The film will be presented on the monumental, publicly facing video screen at the retail and cultural hub 1212 Lincoln Road on Miami Beach. The screen occupies the south façade of the building at the intersection of Alton Road and 16th Street, one of the city’s most active urban junctions. Sorry I’m A Lady will be shown exclusively on the screen from November 28 through December 31, 2025.
The title of the film is borrowed from Vickers’ seminal exhibition Sorry I’m A Lady, which took place at the Pavillon Davioud in Paris’s Jardin du Luxembourg in 2017— itself borrowing the title from the 1970s pop duet Baccara. The film features a broad selection of Vickers’ works made between 2004 and 2017.
The setting of the film is an idealized virtual museum digitally constructed by Gonzalez through close examination of Vickers’ paintings interrogating the female nude and its critique. This virtual museum is defined by immaculate minimalist architecture and immense, luminous galleries, forming the perfect embodiment of the contemporary art museum.
Perfection is also embedded in the historical category of the female nude—often interpreted by contemporary art institutions through the lens of critique. By exclusively displaying Vickers’ paintings of the nude in multiple corollaries with the film’s idealized galleries, Gonzalez brings institutional critique into focus. The critique of the nude melts into the critique of the institution, just as the paintings melt into their surrounding spaces as Gonzalez fades the camera from one gallery to the next.
Strikingly, institutional critique is inverted. Instead of using an art object that displaces the nude as a cipher for critique, Vickers’ reframed nudes become the catalyst for it. Rather than moving the art object outside the institution, Gonzalez reinstalls it within museum walls in exquisite display. And instead of closing off the institution—or leaving it behind when critique enters the public realm—Gonzalez brings the entire institution with him. Neither the art object nor the institution is dismantled; instead, both are depicted in states of curated perfection in direct interaction with the streets below.
This inversion is extended through a study of the grid—a motif recurring across the work’s architecture and display. The poured-in-place concrete wall supporting the 1212 Lincoln screen, the screen’s 1,500 LED modules, the curtain-wall glazing, the sawtooth roofs, and the gentle grate-like shadows falling diagonally across the figures all echo the rectilinear order of the modernist grid. These elements loosen the formal logic of the grid as a symbol of painting’s self-referential endgame through their dialogue with the pictorial forms of Vickers’ paintings. They draw attention to the self-referential nature of her figures, revealing new possibilities for painting through the most emblematic subject once displaced by the grid: the nude. The dazzling Miami Beach sun pours across the video screen, literally shedding light on this point.
The exterior landscaping expands these ideas. Zen gardens of fine sand contain bare, leafless trees—both upright and fallen. They suggest the cyclical nature of life, a theme core to Vickers’ exploration of new possibilities for the female nude after its “death” in postmodernism, and a way of thinking about a reborn, reframed art object presented on a gallery wall where both object and wall are publicly visible as a form of institutional critique.
Sorry I’m A Lady is produced by OOAI, with creative input from Anna Vickers and Michael J. Quiñones.
About the Artists
Jonathan Gonzalez
Jonathan Gonzalez is a Miami-based designer and artist. His work spans architecture, art, curation, and design. He is the founder of Office GA and OOAI (Office of Applied Ideas). His work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Diverse Works, Guccivuitton, Tile Blush, Balice Hertling, Maison & Objet, Design Miami, and with Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places.
He holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Gonzalez grew up in Key West, Florida.
Anna Vickers
Anna Vickers is originally from London and is now based in Paris. She has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions at The Galbut Institute in Miami, Olivia Edwards Gallery in New York and Paris, and Tile Blush in Miami. Her paintings have also been included in group exhibitions at Triangle Space (Chelsea College of Arts, London), Camberwell Space (London), and at the Pavillon Davioud in the Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris.
She holds a PhD from University of the Arts London and a BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, where her 2002 degree show was featured on the front page of The Independent, one of the UK’s leading newspapers. In 2017, she coauthored the book Sorry I’m A Lady with artist Jason Galbut, with a second edition published in 2022.
The Galbut Institute was established in 2024 by Jason Galbut to display his body of work and works from his collection of paintings by the artist Anna Vickers. It is located in a warehouse in the Little River district of Miami, which also houses Galbut’s studio. The Institute seeks to provide an inspiring context in which to enjoy viewing art. It welcomes members of the public during opening hours and by appointment.
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