VisualMiami@Arsht Reception

Photography by Daniel Rodriguez on April 30th, 2022 in Lifestyle

Miami, FL – April 30, 2022 – The Adrienne Arsht Center celebrated the return of its VisualMiami@Arsht visual arts program with a VIP reception honoring local contemporary artist Jessy Nite. Nite’s latest collection, “Receptive as a Valley,” was inspired by the idea of survival in both nature and human society. The collection of brightly colored, intricately patterned paracord weaves was featured throughout the lobby of the Knight Concert Hall beginning in February 2022. The pieces were thoughtfully selected and crafted together with self-taught traditional survival knots to reveal messages in an array of Nite’s custom fonts. The texts play off of familiar phrases related to nature, climate, community, and relationships to explore survival in society and what it means to turn to the natural world as our guide forward.

The VisualMiami@Arsht program showcases Miami artists and Miami-based collections. The premiere collection began in February 2018 with 2017 Knight Arts Champion Sebastian Spreng’s “Tones of Miami,” which featured 15 original prints, each created with an iPad and selected from Spreng’s latest body of work. The next installment ran November 2018 – February 2019 and featured José Bedia’s “Watering Past Ground,” which featured two original works on paper and eight original paintings on canvas. For more information on the Arsht Center’s visual arts offerings, click here.