Frost Art Museum News/Event Calendar

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Javier Velasco, Deep Blue, 2013 Murano Glass, Courtesy of the Artist Thru 2014 Deep Blue by Javier Velasco Spanish multi-media artist was commissioned to do a site-specific work in the atrium of the Frost Art Museum. He used fused glass to create beautiful works that are allegories to the ephemeral, and speak to the fragility of nature and the environmental concerns of today.

Manuel Mendive, Oshun, Tempera on heavy paper, 16 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches, Courtesy of Pan American Art Projects Thru January 26, 2014 Things That Cannot Be Seen Any Other Way: The Art of Manuel Mendive Manuel Mendive Hoyo (Havana, Cuba 1944-) creates paintings, sculptures, and objects that capture the rhythm of the orishas, ancestral spirits of Africa that are the source of his imagery. For today's world, Mendive continues to appropriate, transform and adapt the visual language of Africa as a means of conveying its rich mythology to a new audience, informed less about its ritual than about its aesthetics. Curated by Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz. This exhibition is a project originally conceived by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs in association with the California African American Museum, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, and Fundación Amistad. Organized by Fundación Amistad.

Humberto Castro Deconstruction Reconstruction 2013, Installation with earth ceramic shards videos and Taíno artifacts from the Alfredo Carrada Collection, Dimensions variable Thru February 2, 2014 Humberto Castro: Tracing Antilles Cuban-American artist Humberto Castro executes an artistic journey across the Antilles in an ever-transforming exhibition that conceptually circumnavigates the islands of the Caribbean. The artist uses the socio-cultural, historical and political elements of each island as the conceptual basis for the exhibition. He focuses on transculturation, migrations and the displacement of human populations which eventually form peoples, island nations and continents.

Eadweard Muybridge, Animal Locomotion, Plate 187, (Female Figure Wearing White Gown While Dancing), ca 1887, Photogravure Print on Paper, 16 ¾ x 24 inches Frost Art Museum Thru April 2014 The Drawing Project The Drawing Project at the Frost Art Museum is a collaborative investigation curated by artist/educator and FIU graduate Emmy Mathis.The on-line exhibition/project space consists of an on-line exhibition where pieces from the Frost's permanent collection, many of which have never been exhibited in the Museum, are displayed along with international work culled by the Drawing Research Network, work by local Miami artists, and a special curatorial section of work from contemporary women artists from the Girls' Club Collection. Artists include internationally renowned artists such as Jean Cocteau, Shirin Neshat and Robert Rauschenberg, as well as practitioners in the academic field of drawing such as Andrea Kantrowitz and John Adams, and local artists including Jenny Brillhart and Kevin Arrow. The website also hosts a project space that is open for proposals and an on-line residency.