Tracing the Terrain of Contemporary Caribbean Art in Miami, Florida A Short Lecture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum FRIDAY, April 13, 2012, 3:15 – 5PM McEvoy Auditorium, SAAM, Washington DC If you are in the DC area, please join me for my talk at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. My talk is in the last [...]

  Mickey, Ariapita Avenue, 2011   I am thrilled to announce that several photographs from Mobile Portrait Studio are featured in the current issue of Nueva Luz, En Foco’s photographic journal. This issue was edited by Carla Willams, and includes works by myself, Rachelle Mozman, and Oscar Palacios. Also, I now have a photographer’s page [...]

Reminder: last week to see my piece in the show, “Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds” at LegalArt (1035 N Miami Ave., Miami, FL). The show closes on January 31. My piece, Markings, Mappings, and Other Thoughts from Mapping Miami, is currently on view on the 2nd floor. Installation View of Markings, Mappings, and Other Thoughts, from Mapping Miami, site specific installation, [...]

FOUR MINUTES, THIRTY-THREE SECONDS NOVEMBER 30, 2011 – January 31, 2012 Two of my projects will be featured in “Four Minutes, Thirty-Three Seconds,” an upcoming show curated by Omar Lopez-Chaoud. This exhibition will take place on the 2nd and 4th floor of LegalArt in Miami. It is opening on November 30 and there will be a [...]

Three photographs from Mobile Portrait Studio will be exhibited in the show Forever Forged. Forever Becoming. at the Bargehouse in London  from September 9 – 25. Mobile Portrait Studio is an ongoing project that I began in 2010. The project considers the role of portraiture, photography, performance, and public spaces in relationship to art-making, memory, and historical narratives. [...]

Watch ArtStreet this month to see me and other artists from the Deering Estate! A few months ago, Meredith Porte and her crew from ArtStreet visited the Deering Estate. They interviewed the artists in residence, watched us work and teach classes, and shot video of the estate. Luckily I made the editor’s cut and I am [...]

I’d like to invite you to my virtual studio tour. Since September 2010, I have had a studio at the Deering Estate at Cutler Bay as part of their Artist in Residence Program. The estate was once the private estate of Charles Deering, and is now a Miami Dade County Park. Deering was a supporter [...]

I am happy to announce that I was awarded a CIC/Smithsonian Insitution Fellowship to complete my dissertation in residence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) in Washington, D.C. I’ll be working with advisors at SAAM as well as the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and the National Museum of African American History and [...]

I’m participating in a Roundtable discussion at Vizcaya on Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Here are the details: Miami is a city in constant flux, whose landscape is redefined every few years. In the context of Archetype Vizcaya, this roundtable invites several artists to present and discuss with the public their current projects on Miami and [...]

Facebook might seem like a big waste of time, but think of the information we can garner from it! I’m wrapping up my dissertation fieldwork this month so I’ve been looking through some of the hundreds of documents in my “dissertation” folder on my computer. One of the documents in there is this image of [...]