Collective62 Art Studios is an independent art space devoted to creation outside of the traditional circuits of art. Located in Liberty City, Collective 62 also seeks to reverse the growing phenomenon of gentrification through regeneration that derived from creation and community-based workshops.
Collective62 Art Studios is an independent art space devoted to creation outside of the traditional circuits of art. Located in Liberty City, Collective 62 also seeks to reverse the growing phenomenon of gentrification through regeneration that derived from creation and community-based workshops.
Jula Tüllmann is a trained architect and is part of the female design duo hettler.tüllmann based in Miami and Berlin.
The studio’s practice has a focus on sustainable materials and traditional craftsmanship reflected in their designs, interiors and their architecture. Their style cherishes and celebrates the simplicity of the handmade.
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Sharon Berebichez is a Mexico City-born visual artist and art educator, currently based in Miami, Florida. She holds a degree in art from Universidad Iberoamericana. Over a 25-year career, Berebichez has explored various mediums, including acrylic and oil painting, ceramics, assemblages, and resin sculptures. Recently, she has focused her practice on fiber art.
Her process-oriented approach emphasizes repetition and pattern creation, serving as a meditative practice that connects her to her identity as a woman and third-generation migrant. Drawing on her Mexican, Guatemalan, and Jewish heritage, her textured and culturally rich works have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Chantae graduated from Hunter College and is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Art from Florida International University.
Her work confronts traditional notions of identity and representation and revolve around themes of disidentification and polymorphism, i.e. , otherness existing outside of social norms, reflecting Wright’s own black, queer, female, Caribbean-American identity and struggles.
Lerda have been working with clay for around 20 years. She employs a broad range of skills:
hand-building
techniques, wheel throwing, glazing and firing processes. Her precision in manipulating clay result in intricate forms and textures on exceptionally high-quality pieces. Pilar’s adept understanding of various firing methods and glazing techniques allows her
to infuse her pieces with captivating depth and color, seamlessly navigating kiln firing to ensure each piece emerges with the intended finish intact. Her work effortlessly combines innovation and tradition, capturing contemporary design while honoring ceramic
art’s heritage.
Marina Font is a photo-based multidisciplinary artist who’s work explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, memory, language and the forces of the unconscious. Marina is also part of the collaborative RPM Projects.
Amy Gelb is an artist and self-taught photographer, her work explores the female collective conscience and the impact that social norms, aging, the political climate, and both mental and physical health have on identity.
Surel practice explores archetypes and questions the logics innate to vital processes part and parcel of womanhood and the passage of time. She interrogates feminism and performance art to establish her own distinctive visual vocabulary, in an over-growing range of techniques, among them video, photography, sculpture, and installation.
Jeanne Jaffe is a Professor of Sculpture. Her works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally at such places as Pennsylvania Academy of Art Museum, Delaware Art Museum, Hillwood Art Museum, Mino Washi Museum in Japan, Michener Art Museum, The Royal Scottish Academy of Edinburgh, Scotland, Museum Rijswijk in Holland, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg, Germany, London Craft Council Gallery in England, In the New York, Philadelphia area, her work has been exhibited at Marginal Utility, Gallery Joe, the Painted Bride, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and Fleischer Art Memorial.
Verónica Pasman is an argentinian mixed media artist based in Miami. Her work focuses on revealing her primitive energy, abandoning her humanity tied to reasoning. Her paintings (primarily acrylics, ink and gold foil on paper and canvas) feature sparse, nature scribbles often overlapping color stains and expressive brush strokes. Nature and the translucent palette of the ocean is a recurring theme on her work. Her search wishes to express the dialogue between the real and the unconscious yet to be revealed.
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Marcela Marcuzzi is a multi-disciplinary artist. Born in Salta, Argentina, raised in Buenos Aires, and based in Miami, FL, she creates dialogues with wide-ranging threads of history to explore intersections between art, nature, and science.
Deryn is a visual artist. She was born in London and graduated from Bath Academy of Art.
Her current body of work is based on observations from nature and the wild garden she created as a habitat for the birds, fish and insects who share it with her.
Coppiano Dwin an interdisciplinary artist based in South Florida. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, as well as grants to conduct research in Spain and Brazil.
Her work has been included in national and international exhibitions at venues such as Fundación Valdes-Salas in Asturias, Spain; Spinello Projects, Miami; ArtHill, Gallery, London, UK; Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador; Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX.; University Galleries Boca Raton at Florida Atlantic University; the Art and Culture Center in Hollywood, Fl.; the Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs; Cornell Museum, Delray Beach; Casa De Espanha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Illegal Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Dwin has completed a public art sculpture at the Broward County Main Library in Ft. Lauderdale and is currently working on the design of a Public Art Work for the City of West Palm Beach. Her curatorial works include exhibitions at Coral Springs Museum, Schmidt Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Arts Warehouse in Delray Beach among others.
Dwin works on installations, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and performance.
Born in Paris, Capucine Safir now lives in Miami.
After working for several years in the movie industry, she decided to change career and earn a degree in interior design in Australia where she lived for 3 years.
Back in Paris, she works for her own firm. In addition, she discovered the art of direct carving in stone in a studio of the 17th district. This form of art is immediately natural.
It is after her second expatriation, in Miami, in 2013, that she becomes a professional artist by extending her practice to other materials and techniques.
Safir integrates a local gallery in the first year.
Since then, her sculptures have been part of numerous private collections and are regularly exhibited in contemporary art galleries and fairs throughout the United States.
Marina is a mixed media visual artist born in Chicago, raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina and currently living and working in Miami.
The influence of the surroundings and the relationship between place and identity are the focal points of her work.
The overlapping and layering of different elements, the juxtaposition of texture, images and color allows her to reconfigure these places and images, revealing a personal interpretation of them.
Born and raised in Miami, Nuñez is a Cuban-American mixed-media painter. She received her MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York, and was awarded the C12 Emerging Artist Fellowship. Solo shows include Marianne Boesky, New York, and Club Gallery, Miami. Her works have been exhibited in El Museo del Barrio, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
Nuñez is the host and producer of the “Sunday Painter” podcast on Jolt Radio, now in its sixth year of production, and a recipient of The Warhol Foundation’s Wavemaker Grant. She has been reviewed and published in The New York Times, Artforum, CNN, Art Nexus, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, W Magazine, and the Observer.
Stephanie Hadad is the first generation American-Israeli born in Philadelphia, PA (1989). She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from the University of Florida, New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Hadad has exhibited her work throughout Miami Dade
College galleries (2013-2018), Art Basel’s CasaLin Breakfast Reception in Miami (2016,2017) and Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami (2018). Stephanie resides and continues her practice in Miami, FL.
Villarreal is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of fiber, painting, and photography. Through the use of embroidery, paint, and textile on paper and canvas, Villarreal creates a transdisciplinary language and poetry inspired by the vivid colors and ancient traditions of her Mexican roots. In the late 1990s, she immigrated to the United States, a process that underscored the economic and social disparities between the two countries. Creating tensions among her multimedia works, Villarreal integrates both environmental geographies in her life, questioning issues of identity, sense of place, longing, and memory.
EXHIBITIONS
BECOMES US
May 9th to August 20
Participating Artists: Amy Gelb, Laura Marsh, Laura Villarreal
Inhabiting the in-between space, to be everything - and nothing - simultaneously. This is the work of women, artists, and all those who dare to dream outside the boundaries of social constructs. What has been called “women’s work” in American society in the form of textiles and the home’s interior spaces are crucial to survival and yet are taken for granted all in the same breath.
In the art of Laura Marsh, Amy Gelb, and Laura Villareal we are taken on a journey into these in-between spaces that become cocoons of serenity, a place to dialogue, and reminisce as we are reminded to share our stories of joy and struggle lest we forget who we are. The artist Ana Mendieta once said, “My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that tie me to the universe.” In this group exhibition, three artists have come together to explore this idea through the medium of textiles that literally and figuratively tie them to the universe while also exploring how they are tied to one another in this human experience we call life. This human journey is both a delicate and brutal affair punctuated by great joys and piercing sorrows; with long days, but years that seem to fly by in the blink of an eye. How are we to gain meaningful understanding from such a rollercoaster of an experience?
Marie Vickles
LUJAN CANDRIA/ MARINA GONELLA - Between Latitudes
February 28 to April 18, 2024
Between Latitudes unfolds as an artistic dialogue between artists Lujan Candria and Marina Gonella, both originally from Buenos Aires and now residents of Miami. The artists blend natural scenes from their contemporary surroundings with those from their memories of home. They use photography, video, painting, and textiles to bring to life the intertwined experience of living in two places at the same time.
Through this exhibition, Candria and Gonella provide a glimpse into their minds, where blurred memories surface and fade intermittently, reminding them of the places they left behind. Simultaneously, their artwork displays how they assimilate their new environments into their identities. This exhibition offers an interpretation of the delicate balance between honoring their roots and establishing new ones.
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Luján Candria is a Miami-based Argentine artist who uses diverse media to create introspective works about memory and oblivion. She often uses the repetition of images with subtle light variations to create intimate narratives and poetics loaded with nostalgia. Candria graduated in sculpture from Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (UNA). And she received Associate Degree from Escuela Nacional de Cerámica in Buenos Aires. In addition, she studied Applied Musical Computer Science at Fonorama and Image Editing at Mac Training Center (UNTREF). Awarded the ArtReview Residency Prize, Candria was an artist in residence at Casa Wabi, Mexico (2019).
In 2020, her work was selected to be included in Miami International Airport’s permanent collection.
She received the Locust Projects - Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Miami Artist Relief Fund Grant as well as the MAS! Artist Grant Award and the Oolite Arts Relief Fund. Candria was also selected to participate in Salón Acme 2023. Mexico City. She has presented solo exhibitions at international galleries and institutions. Her work has also participated in group shows, art fairs, and festivals in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Candria was an artist in residence at Oolites Arts (ArtCenterSF) and is currently an artist in residence at Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami.
Marina Gonella is a mixed media visual artist working with a wide array of materials mostly collage, transfers, acrylic, wood and photography. She has been working with images of South Florida for the past 15 years. The influence of the surroundings and the relationship between place and identity are the focal points of her work.
Marina was born in Chicago, Illinois and moved with her family to Buenos Aires, Argentina at an early age. In 2002 she moved to South Florida with her family and has been living and working there since.
She graduated from the School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with a Degree of Professor of Drawing and Painting (Bachelor’s in visual arts). She attended classes at IUNA (Instituto Universitario Nacional de Las Artes, Buenos Aires), in 2001 pursuing an MFA. Marina has participated in group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Argentina and Uruguay. Her work is included in private and corporate collections.
Rina Gitlin is an independent curator, art historian, and art consultant with over two decades of experience in planning and developing exhibitions, events, and festivals in the United States and Mexico. Recently, Rina has been actively curating exhibitions featuring local and emerging artists, with a strong commitment to highlighting social issues like gender violence, migration, community healing, and the climate crisis.
Rina is the founder of RTcurated, a platform dedicated to promoting visual artists while supporting the work of various nonprofit organizations. RTcurated organizes exhibitions, art shows, and auctions to showcase artworks and raise funds for important social causes. Rina holds a Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard Extension School and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
For more information, high resolution images, and to arrange an interview with Lujan Candria, Marina Gonella or Rina Gitlin, please contact: rina@rtcurated.com
ARCHIPELAGIC NARRATIVES OF FEMALE METAMORPHOSIS
Dec 3rd. 2023 / Jan 4th. 2024
Deryn Cowdy | Giannina Dwin | Marina Font | Amy Gelb | Flor Godward | Marina Gonella
Stephanie Hadad | Jeanne Jaffe | Marcela Marcuzzi | Molly Mcgreevy | Alex Nuñez
Veronica Pasman | Capucine Safir | Nina Surel
Collective 62 is pleased to present “Archipelagic Narratives of Female Metamorphosis,” an exhibition organized by Latinx art historian and curator Aldeide Delgado. The exhibition unveils the recent works of fourteen artists who are integral members of the collective. They examine life rituals, fantastical imagery, natural environments, and political bodies as a means to document the personal and communal power of transformation and change. The exhibition’s title references the video performance “Narratives of Female Metamorphosis” (2021) by visual artist Nina Surel. Inspired by pioneering feminist artist Carolee Schneemann, Surel employs her body and clay as vital, active materials to intervene in the canvas and record corporeal temporalities–bodies that are both fragile and resilient, in a constant process of mutation, from birth to death.
Taking archipelagic thinking as a methodological framework, the exhibition presents the creative practices of the artists in relation, as intertwined narratives within a complex network. “Archipelagic Narratives of Female Metamorphosis,” presents its own diverse island systems, featuring a wide range of styles and formats, including painting, sculpture, installation, stop-motion film, and photography. These are categorized as follows: “Ephemeral Rituals,” expanding painting as portals to delve into other worlds (Marcela Marcuzzi, Alex Nuñez, and Nina Surel); “Strange Nightmares,” exploring the themes of childhood, the subconscious, and dreams (Flor Godward, Jeanne Jaffe, and Molly McGreevy); “Political Bodies,” interrogating the normative definitions of femininity (Stephanie Eti Hadad, Marina Font, Amy Gelb, and Capucine Safir); and “Mysterious Landscapes,” revealing the profound connection with South Florida’s natural environments (Deryn Cowdy, Giannina Dwin, Marina Gonella, and Veronica Pasman).
“Archipelagic Narratives of Female Metamorphosis” offers a glimpse into the artwork of Collective 62 artists while tracing surreal aesthetics in Miami women’s contemporary art practice. By foregrounding creative energy, unconscious feelings, and dreamlike and dystopic situations, these artists invite us to challenge preconceived notions while addressing the complexity of our world.
Chronicles from the garden
Sep 21- Oct 29, 2023
A stroll through a garden or any natural environment can feel regenerative and even healing. It can produce awe while facing the solace or sometimes the abysmal it may bring; such as the moments when we find our inner sublimity in the smallest of the natural world, or sometimes confronting the grandeur and power of nature, or perhaps in our era, encountering the threats of climate change. The ever-persistent life, in spite of political crisis, world pandemics, financial disasters and bankrupt social systems, continues through the natural processes of life, death and decay.
Each mimetic work in this exhibition is a small story inspired in nature, hoping to offer contemplation of your own relationship to the environment.
Shared Narratives
Abril 20- May 19 2023
Group Exhibition by the Collective 62 brings together, for the first time at CA' D'ORO Gallery in New York, a diverse group of artists whose works reflect their individual conceptual preoccupations while also highlighting the overarching themes that unite them.
GALLERIA CA' D'ORO: 179 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011
Deryn Cowdy, Giannina Dwin, Marina Font, Amy Gelb, Flor Godward, Marina Gonella, Stephanie Hadad, Jeanne Jaffe, Marcela Marcuzzi, Molly McGreevy, Alex Nuñez, Verónica Pasman, Capucine Safir and Nina Surel.
ENCOUNTERS: Contemporary Portraits
Sunday April 16 from 11 to 2 pm
Portraits can be considered historical documents—an impression of a particular person, details of dress, surroundings, of location—but they also provide a timeless glimpse into the sitter’s psychological interiority, making them very much alive in the present. The works in Encounters: Contemporary Portraits attest to the qualities of certain portraits to confront in their immediacy certain enduring questions centered around identity, and personal and collective memory.
Belt of Venus
February 19 - March 30, 2023
Nereida García Ferraz / Alex Nuñez / Verónica Pasman / Capucine Safir / Patricia Schnall Gutierrez
Collective 62 is pleased to present Belt of Venus Exhibition.
“Our feminine-based approach to describing the world tells its story in the shadows, underneath the surface, where layers of abstraction build up a multidimensional atmosphere. In this phenomenon of shadow and light, seen and unseen, we share a dichotomy like the Belt of Venus”.
TIME FLIES LIKE AN ARROW; FRUIT FLIES LIKE A BANANA
March 13th - May 31st
Nov 27th - Jan 15th
Clamoring pots and pans waking a household from its slumber, a bobbin of unspooled thread once used to mend a blouse, handwritten notes in the margin of old family recipes—what is nostalgia if not the impressions we leave behind? How do we mark our presence and preserve it in objects that linger? These questions lie at the heart of Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Borrowing its title from a quote by American comedian Groucho Marx, the exhibition cheekily captures residual impressions and remnants of homely objects—ones which we hold dear, and in some cases, reveal the often invisible labor performed by women in domestic realms. Featuring works by Liene Bosquê, Amy Gelb, Stephanie Eti Hadad, Amanda Linares, Molly McGreevy, Catalina Rojas, and Nina Surel, the exhibition traces the passage of time through its impact on the body, material possessions, and the spaces we occupy.
Adopted Landscapes
September 15th - November 15th
Collective 62 is pleased to present Adopted Landscapes, curated by Dina Mitrani and Marina Font. This exhibition of artwork by twenty-two, photo-based artists pushes beyond the boundaries of the photographed landscape. Opening Thursday, September 15th from 5 - 9 pm, the show will be on view through November 15, 2022.
In the history of art, the landscape has served as one of the most explored subjects of representation, along with the portrait and still life. Photographers, since the inception of the medium in the 19th century, have also taken the landscape as a genre to discover and record. Adopted Landscapes brings togethercontemporary works of art that utilize the photographic landscape as a starting point, and then are transformed by the maker’s hand in an attempt to create unique conceptual and narrative expressions. Each artist presents the landscape with unique, cross-disciplinary interventions. Combining mediums in ways such as this, as well as interlacing techniques, the artists gathered here reconceive the formal qualities of the genre. In some cases, the landscape is transformed before the camera captures the image. In others, the process of photographic imprint is challenged, or the image undergoes digital manipulation. And in many of the works in the show, the photograph of the landscape is a base layer where manual, multimedia elements are applied to the surface of the printed photograph.
Strange Bodies, Strange Days
March 13th - May 31st
Inspired by an interest in anthropology, mythology, and psychology Jeanne Jaffe creates hybrid sculptural forms where body fragments, vegetative processes, and microscopic life fuse, mutate and morph. The resulting sculptures and drawings invite recognition while remaining mutable, suggestive, and indeterminate. The works in this exhibition include ten feet sculptures of body fragments and forms that create an unfamiliar liminal world, encouraging the viewer to enter a dreamlike, contemplative space, where transformations and change can occur.
Jen Clay's elaborately sewn ambiguous creatures speak to the audience through audio or sewn messages to represent uncertainty and the feeling of estrangement-from-self due to mental illness. Clay uses the textile's friendly aesthetics for an intuitively inviting and comforting feeling to make the work approachable. Her current quilt series Fruiting Bodies are eerie tree-like figures with hidden messages under flaps influenced by intrusive thoughts which use double engenders and obsessive language interpreted as either sweet or sinister. Clay is currently an artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts, Miami, South Beach.
A Fire Offering
Nov 23 - Jan 06 2022
Argentinian artist Desiree de Ridder constructed alongside the residents at the Collective62 compound a wood burning updraft kiln. A Fire Offering flourishes not as a group show, but rather as a collective experiment to get to experience each member of this community more deeply. It is an exercise to play with fire in the laboratory of the soul, as the alchemists do. The mediums are raw materials, clay, water, milk, grass, sand and manoeuvre. Each artist brings their knowledge from the native flora and fauna to the clay collected from the swamp; they learn to remember collectively how to work together, how to mold themselves, when to stop and how to continue. Desiree brought with her a recipe for a kiln and a way of making with what is at hand. She sources, processes, and analyzes the possibilities to live more honestly with the land at hand. That is the spirit of the exercise.
To build a kiln in the space means to bring a new energy to the Collective.
Sofia Bastidas Vivar
Curator & Facilitator
