Three New Exhibitions Featured at Frost Art Museum's "Target Wednesday After Hours"

The newest exhibitions at The Frost Art Museum will feature works by artists from China to California to South Florida. From Francie Bishop Good's images bringing to light an underserved population to the artists' in "EAST / WEST: Visually Speaking" view of the western world to David and Hi-Jin Hodge reflecting on living in self-imposed boxes, each of these unique exhibitions contemplate and reflect on reinterpreting what many may overlook throughout their daily activities as well as what they may have established as the norm.

These works can be viewed during Target Wednesday After Hours, from 6-9pm at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on the Florida International University Modesto A. Maidique Campus, 10975 SW 17 St., Miami. This event is free and open to the public. 

Zhong Biao, Grand Entry, 2007,
Charcoal and acrylic on canvas,
78 3/4 x 59 3/8 inches,
Courtesy of the Artist

 "These exhibitions focus on artists with innovative methods and unique viewpoints that clearly think outside of the established confines," said Carol Damian, director and chief curator of The Frost Art Museum. "As an educational institution, enlightening the public to new perspectives in art is central to our vision."  

 In "EAST / WEST: Visually Speaking," 12 Chinese artists focus on merging two diverging visual languages: East and West. They reinterpret aesthetic visual traditions according to their perceptions and knowledge of European and American visual arts and appropriate iconic images such as Greek Hellenistic sculpture to the ubiquitous Pepsi logo. While in some works the reference to Western culture seems adoring, especially to the visual culture lexicon, in other works it appears to parody the West, its cultural symbols and values. The exhibition features contemporary works by Cai Lei, The Luo Brothers, Ma Baozhong, Cang Xin, Shen JingDong, Shi Liang, Sun Ping, Tang Zhigang, Zhang Hongtu and Zhong Biao.

The South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition presents recent works by the recipients of the 2010 South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Fellowship. The artists on view in this exhibit are Cooper, Michael Genovese, Francie Bishop Good, Nolan Haan, Sibel Kocabasi, Beatriz Monteavaro, Glexis Novoa, Jonathan Rockford, Bert Rodriguez, FriendsWithYou, The TM Sisters, and Tonietta Walters. An alliance of the local arts agencies of Martin, Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, the Consortium assists artists through direct grants awarded solely on the basis of creative excellence to improve artists' skills and encourage career development. This exhibit is an essential feature of the fellowship program and enables artists to be shown in a flagship visual arts institution of the region.

Returning to The Frost Art Museum with their own installation are David and Hi-Jin Hodge with Who's Counting and Temporal State Of Being. It consists of two multi-media works that explore the idea that 21st century existence is lived in a context of boxes, of our own making, and asks the question: Have we lost a sense of the boundlessness and seamlessness of space and time, because of the pervasively rectangular environments and of everyday life? David Hodge and Hi-Jin Hodge have created video installations for artistic exhibitions around the world. Their installations blend editorial materials and innovative uses of technology to explore complex human and social questions.

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Frost Art Museum Presents "2011 Aesthetics & Values Exhibition" - An Art Exhibition Curated by FIU Honor's College Students

Writing done with fly pigment, ping pong balls in the shape of clouds and paper shapes that seem to go on forever are just a few of the objects that bridge the line between the real and surreal, the natural and manmade and the figurative and abstract works in the next installation of Aesthetics & Values Fine Art Exhibition (A&V) at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU).

Daniel Arsham, Pixel Cloud (Miami),  2010,
Plastique, peinture / Plastic, paint,
21 1/4 x 27 1/2 x 31 inches.
Courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin

Sixty-four FIU Honors College students worked with 10 of Miami's most notable artists at the sixth annual A&V exhibition. This event, which is free and open to the public, runs from through April 17. The opening reception is March 23 during Target Wednesday After Hours from 6-9 pm at The Frost Art Museum, 10975 S.W. 17 St., Miami.

A&V will provide student-run tours of the exhibition on March 22, from 3:30-4:45 pm at the Frost Art Museum.

"This collaboration has proven to be quite successful," said Carol Damian, Director and Chief Curator of The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum. "Now in its second year at the museum, this is a unique experience for students to learn the intricacies of curating an exhibition within the confines of a true operational museum."

Each of these works will have visitors challenging the concept of reality. The A&V 2011 exhibition will feature the works of Daniel Arsham, José Bedia, Ivan Toth Depeña, Jacin Giordano, Fabian Peña, Karen Rifas, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, John Sanchez, Jen Stark and Antonia Wright. Several of the artists have created works specifically for this year's exhibition.

"Most of my recent pieces are made with insect parts in a process where I transform these repulsive creatures into other anatomies. I re-context these organic elements into significant objects that address existential matters. The questioning of the artwork as a cultural product happens through an image of death and resurrection. The viewer's perception is relocated; it is a "re-awakening" to place the spectator in an ambiguous perceptual trap. The artwork becomes both a map and a detour," says artist Fabian Peña, whose work for the exhibition is a phrase written with fly pigment across the windows on the first floor of The Frost Art Museum.

Target Wednesday After Hours is intended to supplement The Frost Art Museum's exhibitions and grant visitors the opportunity to meet contemporary artists and connect with thought-provoking art of all mediums, live music, dance, films and talks.

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Sequentia by Xavier Cortada at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum: Living Science

Can a DNA sequence generated randomly have any parallel to an existing life-form? Join The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University (FIU) and Sequentia artist Xavier Cortada and FIU's Dr. Kalai Mathee as they announce the results of the participatory exhibition and find the answer to this question. In Genetic Sequence, a part of the exhibition Sequentia, the artist invited museum visitors to randomly select a postcard depicting one of Cortada's four nucleotide paintings and attach it sequentially on the wall in the form of a helix.

Once the sequence was completed, it was re-created in the lab with Dr. Kalai Mathee, founding chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Infectious Diseases of FIU's Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. The results were announced during Target Wednesday After Hours on November 10, 2010. See more about Genetic Sequence on Cortada's Facebook page.

Sequentia, Xavier Cortada's solo exhibit, at the Frost Art Museum opened October 13, 2010 and explores the sequence of events that make up life on the planet from the molecular to the monumental. The title of the exhibit also references a series of actions Cortada will set in motion to create of a unique strand of DNA. The artist will work with a molecular biologist to synthesize an actual DNA strand made from a sequence generated by museum visitors using Cortada's art. In "The Four Nucleotides," the artist creates large scale "portraits" of Adenine, Cytosine, Guanine and Thymine - the four bases of a DNA strand that summarize all we are, were and will be. The exhibition is on view through January 2, 2011.

Target has teamed up with The Frost Art Museum to sponsor an event series designed to complement The Frost's exhibitions. These events give visitors the chance to meet contemporary artists and engage with controversial art, live music, talks, films, dance, and performance art, while providing an excellent opportunity to socialize with other people interested in the arts. For information on future Target Wednesday After Hours, please visit http://thefrost.fiu.edu/wah.htm

Target Wednesday After Hours
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum
10975 SW 17th Street
Miami, FL 33199
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