FIU’s Frost Art Museum Announces Art Basel 2018 Season

Photography by Alejandro Chavarria on October 17th, 2018 in Lifestyle

Tatiana Flores, Andrea J. Queeley, Adler Guerrier, & Charo Oquet

Miami, FL – October 13, 2018 – Florida International University’s Frost Art Museum, the Smithsonian Affiliate in Miami, announces a powerful new season of exhibitions for Art Basel Season 2018 in Miami. Headlining is “Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago,” the first major survey of this size and scope of 21st century art by 67 contemporary Caribbean artists representing 14 Caribbean countries, whose works offer expansive perspectives that transcend the boundaries imposed upon Caribbean cultures. Featuring artists with roots in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Curacao, Aruba, Saint Maarten, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Barbados and Saint Vincent. The exhibition proposes a mapping of the region that begins with the islands. Arising from a legacy of colonialism, recurrent themes include race and ethnicity, history, identity, sovereignty, migration and sustainability.

“The Writing on the Wall,” presented by Hank Willis and Dr. Baz Dreisinger, is a collaborative installation that raises awareness about mass incarceration. On the gallery walls are essays, poems, letters, stories, diagrams, and notes written by individuals incarcerated in prisons around the world. During her years teaching in prisons, Dr. Dreisinger compiled these materials consisting of hand-written or typed messages by inmates. “The Writing on the Wall” is part of the monumental art project For Freedoms initiative, founded by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman. The fifty-state initiative is the largest creative collaboration in U.S. history. The museum also presents the world premiere of its new exhibition “Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum FIU,” showcasing recent gifts of art to the museum and celebrating the collection’s ̶̶̶rich treasures, including rarely seen objects from the vaults collected over the past 40 years since the museum’s inception in 1977.

Amy Galpin

Tatiana Flores

Jordana Pomeroy & Tatiana Flores

Johanna Robledo & Paul Perdomo

Maryanna Ramirez, Amy Galpin, Tatiana Flores, & Vanessa Selk

Lisa C Soto, Nicole Awai, Juana Valdés, Lourdes Ramos, Charo Oquet, & Adrienne Chadwick

Lisa C Soto, Tatiana Flores, Juana Valdés, Adler Guerrier, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Nicole Awai, Andrea J. Queeley, Lilian Garcia-Roig, Jordana Pomeroy, & Charo Oquet