Exhibition provides glimpse at the many ways artists question, expose and confront power
Jose Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) The Visitor, 2007. Courtesy of the artist and GAVLAK Gallery.
MIAMI, FLA
.- As we continue navigating this disorienting phase in national history, we find new opportunities to take risks. And as always, art is there to tell the story. This summer starting today, Oolite Arts presents Where there is power, an exhibition about the many ways that artists access, spy upon, expose, memorialize, and occasionally trouble the machinations of power.
Where there is power is co-organized by Amanda Bradley, programs manager at Oolite Arts, and René Morales, chief curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami. When I was first invited to do the show last summer, the world really felt like it was on fire, said René Morales. Between the pandemic, the movement for Black lives, ongoing trauma from the last administration and election, and crises at the border, the societal powers that st
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There are hundreds of names of gun violence victims from around the nation listed on a Wynwood Wall - more than half of the names are from South Florida.
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