The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at FIU presents the first Target Wednesday After Hours of the 2013 spring season with the opening reception for five new exhibitions: Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings, José Manuel Ballester: Concealed Spaces, Deep Blue by Javier Velasco, The Healings Spirits of the Waters and Aesthetics & Values. The opening reception will be during Target Wednesday After Hours on February 27, 2013 from 6pm to 9pm and is free and open to the public. Evening will include hors d’oeuvres, wine, flamenco dancing and music by Radiate FM.
Eugene Savage: The Seminole Paintings
February 27, 2013 – May 19, 2013
In 1935, American artist Eugene Francis Savage made the first of many journeys into the Florida Everglades to study the Seminoles. Inspired by his observations, he created the most extensive painted record of the Florida Seminoles from the early twentieth century. These works reflected Savage’s concern for the plight of Native culture as tourism, land development, and environmentalist debates threatened their traditional way of life. This exhibition will be traveling from The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville. Curated by Holly Keris.
José Manuel Ballester: Concealed Spaces
February 27, 2013 – June 23, 2013
Concealed Spaces, Ballester’s first individual museum exhibit in the United States, presents twenty-four large-scale photographs inspired by art history’s masterpieces, including works by Botticelli, Fra Angelicio, Géricault, Goya, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Velázquez, and Vermeer, among others. The artist erases all living beings and eliminates all references to action from the original works, and re-creates different scenarios where nature and architecture become the main subjects. “Nature, simplicity and spontaneity are qualities he transmits through his landscapes and architectural settings. In the end, it is the ideal of living in harmony, the spirituality of the magnificent landscapes and the majesty of Ballester’s monumental pieces that make them unique and inspiring,” says the curator of the exhibition, Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig.
Deep Blue by Javier Velasco
February 27, 2013 – Remainder of 2013
Spanish multi-media artist Javier Velasco 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. Artist will be open for the opening.
The Healing Spirits of Waters
February 27, 2013 – April 7, 2013
When the African slaves were forcibly transported across the Atlantic Ocean on their treacherous journey to the New World, they brought their spirits with them. In Haiti, the water spirits who guide the ritual of purification may take on many forms, but all are part of Voudoun, a religion that is fundamentally African. For Voudoun ceremonies, colorful ritual flags are carried to the service; they are believed to possess a magical power, which can be activated in the ritual. Presented along with these ritual flags is a video by Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu which is inspired by the redemptive hymn Amazing Grace and its origins in the slave trade, where the difficulty of the crossing was redeemed only by God’s grace and the power of the water. Curated by M. Stephanie Chancy.
Aesthetics & Values 2013
February 27, 2013 – March 24, 2013
The A&V seminar of the Honors College at FIU examines the vital role visual art plays in the social and cultural dialogue surrounding controversial issues. It investigates how artists have challenged or enforced authority by creating new aesthetics. It further explores how art is used to initiate, accelerate, or combat social change. The heart of the course is the A&V exhibition. This annual project provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate their resourcefulness and creativity through the research, curation, and organization of an exhibition of contemporary Miami artists. Artists featured: Luisa Basnuevo, Adler Guerrier, Catalina Jaramillo, Maria Martinez-Canas, Glexis Novoa, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, George Sanchez-Calderon, Asser Saint-Val, Viking Funeral and Pioneer Winter.
About the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University
The Frost Art Museum opened its current 46,000-square-foot state of the art building in November 2008. Admission to the Museum is always free. The Frost is an American Association of Museums accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate and is located at 10975 SW 17thStreet, across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sunday noon-5 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, please visit http://thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305-348-2890. Follow us on Twitter and Like Us on Facebook.
About FIU
Florida International University is one of the 25 largest universities in the nation, with nearly 50,000 students. Nearly 110,000 FIU alumni live and work in South Florida. Its colleges and schools offer more than 180 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs in fields such as engineering, international relations and law. As one of South Florida’s anchor institutions, FIU is worlds ahead in its local and global engagement, finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission, with research expenditures of more than $100 million per year. For more information about FIU, visit FIU Online.u

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