Arts News in Short: Plenty To See Before Art Week Hits

Carol Jazzar’s site-specific installation is at ‘Anima, Animus’ at MDC Kendall Campus Art Gallery through Thursday, Nov. 12. The artist will present a talk at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7.  (Photo courtesy of the artist)

From nearly 100 modernist works at PAMM to immersive installations exploring migration, memory and identity, Artburst Miami’s editor picks a selection of what’s happening now in Miami-Dade’s galleries, exhibitions and artist-run spaces. Here are some must-sees before Art Week takes over in December.

Carol Jazzar’s Site-Specific ‘Anima, Animus’ at MDC Kendall

Carol Jazzar’s large-scale, site-specific installation grows around the gallery’s central pillar. Visitors enter an eight-foot-tall octagonal structure lined with dried sea-grape leaves, which form an enclosing, vessel-like space. At its center, the pillar is covered with reclaimed wood and kraft paper to resemble a cabbage palm, Florida’s state tree.

The title refers to the Jungian archetypes of Anima and Animus: the feminine aspect of the male psyche and the masculine aspect of the female psyche. Jazzar extends those ideas to nature and ecology, and to culture and industry. The installation also reflects the South Florida landscape of sea grapes and cabbage palms. Jazzar says that the materials loaned by a local builder will be reused after the exhibition, while organic materials will return to nature. Research sketches offer a view into Jazzar’s process.

Artist talk at 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7. On view through Thursday, Nov. 12.
MDC Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Building M, Room M-123, 11011 SW 104th St., Miami
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday.
More information at Miami Dade College.

Karla Kantorovich and Carol Damian In Conversation

Artist Karla Kantorovich and art historian Carol Damian will discuss Kantorovich’s recent solo exhibition, “Field of Convergence,” at Dimensions Variable. Working with copper, found materials and an expanded approach to painting, Kantorovich transforms worn and repurposed objects, bringing their histories into new relationships. The conversation will consider how those objects move from one existence to another, and how fragility, endurance, rupture and renewal meet in her work.

7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 4.
Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Ave., Miami Beach
RSVP required.
More information at Dimensions Variable.

Zoë Buckman. Show Me Your Bruises, Then, 2021–22. Three-channel color video installation, with sound, 17 min. (Courtesy of the artist )

Zoë Buckman at PAMM: ‘Show Me Your Bruises, Then’

London-born, New York-based artist Zoë Buckman returns to Miami for her first museum solo exhibition. The show is anchored by a three-channel video installation, written, performed and directed by Buckman and based on her poem of the same name. Featuring Buckman alongside actors Cush Jumbo and Sienna Miller, the work recounts the multigenerational impact of domestic violence and examines the shame and stigma imposed on survivors. This is the first time the video will be shown in its entirety.

Opening and artist talk, 7 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5. On view through Sunday, May 23, 2027.
Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
More information at PAMM.

‘High Tide Low Tide’ at Deering Estate Ends With Open Mic

“High Tide Low Tide,” an exhibition and series of immersive experiences by Miami-based artist Mette Tommerup, which opened Saturday, Oct. 10 closes Sunday, Nov. 8, with its final series of “Waves.”  Her practice involves super-sized scaled canvas installations that reference the elements.

Rooted in Miami’s tidal geography and Tommerup’s Scandinavian heritage, “High Tide Low Tide” featured an activation by performance artists with the art remaining: “Shelter” includes blue canvases suspended from trees, canvas-covered boulders and a blue structure that reimagines the Sea King’s palace as a place of refuge, care and imagination. In “Between Tides,” blue canvas paintings transform the pathways into temporary tidal channels through which visitors can walk.

The final wave is “King Tide,” which begins with a sunset viewing on the Deering Estate’s front lawn, followed by an open mic event in the Visitor Center Theater, where participants can present a short story, dance, song or poem, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 8.

The Deering Estate
16701 SW 72nd Ave., Palmetto Bay
Free with RSVP
More info, “Hide Tide Low Tide” at Deering Estate

Roxana Barba’s Performance Premiere of ‘Constructs II’

Roxana Barba’s site-specific performance takes place inside a residential duplex under construction. Two performers move across an inclined grid that combines a wooden structure with digital illusion, while the unfinished building and live sound shape the work around them.

The performance extends Barba’s earlier “Constructs I,” which brought movement, bricks and an amplified digital soundscape into a parking lot. Collaborators include dancers Briana Mendez and Britney Tokumoto, sound artists Andrew McLees and Carlos Dominguez, and artists and designers Freddy Jouwayed and Claudio Marcotulli.

The location will only be revealed to attendees who RSVP.

Performance premiere at 4:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7 and Sunday, Nov. 8
Free admission; RSVP required. Location provided to attendees.
More information at Eventbrite.

45 Works, 23 Artists in ‘The Wondering Jew’

The Jewish Museum of Florida’s exhibition brings together about 45 works by 23 artists, including Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani, Sonia Delaunay and Chana Orloff. Among the works is Chagall’s red-chalk drawing of himself in his studio. Archival material documents efforts to help Chagall and his wife, Bella, escape Nazi-occupied France.

“The Wondering Jew: Chagall, the School of Paris and the Worlds They Inspired” also includes an interactive chain-reaction playspace by Joseph Herscher of Joseph’s Machines and a botanical installation by Miami artist Dahlia Dreszer, alongside “Clone Dahlia,” an AI double that visitors can talk with.

The exhibition’s title deliberately transforms the phrase “wandering Jew” into “Wondering Jew,” reclaiming a centuries-old antisemitic trope and reframing it around curiosity, imagination, questioning and creativity.

Opening reception, 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 18. On view from Thursday, Nov. 19 through March 2027.
Admission included with general admission: $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. Members and children 6 and under are admitted free, and admission is free on Saturdays.
Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Ave., Miami Beach
Info at www.jmofl.org

Locust Projects presents “Tides and Passages,” an ambitious two-chapter presentation by Ecuadorian-born, Miami-based artist Edison Peñafiel. (Photo by Gabriela Ojeda)

Edison Peñafiel Sets 81 Masked Figures Adrift at Locust Projects

Ecuadorian-born, Miami-based artist Edison Peñafiel transforms the gallery into a stylized, monochromatic sea. Fourteen boats, built from found objects including wood, oil drums and tires, carry 81 masked figures through a 30-minute loop. The vessels evoke human migration across bodies of water, while papier-mâché masks drawn from Ecuadorian traditions obscure the figures’ identities.

The installation, “Tides and Passages: Chapter I: MARE MAGNVM,” is the first chapter of a two-part presentation exploring migration, displacement, memory and transformation. A second chapter, a new commission titled “De Profundis Clamavi ad Astra,” is planned for June 2027. The Nov. 14 premiere is part of Locust Projects’ ticketed benefit; the exhibition opens to the public Nov. 17.

Exhibition premiere, 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14. On view to the public Tuesday,  Nov. 17 through Tuesday, Dec. 15.
Locust Projects, 297 NE 67th St., Miami
More information at Locust Projects.

ICA Traces 25 Years of Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe’s Work

The first U.S. museum solo exhibition by Venezuelan artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe brings together more than 100 works spanning over 25 years. A member of the Yanomami community, Hakihiiwe lives in the Upper Orinoco region of southern Venezuela. He draws on the Amazon rainforest’s plants, animals, ancestral stories and cultural traditions to record and preserve Yanomami knowledge.

The exhibition traces his work from handmade-paper drawings, prints and paintings to film, murals and installations, including new commissions. Its sections follow the development of his visual language, his systems for observing and recording the natural world, and his recent explorations of dreams and the worlds beyond what can be seen. The presentation, co-curated by ICA Miami and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, is designed by architect Mauricio Rocha and draws inspiration from the Yanomami shapono, a traditional communal dwelling.

Opening reception, 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19. On view through Sunday, March 28, 2027.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 61 NE 41st St., Miami
Free admission.
More information at ICA Miami.

Ezekiel Binns Rethinks Architecture at QUEUE Gallery

Ezekiel Binns’ solo exhibitionm, “Medley,” rings together drawing, sculptural models and video in two imagined spaces. Binns considers how architecture’s emphasis on comfort and convenience can distance people from the natural rhythms around them, giving moments such as a warm breeze the same weight as form and structure.

“Medley, Ezeiel Binns”
1 to 6 p.m. Saturday and by appointment on other days. Through Saturday, Nov. 14
QUEUE Gallery, 300 SW 12th Ave., Unit 324-A, Miami.
More info, QUEUE Gallery.

Juan Raúl Hoyos turns the stretcher bars behind a canvas inside out in the show “Metapainting: Extracted from the Elements, the Archives, and the Artist’s Studio” at Little Havana’s Tower Hotel. (Photo courtesy of Aluna Art Foundation)

Group Exhibition at Little Havana’s The Tower Hotel

Juan Raúl Hoyos, Emilia Martínez-Fierro and Mette Tommerup approach painting as both an image and an object shaped by materials and process in “Metapainting: Extracted from the Elements, the Archives, and the Artist’s Studio.” Hoyos turns the stretcher bars behind his canvases outward and prints sticks and leaves found in a driveway on silk organza. Martínez-Fierro lets canvas drape, making its weight and folds part of the work. Tommerup’s paintings reveal the physical gestures involved in their making, including a large gray canvas that hangs across an arched doorway.

Installed in the hallways, lobby and other public areas of the historic Tower Hotel, the exhibition, curated by Adrianna Herrera, brings these distinct practices into conversation, drawing attention to the structures and decisions that are often hidden beneath a finished painting.

On view through late spring.
Aluna Art Foundation at the Tower Hotel, 1450 SW 7th St., Miami
More information at Aluna Art Foundation.

‘Nothing is Linear’ at El Espacio 23

Ancestry, migration and cultural exchange shape the ways 120 artists engage with Latin America in an exhibition of 130 works. Organized into four sections, it considers the body and identity, resistance, abstraction, and how people create a sense of place. Artists include Ana Segovia, Lari Pittman, Claudia Martínez Garay, Teresa Burga, Fanny Sanín, Alia Farid and José Parlá. The curatorial team includes Anelys Alvarez and Patricia Hanna of El Espacio 23, Patrick Charpenel of El Museo del Barrio and Taiyana Pimentel of MARCO.

Opening Thursday, Nov. 19. On view through Saturday, Aug. 14, 2027.
El Espacio 23, 2270 NW 23rd St., Miami
Free admission.
More information at El Espacio 23.

Paul Klee, Landschaft in Blau (Landscape in Blue), 1917. On long-term loan from the Berggruen family. (Courtesy Museum Berggruen, Neue Nationalgalerie, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)

European and Latin American Modernists Side by Side

Nearly 100 works by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse and other modernists come to Miami from Berlin’s Museum Berggruen and the Berggruen family collection merging some of PAMM’s Latin American artists collection in the process. The exhibition places European modernist works in conversation with Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García and Wifredo Lam. Together, the works consider modernism through histories of migration, exile and international exchange—histories that resonate in South Florida.

This is the first time that PAMM has dedicated its largest galleries entirely to Modern art. Organized thematically around still life, portraiture, interiors, landscape, and the emergence of Cubism, the exhibition
brings together painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, collage, and prints to reveal unexpected conversations across artists and movements.

On view through Sunday, Feb. 28, 2027.
Pérez Art Museum Miami, 1103 Biscayne Blvd., Miami
More information at PAMM.

‘El Discurso Infinito’ Brings Artists From 12 Countries to MoCAA

The third selection of the NOMADE Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas includes more than 40 artists from 12 countries: Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, the United States and Switzerland. Hernán Pacurucu curated the exhibition, with Leonardo Rodríguez as director.

Opening at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 7. On view through Friday, Jan. 15, 2027.
The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas
Joan Lehman Building, 770 NE 125th St., North MiamiFree admission.
More information at MoCAA.

Downtown Doral Arts Festival Returns For Second Year

The second annual Downtown Doral Arts Festival turns Main Street into an open-air gallery, with more than 60 artists working in painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media. Visitors can meet artists, see live art experiences and shop for work, including pieces made by Downtown Doral Charter School students. The free, family-friendly event also features a farmers market, food and drinks.

10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 15.
NW 53rd Street, Doral
Free admission.
More information at Downtown Doral Arts Festival.

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